trade operations between companies and not between physical persons yesterday we talked about for 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 big dollar to ben dollar because he does not know this is due to one simple fact we are trying to fide illegal organizations that exchanged currency we're simply trying to. establish an financial transaction and they tend. of exchange says. we're trying the same to speak asked

for the role of global its role as a reserve currency is to transactions is growing albeit. slowly. and slightly made in the eurasian economic union and in the post soviet space for instance the roll of rubble has increased to sixty or even seventy percent in the settlements between russia and belarus in non-cash transactions but in cash it's smaller the role of the ruble in this particular segment is going to become stronger because that is reliable and it doesn't make us and any additional costs especially the ones. and dollar denominated transactions we know very well that wherever such transactions happen they are always channeled through the banks and if there are restrictions introduced there is a natural desire to try to carry around these restrictions. this is comprehensible

and there are some issues of uncertainty and instability involved in dollar denominated settlements right now but in order for ruble to strengthen as at least a regional reserve currency several. issues have to be tackled the first one estie to tackle volatility the currency exchange rate of the ruble has to be stable and recently we have been more or less been able to do that thanks to the actions taken by the central bank by the government of russia as you can see the currency exchange rate is more stable. as evan managed to break free of the fluctuations of the oil prices greatly thanks to the introduction of a floating exchange rate but we've got to go even further we've got interest to be here to ensure a low inflation rate which is very important but we've got to develop the financial infrastructure that is necessary for ruble denominated

settlements we've got team prove the mechanisms for settlements between economic up in asia. yes and other organizations which is going to do that maybe we give the floor to wall street journal wall street journal play is a question from our foreign friends yes who we also have a chance. to speak in president specific. good afternoon mr president thank you very much for this opportunity to ask a question. and the west many politicians and experts evan ordinary people. to russia as a big stretch. and play even think that you as president of russia seek to rule the world yes certainly and i'd like to know whether that is

indeed. what you seek to achieve and could you please tell us what the real goal of your foreign policy. thank you for your well as for trying to rule the world. we know very well up but headquarters. that are trying to do exactly that and these headquarters are not in moscow. why is that this is due to the leading role of the united states in the world economy this is due to the expenditure on defense more than seven hundred billion dollars is spent by the us on defense whereas we have just forty six. and nature countries have six hundred million people and we have one hundred forty do you really think it is our go to rule the world you know this is just

a mentality in pairs to buy some in order to achieve some internal. goes inside they need to block for instance they want to make navy countries unite i notice united these countries an external threat is required otherwise this unanimity is not going to be achieved you've got to have someone against whom to rally and russia is a very good candidate for that because it's one of the biggest nuclear. power. as far as internal politics are concerned especially and it's near a beautiful beer is still flagrantly thriving and why star that is because you. this. historical fear is. used in order to secure internal political benefits and this is. detrimental because. they train them to

employ the phobias of the past and it prevents us from moving forward. and it is even harmful to those leaderships that are trying to pursue such a policy as a matter of fact the true goal of our foreign policy is to secure a beneficial environment for the development of russia for its economy for its social sphere we'd like to secure an advancement and progress we would like to make our country stronger internally and for it to occupy the place it is worthy of and the international arena as an equal partner among equal partners what was speak for as strengthening the international framework we have to secure a strict observance of the united nations charter and on this. to develop our interaction with. for in place with all countries the.

question about. you contribute is. yes. yes please take your seat eleven chance to ask a question i can see. where are you. and reza newspaper mr president i think if you're just joining us welcome this is r.t. international our ongoing coverage of q. and a martin session with president putin with members of the russian foreign media a lot of interesting questions being raised there at the last one about whether he wants. to rule the world the wall street journalist not. giving quite an extensive answer to that as well well as you can see on the screen it's greek m.e.p. could log joining us on the program the beautiful backdrop of.

number of issues there was there over the last one just coming up in three hours falling apart has been speaking about i know you've been listening to be answered by u.k. russian relations lord mayor putin said that they are in a stalemate the minute they should be fixed what can be done do you think on the feet. on the on the u.k. the russian relationship now is one of the question. i think it takes from both sides. to every approach especially from the part of. you know we don't need a new cold war and some worst of congress are pushing for a new cold war for a new. race by producing more arms by more arms this is not the

in favor of the people in the worst of the are suffering from the austerity very policies that are feeding the extreme right and the russian people who. are facing the austerity measures taxation they need to more of the measures for prosperity no more of us so we have to stop we have to slow the operation we have to stop the. the war the cold war and they're done but. find a new look at the future take you taking into consideration the future of. not looking always at the buck. and the deuce. as you know competing for a. war between us yet the reason i bring up that question is because one of the backdrops to it is that it's one of the excuses given for sanctions to be piled

on countries such as russia when something negative happens then you must punish with sanctions and not as being increasingly used on nations russia ironic cetera also we could say the european union of course when it comes to the notorious be allowed in terms of sanctions do they work. no they don't work you know this is the there is an accusatory you know. now we are living in a world of sanctions this is part of the new cold war. you know sanctions from against. china and then china against the. united states has shown no we don't need. a war war. and this is and you know. nobody benefits from socks or snow neither the people are very.

