what chanceis johnson and sergei lavrov.that that meeting will improve relations between the two countries? you could certainly feel the tension. this is a story of enormous mutual suspicion but it was an important meeting between two substantial world powers, many different in many ways, russia of this country of course, the largest by land area in the world, britain by land area in the world, britain by comparison tiny. but with a substantially larger economy than the russian economy. but the thing that the two countries share, they're very precious rare commodity in global power, is that they together have two of only five veto power seats on the security council at the united nations in new york. they need to get along much better if they are to contribute to a constructive dialogue to try and underpin global security. but sergey lavrov made clear that russia still feels undervalued by others. it still feels it is the victim of a western constructed fabrication. voicejohnson is western constructed fabrication. voice john

lavrov said he passed on pyongyang his desire for direct talks to secretary of state rex tillerson when they met on the sidelines of a conference in vienna on thursday meanwhile the u.s. and south korea continued to carry out combat drills despite pyongyang is warning the exercises make the outbreak of war and established fact. that is something that foreign minister lavrov said took place as a part of a conversation i don't have anything on that particular part of the conversation and i cannot confirm if that came up in the secretary's conversation with mr lavrov i will say though as a general matter the issue of direct talks with north korea is not on the table in till they're willing to denuclearize it is something that russia has said it agrees with it is something that china has that it is agrees with and many other nations around the world as well the d.p. r. k. is not showing any interest in sitting down and having any kind of serious conversations when they continue to fire off ballistic missiles period. al jazeera has rules and jordan has more now from washington d.c. . even th

but when russia's sergei lavrov says he wants a return to business as usual, borisjohnson says that'sy say, sergei, things are not easy between us at the moment. the talks aired grievances on both sides and examined space for limited cooperation. by supporting the iran nuclear deal together and opposing the nuclear threat from north korea. but deep disagreements remain. at theirjoint news conference, that was stark. for all the efforts at banter there was a seriousness when sergei lavrov tried to brush off british allegations of russia meddling in foreign elections. translation: my neighbour boris johnson recently stated he had no evidence that russia meddled in the referendum on the withdrawal of britain from the european union. not successfully, not successfully i think is the word. not successfully is the word that i think you need to introduce. translation: you see, he's scared if he doesn't disagree with me, his reputation will be ruined in the media at home. sergei, it's your reputation i'm worried about. so how did relations with russia go from bad to worse? russia's use of rad

the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says.direct talks with the white house to discuss north korea's security guarantees from the u.s. lavrov said he passed the request on to the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson. that is something that foreign minister lavrov said took place as a part of a conversation i don't have anything on that particular part of the conversation and i cannot confirm if that came up in the secretary's conversation with mr lavrov i will say though as a general matter the issue of direct talks with north korea is not on the table in till they're willing to denuclearize it is something that russia has said it agrees with it is something that china has that it is agrees with and many other nations around the world as well the d.p. r. k. is not showing any interest in sitting down and having any kind of serious conversations when they continue to fire off ballistic missiles here in angola merkel make a project german chancellor after her party's former partners the social democrats agreed to begin talks ov

james, it was pretty tense at the press conference today between boris johnson and sergei lavrov.mes who is still in moscow for us this evening. there certainly seems to be no breakthrough that this was a very important meeting. these are two very big players in two different ways. this country, russia, is by far the largest in the world by land area. britain, of course, is relatively tiny, but has a far larger economy than russia's. both make up together two of only five veto powers at the security council. they really do have to get along much better if they are to help improve global security. there were real tensions in the meeting and at the press conference. there are huge differences, russia talking about a construct of western lies, designed to do russia down. boris johnson saying he is no cold warrior, but coming here determined to stand up for some socially liberal values. he very deliberately championed, for instance, the rights of the lgbt community whilst he was here. he mentioned that in sergei lavrov‘s presents. the also very deliberately laid flowers at the spot wh

