to to because i think we should those who protect our interests and we are a good partner economically in trade we respect international law and international norms but it would was crazy pristine good here if you primakov readings police and pool away in the issue of india in a disciplined just because i'm used to go she said after world war two we created him pile for norms and this is true by the way this made us read all of us and it was really a win win situation and sticking to the norms and respecting the international law this is a precondition it will be seen now from some parts of the american that this ration their big south keep these international norms are not to speak and this is a pity now there was an interesting exchange last week at the same chris burke economic forum when the french president emmanuel mccraw and i was kind of complaining about the diminished u.s. interest in european security to which president putin responded by saying that

don't worry or russia can provide that security for europe and maybe take that as their joke as a kind of chutzpah but i think mr putin has actually meant it do you think there is still any chance of europe recognizing russia not only as a major security threat by as a major security partner good russia is a major part of for peace and security in the other budget and on the almost the always who i think you're russia if you want to live p.c. in the middle east and you need russia. to speak to a partner in the constructive part of the world pms see russia that way because we have a problem with ukraine specially with these some parts of ukraine the premier case this is this is a burning issue and i think it's full is we souls of these problems gradually and step by step we could really come back to the old ideas of an old europe. yes i

know that you view the vans in ukraine as these turning point in the relationship between russia and. the european union and you referred to it as a major challenge to europe speech and security is order since the helsinki final act was signed in one thousand seventy five and i think we in russia can feel how acutely the europeans might have. fouled being violated by what happened in ukraine but i think you are in europe also need to recognize that russia acted the way that has acted in ukraine because of its own very very deep sense of insecurity europeans may feel very safe under major security umbrella we feel the opposite i wonder how do you think that that security that allows. could be addressed now that it has already allowed to an open conflict. the full loathing some listens.

to one listener. if we really want to leave it to survive it in my to put the word these roles the idea of regime change from outside everybody's responsible for this were the defeat and the russian people. leave the ukraine in the streets to deceive the you. know i'm not asking you you know stripping ukrainians of their sovereign rights we are talking about specifically. the extension of nato military infrastructure towards russian borders because i don't think russians if you're really i mean at least if you talk to mr putin. quite plainly said that's what russell russia was objecting to was not. european and ukrainian integration you know economic cooperation with russia was really troubled by is the prospect of nato and its borders. understand completely disintegrated in russia specially.

when the in nato if you intend to needle russians ideas have to really emerge should two words a bit understanding they kill so much closer cooperation because really where this is in my opinion one of the big mistakes on both sides especially the later side. this is the big disappointment on the other hand i think you should not forget to add to the ukrainian thing the ukrainian problem started with the e.u. association agreement i would. exclude that we underestimated some sensitivities on the russian side but it's not true that also the european way was not seen there is is a problem. and i think this was not this is harry because we are extremely interested those in economic and political operation with russia and i think this is still on the table to this soon as we could see this burning problems especially

in the dumbos then distinctions should be relieved and then to to see the ways will and this will should be accompanied by in the e.u. by and russian us agreement on security matters especially in the arms reduction and then of course are there ways is open for a better understanding of this a from my to pull over can i come back to the idea of security you pointed out in a one of your articles that arms purchases worldwide have increased by almost fifty percent in recent years the united states china russia have been all pouring money into their militaries should europe be catching up here europe was it europe was the only region where the arms expenditures went down during the change the fifteen years i have the impression it would be better not only tools stick to the . person to target the famous military expenditures would be much better to broaden

the issue i don't speak about numbers but to include to see security arrangements as such development. prevention of migrant floor would these things which are quite complicated then quite expensive but aiding to our own security in this brawl to bring it in there in a wider arrangement with our partners who live say ukraine and georgia. to this eltham pardoel for all of the military in the area it would be a quite depressive step forward to increase our seclusion for russia to mention the two percent to be a she suggests to me that they are still think about the security their fear of win them to framework of nato but there is also a discussion in europe about building its own security system and over the last couple of years a lot of conventions have been upturned for example i'm pretty sure that the

europeans couldn't have imagined that the united states would be threatening them in such areas and syria morning this way with tariffs and sanctions as we were as you think about building the european security system shouldn't be planned with the idea of countering all possible security threats and by that i mean do you think and the american threat could ever be. contemplated in europe there's no direct threat to the for instance have in mind i think one with one we go to those. in the middle for me one is very serious a german newspaper thing it was a front for document it said on the older arctic a based on the very objective research done there are disparities to children where the germ in the people we are says are sometimes see this as well as but there are a percent. the study. where he's now the real threat and this is the first question

was is europe in america drifting apart sipping tea person seventy seventy percent greet only nine percent refuels said no. increased tensions between europe and america chancellor you're afraid to die a poll in the german paper and. i don't find any particular surprising i've heard a lot of european suggest the ministration is already active we are undermining european interest by for example walking out of the way which present a security threat by raising the specter of another war plus it comes with the threat of secondary sanctions which of these two do you think is more dangerous or more threat. that we apologize for interrupting our programming televised q. and a with but with the public flooded with putin has just wrapped up this year the

