La which claims the networks controlled by someone on the block even though he actually has a different news agency as we explain. Your training in from right across the globe welcome to R T International my names union. Its the final day of a week of voting thats been taking place across russia on proposed changes to the countrys constitution while many have already had their say by voting online president putin the 3rd today a National Holiday to voters who havent yet done so the chance to cast their ballot. Lets go through its a package of more than 140. 00 amendments many things social legal and economic guarantees to the constitution one ensures the minimum wage will not be lower than the cost of living another secures a new will adjustment to maintain the value of pensions allowance has also tougher requirements for Civil Servants such as bombing key officials from having foreign citizenship or Bank Accounts are brought also some proposal seen by some controversial more age would be classified solely as a union between a man a woman and although god is referenced the constitution will still define russia as a secular state but there are some political changes proposed chiefly concerning president ial term limits at the moment a president can serve 2 consecutive terms take some time out and can then come back for more but if the constitutional reforms go through then president ial tenures would be limited to 2 terms in total the most contentious amendment is the socalled 0 and of putins terms allowing him the possibility to run for another 2 terms if he wants to. This whole 13 process has been pretty unconventional and that actually started with weight back on the 25th of june and is only wrapping up today almost a week later the culprit is of course 20 twentieths and to me its coated 98 and so that staggering was done in order to prevent people from descending on moscow to the polling stations i dont think we can underestimate of course the psychological toll that coronavirus has taken a few months people have been told to stay at home its safe that if you go outside its dangerous not to be there and that what people who are hesitant about censuring out into the streets to cost the food so authorities here in russia really did everything that they could and wanted to give people options such everyone could participate but in a way that they felt comfortable and in a way that they felt safe so alternatives included 13 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 to blogs disposable pens 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 its harrowing to the rules ive seen fadi long queues with people kathy separated already mosque gloved up ready to be elected a lot in this proposed sort of a moment sundered 40 plus in the house of russian people been reacting to it taking to xander that day is going to be a yes a simple yes or a simple no to loathing isnt it possible i would like to say that i think that is wide consensus in russia that the 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 ostracised to vote for or against an entire package of amendments there are 147 of them thats an astonishing number its a Pretty Simple question do you approve. The moral and its a simple answer its just so no 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 thats a cannot and i think the defining moment will come in the booth when the photo shows up he weighs this all up and he decides whats most important to me what do i want to prioritize in the future of this country in terms of the political establishment thats been folk opposition from the communist party they say that this will only stop to strengthen president putins power they also do take issue with the mention of god saying that lenin will probably be tutting in his grave they have people to go out and vote but to vote no whilst another Political Party uppercut has actually just such people not to vote at all to avoid caught up but lets now hear from the people themselves and what theyve been telling us i think that its 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 because im a citizen of russia and all of them moments in your i am not ok with them and went about doing out the president ial term i absolutely do not agree with. I became familiar with all of the amendments in the constitution of. The most important no matter the problem with russia 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 and 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. Well 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 8 hours or so will we know tonight then or tomorrow the final result well thats right so here in moscow the polling stations close at 8 pm its unlikely that were going to hit any official announcement the results until its thawed 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 thats still tens of millions of votes that need to be kathy counted in the meantime now as we finish the narrowing probably 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 weve seen of how people have been putting that say in the future of the constitution. 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That report brought earlier to us by sus katie are speaking to kevin or now there have been allegations of ballot stuffing and other voting violations circulating widely online all are being investigated with many already debunked fake the Electoral Commission says theyre now out of all the inquiries its received around 2 percent or about possible offenses here some of them 2 Electoral Commission members have been suspended instant petersburg after a video emerged of the women stuffing a ballot box that box is no sealed no longer used for voting on investigations underway to elsewhere to journalist claim baby mommas to vote twice both in person and online all those who also tried admitted their efforts failed police are investigating the journalists over administrative offenses voting twice is considered fraud and punishable with a fine 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 yeah as weve been going through theres a long list of proposed changes in the package being voted on but its just one element thats got much of the foreign media fired up. Russias parliament basically paving the way for Vladimir Putin to potentially stay on as russian president hes the longest serving russian leader since Joseph Stalin but a lot of the putin wants to stay in power even longer addressing lawmakers abdu words putin said he backed the amendment allowing him to seek another term in office. Well im very happy to say we can go live on the Program Narrative Franco Frattini italys former Foreign Affairs minister and the president of the Italian Society for International Organizations a pleasure to have you with us how significant is this vote for russia if it progresses and gets the necessary public support will it set rochelle a new course. Well i think its extremely important that after 30 years it was absolutely necessary to modernize this state where president putin i remember what he used to say already 10 years ago we need more there are no easy these is the top level leader for a state we are talking about a constitution so to modernize the constitution to have edition every system looking at the next 30 or 50 years it is a very important result its a message of Political Leadership but its also good for the ordinary People Living in the Russian Federation just examining some of the coverage of this vote and this are for teeny the foreign News Coverage its been focused solely really on love him or putins chance to stay in power why he thinks some of the major social measures are barely getting a mention or indeed the attempts to ensure a more transparent government system seeing as not is what russias been previously criticized for well my major source and sir since you are a journalist you can understand me made the are attracted by the easiest the message the edge truck to the message is whole the president want to stay here to end the dirty 6 and sometimes they are not so many analyst starting a complex framework Legal Framework like a constitution to find looked really is important for different future of the country and for the society the normal People Living in russia i found many may. Any points where social reforms