time i want to follow up on a couple of statements you said 1st for for mr lavrov you mentioned that spike the disagreements with iran that there is a possibility of certain agreements on iran going forward could explain what what you see in common of us in iran where you can go senator if i could ask you about the mysterious incidents in the u.a.e. regarding the oil tankers have you pinpointed responsibility for that and if i can follow up on your statement about the election you said that there are things that russia could do to show that election interference is a thing of the past what are those things what do you what would you like russia to do thank you very much. this is regarding iran and the joint a comprehensive plan of action. to settle the iranian nuclear problem and i hope that reason will prevail and. you know the rumors we've had 28120000 army of u.s. troops moving towards iran and things were discussed today i hope that these rumors are groundless because the region as we know it right now is already overstrained with all kinds of conflict situations and also like to

secretary of state my pump aoe is meeting his russian counterpart sergey lavrov and russia's black sea resort city of sochi the 2 will discuss the crisis surrounding your own amid fears washington and tehran are edging towards war has more on what to expect from the meeting. in short the situation is incredibly dangerous now what with an entire u.s. aircraft carrier battle group now stationed on iran's doorstep with trump himself threatening iran with suffering shouldn't step radians saying that they'll defend themselves and that they're ready for any eventuality the situation as i say incredibly dangerous what's worse it is right for an escalation perhaps an unintended what and russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov said he intends to have a very honest conversation with his american counterpart that arms when you will produce needs or we lost mike pompei you know how the u.s. is going to deal with a crisis that was made by washington's unilateral decisions iran has the right to partly suspend the implementation of the nuclear deal if other parties don't keep their commitments the u.

because russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov and the u.s. secretary of state my pump air are now giving a press conference after holding talks in the russian resort city of sochi let's listen. this is his 1st visit to russia and. u.s. state secretary although he had been here before. when he held other offices. today we have discussed which was a lot of issues following the results or of the. very productive telephone conversations but conversation between the presidents of our 2 countries and our presidents directed us to intensify our dialogue and we started on this task several days ago in finland. where on the margins on the ministerial meeting of the arctic council we've had a very productive meeting and today. building on that we have discussed in detail our war bilateral issues as well as regional and global issues especially regarding the situation in venezuela in the northern peninsula in syria in northern africa in ukraine. in afghanistan. and of course we discussed the. comprehensive plan of action. on iran's nuclear program the y

russia today minister lavrov my question to joost. do you think. how the tensions between iran and iran. on which the region with his united states. heard us. on the issue on the other hand. limits. influence on the region and also significantly as the united states sending a strike group to the persian gulf they explain this move by the fact that believe iran is raising tensions in the region and there are some reports from the security services from the night of shades claiming that iran is preparing a tax. grove and you know the conference nearby can we ask where that iran is actually going to wage war. for the. real question is regarding the impact of these stations the situation in syria well everything is intertwined very closely in the world of today which will be hearing a lot from the united states about the need to. know if you or any iranian even first protested on the region on syria this is unrealistic. this is to be sure to not go in with that should be considered a least serious policy. any major countries saudi arabia iran any other

now to moscow where russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and his venezuelan counterpart are discussing the political crisis in the south american country in light of another failed attempt to unseat its president let's go ahead listen it since we have agreed to further develop our ties we discussed measures that should be so you can go to implementing the greenest reached by president putin in a presidential dural last december was during the then his own president's visit to russia. also we think it is important to implement the agreements reached by the high level commission. in moscow on the april fourth and fifth and simultaneously we had the venezuelan business forum so we have a roadmap for further actions. that is specific will continue moving in this direction is guided by the president and will continue with our contacts thank you . when you. draw. it out on your own for one thing to mr lover all. i would say that woman bent towards her meeting with today was a meeting with between the nation is one of us since the very start i'll come until it was or to go traverse and presid

