that america will continue to put pressure on the country whereas sergey lavrov said that he hopes that they could achieve agreements the 2 countries could achieve agreements when it comes to iran saying that reason hoping that reason will prevail and that rumors of u.s. troops in the region will actually turn out to be false. did say that he feels that he sees the u.s. wants a peaceful resolution to that conflict to the crisis and that was something that was echoed by pompei oh he said that the u.s. fundamentally does not seek a war with the country they also both touched on meddling when it comes to election meddling alleged election meddling and the united states was pumpin saying that there are things russia could do to prove that. such actions are a thing of the past that interference in the elections are unacceptable whereas sergei lavrov repeated the saying that evidence has not been put forward no facts have been forward when it comes to russian meddling in the united states elections and hopes that they can reinstate channels that were closed due to those accusations. for more

secretary of state my pump aoe is meeting his russian counterpart sergey lavrov and russia's black sea resort city of sochi the 2 will discuss the crisis surrounding your own amid fears washington and tehran are edging towards war has more on what to expect from the meeting. in short the situation is incredibly dangerous now what with an entire u.s. aircraft carrier battle group now stationed on iran's doorstep with trump himself threatening iran with suffering shouldn't step radians saying that they'll defend themselves and that they're ready for any eventuality the situation as i say incredibly dangerous what's worse it is right for an escalation perhaps an unintended what and russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov said he intends to have a very honest conversation with his american counterpart that arms when you will produce needs or we lost mike pompei you know how the u.s. is going to deal with a crisis that was made by washington's unilateral decisions iran has the right to partly suspend the implementation of the nuclear deal if other parties don't keep their commitments the u.

after sergei magnitsky uncovered a massive putin government corruption scheme and putin was personally involved. in the obstruction of justice of covering up the murder of sergei magnitsky personally got involved and so i've seen it up close and personal i see it on a daily basis and i see how putin has reacted to all the work that i've done to get sanctions imposed on his government and that's what brings you to berlin right so i'm here in berlin to get the magnitsky act passed in germany the magnitsky act is a piece of legislation which imposes visa bans and asset freezes on human rights violators in russia and other countries around the world it's named after my lawyer sergei magnitsky it's been passed in 6 countries including the united states canada and britain great britain germany is a very important country for a lot of different reasons why hasn't been passed in germany yet well you germany has been a hard nut to crack there is more what i would call a desire to be understanding of russia in germany than other countries i mean an apologist well i don't know if his apology or t

unfortunately sergei got the part betrayed by his brothers in arms this video would eventually go viral after sergei was killed early in the morning of january 22nd 2014 the circumstances of his death remain unknown to this day even though the whole area of protests was heavily filmed at that time there were no records or witnesses to help the investigation and his body was moved immediately from the scene of the crime sergei became the 1st killed martyr of your own my don and in a heartbeat the police officers were appointed as his killers almost 2 years later the official investigation would still deliver no results now it is widely believed that nico yawns murder was staged by provoke a tourist to escalate the conflict. god speaks to people with the language of science on january 26th 2014 hope francis prayed for ukraine addressing thousands of people at st peter's square in vatican city p.d. you. hate speech. after the prayer to white doves were released from the papal window and were immediately attacked by a crow and siegel those who understand the language could easily read the m

the fbi, it is why the fbi ultimately went to interview michael flynn about his interactions with sergey kislyak. the judge also did order, as you say, wolf, the department och justice to release those those conversations, transcripts of those conversations. they did not. they simply say, they don't really offer a good explanation on this, but they simply say that this is not something that was part of michael flynn's sentencing. it is not something that was part of ultimately his guilty plea. and so therefore, they don't immediate to release this information. i don't know if the judge is going to buy this. how unusual, laura, is all of this? >> i cannot think of the last time that a government lawyer essentially told a federal judge, yeah, we saw your order. we don't think it's relevant. and to shimon's point, judge sullivan does not apply around with this stuff. he is exceedingly tough on both sides of the coin here. and i imagine he's going to come back to the justice department and say, you better give me a better explanation than this. >> one of the things i maybe thought they would

