subscribe to read. for just twelve euros fifty per month. for the presidential q. and a twentieth. on the threat of nuclear war the ukraine crisis brags it much more. many western politicians experts and even ordinary people see russia as a threat they even think that you want to rule the world of course i do international journalists. get a little worried by putin's response to a low ball of takeover also ahead this news hour. fighting for a long time in syria now we've won it's time to come back donald trump takes credit for defeating islamic state in syria and blindsides his. administration announcing

a surprise troop withdrawal from the country. just over an hour ago russian president vladimir putin exited the stage after his fourth thing to a new all question announcer with media from all around the globe we have special coverage of the whole event and the reaction right here on our international. vladimir putin spent almost four hours on a ray of questions from both the russian foreign journalists from the economy pension sound education to being the ruler of the world the russian president was never caught off guard following the q. and a ruckus to. not quite the five hours that his record but you know pretty

near four hours is solid enough but there was so much covered so much from fuel prices to protest to even nuclear war breaks it mentioning those fronts i mentioned relations with various countries charts of conflict but one thing that stood out towards the end was an interesting question of. about whether he wants to rule the world and he does. many west simple editions experts and even ordinary people see russia as a threat they even think that you want to rule the world of course i do i just want to know you really want this was the real end of your foreign policy. concerning ruling the world we know where the headquarters are located of those who want to do this and it's not in moscow you can connect this to defense spending the u.s. spends over seven hundred billion dollars on it or russia only forty six billion i

mean do you really think that our aim is to rule the world you know this is just a cliche that's being imposed by the west in order to resolve their own domestic problems you. also asked about the trouble. now and cement resident declaration yesterday resident tweet i suppose that he is going to pull out american troops from syria now that the job has been done and isis has been destroyed it hasn't but. says it has blood in there putin was asked what he thought about that intent concerning the u.s. withdrawal from syria i don't really know what that means for example the us has been present in afghanistan for the past seventeen years and almost every year they say that they are withdrawing their troops the only certain they are still there now is the presence of american troops needed in syria he pushed you quite don't think so let's not forget the presence there is illegitimate. it was not agreed

with neither with the u.n. security council human along with the syrian regime so if the us plans to withdraw is the right decision ukrainian journalists are also always welcome at this press conference cept in recent years of the more nationalistic li minded and zealously anti putin ones seem to favor displaying their colors. for everyone to see. flags or banners or indeed provocative questions. about to do no good i just wanted to ask you how much money do you spend on dunbar's people are starving and they've turned into slaves of russian frankly speaking as a lot of issues where you remember going to puzzles to. just tell me this. between numbers and the rest of ukraine but of course in russia you know if it was done by the ukrainian authorities they have in forced a full economic blockade of the territory they consider their own. consider their

own citizens almost every day civilians die though we provide humanitarian support for those living mansions but only not to let those people starve to death another important thing that people have been talking about for some years several years now escalation growing tensions in the world armament an arms race and vladimir putin was asked about potential nuclear war and he said that would be catastrophic but the risk is there because the global security order the global security mechanism is unraveling it is failing it is being destroyed nations are pulling out of arms treaties out of arms limitation treaties developing these new weapons capable of defeating all defenses and there is the problem that balance is gone there is no mutually assured destruction there is no parity and so everybody is trying to make new. weapons there is

a global arms race and it isn't going to end well as you do to assure us is now leaving the i.n.f. treaty going to happen it's hard to imagine what is the rockets are located in europe what should we do of course we will have to ensure our security with some concrete steps that you will not say later that we are trying to get some advantage we're not trying to get some advantage with us but merely to seek your balance to ensure our security so what's more covered the we don't have time to pack in now almost four hours the record as well one thousand seven hundred and two credited journalists in attendance with a lot of questions and at times a very chaotic with journalists screaming and shouting and jumping to be noticed and to get their question of the crisis and solution please them with the new one and then many more journalists were going through some of the main topics where you

