the most extreme of any major country do you see this is because failure of your presidency. this is not so much a failure but the trends in the development of the russian economy and its social policies we do have. process all revival. and this trend has been something that has existed since the ninety's actually during the times when the soviet secret system has been demolished. and due to and this is all due to the shock therapy that was years in our country but so we do we do see this revival of our economy or as we see stable growth of our economy that is in the fourth quarter of last year towards europe own three percent first quarter this year. one

point five percent just the third quarter. second quarter it was two point five percent. but it's one point five percent of growth in industry one point nine percent growth in industry in them and we have growing investment in two capital. and we also see. positive trade balance. so i won't tell you too much figures. but. in general it's about one hundred eighty billion dollars it's our positive trade balance. is it's good wishes your currently how much is it that city said it's one. i think we should know. one hundred and

thirty. i've heard that the cash surplus the balance is. is more than one hundred billion so we see a growth in direct investment into capital. not for yourself we. have this is against the background of the lowest historically the lowest level of inflation it's just three percent at the moment and the record low all for unemployment five percent. women we need to see a growth in gold reserves it's about four hundred billion dollars that it was down there and then we see. growth in the real income of the population now. as for. the disparity between the growth of that because when the wealth of the wealthy and the poor i think that those much to be done but there are things that you have to

mention that. without which she would have the full picture because what am i talking about is starting since the year two thousand to. establishing it. but there have been changes in the number of people who are living below the poverty line. it was thirty eight percent. at that time and in the year two thousand now it's completely different over the last two years we've. had a small decrease. a small. but now it's improving once again and we have to change quite a lot and the social policy is. what i mean is it wanted to create a system under which it will be. we did it to help provided by the government will

be to wall specific goals to more specific categories of citizens that require this how about the moment and they are the same. in various areas. and this is the situations we know about this issues we know about these broad loans and we understand what needs to be done to improve the situation finally president that sounds a little bit like a campaign speech have you decided yet whether you are going to run again. so the question that everyone is waiting for. new year's eve notional could just i have not decided the unusual bodily political so i don't decide whether we'll be running for presidency at all because c.b.s. on the law says that on the beginning of november december second all the candidates to be analogous so what do you mean by that time i think the candidates the candidates will announce themselves and we but they will reveal our their

programs for anyone i promise elections the other members as a quick round up because i think we're at the end of our time now i would like to ask our three energy or three industry experts to answer two quick questions for the benefit of this audience the first question is where do you see the opera price of oil for your industry and the second question is in what year or in what decade do you think that global demand for fossil fuels will start with you mr i mean. i will never make that prediction because there are much better qualified people to make predictions on the price of oil. i think that the world of energy is changing we've talked about some of the global things but i just want to mention a couple of things about the russian experience which i've seen briefly except in very very weak so that was president vladimir putin speaking at the energy forum in moscow there talking about four main issues of foreign policy talking about iraq iran north korea and u.s. russia relations as. some domestic policy now let's carry on with the main news

stories the leader of the al nasra terror group abu mohammed al gilani has been gravely injured in a russian air strike in syria russia's defense ministry says its fighter jet successfully targeted an ounce for a meeting what have got the if reports from syria. this is all in the aftermath of last month's attack on a group of russian military police in northern hamma they were there to monitor a deescalation zone and what caught in the middle of a rebel offensive they were surrounded by fighters jihad this led by nusra front and what ensued was a battle that lasted for many hours as a result of the bandits attack a platoon of military police numbering twenty nine people was trapped for several hours and most forced the repel enemy attacks despite being outnumbered that military police unit was with the help of then surely able to withdraw break out of the encircled monday but since then russian surveillance and military intelligence

has gone into overdrive looking for new stores leadership and their fighters on the third of october they learn that there would be a meeting with senior officials nusra officials in attendance and when sources on the ground confirm that two jets would dispatched to carry out and then strike it was hugely successful twelve field commanders were killed abu mohammed. the leader of nusra front apparently lost a hand and is now in critical condition fifty other fighters and bodyguards were also killed as well as many others injured this is extremely important because nuestra among the jihad listed rebel factions in syria is arguably the most powerful with the most sophisticated weapons and the most fight is.