secretary of state might pump a 0 on russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov. the number of pressing global issues. in the u.s. police raid on his home in d.c. a violation of international law. they are trying to prevent an illegal takeover and u.s. military school publishes a decades long history of washington's interventions in other countries dubbed by some as a guide. to saudi arabian ship is hounded by protests in european ports failing to pick up an activist say could be used to kill civilians in yemen. your company this evening you're watching r.t. and. frank and productive russia's foreign minister and his american counterpart might have described their discussions which wound up in the last couple of hours in the russian resort of sochi both sides said that they were ready to move relations forward although admitted they still don't see eye to eye on a number of crucial global issues war details on the meeting. managed to talk about all their differences and they vanished on a c.c. teach other we disagree this is how we see. we disagree on this this is

we've just been listening there to a joint media conference between sergei lavrov fund zarif the foreign ministers respectively of russia and ran a lot spoken about over the last thirty minutes there but as you could hear the big topic being to ron's announcement earlier of a gradual scale don of the country's nuclear commitments in essence the twenty eight fifteen nuclear deal the joint comprehensive plan of action is a refund indeed surrogate lavrov saying that signatories to the deal. fall failed they're all believe. pinpointing european nations well point let's cross live to peter all over in berlin for the reaction from europe to iran's. partial suspension of the nuclear deal which the two men were just discussing yet peter not holding back in their in their condemnation tell us the other side of the fence heart of european signatories reacted. well i think a lot of eyes are on the e.u. and european signatories to the deal right now to see what they going to do next they. they coincide with their nato ally the united states or are they going to stick with iran who they've been very

out of the crisis created the iran nuclear deal the secretary of state might pump is set to meet sergei lavrov this tuesday on the agenda is iran's threat to stop implementing parts of the $2015.00 deal last year washington backed out of the agreement and reimposed crippling sanctions on tehran. we cannot cross live to our correspondents covering this topic run gazi of and peter oliver rob let's start with you you're in sochi where lavrov will be meeting with pompei on tuesday what else did the russian foreign minister have to say. well he remarked on the situation regarding iran regarding the united states and its behavior towards the radian nuclear deal he was asked to comment on the situation and said that he has little doubt that the united states will apply colossal pressure on the european union 1 on other members of the u. of the u.n. security council in order to get their way with regards to the reunion deal to torpedo it the european union is going to hold an extraordinary session with regards to what is happening in iran with regards to raney and threats to stop the implementa

out of the crisis it created over the iran's nuclear deal secretary of state my pump is set to meet sergei lavrov this tuesday in sochi on the agenda is iran's threat to stop implementing parts of the $2015.00 deal last year washington backed out of the agreement and reimpose crippling sanctions on tehran more now from our correspondents and such. well he remarked on the situation regarding iran regarding the united states and its behavior towards the rayney a nuclear deal he was asked to comment on the situation he said that he has little doubt that the united states will apply colossal pressure on the european union in order to get their way with regards to the radian deal to p. do it the european union is going to hold an extraordinary session with regards to what is happening in iran with regards to raney and threats to stop the implementation of the nuclear deal because of american threats american sanctions and the secretary of state the u.s. secretary of state might compel has canceled a planned trip to moscow in order to attend that session and as foreign minister sergei lavrov bel

and sergey lavrov. topic of course venezuela the crisis there the united states saying that russia and other countries is interfering in the crisis in venezuela russia on the other hand saying threatening venezuela with foreign intervention and stealing your will on the venezuelan people that is going to work. on venezuela we have disagreement i urge my russian colleagues to support the venezuelan people as they return democracy to their country. the united states and more than 50 other nations agree that the time has come for nicolas maduro to go he's brought nothing but misery to the venezuelan people. and we hope the russians support. form a girl and democracy. democracy can't be imposed by force threats coming both from you. u.s. officials and the opposition leader. is always reminding us of the possibility of military intervention have nothing to do with democracy. what both countries seem to agree on is that it's very well and that should decide what happens to their country but russia here say th

