the russian foreign ministry first have a report on injustice in other countries has called this third slammed the. human rights record during some fierce criticism mainly critics say the report is biased in just another round of the russian american battle yet the foreign ministry plans to publish such reports every year just like the u.s. department so can the russians human rights watch out for really become common practice and all of these kind of reports reliable source of information or a mere diplomatic trick for asking the foreign ministry's commissioner for human rights democracy the rule of law becomes. the world's most well known governmental human rights report is the us department of state it covers the record of the most united nations members except the us and usually criticizes many governments for injustice and violations the first country to respond to the american criticism was china which has been reporting on human rights us since nine hundred ninety eight the russian report focuses on the us today mentioning the one tunnel bay prison and violation of the rights of

through which we can can we are with experts so there are other channels including in the russian foreign ministry. the russian policy of russian foreign policy is becoming more and more problematic which is good the reason why i've started talking about a bill the rooster countries like syria which are more dependent russia is there i think that that the criticism coming from moscow towards countries like belarus and syria would be more effective than criticizing the united states don't you don't you agree why do you think we're not criticizing them. we are definitely we do express our views including. those countries which you mentioned and not only but once again there are different channels and we are doing. speaking of syria we are doing a lot as a russia to. promote the political process to which would result definitely obviously in bettering the situation in the field of human rights but political process not the external external interference in the syrian matter so we are contributing and we are of course frankly telling our friends and partners when we see certain things which are wrong

the foreign ministry's commissioner for human rights democracy and the rule of law. the world's most well known governmental human rights report is the us department of state it covers the record of most united nations members except the us and usually criticizes many governments for injustice and violations the first country to respond to the american criticism was china which has been reporting on human rights us since nine hundred ninety eight the russian report focuses on the us today mentioning the one tunnel bay prison and violation of the rights of american muslims it also covers the european union nato members and georgia. i want to thank you very much for being with us hello thanks well first of all. the question. about your current position about. john burey here are keeping the position of the spur of a special envoy within the foreign ministry was established just this year or so or pleasure last year last year. i didn't hear a couple of months ago right so whose decision was it why was it decided in the kremlin in the foreign ministry or. well. has been

however december two thousand and eleven so russia's foreign ministry issued its own report on human rights. well the us department of state the united states was criticized criticized by the soviet union by rochelle a later for these reports of this kind we said i remember that america's positioning itself as a judge for other country for their situation human rights so why did russia decide to follow this example well first of all. i'm working in the in the foreign ministry of the russian federation and definitely as our minister sergey lavrov actually put it yesterday during his press conference on the. year two thousand and eleven. our foreign policy is not an ideological foreign policy and it is. very much preventing one and. that's why when we criticize we do not criticize out of a radiological. for a logical reasons we have we do. observe and monitor how the situation stands in the united states and some other countries we do. i would lie on certain issues which they have and they do have certain certain problems. we it's very important we be using ourselves not just on some c

of the reactions by the foreign ministry through on on different issues which are within my. scope. you mentioned reports the reports. hopefully to become and you will. but it doesn't mean it will be for another year or two to. share some of our assessments and some say regions on how now humor a situation develops in the world and we have different generals have been in that share and this is my part of my job description a good impression and i am in the regular version with the russian and then foreign journalists and. with a definitely. with our media. donors who are now on t.v. definitely are a different channel so we. think that it is absolutely important to know how the situation develops because quite a number of new shoes and if you will of human rights in the field of human rights are common issues. i would say even ubiquitous sometimes and not a single country in the world today he's immune to those issues so let's mention some of them for instance racism racial discrimination discrimination of ethnic minorities. for their intolerance in a broad sense of so it provides a

this morning a spokesman for iran's foreign ministry says the new sanctions are a, quote, antagonistic move. yesterday president obama signed an executive order that targets the islamic state central bank and gives u.s. banks new powers to freeze iranian government assets. this is the latest between the united states and iran. >> new video is not for the light harded as the dealt toll continues to rise. you see dozens of covered body

by going to greet the stuff of the foreign minister ministry of foreign affairs and the banner for him was who. desires peace needs to be careful. and i thought that was very telling. of the psyche that. exists behind his political weight and i thought i could not. minister with this kind of statement is a statement supported by the majority of israelis i think we israelis we. we grew up. with you that. we need to be on alert. any more most israelis live a life that is quite. and you can of the environment here and planted in the u.s. or in europe which is. and you will find the israelis quite. easily integrating into society into requirements in place and so on so it's not any more the regiment it's a psyche of my childhood. on a little old type if it's any given point in time but it is true that israelis are not not you and they believe that we can survive here in the middle east. only if we are ready to fight for it and when you resigned we sent a message to all the staff of the foreign ministry explaining the resignation what would say the action and what is the general mood like a