the crisis created the iran nuclear deal the secretary of state might pump is set to meet sergei lavrov this tuesday on the agenda is iran's threat to stop implementing parts of the $2015.00 deal last year washington backed out of the agreement and reimposed crippling sanctions on tehran. we cannot cross live to our correspondents covering this topic run gazi of and peter oliver rob let's start with you you're in sochi where lavrov will be meeting with pompei on tuesday what else did the russian foreign minister have to say. well he remarked on the situation regarding iran regarding the united states and its behavior towards the radian nuclear deal he was asked to comment on the situation and said that he has little doubt that the united states will apply colossal pressure on the european union 1 on other members of the u. of the u.n. security council in order to get their way with regards to the reunion deal to torpedo it the european union is going to hold an extraordinary session with regards to what is happening in iran with regards to raney and threats to stop the implementation of

as foreign minister lavrov alluded to very much on president trumps mind as arms control. our actions on the and i and after they have demonstrated that we're committed to effective arms control that advances u.s. ally and partner security that is verifiable and forcible. the president's speech as charged his national security team to think more broadly about arms control to include countries beyond our traditional u.s. russia framework and a broader range of weapons systems. we president want serious arms control the delivers real security to the american people and we know and i think we agree on this to achieve these goals goals we'll have to work together and that it would be important that if it's possible we get china involved as well. we'll have a more extensive set of converse a. it's both about arms control and. opportunity to discuss all broad strategic security issues between our 2 countries in the weeks ahead. i also raised the issue of u.s. citizens who have been detained in russia making sure that our citizens are not unjustly held the broadest want to presid

we focused on real politic stuff from russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov who held talks with the u.s. secretary of state my compare he says he's found no support for any military intervention in venezuela including among american officials. israel reportedly agrees to a truce with palestinian militant group hamas after a week weekend of deadly exchanges which see more than twenty palestinians and four israelis killed in a large scale airstrikes and missile attacks. watching r.t. international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. there maines of all forty one people killed in sunday's plane fire in moscow have now been recovered from the charred wreckage of the air flow aircraft we're not showing you the latest images from the crash site the chairman of the airport the charred wreckage of the aircraft has now been removed from the scene and taken away for further investigation authorities are demanding several lines of inquiry as to what led to the disaster. including pilot error an aircraft malfunction and poor weather conditions

secretary of state might compel arrives for talks with his counterpart sergei lavrov finding the long lasting suspicions between the 2 countries. but as little brand a u.s. police raid on a former embassy in washington d.c. a violation of international law activists in the compound saying they are trying to prevent an illegal takeover a u.s. military school publishes a decades long history of washington's intervention in other countries by some as a guide. and a saudi arabian ship is counted by protests in european courts failing to pick up in arms to liberate the activists say could be used to kill civilians in yemen. you're watching aren't international bringing you your live news update from our studio here and moscow welcome to the program. ready to fight suspicion and prejudice those were the words of russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov as he welcomed the u.s. secretary of state to the black sea resort city of sochi during my company's 1st official visit to the country both sides seem ready to move u.s. russia relations a step forward with more details on the meeting here's m

washington his words follow a 3 hour face to face meeting between russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov and his american counterpart mike pompei a branded frank and detailed by both sides. we also want to restore relations with the us i hope all the conditions for that are now being created the spite the exotic way the moeller commission has been working in the hole it came up with an objective investigation and proved there was no collusion between russia and the us the thing we branded as total nonsense from the very beginning. vladimir putin expressed hope that the preconditions and now are right for relations between the united states and russia which to be honest have been awful absolutely terrible the 2 biggest nucleus superpowers in the world refusing to as much as talk to each other all communications and until now frozen pretty much military communication. corporation the financial spheres and trade and culture and the both him and the russian foreign minister saying that they hope this might be a turning point. emphasizing certain spheres sudden topics in which russia and the

the highlight is meeting with the russian foreign minister, sergey lavrov. he's supposed to travel after germany, which isn't happening, to the united kingdom and then greenland. as for pressing issues for the state department, officials are focused on the events in venezuela and focused on what's going on with north korea, the stalled negotiations there as well. tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of the united states withdrawing from the iran nuclear agreement. i ran has been saying of late that they plan to stop complying with the iran nuclear deal. perhaps restarting their nuclear program or restarting portions of their nuclear program. the united states has sent a carrier strike group. all of these pressing issues that the secretary of state says when it comes the iran, the u.s. has noticed escalating actions from iran. >> shepard: thanks, rich. continuing the breaking news coverage and a live look on wall street. stocks down more than 2%. at one point off 608 points after president trump threatened to put new tariffs on chinese goods and escalate the

