this is you got the news live from berlin and historic summit in helsinki between the u.s. and russian president donald trump is welcomed by the president of finland before talks with vladimir putin trying to set the scene by creating relations with russia have never been worse thanks to years of u.s. foolishness we'll be live in helsinki with the very latest.

i'm serious i was going to get to have you with us u.s. president donald trump is getting set to sit down with russia's vladimir putin for the first ever summit now let's take a look at some live images from helsinki's airport where the russian president has apparently just landed there you see the plane landing there now just about twenty minutes the lady he was supposed to be in helsinki already on the way to the presidential palace where he is set to meet the u.s. president now ahead of this meeting trump tweeted that u.s. relations with russia have never been worse several thorny issues dominating the run up to this meeting among them conflicts in ukraine and syria and charges of russian meddling in the u.s. election but as we see the president a russian president vladimir putin has just arrived and will soon be heading over to meet donald trump. and let's bring in our correspondent peter craven he's covering today's summit in helsinki for us and joins us for more now peter if we can put you up here. all right there you are peter we can see you now both leaders

as we said expected any minute now to sit together but very little information here on what's on the agenda what are we expecting to be on the table good question your guess your guess is practically as good as mine i would have to say just just to keep you up to date with what's happening we just have to finish president and his cavalcade coming down this main street on the waterfront here we're expecting donald trump to show up any time now and then obviously though he may have putin has been delayed at the airports and just across there behind me is the presidential palace that you were mentioning where they're going to be meeting and as i say not very much of a clear idea about what's on the agenda or it could be ukraine it could be crimea syria nuclear proliferation almost certainly there are kids ations that are now being leveled once again against a lot of new putin and russia that meddling in u.s. elections is specifically the two thousand and sixteen presidential election that took the trouble to the white house so those accusations are flying and that is

something that will certainly get talked about but you know it's very difficult to know what is being talked about even after they're going to meet for a press conference afterwards and tell us what they've been talking about but they might not tell us the truth quite simply they've met before this is their first summit but at the g twenty meeting in hamburg for example they met and they discussed things there and nobody ever found out what they really told her there wasn't even a proper american russian translator on hand the translator who was on hand was was putin's translator so don't trumpet playing you know a risky game here in the the american diplomatic establishment he's up in arms worried that he's going to have rings run around him but i bloody move hooten so peter we don't know exactly what they will discuss we do know the stakes are very high as both leaders descend on health inky tell us more about what the atmosphere has been like in the lead up. the obvious fear i mean what we've seen is we've seen the donald trump pageant move across europe beginning of the nato

headquarters in brussels where he's been rated nato leaders then he moved on to england and scotland when he was in england berated to reason may now he's come out and said that the europeans are a follower of america that's certainly a sort of a vein of thought that he would quite likely share with the russian president vladimir putin they both have a dentist and typically towards the european union the way the european union does politics they're both inclined to chisel away at that they've both given encouragement to far right euro skeptic groups in europe so maybe just maybe that is something they're going to talk about a not tell us that is speculation but it's certainly something that's being talked about an awful lot in the build up to this for this key meeting. and peter as trump arrived in hell thank you we saw him tweet that relations with russia between the u.s. and russia have never been worse thanks quote to u.s. foolishness and stupidity does that weaken his position going into these talks with but. i think it does i think this is

a reference to the fact that the intelligence establishment in this in the states are all up in arms about the latest accusations of meddling going the. meddling in the u.s. elections that i mentioned already and that is that going to be a subject of conversation i'm sure a woman's again like at the meetings that they've had in the past this i say is their first summit meeting but they've had three meetings in the past and at each of those meetings donald trump has looked vladimir putin in the eye and said look these meddling accusations that you were accused of is there anything it's imploding that goes in has left him off and said no there isn't and donald trump said come out of that sealed room and said folks there's nothing in it i believe him he's a nice guy and there's every likelihood that that's going to happen again today. let's wait. here just so our viewers know as we're talking we're seeing pictures there of the airport in helsinki where the russian president has just arrived. yes he's just arrived at the airport exactly setting to where you are of course peter

