was the end of the world but you and i think it was going constitution was came into being under yeltsin yes not a lot of mere putin and the limitations the limitations on democracy that were important russia where imposed by the so-called liberals you know their constitution was written in 1903 by boris yeltsin support us right after their terrible of an assault in 1903 when several dozen people were killed and more score you know because yeltsin had a conflict with the parliament but i would pick up on the word alexander has just said that demonization of putin you know the problem is that the west and then it is they have talked themselves into believing that putin is the only problem because it allows them not to doing anything you know if putin is the only problem then you don't have to ask questions about american policy in iraq. american policy in libi under obama about the american policy in ukraine it's all putin's fault you know so they cannot get out of you know this case as you know alex and we're rapidly running out of time and i'm probably get my critics you know plenty of

mobile network prime minister boris yeltsin's under pressure from washington to ban the company fromits 5 g. rollout the u.s. and other countries see it as a threat to national security as catherine stansell now reports. it's the largest producer of telecommunications equipment in the world but despite its technological prowess china's way is seen as the enemy in the eyes of some global powers the united states has spent the last year convincing its allies to ban while away from their networks citing security concerns over chinese intelligence potentially infiltrating the system the u.s. as well as australia new zealand have already banned the installation of while away equipment in their 5 g. system and with britain preparing to roll out its own 5 g. network has been facing increasing pressure to do the same last week prime minister porus johnson faced heavy lobbying from the us 1st in a phone call from donald trump and then a meeting between the chancellor of the exchequer and us treasury secretary stephen munition what's clear is for the role of government for the role of national

who would as yeltsin said in my film deal with daily affairs while important things would be done by important people this was the scenario what happened to that scenario we have been watching in the past 20 years . i could not guess that russian russian voters would be so spineless and soft to surrender without a fight not only power but their own freedoms like that forever. in russia. a growing opposition against potential has been met with growing repression but while tens of thousands took part in street protests a few months ago put in still has a large army of fans growing up and put into russia these young judo player see the president as a role model and while he has only 4 years to go until the end of his last official term put an end game is as unpredictable as his judo moves step faster than al-jazeera st peter's square. corruption scandals in south africa are expected to remain in the headlines in 2020 whether or not the former president jacob zuma ends up in court he's denied charges against him and is appealing a trial on deals made during his presidency and the next pa

point or would you could possibly at some point leave office before 2024 like you spread assess or yeltsin did ok iraq and the original misdeed council at that time if i could stop you for just a moment we're going to outline some of the options in just a moment 1st i just want to get the reaction from from the other guests before we start to go down those points amy did you see this as a surprise were you shocked by. i was of course surprised as most most people in the russian media and most observers were but i do think that this this planned these plan changes in the constitution that putin has proposed have been long in the making and this is part of his longer term strategy to ensure that he can basically continue to run russia after his presidential term expires in 2024 and i i may be in the minority on this but i don't think that this necessarily means that dmitri medvedev who was resigned as prime minister as a result of these changes i don't think that this means that medvedev is completely out of the picture i would imagine that he also knew about these forthcoming changes and th

u. at the end of this month and pesa voted in favor of prime minister boris yeltsin's withdrawal agreementhree hundred thirty four. two hundred thirty one against the bill us now. house of lords in order. to leave on january thirty first thompson has ruled out prolonging first brexit transition period he owns. the end of this year. hello mike is also voted against keeping sanctions with charles refugees in that withdrawal billl it would have guarantnteed t the rt of on the company childld refugees. to be re reunited with family members living in the u. k. off to brexit activists have called it a kick in the teeth. the member for the uk's brexit secretary his country protects child refugees- well that it's not nenecessary to enshrine that protection into the brexit bill. united kingdom currently i is in the top three e. u. countries in terms of the numbers of the company children it takes 15% of the entire t total o of the complete children it is not necessary to be in the ritual of the mobile itself what we have a project called. and we shouldn't talk about them. wednesday more than three

