afternoon here in moscow so 1st off our top story breaking news the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov the said moscow is ready to break up with the e.u. if it imposes new sanctions that could harm key sectors of the country's economy. when we don't go to the loo we'll see will so use of ways are we heading for severed ties with the e.u. we're just saying they were ready to do this if we see once again like we've seen numerous times before that brussels imposes sanctions that post risks to our economy specifically to the most sensitive sectors once again we don't want to distance ourselves from the international community but we need to be ready for this if you want peace prepare to war frustrated a lover of the foreign minister igor down i'm sure let me know on this to put it in context may not be all it seems but certainly huge frustration when across the color line in the sand that the e.u. has to change its attitudes and quickly well absolutely it is a very strong message essentially sergei lavrov is saying that russia won't be bullied into anything won't be bullied it into submiss

international breaking news coming in the last few hours russian foreign minister sergey lavrov saying moscow is ready to break up with the e.u. if it imposes new sanctions that harm key sectors of the country's economy. when we don't go those who will see will so use them when are we heading for severed ties with the e.u. we're just saying they were ready to do this if we see once again like we've seen numerous times before that brussels imposes sanctions that post risks to our economy specifically to the most sensitive sectors once again we don't want to distance ourselves from the international community but we need to be ready for this if you want peace prepare to war. it goes down of a correspondence cross this story today eagle some tough words on the face of it from the foreign minister strongly worded statement i suppose meant to draw a very firm line in the sand that attitudes have to change and change quickly as far as the use concerned absolutely basically sergey lavrov opens his hand and says this is what we're going to do if you go through with your plan to impose sanction

of a campaign of legal harassment directed against them and now russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has said that moscow is ready to sever ties with the european union other that threaten sanctions let's take a look at what he had to say used to move. if we see again as we have felt more than once sanctions imposed in some areas creates risks to our economy including in the most sensitive spirit is such as supplies of parts and components i'm convinced that with regards to the military we've become completely self-sufficient we need to achieve the same situation in the economy. yes once again we don't want to be isolated from international life when you've got you but we must be ready for that if you want to be prepared for war. group which due to go. some pretty determined words there how serious do you think mr lavrov is about potentially cutting economic ties with the. i wouldn't necessarily blow his comments out of proportion i mean you have to really think of the context that these comments took place and it was on a live broadcast from a russian firebrand journalist by the nam

and he was absolutely in a part for not being as aggressive as they wanted him to be with sergei lavrov just have a listen to this. riza deep disappointment and growing mistrust between debian union and russia i also wanted to test to do russian authorities are interested in a serious attempt to reverse did did did you really a show of our relations and seize the opportunity to have a more constructive dialogue. the answer has been korea you know the visit of high representative bored out to you merely 8 and a friend the european union missa borrell and the on the other hand made a fool of himself last week in moscow. so you can they minced no words and neither did journalists you can see you can find a headline saying that lavrov bested burrell that. humiliated burrell and so on everything and so on and so forth so essentially again he was battered for not being as aggressive for not being overly aggressive for just well being a diplomat really and basically this all stems back goes back to the situation with the russian opposition figure alexina vali who basically the code swapped. a

hour to international policy chief joseph goodell holds talks with russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov in moscow. also this joe biden claims diplomacy is back in his 1st foreign policy speech but he didn't sound too diplomatic when it came to russia and also to come a twist in the harry dunn case is a court case that the u.s. woman who killed the british teenager was working for an intelligence agency at the time of the incident. good afternoon watching out international just on 2 o'clock in the russian capital now the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and the foreign policy chief but i'll have just finished giving a wide ranging press conference in moscow so let's go now to correspond. in moscow who is covering the event for us just to get free some of the key points. just run through then it was a lengthy press conference wasn't and a lot was said but what were the key elements andrew good afternoon well 1st of all like to point out that this is the 1st visit to moscow of europe's top diplomat and this is definitely a sign that during these 3 years relations work cold to say the

of a campaign of illegal harassment directed against them now and russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has said that moscow is ready to sever ties with the european union over the threatened sanctions let's take a look at what he had to say you see the mood. if we see again as we have felt more than once sanctions imposed in some areas creates risks to our economy including in the most sensitive spirit is such as supplies of parts and components i'm convinced that with regards to the military we've become completely self-sufficient we need to achieve the same situation in the economy. yes once again we don't want to be isolated from international life when you've got you but we must be ready for that if you want to be prepared for war. group which need to go to school. some pretty determined words there how serious do you think mr lavrov is about potentially cutting economic ties. i wouldn't necessarily blow his comments out of proportion i mean you really think of the context that these comments took place and it was on a live broadcast from a russian firebrand journalist by the name

