on this in the woods who. consume morning the 1st of july in the headlines deciding russia's next chapter then it's the final day of voting on changes to the constitution look at what's being offered and bring you reaction throughout the day. i think that it's needed because the current constitution is out of date i think it is nonsense according to all legal logical and ethical norms and. all of that man wants. this intense scrutiny elsewhere for germany's huge meat processing industry after a major covert outbreak among staff at the biggest plant to shine a light on working and living conditions for the many low paid migrant stuff. 7 r.t.e. channels pulled off the air in love which claims the networks controlled by someone

on the blacklist even though he actually had supper different news agency as we explain. talk about the morning my name is kevin owen here in moscow just turned 10 am you're watching r t international and its news from russia is dominating our coverage of the start the 1st half the program whether it's the final day of a week of voting that's been taking place across russia on proposed changes to the country's constitution while many of already had this voting online president putin has declared today a national holiday to allow voters who haven't done so yet the chance to cast their ballot. so what's on offer well it's a package of more than a $140.00 amendments many adding social legal economic guarantees to the

constitution one ensures the minimum wage would not be lower than the cost of living another secures an annual adjustment to maintain the value of pensions and allowance is so important to so many people there would also be tougher requirements for civil servants such as banning key officials from having foreign citizenship or bank accounts abroad there are also some proposals it is controversial to one of them particularly marriage will be classified soley as a union between a man and a woman and although god is referenced the constitution will still define russia as a secular state but there are also some political changes as well being proposed schieffer concerning presidential term limits that's a lot of people abroad are looking at at the moment a president can serve 2 consecutive terms and then they can take some time out and then come back for more if they want to but if this constitutional set of reforms go through then presidential 10 years would be limited to 2 terms in total and the most contentious amendment is the so-called zeroing out of putin's terms

a lot of people a lot to say about that learning into the possibility then to run for another 2 terms if he wants to know a little bit later we go into our correspondents house could tell her she's covering this for us down there in red square but we'll go to that later meantime allegations of ballot stuffing and other voting violations have been circulating widely online as to where this 1st all of being investigated and their fair few have been debunked his fake electoral commission says that out of all inquiries it's received only 2 percent or about possible offenses to electoral commission members this is new and have been suspended in some petersburg after a video emerged of 2 women stuffing a ballot box the box is now sealed and no longer used for voting we hear and investigations on the way elsewhere to journalists claimed they managed to vote twice indeed both in person and online others who also tried say their efforts failed police are investigating with journalists over administrative offenses

sauternes now voting twice is considered fraud and punishable with a fine the commission says only one vote will be recorded. in both cases members of the election commission were took place will be subjected to disciplinary action the votes of citizens will be counted but only once so a potted history of the current constitution was adopted almost 30 years ago a time a great upheaval back there with the remnants of the u.s.s.r. on course for some big changes.

you know. so that was then but the president mentioned in central moscow keeping tabs on the voting in reaction been telling our audiences the last day as we've been going them. well this whole voting process has been pretty unconventional and that it all began on the 25th of june and is only wrapping up today a week later now the culprit is of course is that 19 that staggering was done to prevent masses from flocking to polling stations on just one day i don't think we can underestimate the psychological toll the crater virus has taken for months people were told stay at home safe don't go out saw eat so naturally there were

people who were hesitant about venturing out to cost the boats so authorities here in russia did everything that they could to give people options so that everyone could get to space in a way that they felt comfortable in a way that they felt safe so alternatives included floating from term or in a couple of cities even floating online for those those who really wanted to stick by the old fashioned method of searching in the polling stations while it was safety fausto mosques blogs disposable penn station. distancing a limit on the number of people at any one time and not shopping walking around the city a lot over the past week and i would say that people were actually listening to the rules quite cafferty they were all standing separately apart and they were already mostyn * blocked up ready to be elected and in terms of turnout at last count on tuesday evening the central editorial commission indicated that we're looking at around 4 to 6 percent which is probably what we were expecting as in any country a presidential prime ministerial election which we're in

a really big crowd but historically chair in russia low cool parliamentary elections plebiscite such as this they tend to be around 40 to 60 percent mark. so the russian people been reacting to this vote. were not particularly huge but it's normal to go through what we saw a russian people on the street about it. well one thing we can safely say is that that is a wide consensus in russia that reform is needed but you know the current constitution dates back to 9093 and russia has changed dramatically in those years so people do recognize that the constitution is a document it needs to be model boy needs to have the capacity to take on new and often challenging political realities but i will also say that it has been difficult to gauge popular reaction and that's because of the all or nothing so russians are being asked to either to vote for or against the entire package of

amendments and they are all in the stone the 137 maybe continue 3 but i'm going to show you anyway i've got an example ballot paper and that's a very simple question do you approve of the changes in a very simple answer it's yes or no and that's left people a bit mixed because what if they really support 145 of them but really dislike 2 of them that's a bit of a conundrum and i think the defining moment will be in the booth you know the votes will go in the way the slop in the last what's the most important thing for me. as my country develop some news into the future in terms of the political establishment though there's been vocal opposition from the communist party they say that this will only serve to strengthen president putin's power and they also take issue with the mention of god they said that lenin is tightening in his grave they have just to go out and say no to the proposed changes while another political party is out she just calling on people to boycott the event full stop but now let's hear from people themselves and what they've been telling us from all corners

