and there are lots of adventures of the europeans as well as america. wrapping up the presidential question and answer session on twenty eight teams biggest event today vladimir putin gave moscow stance on the threat of nuclear war globally the ukraine crisis much much more. many western politicians and even ordinary people see russia as a threat they even think that you want to rule the world and of course i'm sure of this even press the leader about potential plans for a global takeover. also to. 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 allies in the

administration announcing a surprise troop withdrawal from the country. thursday evening here in moscow just ten ten pm now welcome to my name's kevin i think shooting two is so little earlier on russian president vladimir putin next to the stage after his fourteenth annual q. and a with media from all around the globe is a huge event because special coverage of the whole thing and reaction to it right here starting right now. but in a putin support almost four hours of fact i'm tryna rave questions from both russian and foreign journalists from the economy to pensions to education to sniping back here there are question about potential world domination no less the russian president was never caught off guard following the q.

and a our senior correspondent were aghast at. 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 of stability and we are moving 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 a 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. 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 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 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 u.s. 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 than now. is the presence of american troops needed in syria he pushed you quite don't think so but let's not forget that the presence there is illegitimate. it was

not agreed with either with the u.n. 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 as it was in russia you know if it was done by the ukrainian authorities they have been 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 this is a global arms race and it isn't due to end well as. the us 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 insure our security with some concrete steps to let them not say later we are trying to get some advantage we're not trying to get some advantage with this but merely to secure pilots to ensure our security so what's more covered the 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 who had to do. a lot of questions the times it was very chaotic with journalists screaming and shouting and jumping to be noticed and to get their question across and the solution to. the new one putin then many more journalists. just know that they're the office i guess now artie's reporter among

the assembled journalists we've been trying to talk us through 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 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 putin 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 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 used to be the head of a russian news agency in ukraine carroll says seen in ukraine he's been arrested

for months the arrests of a blue team in the us and the recent detention of the wa 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. if you're trying to there with this q. and a it was a lengthy event was the longest. so far that there's going to four hours forty five

minutes these longest few years ago but that doesn't mean it's all entirely serious either even today's. it was in just when will you marry. and home. with us in but i was in the office and 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 of all the camera man they said my flat was bothering them the flat was big but my question will be small the russian flag can't bother anyone. but it's you know i want to refer to kipling who said when everyone is dead 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 about that or you can see

how. you would not see me off. but some of the yeah let's see our future lies and ideas so we proposed to create a ministry of ideas. how to deal with such a good idea. yeah but with their enthusiasm creativity and energy and ideas what i saw in agrees with that former mayor of london ken livingstone care never to see it tonight thanks make the time for us i was talking to ron paul and his company asking about his thoughts on what came out of this thing today regarding america let's look at one of the u.k. slams on it. we saw putin talk about a stalemate currently in the u.k. russian relations how can improve those be made currently is there any light at the end of the tunnel going into this new year do you think. well i've given an indication of why i think there isn't much progress coming i all the time whenever president trump in america does a press conference we see on our television i've just watched the b.b.c.'s thirty

minute evening news there's been no mention of putin's press conference and for someone to have a press conference for over four hours to answer all those questions in a detailed way that clearly we wouldn't get for trump it does strike you that there's a very double standard in the way the western media are covering it both russia and america and there seems to be very little here building up to water down the sort of gross overreaction of our government treason may our prime minister after the three poll situation at as muchin pointed out three polls alive i can show you he is dead but no one am saying that the british government in america made no sanctions against the sound is to clearly authorizes murder and it's these double standards and listening to people talk about an arms race when as we heard there president putin pointed out and we russia recent spending even

a tenth of what america does on its military and merry christmas shortly spending almost as much on its military is the whole of the rest of the world put together the idea that there's some threat from anybody the only threat we've got is the current erratic occupant of the white house is this way of communicating with the public into anything coming to twenty nine seen the way forward i mean putin has to these things are just talking to colleges now who remember back in two thousand make it was four hours forty putin stood up in front of the press and took questions. and then he did a similar thing with members of the public as well revised to feel their questions as well as a pretty open forum no matter how critical you are of it you could say it states whatever is a good idea is he being open with this question how is it perceived in britain this kind of thing when a president stands up for hours and says questions you don't see that britain's you . well canted it amazing i mean i follow politics very much i've never

