[000:00:00;00] the luxury and the safety, what straight it does become a truly southern country and the russian president, right, that is not important of rejecting the western claims of rusher isn't a we couldn't state this during his annual. myra fell on a q and a session. also, he puts an offer on the table to prove this point. the high tech 21st century dual blessing the west of name a spot in bringing any defenses and want to spend, put in what on lease that i just hypersonic ocean equipment and see how they fire insensitive look at and concentrate the older air defense and missile defense forces there, and we will strike there with the ocean and see what happens. we are ready for such an experiment. is the other side ready? i think if we look at the last 20 years,

our experiments in reading change is not exactly been resolved. the success of the us admit that's tried to conduct regime change and it wrong for the last 2 decades . well, forwarding short events, goal a, we're count washington's late at the time to head in the program here in ocoee international. the one that just wrap started was that what roughly 4 and a half hours of the russian president taking q and a from the russian public and foreign journalist as well. we're looking at a very busy out here live for moscow is good to have your company because at this event it's essentially just wrapped off before we joyce ask you to tell you about a john this from nbc came in with, well, with accusations during the q and a, you typed his question into a bit of a grand standing speech, really say that most go hasn't achieved any of its goals. and the special military operation it as a field in syria. and he told him approved and that he'd be approaching incoming president. trump, from a position of weakness. well,

that's here with the russians. the president had to say to this and b, c, john. the 1st one is about said, president elect a trump. mister president, you have failed to reach the objectives of your special military operation. large numbers of russians have died, including a general assassinated here. we must go this week and the leader of syria who you supported has been over simone. mister president's, when you face president elect to trump, you will be the week elidah. how do you propose to compromise? what are you going to offer? yeah, that sounds good to me. i am ready to meet with trump at any time. you said that this conversation will take place in a situation where i will be in some we can states to do your colleagues. and i say dear to us, because despite all the persecution of our press, we allow you to work in russia and you do it freely. you and those people who pay

your salaries in the united states would very much like russia to be in a we can state as well. and i will try hold a different point of view. russia has become much stronger over the past 2 to 3 years. so why from including in the readiness of our armed forces today, i can confidently say criterias in the highest place in the world as to allow me to almost all nato countries are at war with us. the internal state of the russian people is such that perhaps no other armies in the world has putting gutter, as they say, when i believe that russia is largely in the state, we were striving for, it has become a truly silver and comfortable stone. we well, let's go down there all sales right now and join all these us, ask you a tailor. hey saskia. glad to know that you were that we saw you sitting in the rows of chairs waiting to get your question out that but it was was 4 and a half hours. so i know you were listening very intensely to all it is, as you will know, a large part of the session about the russian spanish special ministry operation and ukraine. a lot of commentary on that you take us through some of what was said saskia. well, 1st off, i have to admit that i probably take a step because before i went to alive,

i did. and before the conference starts and i said, i'm convinced. so i'm going to get a question. i'm in the front row. can he avoid me? maybe he hugged me and he said, no, i'm not going to give it to just about reason, but absolutely up to you creek. he needs off to a mattress and then we stood up for hours and 27 minutes later. it is a rap as quickly as we do something different filled this room. so quickly. we have laptops having us for about 15 minutes and we'll have to me, but you might be able to see the table right behind me. a lot of john is trying to get into the hold see why the russian president was sitting to get a few sophie's in um, you know what was really striking to me. it was quite astonishing how the energy of the russian president just didn't get over the entire time. he onto the questions with the same kind of accuracy, focus on the fact i'm with the same kind of mental agility at the beginning. i'm at the end and he was of course, moving between so many different fields,

domestic and foreign issues. mortgage is not felt as often as military advances and the all of negotiation like you quite right inside. a huge chunk of the press conference was dedicated to ukraine. the majority of the questions that was sent in from russian systems around the country wire about that. a few highlights, i do want to bring you starting with president putin's comments about the hypersonic missile asinique, which in his do absolutely has no e quote on what she said as well. if you don't believe me, then how about we have an assault based on some experts in the west? believe that such a messiah is easy to shoot, don't you just do it through. if those western experts think so sort of let them offer us like a and let them offer those in the west. and the us paid them for their analysis to conduct some kind of technological experiment. say a high tech and do the 21st century to let them identify some object to destroy the se in to you concentrate older air defense and missile defense forces there. and we

