led coalition downed the syrian government plane over syria what mr lavrov said was that it's actually getting crowded both in the air and on the ground in syria according to moscow with still waiting for an explanation from the u.s. on that downed syrian plane and also one other thing that was said by sergei lavrov is that russia would not like those kind of strikes u.s. air force strikes on the syrian regime planes to undermine efforts to fight against terrorism mr lavrov says that when he speaks to his u.s. counterpart mr tillerson next is going to bring up that issue now speaking of the new wave of anti-abortion sanctions mr lavrov said that once again he believes the u.s. has absolutely no ground for it and it definitely definitely this is something that does not contribute to somehow to the rebuilding of ties between moscow and washington. sure. and also then we were talking. ukraine two wasn't that was an issue that came up and took a bit of time to go through. well. if we talk about ukraine that is of course linked to the measures that i mentioned there are separate sets of san

can cooperate closely and we can cooperate even better with russia don't you think so and as for mr lavrov well do you see the opportunity to achieve understanding. and to overcome the differences in order to create some common space for cooperation between russia and europe. us. well i think that we speak about some. joined. this trade so maybe well it's a good thing i don't want to speak about the differences between us but here we speak about the action itself some further. each time we do you agree that the russian and turkey should have talks and that. is a very positive development. ok we've just been popping in a night there of the news conference taking part in the southern russian city of trust and our russia's foreign minister in this country part in germany. gabriela speaking there the last ten minutes or so on the syrian crisis talking about the alleged chemical attack which happened back in april. syria was planning another were not coming from washington very differing opinions on what was going on there are saying that investigation is needed signori gabriele saying the time

digesting some of the main points there were made in the half an hour or so since it finished we heard mr lavrov the russian foreign minister making a number of points and making the rather forcefully as well he said that russia would retaliate and would react to any provocations from the u.s. led coalition in syria he also said that the united states and encourage the united states not to look for a pretext in order to launch strikes against assad government forces in syria the main point the russian government is concerned that extremists within syria may attempt to launch some kind of provocation chemical attack in order to try and draw the u.s. into two airstrikes now this is after the united states said that if there was a chemical attack they would launch further attacks themselves against the assad government this is something of course that is deeply worrying to the russian government that was voiced by sergei lavrov we can hear what he said right now. a look at the u.s. experts and they say openly next use these claims by washington might prove occasions and shift the blame on so the sy

well as suppress attempts to use chemical weapons by any party to the conflict and as mentioned mr lavrov stressed the u.s. must not carry out hostile actions against government forces we discuss the latest with jamal wakim a professor of history and international relations at the lebanese university in beirut he believes the u.s. is looking for an excuse to attack the syrian government. so i believe that this is mainly. not done by the united states to have a pretext because i believe that it's planning to. have an attack on the syrian army at the time when this army is achieving major success in the field. it was able to reach the. spite of. all obstacles set by the united states and against all odds it was able to reach up the. city on the operators and of the same time it's heading towards a date which will be at the end of the united states to have. influence in syria and the north part of the country. guitar's top diplomat is in washington for talks us the clock ticks down on an ultimatum set off by its neighbors in the middle east we've got more in ninety seconds. seems wrong why d

as well as suppress attempts to use chemical weapons by any party to the conflict on this mention mr lavrov to stress the u.s. must not cardiod hostile actions against government forces. ok let's get further into this now because peter for the former you can boss or to syria is standing by to join us live on the program you're very welcome to the program buster the white house claims the syrian government is planning a chemical attack now i've asked this question before what would the mosque is stand to gain from such an action because it's already winning the war in the ground why would the resort to chemicals. it wouldn't it's totally inconceivable. you would have to be a person of how can i put this kindly limited intelligence to believe that said could even contemplate launching chemical weapons already in april we had evidence of how hot blooded. the american president is you don't have to be a genius to work out that anything that carried a whiff of a chemical weapons would be heavily punished no it is literally incredible that it would use chemical weapons the similarities with a str

well as suppress said tempted to use chemical weapons by any party to the conflict and as mentioned mr lavrov stressed the u.s. must not carry out hostile actions against government forces. let's delve into all this a little bit deeper and join jamal wakim a professor of history and international a sions up the lebanese university in beirut always good to have you on the program yet so there we have it the wife's heis claiming that the syrian government is planning a chemical attack now what could damascus gain from doing not if this is true they're winning the war on the ground why resort to chemicals. well i don't believe the syrians owed the city in a g.m. is going to use chemical weapons especially at the time when the american journalist uncovered the truth about the fact that donald trump knew there was no chemical attack in the country. when he led his attack on actual port city an airport so i believe this is mainly. not done by the united states to have a pretext because i believe that it's planning to. have an attack on the syrian army at the time when this army is achieving major s

well as suppress attempts to use chemical weapons by any party to the conflict and this mentioned mr lavrov stress the u.s. must not carry out hostile actions against government forces we discuss the latest with jim he's a professor of history and international relations at the lebanese university in beirut and he believes the u.s. is looking for an excuse to attack the syrian government. so i believe that this is mainly. not done by the united states to have a pretext because i believe that it's planning to. have an attack on the syrian army at the time when this army is achieving major success in the field. was able to reach the. spite of. all obstacles set by the united states and against all odds it was able to reach our. city on the freighters and at the same time it's heading towards a data which will be a tenth of the united states to have. influence in syria and the north eastern part of. the u.s. state department has released its annual report into countries with the worst human trafficking human trafficking record the report has broken down into different categories two countries

