sergey lavrov is expected to discuss regional and international issues including the situations in libya mali and syria this listening strategic partnership declaration which was signed its war and the british airport visited russia. yesterday. you don't defeat. the water bottle there's dilution of the trade between our countries. will come from the threshold of four point five billion dollars that is a very good standard c. so we expect that figure to continue growing and i'm sure that the new solutions which are soon to be in place will further broaden their horizons of what is possible for us to attain and next week there will be another meeting of the joint commission of trade and economic cooperation. which does hold. people what. exact. question questions mr. so this is a number of russian companies already work knology rear many more would like to join in. the current project today we have agreed to facilitate direct contacts between our businessman. that have ideas and he. will do push equals one of the. poor. poor ip yeah. but you're going to those emotions going to be our discourse

example,troops in 2017 and 2018 have been engaged in pmbat in 14 different countries, includices like mali, libyaa, cameroon, places we never hear about. thiseally is a shadow war in lot of ways. laura: you had to work really hard to get all of this data. has this creeping expansion of the u.s. counterterrorism footprint overseas happened without many of us noticing? stephanie: certainly. this is, as id, s shadow war. we got some information from the government. it was in state department reports and military websites. but a lot of it was through investigative journalism and other kinds of unexpected places because the government is not forthcoming with this information. laura: ithere any sign it all of the u.s. pulling back from all of these deployments to match the rhetoric aboutop bringing thome? stephanie: you know, we'reth talking about awing from syria, but if you think of the 79 other countries on the map, the american public, our alcongressional leaders re need to debate the vast scope of these rs, and whether it is meeting r objectives. is it making americans safer? is it reducing violen

because you have regularly terrorist groups which are going from libya to mali and they are stopped by the french, but it's endless. so that's the second problem and mali is also victim of the situation in southern libya. >> last words here. >> just on u.n. reform, i don't think that one should have hope for u.n. reform unless and until the united states has the leadership and the will to take it on as a major endeavor and that's not the case right now. >> well, we haven't solved the world's problem. i'm not even sure if we've conclusively resolved multilateralism on how to reform peace, and with great people like this working on these issues i can't help, but feel hopeful. so please join me in thanking our fabulous panel. [ applause ] >>> the u.s. senate returns at 4:00 p.m. eastern today. the pending business will be a bill to end the federal shutdown. no votes are expected on that today. majority leader mitch mcconnell has said there will only be votes when there is agreement on federal funding between republicans, democrats and the white house. see the senat

because you have regularly terrorist groups which are going from libya to mali and they are stopped by the french, but it is and left. that is the second problem, body is also a victim of the situation in southern libya.- situation in >> just on you and reform, i -- on you and reform come i don't think one should have hope for reform unless and until the united states has the leadership and will to take it on as a major endeavor, and that is not the case right now. jonathan: we haven't solved the world -- solved the world's problem and i'm not even sure if we -- i don't know about you, but with great people like this working on these issues come i can't help feel hopeful. joining me in thinking or fabulous panel. [applause] ♪ >> c-span's washington journal. live every day with the news and policy issues that impact you. coming up this morning, washington post national medical reporter and pbs host robert costa reviews the week ahead in washington. and we discussed the requirements for hospitals to post various prices for procedures online with the president of the nonprofit consumer gr

peacekeepers they were types by gunmen near a village in northern mali their identities and. stray shell fire in libya has killed the news cameraman who were felled jazeera and other leading media organizations thirty five year old mohammad ben who died on saturday woman assignments with the libyan militia fighting between rival militias in libya has killed and injured hundreds. zimbabwe's president. will skip the world economic forum and return home as a number of demonstrators killed by security forces continues to rise. least a dozen people have been killed during demonstrations against a doubling of fuel prices police have arrested more than six hundred people the government doubled fuel prices just over a week ago in an attempt to fix the currency crisis that caused nationwide fuel shortages the african union says its respond to a high level visit to the democratic republic of congo this comes as opposition leader martin for new challenges a final ruling from the top court declaring his rival feelings to the victor of the presidential election for me tim miller has more now from kinshasa. the hig

some of the stories they hear that libya is a place of opportunity, they are coming from situations in their own countries, like from southern sudan and maliwhere they can make a that libya is a place where they can makea go that libya is a place where they can make a go of it. they arrived in libya and they are exploited from the moment they arrive. some of the stories are that people have been in prison for up to six or seven years in conditions that are horrific. what will happen to them? they are 110w what will happen to them? they are now on your boat still. better to be on your boat than there. would they have died if you have not got there? their chances of survival were slim to nothing. when we got to them we recovered their boat, their engine was not working. the boats are made by very cynical organisations that supply these things on alibaba and places like that. they are not fit even to go on a pond, let alone the sea in the middle of winter. some people listening to you will be interested , people listening to you will be interested, but will also be thinking why should people in britain care about them? it is more than just br

peacekeepers who were attacked by gunmen near a village in northern mali their identity isn't known. stray shell fire in libya has killed a news cameraman who worked for another leading media organizations thirty five year old man who had been having for died on saturday while on assignment with a libyan militia fighting between rival militias in libya has killed and injured hundreds the african union has postponed a high level visit to the democratic republic of congo this comes as opposition leader martin challenges a final ruling from the top court declaring his rival felix educating the winner of the presidential election freedom miller has more now from kinshasa. the highest court in the democratic republic of congo announcing the next president felix. the. constitutional court judges dismissed an appeal by his rival martin for you who alleged widespread vote rigging on polling day last month. for you accused me of making a power sharing deal with the outgoing president joseph kabila both deny that by you lose refusing to accept the court's ruling and is urging everyone to reject. this i consider myself

assignment with a libyan militia fighting between rival militias in libya has killed and injured hundreds of libyans the head of the u.n. mission in mali is promising a swift and concerted response to the killing of eight u.n. peacekeepers they were attacked by gunmen near a village in northern mali and their identity is not known. so bob is president's warning the police crackdown on protesters is just a taste of things to come at least five people have been killed during protests over rising fuel prices and it's have made hundreds of arrests the u.n. human rights office is criticizing the crackdown and government forces are accused of indiscriminate shootings and these us in the news ahead on al-jazeera worsening shortage of fuel this is in gaza we will look at the human impact it's having. hello there that system that brought us all rain snow and strong winds is still with us across the middle east it's this system higer actually edging its way eastwards it's fortis now some snow over parts of afghanistan and some rain as well and that system stretches all the way up giving us some clouds for a masi on monday as well it's moving awa

libya in two thousand and eighteen where initially it was thought that five thousand stranded there but eventually the delegation found out that there could be as many as thirty thousand nigerians there now regarding mali the officers here are saying that this is a sad result of painstaking work over the last two months or so they've sent officials from the national agency for the protection. for the prohibition of trafficking against persons to mali and they've walked with the local authorities there in collaboration with the nigerian embassy and visited some of these kick mining camps in southwestern mali and that they found out they could be more than twenty thousand according to the director general of not to she said that the twenty thousand actually. as a result of the investigations they've carried out and budgets even a conservative figure she's talking about numbers that far exceed forty five thousand people in mali and she's been talking about how they got there and she told al-jazeera that some of these goes i've been there for years some were able to get to mali in the last few months or so there were tricked as she said to go to mali with promises of good jobs and even going beyond mali to