will strike there with your rational and see what happens. we are ready for such an experiment. is the other side ready? it says it does look as well. i'll just see that was a tongue in cheek. but son, in addition to that sentence, which really stood out to me was how a lot of man, uh boots. and when talking about western ad defense, ms. solve back he of has audits. disposal said, we need to ask all guys out, but what they have. many schools are dream of reading the country, old extremist elements. now i posted the option sense and not a quiet confidence of the russian need to clearly has contact with people, not just in the minute truly political to. but of course, almost every single question that was raised about the war. the focus was on negotiation and on this he was very clear a c spot is milton lost in truth. however much he does well come of course, the initiatives of neutral countries, like for example,

hungry and 6 up open with christmas c spots which brought them in to to said we agreed to. it was key of that rejected it. now of course, it does have to be noted, but the lay of the land is to be signed. today is very different to the last allowed. for example, during the peace negotiations, it is simple. in the spring of 2020, which the british prime minister scott put apparently, apparently i will talk to it as one of the 3 times most good has agreed to a deal with t as but the ukraine. then faxed out souls. as we had today though, talking about the lab, but i'm most goose pulses are advancing. that's an unprecedented rate to such an extent the bottom of page and said, as we talk today, we are very close to filling the tasks that we initially set for ourselves. thought in february 2022. what also cropped up with kids, peyton's, namely on the european continent. i know not that in the preaching state test,

they've really shopped themselves in the foot, not just financially, but also in terms of security. how can i be? a crew of ukraine has adults, our guest supplies to europeans, consumer sitting on the one hand, picks from their hands because only with the support of the west, so including from europe can it exists not only to fight but to exist. and at the same time, it creates problems for them by cutting off the supply of power, relatively cheap and gas for euro. there would be no such contract to, to work out everything is already clear. so well then, all right, we will survive kind of and just problem with somebody of this. by the way, our special services to recently reported to me that in slovakia some of those have been detained under these clips like that. they are ukranian some with their students with maps of the location of gas energy facilities. in slovakia, scott, i will ask through popular channels about that. it's not enough that we have terrorist attacks. now the european countries have them as well. i repeat, once again,

they feed from the end of the tech from the hand and have already moved on to attempts to carry out terrorist attacks on the territory of europe system. so i will finally on the conflict and ukraine. i do want to show you the response to question from the b b c because it was one i think the really comprehensively covered the long standing west, an aptitude towards the world's largest nation. and a lot of my preaching sounds very defiant. i thought he basically expressed the sentiment, but he is confident that he actually st. um, a walt in which that was a future for russia. the alternate was exactly 25 years ago. boris yeltsin resigned was handed over power to you and told you to take care of russia. now after 25 years, do you think you have done that successfully? because from the outside we, what do we see? but we see significant losses in the so called special military operation that you

announced my system. we see ukrainian soldiers in the course region. you criticize nato expansion, but nato has increased. it rushes borders. there are saying sions, high inflation and demographic problems. so do you believe you have protected your country? yeah. should or should i believe that not only protected russia, but also pulled it back from the brink of the abyss. everything that was happening to rush it before and after was leading us to a complete and total loss of our sovereignty. without sovereignty, russia cannot exist as an independent states. and i would like to draw your attention to what you said regarding boris nikolai, which yeltsin everything seemed fine. he was patronized, only patted on the back, and no one even noticed when he occasionally had to drink. he was very well liked in old western circles, but as soon as he raised his voice in defense of yugoslavia, as soon as he stated that this contradicted international law and the un charter. and as soon as he said that it was unacceptable in modern europe to strike belgrade the capital of a european states without the sanction of the un security council,

he was immediately persecuted and labeled an alcoholic and other derogatory terms. don't you remember this? i did everything to ensure that russian remains and independent and sovereign power, capable of making decisions in its own interests rather than in the interest of those countries that were trying to draw it towards themselves while patting it on the back for their own purposes. so i'll say what, what, what about of a common truth from the russian president, anything else beyond russia's border that was talked about as well? well, that was obviously a question on the crisis in syria and the pools, given how many players are involved, some of which russia cooperates with and various international forms. all right. all right. the impression to me was that he was being quite diplomatic and quite castle. the 11 thing he was very outspoken a not was on who had the most to gain from the toppling over the thoughts in deal. it's still divorced by 13. so it's doing everything to ensure the security for the southern border. have you noticed any developments and serious need to create

