i am a false positives and includes a lot of symptomatic peep at people who didn't even have carpet. okay, we're just positive which so. so let's say we had about 3 or 4 percent per year. okay, doctor said it which, which is growing out of time here on the pride getting, getting covet. oh, can i get that so you know, cuz i'm gonna have to maybe last what i'm needing to run out to you. i'm going to have to cut you off that i do apologize for that. i really appreciate you sharing your views on this with us. we like to hear all views on this extremely contentious, well dominating subject. of course, i will to say that the w h o still says that vaccines are the only way out of the pandemic with dr. andrea senningson. thanks for joining us on our t. thank you. next, another chance to see the russian foreign minister phil questions from ortiz correspondence from across our networks. ah, ah

ah ah, because it will not shut natural resources. thank you. i'd like to start with moscow's proposals for a collective security framework and red lines on nato's eastwood expansion, which have been ignored by the u. s. why has the block still remained silent on these proposals? craft? will russia tolerate this? and will the west except to russia's proposals for peaceful coexistence, another love of stock. thus bessy wrote rob ross. oh, sure, thank you. this is probably one of the most pertinent issues to day. i wouldn't say our initiatives are being ignored. president putin spoke about this at length

yesterday at the extended defense ministry board meeting. he said that they discussed this issue during the last video conference with president biden. president biden expressed his willingness to look at russia's concerns while we presented our ideas on possible agreements. one of the draft blueprints focuses on us. russia relations is called the treaty between the united states of america and the russian federation on security guarantees. the 2nd draft treats he aims to address security issues between russia and nato. mister stilton berg, nato. secretary general tends to make outlandish statements his room to be leaving soon as his term ends this year for the central bank of norway, or at least that's what he's hoping to do. the head of a central bank has to closely and faithfully follow and implement operational guidelines. now, going back to european or euro, atlantic security. and it relies on a number of guidelines that were agreed on and signed by heads of states. these are political commitments including its cornerstone, the principle of equal and indivisible security. it's an explicit commitment by

heads of states. according to it, no o s c member shall strengthen their security at the expense of other participating states. in the meantime, mister fulton both publicly and arrogantly says that no one has the right to encroach on the open door policy for any aspiring nature member as stipulated in the washington treaty. however, we are not part of nato or a signatory to this treaty. we are a signatory to a much more hence, if regional framework, the features the principle of equal and indivisible security. if mister stolt and berg indeed believes that nato members are free to disregard this principle enshrined in the agreement, signed by heads of states, then he definitely needs to get a new job because he's not handling his current responsibilities well enough. his rhetoric aside, substantive responses from our u. s. counterparts have been business like we've had a series of talks between foreign policy advisors to russian and us presidents. we now have an action plan. the 1st round will take place early next year. it will be a bilateral meeting between russian and american negotiators. they have already

been appointed and both parties find them acceptable. later in january, we hope to start the talks on the 2nd draft treaty, the one between russia and nato. a few days ago, the russian president also discussed this over the phone. the president, macolon, german chancellor, elect schultz, they to expressed interest in the matter. president putin reaffirm that will raise the issue of security guarantees at the osi level. so that's the 3 tracks we're working on. moscow and washington, definitely agree. this is the way to go. but i don't see why this approach would be at odds with the interests of any other country in this region. naturally, many people are asking, what if the u. s is that it's willing to discuss a number of concerns we raised in the draft treaties, but some of them are off the table. apart from that they have concerns of their own . we're ready to discuss them, but we haven't seen the list yet. while we agreed on the modalities of the talks, we have a lot of work ahead of us in terms of substance. as the russian president said, though we can't wait forever. the threats to us have been continuously growing of

the last few decades. nato military infrastructure is edging closer to our borders . we've been deceived on numerous occasions from spoken promises to political obligations set out in the russia, nato founding act. so this time, like president putin said, we're pushing for legally binding guarantees, only we now of course, that the west can discard those just as easily and simply pull out if they want to . like it happened with the abm treaty. the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty or the open skies, treating still legally binding guarantee is a harder to ditch or downplayed than spoken promises or political obligations. we're ready to work together on this, we will do everything we can to convey opposition. i hope that all measures to ensure russia's defense capabilities will be a strong signal that they must take us seriously. caucus, where they're at. there's a postiani, i think less than awake authority launched the german language tv channel. the german regulator forced of the european satellite service they fred to so as and shut down the channel that you tube that took down our live broadcast channel on launch day later is russia's foreign ministry aware of these developmental and are

