superthin. on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. ironic lark this is a new life and coming up in the next 60 minutes sudan's protesters are demanding an investigation into monday's violence which killed 6 people. iran's foreign minister links what he calls extremists in the white house to attacks on ships off the coast of the u.a.e. . a 2nd night of nationwide curfew is judy come into force intra lanka as police try to curb religious tension. that software developed in its run is blamed for a pack of the what's out messaging service potentially affecting one of the half

1000000000 users worldwide. and as for tiger woods is returning to action for the 1st time since is when at the masters woods targeting a 2nd major win of the year at the p.g.a. championship. so the incident opposition demanding an investigation into monday night's violence that killed at least 5 protesters holding a press conference right now in khartoum let's listen and. a new order put him in a clear on his way. and we let the population know how these negotiations are proceeding. yesterday we had an agreement. yeah i do hope that we will go in that direction

you. see the military council all honest. and faithful bottom out in this process so what killer. are which is a little taste there of sudan's opposition demanding an investigation into monday night's violence that killed at least 5 protesters let's bring in mohammed in khartoum had it just just tie this up for us and what's been said so far and how this links into the context of everything that's been happening. while calling for an independent inquiry into the events of monday night what actually

hop and they have their own view to their saying it is the sudan's rapid support for stuff kind of out the talk the bullets that were used in long told them the transitional military council they say ease with sponsible they have been lent the support of their by the us embassy in ca to which has since issued a statement saying that the toc was the work of the transitional military council trying to impose its will on the protestors so let me interesting . developments there with the transitional military council out fast distancing itself from the talk saying they did not cut it out and it was the work of infiltrators now the protesters saying they want an inquiry and diplomats also throwing their weight behind them it was

a very sick my my colleague morgan reports. doctors in this makeshift clinic tried to save the life of a young man one of the dozens of protesters injured by what they see were members of a military unit known as the graphic support forces. as a set and in another there was a great idea they fired bullets at us and on protesters we tried to protect other protesters who were bleeding so i removed my shirt to use it to help someone the rapid support forces took the chance and attacked when. the shooting began on monday evening the protesters the members of the rapid support forces to try to remove fruit blocks they set up on some of the main roads when they refused to allow that the gunshots. the military denies. or the graphic support forces were behind the shooting tensions have been on the rise since sunday when the military was accused of trying

to disperse they said and they've been camping outside army headquarters demanding the military council which overthrew the country's 30 year president i'm going to be here to hand over power to a civilian government right now if i can. get it right more than 30 more than 30 and right now it might be 40 or even more so a sure thing for you and it must be one of the injuries are injuries from just gunshots gunshots all of the injuries are gunshots. right oh protesters are demanding justice and the country state prosecutor may be able to deliver some on monday his office and mounts that the ousted president is being charged with inciting and participating in the killing of protesters since the demonstrations began in december last year but she will be tried under article $130.00 according to sudan's law if convicted he faces the death penalty the military council that ousted him says some security members also died in monday's

confrontation of this the a 3rd party is behind the violence as an attempt to diminish the progress in talks with the opposition coalition in forming a transitional government. seen with relief when there were people who are infiltrating these groups they are or md and they targeted some of our military personnel we are aware of these people their elements and plans of provocation we know the means that they use they have targeted the military with armed i mean but these outlaws were using very crowded areas to target some of our soldiers but those at the sit in seem to have no faith in the council and are not convinced to market by another market isn't enough the people who died did there have to be more deaths today and all the forces are saying it isn't them then who was it who blood for blood no compensation was i know. i was on it was. protesters still forced to make and break their 15 which is the 2nd

month they say too many lives have been lost in the quest for an independent civilian government for them to give them tensions are at their highest since the protests began and the risks of further escalation and further violence remains people morgan are just there on. how much of a setback are monday's events to the ongoing talks between the military council and the opposition. while the 2 sides resume talks once again this afternoon and they say they will carry on with the timetable they have set of course what's happened is going to really hard but dent on the confidence between them because these are people who are giving different. versions of events of what happened on the media and now they are talking about the future and the relational console they have

a more of ground to cover because the only good so far on this front and there will be a lot of goodwill between themselves so one of the officials of the opposition who is very close to turkey has been saying that they have very tough questions for the transitional military council and they will leave use the talks to ask these questions and they will only be able to move forward on the if they are convinced that the military council is. a trustworthy partner in this. thanks very much reporting thanks very much. including. police around the opposition controlled national assembly we will be live in caracas. china has hit back on the markets reacts we'll have the latest on the trade war with the united states. goes for coming up biggest names are on course to return to a historic track in 2020 and he will be here with that story. rebels

