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known as a swift city of peace. vladimir putin. thank joe biden for initiating the closed door meeting. geneva biden responded by saying it's always better to meet face to face. it wasn't so cozy in the lead up to the talk with both sides saying relations are the lowest point in years. they play down expectations of significant developments and here's where they're trying to sort out their differences at a meeting that's expected to last a few more hours, 4 or 5 hours. they reckon the lake side like ranch has been the scene of some landmark international agreements, including the 1st geneva convention which governs international humanitarian law. this meeting marks the end of an 8 day european mission from biden. it's his 1st big overseas trip since taking office speak to all white house correspondent who's in geneva. it can be how it gets right there. so kimberly, yeah, it's always better to meet face to face as biden, but even face to face, it's very difficult. terrain isn't it?

very difficult, in fact, was difficult. further. her porter is meeting face to face and both the russian and us sites. in fact, as the report tried to get in to cover this meeting, there was a lot of pushing and shoving, so much so that at one point the swiss authorities kept both sides of reporting pools out, eventually allowing them to get in after the commotion sort of settled down, but not everybody was allowed in that had been promised to go in. so there's some controversy over press freedom, media access and sort of be orderly nature of the start of this meeting. so most people hoping that the meeting between the 2 presidents gets off a little bit better than it did between the media. and they are discussing some very thorny issues. for the u. s. part they are going to be talking about concerns about aggressive behavior on the part of russia, trying to limit that, trying to keep a stable and predictable relations with russia moving forward. as you mentioned, some of the lowest in decades and for its part,

russia not really expecting that the rift that occurs between the united states and russia with regard to its invasion of crimea in 2014, that that can be repaired. not really looking for a lifting of sanctions, economic sanctions, but they are looking for open lines of communication and being able to protect their own interest. take a listen to what the russian spokes person had to say. no, not 3 years ago or so. number new spring is part of the talks today will not be easy. it will be a very difficult conversation. there are many great questions on the agenda of russian american relations and they are mostly problematic, including strategic stability and purely bilateral issues. we have many long neglected questions that need to be told through. that's why president putin is arriving with an attitude to frankly and constructively sit questions and try to find solutions. kimberly, is there any common ground, any low hanging fruit if you like?

well, it's interesting because initially reported and went out with the pool report that in fact, when joe biden was asked sitting alongside vladimir putin, if he trusted him, the u. s. president appeared to nod, but what we're hearing from the white house communication team doing a little bit of clarification on that. not as in fact that the, they said the us precedent was really nodding in general to the commotion of shouted questions, but not in any way conveying that there was any trust between the leader. so that's our starting point. add to that, leading up to it. there was a bit of name calling between the 2 leaders in their respective interviews with the media. so this is the building block on which they try to move forward. we should point out, but the bar has been set pretty low in terms of what can be achieved. this meeting is expected to last, roughly 4 to 5 hours and will only find out what happens in what areas they did have any break through. was those press conferences following the meetings occur, the 1st one will be with the russian leader vladimir putin followed by giving the

last word to the us president show bite. and so we'll have to wait and see. we do know there were issues of concerns with human rights, democracy on the us side and for it's part moscow looking to protect and security interest. so we're watching carefully as the discussions continue or commit to me. very interesting. see how things come out if it's being thanks very much. when it's enough from bonus smithy has more from moscow on what putin might hope to get out of the summit. it's been 7 years since the g 8 became the g 7. and russia stopped getting invites vladimir putin decision to alex crimea, prompted the suspension from this gathering of the world's most powerful democracy . since then, russia's president has become more isolated. only the president of tajikistan joined him for the victory de commemorations. so summit with the us president is a qu putin. he's cooper for the meeting will be widely promoted by russian

