wrapping of the presidential question on secession on twenty eight teams biggest events earlier today vladimir putin gave moscow on the threat of nuclear war ukraine crisis breck's it among much more. many western politicians experts and even ordinary people see russia as a threat they even think that they want to rule the world of course i do. international journalists at the marathon q. and a got a bit worried by putin's response to a global takeover anyway much more that i had also to be fighting for a long time at syria now we've won it's time to come back donald trump takes credit for defeating islamic state in syria and blindsides his allies an administration

announcing a surprise troop withdrawal from the country. leaving her moscow eight pm just turned welcome you're watching out international is me kevin owen first and as mentioned a little earlier russian president vladimir putin ex did the stage after his fourteenth annual q. and a with media from all around the globe we got special coverage of the whole event and reaction to it right here starting right now. so potent spent almost four hours answering a ray of questions from both russian and foreign journalists from the economy to pensions to education to being the ruler of the world even the russian president was never caught off guard following the q. and a senior coast. but it's 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 protests 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 a. hoot about whether he wants to rule the world and he does. 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 i just want to know you really want this was a real aim 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. this is just a cliche that's being imposed by the west in order to resolve their own domestic problems. also asked about the trouble. 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 and lived near 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 u.s. has been present in afghanistan for the past seventeen years and almost every year they say that they are withdrawing their troops but they are still there now is the presence of american troops needed in syria but you can i don't think so but let's not forget the. presence there is illegitimate but it was not agreed with neither

with the un security council 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 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. directed to do no good 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 it's going to russia you know 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 you 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's trying to make new weapons is a global arms race and it isn't due 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 to let them not say later we are trying to get an advantage we're not trying to get some advantage but merely to seek your pilots to ensure our security so what's more covered the we don't have time to pack in now almost four hours the recalled the new orleans as well one thousand seven hundred two cleared to journalists in that it had to do with a lot of the questions really of the times it was very chaotic with journalists screaming and shouting and jumping to be noticed and to get their question of the crisis and the solution to. the new one putin the many more journalists. who are goes to have our support among the assembled journalist was. told to strew his

questions to the president when you're sitting there when you're trying to hold just this little thing actually the size of this was the limited 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 my 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 where 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 that was the moment i did that and you can block them are potent decided to draw the line between these two immediately i'm sure you will 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 is that this politicized. is just another reason to attack the russian 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 or to 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 used to be the head of a russian news agency in ukraine carol this is a city in ukraine he's been arrested for months the arrests of maria buttin in the

u.s. and the recent detention of the wall wait 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. here the cuban exile was a lengthy event but that doesn't mean it's all entirely serious every it. because it was a huge issue when will you marry in the school and home. with

a simple as 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 but because i'm a decent man i have to do it. first before they can and then they said my flat's was bothering him down if that was a big but my question of the small of the russian flag can't bother anyone. at all but it's different because now i want to refer to kipling who said when everyone is there 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 i said that or yeah i can see how. you would not see me you know. let's move yeah let's see our future lies in ideas and new mexico so we proposed to create a ministry of ideas kind of deal you such

a good idea. a ministry of ideas there's a plan let's go to. craig murray's the former you said to his back is turned off and a guest on this channel thank you for being with us nice to see today you're listening and we'll talk about some of the favorite this one a main questions that came up was about syria of course as it's been so in the news putin went back to that so many times what do you think about his his response about what's happening there now he says it's much further notice some sort of political solution no that trumps pulling out on the face of it anyway or the final troops do you agree with you. i think that's right in effect the. civil war of course isn't over and there are still in a very large part of the country getting up to what half the country. is controlled by american influence kurdish forces who. have

know their legion to the syrian government so it's but but they are. a political force which can be these and with and negotiated with they have the problem these are the turkey of course but the the vein of the sort of crazy saudi fact just a disk that was fortunately coming you know very close to coming to it too and then this of course they will be capable for just possibly decades to come and tell you this atrocity but in terms of being viable for from the ground we have thankfully wallace c.d.'s of the worse it would you know one big equation on the corner of this now the course if trump does pull these troops that could make the kurds very vulnerable and hearing the noise at the moment from present there the one in turkey almost every day the drumbeat of war that he wants to go it's going to talk about that more with our live guest the second of the program to just get back to the

lead in the putin thing it was touched upon the issue of u.k. russia relations he said that it's still in a stalemate but he expresses intention to fix them as a come from both sides or is that too much too much water to bridge at the moment. well the u.k. says are fixed quite firmly on russia as the enemy the moment the military industrial establishment always needs an enemy to justify its extreme spending and for a while after the fall of the soviet union in particular there was a period when. the russians. historic position is the enemy which is the the lady of a press conference a thirty kipling in the great game was quite right in this in imposing at that russia has featured as a bogeyman. to the u.k. for two hundred years or more. but the. four while.

