during the general debate the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov used his remarks to essentially to lay out the russian view of the world and argue that russia is trying to deescalate conflicts around the world that dialogue is necessary in his speech he criticized the united states for basically ignoring the interests of other countries and replacing the rule based international order with new rules that were convenient for them in the moment you do shows up in this the moment at the meeting western countries are trying to impede the development of the most who post in order to regain their privileged position to impose standards of conduct another that is based on the narrow western interpretation of liberalism in a no show with liberals and say everything is permitted in pursuit of this policy the west has been increasingly loath to recognize international law and more often and more insistently than a rules based order in the press conference that followed his remarks before the general assembly he seemed to hit on similar themes he talked about many instances around the worl

much scrutinized oval office conversation between president trump and russian foreign minister sergei lavrovussian ambassador sergei kislyak that took place in 2017. "the washington post" reports that president trump told two senior russian officials in a 2017 oval office meeting that he was unconcerned about moscow's interference in the 2016 u.s. presidential election, because the united states did the same in other countries. an assertion that prompted alarmed white house officials to limit access to the remarks to an unusually small number of people. this comes as the white house records concerning communication with foreign leaders have become a key point of interest for house democrats as part of the impeachment inquiry into the president. here to tell us more, a national security reporter for "the washington post." ellen, thank you for being with us. >> good to be with you. >> there's a context here larger than just the conversation and u.s. press didn't have access to that meeting. it was right on the heels, right after the president fired jim comey. there's an idea that these convers

yes during the general debate the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov used his remarks to essentially to lay out the russian view of the world the russian world view and argue that russia is trying to deescalate conflicts around the world that dialogue is necessary this is some of what he said in his speech before the general assembly. in the. problem started when the u.s. unilaterally withdrew from the agreement and told everyone else to stop abiding by its 2 promising sanctions over trade with iran i believe these actions were destructive to the situation around iran's nuclear program but it's also for the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons and the whole situation in the region. just. now in his speech criticized the united states for basically ignoring the interests of other countries and replacing the rule based international order with new rules that were convenient for them in the moment now in the press conference that followed his remarks before the general assembly seemed to hit on similar themes he talked about many instances around the world where it seemed like the united

earlier on friday russia's foreign minister took the podium at the un general assembly sergey lavrov spoke out at the undermining of international law by a country's pushing their vision of the world on others outside the u.n. in new york here's up during the general debate the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov used his remarks to essentially to lay out the russian view of the world and argues that russia is trying to deescalate conflicts around the world that dialogue is necessary in his speech criticize the united states for basically ignoring the interests of other countries and replacing the rule based international order with new rules that were convenient for them in the moment you do she's up with the moment with the leading western countries are trying to impede the development of a multi-polar world in order to regain their privileged position to impose standards of conduct on others that are based on the narrow western interpretation of liberalism in a nutshell we are liberals and everything is permitted in pursuit of this policy the west has been increasingly loath to

it is about what trump told two russian officials, foreign minister sergei lavrov on the left of your screen and sergei kislyak on the right in the infamous meeting in the oval office in may of 2017. the day after he fired former fbi james comey. donald trump told the russians quote "he was unconcerned of moscow's interference in the u.s. election because the united states did the same in other country and assertion that prompted officials to limit access to the remarks to unusually small number of people." in an interview with lester holt just one day later, he treated russian interference for seriously. >> if russia hacked or did anything or having to do with our election, i want to know about it. >> well, it is already intelligence virtually for every intelligence agencies that said that did happen. >> if russia or anybody else is trying to interfere with our elections, i think it is a horrible thing and i want to get to the bottom of it. i want to make sure will never ever happen. >> now, you may recall there was no u.s. news media at that may 2017 meeting in the oval office. only

