voter can be if you believe that i don't believe most of them do but i could i don't know that the polling is off on it doesn't make sense if you're saying no one that is elected gets to change the system even you know what for in america yeah well that's what mr putin says at the end of the interview if you remember he says he's been through four presidents and i asked him what's changed and he said basically nothing so he's indicating that there's a bureaucracy he called it a bureaucracy in america they call it a deep state of bureaucracy that has been resistant to change certainly the policies towards russia for the most part united states been highly negative since one thousand nine hundred seventy since the revolution when mr wilson president wilson said american troops to siberia to join the british expeditionary force.

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welcome back to sophie and co no the other day i sat down with the legendary filmmaker oliver stone in a moscow bookstore and asked him whether a second cold war was just a figure of speech or as to or more to it it's a figure of speech for sure cold war it's a. very dangerous war it's on the you know you can even say that the original cold war was really a cold war where there were so many proxy wars that were fought in the name of fighting communism you like vietnam. among others korea.

you wonder how many people have died in the name of that cold war and you know millions of the third world people have been hurt after all over africa there was battles. and certainly in them we've seen now in the middle east we've seen enormous amount of damage. the specter of communism doesn't work anymore the united states was not able to use that but there is this and haran carry over in fact and i'm sure that's in the minds of those congressmen when they vote against for the expansion of russians actions in their mind it's some form of the old russia and they can't get it they can't get them to want to weigh in the eighty's in the ninety's how come it came back so strongly i mean what is going to take for that paradigm to disappear from american mind generation was quite surprised by that i was in fact shocked i talking to mr gorbachev was one of the most wonderful moments of my life it was i felt in one thousand nine hundred ninety in my lifetime was

a spring springtime of hope a new feeling that this thing was going to change you know that the the wall came down. all the europe eastern european countries expressed love bloodless revolution really a bloodless revolution and russia. relatively both. and i was and mr gorbachev you know was not the crook in america we saw him as a lion as a hero and in this country of course he was seen as a weak man who had lost control of this of this empire so it's a whole different view of it and i've been see mr gorbachev since then i've been through his criticisms of mr putin and i have to say the last time i saw him he said that mr putin is the guy for now whatever they say because america has violated that compact he made in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight eighty nine that nato would not go east one inch if the germany's were united he allowed for

that. that has not happened nato has been accelerated under the not go under the americans under clinton and and bush and obama. and mr gorbachev as pointed out also the the what mr putin says is they greedy on the abrogation of the a.b.m. treaty by the by bush by mr bush in two thousand and one was a vast mistake it and it undermines the the nationals the the balance of power that exists between the two countries on top of that you have the american support putin the scent of terrorists in the caucasus on top of that you have opposing points of view on ukraine obviously and mr putin states his case very clearly in this book what his case is which americans don't hear and on top of that you have syria which again it's amazing to me how under reported that war is. archie has covered

a lot of our yemen aren't you guys how are some to report any and i don't have a laundry list i want to be at more about this and the context in which this book came out fails in a weird way that when the actual cold war is in place it was just clean cut you know you had to sidestep where against each other and now for me it's so much more scarier because the world is marked by paul or and there's so much house around and everyone's trying to pull it all on themselves and all the conflicts that you just mentioned and many more that we didn't mention are going on because of that and we don't understand how they're going to end or if they're going to and it's always messy. you're young like hell you must be near thunder not that young but thank you i guess you know to me the original cold war was very confusing and not so clean us against them in fact i went to vietnam as a young man believing that we were fighting communism in other words there were

a lot of disguises and when you look back at the whole history of that period as we tried to do an untold history the united states i would have to tell you that it's very clear that it was a farce that the united states really pulled the wool over the world and declaring and making the soviet union the fall guy after having won world war two they made them the fall guy for war two two and equated hitler with stalin and also all this stuff going on it comes out of the this misunderstanding of what that first cold war was america has spent a fortune fighting this war and it's deprived its own people us the american people of better education better system more security health welfare all these things that give me those problems now this social net that's disappearing. could have come out of that instead of beans the the money being spent on the cold war so we

