i know what happened to them they have to learn that lesson good luck is moist option and syria is no exception people wind up except for the north and between any of. them in the. well you know that they were kind of adopted because we were called pirates for so long. i mean they're in the small ball of snakes in a hard pool of ships and it's. not something and. the little self to be told fish already ninety percent of the dot and it won't

become the current. concept fifteen scoops seventy five tons true and they do it several times a day with a big fleets now or you get an idea on why the ocean is full which. we have to understand we could not stay still and just. be within this the field going to the arms. i'm doing this because i want the for the future world to the future can generations to have out and enjoy the ocean we have. a. global war hawks sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle if it's going. to do sox credit tell you that it's not because of the public but files of the most important news today

. the hottest advertising telling you are not cool enough to buy their products. these are the hawks that we along with all the walking. with regards to taking territory that seems inexplicably whenever you eliminate one threat see be it good that another thread seems to materialize and this has happened repeatedly now we have these really energy minister who is threatening that his country could quote liquidate you and your government. are you afraid your freedom how do you take that threat. through through award and talk about measure innovation and loss of vision

a vision of the now in syria we lived under the threat of these really aggression this is something in our unconscious feeling. to think about your faith. while living with the same fate for decades this is nonsense. israeli has been associating killing occupying for decades now for more than seven decades in this region but usually they do all this without threatening now why do they threw it in this way this is panic this is the kind of hysterical. feeling because they are losing the deal once the deal won. and i think. that's why israel is panicking recently and we understand perfectly well israel israel is now seemingly shreiking course syria airstrikes at will there boasting

publicly on camera again and again that your defenses they're powerless to stop them that they can do with syria whatever they want. is that true is there anything you can do to stop israel carrying out its airstrikes and syria actually the first target of the most and ruth. in syria was the defense before attacking any other military believe it would be air defense and it would be thought by the why do the table here defend their defense will not deal with the peaceful demonstrators of these three or the moderate forces and it cannot be with extremist anyway if another used to defend the country this of the other proved that this raid was in direct link with those terrorists in in syria so they attacked those bases indeed throwed big part of our air defense now in spite of the of our position our defense is much stronger than before thanks to

the russian support and the recent attacks by the israeli. american and british and french proved that was. torture now the only option. my answer to a question is to improve our defense with the only thing that we can do and we are doing that. israel says that its strikes are so far that they aren't targeted against you the president the government that they're targeted at the run to keep iran which is your ally weak in syria it's strange but iran being here they are your allies it's no secret they have help but them being here now puts you at threat would you ever consider asking around to the most important fact regarding of the issue that we don't have going in troops

we never had and you cannot hide it and we would not be ashamed to say that we have like we invited the russians we could have invited the iranians we have rini and. officers who work with the syrian. me they help but they don't have the troops. in the starkest fact about their lives the world with the sure they are in an issue that the recent few weeks ago they said that the attack during in basis and can see delicately and actually we had things of therians martyrs and wounded soldiers not a single area so how could they see that we have it so it's a lie we always hear that we have it in the officers but they were with our army we don't have troops. changing subject now with regard to

chemical attacks there are now regular alleged chemical attacks happening in syria your government and you allies have said that you had nothing to do with this your allies of bags your claims saying deny you know any responsibility saying there is no knowledge of you carrying these carrying out these attacks the question is in who is interest is it to gas opposition to you the most part of the answer in whose interest the question is it in our interest why and why you know because the timing of this alleged strike was after the victory of the syrian troops in goodwill. let alone the fact that we don't have chemical weapons anyway and let the other folks that we're not going to use it against old people because the but the new theory was about winning the heart of the civilians this is the main but and we

want to how can you use chemical weapons against syria but you want them to have to be supportive to the for thinking if you want to use it listen for that you have it in want to use it do you that after you finish the battle or before or during it's possible you could second if you go. to that area it was very crowded by our means by factions in by civilians we never use such armaments or weapons in that area are going to harm everyone something that didn't happen and if you go to that area and you ask the civilian there was no chemical attack me or anyone even the westen unionists who when dinner after. good was liberated this is the people this we need we didn't see any chemical attack so it was a not if it was just a pretext in order to a taxi. well. it means being a pretext but we have without have proof that you know even mere rumors on twitter

few videos of confusing videos of showing allegedly the aftermath of an attack is enough to justify for the united states its allies launching cruise missiles at syria what if conveniently there is another attack. alleged attack could there be a lot more missiles aimed at syria of course it could because when the united states trample. over the international law. on a daily basis in different areas for different reasons any country in the world could have such an attack what the legal basis of this type of vehicle with their aircraft would be a line with the so-called antiterrorist alliance that support the terrorists actually what the legal before that life nothing what their legal basis for the attack in yemen. against on the border with pakistan etc there is nobody could be