in yemen have taken responsibility for attacks on an oil pipeline in saudi arabia they say they lose the right to warn the kingdom to stop its aggression this is what a military spokesman for the who thinks had to say earlier. this not really thought you'd like to know what they are 7 belonging to the air force of yemen attacked the pumping stations relate to the strategic pipeline that carries oil from east to west in saudi arabia it was a successful operation we found assistance from people living in saudi arabia and we had excellent intelligence in the attack as seriously damaged the economy of the enemy. more saudi arabia state owned energy company aramco says it stopped pumping oil through the pipeline that was targeted these west pipeline is 1200 kilometers

long it carries crude from the main oil fields in the east to a red sea port 2 days earlier saudi arabia said 2 of its oil tankers were attacked off the coast of the u.a.e. near the port of jeddah that attack happened just outside the strait of hormuz which links oil producers in the middle east to markets around the world and even brokered talks between the rebels and government representatives are taking place in jordan the u.n. says the rebels are withdrawing from 3 major ports partly as agreed by a cease fire signed last year the redeployment of fighters began on saturday this withdrawal as part of what is known as phase one of the peace efforts to end the 4 year civil war or let's try to unravel this so let's get to sami hamdi who is editor in chief of the international interest of current affairs analysis magazine with a particular focus on the middle east joins us now via skype from london and so i mean this pipeline attack and he's claiming responsibility is what you make of it.

it's not the 1st time that the whole things have targeted that the remember many months back they targeted the airport and the saudis i can understand the who things had sent missiles and they used it as part of their propaganda campaign on the need to stay in yemen in order to fight the whole of these the ots have sought to intensify and develop their weapons in order to put more pressure on the saudis in order busy to essentially show the yemeni people would try to demonstrate to the many people that they are not just a militia but a genuine capable fighting force i think it's a big step the fact that they are actually going now to try to threaten the oil pipelines of course it comes within this environment of escalating tensions between iran and the u.s. however it does show that the who things are still holding out despite the fact that there is an arab coalition still fighting in yemen i think this is a show of force given that the who it is are being forced to compromise on things that they don't want to compromise on in yemen this is with regards to who data and

others but this attack comes just as a show of force from the old days that we are still here and what about the weapons themselves when they get the drones from supplying this equipment. well they claim that they are the ones who are creating their own drones that they've learned how to make it we've seen even amongst kurdish forces outside of the war of yemen as in iraq they've also been able to create their own drones and use them as weapons the pitch mode again the like so it's not particularly strange that we find drones there let's also not forget that they are backed logistically. by the iranians who continue to provide them expertise with regards to developing some of these weapons i think also with regards to the forty's in northern human let's remember that yemen is a tribal society many people are not necessarily woodhead his government but they're not necessarily with the who sees either deal with whoever has power so they will be able to tap into the resources of the territories that they control that's in the north of joe farmer and side sunnah some of these other places in particular and of course these they've not just been able to remain in their

position just like that they have been able to establish alliances in the northern areas and been able to tap into those resources so i don't think it's too strange that who would have these kind of capabilities but they don't have the capability to cause mass destruction or or busy great damage to those oil pipelines let's remember this was an attack and iran co if they are ceasing to come through these pipelines it's more a precautionary measure than any evidence that there is actually cause any real damage so you wouldn't link this pipeline attack with the so-called sometimes attacks on the vessels of general. the separate attacks on fujairah are quite clear these have have announced that they are the ones responsible and that they have attacked but as far as i'm aware nobody has really claimed. claimed responsibility for the act on the tankers in future i think the problem with the situation now is that with the escalating tensions between us and iran it is difficult to differentiate between what is usual practice in the region in other words as a result of the instability and what is taking place through the regards to parties

that are seeking to egg on the u.s. against the iranians and trying to create some sort of spark in order to launch a full fledged war let some of the iran has many proxies not just the who thing is in the region these attacks on the tankers in for jitter increase the oil prices it's a way to put pressure on donald trump to say you really need to go to war with the iranians i think in this climate it's very difficult to judge who is actually behind what let's remember that trump is not 100 percent certain of going to war with iran he still be john bolton saudis in the u.a.e. are still putting pressure on him to do so but the way the situation stands now is that there we differ some sort of spark that will force the parties to war given that trump and iranians are not 100 percent certain that they do actually want to go to war with one another how does all this fit into the ongoing talks in amman the just trying to find resolution. i think the talks in no man are the same as talks in stockholm talks in geneva and the like that who sees essentially don't want to give up their military gains with yemen we must always remember yemen there