propaganda because put in is sort of emerging from international isolation and at the highest level for him. the fact of the summit itself is important, but it's the u. s. it's driving the agenda because it's far from clear what pooty will get from his talks with biden. i'm headed to meet with mr. to let him know what i want him to know. the u. s government, russia policy presumes a high degree of friction in the relationship he used to put in your new po, which at work. if food gets nothing from this meeting, i think he'll show us a scary movie and it will be bad if the almost worn april wasn't enough. it's september, we'd get a semi war. would it be difficult for moscow to send his troops into ukraine? no. as well as ukraine, there'll be plenty to talk about when both men meet in this villa on the shores of lake geneva. disputes are reelection interfere and cyber crime and human rights cast a shadow over the meeting. arms control and regional conflicts will also be on the

agenda the long. i think biden strategy is based on the fact that american society economy and technology have a future while putin's regime has no future. that's why biden doesn't need to rush . americans are not really worried about the fate of vonnie or other jailed russian opposition. members, so there will be pressure on putting but not very strong because they need to keep the communication channel open. is it even possible for the us and russia to come to agreement over the status of crimea, or what to do about the bellows, dictate to alexander lucas shank or how to resolve the syrian civil war or bloomer . the problem is simple. the west con, get put in what he wants. freedom of action in the posts region cannot and will not while that's exactly what to to needs. so when a dead end and may well end up with a war, at least on the re staffing of each of his embassies. both lead as could come to a mutually beneficial agreement. here that the topic bolton have left us and russian diplomatic mission operating with skeleton that affects diplomatic exchange

is severely disruptive, issuing a visa foreign ministry that it's ready to review normal operations with just 24 hours. notice if the us agree. furnace smith, alger 0 mosque, the united states and russia have often been an old xavier, the global influence. the u. s. strongly condemn, beller is for the interception of a flight traveling between 2 nato allies. lead, alexander lucas shank scramble to fight the jets for c civilian plain to land in order to arrest an opposition activist on board putin through his support behind lucca. shanker. last year, russia accused washington of trying to ferment a revolution in belarus. during mass protest against an alleged rigged election, washington is often shown frustration over the criminal support sir and president bush allison, it's vito power at the u. n. has blocked the us from taking military action in syria and russian support for anti government rebels and ukraine. and it's occupation of crimea have resulted in the u. s. imposing sanctions on russia. but

in an apparent friendly move, the white house wave sanctions against the gas pipeline from russia to the european union. ever. lucas is a senior fellow at the center for european policy analysis. please say join us from london, skype. really welcome to the program. as the innocent, you say this is already a successive lead me preaching because, you know, before even got the play they've been invited by joe biden and the areas showing up in russia that the top table yes, you're right, name that. so russia, which has an economy, the size of italy to be treated as one of the world's great cause, is very important. it's important in terms of maintaining preaching credibility around the world and his popularity inside russia. because russians their country to be respected and treated as if it was really important. but the question is, what, what happens next? and it seems to me that he wants to park the russia problem. he doesn't really want

to reset relations the way that president obama tried 6 to, but it was 12 years ago. and so i'm not sure what will that she take away from the, from the some it's other than the facial. yeah, he's dealing with a very different person, isn't the person then from the last president, of course he's gonna get a hard line for me by disney. he's in the driving seat. i think biting these in the driving seat, but not necessarily driving the right direction. that wish the things that russia wants it talk to, the americans, whether they they actually happen. so for example, as your coast on just said increasing that i was of diplomats, at each other's embassies, would be, would be $11.00 sort of symbolic way of improving relations. but i think biden is quite happy to have relations. i say he wants them stable because he's a big thing is to concentrate on china. that's the overwhelming strategic challenge,

the united states. and although we've seen by doing a lot in europe with nato and the g 7 and the you. and so i think this is probably the last we'll see a by in europe for some time that what he really wants to do is to get together with indian japan, south korea and australia, and focus on questions like taiwan. and the question really is, does russia want to be parks and i'm not sure it does. i think why she wants to drive down the middle of the road with the lights on the music blaring and finishes . so there's a slight, a symmetry here between what the 2 sides want, given the china is more biden's focused. why would he then set up this meeting with i think that he hopes that he can part fingers. he's going to say it was a lot. we disagree on, we're not going to come to agreement quickly. let's at least agree not to have nasty surprises and we will get maybe be talk about nukes and strategic meekest ability. because that's something that the 2 sides of always talk on even at the,

