treaty but spoke at the conference in geneva russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has reiterated one more time that russia is not planning to get involved in any arms race with america and is ready to go back to the dialogue as soon as washington is ready something that lover of believes russia does not see happening right now and here minister lavrov has brought recent steps in developments of space missile defense system by america alarm and steps as lover of believes let's take a listen. in the u.s. funds have been earmarked for the establishment of a space missile defense system as well as putting strike capabilities into orbit this is a. well as you can see a lot has been said many critical things but as a lover of has said at this conference in geneva russia has that its western colleagues will hear its voice back to you. breaking down in the statement earlier by a surrogate luftwaffe thank you. all right to another headline stories this hour the president of brazil has for some time been dubbed the trumpet of the tropics for his right leaning and dear europe chose the united s

guarantee of their national security russia has responded by saying that it will also suspend its obligations under the agreement but speaking of the conference in geneva earlier on wednesday minister lavrov has stressed that it wasn't russia's decision it wasn't russia's initiative russia has simply responded and russia remains open for the dialogue and is not interested in any way in arms race with their washington but as mosco can see right now washington is not ready for these dollars and this is what minister lavrov has rater rated one more time and he has brought among other things america's recent steps in developing space missile defense program alarm and steps as a lover of believes. the u.s. funds have been earmarked for the establishment of a space missile defense. as well as putting strike capabilities into orbit this is opening pandora's box as minister lavrov has said russia helps and believes that its western partners colleagues are responsible for global security and at the end of the day the future of the mankind will hear russia's voice and follow the right path. the president of brazil was dubbed last year as the trumpet of the tropi

russia's foreign minister is warning against the emergence of a new arms race on an even greater scale than the cold war speaking at a conference in geneva sergey lavrov said he regrets america's willingness to undermine some key treaties on weapons stockpiles in turn washington questioned moscow's intentions in preventing an arms race artie's financial reports russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov i have to say has been very critical and has in fact accused america of destabilizing world security lover of has expressed his dippers concerns frustration and fear is over the current situation in the field of nonproliferation of weapons and global arms control emphasizing that after it's designed to destroy global basic agreements that proved to be doing their job well in guaranteeing world security and protecting international peace are rising and this is a very dangerous tendency and lover of has particularly referred to america's recent withdrawal from the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty known as the i am at treaty signed between moscow and washing. and back in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven warning that the recent dev

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has held five days of talks in geneva on banning what are known as lethal autonomous weapons but the u.s. russia israel and the u.k. are against any restrictions saying these developments could make war safer we'll be bringing our guests and in just a moment but first here's a science and technology editor mariana hond. we have here is our primary test facility on what's driving around twenty four hours a day seven days a week robots room here being tested to deliver discover to do what they programmed to do. but what you won't find here is a so-called kilogram a fully autonomous weapon designed to hunt and kill without a human involved as far as we know they don't exist yet but canadian company clear path insists killer robots have no place on the battlefield we feel. that there is a a line which is being crossed with this technology we feel that on top of being riskier than anyone actually appreciates right now there is a disconnect from there is an ethical and moral disconnect from. from war we think that these weapon systems are going to be used in all sorts of dangerous ways both by major p

deals of one hundred billion dollars turnover syria came up russia turkey iran key to the astronaut strategy the mechanism then continuing the geneva talks proposals interesting golan heights was broader turkey saying the golan heights belong to syria going totally against the course that big statement came from president trump saying absolutely the opposite anyway we thought we'd bring you the breaking into our shed your programs for that live news event the foreign ministers of russia and turkey speaking there live in and tell you in turkey. all right that's covered now what else we got today was the twenty ninth of march that strongly in my head after talking about it for the first time two years ago it was supposed to be today the one that went down in history as the day that britain finally divorced from the european union but all that's been turned on its head of course as you'll know instead this expected to be another crucial vote on teresa mayes breaks it will draw agreement later in the day time now it's forty minutes past me look at the clock course it's forty minutes past nine in the morning still early days there's a l

this is russia's deputy representative for disarmament speaking at a united nations forum in geneva on wednesday. >> what is important here is in its tactical and technical features, in particular, the flight time from the command center, our weapons would correspond to the threat directed against russia. we know how to do this, and w we wouldld implement these plans immediately as soon as such a threat would become a reality. this month, the trump admininistration formalllly announunced it is withdrawing fm the e intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty, the inf, the landmark 1987 treaty banning all nuclear and non-nuclear missiles with short and medium ranges. negotiated between reaeagan and gorbachev. venezuelan opposition leader juan guaido has arrived in brasilia for talks with brazil's far-right president jair bolsonaro. last month, bolsonaro join president trump in many latin american heads of state in recognizing guaido as venezuela's interim leader. and as well as president maduro has called bull's and aro in modern-day hitler's and accused him of plotting a military intervent

state ofhe city geneva ruling crimea for longer than include a russia, too many people buy into the fake assertion that crimea was always russian. the greeks in crimea worked with scythians to create the amazing ornaments currently contested in dutch courts and which should be returned to ukraine. they were deported in 1944 by with armenians and other indigenous communities who were there centuries before ii first seized it for the russian empire. we all collectively must reject such russian falsehoods and reiterate truths of what is happening in crimea and in russia itself. five years on, the challenge is not restricted merely to crimea. with russia controlling ukrainian tour -- territory as it has controlled 20% of georgian territory is 2008. -- there has been a full spectrum of aggression in ukraine the last few years. in. war, dirty acts of assassination and bombings, cyber attacks, disinformation, the weaponization of energy, as well as more traditional economic and diplomatic pressures. similar tactics have been employed elsewhere in europe from the baltics to the balkans. think of