for all the attempts at banter, there was a seriousness when sergei lavrov tried to brush off britishian meddling in foreign elections. translation: my neighbour, boris johnson, recently stated he had no evidence that russia meddled in the referendum on the withdrawal of britain from the european union. not successfully. not successfully, i think is the word. not successfully is the word that i think you need to introduce. translation: you see? he is scared if he doesn't disagree with me, his reputation will be ruined in the media at home. sergei, it's your reputation i'm worried about. but this was dark, serious humour. when borisjohnson was asked if he trusted russia's foreign minister, he tried to make light of that. you know, it's a measure of my trust that as soon as i got into this excellent foreign ministry, i immediately handed my coat, my hat, my gloves and indeed everything that was in my pockets, secret or otherwise, to sergei lavrov. translation: i can say there was nothing in the pockets of boris‘ coat. so how did relations go from bad to worse? russia's use of radioactiv

for all the efforts at banter, there was a seriousness when sergei lavrov tried to brush off britishation: my neighbour borisjohnson recently stated he had no evidence that russia meddled in the referendum on the withdrawal of britain from the european union. not successfully. not successfully, i think, is the word. not successfully is the word that i think you need to introduce. you see, he's scared if he doesn't disagree with me, his reputation will be ruined in the media at home. sergei, it's your reputation i'm worried about. so how did relations with russia go from bad to worse? russia's use of radioactive poison to murder alexander litvinenko in the middle of london started the slide. three years ago, russia's annexation of crimea and interference in ukraine provoked tough eu sanctions, strongly backed by britain. then last month, theresa may accused russia of cyber espionage and meddling in elections. britain says it has cyber weaponry to retaliate if attacks get worse. it is a sad truth that our relations, having gone through a good patch in the 1990s and the early 2000s, are

he went to meet sergey lavrov.t is the first official visit from different secretary for five years. they warned that they are read willing to retaliate on cyber attacks, but want to cooperate on international track challenges. in the last hour, the two men appeared in a news conference. they said that the two countries showed why together despite their difference. the recent form the length of my absence, is of course that this is a difficult time in the relations between the uk and russia, and sergey lavrov himself has just russia, and sergey lavrov himself hasjust said. we russia, and sergey lavrov himself has just said. we can't ignore those difficulties. we can't pretend that they do not exist, and we don't share a common perspective on events in ukraine, orthe share a common perspective on events in ukraine, or the western balkans, oi’ in ukraine, or the western balkans, or the prime minister theresa may has said, all russian activities in cyberspace. but, we speak up, for the lgbt community in chechnya, and

for all the attempts at banter, there was a seriousness when sergei lavrov tried to brush off british of russian meddling in foreign elections. translation: my neighbour, boris johnson, recently stated he had no evidence that russia medal in the referendum on the withdrawal of britain from the european union. not successfully. not successfully, i think is the word. not successfully is the word that i think you need to introduce. translation: you see? he is scared if he doesn't disagree with me, his reputation will be ruined in the media at home. sergei, it's your reputation i'm worried about. but this was dark, serious humour. when borisjohnson was asked if he trusted russia's foreign minister, he tried to make light of that. you know, it's a measure of my trust that as soon as i got into this excellent foreign ministry, i immediately handed my coat, my hat, my gloves and indeed everything that was in my pockets, secret or otherwise, to sergei lavrov. translation: i can say there was nothing in the pockets of boris' coat. so how did relations go from bad to worse? russia's use of radi

sergei lavrov said he trusted boris johnson moments.lavrov said he trusted borisjohnson so much, he used his russian name, boris. boris! but there were frosty touches, as well. translation: i cannot recall any action by russia that was aggressive in relation to the uk, but we have heard accusations, even insultingly, that we support a criminal regime in syria, that we are aggressors that we are occupiers week annex of the territories. those are all claims russia denies, even now. relations with moscow have been bad, verging on hostile. boris johnson with moscow have been bad, verging on hostile. borisjohnson came here to address the reasons for that directly. there were no breakthroughs, none were expected, but the first steps towards storing the chill has now been taken. sarah ra i nsfo rd , the chill has now been taken. sarah rainsford, bbc news, moscow. our diplomatic correspondent james landale is here. given some of the test and as we saw there, what can be achieved by a trip like this? very simply, dialogue. when you have relation

