yes, that's right, so we know that the format initially will be quite structured and quite intimate. what's taking place right now. we expect is that really there will just be 4 people in the initial meeting in that room. it will be the u. s. president joe biden, the russian president vladimir putin. it will also include their secretary state and foreign minister, in this case in the united states cited it's antony blinking. and it is the foreign minister are for russia. sir kayla rob. so these are the men that will be initially holding this meeting, but it will expand from there. they will each have a delegation for each side which will consist of 5 member. so 10 in total. and they will continue to discuss these issues with a bit more support because what we know is trying to be achieved. and all of this, at least from the us down point, is a framework. they want to try and find not only the areas of ground but to build on

this discussion. and so that is why it's happening early in the term of joe biden. in his presidential term, he just came into office officially, january. so we're not even 6 months or roughly 6 months. and so this is important to him it's, he's talked about his approach in terms of how he wants to approach foreign relations. and it wants to be, he wants to be multilateral. so not only the choreography of this meeting, but also the timing and the calendar has all been orchestrated by the united states . they deliberately set up this meeting in order for it to happen. following the meeting of the g 7 leaders and following the meeting of the nato leaders so that the u. s. president could consult with those allies and then bring the full weight of the west as well as it's solid charity into that room as they discuss these various issues. we'll leave it with that for the moment with you. kimberly crucial, stand by as we wait to see what happens at this meeting. a. kimberly, how could our white house correspondent in geneva?

let's bring in the andre cousin all he's director general. the russian international affairs council joins me now from moscow via skype. thanks for joining us on the program. so lots of discussion about how these 2 leaders will find common ground or how they will try and work together. what you main priority is building up a personal relationship to start with, to see and gauge how you can work with your opposite number. well, i'm not sure that there is any chemistry between the 2 leaders. they definitely know each other for a long time, but i don't think that it's not the sympathy between the 2. however, in the relations between moscow, washington i respect, has always been more important than sympathy. so i think that it's important for them to overcome or potential, personally reservations and to get down to business. so a lot will depend on what they're going to start their negotiations with. or they

might start accusing the shadow there is or own doing certain scenes. but they might start to look in for some areas where we are us and russian interests. all that, for example, arms control in the let a case the summit might turn out to be successful. what areas that they can agree upon. i mean, start treaties of, of come and gone and been renewed issues of the climate and issues of north korea areas possibly where they might find common ground. would you agree or not? i would agree, i will say that this issue said, of course, there are some other issues we are russia, the united states, already corporate for example, in the arctic. i think that they can discuss some regional kaiser's even on syria. there overlaps they might to agree on the extension of the last year. united,

united nations security council resolution on humanitarian carried ours corridors which are offered to block i think that they can discuss i'll get this done. and again, i think there is no build up and interval so on of getting this done. but of course there are some quite sensitive areas where they are less likely to find common ground. so like you paid for example, or below. so human rights, or the fate of the russian opposition leader alex said, well on the here it is very difficult to imagine how they can bridge the gap in their perspective. their perceptions, president bible, according to our white house correspondent, may be holding the cause in terms of the weight of support. he comes with via the g 7 and nato. into this meeting. president putin has been quite isolated for some time. how much of a wind does he need from this meeting? and what form do you think it might be? i think that the meeting itself. so the minister station,

the ashley is not complete lights. elated to that, to some extent, russia is an indispensable international actor of the united states has to do with it. so it can already be considered a diplomatic victory for blood in the food and but i think that they're able to find common grounds at least on a number of issues. and they're able to his tour, the normal diplomatic relations between the 2 nations. that would be already considered a major accomplishment because of course, they come from the embassy war that we have between moscow and washington is, is that a mental to relationship? and it creates additional risks for not just for the countries, but for the international stability in general. how important and how crippling have sanctions, international sanctions been on russia. and how important is that a factor in you might say the next steps that present putin would like to see

loosening up? i think that definitely does nothing good about sanctions and russia does talk from sanctions at the same time. i think that in most school, the realistic, the understand that it's very likely that any sanctions will be lifted and they anticipate more sanctions. the question is whether we will have more or less the same types of sanctions, sanctions against specific personalities or you know, specific private companies associated with examine or the united states might go for new sectoral sanctions sections against the russian energy sector worth sanctions against the russian financial sector, of course, in these latter case, the implications for the russian economist would be much more serious. and i think

that in moscow they expect that the burden and ministration though will practice broadens and moderation in their sanctions. policies. andrea, because, you know, thanks so much for joining us from moscow and as you can see on your screen right now, the smaller meeting that we were expecting between president biden and present to him, they are flanked by the foreign ministers onto the blink. and the 2nd law for off that meeting will be small and intimate. they will fresh out most probably the, the pressing issues that they want to get across want to discuss between the form and then they will expand that meeting. let's just listen to what the president has to say. the still, the us and russian relations, a lot of issues accumulated that were the highest level meeting. and i hope that our meeting will be productive all the