. >> iade clear to foreign minister lavrov, as we've made clear for the past months, that interference in american elections is unacceptable. if the russians were engaged in that in 2020, it would put our relationship in an even worse place than it has been.

we focused on real politics versus foreign minister sergei lavrov talks with the u.s. secretary of state saying he's found no support for any military intervention in venezuela including among u.s. officials. and israel reportedly agrees to a truce with palestinian militant group hamas after a weekend of deadly exchanges we see more than twenty palestinians and four israelis killed in large scale strikes a missile attacks. so joining us this evening this is r.t. international. there remains all forty one people killed in sunday's plane far in moscow have now been recovered from the charred wreckage of the air flight that crashed these are the latest images from the crash site that metaphor airport the wreckage of the aircraft has now been removed from the scene and taken away for further. just to remind you during its attempted landing the super super jet burst into flames after its tail struck the runway only thirty seven of the seventy eight people on board survived the tragedy people have been laying flowers and tributes at sheremetyevo airport in more months where

i'm going to meet with foreign minister lavrov in recent days. we'll have more conversations about this. it's very clear, we want the russians out, we want the iranians out, we want the cubans out. it's very clear. i don't think anything the president said is inconsistent with that. >> wait a minute, you said that maduro was on the plane ready to leave and to flee for cuba and it was the russians that told him to stay, and the president is saying putin told him that he's not looking to get involved in venezuela, obvious that putin is deeply involved in venezuela? what does he mean he's not looking to get involved? >> i didn't see the full context of the quote that. i do know this, the president has made clear we want everyone out, and that includes the russians. >> so you were at the pentagon going over military options on friday with the president's national security team. i know the line you said, the president said, all options are on the table. but is a u.s. military invasion of venezuela really an option? >> oh, make no mistake. we have a fu

we've just been listening to sergey lavrov making comments in finland he has just met with his u.s. counterpart. he talked about the fact that they are categorically against military action happening and that as well saying only that the u.n. could actually authorize anything like that and that he's been talking to both his u.s. and venezuela counterparts neither of them seeing a military option right now now he also mentioned the fact that there could be further talks tomorrow with my pump air and said that trump and putin agree to meet when an opportunity does arise he also did say that they are trying to focus on specific actions and not on politicise statements at this point in time now lavrov met with his venezuelan counterpart on sunday and both diplomats stress that dialogue is key. people sentiment is also going to. make you know. that. the reason. for. that as well soldiers have been making a display of their loyalty to president maduro burning a copy of a letter from opposition leader one guardo handed to them by some of his supporters . earlier of lot of near putin discus

of the possibility of military intervention have nothing to do with democracy but at their meeting lavrov in pompei i didn't show the same level of report as their bosses have done in the past at least that's according to body language expert darren stanton people that get on very well in the deep mutual rist genuine respect for each other they tend to much a mirror each of this posture so we'll see each person mirroring the other ones gestures so as an example president truman very often mirrors president putin in terms of the way sits with his legs set aside stride and then also light was president truman does what we call a reverse steeple gesture where they even versus hands and these are both polish gestures now with the 2 men today we didn't see any or very little much of your memory which tends to tell me that although they're there to do a job they're very they're not kind of i don't think we've got a level of pressure relationship that president putin and trump of got. well the escalating crisis over the around nuclear deal which the u.s. pulled out of a year ago was also high on

secretary of state might pump a 0 on russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov. the number of pressing global issues. in the u.s. police raid on his home in d.c. a violation of international law. they are trying to prevent an illegal takeover and u.s. military school publishes a decades long history of washington's interventions in other countries dubbed by some as a guide. to saudi arabian ship is hounded by protests in european ports failing to pick up an activist say could be used to kill civilians in yemen. your company this evening you're watching r.t. and. frank and productive russia's foreign minister and his american counterpart might have described their discussions which wound up in the last couple of hours in the russian resort of sochi both sides said that they were ready to move relations forward although admitted they still don't see eye to eye on a number of crucial global issues war details on the meeting. managed to talk about all their differences and they vanished on a c.c. teach other we disagree this is how we see. we disagree on this this is

