oh. the russian president appoints former tax chief mikhail machinist in as the country's new prime minister after parliament overwhelmingly votes in favor of scandal to see. western media suggest that blatter may have putin's plans to devote greater power to the russian parliament a possible plot to stay in power beyond 2024. and libya's rebel rebel general kiley for hostile reportedly agrees to abide by the cease fire currently in effect in the war stricken country and this comes hours after president wants a turkey would be sending more troops to libya to support the u.s. backed government.

from moscow news headquarters where it's just post 5 in the morning you're watching ulti international welcome to the program now russia has a new prime minister lawmakers approved the candidacy of mikhail mishra stood on thursday with president putin then signing off on the appointment has got more on how the day unfolded. well it only took this country what was it slightly more than 24 hours to come from the point when the president proposed to tweak some elements of russia's constitution which by the way didn't automatically mean that the cabinet would have to step down to a moving towards the point when the russian state duma approved the name of the country's new prime minister that is mikhail so the result was $383.00 votes in favor about 40 abstentions and 0 votes again so this is the kind of backing the

and coming prime minister is getting which is very important obviously in his position and clearly we were listening to his speech right before the vote which was obviously filled with quite a few promises so here are some of them. used to produce them i can do that too i like to ensure you that all members of the new government carry personal responsibility for achieving national goals i know that some talks in this room can even an intensive and i believe it's very important that the government feels that he would always be questioned him on it it remains open and constructive critics help us improve and do the members of parliament give us regional feedback you know what they think what people talk about how they sense the situations and whether they think that there are changes needed for the past. just to look at the background of mr mr stan a little bit i can tell you that he was in charge of the russian federal tax authority for about a decade he rarely appeared on t.v. so when on wednesday the now former prime minister dmitri medvedev i can

tell you that there's really no other way to put it shocked the country shocked the world by saying that his government was stepping down only a few hours after the russian leader delivered his annual state of the nation address pundits were calling out different names and. i can tell you that in most cases wasn't even on the list but then again boom the name. came out of the kremlin so you can't help wondering what are the reasons for this appointment why so much trust well i can tell you that the new prime minister while he was working in the federal tax authority managed to accomplish a mission that seemed absolutely impossible at one point to get rid of a very painful state of bureaucracy and russia's taxes i can tell you that

previously to pay taxes or to deal with some problems russians had to stand in line fill out hundreds of papers they say that at this point now it can all be done through smartphones or tablets p.c.'s you name it what then a matter of minutes and people say that this is really the achievement of me and in fact spoke to r t a few years ago about exactly that about the digital izing the paper work in russia and how it's important for the development of the country he was talking about the younger generation that will shape the future of the nation it's important that the young generation whose form of whose future taxpayers to morrow use the friendly user interface which is suitable for the as we know the research is showing us the young generation now not using p.c. computers so the mobile phones mobile applications and then social networks so

basically we should exit mistreats. to com we should come to the such is social networks and make sure that it's a friendly interface for them so basically this is the maybe main reason why we collaborate can be the commissioners to make sure that we saw recent codecs piers because between service and confuse cool. parp over the next administration servicing part this not only more and more coming clearly there will be something for the audience outside this country to point out russia's new pm is fluent in english that is something that we hadn't seen for a very long while now before the vote in the upper chamber of the russian parliament began i managed to catch up with some of russia's most senior lawmakers and i asked them why they are about to support the candidacy of me. was thinking about efficiency. if you look at the different ministries in said

russia the tax collection is one of the best it is all. in. a he knows everything about every payment officially made it is said russians they created the most. useful and usable. government he has a ph d. in economics he writes books on economics he writes textbooks he teaches the financial university in moscow so here is an intellectual. very more than that intellectual a bit more than a bureaucrat who can. have a very systematic view on issues because he is actual fish elative. which he got at the university was systems and functional the systems so. i think it's a good choice he has a i think

