well u.s. defense secretary james mattis will step down from his post at the end of february the announcement comes shortly after president decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria plus. bring up the presidential question and answer session on the two thousand eight hundred biggest event putin gives moscow's stance on the threat of nuclear war the ukraine crisis and. much more. many western politicians and even ordinary people. they even think that you want to rule the world of course i do. international journalists even press the russian leader about potential plans for a global takeover thankfully everyone sees the funny side. of

broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our two international thomas glad to have you with us. u.s. defense secretary james mattis has announced his resignation following chumps decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria artie's him up and picks up the story is known as mad dog mattis the u.s. secretary of defense one of the military men referred to as one of my generals well it seems he'll be leaving the job at the end of february here's what we saw on social media trumps tweets about the departure of the u.s. secretary of defense. general jim mattis will be retiring with distinction at the end of february after having served my administration as secretary of defense for the past two years during jim's tenure tremendous progress has been made especially

with respect to the purchase of new fighting equipment general mattis was a great help to me in getting allies and other countries to pay their share of military obligations a new secretary of defense will be named shortly i greatly think jim for his service now it's being reported that apparently mattis did not agree with trump's announcement to withdraw u.s. forces from syria madison argued that it was necessary to maintain some small u.s. military presence in syria for the purpose of fighting against terrorism he did not agree with it that's what's being reported now the resignation letter of mattis has surfaced and it contains the phrase because you have the right to a secretary of defense whose views are more aligned with yours now the letter makes reference to the fight against terrorism and also makes reference to the rising influence of russia and china around the world now the letter itself doesn't specifically name a solid disagreement between the president and the secretary of defense but it's

been widely reported that there was indeed a disagreement about the decision to withdraw from syria now donald trump is now going to have to announce a replacement for the secretary of defense that replacement will then have to be confirmed by the u.s. congress at the end of february u.s. secretary of defense mad dog james mattis will be leaving the trumpet ministration colonic of l. a professor of political science at bluefield state college believes trump's decision to withdraw troops from syria was the last straw for most. numerous disagreements between secretary of defense james madison and president. including the banning of transgender troops in the u.s. military the story in the force the putting on of a costly military perennially as well as pulling the actors this

isn't south korea out and also. matters with against the united states withdrawing from the joint conference a plan of action with iran so the been numerous disagreements previously but the. president trying to pull u.s. troops out of syria was apparently the straw that. tender his resignation for twenty eight twenty nine taking. president claimed victory over islamic state in syria on wednesday and announced of the rapid withdrawal of all two thousand u.s. troops from the war torn country american president took to twitter giving his nation and himself much of the credit for defeating the terrorists although his words seem to have perplexed his administration allies and advisors we have won against isis we've beaten them and we've beaten him badly now we've won it's time

to come back. because we'll remain on the ground after the physical defeat of the caliphate until we have the pieces in place to ensure that the defeat isn't or. 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 some analysts point out that the u.s. backed kurdish fighters will now be left abandoned and vulnerable turkey has threatened and offensive in northern syria against the kurds who they view as terrorists the official spokesperson of syrian democratic forces which includes the kurds told us why they oppose trumps move with the american decision to withdraw from syria is sudden and shocking to us and even for the american troops here on the ground and the american withdrawal will surely contribute in one way or another to escalating the continuous turkish threats toward the north of syria in general

and towards the kurdish people in particular. earlier you know neal my colleague discuss the latest decision of the u.s. president with a member of the turkish patriotic party who believes that the retreat of 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 europe this decision of retreat from syria is not just a matter of defeated yes or not it is basic decision to and 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 well imperialism as it's called as it was called to establish. regimes and governments that ran the. constitution. 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. 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 way to treat your. poor actors actually is the syrian 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 corporate entities and their future so definitely the united states will. and this is the beginning of a new age. russian president has held his fourteenth annual q. and a with the media in attendance from all around the globe our t.

was front and center for the whole event and our special coverage starts right now . and spent almost four hours answering in a radio of questions from both russian and foreign journalists ranging from the economy pensions and education to a sniping back at a question about world domination our correspondent was there. 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. who can about whether he wants to rule the world and he does.

many why 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 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. 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 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 live 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 but 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 you 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 human along with the syrian leadership so if the u.s. 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 you. committed to do no good i just wanted to ask you how much money do you spend on done by us people are starving and they've turned into slaves of russian frankly speaking as the world's richest remembering the puzzle's to. just tell me this. between on the us and the rest of ukraine but of course in 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. 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 therein 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 going to end well as the u.s. is now leaving the i.n.f. treaty. 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 but let's not say later we are trying to get an advantage we're not trying to get some advantage with this but merely to seek your pilots to ensure our security so what's more covered that we don't have time to pack in now almost four hours the record do

as well one thousand seven hundred and two credited journalists in attendance with a lot of questions in the times that was very chaotic with journalists screaming and shouting and jumping to be noticed and to get their question of the crisis and solution leaves them with only one putin than many more journalists. are and with her time ticking and journalists desperate to get their questions to the president those in attendance tried to stand out from the crowd any way they could.

