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and its allies considering military action foreign minister sergei lavrov said there was no proof of regime used chemical weapons largely as a shawn thomas has been following the briefing and joins us now live sean talk us through the key points that sergey lavrov made what exactly do you say well certainly marina sergey lavrov spoke very seriously about the situation he had knowledge. that there is a growing hysteria and a build up of military presence presence regarding the situation in syria he questioned the west's inconsistency about evidence and the chain of custody with unconvincing arguments he also said that he questioned the timing saying it was aimed at peace talks and smashing those peace talks including the new geneva two accords planned by russia and the united states jointly and he says that a build up of military power is a case of misplaced priorities saying that we've seen all of this before take a listen to what he said in his own words. to observe but we are committed to the most important provision of the g eight declaration in which the leaders expressed the nee

it doesn't seem like there is acrimony between sergey brin and his sister.here are other relationships within the company. steve balmer married a pr executive. bill gates married linda gates. >> it's a different culture. >> yeah, so this isn't completely beyond the veil. >> it's not just some of the fortune 500 companies of old. robert, can you address what everybody seems to be chatting about, which is the prenup, what we know, what a settlement might look like? >> we don't know anything about what pretthe prenup says. there was one when sergey was worth about $6 billion, he's now worth about 24. that $16 billion would at least be his going into the marriage, so the prenup would deal with that 8 billion earned after that, and if there is a prenup, unlikely to affect his share sale. he does have a program in place since 2010 where he's selling about 2 billion shares between 2010 and 2015, so it would appear he would have enough liquidity to deal with whatever he might have to pay out. she would probably be fairly wealthy on her own with her own company and o

and its allies considering military action foreign minister sergei lavrov said there's no proof that the assad regime used chemical weapons he's shown thomas has been following that briefing. sergey lavrov was very direct in his press conference outlining key concerns about the rhetoric that the west is using in fact he says that they say that they are sure that chemical weapons have been used by the assad regime but they have not yet presented convincing evidence to support that it was assad's regime that used the chemical weapons but they keep saying that they crossed this red line the famous red line and it's quite clear that the syrian government had neither political nor military reasons to resort to chemical weapons during which u.n. experts were working with when the regime had the upper hand on the ground and when a russia u.s. meeting on preparing the geneva conference was to take place how exactly would the syrian government benefit from using chemical weapons in such circumstances he said that mass hysteria surrounding the syrian crisis is aimed mainly at disrupting the pe

you were the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov was addressing the meeting between. the u.s. and russian foreign policy and the fans cheese talking about highlighting the issues of importance between the two countries and how they can address them well this meeting comes amid tensions sparked by barack obama calling off a summit with a lot of important as washington sided a lack of progress in relations well we'll have more on the this next hour why from our correspondent in washington d.c. so stay with us for that if you can. right. now calls to boycott sochi two thousand and fourteen are growing louder and causing quite a stir in the global media they were prompted by russian lawmakers decision to ban the promotion of homosexuality to children and british actor stephen fry has gone as far branding far as branding the law fascism and during an allergy to nazi germany here's a boy who had to separate the fact from fiction and then the media frenzy. stephen fry's open letter said that russia is making scapegoats out of gay people just as hitler did the jews which is why he's c

in the meantime, at a lecture for party wives she met sergei, the love of her life. sergei was a rising star in the secret police, and he eventually rose to be number three or four in the nkvd during the great purges. they carried on a secret love affair for three years while ivan pretended not to know what was going on. and they went for long walks, had long conversations. agnessa was somewhat shocked that sergei was a true believer. she learned this in a conversation. not in jest, sergei told the astonished agnessa that he would not hesitate to execute her if he found her to be an enemy. he suited her tears -- soothed her tears by adding, after i shot you, i would shoot myself. there came a time where, when sergei was elevated to become the number two man in kazahkstan, and at this point agnessa had to decide: go with him who's a rising star, or stay with ivan who's going nowhere. and here is the account of her making this decision. at the train station in ross to have on the dawn. so they go to the train station, agnessa as usual is dressed to the teeth. and as ag

foreign minister sergei lavrov reportedly urged restraint when talking to his u.s. counterpart. the united states and its allies say killing by syrian forces near the site of the alleged attacks has destroyed evidence. the next step in this long running civil war could depend on the conclusions of the u.n. inspectors. nhk world. >>> japanese government officials say they are determined to take the lead in stopping radioactive groundwater from leaking from the damaged nuclear plant in fukushima. the industry minister is suggesting public funds be used to help cover the costs of building a large underground wall to dam the water.