you planning any steps to support artie dirt and it's russian journalist shannon was local mistook. you see dorothy irma, we are aware of the situation. maria's harfers commented on it several times were following the operations while journalists abroad very closely, especially given continuous discrimination against them. by the way, archie has still not been accredited at the essay palace. neither has sputnik president. putin brought his up during his recent call with president macro and express hope. there are french counts possible that everything they can to ensure that russian media, including r c, are able to work in france as comfortably as the french media are in russia. we're going to promote the same pros to r t d and any other russian media facing discrimination abroad. i found the r t d case outrageous as it was, the german authorities. he made every effort to create a negative image of arts in the public and among german institutions. german officials of tried to distance themselves from the decisions of the so called regulators. but the blame lies with them. as you remember, it all started with attempt to deny alt banking services. then they denied it's a broadcasting license. then they're made luxembourg. they the same. now our

colleagues in serbia have registered the german speaking artie channel in accordance with the european convention on trans frontier television. germany is a party to the convention so it has to comply with it. but now it looks like they're going to shift the blame to social media platforms to youtube, saying is that their discretion? and they rely on some internal criteria and the german state does not have anything to do with it. but it does, it must have something to do with it. they signed all the relevance agreements and undertook commitments to in free access to information. it was not youtube who did does, but the government and wherever such arbitrary acts take place is the government that shall put an end to them. as we have repeatedly said, the russian media faced this sort of discrimination for years. of course we often tempted to reciprocate, but until recently were held on to our belief that we should not follow suit and go down this path of stifling the media as our western partners do. however, similarly to the issue of russia, security patience always has a limit. so i do not rule out that we will have to respond if this unacceptable situation persists across a nationwide in your, in your,

in our broadcast region in latin america. the last just come to power in chile, in hand, european and held power in venezuela and nicaragua, and is the continent learning to better resist? yes, efforts to control it against kinetic of prince bizarre, over the past 5060 years or maybe even more latin america seen major political shifts. so having to the left and to the rights and back. now there's another wave of healthy forces with the nationalist agenda coming to power is a symbol of a major failure of the so called neo liberal project. as for russia, we've never readjusted our actions to suit the gender of the incumbent latin american government. our goal is to forge friendship and win win cooperation with countries and nations rather than with a particular government because of its political agenda. indeed, unlike the united states, we do not see latin america as a test range for proxy geopolitical games, a current usaa ministration. no longer supports former trump national security, a john bolton's claim that the monroe doctrine is alive. but in practical terms, it seems to me this narrative or this mentality is still very much alive,

including in the specific from policies that the u. s. promote. we work with every country without exception, including sub regional organizations in latin american caribbean, over the last year alone. for example, i've had contacts with colleagues from mexico, venezuela, bolivia, brazil, guatemala, nicaragua, honduras cuba, belize in new york on the sidelines of general assembly are met to representatives of the central american integration system. i also had a meeting with my counterpart from argentina on the sidelines of the g when she summits. russia has always emphasized its interest in promoting bilateral ties without a political agenda. as for multilateral institutions and organizations, of course, we will defend like most latin american countries, the values, norms, goals, and principles of the united nations charter. by the way, last year, venezuela helped set up the group of friends in defense of the un charter before long it numbered more than 20 members. i'm sure that other countries, including from latin america, will soon join this group. it is a response in a way to attempt by the united states and its close sellers to evade international law and to proceed in their statements,

