positions in the world in the production of nickel, aluminum and titanium. the metallurgical industry is of strategic importance for our country, for equipping the army and navy and the further growth of the national economy, vladimir putin stated. on the eve of metallurgical day, the president congratulated industry workers on their professional holiday via video link and took part in the launch of several metallurgical enterprises in the regions. anastasia efilovay has all the details. a holiday that concerns almost 700,000 russians, metallug day, which noted on... large factories and combines,

a powerful scientific and technological base and, of course, strong traditions, but most importantly - people of whom the country, as the head of state emphasized, is proud of. your hard work, which requires professionalism and tenacity , rightfully enjoys well-deserved respect and honor. we are proud of your achievements and significant contributions.

to achieve this, we are implementing the federal clean air project, counting on manufacturers to fulfill all their obligations to technologically update and reduce harmful emissions. load on the environment, which will generally increase efficiency, and of course we need to increase and expand deep processing of metals.

another enterprise, whose employees contacted the president today, is located in the nizhny novgorod region, where a unique world-class complex in the region has been created.

industry. and at the magnitogorsk iron and steel works , the legendary magnitogorsk metallurgical plant, the work of the complex has been launched , especially today, an event in our life, for the production of dry coaxing coal. this is the largest investment object of the enterprise, the best technology available today, and the productivity here is such that it will cover half the needs of the entire plant. it is also equipped with advanced environmental protection facilities, which is of great importance for the residents of the region. today we are at the main control post of the new coke oven battery number 12, the complex is equipped with the most modern environmental facilities, which is of great importance for the plant and for the city of manitogorsk. as a result

, emissions of harmful substances, such as dust, will be significantly reduced more than 20%, benzoperene 12%, permission to begin issuing coke. word coke batteries, of course, start, thank you, viktorevich, congratulations to you and the whole - the whole staff. of all working mmk, mmk is developing successfully, there are already 53,000 employees. in general, the launch of new capacities on the eve of a professional holiday is a long-standing tradition of metallurgists, and another, no less important, parallel commissioning of social

facilities. in magnitogorsk, for example, this is a city resort, children’s playgrounds, and there are even plans for a hockey academy. today they also opened a light and music fountain with a symbolic name. the steel heart of the homeland, and as metalheads prove, through their efforts this heart beats in the rhythm of time, you are a reporter, all your life you have been a reporter, your father was a reporter, a famous reporter, so you grew up in journalism, now journalism is the most hated profession, what not unreasonably, even the sackler family is currently more beloved than nbc, for sure , and... even congress is more beloved, yes, even congress, yes, people are like, you know, maybe this pedophile can still be corrected, it is not necessary to shoot him, but here is nbc news, and i am sure that this is not an easy situation for you, but, but for those who no longer remember what the media was like in

the nineties, when you graduating from college, what did you think about journalism, what did you imagine it like when you started, i grew up working at my father's work, right? he was a television reporter during the popularity of local news, like the one featured on anchorman, with that ridiculous facial hair, and i always hung out at his work, and my father was a reporter from reporters, he was good at having conversations with people, he was very good at this aspect, but you know, this is a very important skill, to be able to talk to people, to reveal different points of view. you see, he could go to any incident, fire, murder or whatever, immediately people began to talk to him, trust him, and where did he get such a skill, i think that you have to be born like that, yes, he was very a sociable person, he liked

people, yes, he liked people, he, well, he could start a conversation very quickly, uh, and i grew up very shy, and the first thing i realized was that i could never be... like him, he had some kind of superpower that i didn't have, so i decided to go in a different direction, plus, when i was growing up, i wanted to write science fiction, i... was obsessed with it at the time, but when i graduated from college, i realized that the only thing i knew about was my father's work, after all, i practically grew up in it, and besides, this work was related to writing, so i got involved, only over time did i really appreciate the way they did journalism before, because then it was completely different. when i started doing journalism, i had a rather definite

idea about it, and i thought that i wouldn’t be very good at journalism, since i didn’t have my father’s talent, but i started abroad in russia, i already knew how speak russian, so i already had an advantage over other american reporters, then in what year did you go to russia, i studied. so i wanted to learn the language, besides, when i arrived there, i was a very