would be a tragic mistake in fact and sergei lavrov the foreign minister of russia made a phone call to his counterpart the united states john kerry in which he wanted to draw attention to the implications of what it would mean for the middle east and even north africa as an entire region if they did decide to proceed with a military intervention and in fact russia is hoping that the u.s. and russia and other countries will meet in geneva to try and find a peaceful solution a solution on the diplomatic level as well well less than ten percent of americans back in the idea of military intervention in syria and that's according to a recent survey and how we're activists time barry explains why people in the u.s. are far from enthusiastic with the prospect of involvement in yet another war for the last twelve years the united states has been fighting. a war of choice in iraq it war of choice in afghanistan that turned out to be longer battled it over longer for war than the at then the vietnam war which also was

syria with still no sign of an international peace conference any time soon russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has warned against further delay in letting the number of victims rise over two years of fighting have split the country raising concerns over the ability to pieces syria back together it is now divided into three distinct parts let's take a look at the general outline here now the syrian government is keeping its grip of a large area in the south of the country huge section of the population here belongs to present ourselves alawite muslim sect while the rebels most of them representing the sunni majority are in control of a large chunk of the northern provinces are stretching to the iraqi border now there are many al qaeda affiliated groups in the ranks of the opposition tucked in the eastern quantum here's the syrian kurdish minority enjoying a large degree of independence but then claims in other areas have become a target of heavy attacks from al qaeda linked fighters according to recent disturbing reports four hundred fifty kurdish civilians were massacred and

because both he and sergei lavarov have played hockey in their youth. kerry still does and i don't think lavarov still does. they sparenlt get along ok and an important part of the u.s.-russian relationship is managing all of those places where the two countries collide with each other. they don't agree on missile defense in europe. they don't agree on syria. they don't agree on a whole lot of things. gwen: iran. >> iran they're a little closer. but basically they don't agree. but this -- this has gotten much worse. what we really saw this week, look, the reset of the relationship with russia was one of the proudest accomplishments of president obama's first term. him and secretary clinton. then the secretary of state. for a long time, the administration has at least publicly been in denial. these are just small bumps on the road. these are collisions on a hockey rink. but things are basically ok. what this week made official is that the reset has gone into reverse. and nobody can deny it. it would be nice if these were just -- friendly hockey players b

first for john kerry and sergey lavrov chuck hagel and sergey will walk out of that meeting on friday with a big smile on their face but the hope is that they will at least not let disagreements or scandals completely overshadow whatever progress the two countries can actually make. that was started as revelations have led the former as c chief to compare activists who support the whistleblower to al qaeda because they could be a just cyber terror threat to the u.s. government but endy malema goon who runs a website detailing worldwide intelligence collection so that's quite a turnaround for country which prides itself on free speech the statement of the former and is saying that this new group supporting transparency that they might have to be or see the new terrorist i mean that's an amazing statement in a country that has been originally having your first amendment freedom of speech and transparency of governmental affairs was within that tradition something that was normal that simply amazing united states tried to apply a lot of pressure on russia because the. will have an idea h

russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov will address the syrian issue at a press conference at around twelve o'clock g.m.t. we'll be bringing you that live transmission from moscow. now lol the prospect of yet another wall is not getting the thumbs up from the american public let's have a look now at reduced a. poll that suggests that nine percent of the u.s. citizens want their president to launch military action while about sixty percent of them said that america should keep out of the situation in syria when asked about washington's support for the opposition just a tenth the said obama should do more for the rebels than just sending arms almost ninety percent gone to one big country to help the syrian opposition and to i took his time barry explains why americans have taken the stance for the last twelve years the united states has been fighting. a war of choice in iraq it war of choice in afghanistan that turned out to be longer for battle the longer for war than then the vietnam war which also was a war of choice the american people are war weary we know that what's going on ins

