. >>> russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov is laughing off the results of an cnn investigation intoe nearly fatal poisoning of florida value any oig oig. he fell ill on a four hour flight and he nearly died. our investigation found evidence that russia's federal security service, the fs brchlt, had b, that specialized in deadly nerve agents and that the team had been trailing navalny for years. clarissa ward has more. tell us about sergey lavrov's efforts to down play what you found in this investigation. >> well, first of all, we should point out that this is well over 48 hours after this report first came out. and all we've heard during those two days is essentially radio silence. no response from the kremlin, no response from the fsb and not a peep either from russia media. and then today finally we hear from the foreign minister sergey lavrov speaking to journalists, he said simply that the report was basically funny to him. he went on to say that he had come to expect such things from the west ands that it was proof of a lack of ethics and in convention of legal norms ent inter

economy while the country is struggling to cope with the coronavirus russian foreign minister sergey lavrov says the u.s. move goes against international law yet he says it comes as no surprise. i should move through this is of course another example of arrogance towards international law a manifestation of illegitimate unilateral coercive measures that the united states has been using for many years even decades left and right and of course it doesn't increase us or thora t. on the international arena where it is a responsible participant in the international division of labor including military and technical cooperation. purchased the russian s 400 defense system in july 2019 washington had threatened to turkey with sanctions ever since claiming the system poses a threat to nato the s 400 is configured in a different way from other ground to air systems used by the alliance which means it cannot easily be incorporated into nato as wider air defenses in the region historian gerald horne believes that the u.s. stance is all about business. the only way for 30 to satisfy washington would be

accusations against him as a sign of hysterics from the russian president and russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov. won't be deterred from military cooperation with turkey this by pressure from the us washington has imposed sanctions on turkey over its deployment of a russian made missile defense system after meeting on tuesday lavrov and his turkish counterpart reiterated their countries to cooperate with. we have confirmed our mutual intention to develop military ties with turkey we appreciate as president putin has repeatedly stressed the attitude of our turkish colleagues towards further interaction in this field despite continued illegitimate pressure from washington hundreds of refugees have been arriving on the island of char off bangladesh despite safety and security concerns raised by human rights groups around $800.00 people are being moved from the overcrowded camps in cox's bazar tundra chadri reports in the port city of chittagong. around 800 running a refugee is boarded navy vessel in the post city of chittagong in southern bangladesh they have been sent to passion char island where

constitutionally the monday job the election commission to issue those results russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says moscow won't be deterred from military cooperation with turkey despite pressure from the u.s. washington has imposed sanctions on turkey over its deployment of a russian made missile defense system after a meeting on tuesday lavrov and his turkish counterpart reiterated their country's plans to cooperate with the extra. we have confirmed mutual intention to develop military ties with turkey's we appreciate as president putin has repeatedly stressed the attitude about turkish colleagues towards further interaction in this field despite continued illegitimate pressure from washington thousands in nepal's capital are protesting against the prime minister after he dissolved parliament called for early elections. fell out with members of his ruling communist party a coalition between himself and former maoist rebels all the says internal party politics have made his job impossible among the protesters or the former prime ministers who will say all these decision was unconstitutional.

international community need to do far more than just the lip service russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says moscow won't be deterred from military cooperation with turkey despite pressure from the u.s. washington has imposed sanctions on turkey over its deployment of a russian missile defense system after a meeting. this turkish counterpart reiterated that country's plans to cooperate. we have confirmed mutual intention to develop military ties with turkey we appreciate as president putin has repeatedly stressed the attitude about turkish colleagues towards further interaction in this field despite continued illegitimate pressure from washington. u.n. secretary general antonio terrace has called for a year of healing in his end of year message to terrorists reference the krona virus pandemic as well as the economic fallout and climate change some of the trials of 2020 the new year lies ahead and we did receive rays of hope people extending a helping hand to neighbors and strangers front line workers giving their all scientists the developing vaccines in record time countries making new

normalization between israel and arab countries should not replace the aim of creating a palestinian state sergey lavrov is holding talks in moscow with his u.a.e. counterpart they've been discussing a wide range of issues including the gulf crisis and situations in syria and libya and the saudi arabian port of jedda has been closed after an explosion on an oil tanker the shipping company hafnium said one of its oil tankers the b.w. rhine had been hit by an unidentified external source that caused an explosion of fire comes after another tanker was damaged by a mine off the coast last month that attack was blamed on yemen's through the rebels when leaders of 5 african nations are meeting to discuss the escalating violence in northern mozambique which is already displaced thousands of people the united nations says attacks by fighters linked eisel have forced 400000 people to flee armed groups uncovered el gato province have seized key towns for brief periods wanting to set up a caliphate there the region is also home to a multi-billion dollar natural gas project while i last spoke to lancaster he's the

haven't had any real proper response until just a few hours ago where the russian foreign minister sergey lavrovally he found this report, quote, it is funny to me is what he said. enwent on to say we're used to this type of thing from the west. he also said that people shouldn't make the mistake of concluding that moscow's silence for two days means that that is somehow an admission of ghiluil. but what he doesn't come is gheo the heart of the issue and answer the aeltsllegations. and secretary of state mike pompeo saying that the white house already weighed in, although they haven't really done anything in the lines of what we've seen fromment eu and uk. and we've also heard from purchase congressman mike mccaul who said that this new reporting uncovers truly disturbing information about the putin regime's culpability and pois poisoning navalny. and they must complete the investigation and release the findings immediately so the united states can hold those responsible to account for this inexcusable behavior. but there is no sense that that is coming to any swift conclusion. and navalny telli

