that's what it should all be about it's not about william hague yesterday i think it was again william hague said assad must step down well you know can you imagine if the syrian said to david cameron must step down that's not up to the syrian government to say that something to the british people to decide when they return goes in the same way it's up to the syrian people to decide whether president assad goes all right neil clark live with us on the line from the london contributor for britain's guardian newspaper thanks frank. thank you. but russia is refuting claims that syria's president might be seeking asylum in the country foreign minister sergei lavrov denied the allegations at a news conference with his german counterpart are. reports. of course the crisis in syria is no laughing matter and yet russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov was asserting that he heard a joke when during his visit to germany about a month ago german counterparts asked him point blank whether russia is ready to give the political asylum to the syrian president now russian delegation laughed it off say

. >> patrick seale, earlier this week, british foreign secretary william hague visited the syrian and jordan border and talked about some of the alleged atrocities he sought the regime committing and concluded, william hague, "electing no doubt the u.n. security council must pass an urgent chapter 7 resolution." can you talk about the significance of chapter 7, what that would mean in the event is invoked? >> chapter 7 opens the door for a resort to force by foreign powers, which the russians are totally against and have said many times, as are the chinese. they believe in the independence of sovereign states. sovereign states should not be attacked. [unintelligible] they will not accept american and german in that part of the world any longer. they say we also have interest and commercial deals. the chinese are major importers of iranian oil, for example. you have to remember, this sort in syria, this crisis in syria is intimately linked to the assault on iran. the united states and on by israel and supported by some european allies was to bring down the iranian and syrian regime. th

from david cameron from obama from hillary clinton from william hague foreign secretary in the day people don't want to talk about it anymore partly because there's a lot of talk about using a look in stone in syria and they don't want to acknowledge the fact that what we have seen is effectively a very fragmented libya in the past six months is that a realistic possibility do you think i mean would a division of power in the way work or is it going to cause trouble for where there is talk in benghazi and which is in the eastern region i think it's very telling that the libyan people have started to reassure these kind of tribal role and also go back to these old boundaries and divisions because rather than actually having to struggle for democracy that unifying sense of comradeship that i idea that they've really put everything on the line to get rid of gadhafi and to bring about a new society the west effectively the country into democracy you saw this a lot over you know in the past year where you know the west would effectively bomb the rebels then when it was safe to come in go in an

he also met with william hague. they faced challenges in europe, syria, egypt, the arab spring and their mutual love of kit-kat bars. romney pressed the point that he doesn't plan to criticize the president abroad. he did so again in the meeting with milliband. >> while i'm on foreign soil i'm careful not to be critical of my own policies. i would be more remiss if i were to be critical of any other government's policy. >> that was a response to the question from the british press corps asking romney about the sort of definite-first approach the uk has taken and how it's affected economic growth. in a wide-ranging interview with mr. brian williams, brian asked romney ahead of the trip to israel what assurances he can give to jewish-americans who are disappointed with the administration's policy toward israel. >> i don't want to be in any way critical of the president or to be fashions foreign policy departure from the president while on foreign soil. i can tell you with regards to any nation that feels security is a

and certainly with the british foreign secretary william hague he suggesting that today's violence in syria suggests the urgent need for chapter seven article seven to be implemented to therefore pave the way for military foreign intervention. from the gym where you have newspaper thank you very much indeed for coming on thank you very much as privileged to be there with you thanks thank you. now russia's foreign minister said he laughing off insists moscow will not support un sanctions against syria he added that if the western policy of the supporting opposition continues it would lead to an impasse as we mentioned earlier here on r t the comments come as moscow and turkey meet to discuss ways of stopping the bloodshed in the country and we can actually now get more details on the developments from r.t. if you're going to piss you off when you go to has turkey do you think at the end of the day you've been able to convince russia to get tough on damascus. while the thing is we could really be looking at a case of mixed interpretations because on one hand the turkish prime minister w

foreign secretary william hague he saying quote that today's bombing in damascus confirms the urgent need for the u.n. security council to implement chapter seven article seven ultimately permitting foreign venture in as we also know we're getting more details on this in a few minutes the turkish prime minister out of the one is here for talks in moscow to try and resolve the conflict in neighboring syria so if you will for the meantime just bring us up to speed on what's been happening in damascus certainly in the build up to today's massive explosion. well the syrian capital has been going for really tough times in the last seventy two dollars in the last full day we've been going through what free syrian army and opposition and all forces trying to bring in assad regime down has dogged as final battle and the decisive battle for damascus we've been hearing shootings in very different parts of the capital we've been seeing in black smoke drifting over the city skyline and we've also been hearing helicopter is not only flying over. the oldest continuously inhabited capitals in the w

william hague said, and both libya [unintelligible] and with a principal concern about democracy. in libya, we of interest. those interests include we do not want terrorist training camps in the desert, we don't want libya and african refugees getting into europe so we want to stop that flow, but most importantly, if we did not intervene, it would have terrible consequences for the price of oil. this is quite a contrast with how the iraq war was talked about. when i looked at this, it seemed, in my analysis, the big concern was -- it was oil behind a humanitarian concern. what they were worried about was if gaddafi had attacked benghazi, as a look like he was going to in march 2011, the international community with a felt compelled to apply sanctions to libya. and taking about 1.5 million barrels of oil off the market without constraint it and pushed up the price. it was a humanitarian concern in front, but an oil concern behind. >> and syria? >> what i have learned by studying iraq since 2003 is that a lot of the people involved in the occupation fought genuinely they were acting

. >> william hague said "in europe, not run by europe."f the euro zone is going to survive, it will have to make moves toward a more integrated state. we will not be part of that. you can choose your phrase accordingly. >> they will not call for convention. they would decide what each member state wants. >> that's a reasonable suggestion. i think that's what's happening in the moment is serious and proper conversations within european countries and between european countries about what needs to be done. i think we are only at the beginning of those conversations. how fast will the euro zone move to integrate? what will the relationship be with those countries outside the euro zone to those countries inside? you have countries like britain and denmark who don't want to join the euro zone. and you have poland who would like to join. there's a lot of work and thinking to be done and conversations to be had before we get to any convention. >> prime minister, there seems to be unanimity between you and the gentleman over the future. how are we