when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. deciding rush is the next chapter it's the final day of voting on changes to the constitution we look at what is being offered and bring you reaction throughout the day. because the current constitution is out of date i think it is nonsense according to. and. all of that. also ahead on the program there is intense scrutiny for germany meat processing industry. the. working and living conditions for the mainly low paid migrants. and 7 our teacher told all of her which claims the network is controlled by someone on

the block list even though he actually heads up a different news agency as we explain. one minute past 3 pm here in moscow on this the 1st day of july the warm welcome to our to international my names. it is 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 have already heard their say by voting online president putin cleared today a national holiday to a lot of voters who haven't yet done so the chance to cast their ballot.

it's a package of more than $140.00 and many many social legal and economic are in ts to the constitution now let's go through it one ensures that the minimum wage will not be lower than the cost of living another secures an unusual adjustment of entailments for civil servants such as banning key officials from having foreign citizen ship or bike accounts abroad there are also some proposals seen by some as controversial as well would be classified solely as a union between a man and a woman and although gold is referenced the constitution will still define russia as a secular state but there are also some political changes proposed chiefly concerning presidential term limits at the moment a president can serve 2 consecutive terms take some time out come back for more but if the constitutional reforms go through them then show 10 years would be limited

to 2 terms in total the most contentious amendment is the so-called zeroing out of love near putin's terms allowing him the possibility to run for another 2 terms if he wishes across today's voting reaction here suskind taylor speaking to kevin nolan just a little earlier. this whole 13 process has been pretty unconventional and that actually started with way back on the 25th of june and is only wrapping up today almost a week later the culprit is of course 20 twentieth's and to me it's clear that 98 and so that staggering was done in order to prevent people from dissenting on mass to the polling stations i don't think we can underestimate of course the psychological toll that coronavirus has taken a few months people have been told stay at home it's safe that if you go outside it's dangerous naturally that that what people who were hesitant about censuring out into the streets to cause that still thirty's here in russia really did

everything that they could and want to give people options such everyone could participate in a way that they felt comfortable and in a way that they felt safe so alternatives included voting from home or in a number of cities voting online but if you still want to do the old fashioned way of searching in the polling stations it was all about safety so mosques the blogs disposable patton's social distancing a limit on the number of people in a polling station at any one time and not show up in walking around the city law enjoying the beautiful weather if the past week and i can say that people have been strictly it's harrowing to the rules i've seen fadi long queues with people kathy separated already must gloved up ready to be elected a lot in this proposed sort of a momentous $140.00 plus in the house of russian people been reacting to it taking to exam of the day is going to be a yes a simple yes or a simple no to loathing isn't it possible i would like to say that i think that is

wide consensus in russia that reform is necessary but i will say it causes have been very difficult to gauge popular reaction precisely because of this all or nothing 13 scheme so russians are being ostracized to vote for or against an entire package of amendments there are 147 of them that's an astonishing number it's a pretty simple question do you approve. the moral and it's a simple answer it's just so know and has understand to be natural not as in tunnel to liberation what do you do if you really bought 145 of them but you really dislike 2 of them that's a canard i think the defining moment will come in the booth when the photo shows up he weighs this all up and he decides what's most important to me what do i want to prioritize in the future of this country in terms of the political establishment has been folk opposition from the communist party they say that this will only stop to strengthen president putin's power they also do take issue with the mention of god saying that lenin will probably be tutting in his grave they have such people

to go out and vote but to vote no whilst another political party hasn't she just such people not to vote at all to avoid caught up but let's now hear from the people themselves and what they've been telling us i think that it's needed because the current constitution is out of date it is a modern time and even the view is not as good as new. why have i come here to vote just because i'm a citizen of russia and all of them moments in your i am not ok with them then meant 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 most important to measure the prevalence of russian you know over international the head of the central election commission of said something about voting being like a meal deal 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 in sync everything that has been done is right i am going with pleasure to vote and i recommend everyone to do the same so as to be expected with the political issues a bit of a mixed bag it will be the results which will give us a definitive answer on how people really did. we'll about these proposed changes years so when we go to know we just saw a lady there from kaliningrad the russian exclave so many times i was 11 time zones voted here in this area rome moscow is going to go on for another $8000.00 or so will we know tonight then or tomorrow the final result well that's right so here in moscow the polling stations close at 8 pm it's unlikely that we're going to hit any official announcement the results until thought stay morning as you said russia is a false territory at 11 time zones around 800000 polling stations 110000000 at a triple vote says so even if 5060 percent of those people decide to participate

that's still tens of millions of votes that need to be kathy counted in the meantime now as we finish the narrowing rather we near the finishing line of this marist 10 week up to the popular vote we can take a look at some of the more and most at all costs snapshots that we've seen of how people have been hoping that stay in the future of the constitution. to. lose. lose. lose. lose. lose.