was a national dialogue everybody agreed who just took up weapons and invaded the capital the problem is that the other parties all want the horses to back down and give up the military gains and return as a political party because these are saying you couldn't kick us out of san are you can't kick us out of a job you struggle to get us out of our mind why should we give you up their weapons you accept us with weapons or we continue fighting this is the whole stable it is a stalemate until if you lose a son now or has a major military defeat there is no reason for him to compromise on anything and this is the reason why we see that the negotiations we've seen agreement and they go back because the military situation on the ground still remains who sees favor in so far as they are still able to maintain control of the capital in so far as head this government continues to be divided and in so far as the world continues to focus solely on the humanitarian crisis and not on the fact that who sees a certain democratic process in yemen some of the great to get your perspective on this and it's in chief of the international interest. now iran

is accusing as we've been hearing the united states ventilating the crisis in the gulf region and foreign minister judge in new delhi on an official visit he says tehran had predicted the attacks on the cargo ships of the coast sabotage operation to escalate the situation an american military team is helping with the investigation. as. we discussed regional issues and the policies of extremists inside the u.s. administration and in the region who are trying to impose their policies we also discussed the concerns we have about suspicious subtile yooper a shows that are happening in the region that we had earlier predicted that they would carry out such measures riskily tension in the region. well let's hear now from zone burns rob who has more from tehran. following an initial assessment by a u.s. military team sent to fit your report to investigate the incident that occurred there an unnamed member of that team seemed to suggest that iran might be behind

what happened in for gera now iranian leaders have been responding to that senior members of parliament have said that the information being provided as to what happened in fujairah was too unclear it was too vague and there is not enough to determine actually what went on some suggesting that 3rd parties or some other actors might be trying to goad the united states into a conflict in the region earlier on tuesday a senior member of parliament seemed to suggest that israel might have been behind the incident and during a diplomatic visit to india a foreign minister zarif himself seemed to point a finger at the united states saying that the u.s. may be trying to destabilize the region and that iran had warned about possible sabotage attacks like this being carried out by the united states iran's leaders continue to press their neighbors to try to create an atmosphere of cooperation in the region saying that the united states remains an outsider in this part of the

middle east and that it is up to countries leaders in the middle east itself to focus on their own security their own stability and manage the region's security by themselves and for themselves of course the latest overtures by iran come at a time of heightened tensions with the united states iran and its neighbors have been sometimes friends sometimes foes but throughout it all they've been strong trading partners they've cooperated on regional issues but at the moment there seems to be no clear way forward is specially with more american military hardware in the area. when iran is expected to be on the agenda during talks between your state might pump a in the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov they met in the black sea resort to such said it was time the 2 countries. 2 way of working together and top diplomats are also expected to focus on arms control had delayed his visit to russia in order to meet european leaders on monday to discuss the iran

nuclear deal. moving on police in venezuela. the national assembly these are live pictures coming to us from caracas just minutes before one was to lead an opposition gathering this is happened this is surrounded the building of reports of a suspicious package let's speak now to our latin america and its allies here in your own who joins us live from caracas and he said tell us more about what's happening. hello nic we're just outside of the national assembly. building but about actually about a 100 meters from it because it's been completely surrounded since very early this morning by members of the national guard the bomb squad and. but we haven't actually seen any vehicles that would indicate that there are bomb squads inside there for that meeting that was supposed to take place with the national assembly and it's called every tuesday morning has been canceled nobody can go inside and

see if there's a specific thing is now full of deputies waiting to see what they're going to do they say that this is a flaw that they don't believe for a moment we're being told that there is actually a bomb inside one deputy is speculating in fact that the government agents may be trying to plant evidence inside d their committee also could be used against them during a trial 0 to try to demonstrate that they are plotting against the stability of the nation this is all speculation at this point nic but what i can say is that they're insisting that they're going to be anyway quote either under a bridge in a plaza or anywhere necessary we won't be soft i'm quoting now the spokesman for the national assembly is just a few minutes ago one by all the opposition leader went to d the administrative building and we're waiting to hear now what they're going to do next or i will keep an eye on proceedings you will keep an eye on proceedings will be back with you soon as we get more on that but just one of the things we've been hearing about from the opposition to the pentagon we knew about and we know more about the actual contents that we. the actual content is today at the request for

a meeting with the u.s. president come on the ability a of the america viewers who may not know that and they are quite open to be asking for cooperation that b.p. work with from the u.s. military to come in to venezuela if questioned by the national assembly and by whitehall who would be interim president by that national assembly 3 and a half months ago so this is taking escalating to concord just one notch further this is after the head of the u.s. southern command said that he would be amenable to helping venezuela if you were by the interim government to do 2 it in order to guarantee human rights and also the experience in a democracy and the distribution of humanitarian aid or i may say thanks very much i just a reminder there is live pictures there from caracas police in venezuela have locked down the national assembly just minutes before one of quite a was set to need an opposition gathering to say there's

