in one thousand nine hundred nine at an oil see summit russia clutch to do that but never followed through how big of an issue is this right now for world is simply not realistic now talking about the russian military presence would be not realistic oh let's recreate a comprehensive package including other points like the stages of prisoners there was how to treat those people the imprisoned or the recommission the mutual recognition oban consistent all those people should stay together i prefer to start from practical and tangible issues that are on the ground next step would be to address the bigger issues now not many people in europe know where transnistria is i think it is. a potentially dangerous flashpoint because it haas one of the largest and one of the oldest weapons depots and you know former

soviet union and part of the duty of the russian peacekeepers there is to guard that weapons depot i wonder if you see that as. as a bilateral or as a national issue between the two sides or is it something that should concern europe as a whole including their organization that you represent because i went to see him there is a security issue there as well it is a security issue it is a comprehensive this is why very happy that he is prioritizing to his niece and asking me to try to negotiate or to make progress because it is the other an issue that can be solved all the bilaterally i think the authorities in moldova aware that the first reaction of the deputy prime minister she's in charge of. talking with me by phone was very positive. so. i actually saying that they

despised calling on the russian peacekeepers to we also want them to stay to. perform the function of the car they did they are no naive people they understand that we have to solve the crisis to solve the frozen conflicts by addressing one by one the existing issues that are on the table the past the outcoming the presidency or. the presidency left on the table the package of a point my duties to try to implement old those eight points well mr fenton we have to take a very short break now but to be back in just a few moments stay can't. apply to many flips over the years so i know the game inside guides. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch or the final school it's about the passion from the

families it's the age of the shaper money killian has been spending two to twenty million of them flying. it's an experience like nothing else only because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful game like great so we'll all transfer. thinks it's going to. welcome back to worlds apart with franco frattini a former foreign minister of italy and the always seen a representative for the actions nestor and peace settlement process is different

just before the break he mentioned before taking on destroying your work quite critical of the eastern partnership program and this was a special outreach program for former soviet states that incidentally excluded russia i heard you say that it was essentially making false promises to those countries without making any certain commitments is that still your view or have you big become more neutral since you although i said so when i was foreign minister in two tells a nine during the summit in poland there was the launching of that political european initiative i was calling because we cannot create false illusions we cannot give the impression that we have created a shortcut to become very quickly members of you all members told me that this would be a mistake unfortunately i was in the minority i'm staying in that minority position

to steal my opinion because we got no results in cooperation with russian federation in a moment toward crises where russia is badly needed to address terrorism in the middle east in libya and so on and so forth and we got no results countries ukraine is in a pre-collapse a situation or crisis we have to help ukraine but if we don't. provide them enough bonnie like we did promise we did not keep our problem is always possible they are in the electoral time and the same applies to door door for example the slightly different situation organiser by john because president aliyev refuse to accept the biggest mistake made by ear oh the alternatives are do you stay with us or you are against in my view is not incompatible to be

friend or russia and to cooperate you i think many in russia believe that that arrangement was a little bit exploitive because those countries for encouraged to develop political affiliation if europe while also getting a lot of economic support from russia by any form of subsidies well they did the ukraine was enjoying subsidized gas for quite some time i think most of us also during certain an offense from russia do you think it was. said obvious way intentionally or this is just anonymous. arrangement on the part of the e.u. because you said that in the ears not going to give ukraine money political decision taken in two thousand and nine was at the all region and harnessed decision then there was. reverted into political is. all

russian tendencies these happened in two thousand and ten in two thousand and eleven and of course your original decries is their moment to do renewal of the e.u. ukraine agreement was all region or disprove its coalitional decries exactly because some countries for historical reasons some european countries are obsessed about the rule of russian federation. understand very cannot agree frankly speaking but i can give you the example of a country that i know very well i'm a personal friend of president. bush he was in some cases pushed to accept exactly the same old turkey are you candidate for european accession end as a consequence you cools and you stop your historical friendship was russia rightly