his motorcade is just getting set there as he gets out to go in and peter take us through the day when i wonder what's going to do we're going to. well what's in store as we wait for president number one donald trump to come up here and take his vehicle up into the the palace of the finnish president then we will wait for vladimir putin the meeting was scheduled to last ninety minutes which is one heck of a long time given the way that donald trump prepares or doesn't prepare for these things he's notorious you know some diplomats take weeks and months to prepare some heads of state take weeks or months to prepare donald trump gets handed over to a four sheets with some stats and some graphics and he's going to be going into the room into a room with just two translators with flooding near putin for an hour and a half in obviously somebody who will have a real plan for how he wants to set traps and where he wants to go in this conversation so you know we're very much looking forward to hearing what they have

to say the press conference afterwards and whether it will actually last now ninety minutes given that delay at the airport as we can see yet peter as you talk about the delay at the airport we're seeing the russian president about to embark from his plane there on the tarmac and peter in give us an idea if you can just get into context for us what leaders are expected to get out of this summit. well i think you know donald trump is he comes into these meetings once again wants to come out looking like. a good guy looking like a tough guy looking like a guy who's got some sort of a deal i can't see what the deal is going to be here but he also is looking for the further you know the chumminess with vladimir putin thought to be putin is somebody who very much respects and he wants to be respected by vladimir putin the some real personal chemistry in there and for blood flow to move putin this meeting is you know it's like a double whammy to face he's tough times recently in many ways the soviet leader but he's just come out of a world cup which was viewed as

a universal triumph by most sporting and political observers and now here he is in helsinki sitting at the top table on geo strategy with almost trump a lot. a lot of the headlines of being floated by putin is a winner before even him says the conference chair. peter we want to bring in another voice with us here in our studio have tyson barker who is an expert on u.s. european affairs with the at aspen institute here in berlin and he's joining us in our studio steps to tell us more give us some analysis on the summit and we heard it there from peter we have the u.s. president the leader of the western world here sitting down with the russian president with this backdrop that we're seeing against allegations of meddling in the u.s. elections how important how big is this it's quite a big deal and you know this is definitely been a good week for the lottery putin he's coming off of a well executed world cup in russia meeting with the most powerful man in the world i mean this is something that has really elevated his status it's been said since he took office in two thousand that his number one goal was to restore russia's

great power status and if this week is any indicator he's he's on his way to doing that text and as you're speaking we see here a bunch of dignitaries and there he is lottery putin exiting the plane here as he's just arrived in helsinki as we said he's about twenty minutes or so behind schedule and he will be heading over to where peter's been standing at the presidential palace in helsinki and we heard peter comment on this and i get your take what do you think is in this for donald trump well you know. to to quote from himself we'll have to wait and see i mean you know there are a lot of things on the table he's made it clear that he's willing to discuss pretty much anything from syria to ukraine to arms control to nato exercises anything to crimea to sanctions it's not necessarily clear that he's going into this with concrete asks i think that more than anything in this is clear since he's taken office he has a certain affinity to this type of leader he respects flatter me he's respected him

since far before he became politically active and he is thinking that he will have a meeting of mine. and that the two both kind of shrewd transactional realists will be able to kind of stitch up a kind of order but he's been downplaying expectations a little bit before the summit so we'll wait and see what do you think that they've been downplaying expectations especially president trump as i think that if you look at the kind of menu of actual deliverables that could benefit the united states and the europeans there aren't that many quite frankly and the truth is is that he has partially a lack of preparation partially the timing circumstances around the world they haven't really prepared a strong hand for going into this meeting to come out of this with something that can say we really got a win so too much bluster in the lead up to the some of your things that they want to downplay expectations about what's actually going to be the outcome right i

think that this is definitely you know this this whole summit was organized in the wake of the singapore summit with kim jong un when trump came out of that singapore summit he got a lot of approbation a lot of praise from fox news in particular and that euphoria drove him to say you know we should do something very similar with with latimer putin and russia let's put something at the top level let's make a meeting of the top leaders at the outset and let's see if we can get the kind of approbation particularly from his base that he received in the wake of that meeting with the korea and we see this car there a titan under way heading towards the presidential palace and hell think he moving pretty quickly there from the plane into the car as we said he's a little bit behind schedule a very warm day in helsinki today tyson there are some fears that this could be a sort of hidden agenda something referred a lot about here in europe this question of whether these two leaders are looking