mr lavrov passed on the message to the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson in vienna on thursday that follows the north's latest launch of a missile which assessed can hit anywhere in the u.s. and threats of nuclear retaliation from donald trump the u.s. and south korea wrapping up a week of military exercises despite warnings from pyongyang. that is something that foreign minister lavrov said took place as a part of a conversation i don't have anything on that particular part of the conversation and i cannot confirm if that came up in the secretary's conversation with mr lavrov i will say though as a general matter the issue of direct talks with north korea is not on the table in till they're willing to denuclearize it is something that russia has said it agrees with it is something that china has that it is agrees with and many other nations around the world as well the d.p. r. k. is not showing any interest in sitting down and having any kind of serious conversations when they continue to fire off ballistic missiles period

sergey lavrov has been foreign minister for 13 sergey lavrov has been foreign ministerfor 13 years.as been foreign minister for 13 years. before that he was the ambassador to the un. borisjohnson has he was the ambassador to the un. boris johnson has been he was the ambassador to the un. borisjohnson has been foreign secretary for 18 months, he's a spring chicken. that relationship is a little bit better, which means that if for example the americans decided to pull out of the iran nuclear deal, the uk and russia are two of the nations outside iran that have to help pick up the pieces, could they do something to protect some of that deal to keep the iranians onside. that kind of discussion needs a relationship. if you just shouting at each other from the sidelines it's hard to do that. asa the sidelines it's hard to do that. as a result of these visits, it's a little less ha rd as a result of these visits, it's a little less hard to have that kind of conversation in the future. thank you. theresa may has denied she knew about claims that the former first secretary of state damian gr

his russian counterpart, foreign minister sergei lavrov, responded by accusing the uk of fabricatingndent james robbins reports from moscow. handshakes can be deceptive. true, this foreign secretary has broken a five—year british boycott of visits to moscow. but when russia's sergei lavrov says he wants a return to business as usual, boris johnson says that's impossible. as you rightly say, sergei, things are not easy between us at the moment. the talks aired the grievances on both sides and examined space for a limited cooperation, by supporting the iran nuclear deal together, and opposing the nuclear threat from north korea. but deep disagreements remain. at theirjoint news conference, that was stark. for all the attempts at banter, there was a seriousness when sergei lavrov tried to brush off british allegations of russian meddling in foreign elections. translation: my neighbour, boris johnson, recently stated he had no evidence that russia meddled in the referendum on the withdrawal of britain from the european union. not successfully. not successfully, i think is the word. not s

the sort of growing report that there seem to be at that meeting between boris johnson and sergei lavrov but i also think that anything that is anything positive that's going to come out of that meeting seriously positive will only emerge in time i think boris johnson is going to come back to london he's going to say you know i really put it to the russians i didn't give an inch. and then be with time that we'll see maybe they'll be some other visit maybe we'll have a reciprocal visit and maybe just maybe things will start to unfreeze but then you know i'm an optimist and we're coming up to new year so here's hoping. pro independence parties in the spanish region of catalonia secured a majority end first they snap election that's dealt a serious blow to the central government in madrid which had hoped to defuse the independence crisis having denounced october's referendum and sacked local leaders now the deposed former catalan president is hailing another win. i want to congratulate the catalan people because they sent a message to the world catalan republic has beaten the monarchy and a

sergei lavrov said he trusted borisjohnson so much, he'd used his russian name, boris. boris!e frosty touches, as well. translation: i cannot recall any action by russia that was aggressive in relation to the uk, but we have heard accusations, even insultingly, that we support a criminal regime in syria, that we are aggressors, that we are occupiers, we annex other territories. those are all claims russia denies, even now. relations with moscow have been bad, verging on hostile. borisjohnson came here to address the reasons for that directly. there were no breakthroughs. none were expected, but the first steps towards thawing the chill have now been taken. sarah rainsford, bbc news, moscow. with me in the studio is peter conradi, foreign editor of the sunday times and author of several books on russia. a first visit by a british run secretary to russia by five years, how significant is it?” secretary to russia by five years, how significant is it? i think the fa ct how significant is it? i think the fact that as it has taken place after such a long period is significant. in te

