About the death of democracy in his country. Hello there good morning its thursday the 25th of june youre watching r. T. International where on the 11 oclock am in the russian capital. Voting is underway in russia one amendments to the countrys constitution the package includes more than 100. 00 provisions some of which they have been widely criticized today both online and early voting begins all leading up to next wednesdays general vote but it has more to. 7 days a vote now underway across russia across 7000 polling stations set up for this vote and you know Vladimir Putin he never misses an opportunity to remind everyone how the world this year. How quickly its changing and how important are these for russia to stay ahead of the curve these obviously these changes of what the government of visions is paving the path for russia to stay ahead of that curve. Tell you how important how much is at stake here the fact that theyre holding them now just as russia begins to emerge from the quote of ours pandemic. Have been lifted across the country nevertheless there are hotspots where the situation is east still severe which is why there are so many mechanisms in procedures now in place to guarantee that this would ease primarily safe to minimize the potential transmissions in infections to the loo is possible and theres all sorts of Long Distance routing there is in house moves and theres also for the 1st time online voting mass online voting people can register move all apps and vote a 1000000 people have registered so far though a number of applications have been declined juta due to detailed errors for example Incorrect Information incorrect Contact Details nevertheless people have been able to register that successfully as i said theres a lot of polarization many people have come out against this vote nobody will always be happy the communists for example their followers to boot but against the changes saying that they will can continue to campaign against these changes and what they entailed even during the voting. We submitted 108 amendments by the last Ruling United Russia Party rejected them whats the point of changing the constitution if we keep on keeping for a resource based economy if we choose not to teach children subjects relevant to today were to support science so why. The point to prolong his term. The more radical opposition those against the government and everything anything to do with the government they say that the vote simply isnt necessary that the amendment bad news and at the end of the day they dont even believe that the vote will be fair something that organizers have told us simply isnt true thats our main goal is the health and safety of our citizens voting is safe thing going to the shops or walking in the park there is no obligation and no one will know which way he wrote it and people should feel free to come in in whatever way they want if they decide to vote at all we welcome everyone all the critics the skeptics. The vote was originally supposed to happen in april 1 day in april but because of the pandemic obviously it was postponed and now it is being stretched out over a 7 day period in order to prevent lines in crowds from forming again to minimize transmission to make it say through all sorts of restrictions in place and how many people can be in voting stations at any one time nevertheless according to polls 67 percent of russians voice their intent to go and vote in these amendments 20 percent still undecided and just 30 percent have said that they dont plan on going to vote weve also put together this video of this keep here to show you what are these that has sued people in russia it was january when president putin stunned russia by proposing changes to the countrys foundational law the constitution within hours the entire government had resigned the current constitution dates back to 993. 00 to western backed president Boris Yeltsin built from the debut of the communist soviet era constitution created what would be criticized as a hyper president ial system the president called all the shots. And it was forged in bloodshed as a hostile communist control parliament tried to impeach yeltsin he resorted to the military to keep in power. 187 people were killed that autumn. One of the most important proposals today is to end that hyper president ial system while keeping the fundamentals of the constitution intact so what powers does the president currently have only he alone can nominate the Prime Minister and other cabinet Members Parliament just gives a formal green light to the candidate. The proposal would flip that giving parliament the final say on who serves in government and the president would not be able to reject the m. P. s choices. Powers would be redistributed between various branches of government intended to lock in more checks and balances into russias government system another big change would limit the president s tenure to only 2 terms in total as opposed to no more than 2 terms in a row as it is now. That means future leaders wont be able to serve for as long as putin has. But its not a member which is going to western media excited perceive trick to stay in power forever the existing rules say putin must stand aside in 4 years time after his 2nd consecutive term albeit his 4th mandate in total m. P. s are pushing a proposal to 0 out his term count a reset button for an updated constitution i propose to add to that you can stitch you should the current president like any other citizen would have the right to be elected to the post of head of the state that would mean putin could run again in 2024 and in 2030 if he wants