way out of the crisis it created over the iran nuclear deal and as peter was saying there sergei lavrov is indeed set to meet with the secretary of state for the u.s. might prompt on tuesday in such. so after those dismiss that i'm suing you will produce tomorrow or last mike compare how the u.s. is going to deal with the crisis that was made by washington's unilateral decisions i hope tomorrow's talks will be frank iran has the right to partly suspend the implementation of the nuclear deal if other parties don't keep their commitments in shorts now that the united states is left the iranian nuclear deal and is trying to get the european union to suspend to suspend its implementation of the deal. have a right a legal right to also suspend their implementation of the deal in effect the deal is collapsing because of the united states sanctions because of how determined the united states is to torpedo this deal and to get the iranians to do what they want nevertheless the united states is as i said adamant and believes that iran must be stopped that iranian behavior is the stabilizing iran

secretary of state lavrov did however just to meet with him at the arctic summits and fenlon sound that the meeting showed that the two countries are still struggling to find common ground on a range of issues not only on van as well but the use of the arctic as well concerned about russia's claim over the. international waters of the northern sea route including its newly announced plans to connected with china's maritime silk road. in the northern sea route moscow already illegally demands other nations request permission to pass the u.s. secretary of state also added that partly in response to russia's so-called destabilizing activities they are hosting a military exercises and rebuilding their eyes breaker fleet now moscow believes that there are no grounds for any conflicts and the arctic region and also adds that it remains open for international cooperation. of the sea route is a russian national transport saree we is that coastal states acting in full compliance with international law all responsible for the safe operation over this route just as canadians are responsible for th

secretary of state mike home pale arrives for talks with his counterpart sergei lavrov aimed at finding the long lasting suspicions between the 2 countries. venezuela brand the us a police raid on a former embassy in washington d.c. is a violation of international law but the activists in the compound saying they're trying to prevent an illegal takeover. the u.s. military school publishes a decades long history of washington's interventions and other countries dubbed by some as a cruel guy. and a saudi arabian the ship is haunted by protests at european airports failing to pick up in arms delivery that activists say could be used to kill civilians and yet . a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our t.-h. here in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. ready to fight suspicion and prejudice those are the words of russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov as he welcomes the u.s. secretary of state to the black sea resort city of sochi during my from paris the 1st official visit to the country both sides seem ready to take the u.s. russia relations a step forward live now

and sergey lavrov. topic of course venezuela the crisis there the united states saying that russia and other countries is interfering in the crisis in venezuela russia on the other hand saying threatening venezuela with foreign intervention and stealing your will on the venezuelan people that is going to work. on venezuela we have disagreement i urge my russian colleagues to support the venezuelan people as they return democracy to their country. the united states and more than 50 other nations agree that the time has come for nicolas maduro to go he's brought nothing but misery to the venezuelan people. and we hope the russians support. form a girl and democracy. democracy can't be imposed by force threats coming both from you. u.s. officials and the opposition leader. is always reminding us of the possibility of military intervention have nothing to do with democracy. what both countries seem to agree on is that it's very well and that should decide what happens to their country but russia here say th

still accuse the russians of meddling in our elections and if we saw that mr pompey all warned mr lavrov not to do it again even though the proof is not there that they did it in the 1st place i think that there will be very serious obstacles to any kind of improvement of relations hopefully as mr lavrov suggested they can get some of these working groups on arms control and other issues going with experts diplomats military men to come to some agreement on specific issues but i am not optimistic. that the u.s. attorney general william barr has loans to probably been see possible misconduct relating to the minute a report specifically he will see if the rule was broken when trying to establish whether donald trump colluded with russia however decided not to subject the path of the investigation was completed there was meddling by moscow to the same streets in a kind of picks up the story. since 2016 the democrats have been pushing an investigation of donald trump for allegedly colluding with russia in order to win the $2016.00 elections well now the report is out and the verdict is no co

