and his algerian counterpart sergey lavrov in algeria at the moment they covered a number of issues during this trip including increasing business ties between the two countries they also agreed on the situation in syria they said any solution does need to fully respect international law and the sovereignty of syria mr lavrov said that they had to continue to eradicate the last remnants of terrorists there and help refugees to return to their homes they also talked about the situation in libya and yemen and just summing up mr lavrov says it's important to understand the long lasting problems in the region when addressing the crises there that's just a summary of what was said about joint press conference between the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and as our jeering counterpart taking place right now in our . i don't trump has capitulated after a confrontation with the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives over the state of the union address date nancy pelosi insisted on perspire owning the speech until the government shutdown ends duty security concerns and the u.s. p

canada and ireland surrogate lavrov said that diplomats of any countries that will request some sort of access to the man who's accused of spying here in russia well get that axis and then he went on to talk about russia's transparency record when it comes to this case and he said that it's nowhere near to a total lack of transparency on the british side when it comes to the script poisoning case. we will not act like a british colleagues we will act in accordance with an obligation zone the international treaties and in accordance with diplomatic decency ask for information regarding what we learned this suspected of we have provided it but i assure you that there is more information regarding wheelin than about the location of sin again scrape out. and even our top story of this hour was brought up and that is of course the brags that the deal and further negotiations however surrogate lavrov didn't talk much about this he says that it's up to the countries that want to meddle or interfere in other states affairs and according to the russian foreign minister moscow doesn't get invo

the spanish mr lavrov i would like to ask you one question. sorry but question it. right to ask a question goes to the actually. germany mr lavrov. what is your opinion on the future. with say well no what mr look i shall. quiet severe i think so what can be the next steps when one side is against many initiatives which are discussed today and also. foreign minister not clever now. a little now they are going to use. planning to you occupied germany germany's foreign minister will be coming to russia so what will it be you will be discussing could you please repeat your question you asked about high command. ok as regards the union state. i'm just surprised. there's so much noise regarding this issue in the mass media so much. the detax of the treaty is easily available to all of you. it's no secret and actually it was signed a long time ago and we have a lot of things in the treaty in the text of the treaty. we need in the us the things that we bring our two countries are together this is why we formed the union state of the plan was to adopt the constitutional uni

counterpart to discuss ways to resolve a territorial dispute over the far east incur island sergey lavrov is now addressing the media and we can listen. so them correlates and this is also part of the. charts and multiple documents signed following the end of world war two. including on the september the second nineteen forty five this is. the position that's we proceed from. and we need recognition of that position and without that it would be hard to move on to other issues. japanese friends. we need to understand that this is the territory of the russian federation and sovereign and sovereign sea virus show over these islands. cannot be discussed. and the japanese law these islands are recognised as northern territories which is unacceptable we asked several questions to our japanese counterparts we ask them what is their plan . how would they overcome that hurdle what will they do with the national legislation. deals with the issues the japanese counterparts would like to discuss with russia we're just making our first steps. we still face a long way ahead of us we need to to enhance

opening remarks at this meeting between lavrov and gave at assen lavrov was was keen to impress on the new u.n. envoy. what he believes are russia's key achievements key achievements he says in the areas that are being won from the terrorists in syria as he put it and also they key achievements in laying the groundwork for the return of refugees to their homes for the norwegian diplomats perspective what he wants to show is that he is active he's hitting the ground running he explained that he had already been to damascus to meet with the syrian government he had already been to riyadh to meet with the opposition and now for obvious reasons he said he's in moscow russia has a huge role to play in syria and what he hopes for is some kind of rebooting of this whole process one thing i noticed though was how little there was in these opening strange is that was discussed about. the constitutional and leadership issues of syria this was about. refugee issues about meeting each other but the big burning questions of course of what happens next in syria particularly with that assad in partic