their rationale and their policies more and more often from a rules based world order that they themselves have invented. but these rules the shape by then narrow circle and no one she has alternative points of view. since there are no disputes, they can't expect to discover the truth to paraphrase russian same. at the same time, the current years have ministration is beginning to take a slightly more pragmatic view. in particular, they appear to be mulling other action with respect to venezuela. they're beginning to realize that they will still have to have a dialogue with the government of president maduro who reaffirmed his mandate in the latest election. the same is true for bolivia where genuine democracy has been restored of the somewhat dubious actions of the previous authorities. i give you more examples. i very much hope. the realities in a country lat nicaragua will be embraced by washington. russia is calling an outside power to actively promote a latin american in caribbean identity as one of the major centers of the emerging police centric world order. and in that sense, we value our relations as i say, but the regional and sub regional institutions in the region, especially with the community of latin american caribbean countries. hillock,

we have established a framework for political consultations during the pandemic. there was a bit of a pause, but now mexico, which is chairing select at this point was to resume such meetings. we were actively support that spirit. we worked together in such areas as high tech energy, agriculture, of course, space and nuclear power. in recent years, we added medicine health care to the list, several countries in latin america including mexico, brazil, argentina, and nicaragua. already received our vaccine production technology and are actively setting up productions. our contacts will lay the ground for a broader, more inclusive interaction in pharmaceuticals, healthcare and medicine, as the bridge on the ema. so can your sla naga cross off phone minister, lover of our arab audience? has a lot of questions for you. i would like to ask you about iran, the west is accusing the run of going ahead with its nuclear program, which could lead to the talks breaking down tara says that instead of re of dialogue that you use engage and in this information, what is russia stance on it and what would make the talk successful. guffman will

lose was learn new muscles up with new book neural, but those unfortunately are western partners tried to bend the truth. this reminds me of the 1st question i've answered today, while nato is fiercely pushing towards our borders, they continue to blame russia, but russian on force is a station completely on its territory. regarding your question, the trumpet, ministration, unilaterally withdrew from all agreements and the g. c. p o itself and the security council resolution that established it and the keep blaming iran again and again. first, when trump did this, iran did not take any steps against the nuclear deal obligations for more than a year. only when it became clear that washington is not going to back down to tehran, resort to the provisions in the j. c. p. o, a concerning their volunteer obligations they stopped implementing are only limited their volunteer obligations. and they often highlight that as soon as the u. s goes back to the deal. iran would stop ramping up in richmond and producing more sophisticated centrifuges. this is the guiding principle of the ongoing vienna talks, and that is how the parties see them. 6 rounds took place for able to june, but the u. s. in iran never talked directly, so there was a coordination team from the european foreign affair service. and chinese, russian,

french, german, and u. k. delegations overall of the 6 rounds were worked out. the vision, giving us hope that an agreement is possible in the future than we had an inevitable pause due to elections in iran and time needed to put together a new government or western count. spots were impatient. they wanted to get this done as soon as possible, pushing around to hurry up. but it reminded them that ron was waiting for a year for the us to revisit their stance. iran has lost his patience, it quit the deal when the election came. so it was natural, i did not want to make a fuss about it. leniency was new, but they quickly familiarize themselves with their duties and proved to be professional. they came up with some proposals or western counterparts flatly rejected them 1st, but later they understood the proposal who were studying and this is what we're working on now. is reputation not substance. that was the biggest issue. who should be the 1st to say they are ready to resume their commitments, the u. s. or iran? iran believed that it was up to the u. s. since they were the 1st to quit the deal . but the u. s. accused iran of breaching the agreement. they wanted around to make the 1st step or their washington totally neglected its responsibilities. russia and

china proposed doing it in think and drafting the joint rapprochement plan or european counterparts agreed with us. this is what they are negotiating in vienna. they took a short pause. catholic christmas, but the talks will resume before the end of the year. iran has confirmed that if the u. s. honors its obligations stops threatening aroma, sanction that is compatible with the deal and resolution $2.00 to $31.00. iran will comply as well, including enacting the protocol additional to the agreement with the i am on comprehensive safeguards, i believe the prospects of good. however, the guiding principle is until everything is agreed upon. nothing is agreed upon. this means when is good and well thought out solution and the solution is feasible . shirt is 0. ah so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it, treaty,

confrontation, let it be an arms race is on offense. very dramatic development. i am going to resist, i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time, time to sit down and talk when you listen to, if he thinks of tone and you think x is going to have, i know why happened and distinctive bringing responses. and engage that are relevant to you, how we experience reward and pleasure. wow. listening to some people looking at this, is it kind of it, is it kind of choreographing of our expectation. mm hm. ah.