to reshuffle the global order are those fears justified well i think that this is this is kind of the. aspect playing up behind behind the. the curtain though that's kind of the backdrop of this whole event his in of to what extent is donald trump an agent of russian interests and this is clearly the topic of act in the active investigation by robert muller we have we're just four days away from the indictment of four of twelve russian g.r.u. operatives it meddling in the united states elections so this is clearly a concern of a large portion of the united states' pop population and european leaders peter i want to come back to you if you can hear us you're in front of the presidential palace we can tell you that putin is well on his way there leaving the airport heading towards you we heard tyson there just talking about those allegations that russia meddle in the u.s. elections and we saw just on friday that twelve russian intelligence operatives were indicted by the u.s.

justice department you know how much pressure is there do you think on donald trump to confront. over these accusations. huge amounts of pressure the intelligence community in the us to a man to woman lust at the end of last week at the beginning of the weekend they came out and they said this is this is such a credible indie such a credible indication that the two thousand and sixteen election campaign was tampered with was meddled in by the russians and many called then for donald trump not to come to helsinki it did look for a little while there was a window where it looked as though donald trump might call off this visit it didn't happen but now he's got to as i've said already he's got to go into that room with flood to meet putin look him in the eye and say mr putin are you guilty or you're innocent there's a lot but it appears that there's a lot in it and that's what the that's what the intelligence community is hoping that he will do the problem is that i think he's got inclinations and he has a very gut inclined politician going to be to go in and do the chummy thing with

the emir putin and say once again as he has done before did you or didn't you invite him in is going to laugh it off and donald trump is going to accept that and that's going to be the message he's going to relate to the world when he comes out of the meeting just one small point or might about what donald trump might get out of this in terms of one policy issue i think he is looking for backing from this from the russian leader or at least torrents for his push against the regime in tehran the iranians i think he's going to go on a diplomatic offensive maybe a political offensive against the iranians and he wants his back to be covered and he could get some coverage from vladimir putin that might be one thing that he's looking for you want to ask you about some of the other points on the agenda we're also expecting these two leaders to perhaps discuss nato expansion into eastern europe syria and of course ukraine any concrete points you can see coming out of

those topics i mean the interests of the two countries are just divergent on all of those three issues on nato expansion into eastern europe stay. department officials have said that ukraine and georgia is ultimately destiny destiny is in the west and basically reaffirmed their aspirations at some point to gain nato membership the united states continues to be active in the vaults and poland has upped the amount of money spent on the european defense initiative to eleven billion this past year so all indications on that front point to no on the ukraine piece you know the united states is now delivering lethal assistance to ukraine it continues not to recognize obviously the occupation of crimea and has actually added more names to the sanctions list in the past year as a result of actions russia's actions in ukraine congress has also passed legislation to codified those sanctions so that from cannot just remove them willy nilly if that if the spirit moved him so that again we don't see much ability to to

maneuver on that on syria the united states or president trump has indicated an interest to kind of. cut and run to leave syria to declare mission accomplished and that might be an area where the two can come together a little more clearly because russia clearly has a larger footprint in syria and has a broader set of equities in the in the in the country see mention that congress is kind of hemmed the president in when it comes to possible sanctions relief something we know the kremlin is hoping to seek in its talks with the president but what about the fact that we're talking about this investigation into possible russian meddling into the u.s. and into u.s. elections in two thousand and sixteen there are a lot of people in washington who want to see this summit cold off right i mean the drumbeat has been bipartisan you have john mccain over the weekend saying that this needs to be something that's that that doesn't take place i mean this is usually summits in the diplomatic world summits are a reward it's the cherry on top after

