and his algerian counterpart sergey lavrov in algeria at the moment they covered a number of issues during this trip including increasing business ties between the two countries they also agreed on the situation in syria they said any solution does need to fully respect international law and the sovereignty of syria mr lavrov said that they had to continue to eradicate the last remnants of terrorists there and help refugees to return to their homes they also talked about the situation in libya and yemen and just summing up mr lavrov says it's important to understand the long lasting problems in the region when addressing the crises there that's just a summary of what was said about joint press conference between the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and as our jeering counterpart taking place right now in our . i don't trump has capitulated after a confrontation with the speaker of the u.s. house of representatives over the state of the union address date nancy pelosi insisted on perspire owning the speech until the government shutdown ends duty security concerns and the u.s. p

ok we were just listening there to russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov he was speaking at a press conference after meeting with his japanese counterpart they were discussing ways to resolve their longstanding dispute over the far east in korea and he said look no breakthrough has been made no major breakthrough but the first steps have been taken he warned though there is a long long way ahead he said there needs to be an increase in the quality of their relationship between the two countries in order to discuss the complex issues involved but he was hopeful and he does say that overall relations between the two countries have and are improving that was a press conference there just given by the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov in moscow. now sections of the u.s. media have been rounding on donald trump of one outlet going so far as to produce a guide to impeachment another has published a list of reasons why trump might be a russian asset and a security threat to one that even the f.b.i. aren't deal with and hawkins as more. if you care to impeach somebody that's doing a gr

russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says his country is open to a proposal to send german monitors to the strait the waterway became a flashpoint between russia and ukraine two months ago came the german foreign minister heikal moss was in moscow and france volunteers have also offered to assist in the monitoring of the street which links the black sea to the sea of. ukraine temporarily imposed martial law after russia captured three of its vessels off the coast of crimea moscow's also detained twenty four ukrainian sea men who were the crew of those vessels let's have a listen to what the russian foreign minister had to say. more than a month ago chancellor merkel asked president putin to allow german experts into the strait of kurdish. school probably. for them to study how passage this strike is organized especially in terms of security which is a process ship captains were to pass through the strait of the president putin a great back then and so foreign minister mathis to die presented me with a plan in europe it sets up the conditions for the experts journey. these conditions

withdraw from this treaty as early as the next months and of course the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov said that this move will destroy destabilize this. to asian. students . after the us leaves the i.n.f. treaty the whole system of control and the stability of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty movie under threat. well under that agreement neither side has the right to produce or deploy and as such missiles in the future however sergey lavrov also said today that the i.m.f. a treaty was signed between the two countries does not include those missiles that are based at sea or in the air that was very important live from moscow this hour bring us right up to date on that roman culture of. well the latest dispute comes after a double trump on veiled plans for expansion of america's defense capabilities now that was in response itself to a pentagon review outlining the threats facing the country let's delve a little bit deeper. picks apart the story. were gardeners of attempts by world's strongest men to dodge questions about a new global arms race well we may have to come to terms with

ok we're just listening now to the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov he is in algeria at the moment speaking with his counterpart but he did say some very strong words there on events in venezuela claiming that some of the international community is blatantly interfering in the internal affairs of venezuela he said that backing the opposition there in venezuela is effectively creating a very dangerous situation in the country and years the international community to try and encourage national dialogue within venezuela venezuela to sort out the political problems and not try and topple the existing president through violence and that's what was said there very strong words from a circular for of on venezuela. now let's turn to another big story this hour an r.t. it is breaking news because scotland's former first minister alex salmond has been charged and is expected to appear in court later on thursday so let's go to party boyko he's in the u.k. for us polly what more do we know then about this case and the situation so far. well look alex salmond he's the former first minister of s

to the ownership to a group of tiny islands and in a rather unusual twist this monday afternoon sergei lavrov and his japanese guest decided to talk to the journalists alone separately and a quite tough manner mr allowed made it clear that japanese officials should forget the idea of questioning russia's sovereignty over the islands if they want to get the peace agreement talks go on. this is our basic position any progress on the other issues is very difficult without a step in the right direction. drew the attention of our friends from japan to the fact that the issues of sovereignty over the islands are not discussed this is the territory of the russian federation. just a little later the japanese top diplomat said that despite the differences the two sides must find common ground so the moscow summit and the appearance of the two ministers was meant to be all about moscow and tokyo's attempts to sort these issues out however beijing and washington ended up getting a mention all because of the japanese prime minister's aide just a little earlier saying that washington should be looking for