and we have a process, 1st of all, to consider william as miss lovegrove. could you please comment on the statement by the french foreign minister, shall eve litigant, he warned the russian authorities of extremely grave consequences if russia invade ukraine. why do you think i was to count parts of opted for another ending string of threads lately? let me know which one expresses manila, but you should probably address this question to them. it doesn't give me any pleasure, but it doesn't evoke any negative emotions either. we are used to the condescending tone from our western counterparts and their statements, showing that they perceive themselves as divine judges, infallible irredeemably, self righteous politicians. frances repeatedly said that it would pursue a demanding dialogue with russia. that is, they will demand something from us. so that's what they're doing, they're demanding. but in recent weeks, both the president of russia and other senior russian officials have repeatedly touched on the topic of so called escalation for which they are threatening to punish us. and i think they've been even preparing

a package of sanctions just in case just to have it in store. i think social media now have a service like that where a person can buy something to store up. well, i guess i'll western counterparts believe this approach is applicable in politics as well. we've repeatedly explain what our armed forces are doing on our territory . and at the same time, we have raised the question, what the americans, canadians, the british doing, what's their offensive weapon systems, there combat aircraft and right at the russian borders, specifically in the baltic states. their ships doing in the black sea deviating significantly from the rules laid down in the montero convention. we do not get any adequate explanation. they just carry on with threats and more threats. i think our european counterparts should focus on the direct responsibilities rather than make threats about something that does not exist. france along with germany in this case, should make key of implement the minsk agreements instead of trying to distract attention. putting up this smokescreen bi claim rushers escalating tensions and is about to conquer. all of the dumbass or parts of the dan basil. all of ukraine must . it's obvious, just as the lens kin, his regime keep hammering the same points about crimea for dear life. that wasn't

the case a couple of years ago because a couple of years ago there was still hope that care of would somehow be able to implement the minsk agreements, which is what the landscape promised when he ran for president. when he became president, he realized that he, that didn't want to do it or couldn't do it, or would not be allowed to do it by neo nazis and other ultra radicals. and then to distract attention from their complete inability to implement the mince grievance, they've brought up the subject of crimea as almost the main symbol of ukrainian foreign policy. that's what the crimea platform was all about, and everything else that was happening around it. there's nothing but lip service and hot air and everyone understands it very well, including our western counterparts to keep playing this game. what they have to do in earnest though without playing any games is to make zalinski implement security council resolution 2202. which endorsed the minsk agreements and they stipulate in no uncertain terms what must be done by whom and in what order, who a key of donetta can lugens. what is amnesty special status holding of elections under the conditions agreed between ki,

of dynette can la ganske and under the auspices of the o. s. e. and only then the ukranian armed forces would, would regain control over the entire border. now they propose to do the opposite, you give us the border and then we'll see what happens next. whether we will have some kind of special status procedure or whether we'll have other solutions. look at the draft law. the president has repeatedly spoken about with most president macro and chancellor merkel. and yesterday he mentioned it the chancellor elect schultz as well. the draft law on the state policy of the transition. who are the training government has submitted to the parliament and which prohibits ukrainian officials from implementing the minsk agreements? it introduces lustration instead of amnesty and introduce the civil military administration instead of a special status. and of course it doesn't mention any special elections. the parties have agreed upon, they just regained control of the occupied territories as they referred to them. and despite promises by the french and germans to dissuade zalinski from promoting this law, they've already said legislative process in motion. they sent a query to the council of europe, and the venice commission told them that everything was fine. there were just some

