employees of the federal god. they are military people i don't have any other cooks i wanted to be clear. that we don't come back on that return to that i mean. well if you want to peg labels it's up to these people but you know the reason the . notion of secure 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 print tag to this labor market because around one million people work on that market. and it is if this wagner's company

is actually violating something then they should be punished accordingly by the relevant bodies and as to their presence somewhere abroad. if they are not violating the russian law. then they can promote their business interests anywhere in the world and now as for the tragedy that you've mentioned this is indeed a tragedy people have died they have families they have relatives. unfortunately there are a lot of tragedies related to journalists and we should not forget about them especially the journalist who died in the east and south of ukraine when they were shot people should or there was an attempt made in their life and they were basically just shot during military actions we should not forget about those journalists as well. and your call. excess far as i know came to africa without

notifying the local authorities they came there not as journalists but as tourists . them. and according to the latest data. some local groups attacked them. as far as i know there is an investigation going there and we do not have any outcomes yet but we do hope that they will get something in the end and through diplomatic channels we are keeping the situation under our control and hope that some day we will find out what actually happened there. but i would like to bring my condolences to you and to the members of your office and to their relatives and to close ones of those people who died there. with us for years ago had let us talk. you were the loudest.

voice mr president thank you very much for giving me an opportunity to ask a question from the bottom of my heart i would like to express my gratitude for your decision that the day of us talk is kept off their far east federal region and thank you very much for that. let's jump out of that now and return to our very patient stephen walt british p. steven just before we went to that last question i was asking you about the big headline of this week donald trump saying that america had won the war against islamic state in syria no the troops two thousand troops would leave the country now if we go back to that same promise was made about u.s. troops in afghanistan. that hasn't happened yet and we're going back quite some time do you see a parlay all all here. do you think it will happen sooner in syria. i'm not sure

that we can draw the same conclusion between afghanistan and syria i do feel that there is a huge amount of pressure from the support. of donald trump but he completes the campaign promise to remove trow troops from syria i think he's already going to huge amount of pressure within the united states to maintain troop levels in there and so i think it will be difficult for him over the next few months but he's been relatively determined over his economic program he's been relatively determined in the way that he removed themselves from international organizations so i suspect that once you've stated this particular issue that he will probably carry through and i think that it's eventually one of the back to decisions he will make syria was a war made by those who wanted to tear the country apart i don't think we should have been supporting the internal. internal civil war that was the buy side of one

another and if he does do it my personal view has always been that this would be a good thing but i have to keep our eyes open he hasn't turned back on many things and yet i still see the huge amount of pressure in america could potentially do this but at the moment i think your parents from. the russian president also spoke up by the sanctions imposed on russia over the script case in britain and they allege poisoning of him and his daughter. and then to talk about an action toward saudi arabia whereas there had been a lot of effect put on russia after that allegation why do you think there is a kind of the spa raging here i am of course talking about the murder of the saudi journalist in the turkish consulate in bowl is it the president didn't hold back here is it as he said to hit russia's growth is that is that something that you would concur with or are now. yes i think

a country like the united kingdom i mean has international alignment with the united states of the european union and has had a long time with the middle east and in particular saudi arabia finds it incredibly difficult to not be hypocritical in its own position when a situation like this arises the united kingdom is very dependent on the oil and gas reserves that are coming from the middle east of the oil from saudi arabia is particularly dependent on it. to that country and therefore it is unlikely to act in the same way that it would do with russia as we mentioned earlier there isn't as much trade between the united kingdom and russia as the very imposing sanctions on russia for itself isn't going to be financially. painful for the united kingdom but imposing sanctions on saudi arabia could cause huge amounts of cost and that's why they don't do it that's why there is your policy often in the

international reader over decisions like this one of another big issue between the u.s. and russia even for the past number of weeks is the intermediate range nuclear forces trading nuclear pact that was put together sometime ago president trump threatened to polo it all of that it looks as if the u.s. where russia has said that it's going to threaten world like it's a huge issue at this i'm not sure if you've been following it but. your thoughts on where that could lead if you have these two giant superpowers really at odds over an issue such as vital as this. but again this is something that donald trump has been doing in his unilateralist in the new way that he has pulled out of the treaties on climate change i would say that the united the united states of america should pull out of the will cools and surrounded so this is just not.

