well she would have to. deploy systems that could be used. where you have to make. the use of. a lot of makes his annual state of the nation address stressing that russia's actions in the international arena are purely defensive and not the kremlin does not seek confrontation with its global partners. the president said he did not believe that the north koreans had the capability to hit us here to which the president replied i don't care i believe. in other world news this hour a former acting director of the f.b.i.

levels in century cleans out donald trump including not the u.s. leader could be a russian. staying in the u.s. a big development of the week still feeling that burden or not america's socialist bernie sanders announces he will run for president next year promises to complete his quote revolution. wherever you may be tuning in from right around the world this hour a warm welcome to moscow and to our to international my name's o'neill our top story the russian president has given his annual state of the nation. dresses just

finished up what around fifteen thirty minutes ago or so this year the focus was primarily domestic challenges a good swathe of the hour and a half talking about internal issues the country's economic development in particular he did at touch upon the foreign policy concerns as well saying that moscow does not seek confrontation with its international partners. and i would like to be open about it old. you watch we get to today so that no new . russian would have to rebuild and deploy systems that could be used. against the trees where we would see direct threats but also against those territories where you have the decision made. on the use of those missiles. will just go and see through some of the main

aspects of this year's address is the twenty fifth in russia's history. with putin's fifteenth address and i was going through some of them in auspex all of all this it does seem to be talking about families and small businesses that seemed to be the real takeaway of what was going on talk about tax breaks trying to get people on the housing ladder trying to get a digital infrastructure that people born in smaller cities smaller tons run russia can actually you know have a career where they are born where they live and not have to move to the moscow's on the petersburg's a big swathe of that there's going to be a lot of talking points about how that can progress in the world's largest countries. was the speech taking notes and busy checking what was different from year to year and he joins us. live ill yet tell us what your take

away is i know you've been chatting to some policymakers as well what was your view on the speech. union the hi i'm glad to tell you that i'm joined right now live on r t. who's the head of the federation council's committee on information policy mr pushkov thanks very much for your time. two very important messages from mr putin for the western countries and when he mentioned the european union the president said we are hoping you would try to make steps towards us the message that. came from him when it comes to the u.s. was be honest do you think these messages will be heard outside the country. i assume that the. they will be heard just another question whether any measures will be taken on those messages suppose that the european union has chosen its

course this is keeping sanctions on russia and adding new sanctions to russia so put in expresses the hope that the european union. or eventually will change its approach to russia. but has sort of showed that we can suggest nothing to the european union on our side it's up to them to reconsider their policy and they are multiplying the sanctions so at some point they have to stop and they have to reconsider. i don't sing the european union is a stage one that will stop and will reconsider i'm afraid that the european union decide is course it's staying it's course i'm just coming from the munich conference where i heard quite a few statements. the leaders of the members of the european union and they all point to the direction should be more pressure put to row in russia. russia should

pay for it so just gresham's as the minister of defense of great britain mr williamson suggested and so i'm not very optimistic about the european union changing its course but just suggested that we are interested in a better relationship so if the you decides that the time for a better relationship has come so they have to take this decision and will respond now talking about the united states i saying that the message was much stronger icing the message was that if there are some people in the united states who would like to use more military pressure on russia then they should be they should understand they are playing with fire and that was a signal to those who i think underestimate maybe the strengths of russia or overestimate the capacities of the united states to exercise pressure on russia especially by military means and i think the. final part of putting speech

was just designed to shoulder russia will no yield to any kind of military pressure and if there are hopes that the russian policy and stand can be changed supply military means are those are the main hopes i think this message will be heard and i think in the united states there are still some leaders who understand that russia is a leading nuclear power saluting military power and the guys say should not enter into a military confrontation with russia but if there are some doubts about that then put in icing try to dissipate those doubts the president spent some of his time talking about the new weapons just like he did last year at the same time he said he keeps saying that russia is not aggressive and whatever moscow is doing is only an response to a great deal of pressure from outside i know it's up to the. observers to decide do