never know quite what to expect at this unusual q. and a apart from the main global issues health care came up a number of times during it let's try and discuss what arose with a leading and medic the chairman of the department of your g.m. just actually hearing we've lost a connection right doug we will return because it's quite an interesting development on a number of times health care was spoken about we'll try to get a line and one of the other issues as well that we were covering over the three and a half three hours forty five minutes was about a repeat of the cold war whether this was going to be happening between russia and america that was put to the russian president greek m.e.p. kolob glue here's his view. takes from both sides. to every approach especially. you know we don't need

a new cold war and some worst of pushing for a new cold war for a new. race by morons so we have to stop we. have to stop the. the war the cold war and there. will find a new look at the future take you take it into the future. not to. the buck. and the words you know. to us yeah as you mentioned just before that aside from those main global issues on there were a lot of them discuss health care came up a number of times during the q. and a i'm hoping i'm happy to say that we have got live on the program a leading medic the chairman apartment of your ology. foundation hospital in vienna

bob bit of signed issues before bob i hope you can hear me now. president putin mentioned that russian in your pharmaceutical exports are rising where does their importance lie in the global pharma market. well it's not only about the farmer's market is a beauty that we have in times where unfortunately medicine has been used as a political tool and sanctions in anything i believe that medical and health care basically it's a human right as is water or anything else she you cannot use medicine as a tool in politics and we apps and no matter who does that now in the latest years and in the past decade there have been a decline in this in how we treat and handle political situations that leads to health care issues and specifically the middle east there has been some issues that have been even stronger and worth in the last couple of years so i think if you

look at the russia situation right now russia has been very active in promoting health care actually in central asia in the middle east and i have to comment after comment the russians and our colleagues there which also i have to tell you that in the last couple of years a lot of new technologies have came out of russia so russia has adopted a new technology is robotics which is standard in western europe and north america is standard in russia as well and i'm very pleased to say that even if you look at for example imaging technologies there is the m.r.i. and you m.r.i. technologies coming out of russia purely russian funded and purely russian developed and this is very very interesting and a very good thing i think for the world in general but it also it's important to see the russian leading role in central asia central asia have been left behind and after the the fall of the soviet union really they have been a decline in health care in central asian republics and you have seen in the last couple of years very quietly but very efficiently russian colleagues and people that i know very well have been very very important incremental and important in

developing mentoring and helping central asian the middle eastern colleagues develop new technologies implement new technologies and that is true for pharmaceutical that you mentioned so there is new drugs coming out russia has been which. some other asian countries in developing new drugs in developing generics as well and offering them at a good price to central asian middle eastern countries the domestic market was also touched upon in today's q. and a the president saying eighty percent of all vital medicines used in russia are produced locally is that significant. ok as we suspected we had quite a weak line there with their professor who will try to return because it's quite an interesting aspect about the health care issue that was spoken of by its we will

try to turn a little bit later well our tease reporter among the assembled journalists to day. he joins me live now another martin q. and a just shy of four hours but towards the start of that you managed to get a question well done on that because it was throngs of people attempting to do so how did he handle it. when ever you are around. what is it seventeen hundred journalists you know if you get a chance it is still not much because it's only thirty seconds maybe a bit more than that if you don't finish your question within that time other people will start screaming at you you know making noises that that's really something that makes it difficult to do the job but then in these thirty seconds what you're really trying to do is squeeze in some kind of stuff about the most

important events of the year so i began with my question and when i mentioned the script all case and also the killing of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi in the moment i did that when you decided to draw the line between these two immediately. shows he was assassinated everyone knows that there is evidence script. however there are sanctions against russia and complete silence in the case of saudi arabia this politicized russia for you because it is just one of the reason to attack russia if it was not script they would have thought of something else this is obvious to me and the aim is one to hold russia's growth at any cost a lot of our putin's likes to call this a double standard and then i went. on to talk about things like the arrest of the head of a russian news agency in ukraine where will the shin squeeze the arrest of russian citizen maria booth and in the us and also the detention of

a top manager that's a chinese tech giant in canada and as you remember donald trump is someone who perhaps even openly calls her a bargaining chip in the u.s. trade war so i went on to ask the washington president whether there was a possibility that russia may somehow find a pretext to arrest foreigners in russia to be able to exchange them for prisoners abroad the answer from him to that was no he says that there is absolutely no way that moscow resort to this kind of tactic when it comes to playing the international political games. and even thank you very much about anybody who got in a number of questions there earlier but not the annual q. and a taking place in school. where headline news on the way plus some

westminster wordplay the british opposition leaders accused of directing sexist insults at the prime minister and the comments stay with us. the principal emotions referring to sions is the same as my medical doctor i want him to do his will i don't need to like him so i try not to attach any particular person feelings maybe something tickled objections i would have but in politics history is a judge and history will judge who's presidency was in the future when they were the victory to the nation and. which was not.