conditions for the return issue, a new record you a phrase from its territory? the other territory is a serious story which are concentrated on the territory of syria, which is actually under the control of the circle. can some think it pushing back if i see it, if the coordination formation is going to the point all this is possible and perhaps to some extent it will even be the but still the main beneficiary to most of the events taking place and to see me in my opinion, is these real and you can have any effort to to know what is real is doing. russia can focus on the free service rush, getting into the position here is not subject to any adjustment. but these really is also solving issues related to security. for example, actual, this is the line on the golden hi. say, well, no line is real, hasn't gone to a depth of 25 kilometers. what those are right to a quite provocative, i would say a question posed by the american outlet m. b c. who suggested that the collapse of assets regime and his playing subsequently to moscow with some kind of strategic

defeat for russia. the heads of state very categorically disagreed. he said no when we intervene to moscow says request 10 plus years ago, we set ourselves a very concrete task and that was controlled, but test results did not entrench themselves. and we can say that in that we have actually being successful, he argues that the greatest proof of that was the fact that the forces who are now in control, all the serial, all set to be removed from international a terrorist organization. let's at least thoughts the room coming out. for example, the u. s. yes, they're all to minute to bases that one naples and one at the base. but that would know ground troops that, that we know comb about troops a how can you call it a defeat on the future and the fate of those bases that still seems to be under consideration. that was a way is most good, was emphasizing that it will push to dialogue and cooperation with really anyone on, on every se, every one asks for like to kind of move positive issues,

breaks was raised and it was all positivity. it was co operation equality and mutual respect. and he really emphasized that anyone who tries to frame this multi asset, multi conceptual group as an to weston, on to the full test, just thought it was wrong. a couple of questions centered around the situation. state side, one particular he stood out to me. that was when he was almost about biden's pausing of his voice down to less than a taurus son. context who was facing convictions on federal gun charges as well as tax evasion, preaching quite hue malay. i thought responded to, he's always said, as a father, i can understand why he did that. he's not just a politician officer role and all you would you want to finish on what could all deeply be the most human. i'm the most touching moments in the entire event. and it was one's lot improved symbols. aust, how the war and ukraine has passed to me affected him over the last 2 years. i

always mean how have you changed in the last 3 years? was nice to know which seeming yeah, you know, we all change. we change every day, every hour. i will tell you frankly, we are joking now and there is left during the whole. i started joking list and almost stopped laughing. you know, and i'll say that that was just a moment, a few seconds. well, that was just up to silence off to see set those watts and bear in mind this is a big hole there, a hundreds, if not more, john and us. i think even of us were a bit taken aback, really not necessarily by the words themselves, but by the sincerity. you know, we also used to sing president putin address the defense committees, or address parliament or speaker the norm was gatherings. and we always forget that in the thought he is a cool soul. so just to a mass on his mind is with us and lots of responsibilities, not just for the substance here, but literally for the lives of the boys who are fighting on the front lines in the

conflicting you crate. and i think for that moment it was incredibly touching to see the mind behind the president, so on, so to speak, reminding us of course, of possible impact. this is how not just on all of us, but him as well over the last, almost 3 years. so it is clear from little to lodge from domestic to far. and this was an absolutely epic press conference trying to bring together what is up as being an incredibly difficult here at the end of that year to try and try to gather all of this. ron's with salary and increasingly complex walls. yeah, i think it's a very fact coming that sounds good right. of the and it was all you know be ready to go to more personal effect from food and more, more pos, and then politician perhaps right there at the end. but he did say, as you rightly said, saskia. he said that his, his happiness cannot be complete until the boys return safely from the front line. so appreciate your coverage on this big annual event. aussies saskia taylor. thank

you but it's drawing you on his foot. go down here in the studio here. the chief editor, that'd be unless he joining us, you know, you're freshly coming down. yeah. it's not you'd be living there for quite some time now. you've really been seeing so much of what's been happening in ukraine 1st had one of the topics i put in was talking about the s m. o. he did say that russian troops all reclaiming territory in the numbers of square kilometers on a daily basis. and yet, still at this point, so lensky, she is still refusing to negotiate. i just don't understand how is going to this point. and yet savanski is not sitting down to the negotiating table. what do you think is key of strategy? now what is clearly on the back for? i think that the, for if a kid would have a strategy, they would stop this madman is what is happening for the cranium. people over a little a long time ago. we wouldn't even escalate to the situation where rush issue jot, may do an intervention of who is making the strategies the key question and