paid a huge price for it and it never let up i remember in eighty nine there was talk of a peace dividend they talk of it what happened to the peace dividend a few weeks after the berlin wall fell mr bush sr was. going into iraq sending five hundred thousand troops to the middle east and i pointed out it was a big thing because we went when we sent five hundred thousand troops to vietnam was actually under lyndon johnson that was a huge deal and the press made a big big number out of that not not since world war two that we knew those numbers were too big we were fighting with too many men we don't it won't work it was too big and what happened we forgot about it reagan mr reagan helped a lot with his campaign to forget the vietnam war and we were sending a half million men again abroad to fight in the middle east we never got out of the middle east. i made a movie about it called w in which dick cheney the dick cheney's character have

been asking what what's our exit policy says there is no exit and the truth is we haven't there is no exit to iraq where here those five hundred thousand men in one form or another have never left the middle east so this is heartbreaking stuff if you have any sense of history. i knew it was a mistake i thought the iraq war one was a huge mistake i thought there was plenty of room to negotiate when films like that come out w for instance or at the untold history of the united states they want to even mention how as a percent in america and you pretty much denounce a lot of tropes and facts in american history i can't tell you it's easy but i think it's the most some of the most important work i've done in my life i'm very proud of those two films i've paid a price for because i guess some people would you know they don't consider me in the debate but neither do they consider people like noam chomsky so there is no center in the united states political discourse it's all center right ever since

the clinton camp people came into power the center right has become the right and there's no peace party that exists in my country i don't see any evidence of it except this third party that is so criticized the the green party among others arrows make fun of it. you know why i don't know me so well a year in america i always had the feeling the democrats would did the least we were concerned about peace now that seems to have been squandered that feeling is squandered and i don't sense any any sense of consensus the only one who did it was bernie sanders and if you remember correctly he very rarely mentioned foreign policy he stayed away from it because he knew that was a third rail for him and he was to socialistic for america to actually well i don't know much about because america may hand up in relatively has to go may have to go more socialistic in order to survive because if things fall apart and we continue to have crises after crises stock market explosions and so forth and meltdowns

there has to be a human right and they want no way to trump to change something but remember a mr obama song what was it seven hundred fifty billion dollars into the economy that's i would call that a socialist move. so you know where the united states is going is a very it's interesting i think i'm going to try to stick around and see because i think that's a great question it sounds i mean just to be on the sidelines and see what happens it could get really ugly and be pretty nasty too in terms of casualties and of course united states i would skip i'm scares me in the sense that it might lose its self control and out of the sense of panic and fear attack. this concept that russia is responsible for everything isn't saying but it's very easy to to resort to that kind of nineteenth early one nine hundred fifty s. primitivism like a joe mccarthy i was told when i was a young boy the soviets are in our schools they're in our colleges they are there

they're creeping into our system where the soviets are going to take us over without even a war that was i heard this from serious people. you know you have to allow that this mentality exists and when you're around a vigilante mob that hangs people it's scary because you common sense goes out the window it's the first thing and decency and humanity you go out the window so it scares me that mentality and you know a lot about politics you know politicians and you know something about scripts give me a scenario of how this should work out. their reality are you asking for a movie from my point of view from the american side it's not going to happen any other way and that's what's frightening because i don't see that russia can take any initiative at this point except for surrender would completely all your nuclear arms and have a regime change mr putin resigns which is insane so what happened because the

russian people support him i don't see any way out right now. no third parties do exist they come into being there's de gaulle's that come up from charles de gaulle you hope for a french leader or a european leader i was very disappointed in merkel throughout this whole process because she knows better she knows the real story of ukraine she doesn't fall for it because her foreign minister was involved they knew they knew what was going was a coup d'etat they crane and but in other words there's has to be some kind of european leader. the kind of thing you know to america and i think yeah that's one way of putting it mr de gaulle i was around when mr goss said no to america that was quite really have friends you know look young to you i mean i am getting there and we're going to go is really a proud man and proud for france. one hopes for that but there's other ways that the blocks can be broken there's of course china that's a huge number but the united states has to hit