seen one of putin's press conferences reported in the british media i mean literally why day reading the transcript was the first time i just think there's a very double standard here i mean putin came out at this conference as a rational logical person really on top of a vast range of subjects in a way that many other presidents and prime ministers really are they leave it to where officials and so i think with richard putin came over so well in this conference a lesson which exactly the reason why i suspect you can see on american t.v. channels are going into it with a critic going to say because our mass media its own state controlled media is what we accused of being and that we're brainwashing that the put is there for brainwashing people you can't win either which way how do you do it send a letter out newspaper this is more where doing isn't it. well i think the real problem you've got here is the distortion or we ever see in the british media and i

suspect in the american media is the threat from russia well i'm sorry i grew up in a world we're told about the threat from the soviet union now that all the documents about that period have been released we know there was never a potential threat america had so many more missiles i mean i remember president kennedy and campaigning in one thousand six. well with the soviet union and first briefing from the military they say well russia scott for nuclear missiles that can reach us and we have three hundred fifty that could reach them and think this is a man who's been a senator for eight years he's on the verge of being president and he's completely unaware of the reality and said so i don't know i mean how long beach edberg in twenty or thirty years i'm sure more truth will come out about what's going on in america who will look at the u.s. no pull you know this intermediate range nuclear forces treaty both sides have got their counter-arguments except for except for the ricks the excuses for it all why it shouldn't be done either which way as

a center ron ron grew up in the services it was actually during the cold war a serving. army person then but i grew up through it in school i remember the duck and cover of take a door of put over your head room with agreement common thing a number all of that i remember as a career really quite frightened of the potential of nuclear war except it seemed very real at the time you remember the public information from surely we are going to go back to that kind of arms race then again all this fear away. well the absolute nonsense i mean it seems to me that president putin subjectivist to rebuild the russian economy improve the quality of life for the mass of the population not getting to ridiculous arms race with the united states of america when you look at the situation the numbers of people in america living in poverty trump shouldn't be wasting billions more dollars on more and more nuclear weapons he should be actually trying to create a fairer society for his people which is i think i am not b.p.

naive you never know but i think that's much more likely to be putin's objective he actually seems to care for his people and that's why in this conference today he seemed to be on top of so many issues i can think of many politicians who would be our answer questions for for house covering such a wide range of issues and do it so credibly that the further trump is pulling out of this intermediate range nuclear forces treaty said he would do it's no great news and he done it to win votes back at home after the midterms he didn't do too well or is he generally do you think is a bad plan. well i think the problem for trump is that he's surrounded by some extremely right wing. advisers and officials and they want to push him in a much more i mean trump i don't think has any great ideology at the heart of his politics or any sort of sense of i and military strategy it's all one off decisions

stray vijay there's always been a group of very hardline right wing is in the american establishment trying to push america into more and more expenditure armaments i mean if you go back and read now a lot of the documents have been released from the kennedy in the johnson areas it comes over so clearly. let's go back talk about britain of course looming and overs really been very big headlines on that today i'm every day we turn our televisions we see people are going backwards and forwards there in parliament. yes it's going to be voted on no in general the fourteenth is near putin had some to say about it he said it should be delivered and that should fulfill the will of the people he are you surprised that he's taken that stance or not. well i mean the simple fact is if we had a second referendum there's a chance there might be this business of a small ship in favor of remaining largely because britain speciousness is have

been warning against the disruption that comes if we do have a break see it without a deal we'll have to have a massive restructuring very common e course walking away from the trading block you've been part of a forty five years nothing like that has ever happened anywhere in the world before and almost most of the reason people voted to leave the e.u. was they think too many immigrants are coming here they're taking our jobs in our homes the truth fees ever since saturday came to power under thatcher and blair and under this government we haven't built enough homes we haven't created enough good jobs so we shouldn't be blaming immigrants we should be dreaming forty years of governments failed the british people and the but that's a whole other program isn't it the rights and wrongs of. guarding bricks if no deal how would that potentially affect british trade u.k. trade with russia i mean there was a huge big news

