hawkins reports from the valdai discussion for. putin was very clear that any move to restrict such press freedoms would result in very much negative media environment this is all part of what he also described as a wave of anti russian news theory and the russian campaigning and rhetoric in the united states which really began in earnest towards the end of last year the start of this year when hillary clinton lost the presidential election to donald trump and has continued to this day with attempts by government officials by media to find any links to russia wherever possible in any controversial american issue evidence of russian hacking russian meddling interference operations by intelligence services etc he also added that the us actions against russian diplomats russian diplomatic facilities across the united states was the result of a build up of problems issues between the two states. it's the us who put up with this some president and then to a russian campaign which was not provoked by anything someone lost the elections t

that was president vladimir putin speaking at a plane or a session at the annual valdai. in the russian. that some of those points that president putin raised a lot of it was all about foreign policy and the underlying spirit of cooperation on the korean crisis he emphasized resolution through dialogue the cat's line crisis also an internal issue that should dialogue on both sides it touched on global economic policy is another global issues such as science and cultural values as well as trade agreements such as the nuclear agreement about which he spoke at length and also he gave his supporters russia's support for the strength and cooperative powers of the u.n. moving on to other news the spanish government is plan is planning talks on triggering article one point five on saturday which would revoke catalonia as autonomy was time and follows the catalan leader's confirmation in a letter sent to spain's prime minister this thursday that the region's declaration of independence was not cancelled but suspended this is pension remains in place if the government insists on p

of several books including america right or wrong we also have richard stockwell he's an expert at valdai discussion club as well as author and professor at the university of kent and we have james sure he is an associate fellow at chatham house as well as author of hard diplomacy and soft coersion russia's influence abroad or a gentleman to start our discussion about the first go to an atoll a lot of people them and the current tragic. situation with us russian relations i mean with good reason but does it matter it is so much as it used to should we lived. so much because things go awol and it's certainly highly regrettable and in my view largely unnecessary but exactly we do need to keep in mind that compared to the cold war where you had soviet forces in the middle of germany you had nuclear forces on trigger alert and you had to genuinely clash radically clashing world ideologies this is a much much smaller dispute but in the same time the me if you look at mainstream media their threat level seems to be equal if no worse well you're a journalist i used to be a journalist to do newsp

of several books including america right or wrong we also have richard stockwell he's an expert at valdai discussion club as well as author and professor at the university of kent and we have james sherk he is an associate fellow at chad house as well as author of hard to see in soft coersion russia's influence abroad or a gentleman to start our discussion about the first go to end a toll a lot of people moment the current tragic. situation with us russian relations i mean with good reason but does it matter it is so much as it used to should we lamented so much because things go on but it's certainly highly regrettable and in my view largely unnecessary but exactly we do need to keep in mind that compared to the cold war where you had soviet forces in the middle of germany you had nuclear forces on trigger alert and you had two genuinely clashing radically clashing world ideologies this is a much much smaller dispute but at the same time the if you look at mainstream media the threat level seems to be equal if no worse well you were a journalist i used to be a journalist to do newspapers

some flashy comments on the recent international news speaking at a piña recession at the annual valdaidiscussion club in the russian resort of sochi where for more on this we're going to cross again live to danny hawkins who's in such a for us. hi there don yes so what more has the president had to say. well kate as we said earlier about imprudence speech was as deep as it was broad many salient topics of the day covered from syria to north korea to the situation in catalonia the latest one when taking questions from the audience in particular from our editor in chief will be the simonyan touched upon media freedom and the alleged repression of the media freedom she asked his opinion on the situation r.t. america faced in the united states and in the u.k. were of course in the form of the channels may be forced to register under the foreign agents act and the latter were foreign secretary boris johnson recently chastised labor m.p.'s for even appearing on the channel or putin said that comparing western media outlets anglo-saxon media outlets as you call them. is futile the power they

he was speaking at the annual valdai discussion club in the russian resort of sochi let's get more on the story now across in macedonia all consuming in this for is daniel take us through then what the president had to say. well one of the most salient issues covered in a pretty long panel discussion question and answer session around four hours was of course the very salient issue of press freedom and more specifically the issue of pressure on russian international media outlets such as r.t. in countries such as the u.s. and the u.k. in the form of threats to make r.t. america register under the foreign agents act and in the last hour when boris johnson very recently chastised labor m.p.'s publicly in parliament just for daring to appear on r.t. as guest to interview putin was very clear that any move to restrict press freedom media freedom would be highly damaging to that media environment. what we're seeing right now and what is happening around our media isn't comparable and much less powerful than argue worse and u.k. counterparts i don't even know what to call it they're flippin

perhaps to make a significant announcement well yeah the kremlin has been trailing this speech of the valdai conference as being quite an important one of course people have been expecting putin to throw his hat into the ring in the presidential race and say that yes he's standing for a fourth term or when russians go to the polls next march but he hasn't done so yet it is very possible that this might be the moment that he makes an announcement of course the subject is a very interesting young lady and we look forward to seeing how she actually performs or as of where this race starts for the rory thank you. al jazeera has demanded the release of its journalist mahmoud hussein who is now being imprisoned in egypt for more than three hundred days he's accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he had al-jazeera strongly tonight mahmud has repeatedly complained of mistreatment during his incarceration he was arrested in december while visiting his family. and india the energy conglomerate is set to break ground on a beta coal mine in australia later this month but environmentali

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get into russia's president vladimir putin he is now speaking at a plenary session at the annual valdai discussion club in the russian resort of such a cell it's taken us. and years shows. some positive examples as well and i'm talking about. and probably you know don't expect me to say that the syrian example it shows that such so for short and destructive policy can be a challenge to some alternatives and russia is countering terrorist together with the legitimate government of syria and other countries in the region we are. working based on the international law. and i would like to say. that those action this positive developments come at a price that are lots of contradictions in the region but we have been patient. and by measuring every step and everywhere to have been working with all the participants of this process while paying respect of our interests. and our efforts . as they were challenged by our colleagues do give some food for hope they were professional right and in line with the times or another example all this hype around the korean peninsula i guess you've heard a