well generate the highly effect. oh you. mean gas through bucket full of these extremely toxic chemical. this is one of the methods of torture that was used by the militants. meanwhile russia's president has given a warning about terrorists in iraq and syria the karen has the details. in his address president putin said that terrorist factions in syria and iraq are reeling after a series of significant blows and this is something that may be pushing them into setting their sights on other countries in other regions also this comes after some major gains in the fight against terror groups in the two countries we have seen

the syrian army supported by russia retake syria piece by piece from the clasp of the militants successfully liberating india resort breaking the three year stage there also the u.s. led coalition is forcing the group from the defector capital of raca while fighting a war against ice that continues in iraq also so it's been blow after blow for the terror group announce what could prompt the move to establish new bases elsewhere here's what he said counter terror activities in syria and iraq have not led to the total demolition of infrastructure and the combat potential of terrorist organizations the militants have changed their tactics and started creating new strongholds in other states and regions but this isn't just about eliminating i still of course there's also. job out on those where whichever one you want to call it that's the second strongest insurgent group in syria after iceland russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has stressed the importance of not overlooking this group we have long been trying to draw the international community's attention to

the fact that the us led coalition before the russian military had started its anti-terrorist campaign in syria which quite specifically citing high school and not striking our newsroom at all after russia launched its operation the coalition became more active strikes against isis but even after the new u.s. administration stepped in which we haven't seen the coalition making any serious efforts to target our newsroom and this week has also seen significant gains against those who are also courtesy of russian forces last night this week a limited several key figures unless the grip of the leader of the group of mohamed al jelani critically injured which could deal i'm a job. hello to operations and also to the moon ra love be on this red terror group giuliani could almost be the poster boy of terrorism you know he for u.s. troops in iraq he quickly rose through the ranks of al qaeda he was released from u.s. prison in iraq and then went on to join islamic states and prior to the formation

of illness or al giuliani was a senior member of islamic state in iraq so after he became the leader of al nusra there was an attempt to every branch the terror group if you like in two thousand and sixteen but despite this the the tactics used by this terror group remains largely the same from torture to shelling residential areas and even allegations of using chemical weapons. the leader of catalonia has vowed to declare the region's independence from spain and local poland has now announced the date for its declaration and us to see it has been following events in barcelona but it was watching what's going on rattling in catalonia really waiting with bated breath to see what's going to happen as the standoff between barcelona and madrid continues and indeed we do know that the two main pro independence party in the regional parliament do still see in the sea you have called for a session to take place on monday to discuss the issue of independence further but

what's going to be quite crucial to unravel today first of all is going to be a speech given by the catalan leader of which the man who's expected to speak with her on tuesday he's supposed to kind of. explain really what is going to be unraveling in terms of the process following the speech given by the spanish who unlike some have been expecting here would call for a more unified message of potentially calling for the cat's runs and madrid to kind of get together and talk but indeed he did sort of reprimand to the council on leadership saying they've been acting outside the war yesterday we saw a major day of general striking where people have been coming. on to the streets blocking traffic businesses shutting down football club barcelona taking place in the straights and as a series of these protests people have been coming out and that's what they've been telling us let's take a listen we will not accept anything like this anymore we are heartbroken and we

just wanted to use our right to vote and we think it's not moving because of the moment that you took the ship or. someone you have to be. on the. view i don't think i was out here yet. but if i was europe it was. what. i. was writing because one people have been seeing here to us that they want the european union to get involved in what's going on but it's obviously been made quite clear that anybody within the european union is not supportive of the catalonia becoming independent so it's going to be interesting to see what unravels within the european parliament there. for me while the marriage barcelona's says she's received reports from several women who say they were sexually assaulted by police on the day of the referendum. thousands of citizens in

barcelona have found themselves in the fortunate position and having never rights and liberties under threat many have been victims of violence not just physical but also sexual we've received several reports from women who say they were sexually assaulted and sunday's referendum led to violence scuffles between riot police and voters almost nine hundred people were injured by the all surratt who are trying to stop people from casting their ballots we spoke to a former council an m.p. who says the vote is illegal according to international law. more than two million on the grounds of vote for doing that when one's neighbors there was four then up and thence and now we are protesting against these violence and supporting the unilateral declaration of independence. in the following days people have the right to father their nation so for now is legal because the united nations for

