those people the imprisoned or the. the mutual recognition the banking system all girls 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 in a 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 is that national in 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. and asking me to try to negotiated to make progress because is the an issue that can be solved only bilaterally i think the authorities in moldova aware that the first reaction of the deputy prime minister she's in charge of the talking with me by phone was very positive. so i actually saying that they despite the calling on the russian peacekeepers to leave also want them to stay to. perform the function of the very thing this they are they are no no efe people they understand that we have to solve the crisis to solve the frozen comforted by addressing one by one the existing issues that are on the table the past the outcoming the presidents your. presidency. left on the table the package the point my duty is to try to implement

old those points well mr franken we have to take a very short break now but to bill be back in just a few moments statement. fifty years ago breaking with into a concert as a sleeping pill a dozen pieces would leave because of the dust just the side effects were terrible but not on. the board. not. across europe. still looking legal battles demanding at least some compensation. in two ways first will the physical damage itself as well as with the concert in mind that the people who actually perpetrated this crime has never been able to

justice and that has been the cup well. welcome back to worlds apart with franco frattini a former foreign minister of italy and the always seen a representative for the. peace settlement process. just before the break he mentioned before taking on this role 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 such commitment is that still your view or have you big become more neutral since i certainly. when i was foreign minister in two

thousand and nine during the summit in poland there was the launching of that political european initiative i was calling. for we cannot create full solutions 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 this is still my opinion because we got no results in cooperation with the 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 with those 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 no one has or by john because president aliyev refuse to accept the biggest mistake made by ear oh the alternative 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 are a priori 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 any form of subsidies well they did the ukraine was enjoying subsidized gas for quite some time i think most of us also during certainly an offense from russia. do you think it was. a sad obvious

way intentionally or this is just anonymous. arrangement on the part of the e.u. because you said that in the ear is not going to give ukraine money i think political decision taken in two thousand and nine was at the all region and harnessed decision then there was always it will revert into political is. all russian tendencies these happen in two thousand and ten in two thousand and eleven and of course of your original decries is their moment or do you really knew all of the e.u. ukraine agreement was the 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 i can understand why you cannot agree frankly

speaking but i can give you the example of a country that i know very well i'm a personal friend the president of serbia mr bush he was in some cases pushed to accept exactly the same 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 unfortunately the same didn't happen in the ukraine and as we all remember during the my down rallies main slogan was ukraine is europe each man that russia is not europe antenatal creation i'm president to lead you saw one of the highest american state department officially rushing to the square.

distribute them around me here and peanut interest there are too many european if they did not happen in search but what i want to ask you about is why do you think this juxtaposition of russia and europe as two 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 the changing wardo today completely obsolete and completely wrong as i said we should the more we gauge mad with russia on terrorism in the middle east the less so but this is the area 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 because 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 the 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 both in russia and europe should be why is the season to integrate minsk agreement by including a chapter or political. first of all economic cooperation let's improve the situation as more than economy can. let's promote territory little code creation over job saying groove can you get the ukrainian secret it reaches that. day in a prick. situation there will have to agree anyway if russia and you are

apart all the political disputes will put at the center of the common policy lot like creating local business small and medium enterprises again a book too much 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 but 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 encounter significant resistance do you believe in practical terms that russia and the e.u. and all those countries in between can somehow learn to live together without

trying to dominate one in a world if i think about europe i think europe hires a strong interest to help ukraine and russia to see i cannot imagine russia losing interest or running the risk to a failed state at 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 of balls russia in europe this is why i would like very much such kind of practical bottom up agreement on promoting local development to create 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 visa via russia is very very consistent it's perhaps the only example of consistent foreign policy the e.u. has at this point how long do you think it's been lost. 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 time to be in june i strongly hope there will be a new government in need to leave strong enough to say in june first in a pool on the level of foreign ministers and then in jew we should have a political discussion i'm sure italy greece hungary and spain may be would be 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 in the 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 to 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 family attorneys 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 stand those least relax lifting or reducing sunshine who is in number all countries they will be. today also a good idea but provided that the new rupee inside the reeds response the reason recipient number or country ready to correspond

to such as it is. strengthen the accusations within 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 confer 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. such as proof pools of nothing up and because we were a strong government the mall out of russia is out of g eight any way now because there is not longer our government and the government 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 posture as well as possibly because i think what happened in libya was a major factor in the russian decision making well. i was one of the bills that where president. the signature of practical matter agreement in two thousand and two where president bush and president putin shake hands and said nato will cooperate and will give birth to the need to rush accounts need to russia council still exists and may be you know they meet this need to play of the corporation is practically close to zero there is been a fiscal leash 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 proposals coordination on military reaction 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 april pulls on counter terrorism global these days should be one of the priorities when president trump says there need to 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 and tear of us please keep the conversation going in our social media pages as for me hope to see you again same place same time here and i will to part.