which very difficult to find any explanation. when we look, you have to crane to their side of the story. if i being the, did this offering of the don't, was people it to is the this offering of the whole gray nowadays, there is the only big things on that the region and the real players are, are far away from, from the region making their strategy. i'm thinking how the wind, the war, i thought so many people saying in, in recent months, so you know, when it, when it comes to gaza or when it comes to ukraine, weight foot, trump weight foot, trump, people keep saying, wait until he's in olga. right? but you know, yeah, i do admire some people's optimism. i really do, but i, you know, i don't know if trump is going to be able to accomplish what he like to say is peace within 24 hours. i think that's a, i think that's not easily optimistic, frankly, honest. and just just quickly here we see that lensky essentially on the back foot, losing huge amounts of land to russian forces. now belgium is saying it's not going to give you credit on the 16th that it promised. poland is now saying we've got

nothing left to other european countries that like scraping the barrel. so let's, he's clearly and a tough a tough position right now. the foreign ministry gave that he relies upon totally to continue this country. it is basically, well, it's either being evaporated or it's not showing up to the front lines. will he be able to continue? if these european sponsors in american partners start the, which will back the support, i think that we have entered in the grading and conflict of a situation where they are fighting days, you know, every day is a big business for them. for many interest groups every day brings them money every day while they can continue to, to pop the craniums fighting to the last man is profitable for the for these interest groups. they are dropping land. they are the they are pulling everything. what they've got that they're 4 bits before is the last moment, but as what comes to the trump and i don't trust a government trustee was empower. i've been living in in durham,

but there's 2015. i saw how she'd make the all the decisions to start arming grand more and more a more on gaming on weight. but it's also do the nationally elemental 4th grade. she was part of the agenda bins and of course he's a lot of agenda today. back of course, he re presents a different approach. he gives to another kind of strategies, but the ability to try and hopefully that, that the strategy is pulling out from this craziness of what's going on in the geopolitics, one of the, one of the questions from the audience just now follow up hooton's annual q. and a that we just wrapped up here in our international what one of the questions was from a lady who said, looking back to february 2022 before you crane kicked off, or would you have done anything differently on food instead that i should have acted earlier, i should have acted sooner. he said t f was blowing off the bench because there was an atm masika happening across that

. don't you have some new kinds? yeah. so lensky said he wanted a new can and then, and then, and then all of these, uh, then he started destroying and evaluating whole things. russian became very, was a phobic stop pointing to the russian culture. no teaching russian in school. no russian language in our russian, patricia and a russian music booty and then said we were compelled, we will forced to go into ukraine. your comments on this. and it led to that eventually that was the target in the beginning. well, the promo gate of the east to create a situation where russia have to make intervention uh the mattresses from the might on what's in there to create a huge mass that great was supported by the west and then, but russia was nope, that time randy, the military, the military needed modernization, the russian needed time and on and the end of things after 2019 what i believe the ra show has been read, the dreams are being the situation,

but it doesn't have the willingness to do drugs. so he's not the more raging country, but, but the west just bullshit situation to over all possible red lines. yeah, i know, i remember the day 17th february, waking up in my home and the cranium from, from start to fly, that with all possible weapons, they started to be attacked, which rush again to stop the week later. yeah, and that's a historical fact. it's a historical fact that the west loves to ignore it. of course, that is by this i now during food ends to and i this afternoon here in moscow, one of the questions the was oswell is um why not a ceasefire and ukraine? why? why not taking a break for a couple of days? if i put and even said audubon, audubon the hon, gary and liter said to him, what about a 2 day ceasefire over christmas? it's important that i'm not opposed to that. i'm not opposed to that. well, you've got to go to the zalinski regime and speak to them,

see if they are prepared to take a break for 2 days. but when it comes to a cease fire, who said, look, we need a long term piece. we don't need a ceasefire. sci fi is a pause for people to re, to re stop, to, as he said, in trench themselves, whether it's in the eastern regions or whether it's in the quarter of region. so it is that i'm open for a christmas pause that families celebrate and recognize the occasion. but he also said, you know, there's also the story that savanski has said no to 600 ukrainian p o w is that of congress and russia and put in wants to send them back to k f as, as you said, what? 600 p o w, as you can keep them. now, what does this all suggest to you? yeah, no, it's not a single day of ceasefire since 2015, not the thing they didn't give us a break it for a doing bus defenders all these years and they are not willing to give it even