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mike my hand my gloves i mean did everything that was in my pocket secret or otherwise to sergei lavrov in the knowledge that he would look after it. would come to no harm more than just a few times boris johnson reminded of the differences in the views that london and moscow have on various international issues it seemed that he really felt it was essential to keep talking about this every time he said something positive about russia but at the end of the day the common message was from both top diplomats that dialogue needs to prevail but i did mention there during the joint news conference with foreign minister lavrov boris johnson also tried out his russian language skills. i'm in a rush to find. a date committee process but. a diplomatic relationship that is not four hundred fifty years old and dates from the time when the queen elizabeth sent an envoy to ivan the terrible right on the fourth. i'm certain that i'm the first foreign secretary in the history of my own to be cool. russian customers as i said earlier on of buying. british things from a few cattle crisps to please. some

the sort of growing report that there seem to be at that meeting between boris johnson and sergei lavrov but i also think that anything that is anything positive that's going to come out of that seriously positive will only emerge in time i think boris johnson is going to come back to london he's going to say you know i really put it to the russians i didn't give an inch. and then be with time that we'll see maybe they'll use another maybe we'll have a reciprocal visit and maybe just maybe things will start to unfreeze but then you know i'm an optimist and we're coming up to new year so here's hoping. still to come in the weekly reporting on iraq the research that says the liberation of mosul killed more civilians than previously admitted and also the bereaved families of british troops make a tough decision their stories on the way. our . russian athletes take. remains controversial. more important what awaits them after they get. welcome back the weekly now the u.s. led operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul from iceland may have killed ten times more civilians than previously t

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approach to the north korean nuclear crisis so ok lavrov spoke to secretary of state rex tillerson by phone could interstate one from the foreign ministry. so again a lot of room pointed out once again that heightening tensions over the korean peninsula through washington's aggressive rhetoric towards pyongyang stepping up military preparations in the region is unacceptable a phone call took place around the same time the u.s. sanctioned a two top north korean officials who were allegedly involved in the country's ballistic missile program but in the phone call for mr lavrov mentioned the u.s. stepping up its military preparations in the region and he was unlikely referring to recent military exercises and even south korea has suggested postponing military drills until after the olympics but this proposal was swiftly rejected by secretary tillerson.

of the other stories that are making headlines around the world a russian foreign minister sergey lavrov says north korea wants to hold direct talks with the u.s. in order to seek security guarantees from washington now lavrov reportedly passed on pyongyang's message to u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson today on the sidelines of a conference in vienna. u.s. democratic senator al franken has announced he intends to quit following a string of sexual misconduct allegations against him on tuesday a majority of democratic senate colleagues called for him to step down the minnesota lawmaker said that he will continue his political work as an activist. the european union is taking the czech republic hungary and poland to court for failing to take their fair share of refugees under a distribution plan in two thousand and fifteen the countries have taken in almost no refugees in the last two years despite an e.u. agreement to relocate one hundred sixty thousand people from italy and greece their governments accuse brussels of limiting their national sovereignty. hot dry winds have been fannin

who were allegedly involved in the country's ballistic missile program but in the phone call for mr lavrov mentioned the u.s. stepping up its military preparations in the region and he was likely referring to recent military exercises and even south korea has suggested postponing military drills until after the olympics but this proposal was swiftly rejected by secretary tillerson. it is possible for south korea and the us to review the possibility of postponing the exercises and i have made such a suggestion to the us and the us is currently reviewing them for these exercises have been ongoing for many years i'm not aware of any plans to change what is scheduled fiery rhetoric between washington and pyongyang has kept the international community on its toes for quite some time now but let's take a quick look at a recap the year of strategic patience. with the north korean regime has failed united states is prepared to use the full range of our capabilities to defend ourselves and our allies our suspected leader kim didn't own but said the u.s. would be unhappy to witness north korea strat

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but sergey lavrov and rex tillerson there's an r.t. for you in that on the sidelines of a security conference in austria from their r.t.s. peter oliver reports. we've been hearing from russian foreign minister sergey lavrov he held a meeting with u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson on thursday here in vienna it only lasted for around thirty minutes but they certainly motored through an awful lot of topics the big news of the day really being that the decision by the united states to move the embassy to jerusalem said again a lot of said that he asked rex tillerson why the pursuit of assistance we asked them to clarify the points of the decision to move the u.s. embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem we asked them about the consequences from this move but mediating efforts on the part of the un we have a lot of questions and drew their attention to the concerns from both the arab and muslim countries that could undermine or even bury negotiations on a two state solution also on the agenda was the future of syria with sergey lavr

