movies comments by the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov coming just as the u.s. secretive state hillary clinton has restraints to the united states position that they want the syrian president bashar assad to step down and step down immediately against the backdrop ongoing peace talks clinton say that the u.s. would want to decide to step down in any situation and the sooner the better now at the same time we are witnessing increasing support for the opposition inside syria with the friends of syria replating commitment and support to cripple fighters we hearing from the gulf nations from qatar and saudi arabia that they are willing to pay several million dollars each month in salaries to rebel fighters at the same time the united states says it is prepaid she supplied communications equipment to these whistle fighters the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says one of this undermines peace efforts on the go those peace efforts of course initiated by the former u.n. chief kofi annan the process is that they are hampering efforts because they are encouraging t

. >> the russian foreign minister cyndi lauper of -- sergei lavrov said the alliance was down to bring this agreements. be appealed to russia to bring more pressure to its -- they appealed to russia to bring more pressure to its ally, syria. >> we have to end the violence, to make sure the annan plan has every chance to succeed. the assad regime must know it cannot rely on russia. >> the un-brokered cease-fire has been in force for a week, but there is fresh shelling in homs on thursday. >> if the cease-fire does not work, i think it will be understandable who was responsible for that. the assad regime. it looks to russia to pressure the regime to comply. >> but russia says the other countries should give the peace plan a chance to work and not condemn it to failure. >> the syrian government should ensure the human-rights and security of its citizens. >> discussions will continue at the friends of syria conference, taking place in paris. >> for more on this, we're joined by our correspondent covering the friends of syria conference. nina, why in the world should we think russia will ch

several million dollars each month in salaries to rebel fighters the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says what if this undermines peace efforts on the go those peace efforts of course initiated by the former u.n. chief kofi are not in the lavrov says that they are hampering the peace if it's because they're encouraging the parties to engage in fighting and not engage in that and not engage in peace in response to the gulf nations court or he will fight us to arm themselves so they live rob had this to say eat it's clear as day that if the opposition is armed to the chief it will not defeat the syrian armed forces but instead will be slaughter mutual killings for many many years we've heard from these syrian government that they have actually started implementing the conditions for the scorpion and peace plan and they have begun withdrawing the troops from more volatile cities where the troops are moving to the perimeter and in qana cities we've actually seen some of the troops returning to the army bases but according to this cease fire implementation after a four to ten the armed op

its efforts to resolve the syrian conflict in a peaceful way so says russian foreign minister sergei lavrov he believes the group's plans and kludges only encourage violence and are aimed at persuading the rebels not to join peace talks and says the regime in damascus directs its forces back to base in preparation for an april tenth cease fire all of slayer reports. eighteen united nations personnel have songs of arriving in syria and this is to pave the way. to cease fire agreements now that agreement was broken. by the former u.n. chief kofi annan it includes some six points and among those points are the withdrawal of syrian troops from cities the laying down of arms on both sides and also the establishment of humanitarian corridors we have heard from the syrian government that they've begun a troop withdrawal that in the more volatile cities their troops have moved to the perimeter and inequalities and the troops have actually moved back to their bases and all of that coming to leak ahead of this april fifteenth agreement but at the same time fighting does continue in several syrian cit

strengthen and tough on its language with regards to syria russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov to meeting his syrian counterpart on wednesday most sad that the syrian authorities could have and should there have been more decisive and more practical and hearing to the coffee annan peace plan but he also made it clear that it was only fair worthwhile if other parties would put this same pressure on the opposition and would persuade opposition fighters to lay down their arms. that is outside of work a reporting there well meantime professor of middle eastern history and politics jeremy salt we spoke to him earlier he says the voices coming from the u.s. and some other countries are seriously hampering the peace efforts in syria senator mccain's last remark to reporters was see you next year in damascus this kind of attitude is hardly helpful to the very. nature of the ceasefire but when kofi annan is trying to set up from amongst the opponents of syria there is not goodwill very clearly among some states that are single out here saudi arabia and qatar they want a syrian government d