technical legal issues, but the venice commission did not say a single word about it directly contradict than the security council resolution. so kindly request my very good friend john evil, adrenal my german counterparts. i met with analynn, a bare buck on the sidelines of the i. c ministerial council. she to has shown interest in the implementation of the minsk agreements. so everything favors it. now. this will probably distract them from their concerns. contrived, concerns about a nonexistent escalation thought of the bombing. finally, barbarossa, finished the lab off. if i asked an additional question, do you personally think the situation might escalate to an armed conflict? how would your ministry respond and such a scenario? moves note not sure. so to governor, our philosophy is well known and has been known for a long time and can be found in the lines of the famous song. do the russians want war? we do not want war. president putin, a said once again that we do not need conflicts and we certainly hope that no one else. this conflict as a desirable course of action rush will take strong measures to ensure it secure to using any means it deems necessary. and we would like to send

a warning to hotheads. there are lots of them in ukraine, and some western politicians are trying to fuel such aggressive sentiment in ukraine. their idea is very simple, the more irritating fact than our borders. the more they hope the russia will be thrown off balance that does not get in the way of their geopolitical expansion. president perkins said very clearly, the defense ministry board meeting. we have all the means to provide an appropriate response, including a military response to any provocation that may happen around us. i repeat, we would not like to go down this path at all, but the ball is in our partners court. and even though there are still a great amount of substantive work to be done, the fact that the u. s. leadership has agreed on the action plan so swiftly is a positive step coming appropriately just before new year. and thus basil money aluminum. i'm the assistant to the u. s. president for national security affairs recently revealed, frankly, that the united states is actively trying to transform the established world order by forming new alliances, partnerships and institutions designed to work in washington's interests. but how much of a threat to these attempts posed to russia's influence and global standing on it?

and what concrete steps are being taken by russian diplomats and the countries leadership to prevent a breakdown or decrease in the effectiveness of the u. s. structure lower than, you know, we're no lucille, this is not a new issue. in the beginning of this interview, i mentioned the united states and its allies stopped using the term international law is said, they claim that everyone needs to respect the rule based international order. this is similar the you and has numerous programs, foundation, special agencies, regional, economic commissions were all countries are represented me. the fusions are open to all of your members, but the west is establishing various platforms with the same functions outside the u. n. the paris peace fallen, for example, as lonesome journalism and media freedom initiatives, and many others like safe a cyber spatial international humanitarian. laura tech showed their international organization let unesco, the un human rights council, and others that deal with all these issues. again, universal rules have been established under this umbrella as new and chart is a document that contains rules. we have nothing against the concept of rules,

but these have to be rules that everyone agrees with how western colleagues, hello, feel like their interests are threatened in some areas including media, freedom, accessed information as cyberspace issues. but so trying to work out rules acceptable to everyone in the universal context of the un would jeopardize the interest that they would like to prioritize unilaterally. you. that's why this is happening. and besides governments, they tried to bring the business community and civil society to these platforms where they develop their new auxiliary gym. by doing this, they will shout the main factor that make these agreements last armed into governmental nature. because this is the policy agenda. they are actively promoting and we think that they are wrong in their interpretation of what international relations need to day. my counterpart, sissy blinkin said yesterday, i think that american leadership matters that america has to lead and set the rulings in the world to day. and apparently face to face meetings with counterparts in every region of the world of lincoln, his that they're glad that the united states is once again leading and rolling over the us. he said something to that effect, adding that when america doesn't lead one of 2 things happens. will either some or

the country tries to take its place or you get a calles that philosophy is selfish. in order to stop this trend of returning to the will take the ship he, germany, president putin proposed the summit of permanent un security council members is not of these nations are more important than others. but according to the un charter, they are responsible for international peace and security. and together, they're supposed to come up with ideas that will help maintain this order. i'm sure that such recommendations will be welcomed by the rest of the international community will continue to develop and promote this idea. right now we're doing preliminary work and discussing specific parameters. of course, russia will protect international law by leveraging its rolling other international organizations besides the un, including the theater, tioga erosion, economic unions, c, i as bricks on the esl and the g. 20. by the way, because this group of 20 represents the whole spectrum of you and members, and includes the leading western powers, the g 7 as well as bricks. countries and their allies is a good platform for developing recommendations that would lead to be discussed in more universal formats. like the u. n. program for over the viola,