to rewind back to january why putin said he wanted to change the constitution he says its to develop a welfare state. The reason for these amendments is to ensure the further development of russia as a state governed by the rule of law and to increase the efficiency of institutions in our country with that in mind the remore than 140 amendments. One guarantees that the minimum wage will not be lower than the cost of living another secures an annual adjustment to improve the real value of pensions and allowances there would also be tougher requirements for Civil Servants such as banning key officials from having foreign citizenship all Foreign Bank Accounts would also be a ban on giving away any russian territory and priority to domestic law over international there are some controversial proposals to marriage would be classified solely as a union between a man and a woman and god gets mentioned over the constitution will still say russia is officially a secular state its an all or nothing vote russians wont be able to pick and choose which of the amendments they want to say its simply a yes or a no to the whole package and the changes will only be enacted if the russian people give it an unequivocal mandate. If people do not vote for the amendments they will not be added to the constitution or the german politician from the ruling c. D. U. Party even even though it does believe that critics of the amendments do have an agenda. This. For the past decade or even more one can say that western media do not give a fair judgment of russia theyve retreated into their shells and spin venom and biol towards russia unfortunately this is the development that we could not imagine but judging from the current reality in our media it will remain on the same course they will not say a good word about a president or constitutional change but that has nothing to do with reality but rather with the intentions of the western press when you hear some voices from moscow in the western media but then look closely you can see that those are russians who are on the payroll of the western think tanks this is not allowed in any other part of the world but unfortunately this is the strategy against russia and that poisons the International Relationships im hopeful that a Lively Parliament with more responsibilities and influences in making decisions on a national and International Level will emerge of. Now i think coronavirus restrictions against him russia has been able to welcome his 1st official guest in months for the hung garion foreign minister dropping by to say yes he had a chat with our correspondent had a prank care about hungarys decision to rule by decree during the pandemic but it was no tough questioning the sports loving minister. I. Think probably well and all of us for the. Well. Actually it will be really important because i can tell you. This. But. It was. All very well everybodys an expert. Here but. Your favorite. Is really really good this point right at this point whats going on with mr or bans powers to rule by decree a state of emergency allowed us to make decrees like in every other e. U. Member states every other e. U. Member states what was the problem of the opposition they said and liberal mainstream in europe they said that there is no concrete date of conclusion in the law which allowed us to govern by decrees we said of course there is not a concrete date because who knows when. Allow us to come back to normality when it comes to Decision Making so what we have done now we seized we concluded the state of emergency less than 90 days opposition demanded 120. 00 at the beginning now it took less than 90 days so this is number one number 2 when it comes to the special economy zones yes we made a decree but but in the meantime we submitted it to parliament so parliament can make a law on that because yes of course it entered into force quickly but parliament should approve that i think is a very democracy way of. Managing things. After a delegation of indian troops took part in most cases victory day parade yesterday for the 1st time what he was like. To come. You cant be both with the yeah you like. The one else seemed wrong well just dont call. Me. Yet to shape out this day etiquette and in gay trade because betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. Welcome back without saying now off to months of locked up and people around the world have been enjoying the thirst tasted freedom in recent weeks following the easing of many coronavirus restrictions but for those thinking that the fight against the virus has been won the World Health Organization is warning its only just begun. Will be the primary if youre still accelerating. It took more than 3 months for the 1st 1000000. 00 cases to be reported. The last 1000000 cases were reported in just 8 days south korea received much praise around the world for how it handled the pandemic but earlier this week officials there did confirm that the country is now battling a 2nd wave of infection. Recently was found urgent are predictions that curve it 90 will slow down in the summer we were all incorrect and we believe that the Virus Outbreak will continue as long as there are close contacts between people enclosed space another Success Story was china which did manage to halt the spread of the virus relatively quickly or so it seemed to because a recent outbreak was recorded in beijing and quickly started to spread to you after locals contracted the virus at a wholesale food market journalists lucidity from the. News networks and this report for r. T. From the chinese capital. Host their food market. Remains in the spotlight after a new coronavirus cluster of was linked to which on june 11th covering an area the size of 170. 