that we saw in the now-infamous oval office meeting where you got the president joking argue with sergey lavrovf putin's closest advisers, and former ambassador kislyak, what is the message? don't worry about the attack on democracy you guys authored, it's okay because we did the same type of thing. firstly, it's not true. second, it sends the message you got away with it and if you want to do it in the future, no biggie. go ahead and do as you like. that's how the russians read that and will no doubt remember as we go forward into the 2020 elections. not a good message from the president of the united states to russia. >> speaking of the 2020 election, lynn, senior political analyst david gergen said democrats need to slow down in terms of this impeachment inquiry. they need to be slow going. they need to be very deliberate here. but we're hearing that they also want to get through this by possibly thanksgiving. that's one of the dates being out there they want to have a vote on this impeachment inquiry. how realistic is that? >> i don't see how you could get even the basic work done with even

th"washington post" reported that the president told the russian foreign minister, sergei lavrov, and russian ambassador sergey kislyak in a 2017 meeting that he was unconcerned about moscow's interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. this was according to knowledge of the conversation by three unnamed form u.s. officials. at the same may 2017 meeting, the president also disclosed highly classified information about a source of intelligence on the islamic state. and late yesterday, the statee department's special envoy to ukraine, kurt volker, submitted his resignation. volker, according to the whistleblower complaint that sparked the impeachment inquiry, met with ukrainian officials after president trump's phone call with ukraine's president to help "navigate" mr. trump's demands. the president played golf today and tweeted attacks against democrats for launching an impeachment inquiry. the president's personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, who is also named in the whistleblower report, sent out his own stream of tweets claiming that the house democrats should be investigating former

strikes which leaves both countries with a lot of questions meanwhile the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has said both moscow and ankara will stick to the arrangements regarding the deescalation zone despite the strike we've asked the u.s. department of defense to comment on the matter but no answer yet political analysts who say aram thinks the u.s. ought to have notified russia and turkey at a time when the regime had hoped to deescalate and called for a unilateral cease fire which was greatly welcomed by turkey and russia this type of attack that he does cause concern could have been carried out at a more ideal time it could have been carried out in cooperation with the russians and the turks which would have probably made the attack even more successful and more acceptable on behalf of all parties keep it a secret when it serves everybody's interests that still remains a question to me but yes it definitely does cause concern when there is all this talk of a cease fire in the region to see drums about bombs dropping back out of the sky again in civilians obviously concerned in causin

affairs committee who was one of those directly involved called it a provocation foreign minister sergei lavrov. i think comments are redundant here it is just a shame for this nation which is trying to portray itself as the ultimate truth it's just a real shame. well off the general assembly itself. around venice we called all nations around the globe to embrace their sovereignty he was addressing the 1st day of the debates in new york with his delivery stirring a wave of online mockery for its monotony. one of the greatest security threats facing peace loving nations today is the repressive regime in iran. the regimes record of death and destruction is well known to us all. the dictator maduro is a cuban puppet protected by cuban bodyguards hiding from his own people well cuba plunders venezuela's oil wealth to sustain its own corrupt communist rule. wise leaders always put the good of their own people and their own country 1st the future does not belong to us the future belongs to patriots. mr trump's speech left many wondering what happened to his usual more delivery public appearances with

it is now said that sergey lavrov skin is held in high esteem by his powerful u.s. friends. outraged by what was reported in the news the ukrainian people came out in force on the next day to vent their anger with the police actions. the violence started to take off when. naturalised was. it is to treat the not so old. t.v. which you're going to do when you put in the new and that's the. serious. bit don't just lease was a list. i read that i mean that i mean now you. know. i need to. look at the shell and into the well as the what it but i you just in is that your study of this much of this is. it is a deal more. new will probably i. i mean you know. i mean the. as a failed unmasked as the color revolutions can be an attentive viewer can see subtle patterns and similarities revealing their true nature. to make crowds act as one of beauty and group they have to be united at the unconscious level the masterminds of color revolutions know this well and have perfected the art. symbolism is one of the most powerful tools to achieve this and revolutionary political organizations

committee most notably was one of those involved he called a provocation and foreign minister sergei lavrov also slammed the move. i think comments are redundant here it is just a shame for this nation which is trying to portray itself as the ultimate truth it's just a real shame that was outside inside donald trump has lashed out at iran and venezuela and called on nations around the globe to embrace nationalism he was addressing the 1st day of the un general assembly debates in new york and put his delivery was really quite strange. one of the greatest security threats facing peace loving nations today is the repressive regime in iran. the regimes record of death and destruction is well known to us all. wise leaders always put the good of their own people. and their own country 1st the future does not belong to. the future belongs to patriots would have speech left many wondering what happened to his more usual animated delivery jaring public appearances many describing as telling of the un is pretty low and boring. and. that's. the. stuff whose thirst for control now eludes them into thi