during the cold war, we are talking to brush deaf and khrushchev and others about nuclear weapons and the sort of big crises and so on. so we can talk about that maybe climate change, maybe some diplomacy on iran because the united states wants to revive the iran deal in russia. was a policy so that there's always things that these countries can talk about. but i don't think that will get to have a kind of dramatic improvement relations who did address it, deterioration either both sides interest, sound pretty tough and say, you know, i told i told the other side what, what doug gave them very tough message. and then there'll be some smiles and handshake, separate press conferences, and i think that will be it for the next few months. do you think they'll be any sticks and carts? a biden can bring to bad to try and change rushes, behavior daily. as you say, you probably went by the getting done at re well, there's been quite some quite tough sanctions already own following russian cyber attacks on the united states. and i think in, in

a way the pushing still wants to meet after these sanctions was away of the united states saying if you meet you meet on our terms, they will say through a bit of a bone to the russians by lifting the sanctions on the nord stream to point cline, not so rush german gas pipeline, and that was a possibility or small desk de escalation. but the question now is, what happens with pushing foreign policy to see, continue to crank up the pressure on ukraine. what's happening with bella, rus, which is basically a russian proxy and he's behaving like a rogue states. as you mentioned with the sky jacking. what happens with the big russian bell? russian military maneuvers which already underway and culminate in september the so called zap, had maneuvers. what's happening with china, china will be present at those maneuvers which take place on russian. i get a russian territory. and so there's, there's a lot of moving parts here. and i think if the americans think that they can just

freeze relations and get on with other things, they may find they have some unpleasant surprises or that will look great to get your perspective. appreciate that. thanks a lot. my pleasure. pretty more still ahead of the news are including an group amendment says it's halting attacks on the military, but the office that tens of thousands displaced by fight battling drug addiction. the problems in treaty was being called a crisis and they were in iraqi city at a protest of the year, i was goes wrong, leaving several people in the hospital. j will have the details. it's a israel has carried out the 1st strike on garza since a sci fi came into effect less than 4 weeks ago, as military says, war planes attack to mass target south of the city. and in con units, that's after the incendiary balloons were flown from garza into fields in southern

israel. human side is folly developments from god. the israel military carried out great in the south and god district, mainly in town units, govern different locations in areas including agriculture, causing a lot of material damage. this was violating the fire place the 3 weeks ago after the recent war and already fried fire that has been already violated israeli military set. the strike house come in response to the instant jerry balloon that thomas had blanched yesterday from the gaza strip. also in response to the flag march that was taking place in jerusalem. that was provoking a flag more to palestinians yesterday. also according to how much officials and israeli media should mediators had very much pressured hamas

to restrain it, flowing through the flag march. it was up to only the infant jerry balloons and the confusion activities that took place across the borders of the gods district yesterday. that's enough from harry faucets in western this government seems to be continuing the fairly tough security policy into israeli terms, at least of its predecessor. this is a fairly major response to incent, re balloons being flown into israeli territory and something that's happened before that the use of these balloon. they set fire to some 20 different locations in southern israel in the past. they have gone not exactly an onset or perhaps not answered with these kinds of air strikes. however, on the other hand, these nothing like sorts of air strikes that we saw during the conflict in may. they were largely empty areas, training grounds,

those sort of things being targeted without casualties that we've said that we've heard of it in any way. so i think it is a signal that both in terms of hamas, it's response to the flag much was not rockets as it could have been in terms of israel's response. there is a relative sort of limitation to it. and so i think it's a signal that both sides a pretty key not to go back to the kind of military exchanges that we were seeing just a few weeks ago in terms of the flag march itself. again, that was something that has been inherited from a decision by benjamin netanyahu to revive those plans after they were initially scotched by police. last week. it's something that the new government of natalie bennett had to the approval rejected, decided to approve it, but at the same time yeah, latino, the new foreign minister is distancing himself and the government from the kind of racist language that was used to arabs. bernard villages, that kind of thing. while people were brandishing the ready flag in occupied east