and russia lavrov saying that it was important also to rebuild trust and saying that they would need to find places where the 2 countries can work together of course be following those talks throughout the day and bring you updates as they come. i thought he arabian ships and to pick up weapons in europe has been hounded by protests on its journey and france activists succeeded in preventing it from collecting its cargo claiming the arms could be used against civilians in yemen now a french flag has been projected on the vessel in spain or madrid claims that the ship left their port carrying material that will not be used in the come back past me you countries are under increasing pressure over their arms still to saudi arabia so it even has the story. well amnesty international has blasted several european union states saying they have failed to poll their obligations in regards to the arms trade treaty because they're selling weapons to saudi arabia lived with them that will likely be used in the war in yemen the bar has been bouncing off european ports like a pinball this is a ser

will get what they finally want what they did so richly deserve notably however foreign minister lavrov said that they plan to have an honest discussion face to face this question with my pump air tomorrow and see how things out things will go from there . politically on the side mustapha notes that iran does have options if the deal falls apart. if it fails and if it collapses then you know tell ron would go for in carrying costs on the west especially the us in various areas beginning with the nuclear capabilities that iran has also iran seems to have a very good and serious option for exercising strict check and inspection measures in the strait of or most before it shuts down the strait actually iran also has the option of ending its measures under such strict economic pressures its measures against the flow of the refugees and displaced people who are moving from the eastern borders to go to through iran to the western borders to get to europe iran is spending lots of money in order to stop this flow of refugees and displaced population and it could draw up peace efforts and allow

to meet his russian counterpart sergey lavrov in russia's black sea resort of sochi they are expected to discuss the future be around nuclear deal made fears washington and tehran are edging towards war well for more now in these talks let's speak tomorrow against the of our man in sochi at the moment good morning team would add what can we expect then do you think from these talks. well there's there's a lot riding on them because the situation now is so dangerous an entire united states aircraft carrier battle group with all these sort of warships stationed on iran's doorstep in the in the persian gulf trump threatening iran with suffering. replying with equally militant rhetoric saying they'll defend themselves in the united states won't get away with this situation is incredibly dangerous and what's worse it is right for an escalation neither side seems to be willing to back down and russian foreign minister talking about this latest crisis says we'll have a very honest discussion with his american counterpart the foreign secretary my pump. when you will produce needs or real ask

secretary of state is meeting his russian counterpart sergey lavrov in russia's black sea resort of sochi and the 2 will discuss the crisis surrounding iran amid fears washington and tehran i read towards war let's get more now from what i guess here in sochi for it's good afternoon she. so is any progress than expected from these talks. well they're certainly hoping for progress but you do things that people are looking at things realistically the situation is incredibly dangerous it is rife for an escalation an entire carrier battle group with all these sort of warships sent to the center the persian gulf to iran's doorstep the europeans warning that you know they fear that their skill ation could come despite neither side really wanting at the situation is so teds and the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov yesterday told us during a press briefing that he's going to have a very honest conversation with his american counterpart. when he will produce notes or real ask mike compare how the u.s. is going to deal with the crisis that was made by washington's unilateral decisions iran ha

foreign minister lavrov says it's time for the us and russia to put aside years of mutual mistrust itclear that our relations have seen better times and there is potential for mutually beneficial cooperation and it largely remains untapped. whatsapp warns it's been targeted by hackers. the messaging platform urges one and half billion people to update their software — after some users were spied on. and the world's biggest music competition kicks off in israel with the first semi—finals of the eurovision song contest. that's all coming up on outside source. sergei lavrov and mike pompeo met today to try, as they put it, to improve relations between russia and the us. their meeting in the resort city of sochi ended with an extended press conference in which it was clearjust how many issues divided them. before they got into iran, venezuela and the other world issues in which they sit on opposing sides, they had this to say to each other. it is clear that our relationships have seen better times and there's a potential for mutually beneficial cooperation and it largely remains untapped.