that you can expect i have to convey to minister lavrov our deep concern and great to rated our appeal to his release on the launch of an impersonal investigation of his by any. why we fully respect russia over 80. and its own responsibility of the guarding their fulfillment of which international commitments european union consider that issues related with the rule of law human rights civil society and political freedom are central to our common future both for the european union and russia. but at the same time there are issues in which we can and must work together because when we do good crystals the minister has been mentioning several of them and i griped to his works . the culture side and do research on health and phasing in maintain on the arctic on climate on digital we have a lot of things that can be done and to deep engagement from both sides and get benefits in a tangible way. on the international arena i think the minister has made reference to all of that there are places and issues in which we can all or together is a good example middle east peace process we agree on

holds talks with russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov in moscow. joe biden claims diplomacy is back in his 1st foreign policy speech but he didn't sign too diplomatic to russia had also to come a twist in the hari dunn case is a court is that the u.s. woman who killed the british teenager was working for an intelligence agency at the time of the incident.

of a campaign of legal harassment directed against them and now russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has said that moscow's ready to sever ties with the are a pain in other that threatened sanctions let's take a look at what he had to say. if we see again as we have felt more than once sanctions imposed in some areas creates risks to our economy including in the most sensitive spirit is such as supplies of parts and components i'm convinced that with regards to the military we've become completely self-sufficient we need to achieve the same situation in the economy. yes once again we don't want to be isolated from international life when you get you but we must be ready for that if you want to be prepared for war. which need to go to school. some pretty determined words there how serious do you think mr lavrov is about potentially cutting economic ties with the. i wouldn't necessarily blow his comments out of proportion i mean you really think of the context that these comments took place and it was on a live broadcast from a russian firebrand journalist by the name of ludacris a lov

that you can respect i have to convey to minister lavrov our deep concern and great created i will be able to release one to launch an investigation of peace by joining. the e.u. had to put additional sanctions on hold and while lover of stressed that russia wanted to improve relations he did not mince words. we have gotten used to the fact as i have already mentioned that the e.u. more and more often uses one sided restrictions which are not based on any legitimacy at this stage we have to assume that the e.u. is an unreliable partner or your. not done with that throughout the visit was barely over when the diplomats were expelled and despite all efforts to improve communication some actions speak louder than words. so how will the european union respond to the expulsions of some of its diplomats from russia earlier we put that question to bruno latte a senior fellow at the german marshall fund. well i think 1st of all we need to understand that the events today were not a coincidence this is really russia showing its muscle telling the look what we can do we can expel your diplomats

lavrov talked of the low points in relations with the e.u. so just pushed on you because it's true that not at their best partly due to their illegitimate restrictions which are introduced by a use under trumped up pretext of a reference that each trade and financial sanctions imposed after russia's annexation of crimea in the ukraine conflict in 2014. there were no breakthrough in the units considering further sanctions against russia over the balance of. andrew symonds. now a digital crackdown by man miles military jointer on protesters organizing online is intensifying after facebook now twitter and instagram all blocked for use in the country but that hasn't the growing number of people from joining a growing civil disobedience movement against me and mobs generals they seized power in monday's military coup under schapelle reports. first it was the doctors and nurses now educators and other government employees around 200 teachers and professors in yangon stood up to the army on friday and echoed a message heard so often this week you kn

are the good evening of watching the international the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has warned that more sco is ready to break ties with the e.u. if it imposes new sanctions that harm key sectors of the country's economy with more his cause you don. or you will still wish to go to us we're just saying that we're ready to do this if we see once again like lucy numerous times before the brussels imposes sanctions that pose restore economy specifically to the most sensitive sicked is once again we don't want to distance ourselves from the international community but we need to be ready for this issue if you want peace prepare for war. well it is a pretty straightforward message especially coming from a veteran diplomat which serve certainly is but here the russian foreign minister he's rather showing his hand he's explaining what will happen if the e.u. decides to follow through with a plan to impose new sanctions and if these sanctions are crippling to any of the key sectors of russia's economy world this is what will happen but again moscow has already confirmed that it will not