a live picture so we'll bring you more as we hear more about what's going on the. trolling can under a nationwide cuffy for the 2nd night in its security forces tackle a wave of violence against muslims one person was stabbed and killed during rioting has been attacks on mosques and muslim and businesses in many parts of the country in recent weeks the united nations is expressed concern that the unrest could spiral tension remains high since bombings killed more than 250 people 3 weeks ago on easter sunday no finance reports now from colombo. we did hear that 9 people had been arrested earlier in the deed they had been produced before a magistrate and reminded also several other address being carried out throughout that region where the violence sort of occurred over the last 48 hours there are a number of people eyewitness accounts as well as community leaders who have suggested that this was not just an outpouring of anger and frustration it wasn't

a spontaneous sort of a leader or option of violence of christians against muslims or muslim retaliations against such attacks against christians but that there was an orchestrated organized campaign to create this violence that is backed up by the fact that if you look at even the curfew that was in place in the northwestern province to did their eye witness reports that there were groups who were traveling around the region you know hitting places which were left unguarded obviously the police and the armed forces it's literally a logistical issue they can be at every street at every junction but as as much as there was a little bit of a love law or no presence there was cases not widespread but their work here says that despite the police the view that there was incidents of violence so very targeted very organized obviously this has to be investigated this has not been

confirmed but certainly many people are tending to subscribe to that school of thought. well andrew simmons is more on the rising tensions in sri lanka. security forces say the violence is a direct result of the easter sunday bombings muslim businesses have been either set on fire or vandalized here a factory attacked by what police describe as mobs. police say they've used tough counter measures and the violence is now under control sri lanka's prime minister gave this warning in his speech to the nation ip on. the internet that i have given all necessary powers to the security forces to take stern action against those breaching the peace by violating the curfew and emergency law security forces will take all steps to take action against those breaching the law therefore i request the fullest cooperation to the military and police to safeguard peace. police say

in the 3 worst affected districts north of the capital colombo young people grouped together in what appeared to be planned actions. but. among the targets were muslim owned shops mosques were also attacked butyl. this small group must stop the dangerous game they play against the lives and property of innocent people i must state that we want to allow the country to be led to anarchy by those who show their strength on unarmed innocent civilians. because muslims make up less than 10 percent of the country's $22000000.00 population political leaders here are warning that violence will not only increase tension but also hinder the investigation into these 2 bombings in which more than 250 people died andrew symonds. china's foreign ministry is again warning the united states not to underestimate its determination to protect its interests asian stock markets took a hit on opening after an escalation in the trade dispute between washington and

beijing but they weren't as badly affected as united states which suffered its worst losses in 4 months on monday china has retaliated against america's new terrorist by imposing its own on u.s. imports adrian brown reports from beijing. well both the stock markets here in china were down slightly on tuesday but the falls not as great as you might have expected in hong kong though the fall was almost 2 percent that is a measure of the nervousness among investors in hong kong worried about where this trade war is now heading meanwhile the propaganda war has begun on the main bulletin on state t.v. last night the anchor read out a very strident commentary in which he essentially said china didn't want a trade war but it was now quite prepared to fight when he quoted president xi jinping saying that the chinese economy is not a pond but a sea a rainstorm can destroy a pond but not

a sea we've also been hearing from the editor of the nationalist global times newspaper and he's saying that essentially it may be time for china to start selling the debt it holds in the united states in the form of u.s. treasury bonds and perhaps for china to start reducing its orders from aircraft makers like boeing now the 2 sides still have a window for negotiation because the new tariffs the china has announced won't take effect really for at least another 2 weeks and of course the terrorists that president trump raised on chinese goods last week well those tariffs going to fly apply to goods that left china for the united states after midday last friday so there is still a glimmer of hope but the time for those talks to happen is rapidly beginning to run out. north korea is to mind the return of its cargo ship seized by the united states pyongyang says the c.g.

goes against the spirit of the recent summit between the u.s. and north korea the vessel was detained in indonesia last year and american samoa on saturday washington says the vessel was carrying coal which is in violation of sanctions against north korea has more from the south korean couple of saw. the cargo ship the wise honesty is one of north korea's largest and it's now been towed to the u.s. territory of american samoa in the south pacific it was originally seized in indonesia for allegedly breaking sanctions against north korea by exporting coal which is one of north korea's biggest money so it's easier comes as a major blow your korea's foreign ministry has demanded its immediate release saying that its seizure goes against the spirit of the summit in singapore last june between kim jong un and donald trump meanwhile north korea's a weapons testing and missile launches of last week seem to have put

