we will out a system where these people get away with you know misrepresenting us step up and do yourself. the headlines in r.t. vladimir putin says he's open to staying in power if that's what the people want in a public vote on a new constitution next month. also to come the old price crash is the most since the $9091.00 gulf war after saudi arabia says it will slash crude rates to snatch market share from russia also. by its rights in death sweep this leaves prisons after the state strict response to the spread of the growing virus and commonwealth currency for the u.k. army for years what they call the grave injustice of facing deportation from britain is a costly and complicated immigration. they're

just gone 5 pm in moscow you watching r.t. international have not been repeated in hasn't ruled out staying in power if that's what the people didn't made the suggestion as the duma discussed potential changes to the constitution however the president did say it would be up to the people to decide in a public vote next month so let's get more details joins me in the studio now what did mr putin actually say well he this is this is all in all a justification for these constitutional amendments that are being pushed through explaining why russia needs them going into the future why they're going to make our lives better and why they need to be put through now obviously it is as you said subject to a popular vote. next month but

a lot of the attention especially today was on 2 points that vladimir putin commented on these are constitutional amendments proposed by the parliament the 1st one was whether putin would support lifting constitutional limits on the number of terms a president can serve to which vladimir putin replied no. well the long run society should have guarantees that a regular change of power will be ensured we need to think about future generations should i consider it inappropriate to remove from the constitution a restriction on the number of presidential terms. so it's very simple he said russia has had its fair share of revolutions revolutions up he was you know power changing hands and always the expectation was that things would get better history shows that things have gotten worse huge numbers of people killed corruption russia

tanking territory economically it's been a mess gladly impudent said that prevent that going into the future there must be new blood coming into the government new faces new leadership to give people a choice and to make sure that new ideas flowing into the government that the government can adapt and be dynamic in the face of a host of global challenges but the 2nd point that i mentioned was very widely talked about is blood my blood was also asked whether he would support he's term being we said so he's served his terms. and then p. proposed that they be reset so that he could potentially run for another 2 terms given the scope of these constitutional amendments they're so wide reaching so thora you know they're really going to change the way things are run in russia and to this flood near putin replied that isn't up to me that is 1st of all the

constitutional court and to the people. of the 2nd proposal means removing the restriction from any citizen and the incumbent president inclusively and allowing the future participation in the elections if citizens support this amendments during the vote on april 22nd this option would only be possible under one condition if the. touche a new court gives an official ruling that this will not contradict the laws of the constitution or the practice is that the constitutional court will look at this amendment potential amendment and decide whether it's legal or illegal and then people will vote for it to be much public support for it well largely impudent ease both internationally and domestically polarizing figure he doesn't joy majority support in russia but then again it's anyone's guess as to whether

people would support another potential 2 terms of life to me or putin you can't look at poll numbers his support numbers and say that that guarantees that people will accept these changes 1st because the constitutional amendments that are being voted on next month by the russian and by the russian public very wide reaching so it isn't only about resetting putin's term limits in it's you know it's established in that 'd 'd that marriage can only be between a man and woman it's a minimum wage it's making sure that people with jule citizenship can serve as a highly highly placed official so there's you know there's a lot of factors going into what people will vote for but ultimately you know if people find that acceptable if they don't support them it wouldn't potentially that yes and said he will he just said that he he'll leave it up to people whether

a. presidential term should be reset but whether people support that is anyone's guess i mean this is the kind of thing you know bet on now ok we'll wait for the end of next month or have thanksgiving saudis are more against the. so in other news after wall street suffered its 1st automatic holton trading in more than 2 decades with stocks falling nearly 8 percent world markets do seem to be slowly recovering today and so is the oil price which also went into freefall yesterday after a price war was triggered by saudi arabia and in the u.s. the dow plunged more than 2000 points the worst one day point drop ever prompted by oil price war that stunned markets around the world we have a huge market event yesterday is there a lot of investors replies at all a shot of the crash restart market $30000.00 point swing on the dow set the scene for what happens today business news now starting with the crude oil markets as