foreign minister ministry of foreign affairs and the bad news for him was who. desires peace needs to fool. and i thought that was very telling. of the psyche that. exists behind his political. and i thought i could not. minister with this kind of statement is it a statement supported by the majority of israelis i think we israelis yes we. we grew up on. you that. we need to be on alert. to any more most israelis live a life that is quite bad and you can cut it out of the environment and the us and europe western europe and you will find the israelis quite. easy integrating into society into requirements in place and so on so it's not. the regiment it's society of my childhood. it's at any given point in time but it is true that israelis are not naive and they believe that we can survive here in the middle east. only if we ready to fight when you resigned. the staff of the foreign ministry explaining the resignation what was the reaction and what is the general mood like among israeli public servants concerning the policies that will have to differ and i have no

for the russian foreign ministry and i'm a russian diplomat obviously the legitimate rights and. and freedoms of russian citizens this is a big concern for me for my government for the russian foreign ministry but i am also i am also. monitoring a lot of leave limitation of human rights in general in general thank you thank you very much for being with us and just to remind you that my guest today was constrained sandel what russian foreign ministry special envoy police knew and that's it for now from the top like will be back with more comments on what's going on in and outside russia and so then they are our team to take. and all. the. people. think you. pretty. mediocre for your media project. car t.v. dot com. i've . put to the test as the u.n. general assembly scrutinizes the syrian crisis group is seen by some as an attempt to put the screws on russia and china. europe gets hit with yet another wave of downgrades as competent collapses over the bloke's future century presses ahead of its austerity crusade against greece. roughneck wait for that it with pre-election campaign

for the russian foreign ministry and i'm a russian diplomat obviously the legitimate rights and. and freedoms of russian citizens this is a big concern for me for my government for the russian foreign ministry but i am also i am also. monitoring a lot of the implementation of human rights in general you know in general thank you thank you very much for being with us and just to remind you that my guest today was constantin del boy russian foreign ministry special envoy for human rights and that's it for now from all of the spotlight will be back with more pressure to comment on what's going on and outside russia until then stay on our team and take it it. as . the u.n. general assembly prepares to vote on the arab resolution putting the blame for violence in syria soley on the government that's amid fears the country might soon plunge into sectarian chaos. a fresh wave of downgrades sweeps across the struggling euro zone as six nations get their debt rating scott all this while greece faces further valid hurdles from the e.u. despite its latest partial sturdy plan. and russia's m

well the foreign ministry in moscow says that. if you create the u.n. security council just washed. and possibly even things out for you perhaps you know . could have been different if you waited just for. you a few more days so we're going to see how this meeting is going to be you know that and of course we'll be waiting for its outcome all right you go we know you've just arrived we'll let you go hopefully you'll have a little more details for us when we speak to you later today about more specifically the situation on the ground there and of course what is happening in those talks between sergey lavrov his delegation and the syrian authorities thanks for that update. but moscow continues to receive harsh remarks over its move to veto a draft resolution on syria struggling to convince the west of its impartiality critics however say it's not russia's approach which should be brought into question r.t. sarah firth explains i do know we've designed six on every level the syrian crisis has space opinion from the streets to the international stage the united states is disgusted that

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legitimate to think in that way how many messengers agree with the message and how many don't in the foreign ministry in my view. majority don't care. they are professionals and whatever message comes for them to believe that they will do. is. a solid minority ministry that is politically motivated to promote. israel. in its. rather. hawkish. position it's just government it is is pursuing. i think we do also have the lefties left overs from the past. but i think they are a minority your last overseas posting was as ambassador to south africa what's your experience in south africa she seems as far as the christian nation is all is concerned. i think that israel is. in a danger zone to slide. by default. in too. many frustrations of apartheid if we don't take it. and i'm afraid we don't take it and there's going to contain in the united states as far as israeli policy on iran and palestine goes how deep is the rest between the united states and israel or is it merely a lovers' quarrel i'm surprised to realize how deep the americans care for israel is when it comes to the conversation the political con

in a written response sent to nhk on wednesday, china's foreign ministry said there's no dispute the field is in chinese-controlled waters. it said the drilling is a legitimate activity. they said china is talking with japan about implementing the 2008 agreement. >>> the japanese government is getting closer to signing an international treaty on cross-border child custody disputes. currently, japan's system favors mothers when marriages break up. hundreds of foreign fathers say that's allowed their former japanese spouses to abduct the children they share. nhk has the story. >> stop the abductions now! >> reporter: at the end of last year, there were 193 unresolved cases of children reportedly abducted to japan. the united states, britain, canada, are among the countries launching the complaints. those countries have urged japan to ratify the convention. a court concluded in 1980 that bans parents from taking children across borders when international marriages break up. 87 countries have signed the convention. the u.s. has taken a particularly hard-lined stance. >> we are actively e