a lot of hard work it's the dessert that comes at the end of eating your vegetables and this relationship there has not been much vegetables in that relationship this is where having dessert first. so you know i think everybody is asking where is the meat where is the actual. break breakthroughs where the deliverables and i don't see very many here are we talked about some of the issues on the table let's see if we can bring in our correspondent there is yuri rachet oh who is standing by for us in moscow hi yuri good to see you so what is president putin looking to get out of this from the perspective over there i think of putin who will again declare that he had in the past and has still now in no interest in all intention of interfering in the domestic affairs of western countries and the united states particularly that declaration of course will again be music to trump as we can expect i think pledges from libya putin to work on the establishing some

let's say common the rules of behavior in cyberspace to protect all governments in this world from any meddling and that's all i think you're right there were a lot of people speculating that the fact that president putin got donald trump to sit down with him at a summit was a victory in the first place do you see it that way. well it's very difficult to say whether president putin has any hope and what the u.s. president could promise him as a possible big deal so both sides underline their very law expectations but i think that is their expectations also very different in moscow and washington the summit comes as the kremlin is looking for ways out of its international isolation of the west without crossing its own red lines for any putin the sunni it's enough that it's happening at all and the symbolism of a meeting is absolutely satisfying itself well donald trump doesn't necessarily embody the entire western world and to the world all of the little dramas for many

a president of a country that is increasingly getting isolated because of isolated because of trump's strange foreign policy but donald trump is to go out and he can still give legitimacy on his russian counterpart by meeting putin this president also russians have realized that is probably going to remain in power for the second term and ultimately for the next six years whether they want it or not that's why the today's summit is a great symbolic boost for russia's jew political and economic interests you're a symbolism is the keyword there because trump said he wants to forge a personal bond with lattimer putin how do you think of latimer putin is approaching this one on one meeting. well you know this is not his or their first one and one meeting they meant to already with each other last year and how about that you are right this is of course the first real summit between the two presidents and i think that to me putin is very

well prepared for it and he always knows facts and figures or at least what he sees as facts and figures so he will try to impress donald trump with his knowledge he also will praise donald trump i think he will admire him for fighting against the old us american leaves for swimming again that's against the tide and that's something president trump could probably like so put in finally will once again try to reset the u.s. russian relations on the personal level but nobody knows whether the u.s. president is really interested in that idea in any case since he's on your grace integration relations between the two countries haven't improved in fact things have become significantly worse so far you're at a lot of questions about how donald trump and vladimir putin will speak about ukraine and russia's annexation of crimea and some analysts were speculating that report does not actually shooting for official recognition of of that annexation of crimea what is a perspective there in the kremlin. well it's very

unpredictable how concrete the results of any issue could be which is going to be discussed you know how. so we all we only know that syrians ukraine and probably yes the financials ukraine but insulin media highly likely to be on the table in these at least stumbling blocks from the western perspective but as the letter to putin i suppose for him the lifting off for russia very painful economic sanctions will arguably be the most important issue today not ukraine not. coming up on insulin and i want to ask you about that as well because just what yuri was saying this idea that russia's relationship with washington can be restored something about the symbolism of this summit is that the aims i think if you're looking at one deliverable the optic is the deliverable i mean you as we've discussed a second ago you know this is about lifting. putin himself and russia up to the status of a great leader and

a great power and this bilateral one on one meeting at a summit level it does just that it might be worth mentioning also why why the selection of helsinki helsinki was the site of a big conference it was the apex of deterrence the kissinger real politic strategy to relax relations between the united states and the soviet union then at the time it did two things i mean it had two routes one it dot the soviet union to recognize certain human rights including elections which still plays a role in the region through the o.s.c. eat to this day but the other thing that it did was it codified ex post facto the. stalin's annexations of new territories population transfers and the imposition of communist governments on on countries that said we will not meddle in other countries internal affairs putin has for a long time accused the united states of meddling in the affairs from kosovo serbia ukraine even russia itself and i think what he's probably trying to do. with this

as the place that they're trying to meet is say you know we need to you know stay out of each other's hair we need to stitch things up as great powers and as great leaders and that could be something that the president responds well to the other side of that sort of course is that if you're not meddling other people's affairs then why is russia meddling in the u.s. elections there's active indications right now that russia continues to be mucking around in election registration information in states and we have this indictment so that's a big question all right well we are certainly looking forward to plenty of these for these two leaders to speak about will continue to be covering the summit that it's expected to get in under way in about half an hour's time but for now at tyson barker from the aspen institute thank you very much into your chateau in moscow and of course peter craven's been covering the aspect from a helsinki for us thank you all very much. thank you. turning now to the championship match of the soccer world cup which france won last night after