of the country. i think that it's needed because the current constitution is out of date it is a modern time and even the view of the life is new. why have i come here to vote because i'm a citizen of russia and green with all of them men mond's and i am not ok with them and went about doing out the presidential term i absolutely do not agree with. i became familiar with all of the amendments in the constitution of the member that's the most important to me is the prevalence of russian or over international the head of the central election commission of says something about voting being like a meal deals you either take everything or you do not take it at all and i already do not like one dish in this meal deal so i will not take everything else i think it is nonsense according to all legal logical and ethical norms i love my country and you think everything that has been done is right i am going with pleasure to vote and i am recommend everyone to do the same. so as is often the case when it

comes to political issues a bit of a mixed bag it will be the results which tell us how people really feel about all this year so what are we going to know related to my talk of this time tomorrow 24 hours. while here in moscow the polling stations closed out of around 8 pm it's unlikely that we're going to have any official announcement of results before then so. we're looking probably now at saad stay morning of course we all know you just need to look at the map russia is an enormous territory it's got an 11 time zones 800000 polling stations 110000000 eligible voters so even if as with looking now around 50 percent of those cost votes still tens of millions of votes that need to be counted very cafferty in the meantime though as we near that finish line of what's been a marathon week of this popular vote let's take a look at some of the more and most adults we should say ways that people have been

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lose lose lose lose lose lose lose. lose lose lose. lose. lose. a lot of votes to count so i could tell of her later when we talked to the cochairman of the team that drafted the amendments he says that just like many other countries doing right now russia's foundation laws do need updating for modern times. was that mean the world is changing right now is so fast and so are constitutional laws human rights and liberties are constantly expanding and

evolving as well as the mechanisms for their protection many european countries france for example went through serious constitutional reforms in the last decade italy had several attempts to amend its constitution as well. and even the constitution of the us is changing rapidly and substantially every single country chooses its constitutional model and the moderation rules for itself look how many un the member states there are more than $100.00 but how many of them actually have full sovereignty in the sense the russian people understanding and many of them are really capable of carrying out internal or external policy independently based on the interests of their own paypal how many indeed we are introducing new restrictions on presidential term limits according to the new amendment the highest official will be able to serve not more than 2 terms overall and now look for example in germany is there any restriction for the chancellor who is the key figure in the german political system no there are no such restrictions and now

let's take a look at great britain the position of prime minister the leader of the ruling party are there any restrictions on how many times one can be elected to preside over a government and essentially the executive of the country there are no such restrictions if there are new politicians it come and they will surely come to the federal parliament to the government and eventually to the presidency those politicians must share basic principles and so from this perspective this amendment is a guarantee that all of the achievements of the last 20 years waiting to be cancelled and the perception of the people is that this amendment is an additional guarantee for some it's even the most important one that when a new president will come history won't be written crimea won't be returned and no other decisions will we know. that won't comply with people's expectations this is really very important. so as we heard then there's a long list of proposed changes in the package being voted on but it's just one

element the scope much the foreign media are all wound up. russia's parliament basically paving the way for vladimir putin to potentially stay on as russian president he's the longest serving russian leader since joseph stalin but a lot of it's putin wants to stay in power even longer addressing lawmakers afterwards putin said he backed the amendment allowing him to seek another term in office the west on the visual it's. always do we. bashing of anything that is against their own ridiculous and mean agenda. when it comes to the changes in the constitution are tremendous and they are a huge step towards more democracy and more dividing up the power for example if the do mark has to has to get its approval or the prime

minister or any other of many other things it is more their dividing up the power and this is totally against the russian bashing so they just concentrate on one of these in western world is regarded as bad. to. lead.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see you there. for the stories making headlines this morning next the lockdown has been extended at a german meat factory and the surrounding for a huge number of workers came down with covert infections the big smaller outbreaks in similar types of workplaces to its goal unions and officials concerned over

safety conditions for stuff as peter all of the reports next. germany was quite rightly praised for how it handled the initial wave of coronavirus now although it's dealing with something but hops a little more tricky isolated localized spikes of covert 19 we're on our way to a meat processing plant in the city of good to slow which has been the epicenter of one of those outbreaks over $1500.00 workers tested positive at this facility the factory is currently closed down with the workforce in quarantine since corona was confirmed a lockdown that was imposed on the local area last week has been extended by a further 7 days and the federal government's in its calling on people to be page says if you limit it's not a hard situation for many people the restrictions cause a burden in the chancel thinks all people who take the situation with patients and

