more than one third of gun territory to be frank they organize elections but the results they count results could take their months to come the results so it's not normal they conduct negotiations with the taliban probably it's inevitable. understand what is the issue they're discussing at these negotiations and what will be the result they reserve real force which controls the majority of the territory and we should count with them. but in that case this has to be done. openly and one has to understand what is at stake what the substance of the negotiations is and i believe that is was the foundation of our foreign ministry's position during the discussion within the un where not against a settlement that we believe that a settlement can only be achieved. through an agreement between the parties to the

political process in afghanistan itself but for that and what we need to do as. to reinforce our military base and. that the people of afghanistan will manage to come to an agreement within itself all the political forces all the ethnic groups again to arrive at a consensus and as far as we can we're going to facilitate this person as you can and he will then particular through developing i would take anomic interaction with afghanistan through participating in different and international projects such as to happy for instance. mr president you can see. for four years you have not been given the floor in the well what can i see mr pesca to blame for that sanjay could you please. give your floor to the young lady for four years she has not been given the floor. thank you very much

that it's not the fifth year in a row that i'm not given the floor when on for a agents was adopted there was a great deal of noise. rights violations a colleague of mine i'm not going to name him. i ask. you what the situation with the human rights what human what. that is what. we mostly have this law regarding the foreign agents legal entities but maybe i was detained and the u.s. as a physical person and individual. and i have another question because i represent they try to get out the channel i want you to watch if you're on the situation and they were. given the schismatic actions taken by the constant ennoble patriot

and they keep if we all understand right now that they keep in that regard as the u.s. and we can see that geopolitics is looming large on religion as that so well as for the first question. we followed the international experience when we adopted this law on foreign agents. this law is not about troy bishan. the purpose of this is as follows if an organization gets funding for public political action from abroad it has to register as. that is it boils down to and in particular in the u.s. such kind of activities are prohibited and that was an example for you. but you know it's been a rest for violating this law and. bloomsday had for. twelve years in prison

whereas in our case this is not what we need and i do not see any problems in the enforcement of this legislation i know human rights activist on a regular basis and sometimes they point out some issues related to. the difficulties charities for instance run. because of this law we have to follow the realities to see what is happening and we have to make amendments if. it is necessary we should not just. prevent so you know it was the people with integrity who want to do good from doing this but. political activity should not be. banned per se it should be blatant lies to actually be registered and the second part of your question the world off the dog see what's happening and the world offer dixie it is inconceivable because it is direct interference of

the government was in the affairs of the church this is never happened since the soviet times and yet we are witnessing exactly that. they created the saved up united schismatic. the. hands of the best and. well they didn't like it but it was on the mosque now it's under istanbul. and i like to point out that the russian orthodox church. if the patriarch ate of a russian orthodox church the queen an orthodox church of the moscow patriarchate was so entirely independent because not everyone knows that but it was almost entirely independent they haven't had the right to. do with him.

their own hierarchs their own credits the only thing tying them together with moscow was the spiritual bond they mentioned one another during this man's on the liturgy and right now we see that the link with constantine opera is far stronger than she but she well maybe that is what but solemn you know he wants to do it to get money because he wants to get this territory and get money from these parishes and they'd be doing that at the hearing from washington and it is inconceivable that. someone from us calls the crane and gives advice on this is yet another testimony to the fact that this is being done in the run up to the election campaign the purpose of all of this is to they create in people and the russian people even further the foundation for these actions as purely political this is

not to be religious freedoms no it is an infraction of religious freedoms and what i'm concerned about is the registry bishan of property that is going to follow and that is already happening right now. and it can take on a very very difficult nature if not bloody god forbid it comes to bloodshed i would pay to see that i see that people want to care for their interests and they found they have nothing to protect themselves with. elderly or women and they cannot protect themselves and there is this intimidation there this menace of their registration of property it's been two hours now and make us think of and recall a sneak of common sense newspaper. the french are protesting against the rise of the. petrol. tax and. degenerated into into an all out