the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov said these moves were detrimental and would not lead to any kind of peace plan he said that even if the opposition were armed to the teeth they would not succeed in overthrowing the syrian regime of bashar assad and that result would only be fully fledged civil war we've also said that these international bodies were pushing the opposition away from peace and discouraging negotiations again making the point that they would be no peaceful resolution but only more violence by moves such as these by the friends of syria. most of them from the universal peace federation is skeptical about the decision to fund the rebels just gains or potential cease fire. said the money as much as millions of dollars to the rebels or to the opposition is today inside syria will help a lot i mean they will help them in military not just thinks military. artillery and this will not act as a support to the united nations regional powers such as turkey but saudi arabia they want to see in or stop for this i'm sorry to say this because it has been so far in action sinc

members member states how do you hold talks in moscow during this visit with your counterpart sergey lavrov the russian foreign minister and mr young they cheat the furnace of china what is this trilateral for and its russia india china the rick format is it still relevant when we have the brics and while all the media attention is dragged to the brics well each grouping has a significant sum for its own brics yes it is one of the most important groupings it which has caught the imagination of. the world leaders and recall so as so sad so but as you know and the india feels that it is extremely benefited by its association with the go to russia and change now in the big cream what the big pharma you know i had very extensive discussions yesterday. for minister level of. foreign ministry activity and we have learned three children's perspective on clouds are pretty developments across the region we talked about syria we talked about. ideally for mentation that are going on in mathematica and it really is a hot spot signal to. the two other partners and ricks i mean russia and china also are

conference was given by the syrian foreign minister a wall the wall and his russian counterpart sergei lavrov stay with our team for more and alex's of this and of course remember that you can get the highlights on our website r.t. dot com so stay a day it was r t. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so or like you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you were going to charge was a big.

sergei lavrov saying there is no point in armenia opposition. is there -- in farming the opposition. is there a diplomatic move there? >> he took the time to support an international coalition. it shows there is momentum. we are not quite there. i would say we are somewhere before the u.n. got together. >> do you think there might really be some military intervention on syria? >> the crisis is going to take such an humanitarian nature. that country will not be able to sit by idly as this kind of persecution goes on. turkey has a 60-mile border. >> that is very strong language from prime minister erdogan, saying that the u.n. is implicit in the violence. is it all coming out of its sample, or are they going to do something about it? >> turkey is a middle-sized power. therefore, they have legitimacy. they would like to see a coalition build. that is why they are so angry at the russians. that is concern number one. they want the arab league to join and they want the united states to support those efforts. >> they think they would be better off wit

members member states how do you hold talks in moscow during this visit with your counterpart sergey lavrov the russian foreign minister and mr young they cheat the firmness of china what is this trilateral for russia india china the rick format is it still relevant when we have the brics and while all the media attention is drive to the brics well each grouping has a significance for its own brics yes it is one of the most important groupings which are scott the imagination of. the world leaders and recall so has serves its own purpose and india feels that it is extreme to benefit it but it's association with both russia and chain and their big crema their big pharma you know i had very extensive discussions yesterday. for minister level of. foreign minister yang jiechi and we have learned perspective on cantor privy developments across the region we talked about syria we talked about. the freedom and peace of going on enough of sicca. radius of the hot spot signal. the two other partners and ricks i mean russia and china also are the principal partners in the shadow i cup ration of there'

japan's foreign minister spoke with his russian counterpart sergei lavrov after the g-8 discussion. gemba says he asked for support to get the u.n. security council to act if north korea goes ahead with the launch. gemba and lavrov discussed measures that could be taken. gemba revealed he spoke about what japan expects russia to do in the security council regarding the possible adoption of a new resolution condemning north korea. he says lavrov replied cooperation is important among the nations that make up the six-party talks on north korea's nuclear program. the members are japan, russia, the united states, china and north and south korea. >>> north korean leader kim jong-un has assumed two key posts within the ruling workers party on top of the supreme post of first secretary. >> the presidium of the political bureau is considered the party's highest decision-making body with an overall command at party activities. they originally had five members but in recent years existed in name only. for a time, kim jong-il, who died in december, was its only leader. with the addition of kim