three times a month the main meet in geneva these groups include representatives of more than twenty countries including the countries of the region of the west of for russia china iran. and so on so there's no shortage of the mechanisms is supported only that everybody is governed by the resolution twenty two fifty four as we did it in the ass now almost trying to achieve that the issues of the of the serious element decided by the syrians themselves know nobody happens to them as a western partners want to do that in december of last year when they. the. made it possible that the formation of the constitutional committee was told that we would be busy without any styria where completing all work in their stana form i think our un colleagues will realize this is the responsibility to convene this forum as soon as possible. with respect to there is a very sort of raised by qatar to the return of syria to the illegals are states we explained the reasons in the past. the reasons for the same with regard to the suspension of syria's membership and nothing has changed we are committed that a political solution agreeable to the syrian people is the only solutio

has held five days of talks in geneva on banning what are known as lethal autonomous weapons but the u.s. russia israel and the u.k. are against any restrictions saying these developments could make war safer we'll be bringing our guests and in just a moment but first here's a science and technology editor mariana holland. all we have here is our primary test facility i was driving around twenty four hours a day seven days a week robots road here being tested to deliver discover to do what they're programmed to do. but what you want to find here is a so-called kill of robot a fully autonomous weapon designed to hunt and kill without a human involved as far as we know they don't exist yet but canadian company clear path insists killer robots have no place on the battlefield we feel. that there is a a line which is being crossed with this technology and we feel that on top of being riskier than anyone that actually appreciates right now there is a disconnect from there is an ethical and moral disconnect from. from war we think that these weapon systems are going to be used in all sorts of dangerou

has held five days of talks in geneva on banning what are known as lethal autonomous weapons but the u.s. russia israel and the u.k. are against any restrictions saying these developments could make war safer we'll be bringing our guests and in just a moment but first here's a science and technology editor mariana hond. we have here is our primary test facility on what's driving around twenty four hours a day seven days a week robots room here being tested to deliver discover to do what they programmed to do. but what you won't find here is a so-called kilogram a fully autonomous weapon designed to hunt and kill without a human involved as far as we know they don't exist yet but canadian company clear path insists killer robots have no place on the battlefield we feel. that there is a a line which is being crossed with this technology we feel that on top of being riskier than anyone actually appreciates right now there is a disconnect from there is an ethical and moral disconnect from. from war we think that these weapon systems are going to be used in all sorts of dangerous ways both by major p

russia intends to continuously support. in material terms the provision of humanitarian assistance bilateral channels available for this also for other countries and i'm sure humanitarian agencies in geneva and elsewhere including charities of the church may well be used for these purposes we do not underestimate the gravity of communitarian the crisis but we are strongly against any attempts to use this situation for political reasons they are the big development we're reporting right now the representative of the venezuelan opposition. who says that they've taken control of venezuela diplomatic buildings and the united states to what extent is that legitimate given that they weren't elected into office. this is something that is completely illegitimate but we have ourselves experienced similar things were. russian diplomatic properties were deprived from russia when the russian diplomatic premises in the us were entered by the u.s. officers without any permission on the part of russia this is the we how we international law and normal practice is being looked into by the government of this country i think i'm tempted to say this is this is the very rules based world order that we shoul

russia water delivered its conclusions in the presence of hio the german journalist who was the first to report on the russian don't bring scandal. ladies and gentlemen members of the media welcome to geneva for this special what the independent commission press conference we've found cover ups we've found destruction of samples in the border is we've payments of money in order to conceal the interest among others so it's. it's worse than we thought all of this could not have happened and continue to happen without the knowledge of and either actual replied consent of the state authorities so i mean their lab is gone they're their national group of variation is gone we've recommended that the russian athletics federation be suspended they're gone. in banning russia from the global sport soon the agency revealed that they'd come to the same conclusions as the german journalist one year after his initial revelations. here avoiding talk just as guns of this team pushed off for the truly awful and for the here and for the president of a can see is this a clutch or is this off i go for this because i'm too which is what history doesn't come in the thirty's all those wrongs committed all the co

russia. because as easily as they stole it could be stolen from them. they keep that money in the west. they keep it in new york and paris.and geneva and so i said to myself, if we can assets and ban them from traveling to these places, be justice in a satisfying way but it's a hell totalot better than impunity, which is what the russians had been enjoying up until that point so i went to and i met senator benjamin carden. freshman senator from maryland and i told him the to sergeihat happened magnitsky and i said can we do something about this and he said yes. up with the idea of the magnitsky act and he said to get a law passed in washington, needs to be bipartisan, you need to find a republican. i looked down the list of republicans and one name jumped off the list which is senator john mccain. if anyone could empathize with what sergei had gone through, it who had beenin imprisoned and tortured in a camp so i wenton to john mccain and i told him the story and he couldn't andeve what he was hearing after the end of the story he said, god bless you, i'll do get justicean to for sergei magnitsky. and the two of those senators put