00 soccer fields the complex supplies more than 80 percent of the Capital CitiesAgricultural Products chinese authorities quickly shut down the entire market in the hope of curbing a 2nd wave of the 19 as quickly as possible to trace the original and cut off the spread of corona virus in beijing more than 2000000. 00 residents have been given nuclear gays detachable prone a virus since june 13th thats around 10 percent of the total population and now the citys spending its daily Testing Capacity to more than 200000. 00 in beijing shooting shown district a massive Testing Campaign has also been conducted on people who live at a moderate risk areas residents from the street and shooting share power carefully lining up and thereby part reading forest watch the street is the only place labeled as moderate risk and should ensure an area where one confirmed case was found recently Officials Say they plan to finish the testing of all residents on the street thats more than 60000 people in 3 days. I thought it would be fast to take such a test but in fact i spent 3 hours queuing up for the test but when i saw the doctors my heart sank because their protective googles was a focus and their sweat was running down their faces. 5 other testing points like this are said to complete the task more than a 1000 of government officials the medics work hand in hand every day to ensure a smooth swabbing process though it only takes a few seconds to conduct death row swap chinas experts say the recent corona Virus Outbreak in beijing has been brought under control the trend will persist for some time but the number of cases will decline despite those people in beijing will still be on high alert the habit of Wearing Masks in keeping social distancing in public areas my and your much longer time them previously thought. Meanwhile in germany new cases of corona virus there have continued to pop up in various regions leading to local authorities to impose countermeasures which have differed from city to city in north rhinewestphalia for example need to impose measures that the resemble those taken at the very 1st stage is the pandemic peter over as more. Dealing with coronavirus here in germany has moved away from sweeping National Measures with restrictions being lifted or imposed based on regional factors. Here in berlin authorities have lifted restrictions that had limited get togethers to a maximum of 5 people from 2 different households earlier the same move it being made in the states of brandenburg. Its a very different picture in north rhinewestphalia an outbreak centered around a meat packing plant in the city of. The scene over 1500. 00 people test positive and a Strict Lockdown until the end of the month has been imposed on the area. Undoes we will order a lockdown for the whole district of care are slow the purpose is to calm the situation to expand testing to establish whether or not the virus has spread beyond the employees of tonys we will get a better picture of the situation or intensive testing and can then see more clearly within 7 days what the situation is we want to bring about this lockdown which will stay in place until june 30th and bring us more cleared of those long queues have formed as tests of being made available to everyone in the affected regions the military being drafted in to help with the large scale testing Operation Health professionals suggest that a large number of symptomless covert carriers a behind the spike the largest localized outbreak in germany. That is already the idea of these tests because we know that there are symptoms people who dont have a high fever who carry the virus and then unfortunately spread 8 today weve counted around 402600 people waiting and we will also be setting up a hotline in the next few days to help with the registration. Locals queuing to test sounds at all happy with the slaughterhouse at the center of this spike all the state authorities who they say should have done more. Than 40 i dont want to be careful and take a test i dont have symptoms and what should i say im a bit angry with the slaughterhouse that they didnt react sooner and now our region is headed into another log down we have to go through it. Often find definitely the politicians in their thirtys should have reacted to you know and then completely convinced that the 1st kind of those infected were faked and then wonderful can and your responsibility it isnt guns away from the offline westfalia theres also a localized lockdown in the city of my left workers and below is being seen bringing water and supplies to some of the 800 also families were being to. To quarantine. Around 700 people remain in an apartment complex and get again a forced quarantine which turned violent last weekend. And remember i said restrictions were being lifted in berlin well not for old berlin as in the friedrich schein area of the german capital almost 40 households of being put on lockdown those living nearby. The risk posed a not too happy with those who faulted social distancing the policy in the summers son and see if you know i have a feeling of fear can you explain why because i belong to the risk group and i have medical conditions. We are doing this for weeks and months we dont do visits and the more mostly we sit on the balcony apart from Grocery Shopping or a walk pharmacy or the doctor thats it. You push it you dont understand why some have seen the books and in the components we dont understand this. Off the back of those regional covert 19 spikes authorities here in berlin