heard perhaps skeptical is the better word here and it was quite surprising i should say to hear sergei lavrov talk about all kinds of deliveries and supplies for. american troops in that country the point that he made was that the point that he made for americans why aren't you being as efficient when it comes to these kind of deliveries of humanitarian aid to the refugees there now the very first question of the press conference was about the potential collapse of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty washington wants the treaty scrapped because of alleged violations by russia and mr lavrov explained why the very latest attempts to find common ground and save the treaty failed. a constructive move but it was a few screws that are the constructive proposal of the russian side to allow the united states at the expert level to inspect the nine and seven to nine missile which they suspect of violating the treaty however the united states arrived with a pre-determined position which consisted in an ultimatum and in demanding that we under. american supervision destroy this missile it's lau

two months ago because of the muscle speaking in moscow off to meeting his russian counterpart sergey lavrov love also said russia had accepted a proposal from germany and france for german observers to monitor the strait which links the black sea to the sea off of my ukraine temporarily imposed martial law after russia captured three of its best since in the case straight russia has also detained twenty four you create in seaman who was truly the best. on the job is correspondent in moscow is bush news so was worth more than a month ago chancellor merkel asked president putin to allow german exports into the strait of kurdish civilian cure should school produce. with them to study how passage this trade is organized especially in terms of security which is a prosperous ship captains with a pass through the strait a good president putin a great back then and so foreign minister masses to die presented me with a plan in europe it sets up the conditions the experts journey for you these conditions now have to be great with the ukrainian side so we believe that if the ukrainians agree with the

between syrian government representatives and representatives of the kurds as the foreign minister sergei lavrov said this month he encouraged those talks so that's really where we're at at the moment and russia will be kind of mediating between the turkish side the kurdish side and the syrian side to kind of get the country back under syrian control which is in its interest to funnel funding to your door in jones turkish troops have been massing of the border with syria how likely is an assault on courage held territory and how would that affect russian interests the prison at one hundred head of the already to wait and see how developments play out following the u.s. his announcement that he is withdrawing and his proposal of the save so. they are looking forward to key meetings with u.s. military officials in the first week of february most of the talk you've seen is key because despite all the rhetoric coming from uncle saying they won't tolerate the presence of this kurdish militia it is seen by most people that's unlikely. to both challenge putin the putin resisted this military zone and t

look now at some of the other stories making news around the world says russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says his country is open to a proposal to send german monitors to the chair straits this as his german counterpart high croaks off so it's moscow the waterway between a became a flashpoint between russia and ukraine two months ago. sweden's parliament has reelected prime minister stephan moffat to the second term with a confidence vote and then a four month political power vacuum often social democrats another center left parties will form a minority government alongside a center right party with cross party deal struck to keep the far right populist sweden democrats out of government. in colombia a car bomb has exploded outside a police academy in chapel bachata killing at least twenty one people and injuring dozens more bombing is thought of being carried out by a fifty seven year old with links to the guerrilla group the national liberation on . the route between u.s. president donald trump and the democrats of the record for we could partial government shutdown is escalating presi

and seen five weeks of anti-government protests russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says his country is open to a proposal to send german monitors to be careful straight which became a flashpoint between russia and ukraine two months ago the comments came as germany's foreign minister heiko mosse visits moscow. more than twenty leading figures from german politics sports business and entertainment have appealed to the u.k. to abandon brecht's it the open letter appeared in today's times newspaper and among the signatories are the new head of uncle america c.d.u. party a k k as she is known under great crump current the head of germany's social democratic party and very analysis and green party leader robert harding it reads after the horrors of the second world war britain did not give up on us it has welcomed germany back as a sovereign nation and a european power this we as germans have not forgotten and we are grateful should britain wish to leave the european union for good it will always have friends in germany and in europe but britons should equally know that we believe that n

