Unity classified papers revealed the Reuters News Agency received generous funds from British Intelligence to the cold war to help spread the soviet propaganda. I get out of the afternoon this wednesday 15th of january here in moscow man and kevin i would stick around for this 25 minute update then 1st. Proposed a major legislation shift that would see russias Prime Minister cabinet minister is no longer appointed by the president but by the state duma that suggestion came up president putin was delivering his annual state of the nation address to lawmakers. Is here the highlights next. We were heads back here where this country is supposed to head and 2020 but i can tell you that the russian future it seems way beyond that point was being shaped out here in the monitor exhibit hall just outside the kremlin as mr putin was speaking because we heard some really groundbreaking proposals including proposed changes to the washington maine law the russian constitution in fact one of the pro
Think that very soon work processes that work to do what we see it among conflicts syria and iran receive an immense amount propaganda going on and when you have the kind of propaganda coup that is underway what sucked is alternately public understanding and really did help with democracy. Is joining as you see the breaking news on the screen well have more updates analysis on the resignation indeed of the russian government in just a few minutes time as our rolling coverage continues here on r. T. International. Chose seemed wrong. But old rules just dont hold. Any of the balls to get to shape out just to come out ahead and in detroit because of the trail. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. You are no offense but you no longer a young woman in fact you are one of the last living survivors of the nazi yeah. Im aware of it. All your life. And you can never forget. No i was really like to be inhaled because you would never believe what you mean
Work of our National Innovation initiative. Now, another 17 years later, here we are again, once again finding ourselves at the precipice of transformational change. Today well hear stories about these changes as theyre foundational to our Flagship National commission on innovation and competitiveness frontiers. The commission cochaired by the Council Board on this stage is a multiyear effort to reimagine americas innovation potential and to chart a new path for competitiveness in the 21st century. And as this slide shows, just a little less than a year ago, with our core leadership team, we began to build this effort. And by august we had pulled together a powerful and diverse set of commissioners, nearly 60 leaders from across this country from industry, from academia, from our Labor Union Community and our National Labs. And the commission has already started their work. As deborah mentioned, todays launch is our 2020 roadmap of activities that we hope will change the future traject
Putin colleagues 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 the discussions as was said they will significantly alter a number of parts of the constitution and change the balance of power the executive the judicial and the legislative powers in this context it is obvious that as the government of the Russian Federation we need to give the president of our country the opportunity to take all the necessary steps and decisions and in this context i believe it would be the right thing to do in accordance with article 117 of the constitution of the Russian Federation for the government to resign. Im grateful to everyone ive worked with in the government for the steps and decisions will be taken by the president. Were to remai
Duma and also the approval of the russian government. And in other news this hour after washingtons assassination of irans top general americas top diplomat says its all part of a new terror and strategy with warnings for russia which. Lie from moscow to the world this is 247 r. T. International my names you know neal hello and welcome to the program. Top story this hour the russian president has nominated the head of the federal tax service for the post all of Prime Minister it is the latest move in a day of major in russian politics earlier russias are going Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev announced that his government had. Resigned it came after president putin suggested amendments to the constitution which will give parliament greater powers well im delighted to say that picking up the muscle to explain all that for me this hour is maria it really has been all go today how to 1st of all this nominee who do who is what do we know about them to be honest not a lot of them saying i mea