protest president micron had to introduce an emergency stage an economic emergency economic state what is your assessment of what is happening in france not planning to raise the gasoline prices in russia because that has been the talk recently and how strong is the potential of russia russian citizens and that regard and what do you think has to prevail in this particular situation the obligation to the rights of the. demonstrate when you demonstrate. to ensure. the least two things you mentioned should be balanced and there is no contradiction between them on the one hand you've got to observe the rides of the citizens to participate in public events and manifestations but they have to stay within the limits of the law and i think that steps beyond that

as. any admissible system and the appropriate response from the government has to follow now more than on to what has happened in france and. how we. wish to the developments let me say the following i believe that the developments in france are certainly linked to the rise and the gasoline and diesel prices but mostly the link is that you have a trigger it has been a trigger that as released this entered nation and outrage of an overwhelming part of the popular big part of the population most of them. usually present no strange strange around seventy percent as far as i understand according to the latest to seek support. but it would be incorrect for me to give an assessment to

what the french government is doing what is the difference between our situation and the french situation the french government did it on purpose i wanted to rise to to raise the price of. gasoline and petrol. products it was their policy what they wanted to do is to reduce tribute to the resources of the citizens they wanted to channel some of these resources into addressing the issues they have in economic policies they wanted to use the money that they would have got from this rise and to channel it into developing renewable sent alternative energy sources such as solar or wind power and they did that deliberately and people had an issue with that because they do not like such a change in the energy policy at their expense what are we seeing and russia we had

a pick up in the gasoline prices big cause the oil prices in the world markets had been growing but the government wasted no time and taken the measures to prevent the crew. of the prices two words. increase and we managed to secure an agreement with the major oil. refining companies. that is the difference in france the government wanted to rise these prices and. we had to fight this rise which was happening of it. who of course. because this is a trend we seeing and we have secure this agreement which is going to be in place until march next year. an adjustment can be made due to the rise in

stashing from january first but this adjustment is going to be very slight within one one point five percent name more than that and subsequently the government in russia will have to follow closely what is happening in the russian market in the world markets the world markets and if we get back to that i'll go into more detail if you want but i would only hold even though this is a manual management making isn't. positive results and i do hope that it is going to be functioning that the government is going to be able to prevent any hikes of prices on oil products next year. come down please. i can't hear you or your. colleagues the parrot is potential of russians are i responded to i said but the people have the right to express their point of view

and to stand for it publicly on meetings on rallies but within the framework of law i saw grass on television. the television. well xander to cry resounds key t.v. company. we see digital television are driving very fast and we will see new types of televisions and what is your assessment of the readiness of regions to transition to digital television and. how much we're going to see situation when some small settlements again should be left behind how can we secure the interests of those. find it's hard even in the ok we're just cross all it's all of that media conference. for now it's the fourteenth annual q.

and a session with journalists from across russia and indeed around the world and well a lot of interesting topics been spoken about our correspondent. is standing by he's been watching like the rest of us for the past what just over two hours now and still going strong right what's your takeaway point so far. well there's plenty of interesting themes covered finance economy social issues social problems protests there was also conflict there's also questions about war and a question about ukraine as has become tradition in the last few years among the one thousand seven hundred journalists there we've got ukrainian journalists and some of them very nationalist minded very anti putin with a colorful questions to boot. to.

try to continue. to look at the bottom of us people are starving there and they've turned into slaves of russia frankly speaking as a way to be sure where you've been i mean because of the puzzles to. just tell me this who set the blockade between donbass and the rest of ukraine was it russia know it was done by ukrainian authorities they haven't forced a full economic blockade of the territory they consider their own they shoot at those people whom they consider their own citizens almost every day civilians die over we provide humanitarian support to those living only not to let those people starve to death. sanctions too of course were brought up as they are these last few years with a question of like them a putin about them and he had putin said that you know russia has always always been under sanctions or variants of them whenever you start to get too powerful

somebody tries to contain it constrain it and my colleague who is there right now he asked the question about the double standard between the murder of a subject by apparently saudi arabia and the script power incident where russia is accused of poisoning a former spy. current showed you was assassinated everyone knows that there's evidence screw powell is alive however there are sanctions against russia and complete silence in the case of saudi arabia this politicised russophobia pro choice is just another reason to attack russia if it was not scriptural very would have thought of something else this is obvious to me and the aim is one to hold russia's growth at any cost.