and wisely president said no and in that all the european union stopped its pressure over president bush well unfortunately the same didn't happen in ukraine and as we all remember during the my down rallies main slogan was ukraine is europe which manned russia is not europe and in the day to creation unprecedentedly you saw one of the highest american state department officially rushing to the square and distribute them around me here and peanut interest there too many european if they did not happen in search but what i want to ask you about is why do you think this jacks the position of russia and europe as to absolute alternatives have become so stark these days because we in russia do not feel themselves to be outside of europe we believe that we are european countries because the role of penal some european member states is the only they have to contain the all good traditional the cold war policy of containment visibly russia which is in

a changing war don't today completely obsolete and completely wrong as i said we should have more engagement with russia on terrorism in the middle east no less so but this is the every teenager of the past i repeat i can understand but they cannot agree now what is done is done ukraine is now i think is kind of in the state of limbo. chris it's not going to become a member of the european union in any forseeable future that is being plainly slate's nearly even even towards with it also cut many of its economic ties with russia and. i think created this situation when the recovering those ties is pretty much politically impossible at this point of time whose responsibility it is at this point of time to help ukraine get firmly back on its board in russia and

europe should be why is the seizure to integrate minsk agreement by including a chapter or political cooperation first of all economic cooperation let's improve the situation all small of economic and to let's promote on the territory little code creation of jobs and grooves tell you get the ukrainian secret agree to that. they are in a pre-collapse situation there will have to agree a new way if russia and e.u. apart all the political disputes will put at the center of the common policy lot like creating a local business small and medium enterprises again the book. but i think one of the reasons for this situation is that these people for a long time they were led to believe that they have their future in europe now all

of a sudden they understand the future is not there they already closed their door to russia and. i think we are seeing that happening in moldova the president trying to reach out to russia not so much politically but economically and even those measures and counter a significant resistance do you believe in practical terms that russia. the e.u. and all those countries in between can somehow. learning to leave together without trying to dominate one in a world if i think about europe i think europe is a strong interest to help ukraine and russia to see i cannot imagine russia losing interest or running the risk to the failed state of these borders so it is a common interest because probably the bigger mistake has been made by us by the

west but the consequence is the impact on balls russia in europe this is why i would like very much such kind of practical bottom up agreement on promoting local development in the ukraine russia can be easily interested to learn now we currently have an italian in charge of the european foreign policy i'm talking about today rick i'm a greenie and i know that you've been quite critical of her you are on record saying that the e.u. doesn't have a foreign policy which i personally disagree on i think. the e.u. policy of sanctions is a view russia is very very consistent it's perhaps the only example of consistent foreign policy that the e.u. has at this point how long do you think it will last. until will. enough states strong enough to say first of all we need

a political discussion before any kind of the seizure or renewal of sanctions that happens every six months next stand will be in june i strongly hope there will be a new government in need to leave song enough to say in june first in a pool of the level of foreign ministers and then do we should have a political discussion i'm sure italy greece hungary and spain maybe would be a blocking minority is strong enough to veto any kind of a renewal sanction i am free to say so because no governmental responsibility but this is convinced about a few years ago the former italian prime minister materazzi suggested in a conversation of russian president vladimir putin that perhaps russia could make the first step in lifting some of those sanctions and when you think about it it's an interesting proposition because i guess moscow could lift sanctions against

friendlier countries and leave them in place for some of its harshest critics but then certainly to face accusations of trying to start divisions within the e.u. do you think that's a good idea and. the ideal prime minister renzi was a good one. unfortunately as we know it followed by a practical and concrete decision from president or russia because. probably if. the atmosphere for such as decision was zero again was premature these would have been a zero game decision from the russians. present we should have responded to it by relaxing sanctions against all or simply let's say against italy which has been friendly or turns i would i would prefer. very much against old in order to mitigate such as ali b.