have said that they will be enforcing fines against those law wearing face coverings on public transport or in shops as we try to get back to his normal a life as possible while still remembering that corona virus is infectious today as it was a few months ago peter all over all see it. Probably did speak to the representatives of the Russian Federation about this and she Still Believes the full time is not an option is why. We have to understand that the transmissibility of the virus has not changed and it is still present in the community is this is why the recommendations of the World Health Organization have been to all countries and all communities where the numbers have gone down or even cannot be traced at the moment to be very vigilant to identify clusters new cases very quickly and to interrupt it yes the viruses are on the transmissibility is above the 2 cases so one person can basically in fact more gentle persons and this makes the virus having an epidemic potential everywhere so we have to be vigilant we have to continue with in that hearse that quickly identified the virus i surveyed the people who need treatment identified the contacts and in this case we can start a canteen or isolate very small communities or people affected rather than go into full lock downs as we have been seeing now you are the representative to the Russian Federation what do you make about the situation in russia we are seeing the number of cases on a downward trend that said there were just over 7000 new cases i think recorded yesterday. Well we have seen that the epidemic has stabilized the christian now we can see that the communities that have the majority of the cases the major ones centers like moscow is going down relatively well however it is still not as it would say out in the green so continuous vigilance is needed in case of any symptoms staying at home contacting the Health Service making the task because that is going to prevent. Flare ups or spikes that would follow i would not speak about a 2nd leave the 2nd wave means that we have almost no cases and then we see another rapid epidemic spread and this is something that we can and should prevent. Moscows red square is back to no more today following yesterdays spectacular victory day parade the iconic landmark deco to the sound of thousands of troops marching across its famous cobbles and this year 13 foreign regiments also took part including for the 1st time a contingent from india. Spoke with their commander. Just witness this gallup performance and this gallup performance has got a history behind it you know 75 years of the 2nd world war getting over and the great history behind it and the indoor. Friendship relations which are you know increasing by the day and we just had about 5. 00 to 6. 00 days before we landed here in russia and you would be served by this is the 1st time in the an inconvenient move. So we just landed there and we were asked to margin so that was absolutely praiseworthy so busy and cheered and the response from the russian people the flagging of the waves i think this shows how the day norm forces can be indian has been readily accepted by the russian people and we are also very very very thankful for the russian government to give us the invite for us to participate. Well a number of foreign dignitaries also attended the g. Believe and watching the perception from the grandstand one of them was the commander in chief of my moms armed forces who shared his impressions of the parade. Fresh air no i get it right the parade was very solemn i liked it everything was awarded and harmonious the soldiers marched beautifully i would like to note that despite the clear discipline in the ranks they marched without much tension there was none the usual stiffness among the participants as often happens in parades the movements were very coordinated and looks natural moreover the parade demonstrated the success in great victory of the russians and of course im personally proud of this and im sure that the russian people are proud of their history it is natural that any people are proud of their achievements this parade was truly a reason for pride and enthusiasm they were russian made planes and helicopters on show at the parade i had a chance to see original russian aircraft i can say that these are really powerful modern aircraft they flew slowly and low so i managed to get a good look in addition i want to know the pilots who control them a really high Cost Specialists its also nice to see the planes and helicopters that are operated in our country and i felt proud that we have russian equipment. Now this year we did also launch the victory mail project offering you the chance to deliver your messages of thanks to poor old war 2 veterans share your stories and failings or just to say hello from a different part of the world once they arrived at our offices with and sent them on to veterans from mind them that their acts of bravery are not forgotten to show the world solidarity with the veterans and to remind people of the importance of not forgetting the lessons of the war a series of clips with words of gratitude are being displayed on a number of buildings in moscow and other russian cities as part of the hash tag victory mile project displays have been chosen in business like haitians have as many people as possible will get the chance to see them to find out more about this project you can visit our website at r. T. Dot com. Worthwhile project to do you have a look thats how things are looking more for us than 30 minutes. Research would. Really good. 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