a hard fought win over millions of french soccer fans are on top of the world after celebrating their team's victory through the night. the sea of love now the city of joy paris iraq to france's win in moscow. the thousands of the super in funds park the french capital. dancing in the streets and shouting from the rooftops. that this is great everyone's here together and it's a good atmosphere and makes everyone feel better and we're happy to be here and pride to be french so no sense in lieu of honestly we've been feeling french for three days now and we'd like it to remain showed up close and we are proud of france and the guys from the suburbs have done it for france the goal a constant a truly showed. only we're proud thank you. a little zero zero zero zero zero

zero one fan in particular couldn't contain his excitement french president and manuel mccall watching the match in moscow he even gossip pats on the head from his croatian counterparts president kalinda cut back a touch of edge thrilled with the team second place. fans in croatia capital zagreb said the sentiment the disappointment quickly giving way to pride. please i will cap i think they showed a fighting spirit they showed us a beautiful game i know we're happy despite the defeat it's still a victory for us coming up but. i'm proud that i'm probably. in zach braff celebrations of how close croatia came to fill those greatest price. in paris it's euphoria victory try am. and we have tom going away from good of you

sports with us in our studio hi tom before we talk about that the euphoria and triumph we do have to talk. a little bit about the celebrations there was a negative aspect to it in paris tell us about that yes it was there was a little bit of trouble on the streets of paris last night now as you can imagine the celebrations went on throughout the night out on the streets of the capital. but i believe at some point a section of the revelers we've perhaps for you want him to nation to overexuberance decided to announce their presence in the way that we're seeing in pictures here some tear gas canisters were fired some project were thrown maybe a window too much in smashed but. i think it's fair enough to say that by brazilian standards that doesn't really equal that much saturday was the anniversary of the storming of the best you know it's not that often that you win the football world cup and that's actually the story that i think we ought to really be told that we should let that detract from certainly celebrations that took place let's turn to

the game because this was actually a really interesting world cup match yeah of course i mean one thing was the final now sometimes what's happened you know kind of recently in the finals is that we sometimes get a bit of a cagey game with the teams taking a little bit of want to kind of sauce each other out yesterday's game was kind of action right from the start ended up being the high scoring finals since one thousand nine hundred sixty six. and did the idea shawn has made himself one of only three many history to win the world cup now as a player and as a coach fantastic achievement i could describe the game to you i think what we really both would rather do is take a look at the pictures ourselves and it's due. an early end to one greece one free kick made its way past the croatian keeper but it was a croatian head that not it in mario months to catch with an unlucky own goal to give france the lead. but the croatian comeback kings hit back in the twenty eighth minute to even pettish each. he went from hero to zero though as

a video review showed him handling the ball. a soft penalty but nonetheless tucked away by greaseman for his fourth of the tournament. in the second half france extended their lead through paul pogba. a long range effort chucked into the corner . julien and bought they repeated the tricky game beating daniel from far out for one france then took their foot off the gas pedal. mentioned gets chased down a backlash for hugo lloris and connected an embarrassing mistake but the french captain did the front for a long four two the final score they blew win the world cup for a second time with smiles all around. our time we're smiling here in the studio as well what a great match but there was talk actually ahead of the match that croatia would be really tired because they had two extra time not just in the lead up to this world

cup final when they played the final was france fortunate to get this victory would you say i mean a bit of fortune you know is that is part of the recipe that creates every single sporting success that ever happens or yes slightly i think we will too however be a little bit wary of overstating the lot fons how you don't win a world cup without having to win it france is momentum picked up throughout the tournament. and this squad full of incredible talented players we're seeing some of the faces of them in this wonderful image behind us now the idea show had been criticised a couple of stages and that's one of the perhaps not getting the best out of his attacking players yes griezmann. pay going forward you grew up top and we didn't see that many attacking displays but really he's proved himself now to be the tactical genius he's a man of the tournament and also believe that we can hear from him and see how pleased he was when there's a success last autumn. is simply beautiful it's marvelous for