andrej stepanov we have seen sergei lavrov in the last couple of hours walking a diplomatic tightrope. visia's position vis a syria -- what do you make a rush of's position at the moment with syria? >> what is most important is not what was said during the press conference but what was said behind the curtains, in the closed session. and i think the words were much more harsh than those pronounced during the press conference. i think that the point of russia's position as well known, just to prevent any intervention and any change of the regime imposed from abroad. but except that point, all venues are open. and i think concerning the kofi annan plan, which russia very willingly endorsed, i think that what was told to go visiting syrian minister was, first, syria should strictly abide by kofi annan's plan, and seconds, -- second, syria should forget all the recent preconditions according to the obligations on the part of the opposition and surrounding states. and the third point -- i think if syria does not comply with kofi annan's plan, russia has nothing else to do to help syria get

that's taking place in moscow and given by the syrian foreign minister and his russian counterpart sergey lavrov let's watch this. the solution. muslims are meeting my counterparts. and foreign minister. should have national guard start again when they sent german . we met today with my syrian counterpart foreign minister believe that while i'm here because. it's your brickwork make moment for the whole region with a big one why you want. to hear why hijack. he has look we need food. your mother. knew of the crisis in syria and outside of it has taken place for a year. you were young it did. several thousand civilian service men as the heads i live in canada needlessly in the high. seas so when i chose the since the very beginning russia ruled the parties to stop violence and bloodshed. and solve all the problems by the syrians themselves on the basis of inclusive jalap without any foreign intervention and any other violations of syrian of the syrian sovereignty the destiny of the future of the nation should be decided by the people and this is deemed the. basis for the statements of the state i

syrian foreign minister is in moscow on chews day he'll be chatting with his russian counterpart sergei lavrov as they try and find out how they can salvage this peace plan put forward by kofi annan to stop it really falling at the first hurdle now the syrian foreign minister is also expected to list the achievements that the syrian government of made in order to try and put this peace plan into place now the situation in syria still very very complex we're seeing the syrian rebels growing in confidence to to support that they're receiving from the west also sure funding that they receiving from groups like the friends of syria and as sara first now reports there's also the situation whereby syrian rebels see a safe haven across the border in turkey from which they could launch attacks against the government walking a fine line as kansas thousands of refugees have crossed the syrian border into turkey keeping the peace here has not been easy and now the violence is still day they are saying gunfire reaching across the border and into a refugee camp as government forces kristie fleeing members

they should change the constitution to make possible the sort of judicial corp foreign minister sergey lavrov gave his british counterpart short shrift a new government remains in russia but he knows there's nothing he. his country can do to persuade the british that they're accusing the wrong man. if i did the same with the help of russian specialists at the british would have been suspicious about the results so i insisted that it should be administered by british experts people who came to trust me are members of the british polygraph association and we will invite these experts as witnesses in any court proceedings i don't expect any serious change but for me it was the moment of truth and this is just the latest step that has taken to attempt to clear his name with the british authorities last november harris simpang chris coroner's court because wife marino won the right to a new wider ranging inquest into her husband's death said he well continues and offered to give evidence by video link look of oil realizes this won't close the case but for him it's more evidence to suggest he's as

only supported kofi annan six point peace plan for syria most recently russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov reiterated that moscow's support for the plan but mr lavrov indicated that the plan could be undermined by those that are showing more support for the armed opposition in syria russia is committed to implementing plan and we are constantly pushing the syrian government's secret steps in line with. according to eat the syrian government be the first to begin to pull that it beats forces this is dean and position. he expects no wish to call this and some arab states simply seems to be all. responsible for bloodshed in syria. just over the weekend seventeen nations gathered together it's a group that's referred to as the friends of syria they gathered for a meeting and reaffirmed their support for the opposition groups they also recognize the syrian national council as the legitimate representatives of the syrian people now. have said that this only undermines the peace process that is trying to be implemented in syria he also said that it is group known as the friends of syria cannot re