a very quick. to remind me which i think is still so important for a politician. in developed an efficient tax service one of the most efficient departments in the country he's a strong leader tax service management is being done correctly both in terms of leadership i'm cutting edge technology. for the 1st time the prime minister has proven business capabilities just he's showing that with his work in the tax service and if you policies all are ministries in the same way it will boost national income and streamline expenditure is an engineer awesome you bring strong accurate in the sciences and innovative technology ideas politically is neither left nor right nor centrist we really have a specialist coming into power. another major shakeup in russian politics this week was the resignation of the government and that came about awful of lattimer putin

suggesting of amendments to the constitution effectively diminishing the president's powers whilce boosting those of parliament. but it wasn't the amendments i suggested yesterday do not affect the fundamental basis of the constitution further in russia's development as a lawful state the goal is also to enhance the effectiveness of the country's institutions to strengthen the role of civil society and to enable the political parties in the regions to make decisions vital to the country's development senior correspondent bird gets the explains more about the landmark moves and the reaction they received in the west. try explaining these limp wooden and powers the office of president the media accuses about seizing more power more control over russia but when putin gives up that power and hands it over to parliament at his own expense it is also because he seizing more control over russia 1st to discover

this syndrome i name it paranoid putin a friend here and there's a real epidemic. paranoid putin a friend he aside he is what he actually proposed to guaranteed that new president ever wields as much power as he did including putin himself he's got 4 more years in office.

this is unprecedented in a quarter of a century every constitutional amendment was designed to empower the president for example increase the presidential term from 4 years to 6 years or give the president the power to appoint prosecutors and now he turns it all upside down it used to be that putin appointed the problem. this ministers parliament rubber stamp that now parliament appoints heads of government and putin rubber stamp set with no power object. according to the constitution of the russian federation president needs only the state duma's consent to make official appointments the

president appoints the cabinet. and all the ministers i propose shifting this power to the state duma and also the approval of the russian government's chairman and that the german suggestion all the deputy prime ministers and federal ministers will have to be appointed by the president with the right to reject any candidates . this is of course all subject to a popular vote if these passes russia will be a change country with a very different future russia is changing into a new face of democracy freedom and now this 1st. time when the president limits his old power and this is something in the later controlled country is not known at all the president limits at all and wants to let the people decide on the new constitution and to pave the way the government handed

in its resignation it's worth mentioning it wasn't all that popular that failed on a number of fronts and the now caretaker prime minister said himself it's time for something new you have all heard the address of the russian president vladimir putin as president he outlined the major priorities of our work for the upcoming year but he also outlined a number of fundamental changes to the constitution of the russian federation these changes when they take place and this will be done after discussions and as was said they will significantly alter a number of parts of the constitution and change the balance of power if there's one thing we know about putin it's that we don't. you know him he loves to surprise and there was no warning not even rule is that the country was about to be turned on its head we now have a new prime minister we heil michoud in an unknown quantity he's largely stayed out of the spotlight for the past decade head in the federal tax agency and i must say

he did wonders teaching russians to pay their taxes fact some would argue he's done too good a job it is now clear putin hangs up the gloves in 2024 he will run for another term time change so does russia that is a revolutionary change from this distance i would say that it gives more power to the parliament but it downgrades the importance of the prime ministership of the stability of russia's leadership quality which is not a separate issue has been one of the most positive aspects of world governance in the 21st century. the turkish president has announced the deployment of more troops to libya he says to ensure the stability of the un backed government and its capital tripoli now join a deployment already sent by ankara earlier this month during

a meeting with the german foreign minister general have to offer libya's rival of ministration reportedly said he's ready to abide by the current ceasefire his artie's middle east correspondent paula slayer. well it's at least seems as if things are heading in the right direction that meeting in moscow was applauded by the international community is a step in the right direction in terms of bringing about a lasting peace agreement in libya as you've mentioned we've just heard from the german foreign minister that highly for have tyler who is the commander of the libyan national army has agreed to a cease fire with the forces of the government of national accord now that is the u.n. backed government that sits in tripoli this followed an earlier and by the turkish president air the one in which he said he was starting to send turkish troops to libya to assist the government of national accord there there are already turkish forces in libya but they they are primarily to train the forces in tripoli and