so as long as you don't have. an international law that could be obeyed by your thief and its pop it in the west there's no guarantee that it won't happen that happened a few weeks ago and that happened last year in. two thousand and seventeen and that could happen if we would but the response from promised was going to be extreme and severe as words early on the response that we saw the strike that we saw after the latest alleged chemical attack was seemed to be much more symbolic much smaller in scope and it was inexplicably get dealing. when trump promised the attack and when it came why was there a delay did it have something perhaps to do with russia. it has to speak as we as we saw it the first one the cold the thought of it all day long. the public opinion around the world and in the with didn't buy the story but they couldn't

with the group so they had to do something. even on a smaller scale the second issue related to the russian pull the position but i'm as you know that publicly that they're going to destroy the base of that's going to be used to launch. our information we don't have evidence we only have information and was information that are credible information that they were thinking about comprehensive attack all over syria and that's why the threat. pushed the west to make it. much smaller scale. with regards to the united states relation to would you president trump has called you quote animal asset do you have a nickname for the u.s. president. this is not my language so i cannot toothy miller language this is his

language it will prevent him thing there's the very. no in principle but what you see is what you are so you want to prevent or to be with. in any way. you didn't move anything and if this kind of language could move anything. for anyone the only thing that moves you if what people that you trust are people who are liberal headed people who are thoughtful people or more if because that would move anything inside you with a positive or negative somebody like we move nothing for him but with regard to the united states presence here and this is an interesting thing you know came up of. a while ago there are now in syria forces from five nuclear powers five nuclear powers directly engaged in military operations in syria boots on the

ground or strikes some of those countries are on different sides how serious is this civil war still the world to fill or has been used widely seen the beginning of the conflict in syria even by our friend by our allies by mistake without understanding of the content of this meaning syria a syrian civil war. means they are sectarian lines be used on either if the cities always takes all religion or maybe political opinion or political currently thirty something we did something we don't you see or hear a reality. in the area controlled by the government which is not the majority of syria you have all these diversities. all these diversity through the word of it all is not according to what we have actually from the very

beginning mercenaries syrians and foreigners being paid by the with in order to topple the government this is the reality of the myriad of the very stark reality everything else is just masks to cover the real intention of talking about the political differences moderate peaceful. we don't have civil war in syria if we had three or four for seven years we should have been divided by now you cannot have one country united country united the society if not geographically because now all of the united states puppets and pop it without that we should have it divided so should go both deal with different spectrum of this in a society and you can answer that question in the same way in a certain but with with regards to potential escalation there are proxy forces from all these five nuclear powers as well as their own forces

gauge in syria but you was the president again must have information how close we come during the civil war during this war to an escalation between these nuclear powers in reality we were close to have derek conflict between the russian forces and the american forces. fortunately it is it has been avoided. not by the with them of the american leadership by the wisdom of the russian did because it's not in the interest of anyone. anyone in this world and first of all the syrian to have this conflict we need the russian support but we need at the same time to avoid the american. in order to be able to defend it to stabilize our country and just briefly one last question the closer we get to the end is the danger of an escalation in your estimation is it decreasing

or is it on the other hand increasing as i said the very beginning the more we get closer to the in the more they want to make it father what does it mean the more stability you have the more escalation we'll have the more conservation you have in one area the more. killing and destruction and trying to capture more areas by that oath. we'll have this why we've been there conciliation when we thought that the considerations in many of the other factions in the same area tried to support it because they have the orders from the outside not to go toward any to conservation of course the you have the orders with the pocket of money. so you know what to say is that is correct but the more ice conditions we have the more determined we'll be to solve the

problem because you don't have any other choice other you have country or you don't have country. as the president thank you very much for your insights and thank you very much for welcoming me welcoming us here and giving us so much of your time and we wish you all the best of the syrian people who are the best and a swift conclusion to this to this awful conflict thank you very much mr president thank you thank you for coming to see you again. fifty years ago breaking within to conjugate and as a sleeping pill the dust piece would leave because i just want to share the side effects were terrible but not on. indulge one for board bad mood here not the war. across europe victims or starting legal battles demanding at least some compensation in something in two ways first will the

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headlines here want to russia's foreign minister meets with the leader of north korea say the peninsula can only beat the nuclearized gradually and if sanctions against pyongyang lifted. the journalists criticize ukraine for staging the muddle russian open. journalist. a new artificial intelligence tool could possibly predict if a protest is going to turn violent by analyzing social media activity. that you feel as opposed to winning the heart of the things we. put in an exclusive interview with syrian president bashar assad that insists that damascus would never have used chemical weapons against its own people and claims that there is in fact

and there ever was a civil war in syria. a worldwide news headlines live from moscow this is international from all of us here a very warm welcome to here. the russian foreign minister has met with north korean leader kim jong un as pyongyang prepares for a potentially historic currently in doubt peace summit with south korea and the united states so he laughed it off said the peace process remains fragile the us is regarding sanctions it's completely obvious that when we start talking about the nuclear issue other issues on the korean peninsula it's with the understanding that nothing can happen with sanctions still in place how that's going to be achieved isn't of the question