to withdraw from afghanistan by two thousand and fourteen at a ministerial meeting in brussels sergey lavrov said the schedule was artificial as couples old forces won't be ready to provide security by the time russia's worried over instability and massive drug trafficking emanating from afghanistan see nato as mission is crucial to its own security moscow has agreed to expand its logistics support for the allied forces russian lawmakers are now considering providing an air base as a transit point for the alliance of supplies and troops to afghanistan however for day two big wigs the state of ghana stand is more about prolonging the conflict and ensuring stability since there were activists. and there is no popular support for this war in the us nor in the u.k. nor in any allied country to be honest i think the statistics now show that over seventy percent of the u.k. population want our troops out of the figure is rising in the u.s. sixty two percent last week want to see an end to the war but the people who benefit from the war quite happy to let this one the longest as long as possible an

syria of provoking violence to breach the internationally brokered cease fire foreign minister sergey lavrov cited reports that the syrian free. an army is using refugee camps in turkey safe havens plan assault on the regime troops level off also says there are many who want a very special envoy kofi annan is peace plan in favor of using force some western and arab states of agree to tighten sanctions against the syrian president who they accuse of breaching the truce but arrogant they say the director and founder of the french center for international internet is an international studies says it's in the interests of some syrian rebels to inflame the conflict. the security forces because we want them to react so strong. that the regime. will be absolutely because if they decide but i think it's a game of being because they want to push more international pressure on the regime let's hope that the situation would be better to. make the nation delineation but. we have to be very cautious because not stop people from the beginning they want regime with absolutely no i mean. communication conce

meeting comes exactly a week since the syrian foreign minister was in a moscow to hold talks with sergey lavrov the russian foreign minister now members of the syria domestic opposition the national coordinator come e.t.i. here and they've already said that the un brokered cease fire plan proposed by coffee and on is the last chance to bring his still it days in this country to an end now lavrov basically reiterated moscow's stance that despite this plan seemingly working out so far certainly there are some forces which are willing to disrupt this rather fragile peace. there are countries interested in the failure of kofi not planned from the outset they predicted the failure of any political agreement in syria and only demanded regime change we have information that even today those who have such a stance are doing a lot to hamper the plan by providing arms to the opposition and instigating violence by militants i hope that all who have some influence will pursue the interests of the syrian people and security in the region and not their geo political ambitions. the members of the national coo

agreement it took seven rounds of talks before the document was finally signed last summer by sergei lavrov and hillary clinton. as a result we have an agreement which is truly carries granting equal rights to both russia and the us in security guarantees that adoptive parents are psychologically and mentally stable because that's our celebration of this mutual understanding didn't last in february the russian foreign ministry once again called for adoptions by u.s. citizens to be put on hold and one of the reasons behind moscow's indignation was a series of sentences for abusive adoptive parents which were considered too soft like in the case with monster of a gutter the seven year old would receive approximately eighty injuries and died in a hospital in two thousand and nine last year a jury found his adoptive parents guilty of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced them to nineteen months in prison however they were released having already spent their time in detention awaiting trial. well i want to add something to what we just heard the sad stories that we heard is that children also.

station and me personally on it it's also the russian foreign ministry the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov as well as several russian stations t.v. stations channel one and there and other stations surprisingly enough even the vice mayor of tile in who is known for his pro russian stance is also on the list of a potential threat despite him being so in some kind of authority in the capital and also surprisingly enough there are also concepts not only the names but concepts and historical events on this list like the great patriotic war the kremlin and even the relocation of the monument of the bronze soldier big scandal in the story or several years back also on this list of potential and real dangers to the country this is well not a surprise because this has happened before. one of my colleagues reported back that he was denied a visa when he was trying to fly to a story or to do a documentary about neo nazis and united in a country and later three years later in two to two thousand and ten one of our crews and was detained at the border of latina stonier for filming and fascist rally th

partners tell them different things and prevent them from making any concessions so you see you sergey lavrov and kerry clinton have a bilateral meeting today here in washington we hope to hear more but even though the u.s. accept that kofi annan plan which addresses all five of the conflict not just the syrian government washington still seems to put all responsibility in the hands of present nothing and never mentions the opposition which also has to lay down their arms all right are these are going to try and live in washington many thanks indeed . but he has hinted it may ask nato for help to protect its borders after gunfire from syrian skirmishes reached its territory just a few days ago and for more on the international reaction to the search and a situation in syria let's not talk to dr siegel a political analyst joining us live on the program from jordan oh good to see you today so the first ceasefire in over a year of violence over the day that comes turkey make suggestions it once nato did get involved in the region and why now at such a delicate stage. well i think that these are.