a moment laws of the united nations are severed their initial right is a right that is totally legal this consular and these international laws passed all work of the. french before. well the crisis has even crossed into football in spain as national teams prepare for their final qualifying matches to reach the twenty eighteen world cup here in russia barcelona defender gerard piqué an outspoken backer of catalan independence was booed as he trained with the spanish squad. i will p.k. is from catalonia and has had a glittering career for both his club and the spanish national team for whom he's won the world and european cup however piquet has said he is willing to retire from international football over his staunch backing of catalan independence was like

a football club is a focal point of catalan nationalism supporters can be heard chanting independent slogans during matches after seventeen minutes and fourteen seconds seventeen fourteen being the catalonia became a part of spain will the club also took part in the recent strike against the government and after last sunday's game was played behind closed doors due to fears of crowd safety piquet got emotional talking about independence during a t.v. interview. so you got the land a year story. or you much going on. your show and take i went over to the shop and bought all my years i mean like almost little too much of the notion of quality . and you know. it's. you know you're only going to. know your name or not but very soon. that all got here from the pocket of the wind that offered him but i'm. sure you remember limo of the

one in mind that he. well me was punished also has continued to say they see the vote as illegal and unconstitutional the european union says it won't condemn the police violence in spain and instead gave its backing to the spanish prime minister to resolve the crisis. now we have video of las vegas police and the operation to take out the gunman responsible for the country's deadly shooting that's coming up after the break. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to be rich. but you'd like to be close this is what before three of the boys can't be good.

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welcome back u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson is known for some of his controversial statements and actions however this time he suggested libya could become the next dubai but it has to clear away the dead bodies first well for more on this latest gaffe his u.k. correspondent polly boyo. a lot of people had raised eyebrows when boris johnson was initially appointed as foreign secretary precisely because they foresaw moments like this take a listen to this latest gaffe because. it's no use to. remember he believes. this is a more. obviously a lot of people see it as insensitive he's talking about clearing away the dead bodies of those people who helped to drive out islamic state terrorists from the

libyan city of sirte but also i think on another level this is a pretty unwelcome reminder of eight may just stay on britain's recent foreign policy decisions the libyan war was with the help of the u.k. the u.k. was a major partner in not french led intervention back in two thousand and eleven and the decision was made to the top of the government of good sassy britain was also a major sponsor of that military action the u.k. contributed over a billion pounds to the bombing campaign in libya and it's the problem that's been a good knowledge with by most of the leaders involved in that intervention is that there was no planning for what happened afterwards so libya has undergone years of continued violence political chaos as rival factions fight against each other in the country perhaps the only consolation for those trying to mitigate the effects

of this latest boris gaffe is that it isn't likely to cause a huge diplomatic scandal simply because libya is in too much of a mess politically to respond to this there are two rival governments vying for power. they have currently got bigger fish to fry than boris johnson's comments but he has become known for these types of comments over the weekend there was a british broadcast of him reciting a rajon kipling poem the road to mandalay while in a sacred british temple in my in my take a lesson. we're. going to. walk through. you can see that boris getting a telling off from someone who is meant to be his junior. of course that poem harks

back to colonial times when britain ruled mayan mar in rather a brutal manner and a lot of people will say that boris is boris he makes these types of comments all the time but the conservative party is holding its annual conference right now and they're on growing calls for him to be sacked from within the party as well as outside it because many see this latest libya comment as a step too far. well let's discuss this issue further in cross live now to george bond a political activist and social justice campaigner well and george what do you make of the latest statement by the foreign secretary. i mean it's difficult to know where to start i mean you've covered quite a lot in your intro in terms of the recent context of this statement and this sort of i think maybe to people outside of sort of unbelievable seeming seeming politician but i think we need to understand people like birds still sin in this

context where they've been they've been educated in this particular kind of institutional environment where they talk to see as britain has for hundreds of years in fact tool to see into our supposed to as this this great game as it used to be right. in peril times i think. it just seems to me extraordinary that especially in the context of a place where britain clearly has blood on its hands in terms of yet another attempt to regime change that ended in bloodshed. to be able to make what was meant to be a joke i mean this was this was a punchline in an optimistic speech about about libya i mean i could go on for health and i mean the very fact that what he's talking about is british business is coming in and turning so into dubai itself has huge huge questions in terms of what many people call disaster capitalism whether the powers that be economically in the world are better and better exploiting catastrophe to come in with foreign money