i think of all show. business but they're not working anymore no for the for the condors they are facing. and i think. the the political elites in those countries whether they are imposing sanctions or soften that. they're not suffering no more people are suffering and the people who are always thinking. they have to change their state of by the way they are thinking we need more sanctions we need more prosperity. the mar think you an a which is still ongoing with a lot of it ranges from trivial asking at. it's all status to the really big issues one of them is about the i.n.f. treaty. which has been put in place between russia and the us since cold war times the us is not

a threat to. putin saying that if god forbid something that happened it would lead to the end of all civilization and maybe also the planet playing fast and loose with something so crucial is essentially saying to us leadership your thoughts on that. city. this person is noise and the good note could not get the course in the proper you know just. the nuclear treaty between russia and the u.s. donald trump has threatened to pull. it's a huge issue you know your thoughts. oh yeah this again. even you know if. it goes. that way you know. again we will end up. out of the raise because of course russia.

is forced to follow the same. who is going to benefit to the voters who voted for mr trump for having a better future husband works you know. really i mean made to the quantum you know . the only producer not the other the economy would suffer at the same goes. and there are people who. do not be more. out of the race no more out of. more jobs ok just before you came. on there we listen to an answer from the russian president about the yellow vests protests in france asking what was the reason for them breaking. up there is a there's

a deeper reason that the increase of fuel tax was only a trigger for the protests in france leading to the spill out of general dishonest faction those yellow vest protests we saw them going to other countries as well but particularly in france your thoughts of what is occurring there. to be the next one. and the nineteenth century there was this confrontation in the world and the russian was as a changed or not. to play as marx said. the birth. mocks the past persist. when i do have something is going to change for the better one way or another well head below the bottom and we'll see that we'll have to spring up from this possum to grow up to have

a breath of fresh air and to think clearly as to how we are going to live further whether a meeting is going to happen i don't know on many occasions i said that we are willing to meet and i said that there are issues we've got to talk about to gather well at the expert level we work on syria for instance but we've got to talk about north korea about ghana stand. and on a great number of other. problems in the world we also have to talk about our bilateral agenda this is something where we're interested a. i now american counterparts are interested in that as well globally with well definitely we have twenty eight. only twenty two billion. dollars of mutual trade which is a very small good figure her small value. has been reducing and no one is interested in that including the u.s. president. who has been promoting the idea of the

economic recovery and making america great again and restoring its economic might and power and i believe that cooperating with russia in the economics is here bearing in mind that because all of the key stakeholders in the global energy markets matters a lot and apart from the out of the nonproliferation global security also relevant topic cross to talk and we can see what has been happening and all the congress majority will change one can project with one hundred percent certainty that there will be new attacks launched against the incumbent president. and whether he would be able to launch a direct dialogue with russia i don't know what better ask them but what concerns me you told all the anglo-saxon world inside this world that there is some of the whole summer shuffle tiktaalik shifts. just just look trump has

one which is not best fact but not everybody is willing to. accept this victory although it is. uniform truth. and they have been doing their utmost to dilute did legitimize their president or in great britain after the breakfast referendum no one wants to deliver upon the results upon the will of the people. but. no one recognizes the results and the democratic procedures are have been on the reveling and have been. falling apart it is a. serious process to consider to contemplate and study and british and other experts have been studying that no matter what has been happening there anyway we should. establish bilateral ties and we're ready for that

as soon as the other side is ready would be eager and ready to proceed you promised . to. how's your health side and to give the floor to how's your health side i mean my health all the health care state in this country. after. my name is you could sit in a federal to be channel ministry of ideas what does that mean ministry of ideas t.v. channel it's a profit to be. in you could see it in border ok yeah as we've been doing for the last hour of ours been going in a night of that q. and a with a volunteer who as you can see. as well and we appreciate you doing so one of the questions just asked their attitude madam or putin was essentially relations and what's happening with donald trump in the white house that the big story to come this week was

a number of tweets by the president speaking up by it's his withdrawal of troops from syria two thousand u.s. soldiers will leave syria now your immediate reaction to that because we did not hear the details we just heard the white house that this was going to happen and that that was going to be occurring shortly when you heard that what did you think . first of all we have to see exactly what. means by we are they some military experts are going to stay in place like it was the case another different u.s. withdrawal of or oh it would be a complete the with iraq but anyway i think that the kind of intervention of two of the different. international forces in syria rather. made things worse you know help especially the united states has adopted

a very big use position towards the very very soon and literally a kind of yes or no intervention so i think it's going to be better if the united states starts with their own complete three or the other foreign powers to. start or so we drove to give more. to the peace the syria which for the provide been has been a victim of different. without any strategic goal or. so. we heard. a question earlier saying that he hopes this constitutional committee will be formed by the end of twenty eight. because once the constitution is written and accepted by the. country then of

