AFP's Katherine Haddon has tweeted this image of the UK's House of Commons agenda for today -- which is taken up by the debate over whether Britain should join the United States, France and others in bombing IS targets in Syria.
AFP's correspondent in Ankara is tweeting that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said he agrees to meet with his Turkish counterpart for the first time since last week's downing of a Russian Su-24 jet near the Syrian border.
Lavrov 'Won't Evade Contact' With Turkish FM During OSCE Meeting
Russian government daily Rossiskaya Gazeta (RG) has more on Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's potential meeting with his Turkish counterpart.
RG quotes Lavrov as saying that Turkey has proposed a meeting between him and his Turkish counterpart, Mevlut Cavusoglu, at the OSCE Ministerial Council in Belgrade which starts tomorrow, December 3.
"The Turkish side is strongly urging that a private meeting be arranged with the Turkish foreign minister on the sidelines of the OSCE Ministerial Council. We won't evade this contact. We will listen to what Cavusoglu has to say -- perhaps there will be something new compared with what has been said publicly," Lavrov said.
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov has called Turkey's downing of a Russian war plane near the Syrian border an attempt to derail Syria peace talks in Vienna, due in January.
"It seems that someone really wants to interfere with the political settlement process in Syria and help Islamists prevail in Syria and in the region," Lavrov said in a press conference this morning.
"It is clear that relations between Russia and Turkey in this situation cannot continue on the principle of business as usual, and it is clear that we consider this act by Turkey as against the interests of the war on terrorism."
Tweets from the official account of UK Prime Minister David Cameron setting out his position on IS during a parliamentary debate over whether the UK should join the United States, France and others in air strikes on IS in Syria.
Russia's Defense Ministry has begun a press briefing entitled "Russian military forces in the war on international terrorism. New information."
Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoy is talking about Russian air strikes degrading oil refining, extraction and storage by "terrorist" groups in Syria.
He says that Russian strikes have degraded 32 oil refining complexes, 11 oil refining factories and 23 oil pumping stations.
The strikes have destroyed 1,080 oil tankers that were transporting oil, he said.
As a result, the illegal circulation of oil has reduced by 50 percent and the "terrorists' income from the illegal business has reduced from $3 to $1.5 million dollars per day."
Russian Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov has said that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family are "involved in the system of IS oil supply," pro-Kremlin news site RIA Novosti is reporting.
Russia's Defense Ministry is holding a press briefing right now about Russia's military forces and the "war on international terrorism."
Russia's Defense Ministry has said that it will produce proof that Turkey is involved in the IS group's illegal shipments of oil.
Russia made that accusation following the downing last week of a Russian war plane by Turkey near the Syrian border.
It seems that this is a main point of the Defense Ministry's press conference on Russia's military involvement in Syria.
The Russian Defense Ministry has presented what it claimed are satellite photos of fuel tankers on the Turkey-Syria border.
The Ministry has promised to post these images on its website for public viewing.
The Russian Defense Ministry says its satellite photos show 1,722 oil tankers parked in eastern regions of Syria and that Russia is aware of three routes for oil shipments by IS to Turkey.