wrapping up the presidential question answer session on twenty biggest events. the threat of nuclear war the ukraine crisis and much more. many politicians and even ordinary people if. they even think that you want to rule the world of course i do. international press the russian leader but plans for a global take over well thank you everyone for the funny side of that one also to. fighting for a long time at syria now we've won it's time to come back. takes credit for

defeating islamic state in syria inside his allies and ministration and troop withdrawal from the country. good morning just turned. most welcome to the next thirty minute bulletin from the international with me first and the russian president held his fourteenth annual q. and a with media from around the globe because special coverage of the whole event and reaction to it right here starting right now. from. a ray of questions from both russian and foreign journalists ranging from the economy to pensions to education to sniping back to rather old question about world domination following the q. and a our senior correspondent. or. not quite the five hours that his record

but you know pretty near four hours 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 that a chance of conflict but one thing that stood out towards the end was an interesting question of stability and we have been about whether he wants to rule the world and he does. many west some 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 surreal and 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 us 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. putin 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 but they are still there now and what is the presence of american troops needed in syria you pushed you quite don't think so let's not forget the presence there is illegitimate but it was not agreed on but it

will be there with the un security council along with the syrian leadership 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 savor displaying their colors. for everyone to see. flags all banners or indeed provocative questions you ask me to dinner i just wanted to ask you how much money do you spend on dunbar 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 it was russia you know it was done by the ukrainian authorities if 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 us is now leaving the i.n.f. treaty going to happen it is 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 concrete steps if you 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 see your pilots to insure our security so what's more covered that we don't have time to pack in now almost four hours the rec would do as well one thousand seven hundred and two accredited journalists in attendance with a lot of questions and times a very chaotic with journalists screaming and shouting in. jumping to be noticed and to get their question of course and unfortunately it's the only one and then many more journalists so how do you stand out all the time taken journalist

desperate to get their questions the president some people are trying to start up the crowd any possible way they could like this. sure. and want to noise artie's reporter for trying to was the most generous as well he told us through his question to the president he bore his own little plaque as well it was a bit on the small side. 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 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 what you're really trying to do is squeeze in some kind of stuff about the most important invention of the year so i 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 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 that 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 of speaking of other double standards i went on to talk about more things for example the arrest of russian journalists in fact he is he 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 way 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 we spoke to journalist subramaniam earlier he says president putin seen as a divisive figure but he says he might be on the mark of potential threats to global stability. now we're looking at a europe that doesn't really have a bank yet i mean the continent that doesn't really have

a stone you know ship now if lens to get in says that gridlock in the u.k. i think it's an understatement it's gridlock everywhere it's really really gridlock everywhere everyone's talking about coalitions everyone is talking about being inclusive everyone is talking about we need to break the barrier in fact president putin said that they need a breakthrough and i was wondering where does the breakthrough would come from who would lead the breakthrough is it funston threats coming out of washington every time the president of america speaks it's that tricked you know he's ducking our pulling out of the booty or he's talking are getting out of every treaty they're the janitor eating at the end i mean i am stating it as a breakdown of a multilateralism across the board not just in the weapons were in the weapons but across the board there's a trade war that's looming today there's a trade war tomorrow and all it's that it's just going any which way and i think

when you know when when you say no we'll manufacture not some sort of i mean i'm not an expert but of long brigade nuclear weapons what what on earth does that mean it's not one too many it's many too many and kings are spiraling out of place and i think the fact that the president took that down you did whether you like it or not really you don't like his answer like i can understand the questions and people had questions that ultimately i really hope that at least acted very least this would lead to some kind of the conversation but you. vladimir putin wasn't quite the meeting genesis avoid spending several hours with hundreds of them screaming out this is really sweet next to sort of three hours ago from a throne actually a teenage russian girl who is registered blind and hopes to be a top report herself one day but the country's leader afterwards check out but in this interview so you think.