these piousness such a young generation some of them are world champions in just nineteen even though others have been around a lot longer. brilliantly today but we showed lots of mental strength. in any case we scored four goals states deserved. to be they did. well deserved so two years ago france actually lost the european championships do you think that loss actually prepared them for this when certainly i mean quite a lot of the players who were you know who played in that rather sad at least from a french perspective farnell in paris two years ago were on the pitch again last night. you know every experience like that really teaches you a lot of what makes a strong sport and so it is. a reserve bank of experience from which to draw when things get tough but let's not also forget and we'll see is pretty goal here from last on can even back play young player of the tournament only nineteen years old self ready with the world company times yeah i mean the

future is very proud of it all right i'm going to be breaking down the world cup final for us congratulations to france thank you very much tom let's move on now to some other stories making news around the world two reporters from in march charged with violating the country's secrecy laws are due to testify in court today the two a pleaded not guilty on charges of seeking classified information last year as part of their reporting of the government's handling of the workings of crisis the case is being closely watched as a test of press freedom in may and mark. activist in the indian city of demonstrated in support of l g b t rights india's l g b t community is hoping the country's supreme court will soon move to decriminalize gay sex the court has been hearing a challenge to the ban which dates back to the colonial era. and hundreds of migrants have disembarked from two ships in the italian port of poti after several countries agreed to take many of them the migrants were allowed on land only after germany

france and malta had played sure except at least one hundred fifty asylum seekers italy had refused to let the ships dock before the concession was made the right time to get some business news now with monica and we're heading straight to china sumi because the european union has asked the united states china and russia to ease global trade tensions saying there is a danger they could spiral out of control european council president on a task was speaking in beijing at the opening of a summit between china and the european union tusk insisted that europe china the united states and russia has a duty not to destroy the global order called for a reform of international trade rules as well as an overhaul of the world trade organization while there's still time to prevent what he called conflict and chaos or meanwhile china's economy grew six point seven percent in the last quarter that's ever so slightly less than in the first three months of the year the world's

second biggest economy is still on course to meet its growth target for this year but they're all feel as a trader our with the united states a slow in property market and we can domestic demand could slow future growth. german pharma and technology company match is stepping up its presence in china in advance of the opening of a two hundred fifty million euro factory in numb tong next year the company has signed a deal with alibaba health opened a technology center in shanghai and it's adding university in shanghai to its global network of genome editing research it's the initiatives i just signed to commemorate the company's three hundred and fifty s. anniversary it all started here with a pharmacy in down start that humble shop grew into what's now the oldest from a company in the world and three hundred fifty years later still run by the

founding merck family but now the company is a global player. merck now has annual sales of more than fifteen billion euros last year's profit was two point six billion and they employ around fifty two thousand people the company now has several divisions mix pharmaceutical sector is under a lot of pressure to research and develop their own drugs and bring them to market that includes drugs for cancer and multiple sclerosis they also make levy quitman which is the study business their third division is making liquid crystals for l.c.d. screens and in that field they're up against fierce competition from china. well with just about eight months more left it's still unclear how brics it will actually play out one of the key issues is immigration which britain wants to control as a result this month you immigration to britain has fallen to

a five year low and if you are in the strawberry business without migrant workers from the continent you will be in trouble brits love their strawberries but they don't like to pick them. david figures is a fruit grower of the fourth generation in a family business but maybe more and more of his fruit is rotting in the fields the pickers who work for him for years to stop showing up not just do we want labor from europe but we want to be a trade with europe we buy they still revamps came from belgium the worst came to the worst we were growing fruit and. i know of more than one farmer who has started growing fruit abroad the industry suffers without labor from eastern europe and dying percent the pickers in britain come from there according to the farmers association and they can't find british people who are willing there are thousands of workers down in these critical weeks they don't know if they'll be welcome after price it in the pound has also lost