goes it does strengthen and tough on its language with regards to syria russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov after meeting his syrian counterpart on wednesday in moscow sad that the syrian authorities could have and should have been more decisive and more proactive in a hearing to the kofi annan peace plan but he also made it clear that it was only fair worth while other parties would put the same pressure on the opposition and would persuade opposition fighters to lay down their arms. he says that voices coming from the u.s. and some other countries from the sensory. kane's last remark to reporters was next year when i'm asked this kind of attitude is hardly. the teacher to cease fire that. is trying to set out from amongst the opponents of syria there is not good will clearly among some states and our single out here saudi arabia and qatar they want the syrian government destroyed their interest is not reform in syria their interest is not treating the syrian people they are interested not human rights the syrian people are there their own people don't have those rights so what is a game i

this has received lots of criticism in the international community the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov said these moves were detrimental and would not lead to any kind of peace plan he said that even if the opposition were armed to the teeth they would not succeed in overthrowing the syrian regime. and that the result would only be fully fledged civil war in iraq also said that these international bodies were pushing the opposition away from peace and discouraging negotiations again making the point that they would be no peaceful resolution but only move violence vine moves such as these by the friends of syria. independent researcher believes to friends of syria a blank check for rebels but only wipe out any desire they might have to resolve the conflict peacefully. how could we expect that the armed insurgents know put down their arms and they get so much support from from the outside from saudi arabia from qatar from turkey us and so on getting so many signals. so many forces from the outside are on their side they have an interest to make a compromise with the government everyone i

are really working hard to try to put pressure on the assad government russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov to meet and he's syrian counterpart in moscow. to syrian authorities could have and should have been more decisive and more proactive in that hearing to the kofi annan peace plan he also made it clear that it was only fair worth while the other parties would put the same pressure on the opposition and would persuade opposition fighters to lay down their arms bill karaka journalist and contributor to the london based guardian newspaper believes that for the syrian peace process the bowl is now in the opposition's court. it's interesting to hear the west response because the the onus now is on the western powers and on saudi arabia and on turkey it's all those countries are backing your positions and told you to support the peace the peace plan to stop this talk about arming them stop this talk about regime change and then if we do this we could get peace in syria because we already have a democratic framework to solve this problem there's two sides to this conflict obviously the west i

well that is foreign minister sergey lavrov says that some international players are staring out the rebels preventing them from making concessions in your opinion how fair is this criticism and what players is he talking about who does he have in mind. i think i think there is very theory and i think the foreign minister of russia is very fair. in general and i think that should understand this i mean this is this the issues or of this this decision or. it is very very important though there should. be frankly there is no chance for any form or the moving for the international order from china and also from syria and iran and i think. as you know the. very. good on the the out of play into this to pull or to what extent russia is that according to the language. of laughable. well it refugee camp on the turkish side came under fire recently and turkey has hinted it may ask for nato help to protect its borders now do you think that could happen if the truce fails. i think the there is there was dangerous one because it is very close to syria and the very long border that is if you liv

the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov speech speaking alongside his chinese and indian counterparts to be holding a meeting here in moscow that meeting dominated by the fallout from this failed rocket launch coming out of north korea. of rove expressed russia's regret that the launch should taken place but said as far as moscow was concerned putting more sanctions on north korea wouldn't really do any good when it came to stopping these type of launches taking place perhaps in the future you know as they said summits were fucked up by the chinese foreign minister saying that china was opposed to any form of sanctions further sanctions being placed appalled. and now this goes against the sentiments we're hearing coming out of countries like the united states south korea and japan you know those three nations have expressed their concern deep concern out they said this rocket launch in fact saying that it wasn't the rocket trying to play satellites into space as the north koreans would say put it wasn't part of a cover for a test of a long range intercontinental ballistic missile some