achievements in the areas that lavrov said have been liberated from the terrorists even xin laying the groundwork for the return of refugees for his parts pederson is coming here fresh he wants to show that he is hitting the ground running so he was telling lavrov how in the two weeks that he's been in this job first of all he went to damascus to meet with the syrian government then he went to riyadh to meet with the opposition body the s. and c. and now he is as he put it for obvious reasons in moscow he says the russia has a key part of play in the syrian settlements and he wants to reboot the thing after four years stephan must do mistura helming the u.n. efforts a believes that he can deepen the relationships with russia and hopefully he believes take the whole u.n. security council resolution twenty two fifty four on woods to some sort of settlement for syria in its long long run in war all right thanks so much rory chalons there from moscow turkey's potential military offensive in northern syria has been discussed with the u.s. president phone president that i jumped out of the o

russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says his country is open to a proposal to send german monitors to the strait the waterway became a flashpoint between russia and ukraine two months ago came the german foreign minister heikal moss was in moscow and france volunteers have also offered to assist in the monitoring of the street which links the black sea to the sea of. ukraine temporarily imposed martial law after russia captured three of its vessels off the coast of crimea moscow's also detained twenty four ukrainian sea men who were the crew of those vessels let's have a listen to what the russian foreign minister had to say. more than a month ago chancellor merkel asked president putin to allow german experts into the strait of kurdish. school probably. for them to study how passage this strike is organized especially in terms of security which is a process ship captains were to pass through the strait of the president putin a great back then and so foreign minister mathis to die presented me with a plan in europe it sets up the conditions for the experts journey. these conditions

of ownership to a group of tiny islands in a rather unusual twist to this monday afternoon sergey lavrov and his japanese guests decided to talk to the journalists alone separately and in quite a tough manner mr allowed made it clear that japanese officials should forget the idea of questioning russian sovereignty over the islands if they want to get the peace agreement talks go on. this is a basic position and if progress on other issues is going to difficult without a step in the right direction to do that tension obama france from japan to the fact that the issues of sovereignty over the islands are not discussed this is the territory of the russian federation just a little later the japanese top diplomat said that despite the differences the two sides must find common ground so the moscow summit and the ministers appearance was meant to be all of moscow and tokyo's attempts to fix everything and sort their issues out but the u.s. and china and it up being mentioned too that's all because just a little earlier the japanese prime minister's aides said that america should be looking to

sergey lavrov and kim john thune are talking behind this small we were asked to wait in this room so let's just have a walk around and take a look at what they. to offer a. dark north korean chocolate i can tell you that it tastes just like any other dark chocolate anywhere around the world. so this is how suddenly you get treated to cranberry juice at the rooms residence. i can barely remember being given such. locations around the world we were just told. the present which is just outside the doors. of the city superior. to the movie and given the fact that we're inside the residence of the north korean leader kim jong un the moon again i'm just going to say i'm absolutely shocked. and. it is really disappointing that we won't be able to find out exactly what's being said behind these stories but just a few hours before mr kim and mr lavrov met the washing foreign minister said and making the korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons is a very delicate issue moscow maintains that the interests of all sides must be respected. so that said it all ended with. inviting came john to russ

neither side has the right to produce or deploy and as such missiles in the future however sergey lavrov also said today that the i.m.f. a treaty was signed between the two countries does not include those missiles that are based at sea or in the air that was very important live from moscow this hour bring us right up to date on that roman culture of. well the latest dispute comes after a double trump on veiled plans for expansion of america's defense capabilities now that was in response itself to a pentagon review outlining the threats facing the country let's delve a little bit deeper. picks apart the story. were gardeners of attempts by world's strongest men to dodge questions about a new global arms race well we may have to come to terms with reality in some kind of form it's definitely begun it is not enough to merely keep pace with our adversaries we must outpace them. at every single turn. we must pursue the advanced technology and research to guarantee that the united states is always several steps ahead of those who would do us harm who will always be at the forefront of everyt

in the region mr lavrov called that statement outrageous and went on to say that he warned the japanese delegation that moscow's absolutely not a fan of the idea of america developing its missile systems in japan according to serve the larger of that would hurt russia and china as well that's how china was mentioned twice the. concerns are increasing over a new israeli road it segregates israeli and palestinian drivers israel's transportation minister says that it will make jerusalem stronger the critics say it only deepens divisions on reports from both sides of the highway. welcome to the latest controversy here in the west bank behind me is a newly inaugurated five kilometer stretch of road with a physical barrier by government up with one thing now this barrier stipulate israeli and palestinian drivers it's going to take a drive. this is the israeli side of the road it connects to loosen them with the settlements so most of the drivers here are citizen now the only palestinians who are allowed on this side of the road all those who have special interest permits for jerusalem i'm fil

