balance to strike here in terms of his tone. do you think he can manager? i do, i think they've prepared for this. i think the white house team knows what they want to do here and independent of how the meeting when i think you know how they want the media to go. this will be bide and conveying exactly that tone that we just discard the saying we want to work together where we can of putin is willing. but we're going to push back and firmly on other things. and he will say that he raised difficult issues such as ukraine, such a cyber attacks of the reaction interference. and he told me that we would refund of a continuum. of course, we've seen the goodness been doing this for years and there's no response thus far . but this is meant to be a new line being drawn by the current fault that the former us special representative for ukraine negotiations, as well as a former ambassador to nature. great to get your thoughts here on alger there. thank you, cause well, let's show you this live show that we're getting from geneva. that is the podium at which we expect us president joe biden to speak at any moment. we have already

heard from russian president about him, a prison. after the 2 men had talked for several hours in geneva, there was 2 sets of talks, a small round and then a large around with a broader group of people in the room. and they do appear to have been fairly constructive indeed will be bringing you that live here on al jazeera while it has now just gone past 1700 g m t. that would be 7 pm in the evening in geneva. and let's show you the, the shot that we were just showing you a moment ago. the live pictures of what we expect will be a press conference by us president joe biden. this high stakes summit between the u . s. and russian presidents appears to have wrapped up on a positive note that appears and describe the talks as constructive. it's been held against a backdrop, as you'll recall, a frosty relations and warnings of low expectations from both sides. both there were handshakes and smiles value as you can see when peach, in fact, biden for initiating this closed door meeting. and they do seem to have made some

progress on subjects and cybersecurity to the return of diplomats to their pers prison even says he saw a glimpse of hope about mutual trust during several hours of negotiation. national fisher prescribed there has been no hospitality. on the contrary, our meeting to placing a constructive spirit. indeed, we have varied assessment on a number of issues, but both sides express the intention to understand each other and seek common grounds. talks were quite constructive. hall and spouse being trial white house correspondent, kimberly, how could she's been following all of this for us in geneva? kimberly, this is highly anticipated, highly choreographed and it does appear to have gone fairly well so far. oh, certainly they talked for as long as we expected. they would still that's a good sign. there was no abrupt departure door slamming any of that nature. in fact, when joe biden emerged from that lakeside village, he even gave the thumbs up sign. so he wouldn't do that unless he thought there had

been some progress made. the bar had been set low, but now it appears that at least they are still talking, and perhaps we'll hear from joe biden when he starts his press conference in the which is imminent. that the talks will continue and how they will continue, we know from of law to refute in the, the issue of cybersecurity and the hacking concerns of the united states. that there will be consultations there. there are also the consultations between the respective governments with regard to resuming diplomatic ties in terms of the expulsion of diplomats. but it appears that some time table is going to be worked out. let's hear what the russian leader had to say. mister watson, with regards to the return of our bachelors to their workplaces the return of the american ambassador to moscow, an armed baset or to washington, we agreed that they would return to their duties as for the timeline to morrow or the day after that to technicality we agree that our foreign services will start

consultations on a number of issues and there's a lot to talk about on diplomatic cooperation. a lot of questions have filed up and i believe that both parties seek to find common ground. and kimberly, despite all the talk of common grounds, we did hear some interesting rhetoric from vladimir putin and really trying to turn the table on some of the things that he's been confronted with as well. yeah, the foundation of foreign policy in the united states and by ministration is a declaration of protection of human rights and upholding human rights around the world. and so we knew going into this, that there was going to be this issue raised with respect to russian opposition leader election of all the of course, sitting in jail right now. when he was asked about this, although he did not name him by name vladimir putin said that the opposition leader had broken the law and is sitting in jail. this is of concern to the united states that he could even die there. but with respect to the sort of battle for democratic

freedoms, the russian leader really turned the tables on reporters in answering those questions about his own record and cracking down on protesters, saying that look, were tried to prevent some of the unrest we're seeing in the united states you've got to understand where we're coming from, look at the black live matter movement. the protest, the continued for months on american streets, that at times turned to extremely violent that we don't want that to happen in russia. he also pointed to the riots that took place in january 6, the u. s. capital, the pro, from supporters that were trying to prevent the ratification of the u. s. election results in favor of joe biden. again, pointing the finger to the fact that the united states has its own issues and the fact that many of those who righted on the grounds of the capital in january 6 are now sitting in jail. whereas vladimir putin said the charges. we're not really sure

you jail people to is essentially what he was saying. so he really defended his behavior and really seemed to deflect and redirect away from the criticisms. by the wes this there is a crackdown protesting on democratic freedoms and really say that the united states is in no position to criticize our white house correspondent, kimberly how they're following those told for us in geneva. thank you so much. kimberly. well, that's not bring in diplomatic as a james space. he's following this forth from london. james, we were saying really wide ranging talks, security, trade relations, human rights, cybersecurity, crimea, the arctic does feel like there were constructive discussion. what were your big headline takeaways from this? could constructive discussions, but no breakthrough. i think the positives that the tension is being lowered. you have got talks now about diplomats who are expelled,