from other states you are promoted to your friends and you are putting obstacles to those that your friends but as a minimal standards as least relax lifting or reducing sunshine who is in number all come through this they will be. to day also a good idea but provided that all new rupie inside the reeds response the reason recipient number or country ready to correspond to such as in the. strength and the accusations of it in the e.u. that russia is indeed trying to divide the euro will be any way we have divided this is why i don't agree we do i khufu are but we don't have a new pm foreign policy we voted simply because we were really not strong enough to put a veto when i was requested to put russia out of g eight from my friend condi rice

said he's retiring such as proof pools of and nothing up and because we were a strong government in the small air rushes out of g eight any way now because there is not longer our government and the government there said ok let's go out was not as strong as we were now and if i may ask you very quickly i know that you were considered for the post of me to secretary general and october two thousand and fourteen i don't know if it's your russian ties that cost you that job but how do you see russia and nature and navigating their relationship post ukraine cost as well as costly because i think what happened in libya was a major factor in russian decision making well. i was one of the bills that where present. the signature of the matter agreement in two thousand and two where

president bush and president putin shake hands and said need to show we'll cooperate and we give bert to the need to rush accounts need to rush a council still exists and maybe you know they meet the state of play of the corporation is practically close to zero there has been a fiscal issue and they should be a deescalation and to revitalize need to russia do you also think that russia has to make the first step i do think it should come from the other russia could make a proposal similar to the one the russian made when russia propose coordination on military action in syria to the president of united states in that location america said yes to the coordination and then we moved from court of the nation to corporation and dies was defeated maybe russian should put to me

till it propels a long counter terrorist globalists out these days should be one of the priorities when president trump says there nato is obsolete is quite right well mr french and i have lots and lots of more questions but unfortunately we have to leave it there really appreciate your being with us i'm terribly your speech keep the conversation going in our social media pages it's funny hope to see you again same place same time here and i want to party.

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russia's new strategic including a nuclear capable missile said. existing defense systems in his annual state of the union address the president added that all of this comes in response to the u.s. anti missile system build up. for civilians are killed by militants in the syrian dispute. was a third humanitarian pools established by russia collapses. and south africa's parliament passes a motion that could see white farmers across the country stripped of the land and without compensation we get different opinions on this controversial.

this is r.t. international. limit putin has delivered his annual state of the nation address to parliament sharing with them his vision of the country's future during that speech the president announced the development of new strategic weapons which he said outmaneuver all existing missile defenses to senior correspondent as the details if you aren't russian in the first hour of putin's speech would have been boring taxes and corruption science and industry that sort of thing after that though it got real hot real fast and i mean russia is a major nuclear power basically nobody wanted to talk to us nobody listened to us so listen to us now rockets lasers nukes in

a rush hooted unveiled an arsenal of new weapons bigger faster stronger and deadlier than any that came before. the sun super heavy i.c.b.m. two hundred ton missile capable of penetrating any existing defense in service at the end of the year next an enigmatic new development seemingly nuclear powered cruise missile it flies extremely low to avoid detection and can hit almost anywhere in the world says putin up next it's just fantastic an underwater drone submarine also nuclear powered with a nuclear payload it can reportedly lurk underwater for months and months silent and detectable next to the oven god the hypersonic missile extremely

fast rockets that can actively dog and the vedic anti missile defenses to do it it is her. adding for the target like a meteorite to top all of that off laser weapons systems though putin didn't go into detail saying only that it still classified the russian president says all of this isn't to intimidate or scare anyone or invade anyone these serious weapons designed for one thing restore and guarantee russia's strategic power in an age where an ever expanding nato is trying to nullify it to show what you mean we shouldn't russia's growing military might is not meant to threaten anybody we have no plans and have never had plans to use this potential to achieve offensive or aggressive in rushes in harm's military power is simply a guarantee for peace on our planet preserves to restore parity in the