foreign policy was meeting survey lavrov russia's foreign minister i on burrell's agenda was the plight of no valley who were being poisoned with a nerve agent novacek and received lifesaving treatment in germany last september i have conveyed to minister lavrov our deep concern and great to rated our appeal to release on to launch of an impartial investigation of a case by sion lavrov talked of the low points in relations with the e.u. so just pushed on you because it's true that not at their best partly due to their illegitimate restrictions which are introduced by a used under trumped up pretext it's a reference that each trade and financial sanctions imposed after russia's annexation of crimea in the ukraine conflict in 2040. there were no breakthroughs in the view is considering further sanctions against russia over the balance of. andrew symonds. travelers arriving to the u.k. from corona virus hot spots will now have to quarantine for 10 days the so-called red list of countries includes most of latin america southern africa and the us thousands of hotel rooms near sea in airports

there are some opportunities for cooperation during his meeting with russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov the e.u. representative you know several said the russian vaccine sputnik movie was just one of them but neither side has any illusions about the low point their relations have hit and the elephant in the room is alex enough i think respect they have conveyed to me. created. to release on the launch. of a piece by. russia's foreign minister argues the e.u. is behaving more and more like the us always threatening with new sanctions. with but. we've become accustomed to these unilateral and illegitimate measures and we have adjusted our positions accordingly we assume that the e.u. is no longer a reliable partner. but. elsewhere in moscow journalists waited outside a district court during a hearing in another trial against me he is accused of slandering a war veteran for rail reportedly had sought a meeting with the kremlin critic but it's unclear whether he will be able to see him before his departure on saturday. well these expulsions overshadowed a virtual defense and security counci

hi there andy well lavrov certainly seemed pessimistic about the current state of relations between the european union and russia after his meeting with the foreign minister of finland now he called the relations a carcass and he said that the reason for this is the responsibility for it lies actually with brussels so let's take a listen to what he said exactly got accustomed we must be proved in the developments it's up to the you to choose if they decide that relations must be rebuilt and reversed will also be ready for. a lover of statement comes in the backdrop of a general a worsening of relations between russia and the e.u. last week we heard from the russian foreign minister that he would be ready to sever ties that moscow would be ready to sever ties with europe in the case that sanctions are deployed against russia now those sanctions that brussels have been suggesting of course these are connected to the recent imprisonment of russian opposition activist aleksei of all me who claims he was poisoned by the russian government now moscow russia denies any sort of involvement in t

and moscow how important it is to work together at one point the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov even said that if the ties between the 2 sides get any worse that would lead to a disaster with absolutely unpredictable consequences well that was a good start and there was even more optimism for joint work for more business handshakes between moscow and european countries when joe's of barreled praised russia's sport think the vaccine. thing and now i am hoping that it would be in a medical agency would be able to certify deficiency of these vaccine you know that could be usual szell into the p. and united states who would be good news because as you know we have raising a shortage of vaccine however very quickly after that we were reminded of what usually such conversations between seeing are western and russian diplomats are like you know something like a game of ping pong with accusations being thrown at each other's toes up barrel join the chorus of european union's leaders that accused russia for how it's been dealing with kremlin critic alexei no volley and response we heard

concern and retreated our appeal to release on to launch of an investigation of a case by shinee lavrov talk to the low points in relations with the e.u. so you're stronger because it is true that not at their best partly due to the illegitimate restrictions which are introduced by a use under trumped up pretext of. all reference that each new trade and financial sanctions imposed after russia's annexation of crimea in the ukraine conflict in 2014. there were no breakthroughs in the us considering further sanctions against russia over the valley of. andrew simmons. hong kong has issued sweeping new rules for schools children as young as 6 years old will be taught about national security and certain books could be removed from libraries if you've got pollen reports now from hong kong. mess down what is national security it's one of hong kong's biggest moves to overhaul its education system with teaching material that includes animation to help younger children the new national security education curriculum brings hong kong classrooms in line with the communist controlled schools of mainl