depressed teenager, i was very socially awkward and all that, when i arrived in the late union, then everyone there was depressed, yes, it was very interesting , yes for this reason it was much easier for me to get along with russians than other americans, i think it helped me communicate very naturally, i found my place there very quickly, and you stayed there for 10 years, yes, yes, like yes, but i liked it there, and i thought i would stay there forever, but then it all became too much it’s unclear, after the transition from yeltsin to putin, yes, we all, putin was very famous, he was an assistant to the mayor of st. petersburg, back when i was studying in st. petersburg, when he came... to power in moscow, then everyone it was clear what exactly he was doing, western journalists loved him,

loved putin, yes, and that was it, i was already disappointed in american journalism because of the incorrect portrayal of post-communist russia, but this was the last straw for me, say it again , which was incorrectly reflected, but... and it was all very strange, something that many

of the journalists did under yeltsen felt very bad about, because they mainly interviewed english-speaking officials from the yeltsin government, many of whom studied at harvard, so they had a rather specific version what exactly was happening in russia and what problems existed there. by that time i had already left the moscow times. created his own newspaper talking about nightlife, started doing something that was very different from my previous experience, i began to travel around the country to get different jobs, for example, i worked as kamenchik in siberia, really, yes, i worked in a monastery in mordovia, what did you do in the monastery, construction?

absolutely wrong, yes, absolutely wrong, exactly, and moreover, this was discovered very quickly, in ninety-eight there was a gigantic financial collapse, and then it came. putin, by that time the people were already so tired of this american-like version of managed democracy that existed under yeltsen, and that’s how it was. putin and me was very critical of putin at the time, but

there was no doubt that he was much more popular than yeltsin. the country was ashamed of yeltsin, so... he constantly appeared drunk in public, incompetent, in my opinion, we ourselves are now going through something similar, yes, it is, and it is humiliating, yes, they wanted, they called this is a strong hand, they wanted a strong hand to come and restore order and be able to compete with the americans, they didn’t like to consider themselves a state that had revolted from the west, this is an ancient confrontation between russia and america. it goes back to the time of peter the great, you know, the slavophiles against the westerners, against the people of the westerners, and the pendulum swung the other way, right before my eyes, it was exciting to watch, but it also had very serious consequences. to what extent do you think western news

organizations take orders from western businesses from western governments? a. 90%, 95%, okay, yes, absolutely, if you go back and look at what the new york times and the washington post and other organizations wrote, the current deputy prime minister of canada , chrystia freeland, was my colleague at the time, she was part of this clique of western journalists, and what she was, but they all said about the same thing. the main idea was that a new group of capitalist robber barons had emerged, and yes, it was bad, it was a bad transition to capitalism, that's how they wrote about it, although in fact it was pure banditry, most of those who got rich got rich through absolutely illegal privatization, and it was carried out

there were such loans-for-shares auctions, the government literally lent money to its accomplices so that they could buy companies of the exxon level for 1% of the cost, for example, yukos, which was a giant oil company, worth like any western oil company, but it was essentially bought for a penny, those who were friends of the people in power, they instantly created a class of billionaires, but not a single journalist wrote about it, and then, when these people had money, then... they began to be treated as real production workers and entrepreneurs, yes, exactly, they weren’t even robber barons, they at least built railways, exactly, yes, these guys only knew how to steal, they redistributed property. moscow in the late nineties was very similar

to chicago in the thirties; it is very difficult to describe what it really was like. there are bandits throwing people out of windows everywhere, terrorist attacks are happening all around, it was a wild place, and all this was happening when i was there, and then the city began to become what it became when you arrived there, yes, the most comfortable city in my life, which sounds simply incredible to me, for me it was a shock, in the 10 years that you were gone, you missed it.

use of military force, which made it possible to shift the power to declare war from congress and give it to the white house, mass surveillance, also... this base in guantanamo, it all really shocked me, which is strange that we were talking about this last night at dinner, and yes , you and i

seem to represent different views, probably, although now it turns out that we don’t, but in 95 you and i would have been different side, but given that we are the same age, we had this confidence that what the government will not do in its own country, you cannot treat american citizens like some, you know, houthis, there are some standards that we apply in conducting our foreign policy and completely different standards when interacting with our citizens, to whom the government belongs, yes, yes, and i think that what i did not understand then, since i was morally deficient , young and stupid, that as soon as you start doing evil abroad, then later you will start creating it at home. of course, you cannot defend democracy by destroying democracy, no, and you, you, in fact, pervert the whole idea of ​​democracy,

it becomes less and less as soon as you start killing people without trial, then this is no longer democracy, they constantly use this term very superficially, we must protect democracy, what do you mean? are you going to protect democracy through censorship, this is exactly the issue that i have been dealing with for the last 2 years. if this is what you mean, then this contradicts the very idea. in what sense is it contradictory? well, the first amendment says we can't do that. you can't protect the bill of rights by violating it. right. and all this change of emphasis is on us. i, like you, like most americans, we all knew that america was killing people all over the world. yes, even when there were hearings on

