Sovereign debt of businesses on entire industries banks and gladly putin said that if they come russia will reply in kind of tit for tat and that it would put into effect mirror sanctions and you know it would it would respond. With just over 2 hours in a very energetic session a lot of enthusiasm i should say from the journalists almost 2001900 of them in attendance so plenty more questions to google just have to see how much that the russian president hasnt had 15 of the q. And a manner of. Bringing us the latest from Vladimir Putins annual q. And a were going to listen in now to see what hes saying at the moment. And. Several occasions underline that its the. Legitimate government of syria. And in other countries credit crisis situations theres also a crisis in libya there are too many government acknowledges by the International Community it is still there but i was in a media says that russia supports. Called the Libyan National army and the russian mercenaries are supporting them how could you how would you comment this statement and youre going to discuss this issue with mr early one. And also are you going to discuss syria and other matters with him thank you but do you really believe what western media right. Well you just need to read what they write about and your opinion will change their jokes aside. We are aware of the situation. We. Are as Different Countries have ties with different parties and the level of those ties is different you asked for russia we are in touch with the. Government and we are always dollar cool with our partners with turkey where. We realize it is not very. Precipitated the situation russia was against the use. Of. The Un Security Council resolution. And. Previously to use force to navigation again is the opposition which. Started to use ear force against libya it was a trap. Its of. Little Council Resolution but. Driving the country once thriving country where the living Living Standards girl almost on par with countries is you know in a chaos and civil civil war. Not. Whose rise you whos wrong thats hard to. Talk about the official russian authorities we are both witnesses raj. With mr and with harvey. And we believe what. We need to find a solution to the hostilities and degree of. Peril she is a mandate to the nation im one of the solution that will go thats what we will discuss with our partners the e. U. And i just discussed it over the phone with the german chancellor and with the president of france we also talked to president there. And then the coming days. Well have a representative delegation from turkey here in moscow and we will discuss that issue. But i hope we will find a solution some options that would be acceptable for the libyan nation and together with the representative the general secretary mr samini and we will find the ultimate solution to this leverage argued but are you left inside your prime news agency that they have the smallest van or. What do you believe again from maria bello could prime news agency and mr putin have a question to you. Why is the government really few years changing the rules of the Pension System that has been freezing the Pension Funds for actually several times already and maybe we should have long term rules that wont be changed every time to undermine the. Trust of the people in the Pension System and if theyre going to be another reform of the system. We have made all the decisions no changes are expected. And your pension reform hes being discussed there will be. The pension reform were not discussing it at the governments. Proposals by the finance ministry. Cumulated be considered as an investment and we just want to protect that investment. And we havent given the word. Yet. You seem almost desperate. Please give him the mike. You dont even have to introduce yourselves. Mr putin i have a question about the domestic policy the demand demographic situation this year is difficult and has become more difficult started last year but this year its even more difficult thing and again lot of. Marathon. Session there he was just answering questions about the middle east he was asked about the chaotic situation in syria and libya and want to discuss those things with. Russian president joked about whether or not the person who asked the question believes everything that western media has to say that went on to say that in touch with our partners in the middle east is the most important thing and there he then went on to answer questions about pension reform in russia but he says nothing is being. Just at the moment now the russian president has already been answered questions for just over 2 and a half hours and is still going to be popping in and out to listen in as he answers questions on global issues. And other news u. S. House democrats have stuck to their guns adamantly going ahead and impeaching donald trump is accused abuse of power and obstructing congress but the whole impeachment saga could backfire on the democrats as appears to have rallied republican support something the u. S. President has been quick to note the 230 the naser 197 president is one. Article one is adopting. This lolas hard assume is a political suicide march for the Democratic Party have you seen my pose of the last 4 weeks. And trump may have a point according to the latest polls at least hes getting more support from the public since october just after the democrats started their impeachment inquiry against him his Approval Ratings have grown by 6 percent at the same time the number of people who think he should be impeached is declining from just over half an october to 46 percent now its up to the republican dominated senate to decide whether to remove trump power Mitch Mcconnell who leads the majority of their side thats unlikely