they try to bounce back from their worst day since 1009 to one for prices to plunge 30 percent on what has been dubbed black monday in the biggest single day for since the 1st iraq war it was sparked by a spat between top crude suppliers riyadh and moscow you couldn't agree on a deal on production or saudi arabia says it is slashing oil prices to grab market share from russia it follows russia's refusal last week so back in opec plan to cut oil production the board through its price moscow believing that that would only benefit the high cost producers in the u.s. as a result or prices them punished along with the markets although as we said they have rebounded slightly with more his on court just when we thought black monday was bad enough things have actually gotten quite worse we saw a huge dive by the moscow exchange index and the entire the index for the entire trading system of russia has fallen nearly 13 percent it's really it seems like an economic bloodbath really and we heard from the spokesman of the moscow exchange

earlier talking about it. we see shows fooling prices changing every 2nd top russian companies also down and specifically the ruble fooling against the dollar but the slide of the route has slowed since the stock market opened. now all this has obviously had a very negative effect on the ruble it's seen its biggest decline in value since 2016 but the finance ministry is saying that it has this situation under control and it wants it won't fail to carry out its budgetary obligations moscow also believes it's got enough reserves to wait out this crisis to the end and come out in one piece on the other side today we heard the kremlin's game plan. the russian economy development ministry plans to change the system of management of state capital investments i mean volatility on external markets a vast number of investment projects have been withdrawn from the pact of market fluctuations the president has repeatedly said that the russian economy has the

needed safety margin to absorb this temporary instability amid global markets is turbulence and volatility algeria and france are already calling on saudi arabia to better coordinate with the international community on influencing these oil prices now as of now the next meeting between opec and russia scheduled for march 18th so hopefully they'll be able to save their 3 year long streak of cooperation and prevent a deeper economic crisis from unfolding. ok let's get the thoughts now. an international oil economist and joins us now you very welcome as usual what do you expect to happen next here how long do you expect this price war to last. the prices will continue as long as. the coronavirus is reading. and naturally the

out to break has affected all aspects of the global economy and that has led to a the client in a global oil demand and prices so as long as the outbreak is continuing we can expect week global demand and wheat prices however if you are to be fairing to the conflict over the crisis between saudi led opec and russia i think it will be advised that will very much that topic continue to quote carry it with russia because with russia being the a lot of the largest producer of crude oil and saudi export that a bullet of them wield the huge influence of the global economy and the oil price.

who would you expect to blink 1st then add to saudi arabia and russia. could you repeat the question yes he was best suited to last this crisis would it be saudi arabia or russia do you think that could last the longest with oil prices these low levels. well it was saudi arabia who started the crisis russia was upset nuclear right in refusing to agree to a deep part of cuts at a time when the corona virus outbreak is an aging. and any deepening of cuts or any new cuts would have been a waste of time and few and would have had no positive effect on the oil. price on the contrary opec would have lost more share of

home or market share to the. shale oil industry so russia was equally clearly as right and saudi was angered and it well it could reduce prices to. to. reduce the if will to in has the effect of price reduction on russia but russia and russia's economy can't sell stand lower prices much longer than saudi any be as you know russia's economy can live for years with oil price of $30.00 to $40.00 bet if not lower saudi arabia needs a price far higher above $85.00 do but as its budget so if saudi committed that mistake then it is up to saudi prepare the damage and to make

a new approach is to russia so both of them can try to stab belies the oil price we've been the outbreak of course all of our us dogs asylum a good to talk this even we'll have to leave it that i was told to mom to sell me an international oil economist thank you. and i was the spread of the corona virus continues to infect the markets at least responded to the outbreak by putting the entire country into rock town with more than 9000 infections up more than 1500 on monday alone the country is the 2nd worst affected after china the number of deaths has risen in recent days to more than 460. i am about to send it to create that we can sum up with the expression homes there will no longer be a red zone there will no longer be a zone one or 2 on our peninsula there will be at lee lee that is a protected zone and at the time you are strict sions uprisings to break out in

a number of jails prisoners in belonging have been rioting since yesterday after they took over in jail and set it on fire in milan inmates were filmed on top of roofs their burning items and shouting freedom and 60 dying clashes in the northern city medina while in sicily relatives of prisoners gathered near a jail concerned that prisoners could actually be infected by the covert $900.00 prisoners to a reportedly angered by new rules which have seen family visits suspended. wiemar citizens me italian capital lined up in long queues at supermarkets there on monday evening after the country's pm extended those lockdown measures to the entire country meanwhile some italians were seen fleeing from the peak of the outbreak in the north to sicily in the sack. but this isn't your relations requires a strong sense of responsibility especially among the younger ones because for