assets who had access to the highest levels of the kremlin and today russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov said that while he's not going to comment on rumors he can confirm that he's not talked to smile and cough nor even met him shortly afterwards the kremlin spokes possible so came out and said that what he really tried to lay to rest the the idea this morning cough was really part of the cycle which is true that small income worked in the president's administration but several years ago he was fired his position wasn't that of a top official all the discussion. in the us media about someone urgently extracting someone and saving someone etc it is part of as you know a sort of pope fiction genre and on the other side what we heard from u.s. officials well the other aspect of this story that poses some questions is what role donald trump played the says a c n n article after all now the spy was said to have been targeted long ago so long before trump came to power and really cultivated for a long time apparently the whole situation was so sensitive that barack obama didn't receive any in

10 members of its delegation what not granted us visas as head of the session foreign minister sergey lavrov slamming the move. i think comments are redundant here it is just a shame for this nation which is trying to portray itself as the ultimate truth it's just a real shame most of them. a 15 politicians and journalists around the world are still picking over the speech of 16 year old climate activists gratitude to the un climate summit before the big general assembly while she's been widely praised for her emotional speech opponents though say she's created a cult for the younger generation looks at the thin line between activism and fanaticism. the thing with climate change is it's called delegated we don't fully understand it ourselves we know it's happening we know some of the reasons but it's all tenuous and the guys who have the best grasp of it scientists aren't always easy to understand but that's why mother nature gave us climate change activists no need for his meteorology degree there. are many activists it isn't about science or facts policy or debate it's faith belief in some

about bringing together donald trump and sergey lavrov to free a russian citizen detained in kuwait plus is the climate crisis our 3rd world war we are down to british environmentalist jonathan porridge why he was name checked by one of britain's greatest doctors mark rowlands when he cut ties with the world shakespeare company over privatized fossil fuel company b.p. all this more coming up in today's show i mean a busy law firm goal on the a strategy and with me is the q c cherie blair thanks for inviting us in. let's begin with why you are defending a convicted alleged. russian in beslan. sentenced to 10 years hard labor and find some $2000000.00 well in the 1st place he's not convicted conviction is actually overturned in may and why was it overturned because it was based on flawed and he didn't forged. evidence and she had not been given the opportunity to put her side of the case so the trial actually was a travesty did not comply with fair trial procedures and finally the court of appeal in kuwait did overturn that decision so she isn't currently on bail awaiting trial she worked

mike pump a 0 on russian foreign minister sergei lavrov. ok let's crack on a little bit more at world news here in our international. swedish daily newspaper has bond all advertisements all fossil fuel based products and services with immediate effect the paper's editor cited environmental concerns for his decision a week after the biggest climate protest in history separately a 3rd of the world's banks have signed up to the un and on efforts to tackle climate change such as cutting back on investing in fossil fuel projects among the major players like deutsche bank city group barclays in total a 130 financial institutions in $49.00 countries have signaled out there on board but no to 7 of the world's 10 biggest banks are missing from the list the un initiative calls on banks to harmonize their strategies with the paris climate i agree ments and work towards a sustainable future from being seen as an over to move to mobilize the influential finance sector to a fund that will cause more problems it's saul's we put up for the scotian here in

sidelines of the un general assembly in new york in addition to a raft of geo political concerns sergey lavrov is expected to raise america's failure to issue visas to members of precious delegation to the un general assembly ahead of the session 10 delegates including the head of the russian consul committee on foreign affairs constantine kasich off we're not issued u.s. visas russia's foreign ministry called the move on precedent it failure by the u.s. to uphold its international obligations american officials said though that the correct paperwork had not been submitted. while we're waiting for a mike pompei on mr lavrov to emerge let's cross no better time to russia historian martin mccauley at for his take martin good to see you and perhaps we'll we'll get to the visa issue in just a moment that will certainly be touched upon but do you think it will or what will be the focus of the talks between. expect anything positive to come out of them today in new york. well if you look at the. american relations you'd be a pessimist you always have to remain an optimist there's always a better tom