that you haven't had a meeting he doesn't know whether you had a meeting with theories or may have you met with her. attitude about wrecks it. initiative towards the breakfast initiative with respect to meetings at such a battle says g. twenty rob very many. pull aside just meetings on the sidelines just we speak on the go would we greet each other and we speak to each other and probably this was the form what we used to with the british prime minister we greeted each other and said a quick word with one another with respect to russia u.k. relationship it's gridlock. believe and it is in the interests of both our countries to with to withdraw our ties from this gridlock. with respect to brags that the impact of loss i think is going to be minimal but anyway in the middle it is going to. have it. have an effect on the global and

european economy directly it will definitely have an impact on us are we interested in restoring a full fledged corporation and form a relationship with yes we are and i think britain also is specially the business community of the u.k. . there are a lot of them when you british flagship companies around here like b.p. you know michigan is one of the major stakeholders of ross nafta leading. the russian oil and gas company and that british company operates on russian market actively and wants to stay here it's not only them who want to stay now because of that because of bracks it again if it is carried through and by the by no i understand the position of the prime minister it's up to them to decide it's their

internal domestic affair. and i hope they wouldn't blame us but the referendum is anyway pasta and she's to deliver upon the will of the people that was expressed at the referendum like otherwise would be democracy to have another iran and one more rerun. anyway. let's wait and see how the you will hear. critics respond. if they have one more friend or a rerun of. what would be direct democracy would be a proper a from them it's their domestic business anyway but what they want. it is markets and partnership partnerships and we didn't discuss that with the prime minister but we discussed. that with our colleagues from the british business community that are quite numerous if you look at the foreign direct investments the

bulk of the f d r e's. thing this year has flowed from the u.k. to the tune of twenty two billion dollars. it's second by germany public and singapore is number three if it's the largest investor probably partly to his repatriation of ah of all capital but anyway the interest is huge like an agriculture the potential is huge. as well as a lingus tree. and energy sector. and i. there are many other areas i hope that the common sense prevails are i saw. skis i saw a sign with the writing skis where the skis are the skis. joining me back on the program one of the

big topics of the year bragg said on russia's relationship with britain been spoken a fight there by vladimir putin. well blood to me putin was asked whether he had met the resume and about how breaks it will affect russia vladimir putin said that yes he said hello to each other at the g twenty summit in scene but with regards to relations between the two countries britain is traditionally one of russia's fiercest critics in the european union in in europe itself and relations are at a dead then and getting worse he says russia is interested in improving with relations with the united kingdom he says that there are economic ties big british companies operating in russia british petroleum b.p. for example but relations for now a dead then presumably not

a lot of desire to improve relations on the other side is for brics itself and how it will affect russia well not so much believes vladimir putin but it will have a knock on effect so it will affect other countries in the european union it will face. affect other countries in asia in the americas and eventually the waves of consequences will reach russia and that good for anyone but he says brakes it is a british affair and that it is up to the british and to raise a major to solve it. that was one of the main topics be in the same. there are fourteen q. and a with hootin with their russian foreign journalists thank you very much for that just some background about what we're seeing here with vladimir putin it's is what two hours let me see let me work it i two hours ten minutes so far

let's take a listen to this latest question you know the caucasus region which has always been the case and i hope it will be the case in the future we should face the realities of today's world. a look at our needs and capabilities and. i mean prime minister will have a chance to discuss it during his visit next week week and a question about gus problem why are you trying to frighten us. four to seven news i'll tell you why i guess from his right out of gas but first of all some reference information not string one passes through the little drug region stream to is now being delayed. and you have inaugurated to talk ok i want to get some analysis now is stephen walthers an independent british m a p and he has been standing by very patiently through right the hour listening to question after