much bigger economic power much or what. i think. you have to live with. and there's lots of advantages of the europeans jethro but as well as america. you're back with our to international donald trump has announced the defeats of islamic state in syria with the rapid withdrawal of all two thousand u.s. troops there the us president took to twitter giving himself much of the credit for the victory over the terrorists although his words seemed to perplex his administration. we have won against isis we've beaten

them and we've beaten him badly now we've won it's time to come back. because of remain on the grounds of after the physical defeat of the caliphate until we have the pieces in place to ensure that the defeatism. or knock of the hell out of isis will become another syria like very soon. to u.s. officials tell n.b.c. news the president reluctantly. he agreed to keep troops in syria well it should be pointed out that no detailed plan for the draw was actually given but the white house did stress that the victory over a whole does not signal the end of the coalition's campaign adding that washington is transitioning to the next phase of it the u.s. intervention in the syrian conflict began back in twenty fourteen with strikes boots on the ground as well without approval from damascus or indeed a u.n. mandate or kevin all talked earlier to our correspondent in love to really get a broader look at the u.s. campaign in syria since that the. united states. have been changing the rules of

this game as i said game was ongoing when it comes to why the in syria in the first place because it certainly wasn't an official invitation from the u.n. recognized leader bashar assad and to the country saying they want to fight terrorists i saw so now they've defeated and like the had already introduced a new reasons a new pretext as why the should stay for example come combating and kind of countering iranian influence in syria where did that come from so now they say that their priorities have shifted again we're not asking for regime change we're not asking for the russians to leave we're asking for is a compromise certainly there's a strong. readiness on the part of western nations not to get money for that disaster unless we have some kind of idea that their government is ready

to compromise a notion are created yet another horror in the years ahead the united states did do a lot to defeat eisel in syria i mean that can really be taken from them they pretty much liberated all of the eastern and northern much of the northern syrian regions of course not their soldiers not their troops but their proxy sort of army as the kurds. in the self-proclaimed capital of the caliphate rocca was liberated by the united states and their allies but the thing is the means that the because they did kick i sell out with their favorite tool with their favorite approach and that is blunt stupid force so that's what they used on rocket for example the blitter rated the city with bombings once a flourishing prosperous city now it still lies in ruins i mean we've heard a very very big outcry coming from human rights groups for instance who have been

accusing the united states of indiscriminate bombing and even using a term as an annihilation war and saying that this should be considered a war crime what the united states bombings did there just to give you the scale of how bad it is bodies are still being found in rock or complain and did in twenty seventeen. it was still a thirty year we were forced to leave our homes because weisel when we returned we found everything which used to rubble look at all the devastation rock is a ghost city. we're living in the midst of destruction we feel completely abandoned everything around has been destroyed. the u.s. coalition caused the destruction of records and has a responsibility to rebuild the city. i.

will analysts have been pointing out that the u.s. by kurdish fighters will now be left abandoned vulnerable turkey has threatened an offensive in northern syria against the kurds who they view as terrorists a fear of a clash with the u.s. postponed. a lot of troops opponents and indeed his supporters. in the administration they aren't pleased with his decision former u.s. diplomat jim is of the view we will have to see if they succeed in pushing trump to reverse it could make a comeback and in fact some of the opponents of president trump's decision to pull out of syria are citing exactly that they're comparing it to their accusations against barack obama that his quote premature withdrawal from iraq led to the rise of isis in the first place look if claiming the defeat of isis is an excuse for donald trump to get us out of syria i say who ray it's the right decision the real