a strain on the whole process of dialogue and reconciliation the world food program's director david beasley has been in seoul trying to organize a food shipment for north korea but finding problems with j.n. south korea's president coming under domestic political pressure not to give such a gesture to the north after north korea's apparent provocations of last week north korea's food problems meanwhile seem to be getting worse it was confirmed recently that last year's harvest was the worst for 10 years and choose days edition of wrong cinnamon the official party news paper confirming that things are no better this year with the whole of the country suffering in the 1st part of this year very badly from drought. so out here in algeria those considered to be at the bottom of

india's social hierarchy turned to politics to be heard. i will tell you why the u.n. is sending out a warning about children you know you go to. school it's about 20 minutes and one of baseball's biggest stars is back from injury looking better than a guy you know. back to the. hello there we're still seeing new york showers across parts of the middle east look at the satellite picture we can see this area of cloud hit doesn't look too impressive but it's given a few showers over parts of iran and that will be gradually drifting its way eastwards as we head through the next few days say for some of us in afghanistan those are the rain here will be intensifying and that will drag down the temperatures as well so much some in kabul just of 19 degrees on thursday there

would also be a few showers a bit further towards the north as well so you may just catch one or 2 in touch can well monti towards the west here it's looking a bit dry a whore to back that right up to $42.00 degrees of course in ankara will be at around $27.00 with a decaying system working its way across us so expect a fair amount of cloud and an increase in winds as well i mean further towards the south and here in doha it's just hot now it's 40 degrees will be our maximum temperature on wednesday the winds are coming down from the northwest so at least it's a dry heat that does change a little bit as they say the temperatures not quite as high just to a little bit more in the way of humidity i mean further towards the south and for many of us here this is dry following weather as well but we all see more clouds just to the north there just in the northwest impossible you can see that area of cloud over the all the parts of angola that's where the wettest weather is for the still some cloud around the southern parts to.

i name a lot of the i was born in the same year as this one voice i feel as though the state is my mother should be maybe not a cause of celebration for some a catastrophe for others then knock back is still going on they put my sons in jail so every day i feel disgust for a few twice over al-jazeera well tells the stories of palestinian and israeli women born in the same year but on opposite sides of this divide born in 48 on al-jazeera world. the latest news as it breaks local communities here in 40 are very frustrated because the lack of post storm services with detailed coverage this fact not of the fact though people often say this struggling to make ransom notes and just wants a better life from around the world as agnes you have been offered to those who have bet against the government. except those involved in human rights abuses a war crimes.

that again you're watching odds are a reminder of the top stories of sudan's opposition now demanding an independent investigation into monday night's violence that killed at least 5 protesters this comes as talks resume between them and the ruling military council. yemen's toothy rebels take responsibility for an attack on a key saudi pipeline the rebels say the drone strikes were a warning to saudi arabia to stop what they call aggression in yemen. the police in venezuela have locked down the opposition controlled national assembly. just minutes before opposition leader i want to go i do was set to lead a gathering offices have surrounded the building over reports of

a suspicious package. the world should cut financial ties with me and most military according to a u.n. nations fact finding mission the panel has completed another trip to countries in the region found evidence of continued violence against. earlier the mission concluded that men must generals should be prosecuted on charges of genocide chris sidoti is a human rights lawyer and member of the united nations human rights council's independent international fact finding mission on him he says the military is still the power behind the throne. we're not advocating financial cuts to me and as a whole in fact to the contrary we are arguing strongly against comprehensive national sanctions they didn't work in may and mar in the past they result was exactly as you described and that is that the people were impoverished the fact is that during the sanctions in the past the general still got richer we advocate instead not

nation wide sanctions not comprehensive sanctions but carefully targeted sanctions against the military they're the ones who are responsible for the situation they are responsible for the massacres the rights of the human rights violations across the country and they are the ones that should bear the price of that and so what we were g.e. is disengagement financial disengagement political disengagement from the generals individually and the military as an institution and that means as well all of the economic vehicles through which the military and the generals in the institution enrich themselves at the expense of the people the military were centrally engaged in planning and executing the violence that took place certainly in rakhine state against 0 hinge of people like this for akin to that report to go live to sochi in russia where my pump arrows. in the black sea resort for talks with his russian counterpart. be. a lover of foreign minister let's listen in the

russian soil. is his 1st visit to russia. as the head of the foreign ministry of that as states though was here. in his other positions today were conducted negotiations. concerning to develop during the. war that all presidents have had to cover to come a conversation of a conversation and according to the old council this talk the heads of states gave us a mandate to start. our dialogue we started fulfilling this task a few days ago in the field and where on the sidelines of the ministerial meeting of the arctic council conduct a very useful mating and today in the development of this dialogue in detail we discussed the situation of our bilateral relations and exchange views on their most burning is here is the international original is yours because sunny venezuela

