russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and the chief negotiator of syria's opposition brainstorm ways to bring reconciliation to the war weary country . and a primary school in the u.k. caves into pressure and candles that blossoms on homosexuality after hundreds of angry parents kept their children at home in protest. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q and moscow thanks for tuning in this hour. we start with the u.s. where senior u.s. democrats are demanding access to all communications between presidents donald trump and lot of near putin that's amid allegations that the u.s. leader concealed some of what he spoke about with his russian counterpart the following request was sent to the white house. the committee's request the by march fifteenth twenty nineteen the department produced all documents communications regardless of form and classification to refer or relate to any communications between president trump and president putin democrats are redoubling their efforts to put trump under ever more intense scrutiny regarding alleged collusion with rus

at her wedding party or that she likes to share a cigarette with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov carrying nice old believes that if because of geopolitics russia and western countries may find themselves on different sides of the diplomatic barricades that doesn't mean that the most senior officials shouldn't talk shouldn't be frank about their issues shouldn't meet face to face she believes that isolation in boycotts aren't the way to go. diplomacy for me is discussing issues on equal terms and grasping the now. sometimes to a clear polite conversation is what we need it's crucial to talk i've noticed an alarming trend where losing the art of conversation we've ended up in the state of no conversation it's only through dialogue that you can cross the hold on and as we say in german that is discussed difficult topics. i got to ask karen a question about the collapse of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty initiated by donald trump and his administration she remembered the times when the agreement was struck with great warmth however she felt short of saying she's not a fa

the problem it's the image that we're breaking into that as promised russian foreign minister sergei lavrov just been meeting with the vice president venezuela does he rodrigue is in moscow this speaking now taking questions that this nation is its independence and sovereignty we believe that we need to fully comply. you know fundamental principles of the united nations charter and i mean every country. i'm on this principles is of course the principle of nonintervention is their face because other countries this is especially important to remember about that today when we see such a cynical campaign aimed at. visiting with the government of venezuela. which groups put him through rats of use of force or simple direct intervention russia has been consistent in supporting the peaceful resolution of the crisis inside millions well it is clearly that the attempts to batter the limits almost by the beautiful of venezuela as a result by this venezuela without any implication of. well from abroad without any al to me to express our solidarity was a friend the people of venezuela we support the ef

russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov i have to say has been very critical and has in fact accused america of destabilizing world security lover of has expressed his dippers concerns frustration and fear is over the current situation in the field of nonproliferation of weapons and global arms control emphasizing that africa is designed to destroy global basic agreements that proved to be doing their job well in guaranteeing world security and protecting international peace are rising and this is a very dangerous tendency a lover of has particularly referred to america's recent withdrawal from the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty known as the i and after treaty signed between moscow and washington back in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven warning that the recent developments may turn threats of nuclear warhead into a groom reality. through which we are now hearing is talk of the possibility of unleashing a limited nuclear war for russia and i hope all the other countries represented here such a prospect is unacceptable however such a scenario could become a reality if w

treaty but spoke at the conference in geneva russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has reiterated one more time that russia is not planning to get involved in any arms race with america and is ready to go back to the dialogue as soon as washington is ready something that lover of believes russia does not see happening right now and here minister lavrov has brought recent steps in developments of space missile defense system by america alarm and steps as lover of believes let's take a listen. in the u.s. funds have been earmarked for the establishment of a space missile defense system as well as putting strike capabilities into orbit this is a. well as you can see a lot has been said many critical things but as a lover of has said at this conference in geneva russia has that its western colleagues will hear its voice back to you. breaking down in the statement earlier by a surrogate luftwaffe thank you. all right to another headline stories this hour the president of brazil has for some time been dubbed the trumpet of the tropics for his right leaning and dear europe chose the united s

dollars to counter russia's international influence is not tempted by europe foreign minister sergei lavrov statement came out talks with his austrian country part told me more earlier. there's definitely some sort of special affection that the austrian foreign minister has for this country she has told us that she's impressed by how many people read books on the russian metro but definitely how much she's keen to be friends with russia isn't only about her cultural affection or about the fact. that vladimir putin was a guest at her wedding party or that she likes to share a cigarette with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov carrying a nice little believes that if because of geopolitics russia and western countries may find themselves on different sides of the diplomatic barricades that doesn't mean that the most senior officials shouldn't talk you shouldn't be frank about their issues shouldn't meet face to face she believes that isolation and boycotts aren't the way to go. that is. diplomacy for me is discussing issues on equal terms and grasping the natural sometimes to a clear po