you believe this speech will be seen in the west as somewhat aggressive. icing that the media and a number of politicians will try to picture it as an aggressive speech. just because putin has spoken about the new weapon system he has confirmed of those weapon systems being finalized that there will be put on. submarines and warships i mean he said that what he said last year were not just fantasy he said we are in competition with the those programs in the military field and. we are not just playing with words what we promised a year ago we are putting this into practice so just be aware that we have those new systems quite functioning and quite ready to give a reply if there is any kind of attack on russia but in fact this was not an aggressive speech and in fact russia is not moving its missile to the western

hemisphere is still going to nicaragua or those missiles so to cuba venezuela on the contrary we see that poland would like to have american nuclear devices on the polish there are three we know there are new launchers i being established in ramallah and. the united states the united states says that it will enhance its military presence and also need to enhance its military presence in the black sea ice far as i know the black sea is not an american city and so russia is not moving to american borders russia's not going to american shores and we're seeing more and more nato forces and more and more u.s. military activity all our borders and along our shores so russia is different and they'll take an aggressive stand nato is coming our way like it has been coming since one thousand nine hundred ninety we are not coming the american way or when i was not coming the british way so i think that of course would be to much to explain why the west tries to exercise no. for pressure on russia there would be

a lot of talk in the us media and in the u.s. congress about russian aggression to stop it was there is no russian aggression there is very strong military activity of the united states and nato in the baltic republics in the baltic sea in the black sea and in the western european countries like poland and romania and of course we actually it's it's next to our door and we're just reacting to that and i think that all people can understand the strategic question with you know people of inclined to listen to russia they will understand that it has nothing of an aggressive speech it's a speech was shows that the russia can defend itself in the case if there is necessity to freddy's the president's message that moscow will not knock on a door that is actually shots how does that bind with the words that we keep hearing from both mr putin and the foreign minister mr lavrov that russia is still always open for dialogue and russia always hopes for are open for

a dialogue were not open to all tomatoes and there was a difference between some people in the west think the dialogue is. formulating ultimatums to moscow that moscow should actually abides to so this kind of their log is over it will not work first we don't want to listen to those ultimatums and we are not ready to engage in this kind of dialogue that. you know russia is i would say tired of offering initiatives like you know we should or should concert keep the. i.n.f. treaty we should talk about the future of the stars three treaty we should talks about this we should look about the european security and so on all our initiative has been rebuffed by the united states and so if the united states have no appetite to talk to russia or us russia has no as a date anymore to talk to the united states if they won this they will get this now or after a certain period a single get. back to some negotiations i don't think the u.s.

can afford not to talk to russia but if there is such a trend now in washington that the united states will just threaten russia i think it will be nowhere if the united states want to go back to the negotiate to negotiation table where it was but we are not we will not be the first to suggest of the americans because we see that for the time being there are no prospects for any kind of successful talks so let's wait for the time when america will get specter the notion that they should have constructive talks with russia and maybe it will give more results this event is a very important domestic political speech of course but there is always an international segment in this international segment mr poole can spend about ten or fifteen minutes talking about its main its first series on an international political scene the u.s. peace and he only said a few words about the likes of china and india just one sentence about the european union he didn't mention even as well at all for example why do you think that's the

case. that. in such a speech. the president of wanted to put the stress on the main issues that russia is facing. all the importance of the future of an as well is not one of the most important issue for our national development the national security. what is important for us is whether the united states will go back to a new cold war as russia whether we are heading for a new caribbean crisis in the future like because because the cold war is always fraught with a kind of new cuban crisis and it was not by chance that we came to this in ninety six deal with the united states of america so we don't want this to be repeated itself which it was putting the stress on the issues of first importance for for the russian federation and i think also that he did not elaborate. you know

relations with china and with them because basically those are very positive relationships i mean those are relations with gives some hope for the future we have trade volumes that are growing we have military cooperation with china india the brics. among the brics countries and he has just shown that those dimensions of russian foreign foreign policy. so he concentrated on issues which according to him . the most the biggest challenge and the biggest challenge according to the president is russian security that's why he. paid so much attention to mr bush golf thank you very much for your insights. i would just like to remind you that right now was talking to. who was the federation council's head of the federation council committee on information policy and he shared his views on the international aspects of the russian president's speech thanks again thank you.