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the the, the well, that's a like all the interior library, certainly brief typically managed to here was the translation from president putin saying that i hope our meeting will be productive then joe biden went on to say it's always good to meet face to face. and then i think he said and say the valuable knows that they microphones future landscape may be one where they can co operate on a word to that effect. i'm sure with a much more detail statement. once all the press has left, i presume, and the photo coal has been taken up. obviously, the whole plethora of the media outlets. just wanting to take those initial

photograph and images of the 1st me and also the peasant biden and present to him with antony blink. and the secretary state for the u. s. the 2nd law, for all the foreign minister for russia. flanking that presidents, this is a very small meeting to start with and it will be expanded as time progresses that spring gain. kimberly how kit saw white house correspondent, the presto, always obviously wanting to get as many questions out to those leaders as possible, but they were keeping this statements very short. kimberly yeah, and this was deliberate, at least i know on the part of joe biden when he was asked repeatedly by the us media, what he was hoping to accomplish, how he was going to approach this meeting, what kind of preparation he had done. he said, look, i'm not going to forecast this, that's not how i roll basically. and so he really has kept his cars kind of close

to his chest in terms of how he's going to play this in terms of the body language we've been looking at. so far it almost appears as if there is some sort of annoyance. c on the part of the russian side survey lab, rob, looking at his watch there, you know, the body language vladimir putin. it's kind of slugged back in his chair and the u . s. for it's part entity blink in the secretary state, looking around kind of wondering when the process was going to leave. and joe biden kind of looking like, can we get this started please? it seems like there is a bit of impatience on the part of all of these men, that they really are tired of the formalities and really want to roll their sleeves up and get to work. that's what they came here to do. they, they want to have these discussions. i know that for joe biden part, he's an ordinary guy. he's the kind of guy that when he was in congress, he used to sit on the damn track train from delaware right down to washington d. c. and mix with everybody else says and she was sort of conducting his business

. he's never been that kind of senator that wants to sit in an ivory tower and carried that into the white house, whether it is as vice president or president. so that's the approach he takes a look. can we just stop this? i want to get to work can be the for their part though, the u. s. media has been almost salivating at the opportunity to see these 2 men sitting side by side. they want to see for the american public, a very different approach, and they saw with donald trump when he met with flood we are poor because the feeling was that he didn't stand up for the united states. so they're looking to joe biden to do that, to reflect american interests, and it appears that both sides are eager, at least joe biden is came to do. so it appeared. lot of recruiting is eager to hear what he has to say. so now the work begins and the villa behind me and the question becomes, how long are they going to talk? indeed, i mean, how long is a piece of string? hey, kimberly. i mean, these are the latest pictures of course. now the pictures are being broadcast from outside developer itself, door shut. deployments known to raj is outside until about meeting is expanded and

of course, you know, we talk to various analysts in the lead up to this meeting. so many issues from the annexation of crimea on the issue with ukraine. cyber attacks in the united states, political prisoners, syria, a. but $11.00 issue that was brought out with our last guest was i've got to stand the american pull out and stability within that part. of the world is, and pull is, is important to russia as it is to the u. s. that will both countries have a long history there and they've, they've both in many ways been accused of, of contributing to that instability. so this is something that's going to have to be discuss. it has an expiration date in terms of how much time they have left to discuss this. because of course, the us president has announced the withdrawal of us troops and allies have match this that it will be on the anniversary of the september 11th attacks that really

spurned the united states to take action to invade and, and to go after those. they felt were responsible to get to those training camps where they were training for that attack on the world trade center, as well as the us pentagon. so this is enormously important to americans. we're coming up on that very important 20 year anniversary of that attack. and so there's no question, this is something that will be discussed by both sides. but in terms of the issues that are most eminent, one that had an enormous economic impact in recent months in the united states has been the ransomware attacks has been meddling in us elections in recent years. and these are the ones that americans are generally most concerned about the united states is still being itself like the rest of the world out of covert 19 and the economic devastation that occurred as a result of those locked downs to contain the spread of the virus. and the united