the plane expecting to depart shortly so according to the russian foreign minister quoting to sergey lavrov they found some common ground as the talked about the possibility of the elections in syria and as well as the new syrian constitution this meeting is coming right after the russia's foreign ministries statement on the recent report by the o.p.c. w on last year's chemical attack in syria's duma now the russian foreign ministry is saying that they are studying this more than a hundred pages long report very carefully but the russian foreign ministry can already say that from what they can see is that the un back body is ignoring their information that certain parts of the attack could be staged like the video from a hospital that emerged right after the attack this is something that russia had warned months in advance before that incident happened the vague conclusions the o.p.c. w. body is making in its report could be used to justify the u.s. british and french aggression against the syrian. government so this is what the russian ministry is talking about when they're saying that wel

a new arms race on an even greater scale than the cold war speaking at a conference in geneva sergey lavrov said he regrets america's willingness to undermine some key treaties on weapons stockpiles in turn washington questioned moscow's intentions in preventing an arms race artie's financial reports russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov i have to say has been very critical and has in fact accused america of destabilizing world security lover of has expressed his dippers concerns frustration and fear is over the current situation in the field of nonproliferation of weapons and global arms control emphasizing that after it's designed to destroy global basic agreements that proved to be doing their job well in guaranteeing world security and protecting international peace are rising and this is a very dangerous tendency and lover of has particularly referred to america's recent withdrawal from the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty known as the i am at treaty signed between moscow and washing. and back in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven warning that the recent developments may

or we thought we'd bring you that live foreign minister sergey lavrov frustrated sounding so you can hear without going through all again highlighting his concerns where we are in twenty one thousand right now regarding arms control the way the u.s. the way the west was dealing with russia outlining how russia one of the conversations going and the reach out also talking about his worries about chemical weapons terrorism. and his worries about disarmament as well where that wasn't going at the moment general in the world basically a straight into sounding foreign minister there saying that russia one of the get on with this but they needed dialogue with other countries around the world especially the west especially nato space in the u.s. you find more that online ok more news now today let's check out what's happening in germany the german government bearing legal responsibility for u.s. drone strikes directed and controlled from german territory it's according to a recent court ruling in a case brought by families of civilian victims in yemen daniel hawkins next from berlin. landma

dollars to save europe from what they're calling russia's malicious influence attempts and sergei lavrov called that move some of the worst examples of american diplomacy. obviously not diplomacy who are its motto and use diplomacy which is reduced to threats sanctions or to attempts to buy. some to american taxpayers to decide how much it reflects their interests and it's also to the countries who are recipients of the generous help. by the way i don't know how the countries would like the initiative that someone wants to buy them. so a lot of smiles general warmth in this room and also plans for things to be done together in the near future something we don't always see when western diplomats come to this foreign ministry villa in central moscow summing up the meeting between the foreign ministers of russia and australia trying to thank you a lot is our lot the news though that the pentagon is going to use a billion u.s. tax dollars to install a new missile system for saudi arabia that's the focus of the watching the hawks true honest to washington we go next. with make this manufactur

a talks here in doha regional security including the gulf crisis dominated discussions between sergei lavrov and shaikh mohammad bin ani they also emphasized economic cooperation. first real friends there's a new to increase trade and economic ties we welcome the effort some cooperation the next stage will take place in moscow and we're tenth of april so we highly value this relationship we value the cooperation between the russian government and the qatari investment agency. algeria's eighty two year old president has formally put his name forward for a fifth term in office abilities beautifully gore has been facing growing protests against his rule is promising electoral reforms if he wins next month's vote at least twenty two people have been killed after a tornado hit the u.s. state of alabama rescue teams are searching the wreckage of homes and businesses destroyed in lake county more than ten thousand people are without power al jazeera has obtained exclusive pictures from the home of the saudi consul general in istanbul after the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi a documentary airi

growing international pressure for him to resign follows talks between russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov and the vice president dell c. rodriguez in moscow and president putin had expressed support and solidarity from the duo who he referred to as a colleague and friend. you're up to date with all of our top stories this hour coming up next on al-jazeera but there will be more news after that from doha in about twenty five minutes time stay with us. since the industrial revolution human sources of polluting gases have been growing . because machines food production construction these and more all contribute to the high concentrations of pollutants in the atmosphere including carbon and other greenhouse gases which are the biggest .