very interesting it was to a lot of points being touched upon there. live from where that speech by plumber putin happened last hour all right let's get some reaction to that our in-house speech by the russian president happy to say joining us from london is the host of parties going on the ground hi there option what were your impressions then of president putin's address did it differ from previous years what did you take away . you know in the past few minutes here in britain three senior members of parliament on the drazen may have just quit the conservative party so i'm going to say of course we were watching in the news room here but no journalists were in mainstream media here but i suggest they do nation media not really interested you want to put it into a context that from london's point of view the defense secretary said. whatever

putin says britain has to send its aircraft carrier to china to combat not only russia but china which is why the u.k. foreign secretary meeting was canceled beijing authorities didn't like it at all and putin is similar taney asli useless because there is civil unrest in moscow and similar tenuously all powerful you used a clip from the us current affairs program sixty minutes with a former f.b.i. director claiming that trump takes orders from putin so he used as but he also controls the white house and it has to be said that again and again we're told in this country that we need to protect the borders of nato nations because i know you're in moscow you might have a different view there there is an imminent russian invasion of the baltic states in scandinavia that is seriously the level of debate so what vladimir putin was saying at this important speech of the russian federation would not make much sense within that narrative which i would suggest is probably why it's not covered here

i'm sure what message then does it send to the world if it is digested by and western observers and protect what would they have been watching for and would they be sated would they be happy with what they heard. well as regards internal russian federation economic policy arguably there's more criticism of letting me putin's policy within the russian federation nato nations media there isn't much coverage of that arguably a little about the proposed pension reforms ahead of the world cup so i suppose it will center on the i.n.f. treaty as your previous speakers and your politicians have been saying over there in that debate ironically nato nations tend to. perhaps be more inclined to russia because of an overwhelming despair at donald trump because liberal.

new liberal media certainly in the e.u. does not support all trumps policies and presumably that means also in the i.m.f. nuclear intermediate missile treaty yeah as you alluded to a previous guest. he said it was a strong speech not a combative one putin himself claiming that russia will only ever act in a defensive manner and will never be an aggressor straight we can in fact just listen together afshin to what was said. by. russia wants to have equal. relations with the united states or russia doesn't threaten anybody. whenever we do anything it's we do this in response so we are defending ourselves no those situations we do not seek confrontation we don't want confrontation especially with the global power like the united states. how do you read that. well again here in britain we

have actual institutions supported by the british foreign office and intelligence services the deployed journalists and think tanks so that what let me putin was saying just there is never disseminated to the british public i'm not sure about the other e.u. and nato nations but we have a thing called the integrity initiative it deploys think tanks to create this idea arguably in newsrooms up and down the country that the mere putin was saying there is just not true and that in fact russia as i said and this is reflected in the two exercises that have been occurring the past few months that in fact quite a separate and in complete opposition to what the president of russia was saying russia is in fact planning an invasion of scandinavia in the baltic states perhaps some russians may laugh at that but that is seriously one of the bedrocks of british and nato joint exercises we always appreciate your time thanks so much

option returns he who is the party's going underground live this hour from london. all right let's get a check on more world news we're following this whedon stay a former acting director of the f.b.i. under mccabe has provoked a firestorm of controversy by claiming both in a new book and also to the media that the u.s. president is in the kremlin's pocket. do you still believe the president could be a russian are so. i think it's possible i think that's why we started our investigation i think the president as a threat is that what that means i think it's entirely possible i think that's one of the reasons why we opened the case against him we had good reason. to consider that the president might be a threat to national security did you suspect the president might actually be working for russia he thought that might be possible the u.s. justice department fired under mccabe last year just before he was set to retire

saying that he had lied multiple times under oath about comments he'd made to the media he claims though about the decision was politically motivated their senior correspondent rutger's the of picks up the story. sensation selves it's a fact of life the bigger the dirtier the ruling shia your story the more people listen this book is dirty but we'll get to that first his revelations who could have believed that senior u.s. officials discussed seriously talked about declaring trump mentally or physically unfit to be president meaning he could be constitutionally removed from office discussion of the twenty fifth amendment was was simply rod raise the issue and discussed it with me in the context of thinking about how many other cabinet officials might support such an effort and the attempted coup some call this in the