ok we're just listening now to the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov he is in algeria at the moment speaking with his counterpart but he did say some very strong words there on events in venezuela claiming that some of the international community is blatantly interfering in the internal affairs of venezuela he said that backing the opposition there in venezuela is effectively creating a very dangerous situation in the country and years the international community to try and encourage national dialogue within venezuela venezuela to sort out the political problems and not try and topple the existing president through violence and that's what was said there very strong words from a circular for of on venezuela. now let's turn to another big story this hour an r.t. it is breaking news because scotland's former first minister alex salmond has been charged and is expected to appear in court later on thursday so let's go to party boyko he's in the u.k. for us polly what more do we know then about this case and the situation so far. well look alex salmond he's the former first minister of s

because that according to him would help stem the tide of china's influence in the region sergey lavrov called this statement outrageous and went on to say that he had warned his japanese colleagues that moscow is absolutely not a fan of the idea of america developing its missile defense systems and japan because according to serve that would harm russia and also china that's how china was brought up twice. ok thank you really that was it. but the latest on the story thank you. if you want your seats national just coming up five thirty pm here in moscow we're back again as usual at the top of. my by going to. ask but i. owe. you for your height oh i lost his boss because i just got the. resources you know. any of those in prison but that's honest i don't mean. so not as you know but i was you're not. you're not just i mean. i'm already but i was just going to go eat i mean it was a lot. different up as well i must admit that really feels i just really get off on getting worse but those were the order. of the. this where this part of the. my family fussy you call a car bomb i just got th

on wednesday, sergey lavrov expressed concerns over u.s.eddling in venezuela. >> we heard talk that allows for military involvement in venezuela. talklk that the unitited statesl now recognize as a president of venezuela, not nicolas maduro, but the representative of the parliament. all of this is very alarming and all this shows is that the approach of undermining governments the united states does not like stays on as a priority of their activity in latin america and other regions. amy: if you can talk about the significance of lavrov weighing in andnd alslso the latest newsn december, russia landing to blackjackpable bombers as part of a joint training exercise. >> r russia has bebeen friends f venezuela for over 16 years. we believe the world has to have several centers, not only in the united states. the united states cut all the military cooperation with venezuela 20 years ago. we have mimilitary cooperation th russia.a. and these aircraft that came, they came in 2013 as well and nothing happened. but this year it was taken like it wa

the foreign minister and also the kremlin lavrov says that once again we are convinced that the united states which is paranoid that someone was interfering in their elections without any evidence is itself trying to decide on the fates of other nations and simply interferes in their internal affairs venezuela is not the first case it's just that venezuela in there in that country the interference was especially flagrant he also said that we call on the venezuelan opposition not to become poor ones in someone else's very dirty criminal game earlier the kremlin spoke and said that madeira has not as yet asked russia for any particular assistance asked whether moscow might grants nicolas maduro political asylum if it came to that well the kremlin said that mr madeira is the legitimate president of venezuela and therefore we consider that question to be inappropriate well there is a legitimate question though which is what might russia do there are strong ties between russia and venezuela russia considers whether as well or an ally it lends it billions and billions of dollars as has china

looking back, the signs have been pretty obvious. 20 years ago, sergey lavrov, then serving as russia's u.n. ambassador, advanced a draft resolution at the united nations dealing with cyber and, quote, prohibiting particular dangerous forms of information operations. we can debate the sincerity of russia's draft resolution, but in hindsight, the premise of this resolution is striking. specifically, the russians saw traditional cyber warfare and cyber espionage interlinked with information operations. it's true that as recently as 2016 in the russia operations against our system there, the cyber operations, the hacking of the dnc and the podesta e-mails was carried out with one vector and the misinformation and ira activities were on a separate track, but there's no doubt that putin and his leadership now see the full potential of marrying these cyber operations. by contrast, our country spent two decades treating information operations and traditional information security as distinct domains. and increasingly, we traded info operations as quaint and frankly outmoded. just a year after l