watching out international just gone 3 o'clock in moscow now the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and the used foreign policy chief have just finished giving a wide ranging press conference in moscow so let's get more details on this now and talk with our correspondent who's following it for us a. lengthy press conference many issues covered but what were the main elements and the key issues that were. andrew good afternoon well the 1st press conference after the 1st visit of the top diplomat to russia in 3 years began with warmth with words how much the 2 sides need to build trust start renewed dialogue at one point even said that the 2 sides just cannot accept a situation in which the thais deteriorate even further because otherwise that would leave too and pretty unpredictable consequences and a true disaster so that was perhaps a good start and that was something that led to even more off to ms and more hopes for further business handshakes between brussels and moscow when at one point the e.u. top diplomat praised russia's sputnik vaccine and said that he hopes it could be us

i russia's foreign minister, sergei lavrov, has said russia is ready to break its relations with theailed russian opposition leader, alexei navalny, who's in court again today in a defamation case. that is separate to the conviction he was handed down last week for violating the terms of his parole related to a 2014 embezzlement sentence. here's mr lavrov�*s response when asked whether russia was on a direct path towards severing relations. translation: we proceed from l the fact that we are ready for that. in the event that we again see sanctions imposed in some sectors that create risks for our economy, including in the most sensitive spheres, yes, we don't want to isolate ourselves from global life, but we have to be ready for that. if you want peace, then prepare for war. despite lavrov�*s comments, 0lga ivshina from the bbc�*s let's ta ke let's take you back to the senate floor. this is the second impeachment trial of former president donald trump. what's taking place now is the q&a session. these are questions that are put to both teams. let'sjust listen questions that are put

i think and respect i have to convey to minister lavrov our deep concern and great rated i will be able to release one to launch an investigation of peace by joining. the e.u. had to put additional sanctions on hold and while lover of stressed that russia wanted to improve relations he did not mince words we put it we looked on we have gotten used to the fact as i have already mentioned that the e.u. more and more often use this one sided restrictions which are not based on any legitimacy at this stage we have to assume that the e.u. is an unreliable partner but your book learning you're not done with that throughout the visit was barely over when the diplomats were expelled and despite all efforts to improve communication some actions speak louder than words. so how will the european union respond to the expulsions of some of its diplomats from russia earlier we put that question to bruno a senior fellow at the german marshall fund. well i think 1st of all we need to understand that the events today were not a coincidence this is really russia showing its muscle telling the look what w

well the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov lavrov and also those up already today in their press conference that there is that some fields of agreement and some things with russia and europe can work together for example when it comes to climate change to energy supplies to the development of new renewable energies and such things and they also have to work together in international crisis like iran russia is part of this iran treaty the argument the nuclear treaty russia is needed when it comes to syria to libya to yemen to many fields so that some common interests also between russia and the european union but it looks very dire right now to italy correspondent bad bigoted brussels thank you. to the world of literature now and the american writer t.c. boyle he often bases the extraordinary characters in his books on real people his latest novel talk to me is no exception it's about a professor who does the talk shows with a chimpanzee that understands language like all the guests athena cable back with boyle to talk about books apes and coronavirus. the best selling author t.c.

used to be right terry of course not so long ago we heard from the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov he said if the e.u. makes good on his threat to impose sanctions which it which it is doing right now we will break off ties with the block. yeah that's a that's a threat that sergey lavrov made a few days ago and he has walked that back a little bit it's highly unlikely that russia would break all ties with the european union it can't afford to do so financially to be honest it may make some more steps in that direction politically i mean remember when joseph bruno was there in moscow they kicked out 3 diplomats simply for being president prone of all the demonstrations so there may be more moves like that in an effort to show the european union moscow's displeasure with these moves but it's highly unlikely that we'll see a full cut off of top in ties that said you never know with the kremlin you never know with president putin and i'm certain that there will be some some strong arm tactics to try to convince the e.u. not to make more moves in this direction however again the support

that you can respect i have to convey to minister lavrov our deep concern and great created i will be able to release on to launch an investigation of peace by joining. the e.u. had to put additional sanctions on hold and while lover of stressed that russia wanted to improve relations he did not mince words. we have got used to the fact as i have already mentioned that the e.u. more and more often use this one sided restrictions which are not based on any legitimacy at this stage we have to assume that the e.u. is an unreliable partner but your book not going with that throughout the visit was barely over when the diplomats were expelled and despite all efforts to improve communication some actions speak louder than words. so how will your opinion respond to the expulsion of some of its diplomats from russia earlier we put that question to brian or less a senior fellow at the german marshall fund. well i figure 1st of all we need to understand that the events today were not a coincidence this is really russia showing its muscle telling the look what we can do we can expel your diploma