well as suppressing the terms to use chemical weapons by any party in the conflict at this mention mr lavrov also stressed the u.s. avoids provocations like shooting down syrian aircraft ron burkle from the antiwar coalition says there's no clear law in among the decision makers in washington right now on how to proceed in syria. initiative at least from the secretary of state might reflect the fact that there could be a debate going on inside the trump administration and a division of opinion that maybe one position in the u.s. government and then there's another position which incentivizes war which sees war is good business which recognizes the fact that while the u.s. can't win in syria can't overthrow the assad government but by continuing the conflict it strengthens its position following the defeat of isis in other words to have a dog in the fight in the post war sort of reorganization of syria there may be a debate going on in washington or at least your resolution in other words uncertainty about what the u.s. position really should be on the way a lot more trouble for treason may s

well as suppressing attempts to use chemical weapons by any party in the conflict and as mentioned mr lavrov stressed the u.s. avoids provocations like shooting down syrian are crossed. the qatari foreign minister is in washington as a saudi deadline looms for the gulf states we have more on what all that means in about ninety seconds. me. in case you're new to the game this is how. the economy is built around. washington washington. voters elected to businessman to run this country business if. you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. one thousand minutes into the program welcome back qatar's foreign minister is in washington to meet secretary of state rex tillerson i made efforts to resolve the crisis and loping the small gulf state there's currently a blockade on a thirteen point list of demands until half from saudi arabia and other are of nations who accuse it of supporting extremism ortiz peter all of areas across the story for us this is certainly a deep deep crisis that the whole of that arabian gulf area finds itself in at the moment diplom

well as suppressing attempts to use chemical weapons by any party in the conflict others mentioned mr lavrov stressed that the u.s. avoids provocations like shooting syria let's go live to havana with vs you have charlie and his thoughts on what might be here. so the white house claiming it has got intelligence pointing to a plan chemical attack by the syrian government must be said to mass what would damascus possibly going boy curry. on its own soil again we've asked this question so many times over the same obligations of the commode over the years again very valid why would it it do. it beats me given one thing you know intelligence the so-called intelligence that somebody can soften would vote as a pretext for dignity reaction has often been politicized or needs not necessarily very accurate i don't think they have access to the inside of the syrian regime to be dumb enough to have to find otoh are there determining it don't also have the intellect act and what it means they will use i am more concerned of this has been part of this turf war that's going on when you know the americans i

mr. lavrov the day before and i'm sure it was discussed if there was evidence there is potential use of chemicalthe u.n. came to be the and told assad not to use chemical weapons. he promised to destroy and he did not. this kind of open communication on a press release, released by mr. sispicer seems odd. this is not the way normal diplomatic procedures normally transpires. >> if you take the impact of it, if assad was conducting a chemical attack on his people back in april, yes, he did pay a price. president trump did send tomahawk missiles over. what does a public warning now do? do you think it could, albeit not normal, could it stop assad from what he may be looking to do? >> i don't know. that's up to the intend of mr. assad. what it has the implication of doing is telling the rest of the world, this is what we are thinking about doing. when i say the rest of the world, i'm talking, specifically about iran and russia. remember, this press release went out in the late hours last night, between 10:00 and 11:00. it was early morning in syria and russia. they had all day to think about their r

mr. lavrov made this request to secretary of state tillerson for the first time during their meeting in aprilntinuing effort to get the u.s. to back out. as the fight against isis continues, as the fight against transit between syria and iraq when the fight in mosul continues to show results, you may see these continued kinds of actions because there are strikes going on against convoys, against people going in and out of syria. sometimes you may see the fact that the syrian forces under the government of assad is actually supporting some of this action. that is not going to deplete the capability of the u.s. forces to deal with these kind of things. but, again, these are the conversations that have been ongoing that show how complex this situation is in syria because mr. assad considers everyone that go against him as a terrorist. and some of the forces the u.s. are training and advising and fighting alongside are, in fact, in that considered terrorist mode but they are actually fighting against the government of assad to try to get a little bit more representation. >> we have only got a few

lavrov. that's the trouble of. our t. channel my question goes to both ministers mr lehrer of what can you tell us please stick with us a little airplanes part of the u.s. led coalition has again attacked syrian. troops today they downed military drone unmanned aircraft vehicle before that in chad. the situation of the memorandum of the persian and we didn't so with syria so iran of the same time for the first time for. many years iran's. missiles to strike militants in syria so how russia is going to respond to these developments and my question goes also to the minister of france the above mentioned actions do they. eliminate any success which was reached on the track to fight terrorism because taylor today said that they were not going to use their forces any longer in syria so what about you what about france. well i will start in syria this really is so that we see. everything. developing in the very. small area they have the syrian government they have other forces who each are called the four governmental forces the as well are. supported by iran and. the there are also members of the armed opposition there are terroris