states cannot afford to continue to have its major companies being held ransom by the cyber attacks. and so, even though we know vladimir putin has denied and said, where's the proof that this is occurred and that this was conducted by russia and the united states saying, well, it may not have been state sponsored. you're certainly harboring the cyber hackers who are committing these crimes that you know, this discussion about how this can be resolved is going to be difficult, given the fact that russia is really not accepting responsibility in any way. and this is kind of the issue for many of the topics that will be discussed is that, well, the us will make these a allegations for the most part, vladimir putin denies them. so it's going to be very hard. and when it comes to the issue of human rights, which we know that anthony blinking and joe biden have said, it's the foundation of u. s. foreign policy. vladimir putin is repeatedly just kinda shrugged his shoulders like no problem. 7 here, nothing to see here,

and yet the rest of the western world certainly disputes that so this was going to be a difficult challenge and they've really got a few hours to handle issues that have been years if not decades in the making. and they will continue to follow events in geneva with you. kimberly, as the day progresses. kimberly helped that all white house correspondent in geneva and the scene at la villa lagrange lakeside chateau hosted the previous meetings between american and russian presidents in the past. and it's hosting world right now, of course we'll go back to that as and when we have any sort of press conference here on out there. ah, the days of the news, a 2nd candidate has dropped out all the roles, presidential race on the final. they have campaigning, conserve to value as it's connie says he's throwing his support behind front of him icy. earlier today, reform is most in dollars. had that also pulled out,

but without backing anyone else, there were now 5 candidates left in the race as a beg has more from the capital to her own. well, it won't make much of a difference. heard is that there was polling around one percent. he's a reformist and hadn't secured the support of any prominent reform, his individual or faction. connie was, he was expected, they were room and that he would pull out in favor of rights. in fact, the moderate candidate, him a p, the former governor of the central bank, he accused some of the conservative candidates that they would be dropping. i can favor of right, you see, and this comes just to i was, i was after around 20 lawmakers wrote elected to 3 of the conservative candidates, asking them to pull out in favor of you. the right uses. vote to share would increase. but in, in the wider context, it makes little difference. abraham, right? you see the, the head of the judiciary and the french on its way ahead in the polls. and because

of the disqualifications doesn't really have much of opposition in the selection. and many people feel that it's already a done deal. and group in me and mar, opposed to february's military coup says it's holding a tax on government forces. the currently national defense full. so it's been under pressure from the public to stop fighting in highest states where it operates. more than a 100000 people have been displaced by the convict. a human investigator has warned that they are at risk of starvation and disease. annie chang has more from the time the more border. this valley marks the border between mamma and thailand. and while it appears tranquil reports coming from the other side and can state all that it is anything but memos, ami has launched offensive, using heavy artillery and attack helicopters against towns just 20 or 30 kilometers over the border. and that in turn has forced more than a 100000 people to seek sanctuary in the jungles. over here, we understand that one of the groups that have been fighting against the mamma army

has cool for a cease for, but that is just one small area and very few people will be reassured of their long term future. nonetheless, conditions for the refugees have fled, or apparently desperate members army has closed off the entire state. and apparently now food, clean water and shelter, are in very short supply. acer lanchen family seeking asylum in australia has been reunited after they were separated when the youngest daughter became sick. not as elaine gumbo who got the flu to perth, with his oldest daughter copier from the christmas island detention center in the indian ocean on tuesday. now his youngest daughter is being treated in hospital for blood poisoning due to untreated pneumonia and her mother was allowed to travel with her for fears any one caught trying to reach australia by boat without documentation has been sent to remote offshore detention centers. hundreds of being held in prison comes in the specific islands of no room and pop when you get here, where there are. well, the refugee status is being assessed,

and he was in need of medical treatment is taken to the relate australian territory of christmas island, which is closer to indonesia than the mainland. australia's human rights commission says the detention center on christmas island should be closed because its inhumane living conditions and that the overcrowded facilities that make it impossible to stop the spread of cove at 19. jonathan, sheena is the chief executive officer of the public interest advocacy center. that's a social justice and law policies. and he says that the motor up and family are the latest victims of australian school policy towards asylum seekers. i can comment on the individual circumstances these families case, but one thing that is very well known as the community coenzyme where we're living in the community is very came back that were making a great contribution. united community and in the state. the government has taken this, this extraordinary approach of spending countless millions of dollars to the time them to ship them to christmas island,

to hold them in detention. they're pretty standard periods of time despite the distress that causes, despite the evidence that we had really decades of the mental hom that it causes into place children in that position to proofpoint. frankly, it is really the, it's, it's, it's an extraordinary situation and it's just a relate to like, family entities since i've not been to the center. but i'm saying, i'm not saying the images and i certainly read reports about it. you know, does it is a detention center. right. and why it's set up to the i want to have a higher level of security. and one of the recommendations of the human rights commission is my report, is that it be clients, it's not suitable for people from often a very vulnerable cohort. people who have often fled from circumstances torture in trauma. they just aren't the search isn't appropriate. facilities available there so that people can be held safely. and so the commission is recommended absolutely