it used to be my terry of course not so long ago we heard from the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov he said if the e.u. makes good on his threat to impose sanctions which it which it is doing right now we will break off ties with the block. yeah that's a that's a threat that sergey lavrov made a few days ago and he has walked that back a little bit it's highly unlikely that russia would break all ties with the european union it can't afford to do so financially to be honest it may make some more steps in that direction politically i mean remember when joseph bruno was there in moscow they kicked out 3 diplomats simply for being president of all the demonstrations so there may be more moves like that in an effort to show the european union moscow's displeasure with these moves but it's highly unlikely that we'll see a full cut off of tuck in ties that said you never know with the kremlin you never know with president putin and i'm certain that there will be some some strong arm tactics to try to convince the e.u. not to make more moves in this direction however again that novell new

to minister lavrov i want deep concern and great rated. release on the launch. of. the e.u. had put additional sanctions on hold and while lover of stressed that russia wanted to improve relations he did not mince words. we have gotten used to the fact as i have already mentioned that the e.u. more and more often use this one sided restrictions which are not based on any legitimacy at this stage we have to assume that the e.u. is an unreliable partner for your book not done with her out visit was barely over when the diplomats were expelled and despite all efforts to improve communication some actions speak louder than words. so how will the european union respond to the expulsions of some of us diplomats from russia earlier we put that question to brown or less a senior fellow at the german marshall fund. well i think 1st of all we need to understand that the events today were not a coincidence this is really russia showing its muscle telling the look what we can do we can expel your diplomats of certain you member states even though the top foreign affairs chief of the e.u

official since 2070 these talks with foreign minister sergey lavrov came in with debate about whether a u. countries should impose new sanctions on russia of the jailing of opposition leader alexei in the valley in the crackdown on his supporters both sides acknowledged but what burrell described as a low point in relations over the last 2 years our relations have been mark by from the mental differences from a lack of trust. we are seeing huge other more than a competitor of reichl rather than a partner so you. we proceed from the assumption that the e.u. at this stage is an unreliable partner and i hope that the strategic review that takes place soon will focus on the key interests of the e.u. and that these talks help make out contacts more constructive but as soon as those talks wrapped up moscow and i'm state was expanding diplomats from e.u. countries including germany accusing them of taking part in illegal protests outside alexina valley's court sentencing earlier this week german chancellor angela merkel speaking at a video conference with french president emmanuel macro cond

foreign policy chief and the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov the press conference began with a warm with words of how much it's important to rebuild trust between the u.n. russia how much it's important to work together and at one point mr allowed even said that if the relations between the e.u. and moscow deteriorate in any way that could lead to a tragedy with unpredictable consequences so there you have it it was a good start there was plenty of optimism there was more. we could see that they could come back to joint work. there could be more business handshakes between brussels and moscow when the european top diplomat praised russia's sport think the vaccine it's. just i believe we cannot but i can tell you that very quickly after the smiles we could see a bit more tension in that room because. this conversation quickly started to resemble some of the conversation between the western and russian diplomats that we have been used to seeing it looks like a game of ping pong with accusations being thrown at each other. we know that the european top diplomat joined the chorus o

spain's foreign policy on a variety of issues from accusations by the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov of spain and the e.u. having double standards when it comes to pro independence politicians in catalonia to the political status of the western sahara region where spain has to balance its relations with morocco which sees the region as part of its territory and the $12000.00 spanish citizens who live there and it with the u.k. out of the e.u. spain seems to depend more on its partners elsewhere the foreign minister's 1st official trip of 2021 was to the gulf region of u.a.e. saudi arabia and qatar with the aim of expanding spain's economic footprint in the middle east. in abu dhabi she conveyed her government's hopes for a solution to the war in yemen in riyadh the foreign minister work to strengthen spain's arms deals as well as construction contracts with the kingdom a previous construction project deal with the saudis face control of a sea back crying after it was revealed a swiss prosecutors opened an investigation into more than $100000000.00 given by saudi arabia to spain's for