united states of all places insanity and was this an attempted bureaucratic i don't know this was a coup attempt there's no doubt about it but hey one man's coup is another's revolution and would you believe there's worse stuff in this book allegedly trump trusts putin more than his own intelligence agencies unbelievable the president said he did not believe that north koreans have the capability to hit us here with ballistic missiles and united states intelligence officials in the briefing responded that that was not consistent with any of the. teligent our government possesses to which the president replied i don't care i believe putin it's almost too crazy to be true come to think of it that is a pretty outlandish claim but hey folks are buying it because you know one of the

things that impressed me about mccabe in the interview was how careful he was about what he knew what he didn't know and what he had overheard he was very almost as if he was justifying it to trial did seem like mccain was being credible and it's a pretty incredible allegation that he's making that trump would trust putin's view on this over the us intelligence agencies well some people will believe anything especially if it tarnishes trump the more sensible bull look at the author andrew mccabe who may not be the most honest person in the world at all according to the justice department inspector general report was the sensation here when he was the f.b.i. as deputy director eked sensitive information to the press and then lied about it four times three of those under oath mccabe is rightly perceived already as

a lying before with a major set of conflicts of interest you know mccabe is i think he's under criminal investigation already he's trying to sell this book now so the guy might be a liar ok it's given the benefit of the doubt trump trusting putin more than his intelligence guys which is strange because trump threatened north korea with biblical vengeance meaning he must have taken the threat seriously they will be met with fire fury more than that in two thousand and seven. teen russia joined in on sanctions against north korea meaning moscow two saw a threat the facts fly in the face of sensation it's the mccabe it seems is back to old habits theory

a lie to spice things up get the book selling and then the timing of the timing just as trump and kim jong prepare for another summit. bernie's back bernie sanders has officially thrown his hat into the ring for the twenty twenty us presidential election the veteran vermont senator's announcement has drawn a mixed reaction online and in the media while some praised the decision and expressed hope the self-styled democratic socialist will be able to win the white house others argue that it's seventy seven years too old to be commander in chief are to scale up our been picks up the story. look who's back it's the veteran left winger who put the phrase democratic socialism into the american political vocabulary he's got crazy hair and economic populism and he hit a chord with voters.

america. a socialist country. but from behind the scenes we saw that mainstream media and democratic party leaders were looking to put out the flames e-mails leaked from the party's governing body the d.n.c. show they were working overtime to try and secure the nomination of pillory clinton

if she performs the sprawling the bernie camp will go nuts and alleged misconduct there will probably complain regardless actually does he believe in a gold he don't say yes the jewish heritage i think i read he's an atheist this could make several points difference with my peeps now polls show that sanders was actually more popular than hillary clinton and could have won in a final action against trump what that did not matter to a rigged democratic party machine headed by debbie wassermann schultz donna brazil her replacement revealed the inner workings of a rigged democratic presidential primary i call gary gensler of reach. the financial officer of hillary campaign he described the party as fully under the control of hillary's campaign which seemed to confirm this is specious of the bernie camp the complain have the d.n.c. on life support given it money every month to me it's basic expenses while the campaign was using the party as a fundraising clearinghouse and the media was in on it as well and shelter was an

arty host until his death last summer was working with m s n b c during the primary he described how he was specifically told not to cover sanders campaign i go to bernie sanders house that afternoon in the interview in the backyard he's going to announce that he's running for president we're going to carry it live later on of the day it's five minutes to air and i get a phone call from phil griffin you're not covering this ultimately sanders ended up accepting the results and endorsing hillary clinton but this time around we have even heard from other democratic party candidates who accept and confirm that it was indeed rigged against him do you agree with the notion that it was rigged yes this is a real problem but what we've got to do is democrats now this we've got to hold this party accountable so with trump set to run for reelection in two thousand and twenty many democrats are lining up to be his opponent now sanders at this point in

the game in what's already a pretty packed feel this time there's got to be many rank and file democrats who are asking themselves will they let it happen kaleb up and r.t. new york all right that's your lot for more great program start in moments here on r t international be back in thirty with all the latest midweek headlines and the latest from the front lot of important state of the union address all that and more and often are. shifting is a bit like figure skating cause it should travel site ways to specific and i don't know less than five hundred kilometers per hour ride the rifles and polish at the same time because my son gets mirroring each other's place to space actually speed place to get. to the thing was born in japan but as a sport it's become incredibly popular in russia the reason is simple it's where

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