question is is will the so-called experts that he's appointed to run his administration sandbag him and drag their feet and find some way to negate this decision and that's the real question we don't know the answer to it's often hard to hear what british m.p. say in part in the middle all the jeering on the thing but a feisty exchange between the prime minister position leader house got lip readers hard at work it's about whether germany corp and muttered a sexist insult on his breath take a look for yourself did the labor leader actually say woman or people. it is it would be the responsible position of any government to put in place contingency arrangements for no deal and no deal would read his ouster for our country and no responsible government would ever allow it i know it's christmas i know it's not to miss talking down the chimney on the terrace mystery the sun lounger bright line it's the prime minister who is supposed to be undertaking

a negotiation. the climate is such style to bring an acceptable deal but it's the right honorable gentleman doesn't want to see money being spent on no deal he's got an easy also understood this stay in. touch with the i talk about you. know i am sick of. this kind of missile domestic language must not be tolerated. during prime minister's question time to date i referred to those who i believe were seeking to turn the debate about the national crisis facing our country into account in mind as stupid people i misspeak i did not use the word stupid woman about the problem is still all anyone else and i am completely opposed

to the use of sexist or misogynist language in absolutely any form. it doesn't look like stupid woman to me i can see stupid but not woman. the phrase no problem is familiar in many languages but the swahili translation is at the center of a trademark rub against the entertainment giant disney you may remember the phrase from this film it's a problem. since the lion king came out in one thousand nine hundred forty generations grown up knowing hakuna matata the phrase was trademarked by disney to protect its movie

merchandising but the studios being accused of colonialism a petition launched by zimbabwe and activist to get disney to drop its compu right claim has been signed by more than sixty thousand people saying the phrase belongs to african culture is not an american invention well disney's trademark dates back to two thousand and three for how to to be used in clothing and footwear the studio doesn't deny the swahili origin of either the freezer the name of almost all the lion king carters although it hasn't yet commented on the petition itself the case has fired i agree opinions. why we're seeing so much pushback from people on it they see this as another as you alluded to manifestation of cultural appropriation and it continues a capitalism entrepreneur africa and specifically africa a continent representing everything that capitalist wants everything capitalist need but everything capitalists don't want to pay for that's used if you look at it

and i'm not necessarily anti-capitalist stand i mean i don't want to find out the answer me that you're driving a jeep cherokee let me just leave it at that obviously i think it's unnecessary pressure as i mentioned earlier we live in an error of only outreach people are just looking for a reason to be offended i don't think this is a case about offending people right i mean everyone will find a way to get up to be offended i think what we're seeing here is the commodification of culture and we have to go beyond sheridan to the one thing that does the did do is davey d. investment in the lion king franchise which is created a lot of jobs did these made a lot of money and let me tell you something disney has donated to africa and causes in africa last year two thousand and seventeen they donated over three hundred forty million dollars not everything is meant to be commodified and culture is one of those things especially when the culture does not belong to the corporation that is trying to appropriate and make money off of it at the end of the day disney is a global company so it's not to say that they can't appropriate or use phrases from

other cultures let me say something right now where are we going to go with this next is taco bell going to be under attack is the tilted kill pub franchise i think it's a faulty parallelism to compare a franchise like taco bell to language like a current tata disney also tried this with dia de los went though so they also tried some copyright the day of the dead which is also something that is culturally sacred to people specifically in mexico you make money the way that you want to make money and that's fine but this is like cultural appropriation. time for another visit to the world's apart studio.

the. ice ice. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. very dramatic developments only. i don't see how that strategy will be ready. to sit. and talk.

lonely while the party president ronald reagan once described poland as having contributed mightily. while being magnificently and reconciled to oppression that seemed undisputed. was the first country in eastern europe to fire all the shackles of. but is that the case today when it is various that want to openly challenge the government. joined by they were now imposed directly. this isn't a see it's a great privilege to welcome you here in moscow thank you very much for granting us some time to do i know that you are here for the festival of polish culture as well as a conference aimed at advancing the dialogue between our two nations don't you find

it a kind of a task in this day and age it's always is because there is never enough so it's not true that when political relationship is very strong culture. as a substitute political conflicts and that's why i think. trying to contribute to it is good to continue this dialogue but you know there is discussion especially in the western world that by participating in and cultural events you may be. if not. we have experience of this. crucial time. and. there was no profit. if there was no died there was no advantage because.