it's a lot watching your children grow and miss you in ways you can save. this is just it doesn't get easier. the presidential question. twenty biggest events of. the ukraine crisis. which. many western politicians and even ordinary people. they even think you want to rule the world of course i do international journalists out them are thank you and i get a little worried response to a global take also coming up on the program this hour. fighting for a long time in syria now we want it's time to come back. takes credit for defeating islamic state in syria. is it ministration announcing

a surprise troop withdrawal from the country we have. very warm welcome to our to international i'm going in a little earlier russian president vladimir putin exited the stage after his fourteenth q. and a with media from all across the globe we have special coverage of the whole event and reaction right here on our international. vladimir putin spent almost four hours a ray of questions from both russian foreign journalists from the economy pensions and the education to being the ruler of the world apparently the russian president

was never caught off guard following the q. and a rough guess the a for us. 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 chance of conflict but one thing that stood out towards the end was an interesting question of. who can 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 about 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. but i've. 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 that 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 but you can i don't think so

let's not forget the presence there is illegitimate. it was not agreed with either with the u.n. security council them 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 you. try to do i just wanted to ask you how much money do you spend on gun violence people are starving and they've turned into slaves of russian frankly speaking as a way to shoot three members of the puzzles. just tell me this. blockade between on the us and the rest of ukraine but of course the russians do know it was done by

the ukrainian authorities they haven't 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 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 the u.s. is now leaving the i.n.f. treaty going to happen so 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 concrete steps that we will let them not say later that we are trying to get some advantage we're not trying to get some advantage with this but merely to seek your balance to ensure our security so what's more covered we don't have time to pack in now almost four hours the rec would do as well one thousand seven hundred and two cleared to journalists in attendance with a lot of questions you know the times it was very chaotic with journalists screaming and shouting in jump in to be noticed and to get their question of the crisis and solution leaves them with only one hoot in the world many more

journalists. of speaking of the arts artie's reporter among the assembled journalists was it lipitor and co who talked me through his questions to the president. when you're sitting there when you're trying to hold this little thing actually the size of this was the limit to this year for all the journalists when you're desperate to get this question you can feel every minute of it possibly even second and then when it gets closer to the end it really really puts a lot of pressure on you but i was lucky enough to get a chance to ask my questions about ask questions after about one and a half hours while we were there in that room 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 invention of the year so why began is that the my question and when i mentioned the script all case and also the killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi in the moment i did that and you can block them are putin decided to draw the line between these two immediately i'm sure you would be cautious he was assassinated everyone knows that there is evidence script is a low life 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 that any cost of speaking of other double standards i went on to talk about more things for example the arrest of russian journalist in fact he is he used to be the head of

a russian news agency in ukraine carol this is me in the ukraine he's been arrested for months the arrests of maria buttin in the u.s. and the recent detention. of the wall weight financial director in canada by the way donald trump refers to her house of bargaining chips in the trade war game possibly even openly doing that and i went on to ask a lot of our putin whether this is possible in russia to detain foreigners whether we'll ever see that on under some dodgy pretext to then possibly exchange the prisoners that are under arrest in the west and if we take the rules of the game that are being set by america and some other western countries in this case whether that is at all acceptable the answer from the russian president was no he said that russia will never try to use this kind of tactic. live q.

and a is always a lengthy event but doesn't mean it's all entirely serious. because it wasn't just when will you marry. and whom. you know these are two different questions are you married. yes so he is married and wants me to suffer the same. ok. let's assume i have answered the second question because i'm a decent man i have to do it. first of all to the camera man they said my flat was bothering the flat was big but my question will be small. bother anyone. i want to refer to keep playing who said when everyone is then the great game is finished great there will be a meeting where everyone will die this is a question about how i think it should be the next one. you can see how. you would not see me know. that. all future lies and ideas

so we proposed to create a ministry of ideas. how to deal with such a good idea. just some of the goings on today after a coup in a let's go through some of the big events though live to london for insights with international affairs commentator jonathan steele and jonathan welcome to the program we saw a lot of talking about it breaks it russian relations during it he described it as being in a stalemate in fact the actual word to use was gridlock the president also signaled he would like to see an improvement in that you think that could come about. well it's hard to see how it comes to that at the moment because obviously the sanctions on russia from britain and britain is really is a leading voice in nato is among the european countries keeping up pressure on russia so i don't see any breakthrough coming at all of the moment because you