unequivocally. it should be taken, we should should not be each of us. when the situation they suicide of a young man in india administered cush me, has highlighted the struggle of families accused of descent. hundreds of people have had their salaries withdrawn, pushing many into poverty lower. but man, we have more it's heartbreaking for any parent. but she mere some, had a seemingly bright future pursuing a master's degree in psychology. but 2 weeks ago, he ended his life inside his home and co gum in india's administered kashmir. but she offered me a shows al jazeera police statements that accused him of being a rebel against the indian government, asking us before his death. sure, but she may, as stated in this video of the government punished his father by withdrawing his teaching salary for more than 2 years. effectively forcing him into poverty live

by can totally, i mean, you don't actually sit up. my son took this extreme step because we were in that we had taken out a loan from the bank and borrowed money from people left around $11000.00 us dollars. my son would often ask me about the money. he would always worry about how we were going to survive on how will he pay his college fee that we should show it, but she appears death had an immediate impact in the region. the government released hundreds of wages the withheld from state employees, many of whom were accused of having links to rebels. but it has ordered a special task force to investigate those have been accused of descent. its political crack down by india government. after scrap the muslim majority region, special status nearly 2 years ago that all the channels being code, they immediately terminated the services which is unpaired. and again,

the basic, what else been top nice from justice as well as the right community and part the life luther right. the life includes right. the lulu bedstead, the bundle of dust you. you will get a large rece. jen had been teaching for 15 years when he was handed a dismissal notice last month. the father of 3 said he attended mass protest in 2016 against the killing of a kush mary rebel leader. when he was arrested and detained. zoom education office . i got a call informing me that our house had been cordoned off by the indian army who were looking for me. later. the police then asked me to open an envelope, contain my dismissal order. it was written that i am a threat to state security and involved in anti national activities on the order left me stunned who was john says this move is designed to silence opponents. but he insists he will fight the decision in court and attempt to shape

a future, whereas children are not afraid to speak up north out in money. and sarah, the us attorney general has unveiled a plan to combat the threat of domestic terrorism. garland is seeking a $100000000.00 to funded alan fisher has more from the white house after a violent more attack, the us capital on january the 6th, the fight the administration, which so called domestic terrorism, a top priority resources and f b. i field officers to be moved, more federal lawyers employed to prosecute cases. the attorney general medic, garland says, it's the biggest threat facing america in the f. b. i's view the top domestic violence, extremis threat comes from racially or ethnically motivated violence, extremis. specifically, those who advocate for the superiority of the white race in a statement president joe biden said, domestic terrorism, caused by hatred, prejudice, and other extremism, is

a stain on the american soul. it goes against everything. our country strives for garland was the federal prosecutor in the oklahoma bombing, the biggest case of domestic terrorism in us history. 168 people died. that was in 1901905. in recent years, the number of attacks is increased from the targeting of members of congress by a left wing gunman at a baseball game. the shooting at the pulse night club in orlando were 49 people died. and the cut attack on anti fascist protesters in charlottesville in virginia, which killed a young woman no the f. b. i plans to increase intelligence sharing work with tech companies to eliminate content that could incite extremism and work across government to identify and ru tote. potential attackers or supporters even in military and law enforcement. the national strategy is designed to coordinate and provide a principal path for the federal government's efforts to counter the heightened domestic terrorist threat using all available tools. the term white house was often

reluctant even to acknowledge the issue of domestic terrorism. often comparing the threat from right wing extremists to that of black lives matter protests and t for the anti fascist group. even though intelligence report said that white supremacy was a key driver of domestic terrorism, this plan acknowledges the elevated threat and asked congress to find $100000000.00 to help fight it. the justice department led by garland is evaluating whether to us congress to pass a specific law, addressing what it regards to domestic terrorism becomes li don't exist when he lawmakers believe existing laws are enough. i one, fisher, i'll just either the white house of the call for 10 to our top story president, may putin meats present. joe biden, at la villa groans engine eva where the 2 leaders of russia and the united states will go into long talk with the ministers about all the issues that are worrying

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government al jazeera as a, you know, i don't y'all just bear with me. so rosalind, doha, reminder of our top stories presents joe biden and vladimir putin, our meeting in the city of geneva, in front of the world's media. putin said he's hoping for a productive meeting while by and says it's always better to meet face to face earlier. both sides said russia us relations are at the lowest point in yes. and the play don expectations of any significant developments. whitehouse correspond, kimberly how kit is following went forth from geneva. the hard work really starts now. it seems kimberly and a bit of

a chaotic scene as things got underway. what we have heard in terms of.