follow the necessary restrictions they are all helping now to prevent the virus from spreading the reason for the extension of this local lockdown is 100 cases of corona in the last week detected in people that have no connection whatsoever with this meat factory the working and living conditions of staff at the other 2 are have been brought under the microscope low paid workers from eastern europe often living in cramped conditions where social distancing is nigh on impossible being seen as the unfortunate catalyst for the spike people living in this area on top either workers were forced to continue in these conditions during a pandemic. management should have been more careful these are people who came here to work they should have been tested before they were hired but when the virus was already in the factory and you don't know who has it then you cannot stop it. we

have guest workers from romania sometimes they live 10 people in the same apartment they were. as for nothing and that's the problem. they're blaming the meat factory but the virus is still everywhere one of the reasons could be that people are working there in close proximity without maintaining the necessary save distance officials in berlin and local governments say this is the responsibility of business owners. the company must have civil liability through behavior where people obviously do not abide by rules corporation took an entire region hostage it is currently being about he waited very carefully whether i'm against which rules the company has violated and where it can be held liable for those tasked with looking after workers rights of buying the german government saying they're willing to open a dialogue on improving conditions they accused of being all talk no action they have already been enough in nonsense and promises who heard it all before but

nothing ever happens the company operating this plant of refused all requests for comment when it comes to working conditions they cite but this isn't the only coded spike in germany right now. but this type of localized outbreak has been noticeably absent from germany's blue

chip manufacturing the auto industry is back to. work with the correct precautions being taken in a normal working week 30000 pigs are slaughtered here every day and while low paid staff living in poor quality tauzin may allow for cheap route 1st in schnitzel it also provides coronavirus with the optimum conditions to spread peter all over r.t. to slaughter germany. who are in the news this morning r.t. view is allowed via we're no longer able to watch our programmes it seems we've been pulled off air there along with 6 other r.t. multi-lingual channels by the country's media council it says the network is controlled by a broadcaster currently the e.u. sanctions but the devil's on the detail of it because the person in question guy called dimitri kissel he of actually had a separate russian news agency explaining it all the of next. what you see here

may look like news to you but others perhaps those that don't like the color green were made of software stuff those working in latvian intelligence agencies all government this is horrible the evidence we have obtained is very strong and we call on the regulators of all other e.u. member states to follow our example and ban r.t. in the territory such programs have no place in latvia or elsewhere in the e.u. personally i've looked all over fairbairns watched r.t. arabic with subtitles tried r.t. spanish i even checked behind attorneys and know nothing just cables the very evidence that lad here has the literally made up and didn't try very hard perhaps it was just before the end of the working day that everyone iching to go home see there's an umbrella of news agencies and russia called but i see a civil order which translates to english as russian today and this organization is

led by a thurlow who's on european sanctions list this organization by the way has nothing to do with r t that's been our name for more than a decade we're r t and they're right here seaboard even our names are in different languages but the latvian special agent or official is other than easily scared apparently a lazy thing given that consider of his subject to sanctions throughout the year you the national electronic media council will inform media regulators in other e.u. countries of the decision taken and considers that a similar ban on distribution would be acceptable throughout the e.u. blew i'm sorry that was mean we just put last the other intelligence agencies on red alert agents running around their headquarters waving their arms and complaining loudly about our t. scaring them again but it really is funny even the fellow who in the sanctions list

. seems to think so this decision is an indicator of the level of stupidity and ignorance of the latvian austerities blinded virus a phobia we laughed at this announcement the lab you know authorities got into a simple mess but seriously speaking the reason for the ban they have stated does not have any legal basis therefore latvia should immediately return the broadcast of r.t. and apologize to our colleagues to be honest it isn't hurting our feelings that they should be worried about you can censor things not in the modern world people will always find a way to find what they're looking for what they should be worried about is you know undermining the very foundations of the european union no country can join the e.u. without guaranteed freedom of expression as a basic human right fine if latvia which seems to have a thing for trying to silence media have been able to come up with a good excuse to ban a solid reason to violate

a founding principle of the european union but they didn't they came up with a laughable excuse and even then managed to get it wrong and look stupid in front of their own allies the burning of our to channels and violence freedom of the press the wants of citizens to media pluralism and is a clear censorship member council's decision be lifted immediately at the end of the day if latvian special services and authorities are of this incompetent capable of confusing 2 different media organizations and everyone who leads them and in the process undermine the entire european union well there's really nothing to be afraid of little latvia flexing its muscles trying to lead the european union on our merry dance of censorship and media repression has dropped the store and on. feat they may have been counting on

the fact that nobody would notice this rather gigantic elephant in the corner of the room but they have named the wrong guy saw i think it will now be a laughingstock the european union claims to be the. norm for means speech free expression and democracy and all of that and yet just goes to show that it's all lipstick when the when the lipsticks rubbed off it's a rather plain our face underneath. always a way with words the way things are looking for russia so far this wednesday 1st of july then the big story is that we are into the final hours of a week of voting in this country on how the people see it developing over the coming years in a big vote on potential constitutional changes or course across it over the coming hours throughout the day and at our tea dot com as well for now reporting from moscow kevin i mean delighted you've been watching and have

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