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247 news live from moscow this is our international from the team on myself you know me alone welcome. Russia has a new Prime Minister lawmakers approved to. Come to see earlier on thursday with president putin then signing off on the appointment to tranquil has more of the day on food. Well it only took this country what was it slightly more than 24 hours to come from the point when the president proposed to tweak some elements of russias constitution which by the way didnt automatically mean that the cabinet would have to step down to a moving towards the point when the russian state duma approved the name of the countrys new Prime Minister that is. So the result was 383. 00. Votes in favor about 40 abstentions and 0 votes again so this is the kind of backing the and coming Prime Minister is getting which is very important obviously in his position and clearly we were listening to his speech right before the vote which was obviously filled with quite a few promises so here are some of them. Used to produce them i can do to highlight to ensure you that all members of the new government will carry personal responsibility for achieving National Goals i know that some talks in this room can even an intensive and i believe its very important that the government feels that it would always be questioned him on it it remains open and constructive critics help us improve and do the members of Parliament Give us regional feedback you know what they think what people talk about how this sense the situations and whether they think that there are changes needed for the past. Just to look at the background of mr mr stan a little bit i can tell you that he was in charge of the Russian Federal Tax Authority for about a decade he rarely appeared on t. V. So when on wednesday the now former Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev i can tell you that theres really no other way to put it shocked the country shocked the world by saying that his government was stepping down only a few hours after the russian leader delivered his annual state of the nation address pundits were calling out different names and i can tell you that in most cases wasnt even on the list but then again boom the name. Came out of the kremlin so you cant help wondering what are the reasons for this appointment why so much trust welt i can tell you that the new Prime Minister while he was working in the federal Tax Authority managed to accomplish a mission that seemed absolutely. Impossible at one point to get rid of a very painful state of bureaucracy and russias taxes i can tell you that previously to pay taxes or to deal with some problems russians have to stand in line fill out hundreds of papers they say that at this point now it can all be done through smartphones or tablets p. C. s you name it what then a matter of minutes and people say that this is really the achievement of me and in fact spoke to our t. A few years ago about exactly that about the digital izing the paper work in russia and how its important for the development of the country he was talking about the Younger Generation that will shape out the future of the nation its important that the young generation whose form of whose future taxpayers to morrow use the friendly user interface which is suitable for the as we know the last research is showing us the young generation now not using p. C. Computers so the mobile phones mobile applications and then social networks so basically we should exit the street with new stations to come we should come to the such is social networks and make sure that its friendly interface for them so basically this is the maybe main reason why we collaborate can be the commissioners to make sure that we saw recent kotex peers because between service and confuse call part of the administration servicing part this not only more and more coming clearly there will be something for d the audience outside this country to point out russias new pm is fluent in english that is something that we hadnt seen for a very long while now before the vote in the Upper Chamber of the Russian Parliament began i managed to catch up with some of russias most senior lawmakers and i asked them why they. About to support the candidacy of Michelle Michelle was thinking about official city. If you look at the official so different ministries in said russia or the tax collection is one of the best it is all the. Way he knows everything about every payment officially made it is said russian. Created the most. Useful and usable. Tronic government it has a ph d. In economics he writes books on economics he writes textbooks he teaches the Financial University in moscow so it hears an intellectual. Very more than that intellectual of more than a bureaucrat who can. Have a very systematic view on issues because heres actuals officiality. Which he got at the university was systems and functional the systems so. I think its a good choice because of it i think a very quick. Which you might know which i think its also important for a politician. In developed an efficient tax service one of the most efficient departments in the country hes a strong leader tax Service Management is being done correctly both in terms of leadership im cutting edge technology. But for the 1st time the Prime Minister has proven business capabilities just hes showing that with these work in the tax service and if you polishes all our ministries in the same way it would boost National Income and streamline expenditure is an engineer you bring strong accu men in the sciences and Innovative Technology ideas politically is neither left nor right nor centrist we really have a specialist coming into power. Another major shake up in russian politics this week so all the government resigning was in response to suggesting amendments to the constitution effectively diminishing the president s powers while boosting those are part of that. But it wasnt will it should or the amendments i suggested yesterday do not affect the fundamental basis of the constitution further in russias development as a lawful state the goal is also to enhance the effectiveness of the countrys institutions to strengthen the role of Civil Society and to enable the Political Parties in our regions to make decisions vital to the countrys development our Senior Correspondent the planes and more about their landmark moves on the reaction they receive in the west. Try explain this lend putin and power as the office of president the media accuses of of seizing more power who couldnt control over russia but when putin gives up that power and hands it over to parliament at is own expense it is also because he seizing more control over russia 1st to discover this syndrome i name it paranoid putin a friend here and theres a real epidemic. Paranoid putin a friendly aside he is what