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Another wave on the sanctions that hit everyone else. Very well welcome to you youre watching r. T. International with me mccarren our top story this hour russia has a brand new government comes in the wake of last weeks resignation of the old one as it made way for recently proposed constitutional changes in the last hour the new cabinet was approved by president putin. Producer which was congratulations on your appointment to the government and i believe this will be a very serious challenge in your lives but at the same time it will be a very interesting journey and wish you all success the whole country is behind you the previoUs Government created a Proper Foundation for further development and growth we should use this foundation and embrace our potential to achieve national goals. Find out more about the new line up now in class live to our correspondent goes down our vehicle good to see you could you run us through the changes to the cabinet please well sure the russian preside
Hello youre watching International Im Rosana Lockridge thank you for joining us. Russia has a new Prime Minister lawmakers approved the candidacy of Mikhail Misha stood on thursday with president putin then signing off on the appointment because got more on how the day unfolded. Well it only took this country what was it slightly more than 24 hours to come from the point when the president proposed to tweak some elements of russias constitution which by the way didnt automatically mean that the cabinet would have to step down to a moving towards the point when the russian state duma approved the name of the countrys new Prime Minister that is mikhail so the result was 383. 00 votes in favor about 40 abstentions and 0 votes again so this is the kind of backing the and coming Prime Minister is getting which is very important obviously in his position and clearly we were listening to his speech right before the vote which was obviously filled with quite a few promises so here are some of
From moscow news headquarters where its just past 4 in the morning youre watching International Welcome to the program. Russia has a new Prime Minister lawmakers approved the candidacy of Mikhail Misha stood on thursday with president putin then signing off on the appointment and it has got more on how the day unfolded. Well it only took this country what was it slightly more than 24 hours to come from the point when the president proposed to tweak some elements of russias constitution which by the way didnt automatically mean that the cabinet would have to step down to a moving towards the point when the russian state duma approved the name of the countrys new Prime Minister that is mikhail so the result was 383. 00 votes in favor about 40 abstentions and 0 votes again so this is the kind of backing the incoming Prime Minister is getting which is very important obviously in his position and clearly we were listening to his speech right before the vote which was obviously filled with q
Shouldnt there be witnesses. Couple of things to look from an institutional perspective house was the one who is supposed to have witnesses they did create that record in the senators are supposed to serve as jurors and you dont get to retry your case just because you dont like it now that being said if this follows the president from the clinton impeachment which i think it well and i think thats a constructive way to proceed after both sides get to make their case in response the senate will likely have an opportunity to consider additional witnesses i dont think thats a foregone conclusion either way but i think the house made a decision from a timing perspective when they moved ahead with the information that they had. One of the consequences is you dont get to drag it out forever and say well wed like more witnesses. Zack what about the continuing townley more intelligence being obtained by the House Committee this led those from transit to new Rudy Giuliani to the head of ukraine