the meeting was trying to impress on get a certain that russia has made numerous achievements as lavrov put a chief ment's in the territory that russia and syria have taken back from the terrorists as he put it achievements in laying the groundwork for the return of refugees and better than present himself was trying to basically show that he is hitting the ground running that in the last couple of weeks or two weeks that he's been doing this job he has been to damascus already he's been to riyadh to see the opposition now he's in moscow he hopes that he can reboot this process and make progress in the u.n. security council resolution twenty two fifty four which is supposedly getting us towards a political resolution to the to the syrian civil war which is pretty definite de mistura wasn't able to do. we're hoping to speak to a guest in tehran in a moment just before we do i wonder if i can quickly ask you about the i've heard this mention before s three hundred this system which the russians have deployed for the syrians the importance of this sort of thing and effect it gets used in w

russia meanwhile appears keen to play a mediation role foreign minister sergei lavrov says the opposition has to keep an open mind. reader that it will to model if this mediation sees any attempt to include any kind of preconditions the next kind of mediation is unlikely to be fruitful or useful it is unlikely to be supported we call upon the opposition to refuse ultimatums into work together independently gliders only by the interests of the venezuelan people we have two correspondents covering this for us and it's and that m.p.'s he is keeping an eye on what's going on inside venezuela from neighboring colombia first to rory challenger in moscow rory how seriously are russian officials taking the possibility of playing the mediator here. well the signs coming out of moscow the moment they are looking at this pretty seriously now the indication so far is that they're not trying to lead this process at least that's not what they're saying on the face of it what they're saying is that they are willing to participate in an international format to settle the situation in venezuela that's wha

syrian government representatives and representatives of the kurds as the foreign minister sergei lavrov said this month he encouraged those talks so that's really where we're at at the moment and russia will be kind of mediating between the turkish side the kurdish side and the syrian side to kind of get the country back under syrian control which is in its interest to funnel funding to your door in jones turkish troops have been massing of the border with syria how likely is an assault on courage held territory and how would that affect russian interests the prison at one hundred head of the already to wait and see how developments play out following the u.s. his announcement that he is withdrawing and his proposal of the save so. they are looking forward to key meetings with u.s. military officials in the first week of february most of the talk you've seen is key because despite all the rhetoric coming from uncle saying they won't tolerate the presence of this kurdish militia it is seen by most people that's unlikely. to both challenge putin the putin resisted this military zone and t

months ago because of the muscle speaking in moscow off to meeting his russian counterpart sergey lavrov love also said russia had accepted a proposal from germany and france for german observers to monitor the strait which links the black sea to the sea off of my ukraine temporarily imposed martial law after russia captured three of its best since in the case straight russia has also detained twenty four you create in seaman who was truly the best. on the job is correspondent in moscow is bush news so was worth more than a month ago chancellor merkel asked president putin to allow german exports into the strait of kurdish civilian cure should school produce. with them to study how passage this trade is organized especially in terms of security which is a prosperous ship captains with a pass through the strait a good president putin a great back then and so foreign minister masses to die presented me with a plan in europe it sets up the conditions the experts journey for you these conditions now have to be great with the ukrainian side so we believe that if the ukrainians agree with the

now at some of the other stories making news around the world says russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says his country is open to a proposal to send german monitors to the chair straits this as his german counterpart high croaks off so it's moscow the waterway between a became a flashpoint between russia and ukraine two months ago. sweden's parliament has reelected prime minister stephan moffat to the second term with a confidence vote and then a four month political power vacuum often social democrats another center left parties will form a minority government alongside a center right party with cross party deal struck to keep the far right populist sweden democrats out of government. in colombia a car bomb has exploded outside a police academy in chapel bachata killing at least twenty one people and injuring dozens more bombing is thought of being carried out by a fifty seven year old with links to the guerrilla group the national liberation on . the route between u.s. president donald trump and the democrats of the record for we could partial government shutdown is escalating presi