world saying that this case is politically motivated is politically charged and according to sergei lavrov the e.u. diplomats in including jos are borel they are being strong armed into a tough into an unreasonably tough position on russia and essentially they are stripped the ability and the opportunity to do their job of diplomacy or goodness knows where you're. sure to travel to us knowing the complicated situation many were against his visit and publicly declared that he shouldn't come to russia until we quote flix al behavior not only e.u. foreign policy chief burrell but also his. predisposes do not have the capacity to negotiate the whole you point of view was focused on the idea that we turned miss novell me into a political prisoner with their russian state laws and they need to be respected as for human rights i reminded mr burrell that we've long shown readiness to hold a constructive dialogue based firstly on facts and secondly not on the unilateral basis for this little ritual and from the very get go joseph burrell was put in a very tough conditions by his e.u. counterparts b

to work in moscow now let's start with that breaking news that the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has warned that moscow is ready to break up with you if it imposes new sanctions that key sectors of the country's economy. lou don't go to the loo. are we heading for severed ties with the e.u. we're just saying they were ready to do this if we see once again like we've seen numerous times before that brussels imposes sanctions that post risks to our economy specifically to the most sensitive sectors once again we don't want to distance ourselves from the international community but we need to be ready for this if you want peace prepare to war. ok let's get more done if he joins me in. a very strongly worded statement there that is effectively saying enough is enough well it is a very blatant statement for a veteran diplomat excuse me which certainly is but basically here the russian top diplomat he is responding to a prospect of new sanctions being imposed on russia over the case over the jailing of alexina valmy the opposition figure and a prominent kremlin critic essentially the k

about a week ago sergei lavrov clarified moscow's and reiterated moscow's position that the if these swap at the swapping of the suspended sentence for a real one for lex in a valley it's an internal matter but at the same time joseph burrell called on russia to release the kremlin critic and world saying that this case is politically motivated is politically charged and according to. the e.u. diplomats in including jos are borel they are being strong armed into a tough into an unreasonably tough position on russia and essentially they are stripped the ability and the opportunity to do their job of diplomacy and use those are your. sure key travel to us knowing the complicated situation many were against his visit and publicly declared that he shouldn't come to russia until we quote fix al behavior not only e.u. foreign policy chief burrell but also his. predisposes do not have the capacity to negotiate the whole you point of view was focused on the idea that we turned miss novell me into a political prisoner as were their russian state laws and they need to be respected as for human

want to try to get back into a deal responding to those attacks russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov asked a question which is sort partially answered but we'll put it to you again in just about we'll hear from mr lavrov. hits you in the pretty we want to ask the americans directly if the allegedly major decision never to leave syria will shoot or even to the point of destroying this country but with those 2 beautiful little words no we should it is very important for us to understand the united states strategic line on the ground and in the region on the whole you and your. 2 big points south buy into the u.s. position on syria and in the region as a whole can you help. out. i you know as you pointed out i sort of address some of these early on you know clearly by the administration has to for you know areas of focus initially the iran nuclear deal getting back into the deal and resolving what's happening this terrible humanitarian crisis in yemen and so they've taken immediate steps to try to address those and i think and then the 3rd thing i would say is they have repeatedly empha

official since 2017 his talks with foreign minister sergey lavrov came amid debate about whether a u. countries should impose new sanctions on russia over the jailing of opposition leader elect saying the valley and the crackdown on his supporters both sides ignored it but what burrell described as a low point in relations over the last 2 years our relations have been mark by from the mental differences from a lack of trust we have seen you turn a more than a competitor of reichl rather than a partner and we saw you. we were still we proceed from the assumption that the e.u. at this stage is an unreliable partner and i hope that the strategic review that takes place soon will focus on the key interests of the e.u. and that these talks help make out contacts more constructive but as soon as those talks wrapped up moscow in arms that was expanding diplomats from a u. countries including germany accusing them of taking part in illegal protests outside alexina valley's court sentencing earlier this week german chancellor angela merkel speaking at a video conference with french president e

lation ship between itself and moscow mr lavrov went on to say that russia was willing to. take part in a reporter mark but it was up to the you to make the 1st steps forward. not just. the framework of the relations between russia and the you has been deliberately destroyed by brussels we must be a group for any developments it's up to the e.u. to choose if they decide that relations must be rebuilt or burst also be ready for it. well more and what we heard from yossi beilin the e.u. high representative for foreign affairs talking about russia following this foreign ministers meeting that's taken place he said that there was 3 types of action that the e.u. is ready to take against russia or they could be summed up as to push back when russia breaks the rules as the e.u. sees it to contango russia when it so what it sees as misinformation and to engage russia when there are issues in which the e.u. deems it necessary to do so strong words coming from the equivalent basically of the use for a mistake he's also vice president of the european commission. what we are going to s