sergey thank you for hosting me appreciate it's great to see you again twice in a couple weeks excited about that and i don't we'll see you 2 i might likely at the g 20 will have many more opportunities for conversation i'm here today because president trump is committed to improving this relationship as as i think he said we have differences we each country will protect its own interest look out for its own interests of its people. but it's not it's not definitely we're adversaries on every issue and i hope that we can find places where we have a set of overlapping interests and can truly begin to build out stronger relationships at least in those particular on those particular issues i've seen it myself with more closely with you on counterterrorism during my time in service in the executive branch very successfully we've saved american lives we've saved russian lives as a result of that good honest sincere work together and i think on issues such as arms control the nuclear proliferation we talked about some of the regional conflicts and terrorism i think there there are spaces wher

state of pump air has discussed a range of issues with the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov both emphasized the relations between the 2 countries are improving but there were key differences on their own. we spoke a bit about the activities that are taking place in the middle east today with particular focus on the actions that iran is taking i made clear that the united states will continue to apply pressure to the regime in tehran until its leadership is prepared to return to the ranks of responsible nations that do not threaten their neighbors or spread instability or terror alerts another state doesn't live for. us more about this meeting between the 2. yes it was definitely a rare meeting and it happened after a long year of increased tensions between the 2 nations especially because of the pending miller investigation into russian meddling into the us elections well after this report has been published this sort of has cleared this guy for this meeting to happen today but already there hasn't been much progress on a lot of issues and especially iran russia has blamed the u.

coincidentally sergei love again is a close associate to many us politicians. the security service of ukraine had evidence that on that night in was in contact with opposition leader yatsenyuk where they discussed the clearing of mind on on the pretext of installing the annual christmas tree news media reported that the riot police cruelly attacked the students peacefully sleeping in their tents but scenes from the event seem to tell a different story it appears that the protesters were waiting for the police additionally there were dozens of journalists and cameramen from all the new public t.v. news outlets prepared to cover the events and most ominously a group of well trained young men arrived to mind on almost simultaneously with the riot police. they infiltrated the crowd and began provocations with insults stones and torches. the right sector in ukraine represents a part of the ukrainian population that has often a favored fairly extreme right wing position they had militias that came especially during the may den protest. there were groups that were bei

with the russian foreign mister sergei lavrov... >> oye. >> president will meet with sergei lavrov in the oval office... >> that meeting. >> he is the highest ranking russian official thathe president has met so far... >> in a way it's like a play; you can't believe it really happened. but the president is esstially celebrating with the russian diplomats. >> one day after firing the ma heading that probe into the trump campaign ties to russia, the present... >> no u.s. based reporters, no american white house reporters are in the room. si >> rs came in with a photographer from their state media agency tass, who took photos of this event, photos that were used, to some effect, in russia, as propaganda.cs >> terrible op terrible optics that just you ituldn't have scripteorse. >> trump says, 'we're going to have a great relationship. there's this investigation. it's just become a total irritant for me. and heays, "comey's firing, lifted a great weight for me. e guy was a nut job." >> james comey... first the firing, now the fallout. >> narrator: the crisis kept building. >> some are comp

russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov and his u.s. counterpart might be grapple with the crisis in venezuela with follow up talks expected in russia in 2 days' time and iran partially suspends the 25th day nuclear agreements and gives the signature east secret 60 days to shield the country from u.s. sanctions that is washington reiterates its threat to hit companies working with iran with financial penalties and russia marks the 74th anniversary of the capitulation of nazi germany with military parades and ceremonies were bringing some of the highlights. good morning welcome you're watching a weekly here on r.t. international. now russia is mourning for the 41 people killed in last sunday's playing tragedy moscow sheremetyevo airport the passenger jet was engulfed in flames while making an emergency landing. to be out. of the plane took off at around 6 pm local time was banned for the northwestern russian city of man's just under 20 minutes later though the pilots alerted air traffic control they were returning to share a mess of witn

now the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and u.s. secretary of state might have held talks on the crisis in venezuela it happened on the sidelines of a meeting of the arctic council in finland and comes to you after alleged attempt was thwarted in the latin american country. is expected to visit the russian city of sochi on may the 14th to continue the discussion well among the issues addressed during the finland talks was the possibility of u.s. military action in venezuela is referred to as more. the number one diplomats of america and russia have finally met and we were hoping to understand if there is at least a slight chance that moscow and washington could be on the same page when it comes to venice well off well it's like the pale didn't speak to journalists at all after this here in finland but when. i talked to the media he thought it wasn't a good idea to shed light on any of the details pretty much but he did respond to my question about mike barrows statement from this weekend that russia must get out of venezuela and als