hello how are you. if. 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. probably at first it was very difficult for you can you describe your first days as president. 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. 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. there said 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 weather is talent so it should evoke positive emotion i like modern music but most of all so-called popular classical music and who is your favorite singer or group. well with sing is hard to say if we're talking about popular classical then i can recommend the russian composer tchaikovsky i'm listening to schubert serenade by list i'm sure you will love it how do you make a wish and in your. use yes this wish was a secret but i could 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. it was a nice thing to do all sides in that well he conducted to the president is a custom of course to turn the tables on her to see what she thought of the whole

experience. he says to regain a 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 obviously making up my shins and asking them almost at the same time how did you prepare for the interview. that you first i was very nervous but that i just sat down and got writing a huge notebook of questions. and i was never that good when i dressed the president for the first time i was extremely nervous. but then i come 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 someone who could quote was the most interesting question you asked and the best answer you received. does that mean.

the most interesting answer was the one about music to the president told me a lot of interesting things and it turned out he loves classical music especially russian just the. so you've already interviewed by to me if you were to tell me what's next for you as a german. because the problems that i would lay to continue interviewing grade and interesting people which. are you see yourself as an interviewer yes an interviewer or prisoner. ok away from a big trouble in a today or the news this morning donald trump has announced the defeat of islamic state in syria did a few days ago and the rapid withdrawal of all two thousand u.s. troops from a war torn country the american president took to twitter to do it giving his nation and himself much of the credit for the victory over those terrorists although his words seem to perplexed his administration and some of his allies and advisers know to be 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 all remain on the grounds of her character the physical to veto a caliphate until we have the pieces in place to ensure that the feeders and or. the knock of 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 so what next analysts point out that the u.s. backed kurdish fighters will now be left abandoned and crucially vulnerable turkey's threatened an offensive in northern syria against those kurds who they view as terrorists a fear of a clash with the u.s. it seems as perspire and onslaught is the thought earlier you know neal mccauley discuss the latest decision of the us president with a number of turkish petry arctic party who believe that the retreat of washington from syria is a huge step towards 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 all war started in one thousand nine hundred ninety one with the first invasion of europe 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 is called as it was called to establish. regimes and governments that ran the. constitution is that your friend is also the second 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 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. in this dream your.

words 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 one of them anymore so this is a transition therefore to a multi-polar world where other countries in the united states and long. term and their future so definitely the united states will. and this is the beginning of a new age. to report next year the smalling says for the first time in half a year judy the son just had visitors to the ecuadorian embassy in london two german m.p.'s met with a whistleblower to express express their solidarity and also in the hope they can find a legal solution to the wiki leaks founder current situation this is a church picks up the story from their. m.p.'s from the german bundestag and its committee on foreign affairs who authored a letter in support of the q leaks founder julian assange signed by dozens of

m.p.'s have been visiting him here at the ecuadorian embassy in the british capital they are demanding that you keep provide assurances that a songe would be able to leave this embassy without being extradited to the u.s. the see the next step in this ever lasting peace is the responsibility the united kingdom united kingdom has to take the measures now. to a solution which is in the frame of international law and not in the frame off the u.s. at least station boy is a gates international law and against actually the u.s. war i mean against the first amendment they are taking measures like the protection of journalists and freedom of speech and the freedom of press so we have to actually protect them from they have a self. not to buy. late deficit men julian

a sundress father also visited him here on thursday saying he did not find his son in the best of conditions. declining as you would expect a future. wish to go straight to. court cases. those. strict this is. to a communication no telephone. no friend. to. the m.p.'s visiting from berlin have demanded that the international community listen up to the united nations ruling that has now quite a long time ago found that julian assange has detention is arbitrary united kingdom government tried to appeal to the un decision and they lost and still they are not exceptions and. accepting this un decision and this has to be stopped and

they have to i mean it's a member of the united nations it's a have a seat in the security council and in my point of view you can't united kingdom is dead to accept and respect the international law and international rights of someone local who likes to you know songs ecuadorian officials have legally been increasingly indicating that the week you leaks founder has outstayed his welcome behind these walls while his sancia spent the last sixteen years here fearing that if you leave the premises he will be extradited to the us and prosecuted for his work as we can weeks publisher that released information that washington would rather have kept under wraps reporting from london a mistake with our to. south america venezuela which is reeling under the crippling hyper inflation is pegged its hopes of recovery no one cryptocurrency has many businesses that are adopting technology to accept payments in crypto but it's not