session lasted more than four hours and around two million question questions were submitted and right now the president is taking questions from the press. by really rocky kurdistan is being a sponsor of the unites a. country we are supporting our ties with. and our plans in iraq. and in the car that's called iraq. he's considered to be legitimate and promising. research conflicts we don't want to. stimulate any conflicts in iraq or to get engaged in conflicts solo projects. goal to develop our cooperation with iraq including and with iraqi kurdistan this is a promising projects exciting projects. hope that all of them will be executed. it. was not written. until we got national channels you know what

was your assessment of the fake. murder of craney and journalist and the ukrainians. my russia wants justice innate allegedly i'm not aware of the latest i've got this news from the media just like you any fake murderer is always country productive any fake is counterproductive regardless of. when it's. demonstrated so i'm going global you know what's the response from a journalist. groups everyone condemned this. provocation. i hope that we weren't see anything of the sort in the future but.

we all need to think hard of how we can protect journalists. free journalists. from any pressure. and make sure that. journalists do whatever so what they're supposed to do. they need to provide free information the people to exchange information freely thank you. ok that i'm talking to the press long question and answer session with the public a little. before assets get some of what was said there with as he was following events for us throughout the afternoon i think we can go live to in that. area is. an extensive q. and a session wasn't it today just what the main points were that were discussed well there's there's a huge amount discussed and obviously we will go for four hours and twenty minutes

was it the last the but you know foreign foreign policy foreign affairs that brazil big thing many russians are of course very concerned not only russians with the differences between the east and the west russia and the united states and its allies differences to put it lightly and one of the questions that was asked of life to me and putin was there was some criticism about weapons that he had presented earlier this year super weapons that we're talking here about big of fast the more powerful when they stick missiles and nuclear missiles we're talking about hypersonic missiles the travel of six seven kilometers a second in the atmosphere we're talking about nuclear powered missiles you know a lot to take in and glad we have putin was challenged on that is it really real. there are those who doubt new russian weapons are soon going to be put into service

back in two thousand and four they were doubting the armed guard system but now we see it in syria and that's not everything that we're planning to produce and put into service as i said in my address it's too early to talk about it but we will speak out soon. now vladimir putin stress that this isn't saber rattling this isn't about waving your guns or swords in the air and showing everybody what you've got this is more nuance this is about parity this is about making sure everybody understands that you know you're an equal and putin in that vein was asked the question about another very concerned russian about the chances of world war three breaking out you did. in the among the don't because you know you can recall einstein's words he said i don't know with what weapons world war three will be fought but world war four will be fought with sticks and stone that will be understanding of the fact that world war three maybe the end of modern civilization

and it's a must to tear us from extreme actions on the international scene. the message was simple the policy of mad mutually assured destruction has kept the world safe since since whedon's of mass destruction were invented everybody knows that you know if you attack someone who is strong you will suffer as well and nobody because of that nobody has done anything crazy so let me putin says it's important that there are multiple countries in the world with with a very strong military so that other countries again don't go don't go crazy but there was there was more to it let me a putin talked about the sanctions restrictions that are abundant in the world today said that. there won't be peace we won't all get along and be friends and till people learn to treat each other nations learn to treat each other as equals

until they learn to compromise and he brought up european he said the winds are changing and there is now open talk of lifting sanctions sanctions against russia vladimir putin stressed again that sanctions never did any good to anyone and he pointed at what is currently happening in the trade war between europe and the united states whereby washington slapped the european union with a bunch of tariffs and that got the europeans very upset but let me a putin said that those aren't really tariffs those are the equivalent of sanctions . and you know as minister for one of the french governments ministers recently said that the us shouldn't be allowed to become the economic policeman of the world and he spoke about it publicly the former german minister of finance publicly said that germany hasn't been a fully sovereign state since one thousand nine hundred five but everybody can see what's going on but probably our partners thought it would never affect them that

kind of politics is counterproductive the politics of limitations and sanctions here. to sum up the foreign policy in foreign affairs part of what led to me a putin said russia won't yield russia won't break under pressure and the sanctions and the union. the east and the west will become friends again is when guth the treat each other with respect and learn to compromise but of course there is plenty plenty of more than most of the q. and a session was about domestic affairs about things that are close the russian hearts such as taxes health care education jobs salaries corruption corruption is always a big what to me putin also talked about the upcoming world cup saying that about to kick off in seven days and russia saying that you know the russian team's performance lately hasn't been stellar but that. just what it is that they can

do this time around. fingers crossed ok thanks maria there was a force. of a stay with the world cup because this is just around the corner and football fans are already guessing they think might actually get past the group stage as is r.t. host and star. and here are some of his picks. i would say to work its way into the wind or go. there experience to play is that of the right thing to do. to win the group be. a local show relate to the young totally portugues books who are going to finish second in the world and for the mansion ninety manages predictions do go to our web sites at r.t. dot com and if you think you might actually be able to better what he's saying there you can challenge him and you can do that by having to facebook or twitter and use the hash tag match marina meanwhile here's what happened behind the scenes

when jay's i was making those predictions. so. you. feel. like yourself. i. took your.