course. take place if elections take place shortly the hope for all that democratic elections take place whoever wins if it is the syrian president bashar al assad the u.s. for the first time in a long time. whoever is the president we will have to work to change. towards. being. different for when. we drove in to. give the. syrian people to decide for their future for the. victims. as you know we just have to interrupt you but there's

a question. it's an interesting one let's listen but. it's but we have had facts of doping we should concede that. we should accept it has been no guilt we haven't been able to fight doping successfully in the past. probably the. public structures. better. i think not fooled completely despite the fact that we have. provided good practices and standards we need better quality. of procedures and services but it's knelt junia uniquely our problem because doping. used worldwide and now us

having a wada commission visit. currently they are. in talks with the ministry of sports. and the investigating the probes and samples of materials looking into those. i think is the reason of politicising hope it is going to be passed in future. on the page we've been working for clients along. here for more than three hours probably you should conclude in this respect in this regard please be quiet otherwise we will we'll call today in this regard just like you have three veterans here the federal russian journalist veterans often to fox to gobble from komsomolskaya pravda and. we channel so in

closing ok there seems to be feeling a number of the last number of questions according to what is happening seems as if they have picked out to be asked in the last number of questions just over three hours three hours fifteen minutes no q. and a session on going stella. is still on the line from athens you've been very patient thank you so much for staying on there his last. speaking doping and really the response from not only the anti-doping global community but other states as well other governments and how that is a little bit different. for all their nations as well yeah i. can hear me at the moment but just to recap there one of the one of the answers there. was speaking about one of the questions being they're up by doping

up by the country being able to part in the next olympics they couldn't take part in the last winter olympic games. earlier this year was when russia were under the olympic athletes from russia then you throw a flag as well a lot of putin saying that it seems have been a little bit of a different perspective towards russia and other countries. has been standing by watching all the latest developments dizzying array of topics being spoken about being fielded by the president it seems as if we're into the final stretch. what caught your eye. well there's so much interesting stuff foreign policy domestic issues from fuel prices to nuclear war but an interesting recent question just asked by a wall street journal correspondent he said mr putin

a lot of people in the world theory see you as a threat he asked do you want to rule the world and the vladimir putin replied yes of course jokingly of course but on a more serious note he said that russia has no such ambition if you want to find a place that wants to rule the world you won't find that in moscow he said that the united states its economic might military power explains its yearning for again many but he also said that russia doesn't want to rule the world it just wants a place a respectable place on the international stage and wants to be an equal among equals but there were plenty of others as you mentioned plenty of other themes topics foreign policy domestic issues talked about there was breaks it was mentioned france the situation in syria and here vladimir putin was asked what he

thought about trump's latest declaration that job done he's going to be pulling his troops out of syria and putin skeptical. concerning the u.s. withdrawal from syria i don't really know what that means for example the u.s. has been present in afghanistan for the past seventeen years and almost every year they say that they are withdrawing their troops they are still there now is the presence of american troops needed in syria but i don't think so let's not forget that the presence there is illegitimate it was not agreed either with the u.n. security council nor with the syrian government if the u.s. plans to withdraw. that is the right decision. sanctions to of course were brought up as they are a hot topic over recent years no wonder they affect every russian vladimir putin was asked about that he did say that you know look back at russian history modern

russia soviet times czarist russia russia's always been under sanctions restrictions in one way or another it rivals the opponents hostile states of always tried to limit russia to contain it can she drain it and my colleague correspondent in the opposite trend go tying into that he asked about the murder of . journalists and the parallel reaction compared to the attempted poisoning of the screwballs. kushal she was assassinated everyone knows that there is evidence script is alive however there are sanctions against russia and complete silence in the case of saudi arabia this politicized russia phobic approach is just another reason to attack russian if it was not script how they would have thought of something else this is obvious to me and the aim is want to hold russia's growth it any cost. ukraine to board up ukrainian

journalists are. always welcome at this and you'll q. and a session in the often choose to display the colors openly with big banners or flags usually with very colorful questions and this year was low exception. tried to do i just wanted to ask you how much money do you spend on done by us people are starving and they've turned into slaves of russian frankly speaking the words of issues where human i mean because of the puzzles. just tell me this the blockade between thomas and the rest of ukraine russia. no it was done by the ukrainian authorities they haven't forced a full economic blockade of the territory they consider their own they shoot at those people they consider their own citizens almost every day civilians die though we provide humanitarian support for those living that but only not to let those

people starve to death. the other thing in of course close to everybody's heart in the world is growing conflict in the world growing potential global war and blood near putin was asked about a potential nuclear war the use of nuclear weapons and he said that you know that would be absolutely catastrophic but he also said that the global security order mechanism is fraying it is unraveling nations are pulling out the verb weapons limitation treaties and this is sparking an arms race because the balance is gone usually assured destruction which is worked for decades and decades is now failing and this growing arms race bodes nothing good. shows the u.s. is now leaving the i.n.f. treaty going to happen it's hard to imagine what is the rockets are located in.