mentioned the british government is completely obsessed. as indeed is everybody in britain with what's going to happen in three months time in response to leave the european union so there's no much time for britain to take any initiatives on foreign policy issues. when asked by us troops being polled died from syria was the big announcement this week from donald trump vladimir putin referred to the american withdrawal from afghanistan which has not still happened do you expect washington to keep boots on the ground in syria or will a poll out occur. well i think it was a good tactic to mention the afghanistan thing because even on syria this is not the first time the donald trump's announced he wants to pull out troops immediately and he did it. some months ago earlier in the year and nothing has happened so we know that there's a huge push back from the new kong hawks in washington people are john bolton in

particular who want to prevent that happening very sorry that the u.s. troops are in syria not just because of the threat from dire show i asked but because of this so-called threat from iran so they've got their own reasons and they'll probably try and persuade trump to do look weak to our sister ship turned around and even perhaps to russia to moscow if he pulls through troops and he likes to think for himself as a strong looking man so maybe he will give him well another topic that came up was the u.s. leaving the i.n.f. treaty the nuclear pact which has been in place since cold war times that's been called a threat to stability not only by moscow either should we be concerned about washington scrapping the agreement. i think we should be concerned about both countries russia and united states improving and increasing the arsenals both of them have huge modernization programs going on already they've got over kill enough to destroy the

planet many times over they don't need to modernize but they're going to do it and we've had of course the americans under president george w. bush pulling out of the a.b.m. . treaty in two thousand and two now trump is talking about pulling out of the i.m.f. then there's a start treaty that covers strategic long range nuclear and continental ballistic missiles that's supposed to ferried away twenty twenty one unless it's when you didn't the americans are not talking about renewing it so there is a huge problem but it's really wings of course we've got china which is modernizing its nuclear weapons as well so the legal problem is that there's more. more expansion if you can reopen the miracle so few other countries develop nuclear weapons we know north korea has done it iran allegedly was trying to do it saudi arabia has an interest so the nuclear genie is out of the bottle and we all still live under the shadow of total destruction as usual the economy was

a huge part of the community actually repeatedly the questions return to that russia is undergoing a so-called dollar rise ation in a bid to strengthen its own currency which has seen massive fluctuations countries like china india they're attempting to do the same is there a sign do you think that there are some changes afoot when it comes to trade and the us. as a whole. well obviously the chinese particularly are very concerned about the trade war going on with the united states and there has been some very talk of a rival g. seven because russia of course was excluded from the g. seven and talk of new g. seven with russia china india maybe brazil brazil now has a very right wing pro-american government survey not quite sure what's going to happen there but i think. the russian ruble the russian economy is very unlikely to

happen it was important to put in recognize that will be less than two percent this year in russia which is quite disappointing russia is going through a very stagnant phase the oil prices internationally is very low the efforts to diversify the russian economy get away from being a resource based economy not ready for work they've been tried many times in the last twenty years but nothing's really happened to reduce huge dependence on natural resource extraction. international affairs commentator jonathan steele his thoughts live on the program this hour thank you. well thought of her putin wasn't on with meeting a journalist despite spending several hours with hundreds of them today in fact a teenage russian girl who is registered blind and hopes to be a top reporter herself that the country's leader afterwards.

hello how are you. hello. i would like to ask you some questions. did you always dream of becoming president or before you wanted to be for example an astronaut you could. honestly i never dreamed of becoming president and i had no intention this happened by chance and there's probably at first it was very difficult for you can you describe your first days as president though. yes it wasn't easy these were very difficult years for the country as a whole we were balancing with survival there was a very difficult situation with the economy and security as well clear last what was your most memorable day as president. it is very difficult to say but we just talked about this at a big press conference the most striking events of this year with the presidential election on the world cup how do you make a wish i mean you're. used to yes this wish was

a secret but i can share it with you i wish all our wishes will come true may attach to you of course. you are very handsome. thank you very much. in the interviewer's. ok syria they united states surprise decision to enter all american troops we have an update on reaction to. join me every day on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to. politics. i'm sure. i'll see if.

the principal emotions. petitions the same. medical doctor i want him to do his will. so i try not to attach any part of the personal feelings maybe something tickled objections i would have but in politics history is a judge and history will judge who's presidency. and if he she was in the. nation and. it was.