pick but. you are going. to feel better because if you. go to the. it was the. terrorists. will be with us for our world cup coverage starting in seven days time now the u.s. congress is set to decide whether to widen the war powers of donald trump the new bill would let the president decide who and where to fight with critics warning that capitol hill is formally giving away its controls the bill though met face

resistance on wednesday. we've gone through seventeen years of war. you would drop this proposal will have one hundred seventy more a loaded gun in a desk drawer of the president ready for him to take it out and shoot it whatever he wants it will put war making on autopilot do i want my sixteen year old going to war against al shabaab in somalia my boys have never lived in a country that has not been poor both of them my son probably can't find. probably very few people even in this room know who all shabaab it became for the browser's with no limits on war let it be known that there were least some of us who were warned. the new bill seeks to replace the two thousand and one more authorization act among other things to it grants the president the right to include new groups on the terrorist list without informing the public some expressed surprise that a lawmaker behind the bill is really a claim to congress had been granting

a license to wage war for too long u.s. media scoff the legislators don't even know what is in their own bill and despite the bill extending the president's war powers here's what the bill's authors think about donald trump. the president has great difficulty with three. men he's proven himself. unable to rise to the occasion you know who i don't trust . i wonder. from. donald trump doubted lee they like the idea of the president being some sort of a king who go to war when he wishes what a disconnect here you have these two and many others in washington are calling trump and a mentally unstable in all sorts of even worse things and then you want to give him the authority to go to war when he wants it's crazy war is what washington is made of war is washington's number one export card was thrown up a darned thing you know what we give it all over we're just going to. sit in front

of a camera collect our paychecks and do nothing. to the u.k. u.k. now where members of the house of lords there have been given a slap on the wrist say with their behavior a memo has reportedly been sent out complaining about shouting odal conversations and also falling asleep while in the chamber. explains why parliamentary snooze is such a sensitive issue. most members of the house of lords which is the chamber of the british parliament have been around the block for quite some time the average age in the lords chamber is sixty nine and from the breadth of their experience the last job is to scrutinise british law and that can be pretty tiring so you march third that even the most hardworking and conscientious lords and politicians can get a little sleep paid. in full. well

rumor has it that the lords have now received a quiet telling off for falling asleep in the chamber according to the times newspaper a conservative peers have received an email telling them that their behavior and that isn't up to scratch and it said that the other political parties are sending a similar reprimand to their lords but according to your established parliamentary convention perry is all allowed to quote rest their eyes so i mom with photos of sleeping lords all sleepy looking lords and i want london as to help me determine which of these are just resting their eyes on which all most definitely

in the land of knowledge the definition so he might be resting his eyes they've just been told off the sleeping too much and the guy's lost control of his neck so he's definitely sleeping but i think he'd be asleep and he might be resting but i don't know all right i was just looking down his and i was just ok so you're not guilty not guilty what about what about these to. the. rest of his eyes do you think they should. allowed to have a little camp in the chamber that's lots of. scrutinising i would think this place i would be allowed to have and that if i went to work say washington i'd love to be paid for having a campaign in my office think they should be allowed to have a little kip in the chamber over there well as far as i'm concerned they're old gentlemen and deserve a little bit of a. long day just listening to other people all day long but none of them have. to be fair britain is far from the only country whose parliamentarians have nodded

off from time to time although one exception at the moment could be france where lawmakers there are complaining that the new president's drive for reform is giving them a chance to rest. in recent weeks we've sat for eighty hours per week we've sat for the last seventeen days consecutively this is not how our parliament normally functions it is not allowing us to really carry out legislative work to make good law. we are exasperated and for some of us exhausted this isn't the normal life of a parliamentarian staying by your day we're not trying to tug on the heartstrings this is not a good way of legislating. during his first year in office and i know macron has introduced new legislation in everything from education to railways some of the national assembly sessions have lasted far longer than usual to a norm a case a saying that it's not a good way of going forward. you actually are international we're going to take

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from the world cup two world war three foreign policy shows the spotlight the domestic issues during play to maintain nine hundred sixteen q. and a session with the public. u.s. congress debates and he was. introduced by some of donald trump's critics the little the would significantly expand the president's power military operations. we've gone through seventeen. a war. of this proposal will have one hundred seventy more a loaded gun in a desk drawer of the president ready for him to take it out and shoot it whatever it wants wake up call brings up a parliament the house of lords is the members forming asleep during sessions we get reaction on the streets of london.