lose lose lose lose lose lose lose lose lose lose lose lose lose lose lose lose lose lose lose lose lose lose lose lose lose. i. yes some of the images of the past few days well allegations of ballots stuffing and other voting violations up in circulating widely online all are being

investigated many already fake the electoral commission says that out of all the inquiries it's received only 2 percent or about possible offenses to electoral commission members have been suspended in st petersburg that was after a video emerged of 2 women stuffing a ballot box boxes no sealed and no longer used for voting investigations underway elsewhere to journalists claim they managed to vote twice both in person and online others who also tried say their efforts failed police are investigating the journalist over administrative offenses voting twice is considered fraught punishable with a fine the commission say is only one vote will be recorded in both cases members of the election commission were to police will be subjected to disciplinary action the votes of citizens will be counted but only once. well we talked to the cochairman of the team drafted the amendments he ses there just like other

countries are doing right now russia's foundation laws need updating for modern times. mr hume was to 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 in many european countries france for example went through serious constitutional reforms in the last decade in 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 u.n. member states there are more than $100.00 but how many of them actually have full sovereignty in the sense the russian people understand it 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 at 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 to 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 weren't to be cancelled and the perception of the people. is that this amendment is an additional

guarantee for summits even the most important one that when a new president will come history won't be rewritten crimea won't be returned and no other decisions will be made that won't comply with people's expectations this is really very important. yes so as we have been going through there is a long list of proposed changes in the package being voted on but it's just one element that's got much of the foreign media fired 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 whatever putin wants to stay in power even longer addressing lawmakers afterwards said he backed the amendment allowing him to seek another term in office but there are dozens of interesting thought there should also be discussed and the one that caught my eye was on children the role of children and all that often as i

explicitly mentioned in one of the constitutional a market which i think is worse while reflecting the russian federation of the year 2020 is in many regards i would say in a different situation than was the country in 1903 when we compare the international circumstances but also of course the national economic and political situation the early ninety's were marked by an implosion of dissolute union marked by the down brutal communists and. it was more about being effects of the then being the russian federation that we have today i think there is a need for. meeting this new circumstances because a constitution is almost a reflection of a society and also off the circumstances of the countries it is in still the.

duty of the legislature the parliament in order to respond to do snooty justice i have given thought about online of all to myself several times it's a global debate and i must admit. very personally i'm a bit old fashioned i've think it still makes sense the day of the vault to go out to go to the ballot box so you don't dress up and say tool to discuss with your friends before and after their tool to simply make it click on yourself up. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

let's start the program back in germany where the covert lockdowns been extended tree surrounding in the west of the country after a huge number of workers came down with infections there have been smaller i breaks in similar types of workplaces and not has gone unions and officials concerned over safety conditions for stuff that's paid or all of the reports. 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 age this is feeling mentioned it's not a hard situation for many people the restrictions cause a burden in the chancellor thanks all people who take the situation with patients who follow the necessary restrictions they are all helping now to prevent the virus from spreading the reason for the extension of this local lock down 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 with 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 and sometimes they live 10 people in the same apartment they were all more. 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 corp took an entire region hostage it is

currently being about he waited very carefully whether and against which rules the company has violated and where it can be held liable for those tasked with looking after work his rights aren't buying the german government saying they're willing to open a dialogue on improving conditions they accuse perlin 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.

this type of localized outbreak has been noticeably absent from germany's blue chip manufacturing the auto industry is back to. with the correct precautions being taken in a normal working week 1000 pigs assaulted here every day and while the low paid staff living in quality. may allow for cheap schnitzel it also provides coronavirus with the optimum conditions to spread peter all of r.t. good to slow germany. or t.v.

viewers in lafayette will no longer be able to watch our programmes we've been told off her along with 6 other r.t. multi-lingual channels by the country's media. it's the network's controlled by a broadcaster currently under e.u. sanctions but the devil's in the detail because the person in question to me trick is to the old actually heads up a separate russian news agency not ours right because the if explains the confusion . what you see here may look like news to you but others perhaps those that don't like the color green were made of soft 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 latvia has the literally made up then 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 a number 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 3rd 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 there i see a subordinate even our names are in different languages but the latvian special agent all official is other than easily scared apparently a lazy thing given the 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. book i'm sorry that was mean we just put last we had 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 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 see 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 then 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 it. feet and 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 free speech free expression democracy and all of that and yet just goes to show butts all lipstick when the when the lipsticks rubbed off it's

a rather plain our face underneath. and you can catch the very latest developments as russia goes to the bowling with this weapon stay with me here at our 2 international right for the day i'll be back in 30. but i have in moments israel palestine the seemingly widening divisions between them and focus us we cross to option they go in the underground team as they close. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision little shot change lives every thing came to a complete. the day that i was afraid to be instructed you know told to shut up or they'd kill me and i see how destroyed my life many screamed at me and he made me

come in and he grabbed my arm and he write me with his birth ink area if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the u.s. military rape is a very very traumatizing thing to have happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen it from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished than be offended and almost 10 year career which i was very invested in and i gave that up to report a sex offender who was not even going to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of our in violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's a man or woman. shows seem wrong when old roles just don't hold. any role yet to

shape out just they become thick as a kid and in the gay trade equals betrayal. when something is find themselves worlds apart when she's to look for common ground. secret prisons are not usually what comes to mind when thinking about europe however even the most prosperous can be deceived we've been busy roads on the way to view our houses were our prison was located and the only people had access to the story from investigators covered the darkest dealings of the secret services but i mean. the great of no. sort of. justice.

if you were going underground on the brink of a new intifada sparked by u.k. you u.s. armed israeli annexation of palestine in violation of united nations resolutions coming out of the show just days after more israeli aerial bombardment of gaza one of the foremost voices in the and d.v.d.'s movement former world jewish congress general secretary dan dyker on why he backs indicted prime minister binyamin and with britain the worst per capita coronavirus defamation in the world bar belgium and a new renewed english urban lockdown what is the mainstream media not been telling us about covert 19 and why was the coronavirus bestseller on reported truths banned we speak to its author x. new york times reporter inspire novelist alex berenson was more coming up in today's going underground 1st today marks a.