just approaching twenty minutes into the program welcome back. to the defeats state in syria with the rapid withdrawal of all two thousand u.s. troops there the american president took to twitter giving his nation long term self much of the credit for the victory over the terrorists although his words seem to have perplexed 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. on the grounds that after the physical defeat of the caliphate until we have the pieces in place to ensure that that defeat isn't. the knock of the hell out of isis will become another syria like very soon. to us officials tell n.b.c. news the president reluctantly agreeing to keep troops in syria. one of the big aspects of this analysts point out is that the u.s. by kurdish fighters will not be left abandoned vulnerable turkey has threatened an

offensive in northern syria against the courage to be terrorists a fear of a clash with the u.s. postponed on chris. well more plus all the balance all the news this week from donald trump we're joined by unison from the turkish patriotic party welcome to the program donald trump is taking the credit for defeating in syria he also sees syria iran and russia will not be happy about the u.s. withdrawal why do you wouldn't those countries be happy what do you make of troops this is. i think they're all very happy about this retreat of the united states and actually we here in turkey think that this is a very important very historic decision taken by the u.s. president because to begin with the and over twenty seven years war that started in one thousand nine hundred ninety one with the first invasion of

europe continued with the second invasion of iraq then including afghanistan right the underline the words of the russian president putin and then but the syrian crisis and the u.s. intervened intervention here in syria so this decision of retreat from syria is not just a matter of defeated yes or not it is easy decision to and there's twenty seven year old war. by the united states and its allies so it's a historic decision. maybe not easy to understand here to date with all the opposition within the united states but then the long term we will face that this is the end of a period of u.s. interventions in the middle east and in asia but in terms of the country itself syria. what does the withdrawal of u.s. troops mean for it. exactly that's the second point that's the second

aspect of this historical decision means that the beauty of. u.s. controlled and u.s. led regime change is over as well the old politics of american while imperialism as it's called as it was called to establish. regimes and governments that are friendly. constitution or friendly is also over that's the second the aspect in fact of this historical decision and connect to that is the transition to a multi-polar world why because the united states is not able this is acknowledged by their president is not able to really change on its own so who leads the probe the political process here in syria and in the middle east right now it's a trio of russia iran and turkey and of course the main weight in this trio.

it's for actors there actually is this union government and the syrian people so that is a political process that is led by different actors and the united states is not one of them anymore so this is a transition therefore to a multi-polar world where other countries in the united states among them so corporate that their mind their future how does this now affect turkey siri relation. the turkish syrian relations were getting closer in the recently turkey russia relations excuse me. the interesting part is also the turkish usually you can actually both form you. you see relations have began developing by meetings between two countries in their. around between the representatives of both countries and concerning the turkish russian relations of course they will they already have

a strategic aspect but they will deepen even further because these two countries are now strategic allies in the restructuring of the middle east and its in its gleaning from us upon certain armed groups in syria as well as in turkey or in other parts so the turkish russian relations will develop even further and these two countries will follow the path to be leaders of what we would call and new eurasian continent right turkish state owned media the anatolian agency is reporting that the country's defense minister said that ancora will bury kurdish militants in the ditches they have dug are the kurds in danger not from a turkish offensive after with the withdrawal of u.s. troops. the kurds are not in danger but all the u.s. armed and u.s. sponsored groups are more than endangered they are abandoned their biggest ally

there apart from their need for the united states has retreated so they're trying to keep up the u.s. presence in the region by for example today organizing marches to u.s. bases on the other hand threatening especially european countries with releasing eisel members that are in the hands of the p y d yes but also the miking if you nominate someone one of one of them escort which is on the ground fighting eisel. well the best force on the ground fighting eyes of the still deceiving government that is the government who has to be supported and that is the government that is the actor and with whom we have to cooperate if you want to fight i still not only in terms of military but also in reestablishing a political order we have seen that the movement of the few. why the this so-called goads have. just. foreseen for them as their futures

ground and where they were it came out of the when they were before it moved out of the territory they stopped fighting because they were given the order to you know just twenty seconds or so you know just in twenty seconds do you think that the us actually will with draw because we saw promises for instance in afghanistan before they didn't. yet there's also opposition in the pentagon just briefly are you are you assuming that this is going to happen. i can answer you in five seconds the effort of the military presence of the united states in west asia especially beginning with syria is over because it is facing a huge coalition of local countries russia turkey iraq syria and it is freezing the clear threat of to turkish army so definitely the united states will. go and this is the beginning of

a new age you know sooner turkish pitch party member thank you very much for your time and your thoughts this hour thank you. kevin all is here in thirty minutes with much more thess the evening our documentary wife eye refugees is next though it's a thought provoking one in this increasingly modern world. through i thank you both thank. you. thank you through.

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