question stephen i'm sure you'll agree some interesting answers being spoken about that but just to get your take on some of the main global issues being touched upon putin said that the u.k. relationship was in a steel gridlocked i believe was a very precise language he used but it can be and should be fixed how do you believe that relationship can be improved the. most first of all is absolutely correct there is a group do know. in the united kingdom and. those governments are military journalism and it spreads over to even social and t.v. where you often see the baddies in movies being russian for example and that is not sustainable in the long term you cannot allow ourselves to have people from different countries be so negative towards each other that you moves into the world

of business moves into the world of diplomacy so i think that needs to be a reset of the relationship between two countries but it does require a strong. many of you will try on both russia and the union ninety days and i would hope that the sensible heads it in the diplomatic services could arrange something warm of conference or maybe intergovernmental meeting that kind of solve some of the big global concerns that britain has towards russia you mention three ball you mentioned the ukraine and the relationship to russia there and i think that should be the first step is to try to rebalance the relationship to move forward steve that would have been millions of russians now watching this and throughout the year they've been hearing this term bragg's it breaks it this break said that but not quite sure what it actually means for them

putin said it will have a minimum effort effect excuse me on russia but of course before that there was more trade before the sanctions came in between the e.u. and britain how do you think bragg said as it stands now i know that we're not quite sure where it leads and twenty nineteen but you think it could affect a country like russia. well i think a lot of. economically there will be very little impact as a consequence of brics it initially between the united kingdom and russia and that's because of the negative relationships the fact that there are sanctions in place puts restrictions on british companies from being able to invest in armor. but we have huge costs for those russians who want to come and visit the united kingdom as tourists or indeed want to invest in the u.k.

so i think brics it economically will have an impact but i think where it might have an important factor in the future is that once united kingdom becomes a sovereign nation again it can resume its place on the world trade organization. and look at other countries across the globe it might give you a new government but it might give future politicians the opportunity to say well perhaps this respect that is required to be russia and the united kingdom should be started now and i hope that openness to the world would allow them to do just a reminder we're speaking to independent british m.e.p. stephen walt stephen some of the other big global issues that's been touched upon one of them was afghanistan vladimir putin said that peace talks with taliban militants in that country are imminent if you think that's a good move getting them around the table and hearing what they have to say before moving ahead what your thoughts oh absolutely i think the fact that afghanistan has

been an unstable part of the region for so long it's obviously been so unstable that countries of the invaded it to try and stand that's how about the isis threat so now we're in a position where the nations of the world should be actually trying to stabilize the country ensure that those people can live their lives properly and move on into a period of growth security and prosperity and if that means sitting down with the taliban and finding out what their their issues are how they can be rules into the international framework then i think that this is a tremendously good thing it should open up the economy of afghanistan it should help the people that live that would ultimately if they can get a deal by listening to these people maybe we will finally get peace and there could be the withdrawal of foreign forces from this one of the big headlines of this week donald trump saying that america had defeated isel in syria

when we put that into a contract stating in fact let me just go to one of the questions here with a lot of your putting this speaking we will return to please stand by because. if he heads these private military company. what do you thing by and large what do make of the extremities by private military companies do you decline it is true or probably you should be proud of them because they operate in syria not using central africa and other countries in the shops a quick question of a quick question. you know that arise champaign lived. most of which turn seven to seven years of age has now been arrested. to serve fifteen days in custody for a posting face on facebook let's start with wagner and with the cooks all my cooks are employees of the federal god service they are military people i don't have any

other cooks i want that to be clear. so that we don't come back on that return to that any. way well if you want to peg labels it's up to these people but you know the reason the notion of sick here because of the. public catering secure catering and the federal guard service is in charge now with respect to the modern military companies everybody should stay within the bounds of law. we can ban any kind of private military contractors but if we do that. they're going to petition you to pretty tag to this labor market because around one million people work on that market. and if they if this.