sure. our own ilya patro was among the journalists and talked us through his questions to the president you had even brought his own poster to get the attention of the journalists though 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 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 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 plot a more potent 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 lie however there are sanctions against russia and complete silence in the case of saudi arabia is that this politicized russia for you because approach is just

another 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 journalist in fact he is he used to be the head of a russian agency news. and see 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 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 we spoke to former u.s. congressman ron paul who gave us his take on some of the issues addressed by the russian president. i don't think it means that something horrible is eminent but i think it's a shame that that has happened because when we do that as american citizens we see our government doing this then there's a response from the russian government and i see that going in the wrong direction but i don't think it should be a great alarm that next month there will be a clash. and trump although he has his ups and downs i think that he has taken

a good position he said he wanted to get out of out of syria and he said in the campaign he said that isis is not a threat there and that it's time to come home and i just wanted to be complete yes move the troops out are couple thousand troops but i want to make sure that you know the cia's out in the special forces are out and that we don't use sanctions and that we move in that direction where we just have hands off and deal with diplomacy and getting along with people but in that philosophy that i just spoke it also means no foreign aid well our problem is if we dominate and militarized a country then we finance all that and if we converted into friendship then we send them millions of dollars because we still own you so we still should be concerned it's great to do troops are leaving and as i mentioned as we began that i wanted to be more inclusive you know i'm not saying we're going to remove two thousand troops because we've been in a many many countries we continue to be in countries but we start off with our cia

agents and we start off with special forces we start off with interfering with sanctions and we just. we don't need any of that if we're noninterventionist and we just want friendship and trade you don't spend that money because it gets us into trouble following his press conference a lot of money put in was not done with a meeting journalists despite spending several hours with hundreds of them teenage russian girl who was registered blind and hopes to become a top reporter herself met the country's leader afterwards. hello how are you. fellow 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. you know it 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 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 let me just say 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 singh is hard to say if we are 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 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. after the young woman finished her interview with the president. to turn the tables and find out what she thought of the experience. 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 my shins and asking them almost at the

same time how did you prepare for the interview. and show you first i was very nervous but that i just sat down and got writing a huge no questions. when i was younger that 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 quote was the most interesting question you asked and the best answer you received which is that we. don't the most interesting answer was the one about music with the president told me a lot of interesting things and he turned out he loves classical music especially russian so it's just. so you've already interviewed by the minute if you tell me what's next for you as a journalist because the problem is that i would like to continue interviewing

grade and interesting people insidious which if you say you see yourself as an interviewer yes and interviewer or presenter. for the first time in a half a year julian assange has had visitors to the ecuadorian embassy in london to german m.p.'s met with the whistleblower to express their solidarity and the hopes that they can find a legal solution to wiki leaks founder situation are set to see if you're going to pick up the story. m.p.'s from the german bundestag it's committee on foreign. affairs who authored a letter in support of we queue 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 the u.k. provide assurances that the song would be able to leave this embassy without being extradited to the u.s. we see the next step in this ever lasting case is the responsibility the united

kingdom united kingdom has to take the measures now. to thank you solution which is in the frame of international law and not in the frame off the u.s. at a new station boys against international law and against actually the u.s. will 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 themselves not to a violate their first amendment julian assange just father also visited him here on thursday saying he did not find his son in the best of conditions. declining as you would expect of a fusion. straight. pool patient. a strict business ties.

to a communication you know telephone. my friend. a lawyer. 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 the un decision and but they lost and still they are not exceptions and. accepting this u.n. decision and this has to be stopped and they have to i mean it's a member of the united nations it's 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 who likes to you know songs ecuadorian officials have legally been

increasingly indicating that the wiki leaks founder has outstayed his welcome behind these walls while his sancia spent the last six years here fearing that if he leaves the premises he will be extradited to the u.s. and prosecuted for his work as we can weeks publisher released information that washington would rather have kept under wraps reporting from london on the stacy church with our. well meanwhile a journalist who has been a long time medio partner for with the leaks has won a freedom of information act appeal in her battle over press freedom the ruling requires the london metropolitan police to turn over any correspondence they may have between u.k. and u.s. authorities regarding three wiki leaks associates us court ordered google to disclose the employee's emails and ip addresses back in two thousand and twelve as part of an investigation into wiki leaks the plaintiff's lawyer is still on the

says well they spoke to r.t. about the ruling. club in your decision is a very important decision for journalists the key point that it's clarifies is that a journalist can use freedom of information legislation which in the u.k. entitles access to documents held by public bodies that journalist can use that to obtain personal information about individuals where they have those individuals consent and that was being argued by the metropolitan police not to be correct they were suggesting that the individuals themselves had to make their own requests under data protection they're just lesion so the metropolitan police has been required by the tribunals to confirm or deny whether it holds the requested information within twenty eight days and they then have to go on to provide any information that they hold all they have to explain using our freedom of

information laws why they are not able to provide it. and that does it for me i'll be back with headlines in let's say thirty one minutes you want you're not international. that's geysers financial survival guide liquid said does it you can burn as quite easily. to keep in mind as its immediate places. there are. greetings and salutations in today's world of news media there is fake new and then

there is actual fake news the typical fake news is the term the politicians pundits and political party devo tease used to insult and accuse each other when confronted with journalism or facts they disagree with and then there is real life fake news where a news story is written based on verifiably false facts and narratives to push an agenda for political person or financial gain and real life big news was brought front and center this week when the guardian reported that class reload serious and award winning journalist for der spiegel was discovered to have been blatantly falsifying stories over the course of his career yes cnn's two thousand and fourteen journalist of the year had to resign his position as one of the spiegel's top writers upper was uncovered that he made up stories and invented protagonists at least fourteen of sixty of his articles.