want to pretend to be more important than you really are but i have spoken with foreign minister lavrov in moscow as well as with secretary of state pump aoe in washington and there are issues that are not only of interest to the u.s. and russia such as the future of the i.n.f. treaty wherever we can help to create an understanding between them we're happy to do so but it's not just about russia and the us china also has a part to play in the issue of disarmament and whole be very active over the coming weeks and months in this regard. not. a key government commission is meeting here in berlin today as it seeks solutions for phasing out coal power in germany it's part of the government's plan to cut carbon emissions and a lot of global targets but it's a tough sell in coal country like the eastern region of blue say ship people there may be worried about climate change too but they're more at me. concern is their economic future. for one hundred fifty years to loose a region that straddles the german polish border has to offer brown coal mining the town of bag on the german side of the

and seen five weeks of anti-government protests russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says his country is open to a proposal to send german monitors to be careful straight which became a flashpoint between russia and ukraine two months ago the comments came as germany's foreign minister heiko mosse visits moscow. more than twenty leading figures from german politics sports business and entertainment have appealed to the u.k. to abandon brecht's it the open letter appeared in today's times newspaper and among the signatories are the new head of uncle america c.d.u. party a k k as she is known under great crump current the head of germany's social democratic party and very analysis and green party leader robert harding it reads after the horrors of the second world war britain did not give up on us it has welcomed germany back as a sovereign nation and a european power this we as germans have not forgotten and we are grateful should britain wish to leave the european union for good it will always have friends in germany and in europe but britons should equally know that we believe that n

actually some of the other stories making news around the world russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says his country is open to us and i will send german monitors to the castrates this ask his german counterpart visits moscow the waterway became a flashpoint between russia and ukraine two months ago. sweden's problems has reelected prime minister hun often to a second term a confidence vote that ended a four month political power often social democrats and greens to come back to center right across party bill was struck to keep the far right or at least sweden right out of government. car bomb has exploded outside a police academy in the colombian capital bachata killing at least twenty one people and injuring dozens more is sort of been carried out by fifty seven year old man with links to the national liberation army guerrilla group. u.s. president donald trump directed his personal attorney michael cohen to lie to congress this is according to a report by buzz feed news citing two are named law enforcement offices the president is said to have ordered mr cullen to lie about plans

lavrov denounced u.s. lawmakers for challenging what he described as trump' right to conduct foreign policy, quote, this right is under attack from congress and this doesn't make these attacks constitutional or less illegal. >>> senate republicans on wednesday fought off the democrats attempt to hold off roll back of russian sanctions. sanctions against oleg deripaska will be lifted to reduce oleg deripaska's stake in aluminum giant and two linked companies. oleg deripaska has emerged in russian investigation for ties to paul manafort who wording to "the washington post" agreed to give the oligarch private briefings as he chaired kaine chairman. there was a $10 million loan from oleg deripaska wrote, how do we use to get whole? 11 republican senators joined all the democrats except one who did not vote for a tally of 57-42 falling just three votes short of that 60 vote threshold to advance the measure to keep the sanctions in place. "washington post" columnist wrote, very disappointing to see mitt romney d

says it's ready to help facilitate mediation in a briefing a short time ago foreign minister sergei lavrov said in order for negotiations to be successful and as well as opposition is to drop all preconditions related in the region that it will to mottled if this mediation sees any attempt to include any kind of preconditions dinette kind of mediation is unlikely to be fruitful or useful it is unlikely to be supported we call upon the opposition to refuse ultimatums and to work together independently god is only by the interests of the venezuelan people and the joins us from moscow research various countries rally around maduro how is russia trying to play the situation. well i think we can certainly see similarities with what's going on here regarding venezuela and what was happening a few years ago in syria with that was russia say yes there should be talks yes of course there should be dialogue but the opposition cannot be demanding anything of what russia considers to be a legitimate government in syria without assad and now in venezuela with madieu row as well it's a very similar play

later that afternoon in germany, trump met for 2 1/2 hours with putin, tillerson and lavrov. this would be the meeting where trump reportedly seized his interpreter's notes. the same evening, trump, again, spoke with putin during a g20 dinner. putin's interpreter was the only other person present. we actually learned about that meeting about a week later. the very next day, july 8th, 2017, as trump was flying back from hamburg, he dictated the misleading statement, the cover story, his son, don junior, would later release about the trump tower meeting. that statement said the meeting, as you recall, was primarily about adoptions of russian children. nearly two weeks later, july 19th of 2017, president sat down for an interview with "the new york times" and he was asked about that second meeting with putin back on july 7th. >> was not a long conversation, but it was, you know, could be 15 minutes. just talked about things. actually, it was very interesting, we talked about adoption. >> you did? >> russian adoption. yeah. i always found that interesting because, you know, he en