our image samosas, the district court in the hague. in the m 817 trial has rejected the request of the defense to disclose the details of witness as for 5 and provide a transcript of their interrogation. during which they stated that the missile of shot down the malaysian boeing was lot launched from the place. the investigation claims when, when the decision on this case be announced and have, will russia react to the accusations leveled against it from their booth go slowly . shania, we will most likely make a statement when the ruling is announced. for now, we're closely following the trial. first of all, because it's russian citizens who are the accused. of course, we see there have been attempts to create an impression that it's not a criminal case, but a state level problem of some kind as if russia controlled these people is absolutely unacceptable. and these are attempts to use improper means. these are essentially criminal proceedings and we view them as such as understand any impartial lawyer can see that this is the case. have been huge, number of inconsistencies, lack of respect for the rules for a fair trial as well. as standards of record keeping and conducting witness

interviews, almost none of the witnesses identities are disclosed, including the one you mention. one who'd be able to shed light on the facts that have been ignored by the investigation so far. and the fact that the defense counsel request was denied without any explanation is also telling i would even yes . and the fact that the field experiment conducted by amazon tay, which proved that the prosecution's claims regarding the type of missile used and not corroborated by evidence. and fact that our ministries provided documents showing the missile was manufactured, i think, in 1086 and were sent to military units stationed in ukraine and remain there until it was used. all of these facts have been ignored. however, there are other fact through more political in nature, but nonetheless, very convincing. after the crash occurred, the 1st people on the scene were foreign team, a team from malaysia. it was their aircraft and their airline working together with the militia, those who are being called separatist terrorists and so on. they found the flight recorders and the militia handed over them for review, not trying to hide them at all. by the way, i think those black boxes were said to london for experts assessment and to this day, no one has seen the result. second, that is to say,

the militia acting of their own accord, helping in handling the situation in the 1st hours after the crash, the dutch showed up much later. but here's the interesting part. the netherlands, belgium, australia, and ukraine, created a joint investigation team. malaysia was not invited, in fact, the was only invited to join the team 5 months later, although the rule that the international civil aviation organization required that the country that owned the plane must be on the crash site from the very beginning . the 3rd factor, staunch luke, nor by those who accused the russian states that it was russia who initiated the un security council resolution adopted a few days after the tragedy. instructing the international civil aviation organizations organized and impartial investigation and setting up the guidelines for it. since them, by the way that org, they should have had little involvement in the investigation, which was you search by this joint investigation team with malaysia only invited to join by the end of the year. in addition to the experiment, i mentioned the field experiments organized by amazon t a. the results of which was simply ignored by the investigation. russia provided raw data from its radar, which will also somehow rejected even though they constitute evidence that is

absolutely irrefutable. at the same time, no one has asked ukraine to disclose its radar data. the court is accepted, gives explanation the right does not working at that time at that precise moment. no one is asking ukraine to provide conversations between air traffic controller and mh 17. the girl who picked up the phone and the control tower somehow gone missing. there are very many questions to be answered again. no one is asking americans to provide the satellite data, which as they're saying, irrefutably proves that the investigation is correct. investigation simply noted that the u. s. has such satellite images and this statement was quite enough for the investigation. the list of such absurdity, the plate and violations of the principle of impartiality with obvious facts being swept under the carpet, goes on and on. and then when the relatives in the netherlands tried to file a lawsuit against ukraine for not shutting down as a space, it was dismissed as irrelevant to the case. let's take more recent events of this last spring when we saw the 1st wave of accusations against russia for conducting military exercise close to our western border. those were just war games, the once any hostilities and simply couldn't have been. but still the u. s.

officially recommended the airlines to avoid this area. so the u. s. government believe that military exercises were enough for a reason to issue a warning back in july 2014. when everyone knew there was actual war raging on in the dumbass, the air space was not closed. now everyone just keeps their mouth shut about it and says that it has nothing to do with anything that ukraine shouldn't have closed this air space. anyway, the double standards are all over the place, just like in many other cases where the west is involved. oh ah. and so it begins 2 weeks of our christmas and new year's, the specials, in which we look back in the year that was and parents in the future with some of

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being blamed for, exacerbating the turmoil.