sitting there knowing that the united states has done absolutely nothing about this. >> well, and lavrovalso sitting there knowing that president trump himself has had on numerous occasions the opportunity to raise this with vladimir putin and failed to do so. most recently failed to do so during their may 3rd phone conversation. look, i think the broader point here, lawrence, is we're seeing this strange and wild metamorphosis that ben just alluded to. if you were just reading a transcript of president trump and president putin, you would have a hard time discerning which one was the purported leader of the free world and which one was the former kgb head and now head of the russian federation. let me just give you a couple of examples. in their phone call earlier this month, president trump immediately thereafter took to twitter and gleefully announced that they had discussed the, quote, unquote, russian hoax. the kremlin, for its part, actually put out this pretty professional-sounding readout that sounds like a readout that ben or i would have put out in the obama administration, say

no coincidence pompeo was speaking to putin and lavrov in sochi yesterday. korea, china, iran. who is the commonality in all countries? who talks to all these countries? russia. >> trump feels, yeah, i have this relationship with putin, and i'll be able to use it to his advantage. i think the other countries are thinking the same thing. the russians are looking at the same facts everyone else is. they see where our economy is at. they see how easy it is to influence public opinion or potential influence elections. pompeo is there, and trump talks in big terms, but there's almost no issue where we're close with the russians on, that we think we're really going to make great progress. >> i wonder if this is an effort to redirect post mueller report. i want to talk about michael wolfe's new book, the sequel to "fire and fury." >> he's going to be out with a new book. remember the first one, "fire and fury," sold 4 million copies. it was the first book that exposed the chaos in real time inside the trump white house. his second book, "siege," is going to be a co

state of pump air has discussed a range of issues with the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov both emphasized the relations between the 2 countries are improving but there were key differences on their own. we spoke a bit about the activities that are taking place in the middle east today with particular focus on the actions that iran is taking i made clear that the united states will continue to apply pressure to the regime in tehran until its leadership is prepared to return to the ranks of responsible nations that do not threaten their neighbors or spread instability or terror alerts another state doesn't live for. us more about this meeting between the 2. yes it was definitely a rare meeting and it happened after a long year of increased tensions between the 2 nations especially because of the pending miller investigation into russian meddling into the us elections well after this report has been published this sort of has cleared this guy for this meeting to happen today but already there hasn't been much progress on a lot of issues and especially iran russia has blamed the u.

pump air concluding a press conference after discussions with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov. saying that they had a frank discussion many places where we disagree but ready to talk syria iran north korea ukraine they disagreed certainly on venezuela the u.s. wants to go and wants russia's support for it to end so you get leverage from his part also describe the discussions as franken useful saying that tensions between the 2 have a negative effect on the whole world and russia wants to normalize dialogue let's bring in starbucks and who's been following that press conference forests in sochi give us a little bit more about the nitty gritty and what it's all about. well it's interesting to see how they were basically struggling to find some common ground between the u.s. and russia at this meeting of course so we had seen the relationship seriously deteriorating in the last year after donald trump and a lot of you put in math in helsinki last july of course that was also caused by the pending reports about russian interference and the collision with the campaign now the repor

i'm going to meet with foreign minister lavrov in a couple of days we'll have more conversations about this the objective was very clear we want the iranians we want the russians we want the cubans out that's also what has to take place in order for venezuelan democracy to be restarted but then russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov hit back with this response. to this we now see an unprecedented campaign led by the united states in order to overthrow the legitimate venezuelan government we condemn this campaign which seriously violates all the principles of international law provided by the united nations statute. and as the war of words between the u.s. and russia plays out over venezuela opposition supporters have gathered in the capital caracas to hold a vigil for those killed in fact these are live pictures of that future. again a vigil for those killed in the ongoing efforts to overthrow president in the last matilda. pope francis is being urged by campaigners to return to his native argentina to deal with revelations of child sexual abuse committed by roman catholic clergy to i

lavrov told reporters, "we have had a good and constructive conversation. considered a number of regional situations on the agenda and international relations in general, and discussed matters concerning strategic stability. lavrov continued again, "i am of the view that we have made a step forward to follow up the president putin and president trump had on the phone days ago." greatest barriers to minority voting in 2020. blackear's state of america report focuses on voting rights. national urban league president and ceo is calling attention to voter suppression and interference from foreign governments. >> over the last 10 years, the for africane americans has been under assault. intentional, deliberate, orchestrated, diabolical, and clever. he added, "this is not a partisan issue. this is an issue of mission and morality." benjaminrime minister netanyahu said today that a cease-fire deal reached between israel and hamas was not the end of the campaign after days of the deadliest fighting between 2014's war.s since he made his comments after visiting hosp