pulling out of international arrangements agreements and organizations but on this issue i think really the united states a muse not necessarily russia but china when you can because china is outside of this particular international agreement there is concern in the united states that china is building up nuclear weaponry and powers and therefore unless it can bring china to the table and make sure that all the three countries russia the united states and china have an agreement it will punish the russia but i think not in a putin is correct as there are many across the globe who see this as a detrimental. that your mental withdrawal could cool concerns it could cause a race in the arms race not necessarily a nuclear weapons but what about modern technology to deal with the threat that now the united states has outside of this group you have a language by president putin very direct if god forbid something like this were to

happen it would lead to the end of all civilization and maybe also the planet steve i know we're going from a question a question you're very good with your time here but one of the things i know that you've been following. the what's a question but the recent russia ukraine naval conference confrontation and whether it was a successful provocation by ukraine where has this left russia you know in terms of relations with the international community and yet it happened not so long ago this is one of the back to this q. and a today as the president speaks to media from russia and across the world your thoughts on how that has unfolded. i think this is just another example of external pressure that's been pushed upon russia from in this case the ukraine undertaken this unless it gain support from its backers because the new york and union from the united states and other countries we've seen this in the way that. the u.k.

complains about flight paths of the military jets from russia the up in denmark of sweden where they suggested that the russian submarines and often in the european parliament i hear that from members of the european parliament in different countries saying that russia is bordering their nations with military piles of soldiers and military hardware there is this constant pressure that suggests that russia wants to anecdotes countries in the european union that they want to have influence in the political statements of of countries and their elections they've said that about that it was won because of russian influence which i find this incredibly negative exceedingly sense that we have a world that seems to be identifying with one country and russia which is looking after its own people in its own interests of the i wish that some more of i own my own country would do the same for the united kingdom but i wouldn't be surprised if

this type of action continues which is why i've always felt that was a need to call for some form of international meeting between russia and the united kingdom are other countries to try and put on the table their concerns a move to a much more improved relationship between countries in the future just finally stephen a lot of this here in a today has being has been about finances the russian economy a lot of people want to get know what it means for them but the overall picture do you think it is possible to achieve president putin's goal for russia to enter the the cold high quality economies link. before the interview i was undertaking research on the world bank's reports on russia the o.e.c.d. reports on russia the world bank states that russia should achieved its hardening of policy by twenty thirty it's going to be in a very good position in that it has low debt with the. international world has high

natural reserves money to increase growth between one point three and one point eight percent with doubling but it went to thirty so those are some very strong positives the for the russian economy there are negatives the increase in the sea your population issues it's getting older and not placing of young people and also international trade in the grocery store very dependent on its own internal market and not exporting enough outside of of natural resources so the determination of nations. will create problems but i think you could achieve this if you continue on this track i mean build your own we really appreciate all your time this our brilliant stuff thanks for coming independent british stephen wealth we return to our q. and a present britain is just feeling nother question let's listen in for their

detention system for the prison system so what is going to be done about that who is going to be responsible and when is it going to happen so that russian presence would not be every sort to some of us and for others who would be middle aged torture chamber because what is going on in the system now that's too much even for our country. that situation in detention centers and in prison should be kept under the control of the prosecutor's office. you. for and of courts what we see these days this is absolutely unacceptable any violations of the law any tortures. constitute a crime and to those violations those crimes should be punished. and this is the case so when including with the help of the media this facts come to our attention. but to say that we need to restructure the system altogether is

wrong we need to advance this system and we need to advance level off civil control over those systems. at the same time of that to remind you that they we have the relevant commissions in place. and they will receive support from the state and from the president and i hope that they would play a positive role in resolving this issues which are indeed present in the system and the second question is from is it a dog true. i mean it was written for her. true. at this press conference when you opened it you talked about the micro economic. outcomes of this year and we are living much better these days and to the present and should be envious and jealous. actually those people who live in paris some of