islamic forces were seen as the enemy now been moved back again should russia being the number one enemy because that's of course much better for justifying huge conventional weapons it's a complete nonsense it's worth saying that there has never ever in the course of history been any russian plan to invade the united kingdom this still is no blame to invade the united kingdom so the idea that russia is in any sense our enemy is a complete nonsense. unfortunately the u.k. government seems determined to push ahead of that stance or i really don't think there's much chance of the falling in relations and in the near future some comments make it breaks if there's always obviously cause for a person where your broadcasting to is from tonight. he also brought in the us with a bit talking about bricks it he said bricks it happened but nobody wants to implement it he said that the political class is

a disrespected the public and their wishes are going to go down in britain. i think a fair number of people will will agree with that it's plain that the. the governing classes if you like are against texas and this was a form of popular the vault in terms of the vote but it here in scotland we have a very different opinion where there was a strong vote in all of scotland to stay within the us in union my own view is a solution to this is very simple the england and wales leave the european union as they wish and scotland are going to be. and to stay in the european union. i think that the situation is more complex than the putin. eliza's you're looking at these things from britain just interesting just funny but for me this is a big thing in russia when the when the president gets up and makes these long speeches he also does one of questions and answers from the people on c.n.n.

as well but sometimes these things go on for hours i was this feud abroad is it looked at as a strange thing or is it looks almost a good thing. i mean i think the western media will portray anything at all the president putin does as a bad thing. simply a strange box that they've they've locked themselves into. i mean my own view of the matter is that. it there are downsides to it it's a bit humiliating for the journalists in my view the way the kind of fight and scrap to be allowed to ask questions on the other hand questions were asked on domestic subjects which are very difficult for president putin he was asked about pension reform hurting him in terms of popularity he was asked about wealth disparity was asked about corruption and guns pill and these are genuine difficult questions and there's no doubt that having these is massively over from media is

a genuine exercise in democratic accountability should we see more of that in britain just think. i think we see far too much of today's or may or not. you know we're living. for more you can pastor to us becky. who's also been reporting on writing on the vents ongoing in syria thank you ever so much for your insight and you could thoughts nice to see tonight. there are poets in wasn't done with meeting journalists despite that he spent several hours talking with hundreds of them and also made time to speak to a teenage russian. girl has been registered blind and hopes to be a top reporter itself great she met the country's leader afterwards here's her that way. hello how are you. hello if there is one 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 and in your. years 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. first of all after we're going to conduct a drink for you with the president artie's he goes down off got to turn the tables to find out what she thought of the whole experience issues again. i was a major in your interview what were your impressions and how do you feel now. i feel like i did my very best to be honest i was shocked at first i didn't understand what was going on i was making up a question that's been asking them almost at the same time. because how do you prepare for the interview. that you know you first i was very nervous but that i just sat down and got writing a huge notebook of questions. when i was younger that when i dressed the president for the first time i was extremely nervous. also. but then i calmed

down he was so kind in answer to question so professionally you saw it turned out to be really easy to interview him. to be somewhere what was the most interesting question you asked and the best answer you received which is that we. found the most interesting answer was the one about music which is that the president told me a lot of interesting things and he turned out he loves classical music especially russian so it's just the. so you've already interviewed by the made if you will tell me what's next for you as a journalist because the problem is i feel and then i would like to continue interviewing grade and interesting people which. you say you see yourself as an interviewer yes and interviewer or presenter. well done choice of a great career had ever come up here about international syria of the united states and gone from surprise decision to withdraw american troops we got an update on

reaction after the break. join me every first day on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. meet up with the principal emotions sharing petitions 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 personal feelings maybe something tickled objections i would have but in politics history is

a judge and history will judge who's presidency was to the effect really to the nation and to the globe which was not. i get this out international live from moscow it could have a company don't trump has announced the defeat of islamic state in syria than did that a couple of days ago with the rapid withdrawal of all two thousand u.s. troops that the american president took to twitter to do it given his nation and himself much of the credit for the victory of the terrorists are those words st of perplexity administration and advices. we have one good study says we've