jerusalem on tuesday, a palestinian woman has been killed after an alleged attack on it's ready soldiers in the occupied west bank. israel's military says the 29 year old tried to drive her car into a group of soldiers near the village of his ma resent shot by soldiers after getting out of the car. while holding a knife, the red crescent says, israeli forces prevented that teams from treating a sri lankan families seeking asylum in australia has been reunited after they were separated. when the youngest daughter became sick. not as alan gamut motor gap and flew to perth with his oldest daughter, could pick her from christmas island detention center in the nation on tuesday is youngest daughter's being treated in hospital for blood poisoning due to untreated pneumonia. only her mother was allowed to travel with her. well, he is anyone trying to reach us ready by boat without documentation, has been sent to remote off shore detention center. hundreds of being held in prison camps in the pacific islands of no ruined papua new guinea. where that

refugee status is assessed, anyone in need of medical treatment is taken to the remotes, trailing territory of christmas island, which is closer to indonesia than the mainland. australia human rights commission says the detention center on christmas island should be closed because of its inhumane living conditions. and that the overcrowded facilities make it impossible to stop the spread of trade with 19 johnson whom your is the chief executive officer of the public interest advocacy center. that's a social justice and law policy center. and he says the motor gap informed me of the latest victims of australia's cruel policy towards asylum seekers. i can comment on the individual circumstances, these families types, but one thing that is very well known as the community learning coenzyme where we're living in the community is very came to have them back, making a great contribution, united community and in the state, the state and government has taken this, this extraordinary approach, are 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, the evidence that we had for 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've seen, i've seen the images and i certainly read reports about, you know, design, it is a detention center with right. and why it's set up to the i have a high level of security. and one of the recommendations with the human rights commission is my and this report is that it be clients, it's not suitable for people from often a very vulnerable cohort. people who are often flayed from circumstances, torture and trauma. they just out the service isn't appropriate. facilities available there, so that people can be held slightly. and so the commission is recommended up so quickly should be taken. we should should not be held each of the use of the cycle

and the situation project, say the practice of sending rescued migrants back to libya against their will, needs to stop. it's after around $200.00 people were picked up by the merchant vessel, was written on monday when they became stranded in the mediterranean and then handed over to the libyan coast guard. united nations has previously warned about the practice and has said that migrants face, exploitation, and abuse back in libya. me. moscow is making coven 19 vaccines monday tree for service sector workers after seeing a dramatic rise in cases. bullen 12000 people are being treated in hospitals in the capital. russia is grappling with his latest surgeon cases since february, about 50 percent of those of the capital countries tightening restrictions as petersburg is hosting a series of euro. 2020 matches straightly a 2nd largest city of melbourne, has placed

a residential center on the lockdown of the new cobra. 1900 infections were reported. that 5 of the 8 cases were found in a community living at a townhouse complex. melbourne ended a city wide 2 week shut down last week that is forth since dependent began allowing public gatherings to increase to 20 people. in the main opposition party, his question, the government's decision to double the gap between astrazeneca cove at 1900 vaccine days is the congress party said that prime minister to render remote his government was trying to cover up a shortage and you know, authority say they expanded the gap to 16 weeks to provide flexibility for those who may not access the 2nd dose a 12 weeks. all the while india is top tourist attraction. the taj mahal has reopened to the public 2 months after it was closed due to a surgeon having 1900 cases. early 650 tourists will be allowed inside the grounds of the taj mahal at any one time at the monument norman attracts more than 20000

people a day visit to say the relief restrictions being lifted. coffee dying to go ahead and cancel what sounds like, you know, of course we were kate inside our homes for a long time. and finally it has opened up until now everything was shot including shops, cafes and restaurants. people are desperate and unemployed. i think this is how we help them by encouraging tourism. there should be no compromise with safety though you can probably start to come to places like this, where social distancing is possible. the arrangements are good ticket sales is online, it feels nice to come here. let's say this on me can speak to dr. white glove, who's in patient disease next, but inspector general of organized medicine academic guild. he joined this by scott from them by dr. welcome to the program. what do you make of this decision to double the gap between doses in india there were government decisions, so guidelines are not wanted to put on child to depend on those resources or i will