violation of international norms now the russian side of things there has been a phone call between sergey lavrov the. foreign minister here in russia and john kerry in the united states in that phone conversation that lavrov rejected the position that it was the assad regime pointing to the fact that there is evidence that suggests it could have been the rebels who themselves used chemical weapons in the attack he says that the u.s. and other countries should be doing everything that they can to facilitate the u.n. investigation rather than trying to hinder it and push their own agenda he's also alarmed at different nations attempts to destabilize. the peace process and the diplomatic solution and specifically referring to the geneva two talks that were being pushed by the u.s. and by the by the russian government jointly now has also gone on to say that the only solution to the crisis in syria is a diplomatic solution through negotiation and that's where russia stands at this point in time and london is expected to push for a resolution sanctioning the use of force against syria at the u

sergey lavrov was very direct in his press conference outlining key concerns about the rhetoric that the west is using in fact he says that they say that they are sure that chemical weapons have been used by the assad regime but they have not yet presented convincing evidence to support that it was assad's regime that used the chemical weapons but they keep saying that they crossed this red line the famous red line they also say it is a mistake for the west to assume all roles when it comes to this situation whether it's investigator judge jury and even in some cases as the u.n. security council he said that mass hysteria surrounding the syrian crisis is aimed mainly at disrupting the peace process and that would include the new geneva two talks that were orchestrated by russia and the united states jointly and that this is just basically an attempt to derail that also using force in syria without any u.n. sanctions is a blatant violation of international law and that is something that just should not happen. so the use of force without the sanction of the u.n. security council is a

russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov also weighed in. he said on monday there's no evidence assad used chemical weapons and he said using force against syria without u.n. support would violate international law. he added that a u.s. or european intervention would just lead to more bloodshed. >>> japan's aerospace officials are counting down to the launch of the country's first new rocket in 12 years. the solid fuel eps ilan will blast off early tuesday afternoon. the rocket is still under wraps at its launch site in the southern plsk of kagoshima. it will carry the world's first space telescope for the remote study of planets. it is 24 meters long that's half the size of the mainstay rocket and costs one-third as much. they hope the more efficient production process will boost japan's lagging satellite business. one of the project managers said the liftoff will be the culmination of seven years of research and development. >> translator: we are confident the launch will be successful. >> engineers will bring the rocket out from its hanga

russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov also weighed in. he said on monday there's no evidence assad used chemical weapons and he said using force against syria without u.n. support would violate international law. he added that a u.s. or european intervention would just lead to more bloodshed. >>> time for the latest in business news. let's go to ai uchida. how are the developments in syria affecting how investors react? >> well you mentioned john kerry, catherine, u.s. secretary of state. his comments made investors on wall street anxious over geopolitical risks. share prices fell sharply after his comments, giving up gains in the last hour of trading. the dow jones industrial average closed at 14,946, down 0.4%. to see how japanese stocks are reacting we head over to ramin mellegard. how are tokyo stocks looking? >> good morning to you, ai. let's check the opening levels for august 27th in tokyo and go into how events overseas may affect various sectors and shares. both indexes in the negative as you can see and investors becoming worrie

well you've just seen a news conference given by russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov on the situation in syria let me now quickly talk you through some of the key points that he made well during this news conference he said that there has been no evidence of syrian government guilt the spy the new claims that he was the chemical weapons sergey lavrov also mentioned mentioning the opposition he also said that the opposition disregards the diplomatic effort and is reluctant to hold talks demanding us its government capitulation well the fresh claims that isis forces use chemical weapons and hysteria surrounding them are time to undermine the new round of talks in geneva and also talking about the possible military intervention. go ahead without the u.n. mandate is a slippery slope well finally he hopes that common sense will prevail you're watching r t coming to live from moscow next hour we'll be bringing you more analysis on this and other stories to stay with us. ok. dave a crock you welcome you to ted you're all a virgin it's a little while in the middle of the chesapeake bay and of

an international peace conference on syria could prove fatal according to russian foreign minister sergei lavrov this comes as the number of civilian fatalities rises in the war torn country amid disturbing reports of four hundred fifty kurds being killed by militants in northeastern syria now according to an iranian news channel hundreds of women and children were massacred in a kurdish area in our locker which came under attack by al qaeda linked fighters now we could go to jihad is a row captured two hundred civilians from two kurdish villages in aleppo syria's kurds are raising the alarm over ethnic cleansing by al qaeda linked groups it comes amid reports that the militants are about to announce an independent islamic state in northern syria now our very own artie's correspondent is in the region it . is following developments three. absolutely horrifying reports coming from the north eastern part of syria we are getting reports that four hundred fifty people most of them women and elderly and at least two hundred twenty children have been killed by fighters off a loser front unfortu