a hard line on china doesn't say it like it does say it about russia but the reason that we're arming korea to the degree that we are and japan is truly against the chinese to encircle the chinese. but i worry about korea because we again have so much or so many arms we put into japan and korea. you know this thing can but it can blow up in a second it's like a tinderbox. well it doesn't look good at your age i would like to live out the rest of my life you know what do you do what do you do you bringing attention to it that's the best you can do right now. to my view you should make at movie about this and you shouldn't certainly not in your career i think it was an increase of four hundred s. when i did this because i did care and i want to i want i want peace to have a chance and i think every time i talk to mr putin over those thirty hours i never sensed any other desire in his part but to have a balance of power respect for each other sovereignty and

a sense of peace in the world here and that's what people don't accept from him. they can't believe that this man who was they consider a villain is a number of peace. oliver stone thank you very much it was priceless they so feeding into your love with everything. the most expensive fish in a will each one selling for tens of thousands of euros it continues to grow its entire life if it was thirty years old you might have a two ton fish out there and yet they don't get that big today because we're way too good at catching. it's only remnants of

a much larger mission was once there was much more widely distributed we have politicians that are in office for a few years they have to get reelected everything is very very short term our system is not suited and is not clear for long term survival and that's why we have because. america minutes one is the melting pot and the second is the ratio alger myth of the bootstrapping anyone can succeed in america who works hard so this is a whole group of people all generation in america is saying that there is no melting pot we're not being assimilated there's no opportunities we can't live up so their response essentially is to go into conflict and this is a major. put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president

and you. want to. have to go to the press this is what will before three of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of my. question. well you know the cars they were kind of adopted because we were called pirates for so long. i mean they're in this small boat sniffs at a hard pull of ships and it's still a. lot tougher than. the little self to be told fish already ninety percent of the dot and it won't be calmer. concept fifteen scoops seventy five tons true and they do it several times a day with a big fleet now you get an idea of why. we have to

understand we can not stay still and just. be with in this world he is the only boy in his arms. i'm doing this because i want the future world to future generations to have and enjoy the ocean we have. you are. so close. i. have a right. to

. go our election had lines but he may oppose it wins re-election to a full serve in office with all the ballots from sea. presidential vote now process the international response to putin's reelection that ranges from congratulations by world leaders including china paying all the way to criticism and insults on something like a song and dance of the election quite literally from traditional costume to voters dressed as angels and even though i guess many came to enjoy themselves on poker.

it's two o'clock here in moscow watching all t.v. international and special electoral election coverage with mina and colleen great once again red square looking fantastic in the sunshine this made wherever your treating him though if you're well we're going to be bringing to you live updates have reaction for the rest of monday for all support from studio. like cutting red square with all the counted in russia's presidential election in his winning by a long getting us seventy six percent of the vote it means a sixty five year old will tell you the country's top shelf for another six years in terms of photos that means more than fifty six million people cast their ballots for him leaving all his rivals fall behind this will be his fourth presidential to win this year's race for the kremlin and managed to secure the largest chunk he's ever managed to take in an election here we can see his track record in his presidential bid over the is the election wasn't just about a few like so much as well the color of the day on sunday let's have

a quick look at some of those.

now if you were watching us about eighteen hours ago i will say i was polling true to a close you'll know that a lot of our correspondents of it out and about across moscow are the various candidates headquarters dotted around the russian capital we've allowed them a few i was sleep before catching up with them again so that i can work again when i got here was covering a campaign throughout the day we told him a little bit earlier about how it all went. well it was a very busy bee he first appeared to houses traditions across this ballot smiles for the cameras and then he disappeared for a while to do whatever it is that presidents do but he will resurface some hours later when the first exit polls came out and when it became apparent that he was well ahead of the competition he showed up just a few hundred meters from here on monday as the square that called and said as luck would have the. dedicated to the reunification of crimea and russia for users the

way you know this took the opportunity to fight people who declared his supporters those russians units and you obviously in the midst of it all what stood out for you at the high school it's called does was in the us. direction again a few hundred meters but it was cheery there wasn't a lot of apprehension you know they knew that they were the favorites in all of this we waited for putin eventually. talked to everyone supporters again all the people that made this campaign happen his campaign chief supporters ever and out many came talk to us the journalists and some tough questions right off the bat i've been tempted this as a nation of. russian agent. britain and he was his response.