get back soon and but sooner do that is the reason they made the gap of $14.00 to $16.00 week, whereas the guideline at that time probably a jo are gave it to 12 weeks. we initiated the drug for the 6 weeks. then they made 6 to 8 weeks august 6th grade drinks are not scientific guidelines. and after 6 to this date, that is true to 16 week, which is nowhere to mention. but now that they're going to see the very big number in india, almost 7520 percent of the kids who are in does it. and what is happening is off the bus, those, the protection is only 33 percent, but after the 2nd, the probation is around 69 percent. so protection is very high. so bill, because the government says it doesn't, is not to account for a shortage and doses. it's just doing it for different reasons. i think there is a shortage of the assess whether the government says or not. but we know that we bring water date 53500000. go said you are given every day you didn't made

what 1600000. so there was a hop was applied during the may or now it will increase, but it is not going to engage in this one will probably 1 august. so they are giving calculation from all this to december that get back to today. because the new license backed in and they got actually another 2nd you get vaccine is going to be manufactured at 2 or 3 other places and they're very big of the production. so currently did the shopping there. ok, we infections all declining, but still telling thousands every day. yet things are reopening. as we saw that the taj mahal back opened, albeit with restricted numbers. i think that's a good idea. we looked up at the lives we got to do what we got big about. we got that's come down from 140000 all the big ones. $60000.00 daily now and it is day to day declining. so if you see the get up, he's getting

a declining under this suggestion we are doing what up we are do see that the road is to come get off. people find their food, share data, job or the way the grind it agrees. people who may not read, i have coverage, so it looks like perhaps in looking after livelihoods to early. are you not risking lives again? no, i don't think it is too early. and secondly, if you understand the graph once it is under, don't order, i did rather go up and up or down. it may take you to do. i will talk to you by that time, if we are able to exit at many more people, the thought of it will be because if we are not able to record valuable people thought, well, maybe stronger or december. second bill, 2nd go was ready back. it was for time to do well 1st we'll so i think the drop is down, so you do remain dull and we need to open up. but we need to have a graduate opening up that i gradually got it opening up. we should our staggered

go call the people places in the public transport, the office i should be good. i'll join in between different sets of people that should work on the weekend. so there are some people working on the weekend. some people will get on the other days that we need to start to get started. ok, dr. well, the lot, we appreciate your time. thanks so much. thank you very much. more than 50 people are missing out the flooding and landslides in the pool. such rescue operations are under way in a district which borders to bet the army has been rescuing people trapped and flooded. houses the ones who reins of also cause flooding in baton with 10 people died when a mountain camp with swept away. all right, let's head now from jeff, who's got the weather, has more in those months. right. jeff? hello, our monsoon rains have been giving a lashing to the west coast of india in particular. matter astra state. we have seen 1500 millimeters of rain in some spots, a meter and a half. and the heaviest concentration of rain on thursday will be for southern

areas of buffer roster rate down to careless state. you know, 1st re lanka. we're getting a bit of a low for the monsoon, so that's going to allow parts of the island to dry out. but i want to get back to india because for east through the pradesh and be hard, very intense range here amplified by a disturbance in the beta band gall and that surge of what weather continues as well for coastal areas of myanmar. asia pacific looks like this, weather maker into northern areas of china. well, it's slowing down a lot of what weather and it's ramping up. those winds too. so busying 40 to 50 kilometer per hour. gus, a high, 32 on thursday, and our plum rains fall in across the yangtze river valley. and you know, for japan, we've got such as unsettled conditions for q shoe and han shoes. so that includes tokyo, for se asia looks like this. are pulses of rain really amplified by daytime heating . we can see it to the south dang, across borneo and areas of western suby wavy and for luzon island in the

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