official john kerry said a lot of raw chuck hagel and sergey shy go walk out of that meeting on friday with a big smile on their face but the hope is that they will at least not let disappointment and scandals completely overshadow whatever progress the two countries ten actually make. the u.s. is unwilling to back down and make any concessions to moscow on key international issues and that's according to geo political analyst william and. washington is determined to encircle russia with its missile defense which is an often said strategy not a defensive one by the way it's a nuclear first strike preparation strategy and that's something that russia understandably is not exactly overjoyed about the issue of syria is non-negotiable in terms of what the u.s. is trying to put into power in syria similar to what they tried in egypt and failed that is a muslim brotherhood controlled regime that would allow qatar to control pipeline flows in to europe and not to iran so among other things so this is there is not a basis of agreement on these fundamental questions noton is as i say is not the

russia relations have hit a new low on friday the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and the russian defense minister arrived in washington as planned to meet their u.s. counterparts and we heard two different messages coming from president obama and foreign minister lavrov both held a news conference on the same day at the same time in different venues of course with foreign minister lavrov trying very hard to ease the tension to move it away from the cold war with president obama seemingly doing the opposite take a listen remember very real words you said when we were saying goodbye you said will i believe that we can make a difference. let's. as adults and that's what we're trying to do because if. you incidents. become an impediment to every single. nice and good would be the very room who gets through. president putin who was prime minister aware that it was president came back into power i think we saw more rhetoric on the russian side that was anti-american that. played into some of the old stereotypes about the cold war contest between the united states and russia president o

an international peace conference in syria could prove fatal according to russian foreign minister sergei lavrov this comes as the number of civilian fatalities rises in the water in country i mean disturbing reports of four hundred fifty kurds being killed by militants in northeastern syria now the syrian government is the keeping its grip of a larger area in the south of the country a huge section of the population here belongs to present a low idea muslim sect while the rebels most of them representing the sunni majority are in control of a large chunk of the north of the northern provinces stretching to the iraqi border to the east and there are many al qaeda affiliated groups in of the ranks of the opposition in the eastern corner here the syrian and kurdish minority enjoying a large degree of independence but the enclaves in other areas have become the target of heavy attacks from al qaeda linked fighters according to recent disturbing reports four hundred fifty kurdish civilians were massacred and we could go jihad is captured two hundred civilians from two kurdish villages in alep

john kerry and secretary of defense chuck hagel are meeting their russian counterparts are often sergey to try and find common ground on a whole range of issues snowden of course will be part of the discussion it is a part but it is a not a large part of what the agenda will be on friday the obama administration keeps saying they scrapped the meeting with the russian president not just because of snowden but because of a lack of progress on other issues naming missile defense and human rights in russia but the u.s. had helped talk some disagreement over missile defense for me to yours with regard to human rights. meeting with the u.s. president one possible so it's pretty much clear to everyone that at this point it is about snowden and the question many ask ahead of the friday meeting is whether this scandal based tension will affect cooperation between the u.s. and russia in other spheres on syria for instance where cooperation is already under a lot of strain to say the least both moscow and washington agreeing to meet somebody in geneva where they would bring all sides of the syrian

russia relations have paid a new low on friday the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and the russian defense minister arrived in washington as planned to meet their u.s. counterparts and with her two different messages coming from president obama and foreign minister lavrov that both held a news conference on the same day at the same time in different venues of course with foreign minister lavrov trying very hard to ease the tension to move it away from the cold war with president obama seemingly doing the opposite take a listen remember very rewards who said when we were saying goodbye he said we'll i believe that we can make a difference. let's. as adults. and that's. when president putin who was prime minister when president came back into power i think we saw more rhetoric on the russian side that was anti-american that. played into some of the old stereotypes about the cold war contest between the united states and russia president obama also said in light of all the disagreements with russia it's time for the u.s. to make a pause and recalibrate the tone of the talks at the sta