the highlight is meeting with the russian foreign minister, sergey lavrov. he's supposed to travel after germany, which isn't happening, to the united kingdom and then greenland. as for pressing issues for the state department, officials are focused on the events in venezuela and focused on what's going on with north korea, the stalled negotiations there as well. tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of the united states withdrawing from the iran nuclear agreement. i ran has been saying of late that they plan to stop complying with the iran nuclear deal. perhaps restarting their nuclear program or restarting portions of their nuclear program. the united states has sent a carrier strike group. all of these pressing issues that the secretary of state says when it comes the iran, the u.s. has noticed escalating actions from iran. >> shepard: thanks, rich. continuing the breaking news coverage and a live look on wall street. stocks down more than 2%. at one point off 608 points after president trump threatened to put new tariffs on chinese goods and escalate the

we focused on real politics versus foreign minister sergei lavrov talks with the u.s. secretary of state saying he's found no support for any military intervention in venezuela including among u.s. officials. and israel reportedly agrees to a truce with palestinian militant group hamas after a weekend of deadly exchanges we see more than twenty palestinians and four israelis killed in large scale strikes a missile attacks. so joining us this evening this is r.t. international. there remains all forty one people killed in sunday's plane far in moscow have now been recovered from the charred wreckage of the air flight that crashed these are the latest images from the crash site that metaphor airport the wreckage of the aircraft has now been removed from the scene and taken away for further. just to remind you during its attempted landing the super super jet burst into flames after its tail struck the runway only thirty seven of the seventy eight people on board survived the tragedy people have been laying flowers and tributes at sheremetyevo airport in more months where

we focused on real politics russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov holds talks with the u.s. secretary of state. saying he's found no support for any military intervention.

russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov and his u.s. counterpart grapple with the crisis in venezuela the follow up talks expected in saw cheat in 2 days' time and iran's ashley suspends the 2015 nuclear agreements and gives the signatories to 60 days to shield the country from u.s. sanctions that is washington research threat to hit a new companies working with iran with financial penalties. and russia marks the 74th anniversary of the capitulation of nazi germany with military parades and ceremonies will bring you some of the highlights. hello there good morning the latest developments and a look back at what's been happening over the last 7 days to you watching the weekly here on r.t. international now russia is mourning the 41 people killed in last sunday's plane tragedy at moscow's sheremetyevo airport the passenger jet was engulfed in flames while making an emergency landing. i. am. going to be out. on the plane took off at 6 pm local time was bound for the northwestern russian city of moments just under 20 minutes later though th

the russian foreign minister, sergey lavrov said venezuela like other countries can't have democracyd upon them. brought up the case of the 2003 u.s. invasion of iraq, something that he's done several times before. the two discussed a number of other issues, points of contention, articles cross, iran, ukraine. secretary pompeo notes the two countries have done good work together on a few issues and noted afghanistan, north korea and counter terrorism. shep? >> shepard: rich edson live. thanks. leaders from iran and the united states seem to be trying to dial down tension and talk of any potential war. secretary state pompeo says washington is not looking for trouble with the iranians. and i ran's supreme leader says there will be no war. this is after sabotage of four oi oman. jennifer griffin reporting live from the pentagon. jennifer? >> shep, on men, gulf state officials claimed four oil tankers anchored off the united arab emirates were damaged. it's not clear what caused the damage. new satellite images obtained by the associated press showed no major visible damage to the oil t

russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov and his u.s. counterpart mike pump a i grappled with the crisis in venezuela the fall of talks expected in russia's sochi in 2 days' time. plus iran partially suspends the $2015.00 nuclear agreement and gives the signatories to 60 days to shield the country from u.s. sanctions as washington reiterated its threat to hit companies working with iran with financial penalties. and russia marks the 74th anniversary of the capitulation of nazi germany with military parades and ceremonies we'll bring you some of the highlights from thursday's commemorations. here watching the weekly here on our t.v. international a recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days thank you for joining us this hour. russia is mourning the 41 people killed in last sunday's plane charged at moscow's sheremetyevo airport the passenger jet was engulfed in flames while making an emergency landing. to get out. the plane took off at 6 pm local time and was bound for the northwestern russian city of more months just under 20 minu

