There are so many places you could be right now at least youve joined us this is r. T. Internet. Voting is under way in russia on amendments to the countrys constitution the package includes more than 100. 00 provisions some of which have been widely criticized they both online and early voting begins all leading up to next wednesdays general vote against the has been delving deeper. 7 days of voting and now underway across russia cross 97000 polling stations set up for this vote and you know Vladimir Putin he never misses an opportunity to remind everyone how the world is changing how quickly its changing and how important it is for russia to stay ahead of the curve these obviously these changes what the government of visions as paving the path for russia to stay ahead of that curve. Does 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 group of ours pandemic. Have been lifted across the country nevertheles
This is r. T. International. To the countrys constitution the package includes more than 100. 00 provisions some of which have been widely criticised today both online and early voting has begun all leading up to next wednesdays general vote. Has delved deeper. 7 days of voting and now underway across russia cross 97000 polling stations set up for this vote and you know Vladimir Putin he never misses an opportunity to remind everyone how the world is changing 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 i
A surprise victory in croatia parliamentary election. With. Other drivers joined together to protest against racism. The details coming up. We begin the news hour in iran where the Atomic Energy organization has revealed that fridays fire at the Natanz Nuclear facility has caused significant damage a spokesman said the fire could slow down to irans development and production of advanced centrifuges and that iran would replace the damaged building with a bigger one that had more advanced equipment another fire broke out at a power station in southwest iran on saturday knocking out electricity in the city if a. Bank has more from to her on on the significance of the announcement about the facility. Significant in the sense that were beginning to have an understanding of the extent of the damage has caused like the Financial Impact now the head of the irans Atomic Energy organization he now he made these comments when he was meeting the National Security and Foreign Policy commission and
He extends its sanctions on russia european leaders say moscow isnt keeping up its end of the cease fire deal in ukraine but all the sanctions working of what is then nail to end the conflict this isnt. Hello and welcome to the program. The conflict in Eastern Ukraine is often cold at europes forgotten will separatists backed by russia have been battling the Ukrainian Army since 2014 thousands of people have been killed and one and a half 1000000 ukrainians have been displaced. Russia and ukraine signed a cease fire in the by the russian capital minsk in 2015 but european monitors say the truce has been repeatedly violated e. U. Leaders accused russia of failing to implement its side of the deal german chancellor Angela Merkel says the e. U. Has no choice now but to extend sanctions against Russias Energy financial and arms sectors until the end of january. Or. Germany and france took stock of the continuation of the minsk agreement in view of the developments we cannot recommend that
Warm welcome from our team here in moscow this is our international and our nicky aaron and our top story china has approved a resolution to impose its security law in hong kong angry and the beijing protests have again been intensifying in the city r. T. Saskia taylor looks at whats at stake. With current of ours dominating the headlines since february many of the stories have to fall into the wayside but one making a comeback as the wild starts returning to normality the hong kong protests are now up to several months of her spite stay some serious scuffles and not came off to thousands of protesters took to the streets on wednesday the day ending on a really sour note with around 300 arrests and Police Using Pepper Spray bullets because they suspected some of the protesters had weapons including pecial bombs. We know that anti China Sentiment has been building in the region for almost a year but that was reignited last week off to beijing announced plans for a new piece of legislati