mistakes when it comes to be alleged use of chemical weapons in syria now russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov called his counterpart in the united states john kerry to draw attention to the implications of what could happen if there was military intervention specifically for the middle east and for all of northern africa in fact lavrov told kerry that calls from the west to use military intervention in syria bypassing un efforts is basically wiping out joint efforts by the united states and russia to meet in geneva to try and come up with a viable solution to the syrian crisis now while not mentioned specifically by name on sunday the foreign minister. basically asking all parties who might be considering military intervention to use caution because they need any intervention or any action needs to be done with international law in mind using verifiable facts from a un investigation. if anyone should proceed it would just escalate the situation even further now this comes after president obama met with his national security advisers as well as military advisors to find out what options

and i further reaction from russia foreign minister sergei lavrov has warned of a regional catastrophe if the u.s. proceeds with the ministry intervention i have his son thomas has some more on moscow's concern well russia is urging the western powers to use caution not to jump to conclusions and judge too soon to avoid it tragic mistakes when it comes to be alleged use of chemical weapons in syria now russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov called his counterpart in the united states and john kerry to draw attention to the implications of what could happen if there was military intervention specifically for the middle east and for all of northern africa in fact lavrov told kerry that calls from the west to use military intervention in syria bypassing un efforts is basically wiping out joint efforts by the united states and russia to meet in geneva to try and come up with a viable solution to the syrian crisis now while not mentioned specifically by name on sunday the foreign ministry sent out a statement basically asking all parties who might be considering military intervention to us

officials john kerry and sergey lavrov. meeting on friday with a big smile on their face but the hope is that they will at least not let this agreement and scandals completely overshadow whatever progress the two countries can actually make. by let's look ahead to two of the meeting with political scientists about just love a new can all assume the u.s. ones are snowden's a situation discussed for that but russia claims that the issue is already resolved what else is washington trying to achieve. while i don't know what to expect washington has any intention to really bring snowden to the united states it's just unrealistic because russia cannot extradite him to the old losing face snowden is widely regarded in russia as well as in the rest of the world as a whistleblower nor does a criminal so there is no way russia can or extradite him without really losing face and respect in the rest of the world including the united states where the majority of the public is in favor of a world snowden says or does in my mind all the h

fact that there is some evidence linking the rebel groups to the possible use of chemical attacks sergey lavrov had a phone call with the u.n. special envoy lakhdar brahimi in that phone call he said attempts at a forcible solution in syria will only result in further the start of stabilization in the country and in the region in general now he's concerned about the diplomatic and political solution he says that that is the only way forward and he's disappointed and worried about the failure of what have become known as. the geneva two talks these are talks that were orchestrated between russia and the united states jointly to try and find a diplomatic solution in syria and he's worried that that is now failing saying that all players should act responsibly and not repeat the mistakes of the past of course making an allusion to the united states situation in iraq ten years ago and russia has always been urging that the world community should wait until the u.n. investigation on the ground is complete this investigation is to determine if chemical weapons were used not who used them and t

groups in the groups such as the a loser front operating in this region the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has urged the international community to come together and solve the situation in syria according to various reports at least four hundred fifty people have been killed by the on the front in north eastern syria reports say that at least one hundred twenty of those are children in response to our t's official request to the united nations security services saying that they are investigating the matter on the ground there and they have people working there right now and of course they're extremely concerned with this matter because should these allegations in fact find any evidence of actually being true these will amount to war crimes that they sounded cannot be independently verified due to the chaos that is happening in northeastern syria right now we have also spoken to people whose relatives were in these northeastern part of syria for talking about men being killed and women and children and the elderly being taken hostage and civilians escaped their shot militias raided t

the united nations says that it is investigating these incidents but the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has urged the u.n. not to apply double standards saying that terrorist attacks are being carried out in any kind of argument that these attacks are being carried out against an out dated regime is not an argument because essentially you need to use the same standard you cannot employ double standards when referring and labeling attacks as terrorist attacks full of the situation out there is getting as complex as it is and we're following events with you policy they are middle east correspondent giving us an update right now turkey's a founded self called good dream a pro western style. supporting the rebels and mending its relations with the kurds on r.t. dot com patrick henningsen posed the dilemma. is articles online now. russia and the u.s. sending rather contradictory signals about their relationship is no sign of cold war thinking according to foreign minister sergey lavrov who is with the russian defense she's meeting their u.s. counterparts president obama very says rela