anticipates a partisan outcome just like in the house which was an almost entirely along party lines after 8 hours of heated debates with only 3 democrats saying no to one of the articles gentleman from georgia this process has been partition vindictive dishonest the president s actions seriously jeopardize not only Americas National security but security of our closest allies this investigation was unfair the articles of impeachment are not based on facts but instead are entirely politically motivated President Trump abuse the power of his office for his own personal and political gain history books will tell of this day it will tell of a purely partisan effort to remove the president of the United States sure im charlie author of trump emerging powers and the post American World told us the democrats wont succeed and getting rid of the president. I think he is short on before the general election the president ial election which is 11 months from now i think the democrats have basically opens me to trump Andrew Carnegie she said if we do and to create doubt in the minds of the. Dignity and honesty in the process the democrats are holding all these hearings and testimonies and people coming out and giving a begins the whole that it will create enough doubt in the minds of the i think this is a teetotal unix being used to prepare for the general election because everyone knows that. Are going to end in removal of from 63. 00 i made fears that the senate will not remove the president from Office Democrats have a plan b. When it comes to undermining donald trump theyre ready to resort to some old tricks like the miller report are to come up explains difficult to understand the purpose of last nights Impeachment Vote why should the upper house of the u. S. Congress pass judgment on donald trump when democrats already have a plan being the House Judiciary Committee says it will continue to investigate donald trump regardless of the outcome so what else is left to investigate as well the House Judiciary Committee is saying that they will resurrect the dead i. E. The moeller report this will give them a chance to get back to their roots and bring up that old russian collusion agenda and they can get the impeachment hearings going all over again the public version of the miller report contains numerous rejections these rules 60 redactions withhold information about President Trumps knowledge of his campaigns contacts with russian officials and wiki leaks and therefore bear on whether the president committed impeachable offenses yes same old same old even though bob muller found no evidence of trouble russia collusion its all about belief these days the democrats should look into some very solid facts like the recent ruling from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court regarding the surveillance and. Carter page now thats the very carter page who is transforming our Foreign Policy advisor just the very next day Michael HorowitzInspector General of the u. S. Department of justice were due to the f. B. I. For failures during the early stages of the russian probe your field 17 different omissions and inaccuracy is in the carter page warrant applications and furthermore they included doctored documents and concealed information there were so many errors. We couldnt reach a conclusion or to make a determination on what motivated those failures although we did not find documentary or testimonial evidence of intentional misconduct we also did not receive satisfactory explanations for the errors or the missing information and the failures that occurred now James Coleman who was the f. B. I. Director at the time of the investigation did that his bureau was sloppy and how they investigated donald trump and his team furthermore the infamous cia which started the entire russia probe was not as important as it was made out to be it was one of a bunch of different facts to resemble to a part of the court it was the one that convinced the lawyers that they had enough with that added to the pile to go forward as a question is it seems that you were minimizing the role of the of this field if i was sorry that i did that now call me also said that he does not care how credible steals allegations were you conclude the reporting from steel was bunk they concluded there were significant questions about the reliability of some of the sub source reporting that should have been included in the renewals when i reached the president i briefed him on a small part of it that i told him i didnt know whether it was true or not i didnt care and in fact he didnt care about the investigation at all in general i didnt know what theyd learned from the some source i didnt know the particulars of the investigation isnt that investigations or this is an investigation. Of the campaign of the man who is the president of the United States how the narrative that donald trump colluded with russia in order to win the 2016 elections hasnt really panned out however the narrative that donald trump has been in appropriately investigated by people who have an agenda of trying to bring down his presidency is getting stronger by the day now some people might look at this case and say to the democrats stop beating a dead horse just let this russia stuff go already but it could be more dangerous to trump the rivals than they realize it could be a case of stop beating this dead horse before it comes back to life turns around and sinks its teeth into you. R. T. New york. We now go back to our top story as the russian president has been answering questions for about 2 hours and 45 minutes at moscows World Trade Center and his annual q. And a for both foreign and National Journalists our correspondent have has been listening in of course a lot of reporting