changing foreign governments is not job for the foreign ministry is job is to work with foreign governments now just to sell you a little bit about how the russian delegation was to be here in syria right after the foreign ministers plane landed in syria and as you said he is on why he was heading towards the mosque as it was greeted by several thousand people would be watching flags with syrian brands and with cheney's clients and people were chanting thank you russia and thank you china angry with so many of them that at some point the. conwell even had to stop altogether now all of this is in whitehall so the recent votes at the un security council on the un trapped resolution on syria put forward by morocco and supported by the way it was you don't buy it russia and china on saturday due to its one sided approach have been. russia stands for both sides to put their weapons down and basically moscow has been painting fire time that this conflict is the responsibility of both sides both the government and the opposition which does have armed elements of all its goals now the foreign minis

all right peter oliver bringing us the latest from the foreign ministry ahead of a visit by sergey lavrov to damascus thanks for that update. well let's continue to analyze the situation in syria john laughlin political analyst from the institute of democracy and cooperation now joins us on the line from paris thanks for being with us this latest announcement of a new batch of sanctions against syria western countries seem relentless in their efforts to press the president to go why do they want that so badly. well it's part of their general program of regime change across the middle east we've discussed on this channel on several occasions how the arab spring is in fact a program for installing pro western regimes across the arab world we've also discussed how of course behind syria there is the far more important target of iran syria is one of iran's most important allies in the world and certainly in the middle east so you have a target syria targets iran but i think there's another element to this and i'm sure this is one that your viewers and your editorial staff are well aware of th

into the country to collect evidence at the end of last year i level discrete citizen at the foreign ministry spokesman we've never been in the media by the way. because objectivity we've been filtering a bit how can you justify for instance you on the people who are relying on you tube and broadcasting one side even though or even on you tube you have also atrocities committed by. the. it's true that to a large extent mainstream coverage is the trade of the canned has been pretty spun this graphic video appears to show every poor being hanged with the clear picture of exactly what's happening in syria right now to know what the western allies that the un basing their assertions which is not really about genuine concern for human rights and democracy this is all about regime change dissatisfied with the wording of the resolution china v tahj the latest proposal many felt it contained disturbing a case of libya russia and china believe the do or a pin for foreign military intervention as a conflict between the two sides as the crisis in syria is becoming increasingly internationalized they mis

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of this kind can be deployed let's get the latest from artie's first following talks out the foreign ministry sara what exactly is currently being suggested as a way to help the syrian crisis and tell us more about russ' reaction to this peacekeeping proposal. well russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov was talking today to his u.a.e. counterpart is visiting here they were discussing the syrian crisis we had him responding to the press conference to the calls from the arab league gave the weekends for an arab un peacekeeping mission to be deployed in syria now his response today is cool's word that it would need further explanation and that also a number of points would need to be guaranteed before that could go ahead importantly that damascus would need to agree with that and also that there would need to be something resembling a ceasefire before any peacekeepers could be deployed in the country. first in order to deploy peacekeeping mission we need the agreement of the host secondly there should first be peace which the peacekeeping mission will then help sustain you know the words there

was responsible for this exhibition being there is when the soviets asked me to come to the ministry of foreign affairs. again, i think mcclellan was out of town, and they asked me to come at the end of the exhibition and i said okay, i'll bring my counterpart from the embassy and they said no way, because the embassy was tough and hated the american embassy. i went in alone, there was the entire american section, i never really revealed this publicly of the soviet union, the green felt tables, the first question they asked smiling was do you think this was a success? and they were sort of a little bit uptight and i wondered and i said are you kidding? i said it was 2,000% success. all your people coming in, people calling from the different. >> next picture. >> that is the kind of thing you had there. people just -- simultaneously said we were for it and made comments and it was the first time that we knew there had been confirmed there had been a fight between the khrushchevists and stalinists. when i came back to the embassy, he said go in the conference room and write a telegram i want to s

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hostage situation, the government's crisis response center team gathers in the basement of the foreign ministry to coordinate efforts to help. but the experts and diplomats do during an emergency is kept strictly confidential. especially when it comes to kidnapping negotiations. >> protecting life and limb is our highest priority. for each case, a purpose-built crisis team is formed, which acts intensively, drawing on all the resources available in the german government and in the country in general to resolve the situation. >> the crisis response team is shown here at work in 2008 after three german mountain climbers were kidnapped in turkey. the team immediately make contact with the german embassy there. local ambassadors' play a decisive role in cases like these. >> they have firsthand information about what is going on in each area. they have the best contacts, and they are the most familiar with the political situation. they know where the political players are, and they can make appropriate suggestions that we can quickly find to and and put into action. >> even when there is no current