coming back to the 2 respective countries. but most importantly, you've got the 2 ambassadors who weren't actually expelled, but they were withdrawn by side effectively. they will be coming back to that posts, which means there's going to be a more of a dialogue going forward, which is a good thing. and also the talk about about the strategic partnership between the 2 countries. these are the 2 of the, the worlds 2 leading nuclear powers. and i think the world, if they're talking a beyond the new start treaty, which was one of the 1st things president barton did, was to finally negotiate that. had been sitting, waiting under the trump administration. he extended that if they're going to be further talks about the nuclear file going forward than the fact that talking about that potentially makes the world a little bit of a safer place. but there was no other breakthroughs on any of the other files. they were all discuss the issues were add and i think diplomats will tell you that you have to be pretty realistic here. president pushing has been in power for over 2

decades. you're not going to change how he operates, how he runs russia. what you can try and do is manage that relationship. certainly the russians over the last 4 years of president trump, even though some of his comments seemed to be a little critical. the president trump, at one point he said, president biden is an experience that statesmen, he's very different from president trump, but i think actually the russians quite liked the last 4 years. they certainly like this unity among the nato allies, the disagreements among some of the u. s is key partners and the fact that those key partners were constantly surprised by tweets and not really sure whether they had the full support of the us. but on the other hand, the thing that the russians always want is to maintain the seat at the top table. they are a permanent member of the un security council. they say considerable pride in that status. and i think just looking at president putin today,

he's seem pretty comfortable in that news conference. one of the reasons was the recognition that this gives him sitting down with, with president biden. what you've got to remember is yes, russia is a nuclear power, but economically, it's a very weeks position when he's seen in a situation where it's seen as an equal of the u. s. president. i think that's personally gratifying to him, but i also also think he thinks that plays well among the domestic public at home in russia. james, did we get a sense of the dynamics between the 2 men and how that might have shifted today? obviously they do have some history and i'm curious about where you think these discussions might go after this. well, it seems to have been certainly from we only got one account to move here the other side of it soon, but seems to be in a very business like meeting productive and to the point. frank and candid is how presentation described the meeting. it was also pretty conventional in the way

it was carried out a small group meeting to begin with. and then more advisors joining for a longer session after that. remember that president trump met with president putin, basically alone. they had to translators, but they had no one else taking notes. that was an unprecedented way to do business . and certainly, the biden administration decided they didn't want to do that again, just as they didn't repeat what happened in july 2018 or 3 years ago in helsinki. in terms of the press conference, we've just seen president putin's press conference. we'll now see president biden's press conference in helsinki. they stood on the stage face to face some us officials, even setting us officials at the time. well, horrified when the president trump, at the time said that he believed president putin, over the us intelligence agencies in terms of brushes, interference in the us elections. they did not want to repeat that. and i think they probably diplomatically schooled a little bit of a qu,

someone was going to get it there. busy only 2 players here by having the 2nd press conference president biden, i'm sure is now speaking to his advisors and working out how to respond to some of the things that president putin has said, it will be interesting. what a response to some of the criticisms, because every time there was a question about the opposition alexi knew about me or anything that russia was doing in ukraine or any aspect of human rights. it was turned straight away to things that the u. s. were doing from the attack on capitol hill on january the 6th all the way back to iran, enough kind of stone. will he respond to those sort of things? i think he'll try and stick to the positives to the constrain conversations that they had. and the fact they're making some incremental. ready progress, but i'm sure he's going to be pressed on that. i'm sure you'd be pressed on the one line that was in that that i think will be become a headline for many who is the killer. now,

when he referred to various human rights abuses, including including gun violence in the us. because of course, that was a reference of to present biden, who said earlier on an interview that he believe the president putin was a killer. indeed, different that i get it a james bay is there across that forest from london. thank you so much, james. well, as james was just saying, we are expecting not press conference from us, president biden. any minute now there is a brief pause between those 2 press conference as this is a shot that of the podium at president biden's hotel in geneva. now, earlier we were at the villa groans when the talks actually took place. that was a venue for the talk and you can see that what we think is present prisons, car getting ready to leave when we had present patients press conference in this venue as james was saying, separate press conferences after those talks today. well, we bring you all of that live here on out of here. well, let's take you to some other news now. and her mass linked activists have continued