all smooth rather user bad see rif national report from caracas. behind me as one of caracas is famous for the ballot kind of trademark of venezuela's capital no one can say how many people are leaving those slabs. some studies estimate that more than eighty percent of been israel is thirty million population leaving dire poverty once relatively well off the country's oil dependent economy simply collapsed when prices slumped fuel is fast becoming one of the few things anyone can afford in venezuela according to today's rate for just one u.s. dollar i can get attention eleven thousand tons of fuel sounds absurd right with hyperinflation here in the country a week later for the same amount i would be able to get it would more than that

annual inflation has topped one million percent and in an attempt to curb it five zeroes have been knocked off the currencies value it actually gasoline is cheap if people are starving who don't get proper health care and education while the security situation getting worse every day. all we've got a starvation and it's to far out of this government. experts say been as well as economy can hardly survive without international donations in reality u.s. sanctions make it impossible for an as well a to pay off debt let alone borrow money and donald trump has never made washington's aim as secret i'm not going to rule out a military option we have many options for that is whether it's a regime that frankly could be toppled very quickly by the military as the military starts to do that cut off from the dollar the countries unable to import food or

medicine putin and even heavier burden on the already exhausted population are even though this. actions do not affect or prove that the importation of of basic goods is a fair fact that there are financial sanctions under this bill has made it very difficult for the country to or for the government rather to engage in our financial transactions over almost any kind of man without going to say we're also depends to a large extent of the true ninety something percent of that software and in can ever know it's hard currency earnings it depends on oil production you know production is declining because it would be almost impossible for the government to import badly needed replacement parts for the oil industry and so while production has declined by as much as fifty percent in the past two years the digital money firm dash though sees this catastrophe differently they are calling it a creep to revolution trying to encourage people to avoid hyper inflation and secure their money electronically dash is digital cash much like bitcoin but unlike

bitcoin it's really the first form of digital cash that works just like physical cash the group says its cash could be successfully used to pay for airplane tickets head tells a lunch as we heard that food chains like papa john's subway may accept cryptic currency we're going to take it out now this sticker actually means that they do accept print the currency by whether this. i can pay with cash. only currently i cannot accept the payments and dash i need a smartphone to scan the code that you'll receive on your phone to complete the transaction but the boss took the smartphone how many people pay with a printer currencies and popular. when we have the equipment during the weekends sometimes we get four people in one day confused a bit which tried couple of other restaurants of the same chain and another one reportedly except in payments encrypt but the best we got was the dash sticker we

saw through a closed glass door do you pay with crypto currency no i don't because why. i don't have any i don't know i personally don't use it they will go on to pay pensions and cryptocurrency but i don't know whether that seven. people do have access but they can't afford it all they make goes towards buying food. optimists say creeped occurrences can help those who fled the broad some estimate the number is already into the millions to transfer money to their families still here in venezuela but until fundamental changes come into effect the so called a creep to revolution won't ease the months of hardship cryptocurrency it. could work i think and of course people would be interested in using it if one were just more or less certain that the price of oil were going to go up going it's going down government people are going to be interested in investing and so on so

that's been a bit of a problem for the government because recently the price of oil has been going down it's going to be very difficult under these circumstances for any kind of crypto currency actually i think to have to really take hold and going to survive because it needs economic stability i think in order to work well when you look at hyperinflation what one dollar buys in fuel really brings it home doesn't it maybe much cousin get across that marks and off to the break from the other for me kevin i mean they said early friday morning here in moscow thanks for keeping up to date with everything that's been happening for us last hour and those go. up as well and . now good morning.

my son is doing drugs my nephew's was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like in. demeanor of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse you started going after the users in the prison population who are we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i increasingly became convinced that the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for inconceivably long sentence in this for being a minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in wave and say by day as you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easier. china much bigger economic power much more wall inter.