know actually some of the other stories making news around the world russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says his country is open to us and i will send german monitors to the castrates this ask his german counterpart visits moscow the waterway became a flashpoint between russia and ukraine two months ago. sweden's problems has reelected prime minister hun often to a second term a confidence vote that ended a four month political power often social democrats and greens to come back to center right across party bill was struck to keep the far right or at least sweden right out of government. car bomb has exploded outside a police academy in the colombian capital bachata killing at least twenty one people and injuring dozens more is sort of been carried out by fifty seven year old man with links to the national liberation army guerrilla group. u.s. president donald trump directed his personal attorney michael cohen to lie to congress this is according to a report by buzz feed news citing two are named law enforcement offices the president is said to have ordered mr cullen to lie about plans

and says it's ready to help facilitate mediation in a briefing a short time ago foreign minister sergei lavrov said in order for negotiations to be successful and as well as opposition is to drop all preconditions related in the region that it will to mottled if this mediation sees any attempt to include any kind of preconditions dinette kind of mediation is unlikely to be fruitful or useful it is unlikely to be supported we call upon the opposition to refuse ultimatums and to work together independently god is only by the interests of the venezuelan people and the joins us from moscow research various countries rally around maduro how is russia trying to play the situation. well i think we can certainly see similarities with what's going on here regarding venezuela and what was happening a few years ago in syria with that was russia say yes there should be talks yes of course there should be dialogue but the opposition cannot be demanding anything of what russia considers to be a legitimate government in syria without assad and now in venezuela with madieu row as well it's a very similar play

envoy to syria is in russia where he's meeting with the foreign minister sergei lavrov that follows dear patterson's first visit to damascus last week says he is interested here the u.n. envoy position on the syrian constitutional committee meant to draft the country's new constitution. straight in libya has killed a news cameraman who worked for al-jazeera and other leading media organizations thirty five year old mohammed been holy father died on saturday while on assignment with a libyan militia. polls have closed in the southern philippines for an historic vote and autonomy referendum is a push to end nearly half a century of unrest people in mindanao want to siding with or not to back a plan to create a self administered area known as bangsamoro. well those are the headlines the news continues here not just here after witness a school bank experiments that you've done so much and i thought. on this weeks counting the cost the prime minister's briggs's deal is rejected as britain how it feels towards a messy exit why zimbabwe's government wants people to buy less fuel plus classy mod

ischl asia the new un envoy to syria is in russia where he's meeting with the foreign minister sergei lavrov follows pedersen's first visit to damascus last week says he's interested to hear the u.n. envoy position on the syrian constitutional committee meant to draft the country's new constitution polls closed in the southern philippines region of mindanao in a historic vote on autonomy you oppose all would mean greater control and less dependence on the national government britain's prime minister to resign may is set to address parliament and lay out her plan b. for braggs it original deal for leaving the bloc was heavily defeated in parliament last week. hundreds of immigrants in australian detention centers are into this second week of a hunger strike to highlight their plight detainees in brisbane the melbourne joined others in western australia have been protesting for eight days queues their guards of brutality and intimidation as well as separating families the government's being urged to order an independent review of. economic growth in china has slumped to a twenty year low as th

sergey lavrov and kim jong un are talking behind this small we were asked to wait in this room so let's just have a walk around and take a look at what they. dark chocolate i can tell you that it tastes just like any other. anywhere around the world. so this is how suddenly you get treated to. i can barely remember being given such. locations around the world we were just. at the present which is just outside the doors. and given the fact that we're inside the residence of the north korean leader kim again i'm just going to say it absolutely shocked. and. it is really disappointing that we won't be able to find out exactly what's being said. but just a few hours before mr kim met minister making the korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons is a very delicate issue maintains that the interests of all sides must be respected. so that said it all ended with. the whether the north korean leader will accept the invitation for now we're heading back to the airport and the russian foreign minister's motorcade. right. does it for me i'll be back with more news at the top of the hour this is int

all discussions on issues surrounding possible compensations so first of all we know that one of sergei lavrov step bts told the japanese ambassador in moscow that any discussions on the fate of the south coral islands must be based on japan's acceptance of the outcomes of the second world war here's more of what russian officials had to say such statements the essence of the agreements between the leaders of russia and japan on speeding up the negotiating process based on one thousand nine hundred fifty six joint declaration and misinform the public of the two countries about the content of the negotiations such statements can only be interpreted as an attempt to deliberately magnify the problems of a peace treaty and impose on the other side his own scenario for a sense women's the south korean are really a thorny issue but nowadays it may seeing that russia and japan have never been closer to sorting out the issue of lot of our putin and shinzo i call each other friends they need several. times a year but these kind of diplomatic skull falls really aren't helping the process. now rats and h

