with donald trump i mean he's not this meant suring candidate and i thought there was a surprisingly stupid story but it got a lot of traction in america which worries me and shows you how frankly stupid the american 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 does it 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 a bureaucracy that has been resistant to change certainly the policies towards russia have for the most part united states been highly negative since one thousand nine hundred seventy since the revolution when mr wilson president wilson set american troops to siberia to join the british expeditionary force.

when he was fourth and most probably last term is russia's president vladimir putin has six more years to fashion his legacy on his food and changed russia where we continue to get. the most expensive fish in the world each one is 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 women and so for 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 geared for long term survival and that's why we have the catastrophes. when you don't. see the. what did they call it to do. what they did not through only ten steps to. make to. let alone they. said. time into no germans did that to. alex you speak french. you. see them send them all to new. busy the council itself to.

follow them. right. welcome back to sophie and co now the other day i sat down with the legendary

filmmaker all burstow in a moscow bookstore and asked him whether a second cold war was just a figure of speech or as terrible war 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 that 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 and haran carry over in fact and i'm

sure that's in the minds of those congressmen when they vote against it 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 even tell you on a way in the eighty's in the ninety's how come it came back so strongly i mean what is it 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 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 so 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 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. orci has covered what about yemen aren't just. reported to be on the list i want to talk more about this and the context in which to spook came out fills in a weird way that when the actual cold wars in place it was just clean cut you know you have to sidestep where against each other now for me it's so much more scarier because the world is paul or and there's so much house around and everyone's trying to pull it all on themselves. and all those 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. 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's eyes 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 are giving us 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 in the press made. big big number 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 to ask 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 are at the untold history of the united states the one that

you mention has 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 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 parents 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 the at 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 because america may hand up in relatively has to go at least 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 there were 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 it's 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 see in the 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 to happen because the russian people support him i don't see any way out right now. no third parties to exist they come into being there's de gaulle's that come up right 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 and 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 train 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 you know your 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 an average of peace. oliver stone thank you very much for this meeting and if you like with everything.

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deal for you ground. i'm doing this because i want the future world to future generations to have out and enjoy the ocean we have. to keep american mets one is the melting pot and the second is the radio alagiri myth of the bootstrapping of anyone can see that america 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 conflict. for a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers available to us but there was one more question and by the way who's going to be

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split into which we take different names how do you view that. complex web of which is passion. with him approaching storm story election securing use of force in the kremlin in a landslide victory. international reaction to putin's win ranges from congratulations from wild leaders including china's seated pain to criticism and to insult. me tell him so i made a song and dance of the election boy literally comes additional costume to vote as dressed as a jewel to leave the night's make

a to enjoy themselves and get. a. lawyer from central moscow high this is to international continue special coverage of the presidential election great vantage point here to bring you all the places these have been oh isn't it pierre and we see it yes we will be bringing you all the latest reaction from this very special stadium right here in most of the economy right but you have to send me the apology no i don't see the current president vladimir putin is going by huge margins bending over seventy six percent of the vote it means he will stay in the country's top job now for another six she is someone fifty six million people cost them about that pull him leaving his

rivals fall behind this will be his full presidential tab. so to manage to secure a larger share of the vote in any previous election he stood here we can see how you fit in previous presidential face over fifty percent every time but this was the best yeah yeah this election wasn't just about. that there will then you can see from my paper that.

on sunday our correspondents were the candidate's headquarters in most good calmest funded mind county have covered the election from vladimir putin's h.q. he said his experience with our colleagues not only in a day or two day colin bright. cheery there wasn't a lot of apprehension the you know the news that they were the favorites in all of

this we waited for blood to meet putin eventually he showed up he talked to everyone and then one of his supporters again all the people it made as campaign happen it's got they chief support as ever and out and then he came to me to talk to us the journalists and some tough questions and right off the bat about working . tempted the sasa nation of the russian agent in britain and here was his response. the first thing that comes to mind is that if it was military grade poison the people would of course have died on the spot russia has no such substances we destroyed all our chemical weapons as monitored by international inspectors i think anyone with common sense understands that it is nonsense for russia to do such things before the presidential election and the football world cup we see there were 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 clapping shoulders and high fives trying to see you smiling and he said the champagne was coming out of course he kept a professional distance in the. sense you did obviously as you said many many questions and this is going to be his fourth term when he asked about plans ahead of ahead of the beyond. those a whole lot of questions about you know all sorts 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 what again. at the moment i'm not planning any constitutional changes because i was more than this you do think you will be in the presidential seat until twenty thirty or course if you change the constitution because. i think what you see is laughable i'm not going to stay there so i turned

one hundred. back to the present it was another day back to business but it. held a meeting with the other presidential candidates he wanted to discuss their proposals their campaign promises and also share with them his plans for the next six years now who to say they need to try to ensure dialogue with his foreign partners noting that but it takes two. to tell you as he put it. you would you know could you miss when you we're going to pay special attention to russia's defense but let me out nobody here is trying to stop him. we want to engage in dialogue. that doesn't depend just on us it's like both sides have to be interested in each other otherwise it isn't going to work out yesterday was also marked by a huge rally just around the corner from here with people celebrating the four year anniversary of crimea is if we can if occasion it with russia. it was that last

night and joined us to tell us about the event. i mean was extremely excited as you mentioned it was a concert commemorating the four year anniversary of the reunification of crimea with russia it was on march eighteenth that the treaty was signed bringing it back under the umbrella of the russian federation and famous face after famous face came on stage at a lot of songs and people were enjoying it and staying warm i guess by dancing and singing that's what was really keeping everybody's energy up and of course the tea was being sold out little cards not helped us i'm sure as well me personally i was freezing cold but nobody really seemed to mind that look at look great. party animal big highlight of course was taken to the stage they supposed to parents after it became very more apparent that he was going to win by a landslide victory and that really got the crowd going didn't it yeah i mean we were told earlier in the day from his press secretary that he was expected to come but nobody was really sure whether or not he would be able to make an appearance

but he did and he definitely got the biggest share of the night just before he came on they were already announcing that he had to over seventy percent of the votes and that also got a huge reaction from the crowd but he came out and then to everyone for coming out despite the cold as the while and just gave him a message of unifying russia coming together even with those who voted for other candidates in the election and at the end he started chanting russia which he was then. joined by the whole crowd in that those are really beautiful and more moment . elections come the meeting crease tensions with the west and there's been some official reaction coming from europe but you know president congratulated landed in on his reaction but there have been some strongly worded statements over the script how poisoning case thanks leader and manama cran also called to wish putin thanks asked him to shed light on what happened in salisbury our correspondent in berlin piece are there and. we have heard 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 to say give mr vireo the results of the election in russia which was as unsurprising it was as the circumstances of the election 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 when for vladimir putin not a 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 this 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 ran their congratulations that let me have putin in a barbecue way on saturday before a vote had even been. cast they also said that the skinny pile poisoning the attempted murder of that spare former spice and his daughter a year that actually got people out to the polls to vote really it's a negative where you would expect it to be negative the coverage of lot of media putin's reelection. over the u.s. so your politicians already criticize putin over the election republican senator john mccain a longtime critic of the russian president accused him of trying to artificially inflate voter turnout there was imported from the democratic congressman adam schiff voted for supposedly ill.