there all the women and also the new balance all power would have deserved more rest then sure but that gets you know good news is no new rules that some used to say i reject the days i studied the old project a constitution and then they found something very interesting where there are some amendments which caught your eye more than others today well i mention i mention only 4 points because it is. Those points that we frankly speaking many many many enemies the then care of the number one you will have a new constitutional principle all multination out of the russians States Russian state aware leave people coming as you have sure you mean its a goal coming from different histories College Tours traditions relieved germans but all i united under their flag and that they stayed to russia this is a very important this 2nd you mention there is a mention here in the new constitution of the role of government there all of the faith we knew i myself when i was foreign minister we have been trying to introduce in european constitution and mentioning to the role of the phase 2 the role of the christian rooms unfortunately we did not succeed because a their friends the belgians and now the opals an easy good result number 3 their little state to defanged their women and the children and number 4. Nobody care d about that but i do care a lot good constitution introduced respect for any moles respect all animals is a principle we dont have in the italian constitution many of the constitution down there youll have cats dont regulate your thoughts mr frickin on why the government wants to refresh the constitution not 2020. It was a it was a very i would say timely maugham because all so many crises around the ward so many regions that are on the stable and frankly speaking looking out we know westerners the situation not so easy and the reason was to shoulder the rest of the war if these young for the future it comprehensive perspective including balance of power oddly eminent government but also civil social welfare the role of new woman their right of a decent salary holder warchest all bills together and to refresh it constitution that president yes wont do mark i would say it give you janelle rift before or after the soviet union now a new constitution has that coleridge to go back to some old standing traditions for us if the amendments today during the week indeed are there being offered as a package not a separate elements for voters to choose white people he thought is so. It is right constitution is caught you cannot allow it each and every birth to choose a these i like these i dont like the cult you do share is their general strain wont you bolt a frame or pure gold for a mold of all the state and then model also society so it is not a take or leave this season you derive a way to grow then it comprehensive project also we need. Full comprehensive packages of constitutional amendments and rightly so always a pleasure to have you on the Program Giving your thoughts Franco Frattini italys former minister of Foreign Affairs on president of the Italian Society for International Organizations thank you. Thank you very much. The world is driven by a dream shaped by. The dares thinks. We dare to ask. I dont know. No shots. Actually. Let me stress both of those 2. Points your thirst for action. 20 minutes past the hour welcome back lets start back in germany where they had locked ons being extended of a large meat fuck tree and surrounding time in the west of the country after a huge number of workers came down with infections there have been smaller id breaks in similar types of workplaces that scott unions on the officials concerned over safety conditions for stuff peter oliver reports. Germany was quite rightly praised for how it handled the initial wave of coronavirus now although its dealing with something a little more tricky isolated localized spikes of covert 19 were on our way to a Meat Processing plant in the city of get its law 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 governments in berlin is calling on people to be patient this is fuelling mentioned its not so hard situation for many people the restrictions cause a burden in the chancel things 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 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 Migrant Workers from Eastern Europe often living in cramped conditions where social distancing is nigh on impossible and being seen as the unfortunate catalyst for the spike People Living in this area arent happy that 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 dont know who has or when you cannot stop it. We have guest workers from romania and sometimes they live 10 people in a theme apartment they were. As for nothing and thats the problem. Theyre 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 say distance officials in berlin and local government 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 you waited very carefully whether and against which rules the company has violated and where it can be held liable tasked with looking after workers rights are buying the German Government saying theyre willing to open a dialogue on improving conditions they accuse the lin 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 have refused all requests for comment when it comes to working conditions they cite but this isnt the only code that spike in germany right now. This type of localized outbreak has been noticeably absent from germanys 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 cramped housing may allow for cheap bratwurst and schnitzel it also provides coronavirus with the optimum conditions to spread peter all over r. T. Good to see germany. R. T. E. Television viewers in love will no longer be able to watch our programs weve been polled off the earth along with 6 other r t multilingual channels by the countrys media console it says the networks controlled by a broadcaster currently under sanctions but the devils in the detail because the person in question dimitri of actually heads up a separate Russian News Agency not ours right because the of explains the confusion. What you see here may look like news to you but others perhaps those that dont 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 ive 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 and didnt try very hard perhaps it was just before the end of the working day that everyone iching to go home see theres a number of News Agencies and russia hauled but i see a civil order which translates to english as russian today and this organization is led by a fellow whos on european sanctions list this organization by the way has nothing to do with r t thats been our name for more than a decade were at sea and there i see a subordinate even our names are in different languages but the Latvian Special agent or 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. Blue im 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 or storage fees blinded virus a phobia we laughed at this announcement the last 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 isnt 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 theyre 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 a solid reason to violate a founding principle of the European Union but they didnt 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 teach anils in latvia violence freedom of the press the wants of citizens to media pluralism and is a clear act of censorship remember councils decision to 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 theres 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. Feet 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 so i think it will now be a laughingstock the European Union claims to be the. Norm Free Speech Free expression and democracy and all of that and yet just goes to show that its all lipstick when the when the lipsticks rubbed off its a rather plain our face underneath a lot of the way things are looking from russia so far this wednesday july the 1st as the country and into the final hours of a big vote on its future constitution putting from moscow i mean i know neil wishing you a great thing. When else so its seems wrong. But all wrong just dont call. Me ill get to see palin
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