a lot of business lot of play going but was of forwards two thousand and six seven it dropped off eight nine ten still healthy planeloads going by was and forwards still business i think is pretty healthy i would have bricks all deal or no deal of russia ties you know it wouldn't have much of. well it won't have a massive impact it's rather massive impact here in britain because it impacts on all rats writing down as in your britain is just a small part of rafters trading deal a much much more of russia's trade is done with the other twenty seven e.u. nations i mean cost threes made constantly is ramping up and keep shooting rhetoric again and again it will all the nonsense we heard about ukraine and things like that so i can imagine threes in my rushing off to do a new trade deal with president putin to be desperately. in washington sucking up to trump quickly if there was a change is saying that if somehow she was toppled if somehow lay big came in

without make anything different it's all or no. well labor wants to stay in a sort of customs union while suspecting the deal to leave and i think jeremy called in could negotiate a better deal because he's not a cess with immigration in the way the tory party is but i have to tell you this in all my life i've never known such an uncertain time we cannot predict what's going to happen even members of parliament and got a clue where we're going. so i mean if you put your betting on this you're wasting your money former mayor of london ken livingstone on virt happy note and not push up a christmas and thanks for the program. of lodging a potent wasn't done with meeting journalists who still had some time as well from other people there despite spending several hours with those said journalist there's one particular teenage russian girl who's registered blind retouch when i saw these pictures last maybe you haven't seen them yet so coming up now she hopes to be a top reporter a self she met the country's leader afterwards with

a really touching happened. hello how are you. tell out here because you know this 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 the. 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 is the big press conference the most striking event. this year with the presidential election on the world cup it's a little every person is a music lover in their soul what kind of music do you prefer rap classical or maybe have a matter of. well heavy metal it's very difficult for me to understand is too much although any music is good whether is talent so it should evoke positive emotions i like modern music but most of all so-called popular classical music and who is your favorite singer or group it's. just well we're seeing is hard to say if we're talking about popular classical then i can recommend the russian composer tchaikovsky and listen to schubert serenade by list i'm sure you will love it do you make a wish and in your. use 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. well as so first time i saw it was sweet want to show choose well well done with troubling times get back some have been used in the days and the defeat of islamic state that the rapid withdrawal of all two thousand us troops from syria the american president took to twitter giving his nation and crucially herself much of the credit for the victory of the terrorists although his words seemed to have perplexes ministration some of his allies and some of his advisors to. 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. to remain on the ground there after the physical defeat of the caliphate until we have the pieces in place to ensure that our defeat isn't. the knock at the hell out of isis will become another syria like very soon. two u.s. officials tell n.b.c. news the president reluctantly agreeing to keep troops in syria. this point out of

the u.s. but kurdish fighters will now be left abandoned vulnerable to an offensive in northern syria against the kurds and they've used terrorists a fear of a clash with the u.s. . it's thought earlier you know neal mccauley discuss the latest decision of the u.s. president with a member of the party who believes that a trip to washington from syria is a huge step towards a new multi-polar world. we here in turkey think that this is a very important very historic decision taken by the us president donald trump because to begin with the and over twenty seven years war started in one thousand nine hundred ninety one with the first invasion of iraq this decision of retreat from syria is not just a matter of defeated yes or not it is basic decision to end these twenty seven year old war led by the united states and its allies so it's a historic decision. maybe not easy to understand here today with

all the opposition within the united states by 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 period of u.s. controlled and u.s. led regime change is over as well the old politics of american imperialism as it's called as it was called to establish. regimes and governments that roundly. constitution still are friendly is also over the second this but in fact 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 he's 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 one. wait in this trio it's a it's for actors 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 off one of them anymore so this is a transition therefore to a multi-polar world where other countries in the united states and long themselves corporator and that their mind their future so definitely the united states will pull out of syria and this is the beginning of a new age. almost final full from now in this. last half hour if you have been on

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