he actually proposed to guaranteed that no president ever wields as much power as he did including putin himself hes got 4 more years in office. This is unprecedented in a quarter of a century every constitutional amendment was designed to empower the president for example increase the president ial term from 4 years to 6 years or give the president the power to appoint prosecutors and now he turns it all upside down it used to be that putin appointed the prime. Ministers Parliament Rubber stamp that now parliament appoints heads of government and putin rubber stamp set with no power object so it is useless that you according to the constitution of the Russian Federation hes the president needs only the state dumas consent to make official appointments the president appoints the cabinet his deputies and all the ministers i propose shifting this power to the state duma and also the approval of the russian governments chairman and at the chairman suggestion all the deputy Prime Ministers and federal ministers will have to be appointed by the president without the right to reject any candidates this is of course all subject to a popular vote if these passes russia will be a changed country with a very different future russia is changing into a new face of democracy freedom and now this 1st. Time when the president limits his old power and this is something in the later controlled country is not known at all the president limits at all and wants to let the people decide on the new constitution. At the pave the way the government handed in its resignation its worth mentioning it wasnt all that popular that failed on a number of fronts and meter medvedev the now caretaker Prime Minister said himself its time for something new you have all heard the address of the russian president Vladimir Putin as president he outlined the major priorities of our work for the upcoming year but he also outlined a number of fundamental changes to the constitution of the Russian Federation these changes when they take place and this will be done after discussions and as was said they will significantly alter a number of parts of the constitution and change the balance of power if theres one thing we know about putin its that we dont know him he loves the surprise and there was no warning not even rule is that the country was about to be turned on its head we now have a new Prime Minister we heil michoud in an unknown quantity hes largely stayed out of the spotlight for the past decade head in the federal tax agency and i must say he did wonders teaching russians to pay their taxes fact some would argue hes done too good a job it is now clear putin hangs up the gloves in 2024 he will run for another term time change so does russia it is a revolutionary change from this distance i would say that it gives more power to the parliament but it downgrades the importance of the Prime Ministership the stability of russias leadership quality which is not a separate issue has been one of the most positive aspects of World Governance in the 21st century. The turkish president has annoyance the deployment of more troops to libya he ses to ensure the stability of the Un Government and its capital of tripoli be able join our deployments already sent by uncured earlier in the month now during a meeting with the German Foreign minister general huffed are on libyas rival Administration Reportedly said hes ready to abide by the current 6 fire we spoke earlier to middle east correspondent paul leslie or on this. Well it certainly seems as if things are heading in the right direction that meeting in moscow was applauded by the International Community is a step in the right direction in terms of bringing about a lasting Peace Agreement in libya as youve mentioned weve just heard from the German Foreign minister that highly for have tyler who is the commander of the Libyan National army has agreed to a cease fire with the forces of the government of National Accord now that is the u. N. Backed government that sits in tripoli this followed an earlier an ounce meant by the turkish president air the one in which he said he was starting to send turkish troops to libya to assist the government of National Accord there there are already Turkish Forces in libya but they they are primarily to train the forces in tripoli and everyone is saying that this is all part and parcel of a much Bigger Picture they are agreements between the 2 countries to this effect and that it will help bring the long term stability in libya take a listen. Were starting to send our soldiers to ensure religious my government survival and stability in libya starting with the idea that turkeys security lies outside of its borders we will continue to mobilize our capabilities. Now all of this comes just days ahead of a meeting that has been planned in the german capital for this weekend and due to attend that meeting our leaders from turkey from russia as well as from britain italy and germany the focus of the meeting will be a follow on from the summit that was held in moscow again a further step in trying to entrenched and bring about a long term security and stability in libya. Has been brought to a standstill once again trade unions Public Sector workers are piling the pressure on french president among the almost drawn over his proposed reforms Mass Transportation strikes hit porous and other major cities across the country on thursday but while the go see a sions between the government and the unions drug go on some of mileage the phone the funny side of recent events. As a strike continues in fronts weve brought you the congo weve brought you the discontentment weve even bought you the violence the other thing that is quite interesting about protests like this all the fine is that really brings the color if you just look behind me you can to get a sense of just some of these banners that are out today people are spending tireless hours creating these banners to try and get them for a moment say on t. V. Or social networks to try and get their voices of course were going to speak to use a ballot hes got this sad very nice sorry i didnt translate into nice english basically saying my god loves to our professors particularly at the age of 64 i rather think he mailed reference to the fact he married his schoolteacher i is a plan. To be fair to function. Normally teaches retire at 62 like everyone else but if these reforms are passed they will go up to 64 or even more in from cases this is meant as a wink toward the a president whose wife is a teacher. So its not just the placards that we see at these protests we also see other flags that are regular currencies like this one for che guevara and the flag of the palestinian territories over there also the color that adds to almost every protest that we come to in front of just spotted what looks like quite a nice cargo