a matter of the art of negotiation but it can't be done in one good just like denuclearization can't this is why the stages through this each stage goes so to laugh it off added that russia is interested in working with both koreas and that the north should consider all factors in the peace talks including recent history our correspondent is in pyongyang right now with some exclusive images from inside north korea this is a truly incredible opportunity for us to film inside the place. where most high profile meetings in north korea happen just as the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov is talking to his north korean counterpart behind closed doors right there the moment when the russian top diplomat is gang is absolutely unique on the one hand the resolution of the korean peninsula crisis might be just a few steps away with a massive concessions did north and the south have both been making and even donald

trump to however we understand that any wrong move can make everything collapse so the question is why exactly surrogate lavrov and it up in the north korean capital russian diplomatic sources suggest that it was after several invitations in a row by mr lavrov during his visit to moscow we were also told that the north korean side wanted the trip to happen asap during a traditional quick chat with the journalists on the plane when we asked. why this was happening and what to expect of the visit his answer was we'll just have to see i don't know for now trying to go from the monsoon to power the home of the north korean parliament in pyongyang or the russian foreign minister did not come to north korea empty handed he presented the country's leader with a russian keeps

a box. just it also has a key you can look away so still a diplomat also invited kim jong il into russia and cost him a message from vladimir putin in response the north korean leader sent his warm greetings to the russian president well let's go live now to georgia a political analyst a professor of hong kong city university good to see you today why do you think the russian foreign minister is currently in pyongyang meeting with kim jong un. well basically russia has been important in the korean peninsula it has been a party of the six party talks and certainly you can assume a rather important role in their eyes upon young since the economic ties between russia and the united states are more limited. then russia certainly can stand up to american pressure more than china more easily than china and it is in the

interest of russia to achieve didn't the deed nuclearization of the north korean peninsula certainly nuclear weapons program. will likely provoke south korea and japan to develop nuclear weapons to the strategic disadvantage of russia and china or the us you are speaking we're showing pictures of sort of a lover of a meeting with kevin java and mr lavrov has warned yang to consider quote recent history when it comes to making a possible deal with washington what does a lot of raw mean by that. the russian foreign minister would like to inform him that the negotiations process has to proceed in a reasonable rational manner in view of the demand on the part of the united states

that the deed nuclearization process has to be complete very fireball and first of all there is obviously a symmetry in the american demands and the. demands of from unknown so the russian foreign minister is that by using a kind of step by step or stage by stage a kind of negotiation process which is obviously rational since it is. rather difficult to work to achieve to secure a complete arrangement in one goal whereas as you bring up the nuclear ization issue or lavrov was saying that are both denuclearize ation and the easing of sanctions should go gradually together but it seems that washington is looking for a very quick fix for north korea is it even possible that washington would lift the sanctions for a gradual denuclearize ation. some

lifting of sanctions proper bree is sponsor of and in the process in the negotiation process which are expected to be fairly long likely to be a number of years the united states may even offer food diplomatic relations to north korea. and from the point of view of russia's certainly. the dismantling of our antiballistic missile program on the part of so korea may well be an item for negotiation both chinese and russian interests strategic interests have been compromised by the installation of the four missile system in south korea now you've got what it in saying that military drills and war games will continue in the region and the u.s.

knows that its war games are a major provocation to pyongyang but why does it insist on doing them if indeed washington is truly working towards peace. while president donald trump is very interested to present our to the united states audience that his tough stand that his tough actions actually lead to the negotiations and i certainly agree that. military exercises or imply ha statements from either side the well be easy we use excuses to stall the negotiation process and to. and to terminate did negotiation process for certain period of time the lack of our mutual trust is a very very serious problem and at the same time both in washington d.c.

intends to score of against one another in terms of propaganda effects so practically this may well be a certain obstacle as well now as it might look my last question who are running low on time by the us is openly militarily in syria it's playing hardball with china it's showing threats to iran and now of course pyongyang is in its sights some analysts have said beware of trusting washington what's your thought on that. well donald trump certainly has given people and the impression of unpredictability but out in may to lee he has to make sure that the united states will not be extended in this foreign policy and security of commitments at the same time he has to face or rather tough it into coming november so these are serious considerations

on his part as well. political analyst a professor at hong kong city university thank you very much for joining us on our today. thank you. journalists have rounded on the ukrainian authorities for faking the assassination of a russian opposition journalist in kiev international media and security watchdogs have slammed the stunt was deplorable and regrettable. the staged murder of journalists arkady bumped into by the ukrainian security service is distressing well the reappearance of the reporter may be a great relief it is deeply regrettable the crane's authorities have played with the truth no matter what their motive relieved that. it was alive i deplore the decision to spread false information on the life of a journalist it is the duty of the state to provide correct information to the public earlier the ukrainian authorities are claiming that they had found a russian journal.