firing incendiary balloons across the gaza, bought into israel for the 2nd day in a row. now at least 4 new 5 broken out on the israeli side. as you can see, the redemption of those blue in attacks triggered is really strikes early on wednesday. while those are the fast strikes on garza since a ceasefire came into effect less than 4 weeks ago, these railey military says warplanes attacked must targets south of gaza city. and also in con eunice human aside is following those developments forth from gulf they, israel military carried out grades in the south district, mainly in units govern. there is a 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 prior to the fire that has been already violated israeli military set. the strike house come in response to the instant

gary balloon that had blanched yesterday from the gaza strip. also in response to the flag march, that's what's taking place in jerusalem. that was provoking flag morcia to palestinians yesterday. also according to how much officials, an israeli media ship mediators had very much pressures to restrain the flag march. it was up to only the incendiary balloons and the confusion activities that took place across the borders of the gods district yesterday. while israeli fire fighters have said those incendiary balloons caused around $25.00. and the military is added that it is prepared for any scenario, including a resumption of hostilities hurry forth and has worn out from 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 i 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 use. death to arabs, bernard, villages, that kind of thing. while people were brandishing the israeli flag in occupied east jerusalem on tuesday. while meanwhile, a palestinian woman has been killed after an alleged attack on israeli soldiers in the occupied westbank. israel's military says the 29 year old trying to drive her car into a group of soldiers near the village of his mother. she was shocked by the soldiers while getting out of the car. holding a knife, the red crescent says, israeli forces prevented teams from treating her while still ahead here on out of

their me about thing, drug addiction problems and treating what's being called a crisis and an iraq. he's 15 and arms, griffin, man, and also this whole thing attacks on the military, but they're all fit for tens of thousands displaced by the fine. ah, ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored by kettle airways. hello, and i fear we do have some temperatures pushing that 50 degrees threshold in the middle east. so let me show you. we find this toward q weight, 50.5, so we round that up to 51 degrees. here's what it's looking like across the middle east as we head toward thursday, temperatures a bit lower than where they have been, for example, in riyadh. but the big story is really that shamal a blow and down the golf and we'll see wink, us potentially up to 70 kilometers per hours. so that swirls around the sand and

dust. and that does impact our visibility off to turkey. and we will seen improvements in conditions by and large across most of the country, but will keep the risk in there for some scattered showers, and is stumble with a height of 25 degrees and antalya sunshine in 26. but this is below average, the tropics of africa, look like this, some heavier pockets of rain central african republic. so that's pretty usual where we can expect that bulk of the activity to bubble up toward the south. temperatures are above average in butts. wanna habit are only $26.00 degrees and then took 20 to cape town just a bit of drizzle will be dealing with on thursday. 17 degrees. but if i show you the 3 day forecast, r winds are gonna come from the northeast, and that is going to bump up your temperature on sunday to 26 degrees. sponsored call cut on airways. most people will never know what's beyond these doors. the deafening silence of 100000. how it

feels to touch danger every day. most people will never know what it's like to work with. every breath is precious, with fear is not an option. but when most people oh a 100 a are watching al jazeera. let's remind you of our top story. the high think summit between the u. s. and russian presidents appears to have wrapped up on a positive note with a lot of prison describing those as constructive. they seem to have made progress

on subject to cybersecurity to the return of the last. well, we are expecting to hear from us presence or button very shortly and we'll be crossing live briefing in geneva for you as soon as it gets sent away. and in other news links, palestinian activists have continued firing incendiary balloons across the border into israel. the 2nd day in a row for several fires. the resumption of those attacks, target, israeli, and strikes early on wednesday. well let's take you straight back to geneva where us, president biden is about to address the media speaking russian counterpart, government, prison for me. there is no probably get through those doors. was it anyway? hello everyone. well, i've just finished the, the last meeting of this week's long trip the u. s. russia summit.

and i know there are a lot of hype around this meeting, but it's pretty straightforward to meet the meeting. one, there is no substitute as those you cover me for a while now for face to face dialogue between leaders. none and president put and i had a share unique responsibility to manage the relationship between 2 powerful and proud countries. a relationship that has to be stable and predictable. and it should be able that we should be able to cooperate words in our mutual interest. and where we have differences. i want to present, put and understand why i say what i say. and why i do what i do and how will respond to specific kinds of actions that harm america's interest. now, i told president bush, my agenda is not against russia,

or anyone else. it's for the american people. fighting covered 90, rebuilding our economy, reestablish the relationships around the world are allies in french and protecting the american people. that's my responsibility as president. i also told me that no president, united states could keep faith with the american people. if they did not speak out to defend our democratic values, to stand up for the universal and fundamental freedoms that all men and women have in our view. that's just part of the dna of our country. so human rights is going to always be on the table. i told it's not about just going after russia when they violate human rights. it's about who we are. how could i be the president of the united states of america and not speak out against the violation even right. i told him that unlike other countries, including russia, were uniquely

