Weary of the news 7 r. T. Channels pulled off air a lot which claims the networks controlled by someone on the blacklist even though he actually had a different news agency will explain all. The lots to talk about today for a good afternoon im kevin 0 in here in moscow is just 1 pm now this is our international and it is news from russia this dominating our coverage this hour it is the final day of a week of voting thats been taking place across russia on proposed changes to the countrys constitution well many of already heard this say by voting online president putin has declared today a National Holiday to allow voters who havent yet done so the chance to cast their ballot. A lot to consider too is a package of more than 140 a moments many adding social legal and economic guarantees to the constitution a couple of in a more detail what he sure is for instance the minimum wage would not be lower than the cost of living another secures an annual adjustment to maintain the value of pensions and allowances so crucial for so many people that and then theyd be tougher requirements too for Civil Servants such as banning key officials from having foreign citizens ship or Bank Accounts abroad there are also some proposed as seen as controversial to marriage top of the list because of fide soli as a union between a man and a woman and god comes into it as well god is referenced the constitution will still although define russia as a secular state theres all the political side of it political changes being proposed chiefly concerning the president ial term limits at the moment a president can serve 2 consecutive terms take some time out and then come back for more but if the constitutional reforms go through then president ial 10 years will be limited to 2 terms in total and the most contentious amendment is the socalled zeroing out of legitimate putin so far lowing him to have the possibility to run for another 2 terms if indeed and the day he wanted to across todays voting in reaction the next school tailor. 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 twentieths and to me its clear that 98 and so that staggering was done in order to prevent people from descending on mass 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 stay at home its safe that if you go outside its dangerous naturally that that what people who were hesitant about censuring out into the streets to cost that still thirtys 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 pattons 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 a lot and join the beautiful weather if the past week and i can say that people have been strictly its harrowing to the rules ive seen sadly long queues with people kathy separated already must gloved up ready to be elected a lot in this proposed sort of a momentous sundered 40 plus in the 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 low thing isnt 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 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 met a lot of internal deliberation 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 has 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 touching in his grave they have people to go out and float 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 of life is new. Why have i come here to vote because im a citizen of russia and green with all of them men monds and i am not ok with them then 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 member thats the most important to me is the prevalence of russian or over international the head of the Central Election Commission of said something about voting being like a meal deals 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 ever 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 do. Feel 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 owns 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 thats right so here in moscow the polling stations close at 8 pm its unlikely that were going to hit any official announcement or results until thought stay morning as you said russia is a false territory 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 hoping that stay in the future of the constitution. 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Russia well allegations of ballot stuffing another voting violations been circulating widely online to all being investigated and a fair few have been debunked already is fake the Electoral Commission says that of all inquiries its received so far only about 2 percent or about possible offenses something came in earlier on today 2 Electoral Commission members have been suspended in some petersburg after a video emerged of 2 women stuffing a ballot box there apparently boxes now sealed and no longer used for voting in investigations underway into what happened there elsewhere to journalists who claim that they managed to vote twice both in person and online those who also tried say their efforts failed Police Investigating the journalists over administrative offenses voting twice is of course considered fraud and punishable with a fine the Commission Says 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 so why change it now and whats the potted history of the current constitution was adopted almost 30 years ago a term of greater people back then with the remnants of the u. S. S. R. On course for some big changes. And that was then back up today we talked to the cochairman of the team that drafted these amendments he says that is just like many other countries are doing right now russias Foundation Laws need updating for modern times. The world is changing right now so fast and so to choose the loss of human rights and liberties to constantly expanding and evolving as well as the mechanisms for their protection many European Countries france for example went through serious constitutional reforms in the last decade italy had several attempts to amend its constitution as well. And even the constitution of the u. S. Is changing rapidly and substantially every single country chooses its constitutional model and the moderation rules for itself look how many un 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 president ial 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 now lets 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 werent to be cancelled and the perception of the people is that this amendment is an additional guarantee for some its even the most important one that when a new president will come history wont be rewritten crimea wont be returned and no other decisions will be made that wont comply with peoples expectations this is really very important or would you know so as we heard theres a long list of proposed changes in the package being voted on but it just one element this got much of the foreign media fired up. Russias parliament basically paving the way for putin to potentially stay on as russian president hes the longest serving russian leader since Joseph Stalin but whatever 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 but there wasnt so interesting there should also be discussed and the one that caught my eye was on children the role of children and 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 ninetys were marked by an implosion of dissolute union marked by the down brute of communists and. It was more about being a fax s. 