saying we believe in diplomacy otherwise we're only escalate tension we have to rely on trust and sergey lavrov saying perhaps five hundred million is what the u.s. calls diplomacy that it's bullying threats or to buy allies as i said our correspondent was there so we'll go through what the main points of that news conference was and what came out of the foreign minister's talks in moscow throughout the morning and that will be a little bit later on. you know no nails here with no headline news for amati international in just a couple of minutes. this is a stick from the water bottle found in the stomach of a fish the brand is part of the coca-cola company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that let's tell consumers they're the bad ones they're the litter bugs are throwing us away industry should be blamed for all this waste the company has long promised to reuse the plastic. that's. their plastic. the new phones at a special projects funded me. on that is the end of it for the teeth of fun now the mountains of waste only grow higher. during the great depression whic

growing international pressure for him to resign follows talks between russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov and the vice president dell c rodriguez in moscow and president putin had expressed support and solidarity from the duo who he referred to as a colleague and friend. you're up to date with all of our top stories this hour coming up next on al-jazeera but there will be more news after that from doha in about twenty five minutes time stay with us. since the industrial revolution human sources of polluting gases have been growing . cause machines food production construction these and more all contribute to the high concentrations of pollutants in the atmosphere including carbon and other greenhouse gases which are the biggest drivers of climate change. with our choices people can make to help drive and missions down. a massive rig in denmark to meet a community and very thing in their own green society and i'm going to occur within india where a new method of cremation is helping him to tradition become more and my mentee a friend. green energy is total is future if we want to stop glob

duro a liar for saying that russia basically supplied the venezuelan nation with humanitarian aid sergey lavrov pointed out that russia did supply seven and a half tons of medicine through international organizations to sort all of that is easily tracked and monitored. but without joins life by author and social critic chris hedges who hosts the r.t. show on contact mr had just great to have you with us so why don't you violated a court imposed travel ban and now he's back in venezuela but he hasn't been arrested so far why do you think that is. well i think that this was by design he sent back and if he is arrested this gives the united states a pretext for war more overt a more overt form of intervention they have been going after the venezuelan government since the death of hugo chavez by imposing sanctions to cripple the economy. and have funded in back the democratic unity roundtable which lost the presidential election to chavez quite this was in two thousand and eight thousand and one when he was reelected. and won with a sixty eight percent of the vote so. i think this is ratcheting up

venezuela and have their own interests like venezuela's natural resources russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov also condemn u.s. sanctions against those who support. it is yet another confirmation that american diplomacy is quickly losing its ability to use diplomatic instruments and is switching to a language that's never been used in diplomacy before now there are fears over military intervention the trumpet ministration continues to say all options are on the table but elliott abrams says the u.s. . we'll use other ways to push for what he called democratic transition in venezuela nobody is talking about american military steps except the regime and the russians actually. made it clear repeatedly our policy is as i just stated diplomatic political economic financial pressure. moving toward a peaceful democratic transition in venezuela that's what we want now we've just learned that the attempted delivery of so-called humanitarian aid on the bridge crossing at the border of colombia and venezuela nearly turned into a bloodbath according to a report in bloomberg news two hundred exiled soldie

a lawyer for saying that russia basically supplied the venezuelan nation with humanitarian aid sergey lavrov pointed out that russia did supply seven and a half tons of medicine through international organizations to sort all of that is easily tracked and monitored. associate professor at george mason university guadalupe career cabrera feels the amano doctrine has no place in the modern world there ballet being the fundamental. foundations of democracy and that without and so to negotiation by the international community what they were talking about here is american for the americans going back to the manuel treaty and no interference from any other day and that the blocks that they create this is very problematic because they can really. live because of the fact that we're going to see there are no other option and military intervention and today we're talking about a multi-polar world and i don't really know why that would i mean what would that mean even if america can be only for americans when you're talking about a world that's more globalized when other countries also have interests

is very much it is gone russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov says in qatar as part of a tour of gulf countries it's his first stop before he goes on to saudi arabia kuwait and the united arab emirates russian state media says that he will focus on energy and bassman and regional issues including syria yemen libya and palace time of qatar and russia are emphasizing the strength of their relationship qatar has invested billions of dollars into the russian economy and it recently finalized an eleven point five billion dollar deal to acquire nearly twenty percent of russia's state oil company rosneft relationship has stepped up since qatar was blockaded by saudi arabia the u.a.e. egypt and bahrain in two thousand and seventeen russia has consistently called for an end to the crisis through negotiations an october russia and qatar signed a number of agreements on military and technical cooperation abraham rather is so see professor in conflict resolution at the doha institute for graduate studies he joins us here member going to be bringing their remarks from both of the foreign ministers