korean peninsula syria of. ukraine and north africa afghanistan and the situation. around the joint comprehensive action plan on there are regulations of the iranian nuclear program about the results of our negotiations we will report today in the evening to the president putin but on the whole i can say that the conversation was a frank one it was a useful one it's understandable that our relations with the united states the experience not the best times and the potential of beneficial operation is hasn't been used in the fall but very much as you would like to. to the characters from the predecessors of the anti russian sex sanctioned polish politics because we talk about the 2 biggest nuclear powers of the tension between russia and united states inevitably negatively influences the terrible situation

there well that's why we're with agreed that we should try to undertake the practical steps on a correction of this situation which took place russia is interested to normalize our dialogue and we are convinced it's very much possible as well if we. conduct our relations on the basis of respect of the your shoulder respect of the interests where greed that's important to tourists or the child of corporation of communication lately they were frozen the challenge for communication very much due to the wave of grounded accusations towards us attempts to influence the outcome of the us elections there was kind of because piracy with us of the of the high ranking american officials as understandable such. speculation is just a fiction and i hope after they published recently a report of the special prosecutor mr mehlman there are less passions there. more

one in the study more constructive. mitchell cooperation professional dialogue between russia and united states i think there are already in place some basic understanding which was discussed between up by our presidents your amazing last year the summit house and then a few times over the phone so far this understanding is implemented not in full and out of the positive results we have we stressed the resumption of the activity in december last year of all bilateral dialogue on fighting terrorism on the level of the deputies of the has of the over the foreign ministers. it's a good step but of course it's not official enough withhold will be possible to implement some other ideas which were considered in house and came out recently between us and phil and and today in such 1st of all i would stress

the experiencer to create a non-governmental expert council out of known politicians military man diplomats professionals about national relations and such and a view on this from the side they will help to determine how we can overcome this mistrust which has accumulated to to be able to target each other's ways correctly in military affairs so that they do stop there our arms race and in prospect to build up stable co-operation in other spheres we hope it's also useful to start to set up a business council which what you're neither representatives of the big private business on both sides there would also be able to give recommendations which would be aimed to help the governments to formulate comfortable conditions for the michelin beneficial economic cooperation we discuss all the also the stamps which

are able to give impetus to the positive development of the russian american relations we were gave a memorandum to the state 2nd secretary we hope our i.d.'s will all be considered in washington concerning international agenda we frankly spoke about many issues including the situation around venezuela russia is stands for that the people of this country determine their future and in this respect history important that they all the patriotic responsible political forces of this country start a dialogue among themselves. and to which also this series of countries of the region appealed to it within the framework of the so-called mechanism the montevideo mechanism and the government government as mr moderate said is ready to have this dialogue concerning syria we discuss about the need to implement it full volume the resolution $2254.00 the key position of which is the

respect of the sovereignty territorial integrity of the syrian arab republic public we agreed to canteen near the consultations on the basis of the existing contacts between us and we also on our concrete aspects we exchanged views concerning of the takes extermination of terrorism in syria insurance of conditions for the refugees to return a resolution of humanitarian issues and the launch of the political process in the context of the formation of the constitutional committee we hope. it will be it will still be able to operate in geneva under the auspices of us sooner we spoke about near east about a situation which took place around the plant on this of the concern of the iranian nuclear program here who have many differences but what that that the fact that we talk about it alba will go on discussing this situation of course it gives

us some hope that some agreements may be reached. we will one even russia supports us concerning situation in ukraine there also are resolution of the un security council which approved the mid the minsk agreements and we hope that the new leadership of the ukraine will be able to determine their position sentiments agreements relying being based upon the one that has not turned out of the political resume settlement of this internal ukrainian crisis. concerning other issues i will stress the situation on the korean peninsula in it was discussed in detail between our present presidents by the power president or the 3rd of may mr porter told mr trouble about the summit to russia's north korea summit which took place in lot of ahsoka on the 25th of april we stand in favor of

the dialogue between washington and pyongyang where ready to support this dialogue and i'm convinced that finally we should aspire to formulate in that region and stable mechanism of peace and stability and of course we stressed that the leadership of the korean republic expects corresponding guarantees of security of their country in the response of the steps concerning. misunderstand about the nuclearization should spread all over the korean peninsula which stressed or so the useful cooperation which has been taking place concerning of ghana's stan including in the format of the troika russia u.s. and china. of course we paid a lot of attention to the issues of assertive. the consider the situation which is taking place around there grammont of the missiles of middle and far range we spoke

about the prospects of the agreement on a strategic offensive weapons in connection with the fact that the 1st term awaits expires in april 2021 and we are interested that to resume the professional concrete dialogue on all the aspects of the control arms i hope that this agreement will be positively perceived by our to all our peoples and the other was community on the whole i want to say that the conversation was frank was full of. i hope that the visit of mr pump air will contribute not just to the improvement of this in an atmosphere of our relation but also will be able to move for us to move probably by by small but the real steps that there was a resolution of the practical issues which require resolution on the agenda of the black short relations and concerning a regional and international issues i thank my colleague for the good negotiations