the foreign minister sergey lavrov said this month he encouraged those talks so that's really where we're at at the moment and russia will be kind of mediating between the turkish side the kurdish side and the syrian side to kind of get the country back under syrian control which is in its interest to final. jordan jones turkish troops massing of the border with syria how likely is on assaults on kurdish held territory and how would that affect russian interests prisoner one hundred thirty of the already to wait and see how developments play out following the u.s. his announcement that he is with tori and his proposal of the save so. they are looking forward to keenly things with u.s. military officials in the first week of february most of the talk you've seen is key because despite all this rhetoric coming from. the presence of this kurdish militia it is seen by most people that. they're both challenge putin putin resisted this military zone and the washington at the same time so in court the moment is putting its time holding these talks and using more the threat of a military operatio

continued demonstrations meanwhile russia appears came to play a mediation role foreign minister sergei lavrov says the opposition has to keep an open mind in the region the little two model if this mediation sees any attempt to include any kind of preconditions the next kind of mediation is unlikely to be fruitful or useful it is unlikely to be supported we call upon the opposition to refuse ultimatums into work independently gliders only by the interests of the venezuelan people go of her alexander dampier who is in bogota colombia as capital and we're hearing with tourist now accusing dessert is of plotting a coup from colombia tell us more about that. well tell me my daughter made those accusation while he was leaving for military exercises in a military base in qatar as we've been seeing him doing so for a number of days since the beginning of this crisis is there a way for the government to show that neither would a sale has the full backing of the military but in this case he has recognized that there have been a number. and he said that they are now in colombia and that he was conspiri

countries opposing external intervention in venezuelan domestic affairs as russian foreign minister sergei lavrov expressed omar at us talk of a possible military option just as. we can see another intrusions into a sovereign country's politics as you know they have been several attempts to oust nicolas maduro the fact that the u.s. and a number of other countries particularly in the region immediately recognized the this can lead to chaos and a serious destabilization in the internal political situation. the venezuelan military have said they will support to make a less of a dual role and defend the country's sovereignty and constitution. not somebody more to weak the military educated disciplined in sharing to the highest values are the core inspired by the values of independence peace and common good proclaimed loyalty an absolute subordination to nicolas maduro the constitutional president of the bolivarian republic of venezuela my commander in chief you can count on all supporting your daily effort to achieve stability and strengthen our beloved homeland. there's plenty of different interest

officials now responding to these charges against natalia vessel at the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has seriously downplayed the seriousness of these charges calling them nonsense that people are making a mountain out of a molehill while the government spokesperson dimitri peskov said that it's impossible for the government to know the dealings of every russian lawyer both inside and outside of the country. first and it has made a name for itself as well she's quite well known thanks to have been named a key person in the robert miller probe into suspected russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. election as she's been bombarded with accusations of being connected to the russian government being a kremlin stooge something that she's continuously denied we go to speak to her one on one in twenty seventeen this is what she said things that i had to have that meeting as part of my job as a lawyer and citizen in the u.s. . had nothing to do with politics it didn't have anything to do with russia well as beslan this guy has said he's yet to find out all the details off this case s

claims of ownership to a group of tiny islands in a rather unusual twist to this monday afternoon sergey lavrov and his japanese guests decided to talk to the journalists alone separately and in quite a tough manner mr allowed made it clear that japanese officials should forget the idea of questioning russian sovereignty over the islands if they want to get the peace agreement talks go on. this is a basic position and if progress on other issues is going to difficult without a step in the right direction to do that tension obama france from japan to the fact that the issues of sovereignty over the islands are not discussed this is the territory of the russian federation just a little later the japanese top diplomat said that despite the differences the two sides must find common ground so the moscow summit and the ministers appearance was meant to be all of moscow and tokyo's attempts to fix everything and sort their issues out but the u.s. and china and it up being mentioned too that's all because just a little earlier the japanese prime minister's eight said that america should be looking to