duro a liar for saying that russia basically supplied the venezuelan nation with humanitarian aid sergey lavrov pointed out that russia did supply seven and a half tons of medicine through international organizations to sort all of that is easily tracked and monitored. but they were putin's officially suspended russia's participation in the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty which is a key cold war era nuclear agreement not easily trying to discuss this earlier with my colleague chaplin. well the i.n.f. treaty which has been banning land based missiles with ranges up to five thousand five hundred kilometers since nine hundred eighty eight is falling apart completely the u.s. and russia have been doing it step by step and president putin has just made another formal one he actually signed a document which suspends it on the russian side but everyone realized it was the beginning of the end of this agreement back in october last year when donald trump started bashing that treaty and that is the only problem for the treaty russia has a legit violations then while on the one hand the donald t

duro a liar for saying that russia basically supplied the venezuelan nation with humanitarian aid sergey lavrov pointed out that russia did supply seven and a half tons of medicine through international organizations to sort all of that is easily tracked and monitored and to most those accounting clearing the syrian military has been hit by a surge of terrorist activity we have the details on that after this short break. life expectancy in america is plummeting if you look at the chart it's shocking to look at almost every other country is kind of inching up on one side of the chart and then as an outlier is the united states it's way over here and it's all crashing down from the drop from the having junk food having junk culture having it's junk politics and fake news it's all fake and fake doesn't sustain life and you see it in the numbers it's clear. what. they put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to be. actually going to be pros that's what before three of the four people. are still always in the water. welcome back the syri

duro a liar for saying that russia basically supplied the venezuelan nation with humanitarian aid sergey lavrov pointed out that russia did supply seven and a half tons of medicine through international organizations to sort all of that is easily tracked and monitored. just as now with our guest on drivel take political analyst dan journalist and filmmaker welcome to the program now the venezuelan government has ordered go i don't know not to leave the country he's obviously disregarded that travel ban but now he's back to you expect him to be arrested. i think he should be arrested but. he's not yet look this is basically. typical situation of how diverse the mass media is reacting to these situations. but as i would. do what it promised to do is to arrest. it would be immediately depicted and described. as a country which is violating human rights but it's not doing this several media outlets are describing when as well as a week or mudroom president but there is a weak president who is afraid to actually arrest earlier in a way don't look all the situation is the perspective imagine a best c

some time all right again you are listening to the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov let's pick up on the conversation we were have with having with budgets they were talking about the role that russia in fact does have in the middle east and they have been driving what is described as a political solution in syria where are we on that if you let me just finish the point he was saying about whether the united state is happy of that or not it is obvious that the stablish meant in washington was not happy if you know i'm pretty sure the department of state the cia those starlit there would not be happy of you know allowing us to do all of these movements they when they did pull back but yeah that's absolutely but you know pulling back is not the disposability of establishment is this argument of the administration that is different the the foreign policy the up the the way how the administration is handling the region is actually push back the american foreign policy not the statement so i do believe that the stablished is not happy of what the us is doing and they're actually may

duro a liar for saying that russia basically supplied the venezuelan nation with humanitarian aid sergey lavrov pointed out that russia did supply seven and a half tons of medicine through international organizations to sort all of that is easily tracked and monitored. the syrian army suffered heavy losses this weekend when eight hundred soldiers were killed during a surprise attack by. a syrian offshoot of al qaeda and the number of casualties were confirmed to r.t. arabic by the army washington recently put up a million dollar reward for information on the son the bin laden son and so looks like the war on terror has fresh impetus i guess he explains. the war on terror. begins with. but it does not in there. the war on terror is almost a tradition now a part of the american way of life no end in sight either so traumatic it was nine eleven that it set america off on a seemingly endless crusade there's an old poster out west as i recall that said wanted dead or alive and the does seem endless no matter how many battles they win how many islamist sex they destroy how many bin ladens they kill i