question is to what extent can the the recall election of the so-called democratic conditions under mr yeltsin during the ninety's to what extent can these negative recollections been overcome and can russia can russia manage to open them up to a new say wave often. zation of more transparency openness from a western european standpoint i think it is absolutely unconditional that she is she russia tries to go that way we'll have to see whether this one move is enough this one move will not be enough there will be more to follow but let me end it on one thing i think it's very important because here in the in the german media the proposed constitutional changes are immediately being interpreted as only another way for mr putin to provide for his remaining in power after to 2024 of course this this probability is existant but there is also a certain likelihood i think that though with his proposals mr putin himself may want to create a situation in which a repetition of his personal 20 years in power with this massive power in his hands which makes this repetition impossible so for future presid

that should happen in 2024 but it is possible that it will happen before we only remember that boris yeltsin put his predecessor in the kremlin. and to give way to put him in the clear before we are actions were actually to be before the next elections were actually scheduled but the main significance of today's events is that the town has the political stance or the political transition of russia has essentially officially started it is under way and the next one you need for head of government for prime minister when we find that will be here that name that will be of great significance to you because it will show the direction of the russian government for the next few years is it going to be a more liberal candidate for prime minister is it going to be somebody of. ideological ilk was going to be somebody more conservative is going to be somebody from the security apparatus that when we hear that name. the proposal by the president for the next prime minister best will be a significant piece of information that will be of great significance for russia's next few years victor if your anal

balance between international law and and the constitution of a nation and so i think that on the yeltsinmoved a bit too much into dependence on the international international obligations and now i think some balance will be redressed but i don't think it will be dramatic will not really a concern bilateral issues with other countries mr pushkov when a lot of our program is talking about. being sufficient in terms of how russia has developed its military capabilities when mr putin says that it's not russia that has to do catching up at this point but other international players how does that bind with his words that came just 30 seconds before that when mr putin is saying that nobody should be worried about what russia is dawn and russia does not pose a threat to anyone russia doesn't pose a threat but there is a logic in. international competition among great powers 1st of all in the competition between russia and the united states is that when the united states were ahead of us say in the sixty's in a number of types of armaments we were trying to get up with them now the united states

gorbachev did before he went out to sign the paper that would collapse the soviet union and allow bboris yeltsin to become president of russian federation, "we did good things, didn't we? story will judge us well," and i said to president bush, "do you realiz i how extraordinary th" well, he was george h.w. bush. he said, "wellit i never thought abou i said, "that the president of the soviet union "in his last act before the collapse of the soviet union d the american president essentially to seek his affirmation?" that was a very big deal, but that's the way he was. rubenstein: another member of the george herbert walker bush faecides to run for president-- george w. bush. ri: yes. rubenstein: you become the national security advisor, the first woman to be national security advisor... rice: yes. rubenstein: so you're there, and then 9/11 happens... rice: yes. rubenstein: so where were you on 9/11? rice: 9/11, i was at my desk. you'll remember that at that event in florida, the education event, and,e-ust to show you our 11 thinking, i did not go with him that day. my assistant came in, said a pl

be halted flights will be of impersonal travel permits suspended the british prime minister boris yeltsin's decided that chinese tech giant huawei will be granted a limited role in building the u.k.'s 5 g. network donald trump pressured him to keep 4 way out because of security in sands. and hours before its to be amounts protests have begun in the palestinian territory against president obama's middle east peace plan people have been out in gaza and there were a mullah denouncing a deal they say will only benefit the israelis. that least 40 civilians have now been confirmed dead in an attack in bikini fast so they were killed by an armed group in the northern province in this a whole region on saturday so far it's unclear as to who was responsible for the attack scuffles have broken out between iraqi security forces and antigovernment protests as in baghdad live ammunition and tear gas have been fired on crowds who are resisting attempts by the security forces to clear their camps from the capital . is among the protesters. this is khiladi square where protesters have been beaten back by s