the church committee, and we basically said that we will not do this again, of course we do, we did some pretty terrible things, like interference, elections in half the countries the world, but not at home. yes, this was a trait for the americans. maybe it was chauvinism, confidence in this, but i, like you, never thought that they would cross this line and start doing this here. when i first came to russia, the first reporters i met worked for komsomolskaya pravda in the eighties, yes, which at that time was the largest newspaper in the world with a circulation of about 21 million. and when i was at the moscow times. then i worked in the building of the pravda newspaper, and people there told me stories about their work in the eighties, the work consisted of following orders, they were essentially

clerks, yes, they received orders for the day, carried them out, and then went home to their wives, on weekends, went fishing, there was no intellectual work, you didn’t could do anything like that, it would be dangerous for your health if you did so. and this is what journalism has become in america now. just look at this situation with nord stream, just as an example. a situation happened, then there was no investigation at all in any of the leading publications. how can this be, after all, this is such an important event that could lead to the start of a war with a nuclear power, and it also destroyed the economy of western europe, and also this large ... russian russia is the center of all this, in my opinion, a catastrophe, what are you talking about kind of worried, this was the largest emission of carbon dioxide in history, that is, in the heads of all these people,

the point of view, like someone who was never interested in russia, you suddenly one day you wake up 25 years after the end of the cold war and realize that now you have to hate russia, but i won’t do this on principle, and not because i love russia, well, now i already like russia, when i visited there, but a year ago i did not have. that russians love their children too, which is true, when gorbachev came on the scene, i remember very well how people said that

we need to... find a way to coexist with these people, that we spend too much money on defense, and that this is not cheap for both our countries, but now everything not at all like that, and what’s strange is that the current government in america is very similar to the soviet government of the early eighties, joe biden would be ideal for the politburo of that time, he is similar to brezhnev. i already thought about this, he is a weak-minded, old, physically frail leader who is only in office because he has not died yet, and i think that they have no idea what they are doing, the situation could easily get out of control, because they have a god complex, they believe that they are obligated to continue this conflict, i

think for only one reason, barak obama felt emotional about the situation with crimea. i agree. and all this will always be more important for them than it is important for us. and, by the way, this is very important for them. yes, of course, i heard these people, including the american ambassador and many others, openly declare that we will return crimea back. and once again, crimea is not particularly important to me. i have never been there, but it seems to me that this will be the reason for the start of a nuclear war. certainly. of course, besides, this is an ambiguous situation with this crimea, but now it is already russian, yes, and it historically was russian, yes, in the history of ukraine there is a lot of questionable things, the fact that they were given, during the soviet period, they simply decided to create a certain territory, the borders there are very ambiguous, they do not follow linguistic or cultural boundaries,

if... if you went there, you would find that in some places there are only russians, in others only ukrainians, and yes, now it is changing a lot, but, but i am sure that the people who are pushing this, they have no idea about it, it's like when i was in russia, they were told only one thing, they began to believe that ukraine is switzerland, and we are saving it from russia, when in fact, in reality it is even close. not so, and i don’t know how dangerous you think they are, i think these people are crazy, i think that’s the danger, i think they’re blinded by pride, i think there ’s a god complex there too, i think that the entire ruling class of our country wants to commit suicide, i think they have painted themselves into a corner, they are criminals and they understand that they will be called to account, besides , the american empire has reached its apogee, it’s only downhill, and i think that they understand this,

i... i think that they want to destroy their people. matt tybee, thank you, thank you so much too , tucker. who are you? i, traveler, aeronaut, jean ivan. go teski, what a fairy tale, without ivan, uh, uh, what started, without deception and without flint, don’t go to the flint, he imprisoned me, pen, self-written magic ink, you’ll get it, you’re the main thing in van, hurry up, so give me a horse , mechanical, and yourself

beat the head, the cell for... there is where i need to go, that's what my name is, because i'm not taking you where you fool want, where i need to go, i can't live without travel, flint, the one who has flint in his pocket doesn't need a pyro , soon, if everything looks like the wild west, then there is only one law, shoot first, competition of ideas and money, a sensation has occurred. and what a tension, inside america and outside its borders. what is the remaining intrigue, why now do you need to watch and follow? this is america, a program about a country that is difficult to understand.