example i'm coming from the nato and probably put myself in voluntary quarantine and i do not think it is the right time to go around exporting germs in case abrogate them in any case it is a question of respect for us and for others in particular because i am 25 years old but her family members are older. children really were in the situation where finding a safe place is getting complicated as the situation has already got out of hand before what one hopes for is clearly that everyone takes on their responsibilities and that's appropriate precautions are taken both for oneself as for others less glamorous palaver a phony believes that the efforts though so far to contain the virus have fallen short. italy is a democratic country and the number of interests to be taken into account already the effects of the stock markets are very severe and therefore the government is trying to find

a needle way between the containment of the virus and the economic needs but the 1st thing is the participation it's possible to disappear should not be done in cities it's this doesn't happen i mean the least new way to contain fires you have this competence is and can intervene above the member states but even in this case we could pass a c.e.o. if you intervene in this emergency as being very vague as you call it just the sort of solidarity among states which has not been seen. the top publishing agency hatchet has cancelled a biography by film director woody allen over child sex abuse allegations the decision came after employees of the publisher was sacked over the plan book woody allen has repaid 3 denied all the allegations against him a correspondent in reports. mayor of me to it seems that book publishers in the

united states are becoming book burners that's after hatchet decided to torch the auto biography the us comedy icon and filmmaker woody allen this isn't cannes who mr bones book was difficult one we take our relationships with very seriously and do not cancel books lightly now hatchett has previously published a book by a serial killer they have no problem with controversial authors however after their own employees staged a walkout they caved so what's the issue at hand allegations that woody allen molested his daughter and alan has denied these allegations for decades backing this up is ronan farrow woody allen 8 the son who happens to also be amy to a pioneer and a nother client of hatchet. i was disappointed to learn through press reports that hatchett my publisher acquired woody allen's memoir off to other major publishers

refused to do so you do not function the woody allen book my sister has never been contacted to respond to any denial or mischaracterization of the abuse she suffered at the hands of. now there have been 2 criminal investigations into woody allen and no charges have been brought against him but over the course of 2 decades he has received 8 oscar nominations as well as one of those prestigious gold statues well the me too movement has taken the shine off of his success now some celebrities at this point are worried that cancel culture has gone a little bit too far the hatchett decision to drop the what do you alan book makes me very uneasy it's not him i don't give a damn about mr allen it's who gets muzzled next that worries me i'm always afraid when the mob however small and well read exercise its power without any count ability process or address the tritons me much more than the prospect of woody allen so to biography hits in the bookstores when he allen is not the only

celebrity to have recently been cancelled let's find out what new yorkers think about this new climate i wouldn't have pulled it if i was them because so many other artists have done so many other crazy things and they saw things published so there may have been a tremendous amount of pressure to be politically correct whatever that means now adays social media is definitely. a place where things to have a style get a lot of the same time those allegations can also become true questions continue to be raised about what cancel culture really means and how far it should be permitted to go up and r.t. new york. well arty's editor in chief margarita simonyan has proposed helping to publish the filmmakers book saying it is a question of freedom of speech watching are you going to take a quick break. in the united states presidential candidates debate the future of the u.s.

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again welcome back now u.k. army veterans from the commonwealth and international association of states formerly part of the british empire have criticized what they call the grave injustice that they could be deported and pay from the ruling conservative party and i'm calling on the government to help former service members with the complex and costly procedures to stay in the country. it's hard to imagine people more entitle to live in our islands than those who have fought to defend them we need to look hard at these cases and ensure we support those who should have been able to stay all along. this does seem wrong i hope the home office will rectify this quickly and save these former british soldiers from the trauma of court proceedings

and further delay on the home office rules commonwealth entrance you have served at least 4 years in the u.k. armed forces can apply for indefinitely for a main also known as settlement however many can't afford the procedures which can cost thousands of pounds and those who don't apply could be forced to leave britain a veteran told that their treatment by the government is appalling. we should not be in these are the 1000000 applications today or more many additional troops. and it didn't really used to mean refusing me all over. the armed forces from the area it refused me from working in going in which an 8 now i have. only one you see i mean there's room. for them and out of that. i mean there's room. to do is mean there remain as we're not quite sure where