find a way out of the crisis it created over the iran nuclear deal and as peter was saying there sergei lavrov is indeed set to meet with the secretary of state for the u.s. might prompt on tuesday in such. so after those dismiss that i'm suing you will produce tomorrow or last mike compare how the u.s. is going to deal with the crisis that was made by washington's unilateral decisions i hope tomorrow's talks will be frank iran has the right to partly suspend the implementation of the nuclear deal if other parties don't keep their commitments in shorts now that the united states is left the iranian nuclear deal and is trying to get the european union to suspend to suspend its implementation of the deal. have a right a legal right to also suspend their implementation of the deal in effect the deal is collapsing because of the united states sanctions because of how determined the united states is to torpedo this deal and to get the iranians to do what they want nevertheless the united states is as i said adamant and believes that iran must be stopped that iranian behavior is the stabilizi

for the russian capital however he's still going to saw where he's got to discuss many things with sergei lavrov and in fact he's then meeting the russian president vladimir putin i can tell you that before that there was a long pause in direct contacts between the most high ranking officials of the u.s. and russia but that pause was broken exactly one week ago monday last week when mr met the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and it was clear that 1st of all they met to discuss venezuela because that's a crisis that needs to be sorted out but then there's the usual range of topics that they always discuss it is ukraine that's got the new president we understand that the escalation of the crisis on the korean peninsula could be in the making because of further missile tests conducted in the north and also drills conducted in the south together with the americans we understand that kim jong un was in vladivostok russia so these are the things along with syria that perhaps will be discussed but going back to venezuela it will be very difficult for the officials to find common ground he

counterpart sergei lavrov said the focus will be concentrated on existing problems and instead of on rumors about what washington still not ruling out a military intervention in crisis had been this we have a move which moscow's top diplomat would have very few supporters. these photos. we tried not to concentrate on those statements which are publicly discussed because they have been affected by many factors the don't have anything to do was real politics we concentrated on real politics incentives from my contacts with the u.s. an american and european colleagues i don't see any supporters of military action. it seems the more the american media the u.s. government that see military intervention to be an option on the table a new report has claimed that many leading u.s. publications have demonstrated clear bias in their coverage of the crisis in venice we are let's now take a look at the findings of the media watchdog furness and accuracy in reporting. and al. what would make you use the u.s. military and that's really what's in the well i think you're saying that but certainly it

now to moscow where russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and his venezuelan counterpart are discussing the political crisis in the south american country in light of another failed attempt to unseat its president let's go ahead listen it since we have agreed to further develop our ties we discussed measures that should be so you can go to implementing the greenest reached by president putin in a presidential dural last december was during the then his own president's visit to russia. also we think it is important to implement the agreements reached by the high level commission. in moscow on the april fourth and fifth and simultaneously we had the venezuelan business forum so we have a roadmap for further actions. that is specific will continue moving in this direction is guided by the president and will continue with our contacts thank you . when you. draw. it out on your own for one thing to mr lover all. i would say that woman bent towards her meeting with today was a meeting with between the nation is one of us since the very start i'll come until it was or to go traverse and presid

we focused on the real politics russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov holds talks with the u.s. secretary of state might prompt peo saying he's found no support for any military intervention in venezuela including among the american officials. israel reportedly agrees to a truce with a palestinian militant groups on mosques after a weekend of deadly exchanges we've seen more than twenty in the ins and four israelis killed in large scale air strikes and missile attacks. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team international i'm john thomas certainly glad to have you with us the remains of all forty one people killed in sunday's plane fire in moscow have now been recovered from the charred wreckage of the air a flawed aircraft these are the latest images from the crash site and share much of a. airport wreckage of the aircraft has now been removed from the scene and taken away for further investigation just to remind you during its attempted at landing the sukhoi superjet burst into flames after its tail struck the runway only thirty seven of the se