voiced by the syrian opposition including calls for president assad to step down at the same time mr lavrov said the stance of the west in that sense has been shifting. well some countries are now becoming more realistic in their approach to settling the syrian conflict regardless of what their official spokesman say the number one problem is the threat of terrorism in syria the threat of jihadists coming to power in setting up the caliphate and trampling on human rights and maybe even exterminating minorities in syria and the realization is doing that region change is not the way to resolve these problems our western partners are becoming increasingly clear about this is about russia's relations with the west we're also talked about the minister said there is an apparent a will by both sides to create a more transparent and trustworthy relationship but some countries still shoulder scholes warrior mentality and a desire to draw more dividing lines in europe. some leading members had to be against russia which is really said this leads to some of our european partners still wanting to keep

demonstrated that the alliance was capable of defending their countries from a threat from the east mr lavrovhank you very much for this interview people watch thank you chris. why is the price of gold so high. demand global demand do you think oldest money. know the value of the only place we have to live of the water that we need to survive it's not compared to bill i mean gold we're not going to eat gold we're not going to bait with gold. we're not going to drink what clearly what amal is and is in a desperate economic situation absolutely right what we're wrong to do is say therefore any kind of economic development from the outside is going to be a benefit their only purpose is to extract as much money as possible to feed into the global financial system. with me or a part of the geo political economic system that's extremely exploited or. first of all is a question with the mining should even be carried out altogether can it be done in a way which doesn't destroy people's lives resources environment and so on will you know those are pretty serious questions mining is not a what a moment

opposition remain one of the main obstacles including calls for president assad to step down but mr lavrov said that the position of the west is shifting and currently western countries are becoming more realistic in their approach to settling the syrian conflict regardless of what their official spokesman say terrorism in syria the threat of jihadists coming to power and setting up a caliphate and trampling on human rights maybe even exterminating minorities in syria is the number one problem and the realization is doing that regime change is not the way to resolve this problem whiston partners are becoming increasingly clear about this russia's relations with nato were also discussed and while the foreign minister said that there is an apparent tendency of will from both sides to create more transparency or more trust just some of the alliances actions are still unclear to moscow. which nature was holding collective defense exercises code named steadfast jazz we asked our nato partners before the drills to police what does this mean for defense against all to be placed near our borders u

they would treat an actual attempt like that both that to you when with respect to low level off mr lavrov coming here and also of course with respect to me as just an american citizen. thank you very much indeed for your thoughts live from new york producer of c.p.r. news good to see you thank you. we're just receiving some breaking news here in all of the international in the u.s. state of colorado at least two people have reportedly been injured off to govern shots were fired at a high school police report an active shooter is around the out of high school in the town of centennial now we don't know right now if any children have been injured were involved in this incident to happen just down the road from the aurora movie theater where a gunman went on a massacre in twenty twelve we'll bring you more on this developing story as soon as we get it here in our international. other news now a high court in australia has overturned the country's first law allowing same sex couples to marry that's just less than a week after it came into force this month india pulled its colonial era legisla

at this moment sergey lavrov is meeting in his iranian counterpart mr zarif here in teheran this is the highest level russian delegation to visit iran since president hassan rouhani took power bringing with him an approach that has led to a real significant diplomatic movement after just several months in power at the breakthrough talks in geneva early in november the new administration in tiger and agreed to either freeze or curb parts of its nuclear program the payback was limited relieve from the international sanctions which have severely hampered the country's economy already we know that a group of international inspectors has been allowed to visit the iraq plant here in iran which is at the center of suspicions about iran's motives for have a nuclear program it's been shut down so far for at least six months a cauldron to geneva deal with russia's massive is that good will is key to hold in this together iran's foreign minister has already warned that if the u.s. senate decides to introduce new sanctions and this is something that is now being discussed in america all diplomatic

lavrov spoke briefly to journalists before returning to moscow bozo over with the bitter row with mr summers. if it doesn't include integrated if we're on the shadow of the peoples of which history shows us tobe able to develop the country. and fiji's foreign policy chief catherine ashton struck a positive note she was keen to downplay told that if ghana kuta beach which has signed the association agreement that could damage ties with the kremlin. it's signing it would not have to document effect on relationships with russia in any way. and i hope that that message will resonate. that was promised a laugh from fancy hats back to moscow. russian and eu rush a tool to hold a summit in january. ukraine is likely to feature prominently on the agenda. oh brussels correspondent estimate has been following that story for us he gave us these impressions of a tricky days diplomas. yes the m e hughes farm policies. the chief cause ration has been hosting lunch with the russian foreign minister and right at the time when he was not only trying to forge a new trading corporation deal with russia