ng on to suburbs for a number of reasons so this is dissatisfaction was caused by the rise in gasoline prices and many presents move to the suburbs because such a rise in prices was a hard blow on the family budget. but that's another issue let's talk about her or . our situation well i am questioning the reliability of statistics and information which is the used when. the. level of life is measured in russia how russians feel no we believe the information from our government the income is growing zero four percent prices are going down. to our senior correspondent. who has been following a smart thing q. and a session i was. talking to

a guest for the past half hour or so murat did we miss anything of substance a lot of different questions there being feel that i know. well i must say i've been listening to these for a number of years the one this year is covering a lot a lot of very topics we've had less serious questions such as about putin getting married but there were plenty of very serious issues and domestic problems on foreign policy we've had breck's it mentioned we've had the protests in france the situation in syria largely a putin was asked about. trump's declaration that he's pulling american troops out of syria and the russian president was skeptical. yesterday president. announced the withdrawal of american troops from syria he also announced. in his opinion the united states to fear isis in syria he made that very clear. concerning

the defeat of i so overall i agree with the president we have made significant progress in the fight against terrorism in this region and conducted serious strikes against eisel in syria concerning the us withdrawal from syria i don't really know what that means for example because the us has been present in afghanistan for the past seventeen years and almost every year. they are withdrawing the troops are still there now is the presence of american troops needed in syria i don't think so and let's not forget that their president is illegitimate does not agree either with the un security council nor the syrian government if the us plans to withdraw that is the right decision. sanctions but also of course boarded up as they are almost every year now and to me a putin was asked what next it was he said that you know at the end of the day

russia has always lived under sanctions in one form or another. my colleague. he got his chance was right near putin question tying into that he pointed out the reaction to the murder of the journalist and the attempted poisoning of the script which let me putin said this he. was assassinated everyone knows that the evidence. 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 it was not scriptural they would have thought of something else but this is obvious to me and the aim is one to hold russia's growth at any cost. another tradition that seems to have formed in recent years is ukrainian

journalists being present but not any journalists rather zealous nationalist anti putin journalists and every year they are. strong questions and this time was no exception. you. try to continue i just wanted to ask you how much money do you spend on done by us people are starving there and they've turned into slaves of russia frankly speaking as a way to be shoes for human i me because of the puzzles. just tell me this who set the blockade between donbass and the rest of ukraine was it russia no it was done by ukrainian authorities they haven't forced a full economic blockade of the territory there. consider their own they shoot at those people whom they consider their own citizens most every day civilians dying we provide humanitarian support to those living only not to let those people starve

to death. which is another interesting theme that was brought up was the issue of conflict that was great global conflict we're talking about the use of nuclear weapons here vladimir putin said that the global security system which has worked for decades and decades is collapsing it is unraveling nations pulling out of the antiballistic missile treaty is there pulling out of the other basically of the limitations such as the i.m.f. and he says that this is sparking a global arms race from which nobody will benefit. not just the issue the us is now leaving the i.n.f. treaty what's going to happen it's hard to imagine what the rockets are located in europe what should we do of course we will have to insure our security with some concrete steps. that we are trying to get an advantage we're not trying to get an

advantage merely to secure the balance to ensure our security. of course the nation is continuing the longest lived near putin has gone on for five hours where i believe two hours forty minutes in. plenty more to come but just watching one thousand seven hundred and two journalists a record number crammed into their looks and sounds of you know that they're making at every opportunity to ask a question seems they all really want to get their questions across. yeah i imagine betty being made in your rooms right across the country as to how long this is go. to go on for your quite right over two and a half hours of our senior correspondent who has been following martha in a for us if i might just point out