everyone is saying that this is all part and parcel of a much bigger picture there are agreements between the 2 countries to this effect and that it will help bring the long term stability in libya take a listen we're starting to send our soldiers to ensure village of government survival and stability in libya starting with the idea that turkey security lies outside of its borders we will continue to mobilize our capabilities now all of this comes just days ahead of a meeting that has been planned in the german capital for this weekend and due to attend that meeting our leaders from turkey from russia as well as from britain italy and germany the focus of the meeting will be a follow on from the summit that was held in moscow again a further step in trying to in train and bring about a long term security and stability in libya. donald trump threatened to impose a 25 percent tariff on european carmakers if germany france and the u.k. did not accuse to wrong of violating the 2015 nuclear deal that has been confirmed

by germany's defense minister and those countries complied with their request on tuesday iran's foreign minister zarif had this to say in response. appeasement confirmed you're a trio saw the dark remnants of the joint comprehensive plan of action to avoid new tram tariffs it won't work my friends your only work his appetite remember your high school bully if you want to sell your inter-group to go ahead but do not assume high moral legal ground you don't have it well iran has dismissed moves by the european signatories to trigger the so-called dispute mechanism over its alleged noncompliance with the deal they have a 30 day period to resolve the problem after which it will be referred to the un security council who has the power to reinstate sanctions on tehran so what led to such a fragile situation between the parties the nuclear deal officially named the joint comprehensive plan of action was signed in 2015 by iran and major world powers the

agreement was to see to iran limit its nuclear activities in exchange for the easing of sanctions but washington pulled out in 2018 and swiftly imposed economic penalties iran then began scaling back its compliance which accelerated after the u.s. assassinated to iran's most powerful general scott to ritter a former u.n. weapons inspector says the e.u. has little choice but to follow america's lead. we've seen that you know over the course of the time that's passed since may 2018 when president trump withdrew from the iran nuclear agreement that the european union has been struggling to to come to grips with what its options are and you know they've tried to come up with you know a trade mechanism that will enable iran to trade with e.u. members to sidestep so-called secondary sanctions that would be imposed by the united states and they've been unable to come up with something the bottom line is the european economy is too closely tied to the american economy and they can't

afford to confront the united states they literally have have no option and i think that's why they cave so readily and that's why there's no debate that's why there's no anger they have no choice they've they've proven that they are unfortunate little more than obedient poodles to the american master. now france has been brought to a standstill once again trade unions and public sector workers a piling the pressure on french president manuel necron to his proposed pension reforms mass transportation strikes hit paris and other major cities across the country on thursday unions called on train metro and hospital workers along with teachers to march in the french capital demanding a total scrap of macross proposals thousands more rallied across the country blocking ports and disrupting electricity production and that's despite the government's decision to reach a compromise last weekend agreeing to strop some of the pension reforms most

controversial aspects the french parliament is due to debate the bill in february box while negotiations drag on some have managed to find the funny side of recent events. as the search continues in france we've brought you to go we've discontentment we've even taught you the violence the other thing is quite. interesting about protests like this all the time is that really brings the color if you just look behind me you can to get a sense of just some of these banners that are out today people spend tireless hours creating these banners to try and get them for a moment say on t.v. or social networks to try and get their voices of course we're going to speak to the ballot he's got this sad very nice sign by british translating to nice english basically saying my god loves to professors particularly at the age of 64 i

wrote that he mailed reference to the fact the mary jesus whom i have is a plan. to be fair to funk i'm. tired 62 like everyone else but if this reform for the past will go up to 64 with a noise from this man as the we are told the president a full one is a teacher. so it's not just the black odds that we see these protests we also see all the flags that are regular currencies like this one for che guevara and the flag of the palestinian territories over there also the color that adds to almost every protest that we come to in front of just spotted what looks like quite a nice cargo placard here in paris it's a train let's have a chat to the person behind this. expect was.