she's been quite successful at at least when it comes to talking with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov after a dinner together missed a lot of stuff that smoking and no smoked a cigarette with him i don't know whether that's true but the practical service told me. that was virtually the single case or at least direct case when a guest smoked together with him. well so smoked a couple of cigarettes together the movie also connects i ran a smoke own special occasions when i feel relaxed so the press conference of the russian and the austrian foreign ministers will begin very very soon and we are very likely to hear questions about ukraine venezuela and also the collapse of the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty i'll update you on everything when i come out of the air the russian foreign ministry and central moscow. news for this out i'll be back to update you often have taken a look at the planets plastic problem and what a firm which sells for thousand bottles a second to do about it. country has gone into a nihilistic fever that's what i think i'm gonna hit the road and get out t

zana thank you syria was high on the agenda of talks between the russian qatari foreign minister sergei lavrov was in doha before travelling on to saudi arabia kuwait the u.a.e. the foreign minister the political solutions to complex across the region. in concern to the international agenda we paid attention of course to the situation in the near east africa first of all in syria libya and somalia we assume there is a vital need to stabilize these countries as soon as possible relying on international law and a comprehensive political solution where there is no part for extremists no matter what slogans they might use. continuing to protest after president. formally submitted his name for a fifth term in office. tempted to appease them by promising electoral reforms if he wins next month the eighty two year old has been facing growing protests against his rule crowds of mainly young demonstrators faced off with police sunday on monday israel's prime minister has ordered the acceleration of the demolition of the homes of two palestinians killed by israeli forces in the occupied west bank israel

duro a liar for saying that russia basically supplied the venezuelan nation with humanitarian aid sergey lavrov pointed out that russia did supply seven and a half tons of medicine through international organizations to sort all of that is easily tracked and monitored political analyst and czech thinks the u.s. national security adviser is trying to intimidate the migiro government. both of his threatening he's so good either you are avoiding to either of your boys to behave as we go you to behave or it will be another it will be returned to pinochet so the data should be chilling and we are going to actually throw a lot of weight and mobilize our our mercenaries to carry. your company in blood so logically. reacted in a very strong terms to this because the other stance precisely what baldwin means. syrian army suffered heavy losses this weekend in the north of the country eighteen soldiers were killed during a surprise attack by each of us how nervous were the syrian offshoot of army and with washington recently pushing up a million dollar reward for information on a some of bin laden's son i

duro a liar for saying that russia basically supplied the venezuelan nation with humanitarian aid sergey lavrov pointed out that russia did supply seven and a half tons of medicine through international organizations to sort all of that is easily tracked and monitored. ok speak now to political analyst lucas colonel forgive me to lucas the us national security advisor john bolton he's been very forthright with his views of what's happening in venezuela and he's warned of a strong and significant response if anything should happen to on his return to venezuela do you think that that response could extend so far as military intervention. i think it's important to recognize that john bolton and most recently mike and. drive in venezuela with the kinds of stanley build the rest of intervention and the trump himself and. top officials in ministrations living elliott abrams have not ruled out a military intervention and as well as this is something that definitely they are willing to use as a threat and maybe go as far to even put into action if that's what that word to you know exercise you know cor

playing an increasingly visible role in the middle east and north africa it sent foreign minister sergei lavrov to tour the region as first stop qatar where he just held a news conference in the last hour along the cotchery foreign minister sheikh mohammad been the rock when all funny. was joint press conference with the foreign ministers of the countries he joins us now so how significant is it that my brothas is on this tour what is he trying to achieve. rochelle this is part of a russian push to further build bridges with. players in this part of the world some of these countries are some of the world's top producers and exporters of energy. this explains why the russians are willing to team up with qatar in the gas for further expand that partnership to tackle some of the issues that russia faces particular when it comes to the competition worldwide and a push by the americans to further. halt the flow of the russian gas in europe but russia and qatar need at the same time to overcome some of the differences they have particularly when it comes to syria qatar says that must go and that the

so that was russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov talking about possibility of open military intervention to the news well though we also. had the biggest venezuela's vice minister about this possibility and she has said that venezuela will not become second syria and adding that everybody knows what the americans plans in venezuela are but it will not happen and there will be no intervention and the authorities will not be overthrown just because as she has said the people of venezuela and the country's army are at this moment united as never as united as they never been united before so she was rather optimistic about how the situation will develop but of course this is an ongoing crisis and we're going to follow this story for you for sure. you have big news art thank you very much for that maria financial correspondent bringing us the very latest on the presser well the back row into that meeting the q. and a after of course was that the u.n. security council was convened on thursday to discuss the situation in the crisis stricken country now russia the u.s. proposed their draft resol