a few things because i think more than half the state from what i've heard anyway i may be wrong but a lot of it is a by the economy a lot of russians worrying about where their future is going in terms of money what's in their pocket there has been a ray of light from some of the comments made by vladimir putin he says that inflation that was one of the questions asked about inflation remains at levels that we welcome saying that we have the first net budget surplus since twenty seven and also at one intriguing aspect to this study spoke about we need to enter a new league of a column is not only in terms of scale but in the quality of our economy so much and we're going to hear more about that in the hours and days to come as to what means what kind of expansion we're talking about in terms of the economy also of course spoke about the current straight instance some time ago involving russia ukraine ships the u.s. russia relationship that was spoken about lent particularly by the cool war era

nuclear arms treaties which have been in place as we say since the one thousand meetings on indeed before a number of them talking about the u.s. a bonding and what it could mean for security and the world as well so a lot of issues being spoken up by say we may just go in and out of this saying we believe we'll call in for quite a little bit longer we don't know of course so let's just cross spock just to see if there's a lady asking a question see what blood putin has to say. let's take a listen. don't you think that's true no i don't think so you just you know you know it's not like that. and. here i'd like i'd like to i have a request please pay attention to the criminal case of murder of gus and goosen of brothers and during this special operation to have been shut down

and later it was proven that they've been they had nothing to do with illegal groups and they have been they have not been. fighters then they criminal case has been requalified and now it's the murder case but it's the it's not all what please could you money to this criminal case related to the killing of goose and if and not be saying of two brothers could you rehabilitate this guy's official with poor parents i i will tell bus three can officially buster economic center of our nation he will. pay attention to this criminal case is the first time i hear about that here but he will pay attention to this case and he will inform me or brief me about the results . talking. turkey.

was a vote of fraud to suffer a lot of. attention affairs. distinguished by the middle of the marriage recently. celebrated their never serve to the father fond of turkey what do you think about how to how do you assess his historical role in geopolitics. talking about attitude what is the situation of really no relation to the. links between russia and turkey presently in that said thank you attitude no doubt he said outspoken. personality in turkish history he did a lot in the resorting and maintaining state who he did

a lot to do that and he was a great friend of russia we know that he cooperated with russia and we later thailand attitude created a more turkish state created its basis. that's my attitude that talking about present relations we are satisfied with. russian turkish relations between economy beaton's security area. although interests there are areas where our interests do not correspond to each other but we manage to find compromise solutions for example in real in relation to crisis in syria we respect the national interests of turkey and turkish people and we see that our tech as partners are ready to follow these compromise solutions and they are looking for these compromises together with with us for the benefit of the

situation in syria for the benefit of. fighting terrorism for the benefit of consolidating our relations in economy you can see it yourself our relations become become more and more solid. in spite of the fact that its part of nato turkey implements its obligations but at the same time its foreign policy is independent we highly appreciate it it makes it possible to forecast how future and to make our relations stable so it here the president plays outspoken role. and we hope that. when the same tendency. will be in the future on the day mr on the mr ard air of the gun presenter the gong authority the radio company. of c.i.s. . please ask your questions first because

we're working for three hours away to good afternoon to. mirror at the forum russia . is calling he has said that. he. knew the dollars are going out of russia what are the benefits and what that what their pluses and minuses will our own currency appear in the future and how are we going to use the new digital technologies for example block chain is really important and interesting question as to the. dollars coming in or going in for two hours going to be on promo economy. well according to i.m.f. data. the. the room transactions in dollars in the world. has decreased last year it was sixty three percent now it's

a little bit more than sixty two percent of a dollar transactions in dollar in relation to russia equal sixty nine percent why because our main export goods men mainly oil is quoting in the. world in dollars our currency and gold reserves in dollars are decreasing. we used to have. we used to have american bonds which are causing in dollars one zero four billion of dollars now we have fourteen point four billion of dollars worth of this bonds we are now using more a year to pounds. as to the. dollars going out. it has to do. with the.

trade operations between companies and not between physical persons yesterday we talked about our today's press conference and mr sergei's you mentioned that you know the. posters we share show the currency exchange rate. in most can not the towns and to citizens keep asking why whether we are getting dollars no we're not going to pray but dollar to ben dollar because he does not know this is one simple fact we are trying to fide illegal organizations that exchanged currency we are simply trying t. . establish more and financial transaction and they tend. of exchange to say. we're trying.