today. even they are the ones who need it. the most, you know, of, they are on the war machines and they don't want it to just stop for sick and, and, and so i think that it's fair a tool for a day of break just being in a common human real. and i think that the, the, it's an important message from, from booking to everybody in the world that this, this human monetary and brakes are needed. but give, haven't give that since 2014 and 15. there wasn't the single day of the ceasefire. that's why it's right that she during just a question to the key of the final they are, you know, finally giving a people a possibility to have a break of a brief joe. and let's just put the code in joining us head live the all to international mothership here at most of us. so good to have you in this part of the world out of that on bass for a little bit. i know you'll go back soon, but for me to you,

thank you for your time and your efforts. think or appreciate you joining us here for this program live from moscow and now, wow, is there a shred of truth coming out of the swamp in washington? when asked about it right on the us secretary of state admitted his country has been involved in regime changes over the last 20 years though without much luck. and i think if we look at the last 20 years, our experiments and reading change is not exactly been resolved success. so i think we have to be have a, an appropriate degree of humility in focusing in that, in that way on a problem. but as focusing on everything we need to do to effectuate policy change, the stop the country from doing things that are threats to our interest as well as best our values that yes has to be front and center. lincoln mentioned how they've been added for 20 years. uh,

but no luck with the whole regime change getting any rhonda and blinking was really wired to the us has been i in ga that switch and wishing change and one for more than 4 decades. i mean to shake compet wants political scene that's been a thorn in their side since they want to. washington has taken numerous shots trying to change the want in political system. the latest beings deposit 2022 protests following the death of my so i mean in police custody. if we remember my so i mean he died in september 2022 after collapsing in a to one police station following her risk over a job. while, while ations washington was back then quick to jump in expressing support for the protesters slapping more sanctions under warranty and officials, citing quote, violence suppression of protests and even open re calling for a regime change. any of on refrigerators,

self produce. our policy is policy is to resign around finding tactical ways to support the iranian people with a big deal. the illustration has with arsenal to support the iranian people in the face of a brutal, violent crack down. in fact, van give on highlighted for many times that for and, and western media unintelligent services. launched a mis information campaign, trying to steer the protesters towards vandalism, and writing. so each time people stage national protest, the u. s. gets out of it, sped and declares readiness to pitch in and help it want ends over told their government. so that's based on their comments. so if we want to look at this behavior, it has historical role which the west has been interfering yvonne's domestic affair since the 20th century. since he was some orchestrated a cool against it was 1st democratically elected fine minister in 1953. the

reason because most of that at that time promised to stop western countries domination over it was all uh, resources. and he said that it was a oil needs to be indigenous and needs to be nationalized. so after that, washington supported any unrest in the country to overflow these law because i'm going to be wanting patrols, have been saying that the west never abandons it's interfering habits around the world, including iran. historically us interference. you know, ron's internal affairs has a long history interference in the course of democratization dates back to 1953 when the us orchestrated the crew against the ron's legitimately elected prime minister. among other things, the us supported attempts of military coups and sabotage and iran. and imposed illegal and inhumane unilateral sanctions against ordinary iranians. so everyone

has this mentality and stance that the more pressure, the west and the west in particular imposes on it. the stronger and more resilient it becomes, it has long been reading itself against these restriction restrictions and restrictive measures by reducing its dependence on for and know how trying to indigenous key industries like uh, the military sector, which iran now claims that its arms are settled is more than 80 percent indigenous, it has also been a local, i think the oil and gas industries as the lifeline of its economy. while it's still the country has not been fully successful. don't fully engage an ice. these industries that has built a significant was so yes, i guess the sanctions that's a lot, it's access to international technologies. and that's why blinking himself admitted that it's hard to destabilize the country from outside. what we've tried to do at different points in time is the best of our ability, further empowered people inside around who want

a different future for the country to be able to communicate, to be able to stand up, to be able to have some resources to do that but i'll be the 1st to knowledge. it's really hard to do from the outside. it goes without saying that the, the wife has seized multiple occasions to get rid of these moments of them. but uh, there are countless reasons why, as we mentioned to one challenges, there are extensive military presence in the middle east calling for the expulsion of american troops. and in recent years, iran has also established a growing media presence globally that defies the west narratives. and i think most importantly are these, i'm for public that was the political system that i stood up and told the west, hey enough. exploiting our resources and now get out of our country. we were talking with tyrone university professor site of motor on the who says that america has been trying to change the government in iran for a very long time,