the wife of a british soldier from south africa has started an online petition to make her life long stay in the u.k. free for all commonwealth veterans she shared her thoughts on the story. they have so soured me in country they have for clinton country i mean what has been the lebanese he's done 2 tours he's. straits and done do not get a terrorist attack take a taxi stand and talk to any benefits or anything but why have we charges such a ridiculous amount of money for them to remain in the u.k. propped it up done everything that's done we leave life to children and that it was time to return season i was a bit worried that it's like i said oh ok we need to start making sure that money aside and the face just kept going up and up every every day when they got there they struck my husband and. me having to explain it's much too young if anything happened to him genuinely career i think they need to re-evaluate the course.

now in the us the has been significant irregularities in democratic primary voting including close to relocate to polling stations and extremely long that's according to the league of united latin american citizens we got of these of the independent you cited the gray zone he said that we will can i say sion of american states should maybe take a look at the clay. the u.s. must send an emergency election monitoring team to the united states to ensure independent scrutiny of a presidential primary that has been marred by clear regularities and the systematic and highly discriminatory obstruction of citizen's right to vote in the united states what we actually have witnessed are major discrepancies between exit polling data in the democratic 2020 primary and the final computer count which is being conducted in a very opaque fashion we've seen in minority and poor communities people having to

wait in line for 5 hours just to vote in the state of texas 750 polling places have been removed since 2012 that means there is one poll. in place for every 7700 people and this is particularly an acute problem in latino and african-american areas why are there no election monitors in the us why does the oas only send election monitors to places like bolivia to falsely allege fraud and trigger military coups if texas or new hampshire or south carolina were socialist latin american countries the cia through the oas would have already installed a right wing government like that of janine on us today in bolivia well in october the keys believe you socialist government all the regularities and counting which led to evo morales having to step down after being told by his military however a new top level us study has found no evidence of election fraud on the former but

living leader who is now in political asylum in argentina says that the us stole the election. last year we won in the 1st round no researchers and scientists are demonstrating that there was no fraud on october 20. 3 and let's not have any fear of dictatorship brothers and sisters we are going to defeat the dictatorship with democracy with the conscience of the bolivian people. and un human rights who denies ation has expressed concern over the prosecution of dozens of people close to the former president is now headed by a rightwing conservative government led by janine as who claimed herself interim president a small. but libya was promised peace what i got was beatings bullets and a whole lot of. wants

boldly waving from the balcony of the presidential palace the self appointed interim president janine anya is now ha it's from angry crowds who are chanting assassin killer traitor because the woman who promised peace. and assumed the presidency with the fact in line with the constitution and pledged to take all measures necessary to bring peace to the country has waged war on john and as politicians i don't have very own people. was. the director of the state radio station was tired to a tree and humiliated for hours.

an incident that was reportedly documented by argentine journalists of a city on a moro who was found unconscious in his home a day later with injuries to different parts of his body and who died 6 days later . various foreign ministers described whole east containing their home address as telephone numbers family addresses and other personal information are being circulated viral facebook and other social media. it has also been publicly reported that the wire flares bodies of several people were. kielty in the midst of her disappearance allegedly after being collected by law enforcement officers and no further information has been provided on them says she's already cracking down on the violent supporters of the previous government

but either way it seems it's easier to make promises of peace when you haven't had a taste of power yet manda parity bang is quite likes the taste because despite promising not to seek election may she's decided to throw her hat into the ring of to rule now washington must be pleased it was off to rule in its support of the democratic regime change in the latin american country but it also considers itself the need of the free walled so surely such reports of brutality would deserve at least a slap on the wrist no. silence or as good as silence to the killings to the beatings to the tear gas a diluted let's all be well behaved and it's not a one off pass why was the indignation when hundreds of human rights activists and leftwing community leaders were killed in colombia when there was peace killings in

brasilia neighborhoods all when the president was allegedly linked to drug traffickers there wasn't any or it was hard hearted our best and what do they all have in common all the countries are run by right wing governments who only have nice things to say about donald trump latin america has long been washington's playground from panama to guatemala from venezuela to grenada washington has been keen to strong arm in sympathetic leaders and it seems that once that in human rights be damned. it's just gone 530 in the afternoon here in moscow that's how things are looking don't forget always plenty of stories at our website.