has touched on everything from Climate Change to russian economy to diplomatic relations bring us the highlights. Well its something that going around like lightning is the fact that like me putin all but said he wont be running for a 4th term journalist asked whether it would make sense for the Russian Parliament to be empowered for changes to be made in the constitution to power the presidency and power the parliament which allowed me a pupil replied that you know potentially we could change the wording of the constitution so that it doesnt say a president cant run for more than 2 terms in a row. 2 terms maximum. What could be done is to cancel the 2 amendments we have 2 terms ules truly serve 2 terms then resigned and had the constitutional right to return to the presidency because it was not 2 terms in a row the amendment confuses some of our political scientists and public figures so we could be counselled. Almost 3 hours into this press conference now that mere putins 15th as president of the Russian Federation a whole host of issues mainly regional questions questions from regions that are many times the time zones away from moscow that live in almost a different reality and this is their opportunity to. Ask you know that their most pressing issues and 3 they have so far theyve asked about everything from trash heap that are appearing all over russia to medicine to even sanctions sanctions between europe and russia which had me putin says of cost billions both sides and billions and ultimately their political emotively he said they should be counted politically motivated sanctions should be removed from the International Agendas only harm people and. Dialogue. But you. Can he was a criminal and a killer in one of the caucuses he killed 98 people in other countries they hold minis where there are less victims and this is from the full list of evil actions and we raised this question multiple times in syria we see what is going on in the jail as well i still find being killed people from central asia russia and 2nd place but there are also many people from western europe from from germany we see that these people terrorists move freely into european capitals and there were hard lot of talking about the diplomatic spat thats happening between germany and russia over the murder of a person that of course refers to as a terrorist and berlin and august of this year saying that its her countrys need to work more closely in situations like that saying that russia has of course tried to do so now another topic that we did hear come up was of course was recently banned on russia for the next 4 years on International Sports but were actually going to cut back to report right now and listening to what hes saying at the moment. People. Families with many children. They oppose this bill. You talked about the demographic situation. Has been going. Well you know thats a decline thats weve expected to be expected. Well. Again. We need to solve the demographic issue. This. Has. No. Forms. Something that. They want. Thats really bad but we. Have numbers that. Are completely different from. For example the center has been telling us. So my question is have you read the text of the bill. And do you think that this is going to finally our demographic growth. The loss nailed a nice nail the coffin yeah i got you just corrected you phrased it. My question is have you read the bill. At the federation council. Most of this 11000 who commented on it are against it but the. Polls say that 70 percent are for it. How can you comment on that so people can not produce other people when they do not have freedom you. Know actually people can give birth and can multiply and captivity people who are born in jails for example i did not read the bill. Briefed me on it just recently shes the chairperson of the. Of the Russian Parliament i have mixed feelings 1st of all you cant use force. To make people love you previously in soviet times. It was communist organizations who were called a pawn to you know deprive. Pressure on mostly mainly so that the kids behave more and more restrained way in the family but my position is that im against violence against Domestic Violence against violence. Towards children or. Women as just a sign of a low culture when a male starts to use her fists she will. Prove his rights. And you can actually rely on existing just. Like hooliganism. You have the. Penalties for that in the current law but youre right that the majority of the polls about 70 percent. Voted in favor of the deal but people want to vevo or fail voted in favor of the bill or they are against Domestic Violence because i will be joining the 70 percent of our people. In speaking against violence. Ok we need to have the public debate or need we need to figure out. That he was each of the provisions. We need to try to figure out what the forecasts what the consequences could be Legal Practice would be and then take the final decision to make it up and please give bag might think you live news but over to keep the right part. But i didnt get it mr president hello im hearing really close to you. Its. December 31st half of the country not the wise who can choose the dont worry we just pretend to be working maybe its high time we made this holiday for example using what weve just been listening into a lot of important as he conducts his annual q. And a marathon session with the press he was just talking there about the issue of Domestic Violence and a proposed bill on its prevention now where ive got it has been listening in to the q. And a session thats been going on for almost 3 hours now a lot has been discussed where i bring us the highlights. Well as we were talking about just a little earlier blood mia biggest news Vladimir Putin all but s