the first thing that comes to mind is that if it was a military group people would of course have died on the spot. substances we destroyed all our chemical weapons by international inspectors i think anyone with common sense understands that it is normal for russia to do such things before the presidential election and the world cup. cheers you know people couldn't believe first they expected the numbers to go down as the votes were counted but as they went up and up very happy the champagne came out and you know there's a lot of capping shoulders and. i see you smiling and he said the champagne was coming out of course he kept a professional distance from the trial. as you did obviously as he said i was asked many many questions and this is going to be his fourth term when he asked about plans i had had a. lot of questions about you know sort of aspects

of what he was going to do in the future but one of them was whether he would attempt to change the constitution to perhaps run again you could keep the momentum not planning any constitutional changes. do you think you will be in the presidential seat until. twenty thirty or course if you change the constitution it's critical to. this mission and i think what you're saying is i'm not going to stew there until i turn one hundred. the election comes amid increased tensions with the west and there's been some official reaction coming in from europe the german president congratulated i'm glad i'm a putin on me election but there's also been some harsh statements over the script plays in case our correspondent in berlin peter out of there has the details. we have had some reaction from the german government it's been delivered by the new foreign minister heiko mass is he arrived in brussels for a meeting e.u.

foreign ministers this is a give mr volatile the results of the election in russia which was as unsurprising to words as the circumstances of the election of russia will remain a difficult but russia will also be needed for solutions to the international conflicts and so we want to remain in dialogue we've also been seeing more and more reaction in the media here in germany if you have a look at what. to say they said that the the win for vladimir putin not to splendid as it may well have been they go on to say that the majority of media in russia was for the president that the majority of the state operators was for the president and that they would have expected mr putin would have taken a larger proportion of the vote than it seems that he already has here in the capital the pearl in a tight tongue has said well it's been looking towards the relationship between germany and russia and it's not a positive one if you take their they're reading from this they say that the relationship could well is frosty and could continue to be more and more frosty but

if we go back to saturday the main tabloid the most read tabloid newspaper building here in germany they run their congratulations that let me have putin in a barber to wait on saturday before a vote had even been cast they also said that the script pile poisoning the attempted murder. that's former spice and his daughter yulia it actually got people out to the polls to vote the whole diplomatic for already surrounded the case is continuing at the moment in fact we heard some reaction from the british foreign secretary boris johnson the russian deny it grew increasingly absurd this is a classic russian strategy of trying to conceal the needle of truth in a haystack of lauri's sound of the station johnson there the british foreign secretary now he's in brussels to try and show up more and more support for the

british side in this diplomatic spot with russia however he might not get the type of support he would want we heard as well from heiko mass the new german foreign minister as he arrived in there he was asked what he thought on the spice situation and the sort of the poisoning incident and he said that it was a bilateral problem between a bilateral issue between britain and russia so there may no may not be the e.u. white support that mr johnson may be expecting going into that meeting. peter all over in europe they're well over in the u.s. senior politicians they're already blasted but even putting over the election republican senator john mccain a long time fierce critic of the russian president accused him of trying to artificially inflate the voter turnout meanwhile top democratic congressman adam schiff attacked putin for supposedly eliminating opponents and there's also been reaction from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden currently living in exile in russia hindu attention to allege cases of voter fraud meanwhile it's been reported that ninety eight percent

of registered voters are broadcast their ballots in this election some of them outside the consulate in new york to pass the time by singing the russian classic that you should. do you. hear. her join in if you know the. woods the voters keeping up their spirits in the cold by cheerfully singing along while waiting in line in that chilly spring. and then a dentist at a certain chief of russia's independent online slaven newspaper joins us here in the studio welcome to the studio now. what's your opinion on the western coverage of this election well so far i've seen pretty the much reserved coverage they're not particularly happy but they're not either neither are they are particularly hostile to what was.