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 of the circumstances of the countries is in saw the. Future of the legislator the parliament in order to respond to do so new exigencies i have given thought about online of all to myself several times its a global debate and i must admit. Very personally im a bit Old Fashioned i have think it still makes sounds of the day of the vault to go out to go to the ballot box so you dont dress im going to say. So to discuss this with your friends for adopted and to simply make it on yourself. We go to work so you stay home for. The world is driven by a dream shaped by frank person of those great. Dares thinks. We dare to ask. For the news today the la times when extended to the german meat factory and the surrounding town after a huge number of workers came down with covert infections the been smaller breaks in similar types of what places to enough unions out officials concerned over safety conditions for stuff as peter all of the reports. Germany was quite rightly praised for how it handled the initial wave of coronavirus now although its dealing with something but hops 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 7 days and the federal governments in its calling on people to be page says its not a hard situation for many people the restrictions cause a burden in the chancel thinks 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 lockdown 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 where 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 dont know who has it then you cannot stop it. We have guest workers from romania and sometimes they live 10 people in this same 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 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 you were 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 arent buying the German Government saying theyre 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 isnt the only coded 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 the low paid staff living in poor quality cramped housing may allow for cheap 1st in schnitzel it also provides coronavirus with the optimum conditions to spread peter all over r. T. Germany. Will make some news about us our t. V. Who is in latvia will no longer be able to watch our programmes have been pulled off air along with 6 other r. T. Multilingual channels for the countrys Media Council it says the networks controlled by a broadcaster currently under e. U. Sanctions but as ever the devils in the detail because the person in question god called to me to kissimmee off i actually heads up a separate Russian News Agency not ours his our Senior Correspondent gets day of explaining well the confusions about. 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 the teles and know nothing just cables the very evidence that latvia has the literally made up then 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 called but i see a civil order which translates to english as russian today and this organization is led by a 3rd low 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 r t and theyre right here seaboard 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 ElectronicMedia 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. Blew im sorry that was mean we just put last the other 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 latvian authorities got into a simple mess but seriously speaking the reason for the ban that 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 you know 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 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 and violence freedom of the press the wants of citizens to media pluralism and is a clear 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 it. 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 saw i think it will now be a laughingstock the European Union claims to be the. Norm for means speech Free Expression and democracy and all of that and yet just goes to show that its all lipstick when the busy when the lipsticks rubbed off its a rather plain our face underneath. Well us why things are looking for russia so far this wednesday the 1st of july as the country heads into the final i was a really big vote on its future comes to choose for now reporting from moscow is kevin 0 in wishing you a great day. You cant be both with yeah you know what. Thousands of american men and women choose to serve in their countrys military and their decision little shot change lives every day and came to a complete. The day that i was raped and be instructed here you know told to shut up or theyd kill me and i see how it destroyed my life many screamed at me and he made me come in and he grabbed my arm and he write me with his birthing area if you take into account that women dont report because of the extreme retaliation and its probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing thing to have happen but ive never seen trauma like ive seen from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished dont be offended i had an almost 10 year career or chose 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 violent male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether thats a man or woman. Hello and welcome to cross top where all things are considered im Peter Le Duff the primary purpose of history is to understand the past as a guide to understanding the present and future history should not be deemed as feelgood nostalgia because a lot of history is painful and shame so how should we find the right balance is statue side the right answer. Crosscutting statue side im joined by my guest cleo voluntary in new york she is founder of the company there you have been chairman which teaches social Emotional Learning in schools as well as diversity