to be on strike for 42 days which you know we really workers are striking against markets and should we do michael i think we're witnessing some sort of humorous show here we've got some of the huge looks like the son of margaret thatcher and mr mack cole that hairstyle. really the heart of margaret about. particularly with what looked like to be pearls on the is around. for me no protest in paris is complete intil we have met this gentleman this is john baptist and every protest he is out with a new so i mean in this distinctive color in germany 1st ashore boy like i'm joining the fight for social justice the environment democracy democracy everything is going wrong this is a democratic emergency the politicians are not performing their duties and acting to hold something called both on the simple message is to do more humorous messages

it seems you can pretty much find anything on a plaque at a protest in france and from everybody we've spoken to it seems that the reason why people are really keen to get their protest band out here in showing is to make sure that they seen in the crowds show that you can ski r.t. in paris. a new report hands revealed the u.k. failed to notify all the e.u. countries about 75000 crimes committed by their nationals in britain according to the guardian newspaper the home office then apparently tried to cover up the mistake which was caused by a computer due to embarrassment there is still uncertainty whether historical daily activity files received from the home office are going to be sent out to countries as there is a reputational risk to the u.k. or the police computer system error wasn't noticed for 5 years and that meant from

2012 to 2017 foreign even nationals convicted of crimes in the u.k. were able to return home without their own countries being aware of their records the home office has said it is working to rectify the situation but n.e.p. and curt told us the scandal will prove to be highly damaging for both the u.k. and its european partners. law only bats the brits and. but it's bad 6 for the e.u. and bad for our citizens both knew kelly you have these convictions covered up by some civil servants replication why should. you can't share information with the u.k. if the u.k. cannot be relied upon she just share information promptly an official it's very serious and because. it's put us in a very weak position it is really the 2 year period once we serve notice we're

going to leave you we should have been more than ample time to come to a long term agreement because we had some civil servants that didn't do the job properly and so now we've got the really silly position we've endangered many people here for the acts of maybe a few people and it's totally unacceptable both in the u.k. and the e.u. . well that is your news update for now we're back here in just over 30 minutes time with a roundup of the headlines say that. in the united states presidential candidates debate the future of the u.s. and the world. max kaiser and stacy herbert dig into the burning questions of this election cycle one topic every week. tax student debt trade wars

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a few short shopping days the way we here in the united states of america get to celebrate the 10th anniversary. drumroll not really anyway citizens united yes it's the 10th anniversary of citizens united that momentous supreme court decision that essentially decreed that corporations are people too and that the money they spend on influencing a politician or political party is the same as practicing the sacred right of free speech if that's turning 10 years old january 21st i know you had it marked on your calendar and just what great gifts of corporate bribery. free speech in the form of digits and decimal points has the citizens united decision brought to us all well according to a new study a new study released this week by the nonprofit consumer advocacy organization public citizen over the past 10 years just $25.00 ultra rich individuals have poured $1400000000.00 into super pacs corporations have spent at least half

a $1000000000.00 to influence elections and donors in a small number of majority white zip codes exert a massively oversized influence on our political system and that my friends is why we here in the united states the choice that we are most often presented and sold to us at the polls 'd is old rich white person in a red suit or old which right person in a blue suit allan's i believe research director of public service and corporate presidency project and author of the report told the media quote this surge in mega donors of the past decade means that the 10 year mark of the citizens united decision is something to bemoan rather than commemorate this is not what democracy looks like the world is united made. but the ugly truth is that because of citizens united decision to hide bribery is free speech we might never know the actual numbers being spent to influence u.s.

elections by our corporate billionaire class which is why my friends we always need to be watching all. you want to know what's going on. on the city streets you want to see clear so you can see see that this is joyce state. graves. slaves systemic deception. but she. says jill is. joining us today weekly panel show to discuss not only the 10th anniversary of citizens united but much much more is they wonderful cavalcade of personalities immigration attorney alan order your thank you very much our to america correspondent rachel blevins and sara month. r.t. america sports correspondent steve christakis thank you all for joining us today well so.