beaten them and we've beaten them badly now we've won it's time to come back. because will remain on the ground now to the physical defeat of the cold food until we have the pieces in place to ensure that the futures and or. the knock at the hell out of isis will be coming out of syria like very soon. to us officials tell n.b.c. news the president reluctantly agreed to keep troops in syria. unless point out that the us bug kurdish fighters will now be left abandoned vulnerable turkey's threatened an offensive in northern syria against the kurds who they view as terrorists fear of a clash indeed with the us perspire and chris onslaught well let's get the view from edge member gay she's a former turkish minister for eva joining us live on the program heather thank you make of the time for us so first off than i guess no surprise. in his character isn't it to take credit for most things he's taking the credit for defeating i still in syria let's just talk about that statement first is that

a fair assessment of what really happened there given all the parties involved well if you consider us all of the midterm elections are over now is looking forward to this relation and i think he just started this and are. ok now as far as turkey is concerned has to keep order any pressure here because we know the problem you have with the kurds. in that area america was kind of acting as a guarantor if it weren't for the kurds there is a very vulnerable position of america pulls out has there been any leverage behind the scenes between turkey and america to make this happen given that you both need to members of course. well yes we are allies but i need to correct you on one thing we don't have a problem with the curate's view of a problem with terrorists be there if they are kurds or they're arabs or they're doris or by p.g. or p k t or p y d or the or for to we just cannot tolerate terrorism

on our borders every terrorist that exists is a threat to our national security so no matter what the us does even if they have a true or they decide not to go we will deal with terrorism in the region as we have and when needed we will cross the border to clear the area from terrorists that there's been talk of an operation of you going over the border into syria to try and deal with these people that you call terrorists if the us was still there and they are troops it could put you in a direct confrontation with the us couldn't it or is that more of a feasible well we have already agreed with our american allies that they would help us push the y.p. g m p y v elements to the east of you freak has been over and if they do it's fine if part of you will have to do it on our own but now that the ever true way. there you know it telling us that it is our problem to. clean the area from those

terrorist elements and we are going to do it as soon as we can do you feel a bit upset by that maybe america's not backing you your drive to be turned on these people you call terrorists you feel a bit left alone there. well we have been trying to convince our american allies that the terrorists that are hurting and taking the lives of turkish citizens today will eventually become a headache for them and start their lives as well because the terrorist state and i tolerate they don't discriminate when they kill kill americans or muslims or christians or jews russians they don't make it a discrete discrimination so the fight against terrorism should not this community either a lot of people are still puzzled. as much as why a lot of people hear what you say about the domestic market why president have been we have done this after the midterms eccentrics cetera but it was only like

a week or two ago that we had a very different message from the pentagon about american troops and what may be doing in syria now we had this u. turn from from president tom at the same time we've been hearing the noise his rank present there the one about this new emboldened offensive against these people look at that you called terrorist was there any connection there or is it just a complete coincidence well it's not a. new. announcement from tricky tricky has been dealing with p.k. terrorism for know what you thought this year. but this week you had already an answer there in the preparation for sending our troops to push the i.p.g. you idea limits to the use of your sweeteners so president trump had already know he had already communicated with him but now he decided to withdraw his troops it could mean two things there he needs time before to conduct any operation to

convince the. terrorists in by p.g. to transfer elements into the east of you free this or. he just doesn't want to create any friendly crossfire and you want to take destruct. in any case turkey is determined to deal with this problem because it's hurting our national interests we're losing lives so even the signs a lot of people looking on the maybe aren't involved in the you know the more circumspect about this would seem to things going to be quieter in syria at the moment are we on the edge of another flashpoint regarding the kurds and turkey in syria because we're seeing that the turkish media do agencies reporting or quote this the country defense minister saying that quote unquote it will bury kurdish militants in the did choose they have dug well with that kind of real fiery top understand everything you feel about the kurds is there some real flashpoint on the horizon the immediate horizon something can happen so once again we don't have

a problem with secure it's fifteen percent of my country is made up of kurdish citizens who are very lawful or are great contributors to this country but if you have a problem with terrorists and went downstairs or could be arab or cured when there is when a so why beats your pew why the or thirty two was even turkish we have a problem with so we will not tolerate terrorism no better when it comes from america what this it represents or what ideology represents we have good relations with the kurds of iraq we have good relations with the. governments in the region but we just want to respect the territorial integrity of all countries as you know here we don't want syria to be divided into pieces we don't want iran or iraq or any other country in the region to be divided we will do our best to keep the territorial take that your thought of all of our neighbors including our own we'll

follow the story carefully sir thank you for your time tonight edge mean by gish former turkish minutes of affairs apologies to our viewers at home we put the wrong feet up on the for a minute or two and i did want to cause any confusion but now we know you are sir thank you very much being with us. thank you that is the way things look in so far this is data from moscow to exactly how fast eight keep up to date with everything from us as it happens at all tito called kevin o. and have a good evening. with evie when. you were you were with.