a product of an idea. you've heard me say this before again, and again, i'm going to keep saying they watch that idea. we don't derive our right from the government repossession because we're born very and we yield them to a government. so the form i pointed out to him that that's why we're going to raise our concerns about cases like electron evolving. i made it clear to present improvement. it will continue to raise issues of fundamental human rights. because that's what we are, that's who we are. the idea is we hold these true self evident at all men and women . we haven't lived up to a completely, but we've always why. and the, the arc of commitment included more and more people. and i raised the case of 2 wrongfully impressions, american citizens, paul, well, and forever read. i also raised the ability of radio free europe radio,

liberty to operate, and the importance of a free press and freedom of speech. i made it clear that we will not tolerate attempts to violate our democratic sovereignty or to stabilize our democratic elections and we would respond. the bottom line is i told president putting that we need to have some basic rules of the road that we can all abide by. i also said there are areas where there is a mutual interest for us to cooperate for our people, russian and american people. but also for the benefit of the world and the security of the world. one of those areas is strategic stability. you asked me many time, what was i going to discuss with food before i came, i told you i only negotiate with the individual. now i can tell you what i was intending to do all along. that is to discuss and raise the issue strategic stability and try to set up a mechanism where, why be we dealt with it. we discussed in detail the next steps are countries to

take on arms control measures the steps we need to take to reduce the risk of unintended conflict. and i'm please you agreed today to launch a bilateral strategic stability dialogue. diplomatic speak for saying get our military experts and our, our, our diplomats together to work on a mechanism that can lead to control of new and dangerous weapons that are coming on the scene. and now that reduce the times of response that raised the prospects of accidental war. and we went into some detail of what those weapon systems were. another, we spent a great deal of time on was cyber in cybersecurity. i talked about the proposition that certain critical infrastructure should be off limits to attack period by cyber . any other means i gave them a list, if i'm not mistaken, if i don't have it in front me. 16 specific kennedy's 16 defined as critical

infrastructure under u. s. policy from the energy sector to our water systems. course. the principle is one thing. it has to be backed up by practice. responsible countries need to take action against criminals who conduct ransomware activities on their territory . so we agreed to pass sketch experts, and both are both our countries to work on specific understand needs about what's off limits and to follow up on specific cases that originate in other countries. in there either are countries. there is a long list of other things we spent time on and the urgent need to preserve reopen humanitarian carter's is syria. so that we can get food, just simple food and basic necessity, that people are starving to death. how to build it, and how it is in the interest of both russia in the united states to ensure that

a ran a ran does not acquire nuclear weapons. we agreed to work together there because as much interest, russia interest as ours. and how we can insure the arctic remains and region of cooperation rather than conflict. i caught part of prejudice trying to press conference and he talked about the need for us to be able to have some kind of modus operandi where he dealt with making sure the artic was, in fact a free zone. and to how we can each contribute to the shared effort of preventing the reserve researches of terrorism that can stand. it's very much in, in, in the interest of russia not to have researches of terrorism. the canister are also areas that are more challenging. i communicated the united states unwavering commitment to the sovereignty and territorial and charity of ukraine. we agreed to pursue diplomacy related to the mx agreement, and i sure are concerned about bella,

bruce. he didn't disagree with what happened. he's just as a perspective what to do about it, but i know you have a lot of questions. so let me close that with this. it was important to meet in person. so that can be no mistake about or misrepresentations about what i want to communicate. i did what i came to do, number one. and then if i areas and practical work, our 2 countries can do to advance our mutual interest and also benefit the world. to communicate directly directly at united states will respond to actions that impair or vital interest or those of our allies and 3 to clearly lay out our country's priorities and our values. so we heard it straight for me and i must tell you the tone of the entire meetings. i guess it was total 4 hours was was what was,

was good positive. there wasn't any, any strident action. take it where we disagree. i disagree, stated where it was, where he disagreed, he stated, but it was not done, and a hyperbolic you atmosphere. that is too much of what's been going on over this last week. i believe i hope united states is showing the world that we are back. standing with our allies rallied our fellow democracies, make concert committee to concert, a commitment to take on the biggest challenge is our world faces. and now we've established a clear basis on how we intend to do with russia and the u. s. russian relationship . there's much more work ahead. i'm not suggesting any, this is done. we've gotten a lot of business done in this trip. and before i take your questions, i want to say one last thing folks, look, this is about,

this is about how we move from here. this is i listen to, again, a significant portion of what president food press conference was. and as he pointed out, this is about practical, straightforward no nonsense decisions that we have to make her not make. we'll find out within the next 6 months to a year, whether not, we actually have a strategic dialogue matters. we'll find out whether we work to deal with everything from release of people in, in russia, prisons or not. we'll find out whether we have a cybersecurity arrangement that began to bring some order. because look, the countries that most are likely to be damaged. failure to do that are the major countries. for example, i talked about the pipeline that.