ok let's go back to london to change gears here i want to talk about russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov he addressed the general assembly of the united nations in new york and i really like to the speech because he didn't mince his words if you know if you'll give me a 2nd here i'll give you 2 quotes that i liked of the most quote it's hard for the west to accept that it's centuries long domination is diminishing another sentence here the west has been increasingly forgetting about international law and more often dwell on what rules based order whatever that means ok marcus what's your major take away from that because it really was a salvo across the west bio about how the world is being run or not being run very well go ahead marcus in london. so roth is a magnificent diplomat and he delivers a magnificent speech and in my estimation he is russia's greatest amat after our own joy and he is absolutely correct that the west's power is waning it is diminishing but we must not get carried away by american global dominance or for medical very real military strength its cultural strengths

and he still strikes me as being a little bit similar to russian foreign minister sergei lavrov who has this habit of sort of talking around trump whenever there is a negative development he tends to attribute that to the american bureaucracy some mid-level saboteur within the administration but not the commander in chief itself and i thought that that he was pretty much playing the same game do you think the iranians are still hoping to leverage mr trump albeit indirectly. i hope not yet and i'm not you know blame me everything on. american bureaucracy or anybody you know the u.s. has by lots of problems in iran i don't know whether there is time to talk about these or not these bilateral problems john to be solved very quickly is there multilateral problems that are difficult to solve and then you know you need regular deal. privacy and at the moment president trump diplomacy seems very difficult for me that he through our new you know whoever that is and place and in tehran they don't have to play just one game you know if you you know how to play chess you don't necessarily know how

the don't trump has been briefed by a round before me a lawyer and the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov why do you think this case is attracting such high profile support because i think as we know people are concerned about the ability of international trade to operate in the in the right manner and this question about can business people who are going about their lawful business complying with the laws of the state can they be sure that if there is some sort of dispute it won't be turned against them in a way that leads to what happened to marsha $472.00 days in a kuwaiti prison confined in a room with 6 other women which was actually a cell phone to deprive in prison she was quite described as the russian woman in fact in court in some of the earlier hearings the judge described as the russian woman this does not show. an equality before the law which is finally we're in the same building as the cherie blair foundation what is it given controversial surname you have what is the validation and what does it do around the developing world. foundation for it it's 10 years old now and tho

responded to by the russian side no doubt about that when we turn the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov will no discuss the situation with the us secretary state my palm peo in new york the foreign ministry spokeswoman 2 was commented saying all applications were carried out on time it's an outrageous example of disrespect by the u.s. to u.n. members as well as an example of failure to fulfill obligation as the host country of the world are going is ation documents that we handed over for processing earlier a couple of months before departure were returned to us with the wording they have been handed in early you'll get more reaction from the coming hours next scene environmental activist group of thumb burghs once again grab global attention this time of the un's emergency climate summit she addressed world leaders there accusing them ever systrom lee of ignoring the problem she said. you have stolen my dreams my childhood with your empty words and yet i'm one of the ducks once. people are suffering people are dying entire school systems are collapsing we are in the beginning of a mass

why they didn't have a chance to go to the soundly but we know that russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov hoey is leading russian delegation at the u.n. general assembly is going to discuss that with my composure in his face to face meetings we've found a bit more of what these colors he's been described it's not the 1st time is it when you and foreign delegations of problems will get over to the you are far from the 1st time and even this year we know that you randi and president mr rouhani and iranian foreign minister mr zadi of obtain visa and they have no problems with go in there they are already in new york but some of the iranian delegations delegation members were denied american views and they're not going to participate and this is why some fear is that something about this visa thing is used by american side as an instrument to choose i mean to decide who's going to come to the u.n. general assembly who's not going and. doesn't sound you know ok well i know you took this. along with the russian foreign minister because he touched on the whole tell our viewers about that from ma