secular state might compare has discussed a range of issues with russian foreign minister sergey lavrov emphasized that relations between the 2 countries are improving but there were key differences on iran. we spoke a bit about the activities that are taking place in the middle east today with particular focus on the actions that iran is taking i made clear that the united states will continue to apply pressure to the regime in tehran until its leadership is prepared to return to the ranks of responsible nations that do not threaten their neighbors or spread instability or terror steverson his life. tell us more about what was said between these 2 men in this important meeting. well it was a very rare meeting it hasn't been going very well between the united states and russia for quite a while now and since the moeller report about russian interference in the 2016 elections has been published it seems that this guy has cleared up a bit and that this meeting could actually take place well that's that's basically it because not much has been achieved there's not been many issues that the

let's listen to that. >> i made clear to foreign minister lavrov, as we've made clear for the past monthsrence in american elections is unacceptable. if the russians were to engage in that in 2020 it would put our relationship in an even worse place than it has been and i encourage them not to do that, that we would not tolerate that. >> ned price, that's the -- that's what mike pompeo says to reporters, but lavrov is sitting there knowing that the united states has done absolutely nothing about this. >> well, and love love avrov is sitting there knowing that president trump himself has had on numerous occasions the opportunity to raise this with vladimir putin and failed to do so. most recently failed to do so during their may 3rd phone conversation. look, i think the broader point here, lawrence, is we're seeing this strange and wild metamorphosis that ben just alluded to. if you were just reading a transcript of president trump and president putin, you would have a hard time discerning which one was the purported leader of the free world and which one was the former kgb head and now he

russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov and his u.s. counterpart might be grapple with the crisis in venezuela with follow up talks expected in russia in 2 days' time and iran partially suspends the 25th day nuclear agreements and gives the signature east secret 60 days to shield the country from u.s. sanctions that is washington reiterates its threat to hit companies working with iran with financial penalties and russia marks the 74th anniversary of the capitulation of nazi germany with military parades and ceremonies were bringing some of the highlights. good morning welcome you're watching a weekly here on r.t. international. now russia is mourning for the 41 people killed in last sunday's playing tragedy moscow sheremetyevo airport the passenger jet was engulfed in flames while making an emergency landing. to be out. of the plane took off at around 6 pm local time was banned for the northwestern russian city of man's just under 20 minutes later though the pilots alerted air traffic control they were returning to share a mess of witn

now the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and u.s. secretary of state might have held talks on the crisis in venezuela it happened on the sidelines of a meeting of the arctic council in finland and comes to you after alleged attempt was thwarted in the latin american country. is expected to visit the russian city of sochi on may the 14th to continue the discussion well among the issues addressed during the finland talks was the possibility of u.s. military action in venezuela is referred to as more. the number one diplomats of america and russia have finally met and we were hoping to understand if there is at least a slight chance that moscow and washington could be on the same page when it comes to venice well off well it's like the pale didn't speak to journalists at all after this here in finland but when. i talked to the media he thought it wasn't a good idea to shed light on any of the details pretty much but he did respond to my question about mike barrows statement from this weekend that russia must get out of venezuela and als

month now and may washington's top diplomat will meet a with the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov in the resort city office sanchia and now the kremlin says a parallel a meeting where the president could take place there to now this will be a first visit to russia as the u.s. secretary of state and lavrov did however just to meet with him at the arctic summit in finland and that particular meeting showed that the two countries are still struggling to find common ground on a range of issues not only on vanessa well up but the use of the arctic as well. concerned about russia's claim over the international waters of the northern sea route including its newly announced plans to connect it with china's maritime silk road. in the northern sea route moscow already illegally demands other nations request permission to pass the u.s. secretary of state also add that's partly in response to russia's so called the stabilizing activities there are rebuilding military oh they're hosting now military exercises and rebuilding their ice breaker fleet now moscow believes that there are no grounds