placard here in paris its a train lets have a chat to the person behind this. Expect watch. It go on have been on strike for 42 days we were away workers are striking against americans pension reform michel i think were witnessing some sort of humorous show here weve got some. The huge looks like then have the son of moderate such share and missed a mac coal that hair style as and in disabused see believe art of market share if you take you with the well lit like to be pearls on the a is around her oh big big for me no protest in paris is completes intil we have met this chain clue and this is your own back to east and every protest he is out with a new so i knew in this distinctive at coloring buzzers or straw money 1st are straw poll like im a joining the flight for social justice the environment democracy democracy everything is going row this is a democratic emergency the politicians a not performing that you tease an acting to help the people blow from the simple message is jew the more humorist messages it seems you can pretty much find any thing on apply kohut odd a protest in fronts i knew from everybody we spake can to it seems that the reason why people are really keen to get their protest banishes out here in sharing is to make sure that they seeing in the cry was show it do you can ski azzi in paris shot i said dimon ski with their writing on the wall are placard awesome were worth ursus big new stories coming your way home put themselves on the line. To get accepted or rejected. So when you want to be president and you. Want. To go on to the press this is what before 3 in the morning cant be good. Im interested in the water. Money printing leads to the stock market going higher which makes anyone think there are geniuses and the like and see our strategy of bombing innocent people makes sense release the crack at bridport money and then the bed accommodates of course because we do so for National Security and the stock market its a good time i bet everyone gets really smart thank you. So much more People Killed our civilians the schools the 1st load your money and the stock market goes higher thats the cycle that were now its called genocide for profit its called america. 21 minutes past the hour welcome back new reports reveal nothing the u. K. Failed to notify other e. U. Countries about 75. 00 in crimes committed by their nationals in britain according to the Guardian Newspaper the home office then apparently tried to cover up the mistake which was caused by a computer error they say due to embarrassment. There is still uncertainty whether the historical daily activity files received from the home office are going to be sent out to countries as there is a Reputational Risk to the u k. The Police Computer system error was not noticed for 5 years about meant from 2012 to 2017 foreign e. U. Nationals convicted of crimes in the u. K. Were able to return home without their own countries being aware of their records the home office has said it is working to rectify the situation and may pay under incur told the scandal will prove to be highly damaging for both the u. K. And its european partners. Is lovely its the brits and that but its bad 6 for the e. U. Bad for our citizens but if you can you have these convictions covered up by some Civil Servants the replication is why should you count parts share information with the u. K. If the u. K. Cannot be relied upon to share information promptly inefficiently its very serious because its put us in a very weak position because its really the 2 year period and once we serve notice were going to leave. We should have been more than adequate time to come to a Long Term Agreement but because we have some Civil Servants didnt do the job properly and so now weve got the really silly position weve endangered many people here for the acts of maybe a few people and its totally unacceptable both in the u. K. And the e. U. Delete a date from a phone is coming back to haunt the new e. U. President arcelor vonder lyon is in the spotlight over claims she wrongly wiped sensitive evidence from her official phone while she was German Defense secretary their claims are whitening peter all of our reports from bergen. Its the scandal that wont leave the new e. U. Commission president alone did fall into line delete data from mobile devices that could have been crucial evidence in an investigation into whether phones were in appropriately spent on outside contractors while she was German Defense minister its now emerged that a 2nd phone used by vonda line at that time has had messages deleted from it reportedly according to some by the e. U. Commission president herself or position politicians here in germany demanding answers clarification is urgently required the latest revelations are laying back in the center of the contract in scandal and massively under pressure last month it was revealed that fonda lines main phone during her time in charge of the German Defense ministry that had its data wiped out prompted a green party m. P. Here in germany to bring a criminal complaint against the now new e. U. Commission boss we have to assume that people in office destroyed evidence such actions could have criminal relevance found a line is set to give evidence to an investigating committee next month expect a lot of focus on her actions and the actions of her aides as we try to get to the bottom of who did what to those devices from the lion has obviously titled how phone properly or headed tied it up the allegations against fonda lying relate to a federal audit Office Investigation which showed that under her charge the Defense Ministry was spending around 155000000. 00 euros a year on outside advice although the ministry couldnt sufficiently justify why that external advice was needed and in more than a 3rd of the cases looked at normal rules would not follow suit lead to a Parliamentary Committee looking into whether those deals were above board and just. How much on the line was involved a spokesperson for the e. U. Commission president said nothing relevant to the investigation had been deleted but didnt give away much else there were and are no messages on the phone relevant to the parliamentary investigation with neither fall in the line nor his spokespeople particularly forthcoming when they have to wait until she appears before the committee on the 13th of february before we get any answers one thing is for certain if she remains tight lipped until then well the press and opposition lawmakers are going to be ravenous 4 ounces and a scandal but her silence is only making all the more intriguing picture all of it. Just in case you didnt know our twitter page has you covered for a global news developments quite literally by the minutes of all your latest stories here off the top of the hour to stay close. 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