sergey lavrov, the foreign minister of russia, talking to journalists in croatia, saying that the reportny to me. also saying, "we're used to this coming from the west," implying that it was unethical and possibly in contravention of international legal norms, though not clear exactly what he means by that. he also lashed out at people who have been trying to interpret the two-day silence from moscow and the kremlin, saying that the assumption that silence somehow mea means guilt is, quote, a flawed approach, which is obvious to any sane person. still, though, alisyn, not getting to the meat of the issue, which is, in fact, what is the response to our reporting and what will be done about this unit of fsb operatives? >> we call that in the business a non-denial denial. they didn't address the substance of your report really at all there, clarissa. we've also been waiting for a response from the trump administration. and we did get that overnight. secretary of state mike pompeo in an interview, this is what he said. quote, we recognize and were among the first to call out this unbelievabl

for two and a half days, basically, other than one flippant remark from the foreign minister, sergey lavrov over how to respond to this. and even the way the question was phrased, and it's important to remember, they really do plant questions with their favorite reporters in the audience, the reporter kind of lumped it in with a bunch of other recent investigative reports, mostly about putin's family, so he was trying to sort of not draw too much attention to it, to almost make it feel like it's not such a big deal. and you had to really sort of sift through the mud around it to get to the nub of what he was actually saying, which, as i said, appears to essentially confirm our reporting. >> i don't suppose you were able to ask putin a question, clarissa? >> no, surprisingly, perhaps not surprisingly, my accreditation did not arrive for me to participate in this event, which is still going strong, more than three hours after it began. >> funny how the mail works. thank you, clarissa. thank you so much for all of this reporting. and obviously, things happen by the hour, there are new developm

normalization between israel and arab countries should not replace the aim of creating a palestinian state sergey lavrov is holding talks in moscow with his u.a.e. counterparts they've been discussing a wide range of issues including the gulf crisis and the situations in syria and libya. leaders of 5 african nations on missing to discuss rising violence and displacement of in northern mozambique the united nations says attacks by ice a linked feiss have forced 400000 people to flee the u.s. has officially removed saddam from its list of state sponsors of terrorism the trumpet ministration of proof that move as a side deal to sudan's wilma's ation agreement with israel in october washington and khartoum signed an agreement to restore the country's sovereign immunity meaning that it can no longer be sued an american courts well those are the headlines and now it's back to part 2 of rewind. november 2009 and the president of the united states issues a stern warning to north korea over its nuclear program. north korea behaves in a provocative fashion. then. is willing to return to talks. talks for a while a

we did hear something today from the foreign minister, sergey lavrov.rt funny. he said he was used to these types of things from the west, and he said one shouldn't confuse russia's silence on this issue with an admission of guilt. but not really any substantial, meaningful response to our allegations, anderson. >> given the importance of what you uncovered, has there been any reaction from other countries or in washington? >> reporter: well, i mean we have heard from secretary of state mike pompeo. he essentially said that, you know, the u.s. has already called out russia on its activities and that this investigation needs to happen and russia needs to give a full accounting of what happened. but the reality is that unlike the uk and the eu, who have both come out, who have called this an assassination attempt, who have levied sanctions against top defense officials, against kremlin officials, the u.s. really has been dragging its heels on this one. and that's one thing that navalny told me. he said, i want to see the u.s. be on the right side of histo

but russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov was asked about the story during a trip to the czech republicormal diplomatic work, and an unwillingness to comply with international legal laws when it comes to establishing facts. alexei navalny received treatment in germany after the attack, and spent more than a month in hospital. his response to this story was to tweet "case closed". lets get more from olga ivshina on the reaction from russia. reaction of russian foreign minister was quite usual. he said it was a joke. he said this was a provocation. what is interesting, russia isn't presenting its own version of events. not only today or yesterday, but russian officials prefer yesterday, but russian officials p refer to yesterday, but russian officials prefer to say may be he poisoned himself, maybe he was poisoned in germany, and vladimir putin said if the russian is not dead there is no need to open a criminal case. what's interesting is that this investigation is widely discussed on russian social media but points of view depend on whether they oppose or support the kremlin. pro—kremlin

then finally, we heard today a little something from the foreign minister, sergey lavrov. about our report, it was funny to him. he said that he had come to expect such things from the west, that it was proof of a lack of ethics, that he also thought it was in contravention of international legal norms. not clear exactly what he meant there. and he also said that one should not mistake moscow's silence on this issue for any kind of an admission of guilt. what he didn't say, though, wolf, is the question everyone wants to know, which is, what is the kremlin's position about this team of operatives, and what role did these operatives play in the poisoning of alexei navalny? that we haven't gotten an answer from. the question is will we hear it tomorrow? putin will be giving his national press conference. it can go anywhere from three to five hours on occasion, but the questions are curated in advance and they are heavily cherry-picked. sadly, i will not be allowed to ask a question. and so, we're very much hoping that our colleagues, both russian and western journalists, wil