now don't cotton to bring things for scott often again and don't just run through them what else mr lavrov had to say hey there andy well lover of seems generally pessimistic about the current state of relations between russia and the european union after his meeting with the finnish foreign minister but he said that responsibility for this actually live with brussels so let's take a listen to what exactly he said. got accustomed to the framework of the relations between russia and the youth has been deliberately destroyed by brussels we must be a group in the developments it's up to the e.u. to choose if they decide that relations must be rebuilt or reversed will also be ready food. lover statement comes on the on the backdrop of a general disintegration or a worsening of relations with the european union last week we heard the russian foreign minister say that moscow is ready to cut ties with europe if it deployed sanctions against it now these sanctions in question that brussels is considering are of course connected to the recent imprisonment of russian opposition activist alex a no vo

wouldn't be discussing him oh if you've been arrested anywhere else other than in russia so sergey lavrov made the following point as well he said that russia is already independent of him militarily so russia does not rely on anybody or russia is in arms expects it's exporting arms and basically saying that russia should do the same thing but with its economy. if anybody decides to impose more sanctions and cripple some crucial economic sphere of russia then you should just wave goodbye and say well if you're closing this door we won't we won't be standing there knocking. political analysts to gilbert doctorow believes a tit for tat strategy could lead to enormous economic damage on both sides. if the with question here which go to the judge of the 2 to gesticulate in james you russia's economic existence is they did as they rested cherry was access to the script to iran where i could see the drastic extreme we order for action in the economic sphere taken by russia the way it was given the war. so you actions that have long been destroyed among the national russia haters the move west a

from our foreign minister lavrov even though all the western press all the european newspapers all the american jews because they all wrote oh this is unacceptable this was such a humiliation well i just said that the e.u. was not a reliable partner well if you have sanctions you know coming without and then for 5 years of course it's not their elavil partner but when mr biden said if you any a days ago when he opened the insult that the russian president who what he meant when he didn't even call him president general biden was addressing base munich conference and he said the following let me just you know quote him. the kremlin is born in and threaten individual states it's a me starting to mine allah do you all christian. who are generous trying to convince the won't that our government ease ask as they are all war well now we see that definitely it is wars right because what we have seen from you know from mr biden himself and from with he's team is just outrageous you know the i think all obese but agree unfortunately the russia gate hoax is led into foreign policy something that

day when for the 1st time in 3 years the head of diplomacy came to moscow for talks with surrogate lavrov the russian foreign ministry i can tell you that the decision to expel european diplomats doesn't have to do it doesn't have anything to do sorry with the arrival of josep of burrill use foreign policy chief but it does coincide with his visit so 3 diplomats from germany sweden and poland have been ordered to leave the country as soon as possible because of their participation in illegal unsanctioned rallies in support of kremlin critic alexina volley in moscow and st petersburg that occurred during 2 weekends at the end of january the russian foreign ministry has called such behavior by the diplomats unlawful and unacceptable the 1st embassy to react to this was that of sweden and they denied any wrongdoing or any violations of russian or international law by a member of their staff the swedish foreign ministry strongly denies claims that a swedish diplomat was involved in recent demonstrations more entering the political development in the country of service is the responsibility of

lavrov saying that moscow is ready to sever ties with the e.u. if it imposes sanctions that harm key sectors of the country's economies that's very strong talk there the top diplomats words coming after e.u. lawmakers defended a clamp down of the kremlin following the e.u. foreign policies chief's trip to moscow which didn't go down too well as you can seize those big news of tyrian of relations let's see where that goes will be across it for the rest of the day this is our. take folks next up this will be i love this guy david character you know from the ron burgundy movies i think he's around the goldbergs now jeff garland show over there. he's got a new rom com coming out with another young comedian mr spooner and hill explained his part i think he plays the big boss who comes down from corporate to tighten up the margins but we'll talk to him but his new rom com the right one david right after this dennis miller plus what. hey folks welcome to dennis miller plus one assembly funny this cat makes me laugh a lot david character best known for h