and take over beaches and all sorts of other things you know but leaving that aside it just seems. to me it's incredible that he can have such sort of callous disregard for other human lives but then if you look at it global foreign policy as it has been five hundred five years and continues to be today and not just in this country i mean you know any any serious players in the world have a great tendency to see the lives of others as less significant than the lives of their own i mean it would be unthinkable if boris johnson had referred. you know this is the scene of the bombing in manchester for instance the happen in the u.k. and said oh well once we get clear of the dead bodies then we'll be able to get back to business you know i was just being optimistic i mean yeah i i don't really know where to start and you know as you pointed out this comment about the road to mandalay which is a you know a piece right there roger kept playing he was an absolute sort of celebrate of imperialism i think it goes to the whole a conversation that is very large even the moment where boris johnson on the one

hand and jeremy coburn on the other represent two very different futures for the u.k. one is one in which we take responsibility with jeremy tobin fool our imperial possed and for recent aggressions which are still causing bloodshed in hora. we go with boris johnson and this idea of sort of recreating some kind of post-imperial state . i think that's a fantasy of power from the us in many ways but it's certainly a very very dangerous fantasy for the u.k. and for the world and george very briefly if you would i mean what expect what reaction do you expect from a summit do you think anything will happen to boris very briefly if you can't. i think i mean the various theories on this i mean in many ways what he's doing is very much like what trump is doing you know he's saying outrageous things that are just grabbing the limelight back to himself over and over again and i think he maybe is taking a leaf out of the book i mean many commentators in the u.k. think that he's basically trying to get himself fired from to reason by his government so he can then be a sort of bricks. and be that kind of

a magnet for the kind of hard right price that is the very much done what the chancellor philip hammond and many others in the party want from brics it namely in a very close relationship moving forward what boris johnson and his finance and the tory backers the conservative party back is one is just a little short tax haven where because we've been thrown out of europe we have to slash taxes and you know attract investment provide flexible working conditions you know which which means actually far worse working conditions where we trash welfare state and the n.h.s. so i think this is the this needs i hope he goes for this because many people think this is entirely unacceptable and that in the twenty first century especially where we have blood on our own hands in this situation to talk about the lost lives and this horrific situation this way in case i'm not i mean the i didn't i didn't believe it then you know. thank you very much indeed if you have bought a political activist and social justice campaign thank you.

now king solomon of saudi arabia is set to make an historic visit to russia it's considered controversial but also groundbreaking as it's the first ever official trip of a saudi monarch to the country he shettles to meet russian president vladimir putin for talks and tells us what we can expect. saudi king solomon is coming to moscow and it's the first time in the kingdom's history that its monarch is officially visiting russia the trips being heralded as a groundbreaking visit and here's why numerous unprecedented energy deals are on the table for one moscow and riyadh plan a one billion dollars fund to invest in a wide range of projects from oil and gas to renewable energy plus russian firms are apparently discussing an agreement with saudi energy giant aramco for joint ventures on saudi soil riyadh is also looking to invest in russian gas production which could benefit both countries you can go with it if you just need all about

the exhibit about developing relations between our countries and expanding business . energy though is still a dominating russia and saudi arabia of the biggest loser do some countries and we could use our experience in the field. and benefits. especially what it boils down to is two of the top players in the world energy market responsible for a quarter of global oil production are forging ever closer ties which will definitely have a global impact cutting oil output is also on the cards paving the way to extend a historic opec deal they helped to seal last year. but some warn moscow in riyadh have a history of tension and seem unlikely partners between locking horns on the oil

market and saudi arabia's close ties to the u.s. with whom are they. with russia have hit new lows such close cooperation could also seem quite surprising but despite saudi arabia's reignited love affair with the trumpet ministration the opec kingpin also needs russia a key and growing player both in the world energy market and in the middle east. us also reduce have released body camera video of police responding to the deadly last spaces shooting which claimed the lives of fifty nine people and injured over five hundred shots can be heard as offices trying to locate the gunman people out of the firing line. here good job at them for the. better for average driver thirty down down. this way just like this with the greatest of the go go go go go out without without without. well we want america.