i was at the white house covering the remarks by president trump, he manson -- he mentioned boris yeltsin.k. on board with this? >> we have kept this plan very quiet. things, been one of the a lot of people are shocked that we've been able to have such a detailed plan. the fact that we've had no leaks has been great. that being said, there are some partners that we trust. we've had a lot of good discussions over the last couple of years. i have dealt with boris johnson when he was the foreign minister and he had a great deal of enthusiasm for this. i've dealt with people on his team and they have given us great feedback to make this better. i'm hopeful they will put out supportive statements to encourage both parties to negotiate on this basis. we have a lot of other countries in europe and the middle east we have been talking with and a lot of the concepts in this plan a concepts that people have been pushing for very long time. >> what about the jordanians? >> i think the jordanians would greatly benefit from seeing this plan through. they are trying to take advantage of instability and

it could be that there is someone, within the regime, a boris yeltsin type person who sees that what's going on is not sustainable. he is more of a government figure who is perhaps more moderate and could be some sort of transition government. >> harris: you know it is interesting about that, melissa. that means that that person is in waiting anyway. if you will recall, we saw the government trying to gin up that anti-american support in the streets after the death of the general soleimani. we saw that. millions of people, not representative of the entire country, but in the streets. it took just a lie by the government, and an incredible tragedy. those 176 people. for people to wake back up to those two things, i would government lies to us, iran, and the economy is tough. 47% inflation. it took that reality to bring back, i think what you're saying could be true, melissa. that person is just there. willing to capture, in a moment, i don't know if we are supporting that, would be take over regime or person, but you had to have something waiting in the wings. this is a very tender situ

the vulnerability of the guys at the top and could replace them and maybe it is a boris yet sin -- yeltsinpe person or somebody not as extreme as those at the top. what do you think of that. >> utterly ridiculous. they have been in place 41 years. they know who the loyalists are. they have very coherent philosophy. it is despicable, hate filled and built allowed the literal destruction of israel there is no quote, unquote, moderate faction within the iranian government. the guards corps, they have infiltrated every aspect of the iranian society. they own all major industries or control all major industries. they control all financial institutions. they own strategic sectors of society. there is no way they give up without a fight. there is to way for moderates to get traction. i hope and pray there are peaceful transition of lunatics in power to out of power. i don't see any way for that happening because of the way they structured the regime. melissa: would it be possible for people to topple the government there. >> no. melissa: really. >> we're not talking about, in the soviet union, it

it happened when boris yeltsin was approaching the end of his second term.ond term. —— putin was approaching. look at some of the other announcements he made today. is there anything in that list that stands out for you ? is there anything in that list that stands out for you? you mean the constitutional reforms? the reform, the most significant announcement todayis the most significant announcement today is about the role of the parliament. the parliament will be significantly strengthened under these constitutional reforms. it will change the nature of the constitutional regime in russia. significant power will move fruit —— to the parliament. this will mean that the prime minister will become a much more powerful institution in russia because he will have an independent base of political power separate from the president. the co nve rse separate from the president. the converse of course is that these reforms will weaken the power of the president. and one reading of the announcement today is that vladimir putin like many post—soviet presidents is using c

>> there was a kind of unholy alliance between oligarchs and boris yeltsin in the wild west '90s. your ill gotten gains but just know this, don't interfere in politics. so long as you do that, we'll be fine. well he started to interfere in politics, started to gather influence in the duma, wanted to do a big merger with exxon which would have caused a lot more transparency in the russian economy and was calling out p s vladmir putin about corruption. all those things put him in the cross hairs of vladimir putin. >> i want to ask you about death. first being the murder charge you mentioned, but secondly, we know a lot of vladimir putin's rivals and opponents have met untimely demises throughout the world, not just in russia in recent years. how has citizen k been able to avoid that, because of resources for protection? how worried is he about threats on his own life? >> it is an interesting story. i walked around london with him, you don't see a lot of guys with earpieces on following him around. he slings a backpack over his shoulder and makes his way. his view after ten years in