Moscow says it will not let the UN Security Council sanction military action in Syria. Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has said external players are provoking the Syrian opposition to continue fighting despite Kofi Annan's peace plan, with the country now on the brink of a full-scale civil war.br br READ MORE: br Patrick Hayes - a reporter from the online magazine 'Spiked', believes intervention in Syria would only aggravate an already volatile situation.br br Subscribe to RT! br Watch RT LIVE on our website br Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Google+ br RT (Russia Today) is a global news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 500 million YouTube views benchmark.