Hello from moscow midday here now im kevin 0 in live from arties world news h. Q. This sunday its the weekly the big stories we brought you over the last 7 days and recap so 1st the rushes overhauled constitution came into effect on saturday following a weeklong vote which wrapped up on wednesday the majority of voters indorse the changes in the end with 78 percent in favor from a turn of her own 68 percent followed the final day of polling. Now this really was a vote of us the 1st time people were in mosques and gloves the 1st time they were using disposable pants walks in through temperatures counts voting online for some as for the voting process itself while does that was a situation where security footage allegedly caught a woman stuffing ballots now that counting in that area of moscow has been suspended pending an investigation otherwise the Central Electoral Commission says that it found no irregularities that was so many. Amendments on the table 147. 00 in total that its diffi
Anastasia ogrady. Daniel well its not exactly clear whats behind it. Obviously people are being infected. People who have coronavirus are transmitting it to others and there are things we can correlate with, it could be the protests that, indeed, happened all over the country for the last month. These were people in close proximity to one another, in los angeles, texas, florida, other states, it could be the number of people who have gone to restaurants, bars without masks and despite new infections do involve younger people, not the older Vulnerable People above the age of 70 who tend to be have the highest death rates. Some of the younger people are being hospitalized not too many of them are dying. The case rate is very high, the case numbers are high. The death numbers are not high, if you look across the states they remain very flat, so at the moment the surge seems to be located, paul, mainly in the younger population who has quite frankly been exposing themselves to one another
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 pens
Add that to concerns over the virus caseload and youve got this. The dow industrials, down 700 yesterday, down maybe another 200 this morning. The s p down 80 yesterday, down another 20 today. The nasdaq yesterday, down 200 points. Today, down about 13 points. A sea of red ink over there. A big loss especially for the dow. 1. 48 million new jobless claims this past week. Now, thats not a good number and it pushed stock prices just a little lower when that news was released at 8 30 eastern. Now, today, President Trump heads to wisconsin. Good timing. The democrat governor there has just called out the National Guard. A protester wielding a baseball bat and bullhorn harangued a restaurant crowd. He was arrested. Molotov cocktails were thrown, the Police Needed help. Governor evers sees the light and calls in the National Guard. Same thing in washington, d. C. Hundreds of National Guard troops now marshaling. They will protect the capitals monuments. Thursday, june 25, 2020. Varney compan
Afternoon just 4 pm in moscow im kevin 0 in low for martys world news h. Q. This sunday is the weekly the big stories we brought you over the last 7 days so you stay with me for the next half hour as we take you through them starting with this russias overhauled constitution came into effect on saturday following a weeklong vote which wrapped up on wednesday the majority of voters endorsed the changes in the end with some 78 percent in favor from a turnout of around 68 percent sounds good tailor for the final day of polling for us. Now this really was a vote of us the fos time people were in mosques and gloves that they were using disposable pens wilson threw temperatures sconce focusing on law and facade as for the voting process itself while that was a situation where security footage allegedly caught a woman stuffing the ballots now but counting in that area of moscow has been suspended pending an investigation otherwise the central Editorial Commission says that it found no irregul