and i ask him. so to. speak in front of you. i want to 1st of all say that i appreciate president put him and prime minister lavrov for hosting me today thank you sir we had a frank discussion about many issues including many places where we disagree. the united states stands ready to find common ground with russia as long as the 2 of us can engage seriously on those issues we discussed this war mr lavrov said many important topics we talked about terrorism we talked about afghanistan. present trump's made clear that his expectation is that we will have an improved relationship between our 2 countries this will benefit each of our peoples and i think that our talks here today were a good step in that direction. a few subjects that we talked about before mr lavrov mentioned that we spoke about syria we both want to move forward on the

political track to bring the suffering of the syrian people to an end and we want to do so in a way that ensures that syria will never again be a haven for islamist terrorist groups and also raised our concern about the escalation of the situation around in the northwest of syria. we also discussed north korea and its nuclear program the united states and russia agree on the goal of the denuclearization we'll continue to discuss it i underscored that we must maintain full implementation of the u.n. sanctions until the final fully verified nuclearization of north korea is achieved and our 2 teams have been working very closely together on this in a very productive fashion. on venezuela we have disagreement i urge my russian colleagues to support the venezuelan people as they return democracy to their country the united states and more than 50 other nations agree that the time has come for nicolas maduro to go he's brought nothing but misery to the venezuelan

people. and we hope that russians support for majority will and. but despite our disagreements we'll keep talking i hope we can find a way for that ends with the humanitarian political crisis that is happening on this we both agree. we also discussed the situation in ukraine the trump administration has been clear that we do not recognize russia's attempted annexation in crimea and we hope that we can continue to move forward our sanctions have remained in place. i urged russia to reach out to ukraine's new president to demonstrate leadership by taking step towards breaking the stalemate we would in particular welcome the release of the ukrainian crewmen detained there the current strait last year and we talked about implementation and how we might move forward in a pending a ceasefire in the don't boss region. we spoke a bit about the activities that are taking place in the middle a survey with particular focus on the actions that iran is taking i made clear that

the united states will continue to apply pressure to the regime in tehran until its leadership is prepared to return to the ranks of responsible nations that do not threaten their neighbors or spread instability or terror. as foreign minister lavrov alluded to very much on president trumps mind as arms control. our actions on the and i and after they have demonstrated that we're committed to effective arms control that advances u.s. ally and partner security that is verifiable and forcible. the president's speech as charged his national security team to think more broadly about arms control to include countries beyond our traditional u.s. russia framework and a broader range of weapons systems. we president want serious arms control the delivers real security to the american people and we know and i think we agree on this to achieve these goals goals we'll have to work together and that it would be

important that if it's possible we get china involved as well. we'll have a more extensive set of converse a. it's both about arms control and. opportunity to discuss all broad strategic security issues between our 2 countries in the weeks ahead. i also raised the issue of u.s. citizens who have been detained in russia making sure that our citizens are not unjustly held the broadest want to president trumps highest priorities. and we spoke to about the question of interference in our domestic affairs i can find that there are things that russia can do to demonstrate that these types of activities are a thing of the past and i hope that russia will take advantage of those opportunities . finally i want to emphasize the american friendship with the russian people are 2 nations share proud histories and respect for one another's cultures we seek a better relationship with russia and we heard that it work alongside us to change the trajectory of the relationship which will benefit each of our peoples thank you

very. much and. questions. newspaper coming someplace. i would often own my son joe you mentioned agreement or you to expire as a $2021.00 until now it's not clear if it will be clearly extended and in this connection the question of the state secretary if he washed out washington is ready to extend the agreement full 5 more he has that moscow proposes and if the guys are ready to do it discuss the claims of russia concerning this agreement concerning the convention of the launching installations and assignment of mr lavrov if us doesn't. lift this concern of for a russian oh well russia insist on the extension of the agreement thank you and a treaty and thank you. so foreign minister lavrov raised the issue of concerns about compliance with

a new start treaty today i will continue to work to. allow the treaty to be verified exactly as the verification regime exists as for its extension what we have agreed that we will do is we will gather together teams that will begin to work not only on new start and it's. its potential extension but on a broader range of arms control issues that each of our 2 nations have i think in our shared best interest achieving an agreement on. russia now as for our position indeed we have concerns that have to do with the claimed red receding of the u.s. launchers of tried and sell b.m. xer as well as heavy bombers of converting them to non-nuclear forces that started the treaty foresee certain procedures that allow for the 2nd party should allow for the 2nd party to verify that this conversion rate reseating of