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sergei lavrov said that he trusted insomuch that he used his russian name.sian name. but there were frosty touches, too. translation: i cannot recall any action by russia that was aggressive in relation to the uk, but we have heard accusations, even insults, that we support a criminal regime in syria. but we are aggressive. that we are occupiers. that we annex territories. these are all claims russia denied, even now. relations with moscow have been barred, verging on hostile. borisjohnson came here to address the reasons for that directly. there were no breakthroughs, none were expected, but the first steps towards thawing the chill have now been taken. a 44—year—old man is being questioned on suspicion of murder after a woman was stabbed to death while at work in a supermarket in skipton, north yorkshire. the victim — who has been named locally asjodie willsher — was attacked in the aldi store in front of shoppers yesterday afternoon. friends and customers have been paying tribute to the 30—year—old mother, who has worked at the shot for two years. —— shop

well we've been hearing from russian foreign minister sergei lavrov he held a meeting with u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson on thursday here in vienna it only lasted for around thirty minutes but they certainly motored through an awful lot of topics the big news of the day really being there the decision by the united states to move their embassy to jerusalem so again a lot of said to be asked rex tillerson why the decision to do this had been made now and what exactly the united states expected to be results of this. of course it was when i asked them to clarify the points of the decision to move the u.s. embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem where i asked them about what consequences they saw from this move for peace efforts on the part of the u.s. we have a lot of questions and drew their attention to the concerns from both arab and muslim countries that it could undermine or even destroy any goshi asians on a two state solution. also on the agenda was the future of syria with sergey lavrov saying that the sovereignty of the country must be protected in the in. th

islamic state in western iraq didn't hear too much more about that on the korean peninsula sergey lavrov warned the united states against potentially escalating the situation there through washington's military maneuvers both on the korean peninsula and in the surrounding area sergey lavrov also urging a diplomatic solution saying that international cooperation was needed on not to bring about a peaceful solution to the nuclear issue regarding north korea on ukraine sergey lavrov reiterating that kiev must stick to the points it signed up to in the minsk agreement and then there was another issue that was something that first came to our attention on wednesday when the foreign ministry spokesperson marias the cutover said that there had been some unwanted attention from u.s. security services towards russian journalist based in the united states. said that it was unacceptable that washington would look to put pressure on russian diplomats or journalists that were based in the u.s. and said that that if it had happened certainly how to stop that's how it looks here in vienna after day one

russian foreign minister sergey lavrov. direct talks with the white house to discuss north korea security guarantees from the u.s. . desire for direct talks. to listen when they met on the sidelines of a conference on thursday. on a historic two day visit to the first turkish leader in sixty five years but old disputes have overshadowed the visit. saudi arabia's crown prince the mystery buyer. fetched four hundred fifty million dollars at auction last month the purchase of the sun for the most amount ever paid for a single artwork at an auction the painting places saudi prince mohammed bin some on the top of a sort list of wealthy newcomers willing to pay more than one hundred million dollars for a single work of art let's talk about this with. the director for institute for gulf affair is joining us via skype from washington d.c. so now that it's been revealed that man is the mystery buyer why do you think that he made this acquisition is it for the love of art or was it what is it. my information that it was done and that

with that relationship but the top line on that story is that the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov is saying they should negotiate and the kremlin in effect is ready to make those talks take place more on that for you as soon as we can turkey says it's hiring more than one hundred thousand new public servants next year it comes a day after almost three thousand state employees and soldiers were sacked by decree over alleged links to so-called terror organizations in total one hundred fifty thousand have been dismissed or suspended from their jobs since the failed coup in july of last year service suspected ties to the movement of the us based cleric ayatollah glenn turkey accuses him of organizing the failed coup to near zero has banned emirates airlines flights from landing in the country the decision comes two days after a number of china's young women say they were barred from boarding their flight for dubai at tunis airport the u.a.e. says this happened because of security reasons but did not go into any more details . the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of