international reactions calling for stability and caution in venezuela the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov just said at a press conference that he was alarmed at u.s. talks of possible military intervention especially admit amidst repeated u.s. confirmation of why dos claim the presidency. is that. we can see another intrusions into a sovereign country's politics as you know there have been several attempts to oust nicolas maduro the fact that the u.s. and a number of other countries particularly in the region immediately recognized the self-proclaimed president means they had a hand in the creation of competing leaderships this could lead to chaos and a serious destabilization in the internal political situation. now china also took a stand in opposition to external interference in venezuela and it makes sense because china is actually one of venezuela's prime partners for energy production and gold mining in the country let's take a listen to what the foreign ministry spokesperson said well china always maintains the principle of noninterference in the internal affairs of other countries

zone could be controlled by syrian government troops and this month the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov also reiterated again that these territories could be under syrian control but in fact that is the only option and he also welcomed the fact that the syrian government had held talks with kurdish representatives so that could perhaps be a compromise on the line on the table today ok possible compromise out there yulia for months now a turkish troops have of course been massed at the border with syria in light of the talks the kremlin today is an assault by turkey kurdish held territory now off the table. no it's not the turkish government keeps emphasizing they're ready to launch another military offensive they have to reinforce troops and equipment along the border as well as inside syria some say that's also present out on appealing to nationalist voters ahead of the local elections after coming here in march but of course any military operation is a very costly and it will strongly depend on the negotiations and agreements both with washington and moscow. for us in istanbul and rea

between russia and ukraine two months ago speaking in moscow off to meeting his russian counterpart sergey lavrov not be able to send to russia has accepted a proposal from german chancellor on the american observers to monitor the strait which links the black sea to the sea off of ukraine temporarily imposed matia no off to russia captured three of its vessels in the cash stream to the russians also detained twenty four ukrainian seamen who were the crew of those three vessels with no nothing on buses for the main it is a correspondent emily shebeen joins me on the line from law school emily ma sais the k. street is open which is quite a breakthrough what well can you tell us. well i'm sorry to today both sides confirm that the question. that ships ability it out and also today called again for those ukrainian sailors just to be let out they're still in custody there and pretrial trial detention actually and they have to feel better but it doesn't mean that there will be so much was going on from the russian side those soldiers are still behind far that their pretty time trial shouldn't it was a

stability and caution in venezuela and so let's take a listen to what russian foreign minister sergei lavrov had to say about it at a press conference earlier today. is that. we can see another intrusions into a sovereign country's politics as you know there have been several attempts to oust nicolas maduro the fact that the u.s. and a number of other countries particularly in the region immediately recognized the self-proclaimed president means they had a hand in the creation of competing leaderships this could lead to chaos and a serious destabilization in the internal political situation. that china also took a stand on stability at an earlier press conference today let's take a listen to what the chinese foreign ministry spokesperson had to say about it. well china always been tales of the principle of noninterference in the internal affairs of other countries opposing external intervention in venezuelan domestic affairs so this is a venezuelan situation it's really developing very rapidly probably with new developments every couple hours so we're definitely going to see more internation

mouse has been meeting with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov in moscow he said russia could salvage the bilateral intermediate range nuclear forces treaty which has been in place since the soviet era the us has demanded that russia destroys its stockpiles of nine and seven to nine missiles by february claiming that they violate the i.n.f. treaty. let's get more details there's a correspondent in moscow emily sherman welcome emily tell us more about the outcome of these talks well phil the i.n.f. treaty that you just mentioned was certainly high on the agenda today and in one sense both love rauf and mosse who met today kind of stuck to their positions in russia's case even stuck to their guns russia said again that it did not violate the treaty and that that missile that you mentioned did not violate that treaty love also said that the russian side had offered to the u.s. to actually show them the missile and that the u.s. was absolutely refusing dialogue germany on the other hand mosse today said that that. that basically the accusations surrounding those violations aren't new and

the opposition russia remains one us president would or a staunch supporters foreign minister sergey lavrov has been speaking about this issue. because it was and we oppose it so we called on the opposition to display a similar constructive approach reject ultimatums and to act independently and to base their decision primarily in the interests of the venezuelan people. w a correspondent joins us from the venezuelan capital caracas so welcome osca how is president maduro zuffa to talk being viewed well this is not the first time that he and the americans mediators all of those negotiations fear because the government did not hold its side of the bargain to change the electoral council for you elections and allow humanitarian aid to come up when it's full of you know with medicine and food shortage crisis so it depends there and what we've gotten from this time around is that america wants to buy more time so unless the government shows real changes for example with you know troll council or the supreme court this court we go sheesh and well not taken seriously by the opposition now one who