equipment is done in such a way that it is impossible to return the nuclear warheads to the launchers on the bombers. we're discussing that via letter or consultative commission which oversees the implementation of the treaty and we expect that this discussion will yield positive result in the end as for the question of what russia will do if these concerns remain in place i'd prefer not to respond to that because right now we're proceed from the assumption that we can agree within the bilateral consultative commission and guessing and do the guesswork what will happen what will not that that's possibly not not the diplomatic to ask our task is to achieve result and that's what we will do. things we're going to go to guy that. thank you very much i want to follow up on venezuela i'm mr secretary what was the

message from the trump administration specifically in regards to the russian government and their continued support of nicolas maduro and their active involvement in the western hemisphere and mr foreign minister why is it the russian government persists in supporting mr majority when virtually every democracy in latin america has recognized mr y. job as the legitimate interim leader of that country thank you. we. we talked about this for some time. we made clear the u.s. position we want every country that's interfering in venezuela. to cease doing that we want the venezuelan people to get their democracy back we want them to have a fair free election elect their own leadership not in the way that of the sham election took place with mr monroe so whether it's iranian forces or chinese or cubans the trumpet ministrations position is that they all need to cease having an impact in supporting. and allowing the venezuelan people not only to get their

democracy back but give them an opportunity to rebuild this country that has tremendous wealth. there are russian companies operating there that are successful businesses as well we want we want those countries we we want the country get a chance to rebuild its economy too so that it it isn't dependent on humanitarian assistance from anywhere in the world but rather they can begin to deliver economic outcomes for themselves and to do that the central point is that we need free and fair elections they're not interfered by any other nation. because that's not counting all position and responding to a question why russia takes precisely such a position in support of the dialogue consideration of all the issues by bit israel in themselves without ultimatums without permanent conditions. it's the position stems from the fact that that democracy cannot be enforced by force the threats

which ahead because there were smart dura government or threats which i had from there up are up representatives of the us administration action from the from door here through this press which constantly reminds of his or i to do in of why. intervention from abroad they have nothing to do with democracy we remember how it a 1003 in may the president of the us than george bush the junior on the ball over the border of the. area he did declare about establishment of democracy in iraq when we remember in 2011 as he was declared the leader of libya overthrown and democracy has now. in libya so we don't need more. to discuss more details how democracies in libya in iraq howard where such attempts old or throwing of the regimes took place and didn't do anything good so there's no

need to discuss or democracy means. thank you. russia 24 question to both ministers on the possible. meeting between mr. putin is contradictory can you shed light if such a meeting will take place. and of this meeting is planned with the 2 leaders to misstep on you just to. discuss with european colleagues the nuclear deal with iran. latest news about the possible. talks with trouble some doesn't mean that you want your tone has said you've chosen a forceful line towards iran and that's not the way and you european allies agree with you on base. we naturally had this statement that he hopes to conduct the mitten with the putin. gloating also within the framework

of their participation to. such a proposal. such an official proposed proposal will react positively we spoke misapply about it but if there's a. proposal let me talk about my conversations with brussels and the more broadly about united states policy with respect to this republic of iran so i want to brussels to share with our european friends the threats and concerns we have about a actions that the iranians are taking or potentially taking. and we want to make sure they understood the risk because as we saw them and i shared i shared that with them in some detail. as for our policy it's been consistent now for the entire trip administration and the decision to withdraw from the g. c.p.o. you know just over a year ago made clear what our objectives are we laid them out in may of last year

we're looking for iran to behave like a normal country and that's our ask and we have apply. pressure to the leadership of the islamic over republican rand to achieve that we we fundamentally do not see a war with iran we're looking for the. regime to simply stop conducting assassination campaigns throughout europe to cease their support of hezbollah threatens interests all across the middle east their support for the who these that are launching missiles into areas where there are russians and americans traveling these missiles could easily kill a russian or an american. we laid them out in some detail our position hasn't changed and the movement of troops that you described a leap to the part of a defense but we've also made clear to the iranians that if american interests are attack. we will most certainly respond in an appropriate fashion.

shaun tan then they have he. create thank you thanks for your time i want to follow up on a couple of statements you said 1st for for mr lavrov you mentioned the despite the disagreements with iran that there is a possibility of a certain agreements on iran going forward could explain what what you see in common with us in iran where you can go to pump a oh if i could ask you about the mysterious incidents in the u.a.e. regarding the oil tankers have you pinpointed responsibility for that and like a follow up on your statement about the elections said that there are things that russia could do to show that election interference is a thing of the past what's what are those things what do you what would you like russia to do thank you very much. concerning the situation in iraq iran and iran to join to a comprehensive action plan on their regulation on the iranian nuclear program program problem i hold but that it.