maybe that will come from russia which appears keen to play some sort of role the foreign minister lavrov says the opposition has to keep an open mind. really it's in the region that it was two months old if this mediation sees any attempt to include any kind of preconditions the next kind of mediation is unlikely to be fruitful or useful it is unlikely to be supported we call upon the opposition to refuse ultimatums and to work independently god is only by the interests of the venezuelan people. there more on that russian side of the story with worry chalons from moscow russia's perspective on venezuela at the moment is very similar to its perspective on other global crises like ukraine and like syria i.e. the west is trying to topple the legitimate leader of a country and install a regime or a puppet government that is going to be loyal to western interests and therefore russia is looking to parts of the same playbook that it has used in syria and applying them to venezuela now so what it is saying here in venezuela is that the opposition and nicolas maduro should come together have a n

the foreign minister and also the kremlin lavrov says that once again we are convinced that the united states which is paranoid that someone was interfering in their elections without any evidence is itself trying to decide on the fates of other nations and simply interferes in their internal affairs venezuela is not the first case it's just that venezuela in there in that country the interference was especially flagrant he also said that we call on the venezuelan opposition not to become poor ones in someone else's very dirty criminal game earlier the kremlin spoke and said that madeira has not as yet asked russia for any particular assistance asked whether moscow might grants nicolas maduro political asylum if it came to that well the kremlin said that mr madeira is the legitimate president of venezuela and therefore we consider that question to be inappropriate well there is a legitimate question though which is what might russia do there are strong ties between russia and venezuela russia considers one as well or an ally it lends it billions and billions of dollars as house china t

ischl asia the new un envoy to syria is in russia where he's meeting with the foreign minister sergei lavrov follows pedersen's first visit to damascus last week says he's interested to hear the u.n. envoy position on the syrian constitutional committee meant to draft the country's new constitution polls closed in the southern philippines region of mindanao in a historic vote on autonomy you oppose all would mean greater control and less dependence on the national government britain's prime minister to resign may is set to address parliament and lay out her plan b. for braggs it original deal for leaving the bloc was heavily defeated in parliament last week. hundreds of immigrants in australian detention centers are into this second week of a hunger strike to highlight their plight detainees in brisbane the melbourne joined others in western australia have been protesting for eight days queues their guards of brutality and intimidation as well as separating families the government's being urged to order an independent review of. economic growth in china has slumped to a twenty year low as th

good afternoon mr lavrov if i may i have a question which has to do was the situation with. the tension has been for a long time sometimes again will there be any additional measures to tackle situation is russia think it's possible to exchange it for someone maybe they can be some. sort of was going on the people if. it was draw from the i.m.f. treaty it will moscow consider prolonging the start treaty at old. as regards. we've given you a number of. the actions that are being taken through international organizations and through the journalist association and also in our bilateral contacts with other countries we encourage them to put pressure on the key. so that the ukrainian authorities stop persecuting journalists. on their. treason. i don't think that this idea of a swap which some people may think is interesting i don't think this. would mark to be the ukrainian authorities to resume respecting their obligations. as regards journalists rights and this will only. add to the people who want to use . journalists as bargaining chips in their. in their political games but

ready to continue negotiations despise washington's ultimatum like approach russian foreign minister lavrov says that the united states are not saying and because the consideration the fact that the missiles that they're talking about are not part of the i.n.f. treaty would be most little should you go to the united states both blaming russia should violations of the honor of treaty don't take into consideration the fact that russia has a c. in place michel. that are not included in the treaty the united states says it will withdraw from the i.n.f. treaty with russia as early as beginning of next month now to give you some background about this agreement it was signed by american president ronald reagan and soviet leader mikhail gorbachev back in one thousand eighty seven and it took effect just a year later now the agreement stipulates that both countries should destroy all ground based missiles with a range of five hundred fifty five hundred kilometers. when not only prompted by. there were further exacerbated often donald trump unveiled plans for an ambitious expansion of our an american