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just owning it o'clock on friday morning march the second here in moscow you're watching r.t. international a very warm welcome to. vladimir putin's state of the nation address has sent the media into a frenzy accusing russia of cold war era posturing during the speech the president showcase the country's new strategic weapons which he said could out smart all existing missile defenses the white house and the country learning of that new threat from russian president warning adverse reason and in the west in particular not to mess with russia computer graphics of missiles flying over mountains and heading over oceans and he says he's not bluffing many soviet dress as a threat directed at the u.s. moscow claims it has no intention of using its military might the high tech weaponry is intended only to preserve the global balance of power as more reports.

if you aren't russian in the first hour 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 me as. far as the some 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 underwater for months and months silent and needy undetectable next to the oven god the hypersonic missile extremely fost rockets that can actively dog and the vague and see missile defenses. that is heading 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

a serious way. buttons designed for one thing restore and guarantee russia's strategic power in an age where an ever expanding nato is trying to nullify it. we have no plans and have never had plans to use this potential to achieve offensive or aggressive in russia's in hands military power is simply a guarantee for peace on our planet for it preserve. restore parity in the world sure that there's no point in gauging in a senseless arms race after all mutually assured destruction has kept the world safe for the best part of a century now to stress his point that the new weapons serve only to balance the world powers putin pointed out the u.s. missile defense is already deployed in alaska and california following nato expansion to the east to science of also being set up in romania and poland and new

sites are soon to be established in japan and south korea and apart from ground launched weapons the us complex also includes a naval component meaning that america currently has five navy destroyers navy crews was stationed right along russia's eastern borders. defense analyst i mean oren says the russian president's speech could in fact be a plea for dialogue. it was defense the terence competition and containment no aggression no thoughts of starting off initiating a war which is reassuring the defense versus the oftens in missile technology and technology has probably reached a new phase with speech and the americans even though they have known at least in general terms that these weapon systems are in the pipeline will

probably react with some surprise at the advance stage in which they were unveiled if rhetoric really reflects reality we are in for a tense period but this seems like the opening gambit. in a conversation between leaders which once they meet face to face they could tone down and get to some more sobering ideas reaction to putin's revelations about russia's nuclear capability have been coming in from around the world the pentagon said it was not surprised adding that it had actually been expecting such an announcement but tensions were running pretty high at the u.s. state department samir khan reports. well the state department says that russia's new hypersonic missile violates international treaties and heather now it was particularly concerned about the video or imagery that was released claiming that it shows a missile targeting the u.s.

and when reporters asked about this the scene turned pretty ugly and now revealed just how uncomfortable she was when she slammed those russian reporters who pressed her on this as officials of the russian government let's take a quick look dreams it will slow to take in the united states interests new styles all sent a different direction so i had to say that they are you know you ran from the ocean i can hear you saying that ok enough said then i'll move on. which is what if it did happen they're not. officials of the russian government they're just asking a question about me oh really ok well we know that. r.t. and other russian news or so-called news organizations are there i'm good and directed by the russian government so if i don't have a lot of how this should be no matter how they're going to set you up at about moment you know this is i need to do you know is this video that you're talking

about yes question is not an excuse me for and it was met with significant backlash from reporters all throughout the room but how did she respond with several doses of sarcasm of course but for the record this is her usual m.o when she wants to avoid answering questions in the past has referred to me and my colleagues as representatives of the russian government well veteran journalist for the a.p. matt lee asked a follow up to the russian reporter's question but that are now or it's resentment which then carried over when he asked her a completely different question related to the appointment of ambassadors if there were people in line to replace you people were leaving and the fact is that because you are not aware of it does not mean that that does not exist so ok have a good moment ok there are there are people in mind. and in line for those types of positions perhaps you've just not heard about it yet and then made a berridge of questions now or shut down the entire press conference and then rejected a reporter's question which rightfully upset the reporter who then stood up from

her chair and followed an hour out of the room we've got it we've got to go. wrong i will talk to you after the no no you're back to parliament voted wednesday to call for a timetable for the iraq before and she. now it's unclear what exactly agitated an hour but it could have been the continuous stream of questions regarding the american reaction to president putin's address but journalists in the room were all defending each other so i wonder if we'll hear any complaints from the other reporters. time poster in moscow italy is going to the polls on sunday and public opinion seems divided with the right leaning parties are gaining momentum and you can see behind me force a no water project at agana over thirty percent of the vote both parties are known for their tough stance on immigration now this issue remains a key one as the country struggles to deal with the continuing flow of newcomers

aunties and i see a truck in a trouble to one italian hopes its approach to migrants will be taken up by the country as a whole we are incest a son giovanni on the outskirts of milan in the north of italy once an industrial town used to have overwhelmingly communist views dubbed the stalingrad of the country today those views have all but vanished with elections in italy just around the corner this place hopes to lead by example in tackling immigration and toller and seems to be the last of concerns. in order to. whatever will help the situation must be done it's very important in other countries they are already doing these kinds of things and no one gets offended because it is a warranty for us and them. we need to find the best solution possible first we need to find out how many migrants we can identify through digital fingerprints and any other systems then we need to see if this works. they are human beings to all of the.