world show that there's no point in gay gene in a senseless arms race after all mutually assured destruction has kept the world safe for the best part of a sentry we spoke to several analysts to find out what they made of the unexpected military announcements in putin's address to parliament. decades after the cold war the usa ruled the world and that balance of power is now shifting with russia coming in with many other major players and you look at some of the disastrous walls that the west is involved ourselves in namely libya and iraq so there's some sort of balance coming back because i see it from what putin is saying and i hope he's absolutely right that this is a deterrent against the american led defense system and that's a very important. effective tool to have so i don't see intensification of hostile talk or scheming and planning in the cards what is possible and what was

what was put in the terms was to sober up the west and to bring them back to reality what russia has done is breathtaking so there are states whatever it says publicly it's going to have to have a deep rethink of everything of spending no on military because it's useless we were very surprised because we didn't know that russia was so advanced in hypersonic technology and the real surprise is in my opinion that not only. elaborated the but they're working actually and though both due to serve in the russian armies in my opinion we can compare this breakthrough with. nine hundred fifty seven when the when the soviet union for the first time since putin the space . will reaction to putin's weapons comments have been coming in from around the world the pentagon said that it wasn't surprised and added it had been inspecting

such an announcement meanwhile artie's police boy who was following reaction from the u k. well look this is an annual speech it doesn't normally get many column inches here but of course talk of new nuclear warheads piqued the interest of the world media headlines chose to focus on descriptions of a hawkish putin boasting about his doomsday nuclear weapon there was of course talk of an arms race and predictably when there's talk of an arms race there are mentions of the cold war take a look at what those in the media had to say about tet we told americans not to leave. we told them not to abandon the. we told them that we will we have caught up so these are missiles that particularly designed to counter what russia sees as the stretch posed by the u.s. missile defense shield which has been deployed at least you can reach almost any charge around the world so scary stuff this morning by focusing on talk of the new

weapons a lot of the media outlets actually managed to miss the wider point that the russian president appeared to be making with this speech advance that now that nato and russia have nuclear parity well there's no point in any sort of arms race it's time to sit around the table and start talking this speech was trending on twitter in the u.s. at some point which suggests that it garnered quite a bit of interest stateside either that or that infamous troll farm in russia was excelling itself this morning nevertheless here is what those in the twisties fair had to say about it. both the time to make peace with bush and scientists soon to achieve nuclear dominance with just percent of the us military budget for the forseeable future it looks like the us russia gender we limited to just one item war prevention good luck to us all when trouble watch fox news he will super he

wants to now during that speech vladimir putin also said that some of russia's new weapons are so new that they don't even have names yet so he launched a competition to name a new cruise missile and also an unmanned underwater drone that drew quite a bit of attention from twitter users especially here in the u.k. plenty of them suggested new team new face for a name which for those of you who don't remember is a reminder of the time the british government asked the british public to name a new research vessel and the name that drew the most votes was both both face the other name that i rather liked was new skywalker that was suggested online as well in the wake of the speech i have a feeling that. putin is going to be waiting for some rather more serious submissions though the economy was also

a key issue in the address with an annual four percent g.d.p. rise promised which would mean a fifty percent g.d.p. rise per capita by twenty twenty five or over average life expectancies targeted to go over eighty years fifty billion rubles will be spent to fight poverty as well we spoke to russia's economic development and finance ministers right after the speech told us what they think of the goals that putin has set for the. but you're going to all these restrictions stimulated russia to increase production and we've been drug growth not just in sectors such as agriculture and every day goods we see the reorientation of our economy in science towards what we previously received by inputs we're developing our own high tech industries not picture of it yet a key priority is taking a konami growth rate above the global average the goal set before the government of vital and will require more investment but all six key initiatives highlighted by the president obama development increased life expectancy improved business climate

developing human capital as its workforce productivity and reducing poverty have already been making progress for half a year now we're going to take them to the next level. it's moved to syria now where four civilians have been killed by militants in the embattled area of eastern it happened while the latest humanitarian pause was in place russia's reconciliation center said the death came during demonstrations in the district against the militants. thanks. to the area itself is controlled by groups that include al nasra terrorists who are preventing civilians from.