a lot of value over progs that which makes fruit picking elsewhere in europe more attractive. i have a long time here so i'm still happy here so when i will not be happy with just going around the place foreign workers leaving the u.k. is not only a problem in agriculture hundreds of thousands of jobs are under threat at companies like rolls royce jaguar airbus and siemens and so our entire industrial sectors like steel. eighty percent of those exports go to the e.u. market so for us we absolutely need for the very survival of the steel central u.k. seamless trade with terrorists. with no end in sight for the u.k. e.u. trade deal many sectors have a long road of economic instability ahead of them. not all that strong as foreign trade policy follows one strategy making america great again at how well with slacks and and lots of them and that is why donald trump is ramping up flack

production for his reelection campaign and twenty twenty but where do these flacks come from surely from an american company made great by the order not quite the flags made in china. the how flag company and china's on the province is busy despite the trade war between their country in the us it's all about supply and demand and business is booming here even with all the buy american rhetoric at home the trump campaign has their reelection flags made right here in this factory geo how produces around ten thousand trump twenty twenty flags per month factory workers here hope the new tariffs won't affect production. if they add tariffs ordinary people like us won't have any profit margin. it will be taken by the state. of course we hope it doesn't happen if they add more

tariffs sales will gradually decrease a little the sales will drop on some flags if they get too expensive so we hope that doesn't happen. really before long. but for now business is still booming with republicans in the us gearing up for donald trump's reelection campaign by churning out thousands of american flags and reelection banners the trump family has been criticized for having their company's products produced in china despite trump's insistence that americans buy american made products. and now it's back to sue me because there is a big big summit about to take place in finland that's right monica we've been covering of that summit all morning of course and let's see if we can pull up some live pictures here because we have seen russian president vladimir putin arrive at the presidential palace there in helsinki there are the pictures you see the big motorcade there out front and we've just seen putin walk through the halls also has

a foreign minister sergey lavrov is on hand we've seen them both arrive there in the presidential palace and we have. tyson barker with us here in our studio u.s. european affairs analyst who's been looking at this with us and we've been looking at these pictures and of ludmer putin has just arrived remind us again what exactly is at stake for these two leaders as they sit down for their first ever summit today they have met of course on the sidelines of the g. twenty summit in hamburg last year but this is their first one on one meeting right this is you know we saw it during bush we saw during obama and this is really the apex of trump's attempt at a reset with russia of course the background of that potential reset is quite different than it was in two thousand and one or two thousand and nine you know with russian troops present in ukraine with russian active supporting assad in syria with russian meddling obviously confirmed by the intelligence community in the united states so for this president it's about getting this

a reset on the order with extremely strong headwinds for vladimir putin the goal is quite different and to some extent he's already won that over he's already achieved it it's the optic it's the idea of restoring russian greatness russia's status as a great power as a world power we will recall that during two thousand and fourteen during the obama administration president obama said that russia is a very consequential regional power that was quite a slight against vladimir putin and russia in that sense of itself and this restores it to that level. for you no member of the permanent security council would suspend nuclear power that's the only country that can sit down at this level with the american president isn't that optic just as important to the american president the sense of pageantry of meeting lattimer putin that we can't forget that it was just there in early june that he met with north korea's leader kim jong un well clearly he's you know bucking conventional wisdom he says you know if somebody says if the washington establishment if the you know the democrats the

humans international's republican say i can't meet with this person i'm going to meet with this person and he's always had since the eighty's a fascination with russia with moscow in particular he tried to have business interests there that love affair with russia is is strong so this is something that has been his personal interest for a long time but does he want to reset as you mentioned because he sent mixed messages also on russia right i mean he's basically laid out all the different aspects on the one hand he says you know the crimean people during the campaign he's of the cry of the crimean people want to belong to russia that you know this is a permanent reality essentially on the other hand he said that it was a product of obama's soft policies towards russia that allowed russia to take crimea so it's not exactly clear but even with all these different data points the trend line points towards a better relationship with russia he clearly has a personal affinity to blatter reputed and i think this is something that he would

like to see in the long term all right what is a better relationship with russia mean for the e.u. we have our correspondent gary for us in brussels scared all i fair of course also on what's happening in helsinki today what's what some of what you've been hearing there in brussels. exactly european politicians here nervously waiting for results to come after president trump left number of shock waves on his visits to the european union one one of the things that are of particular foreign ministers who are meeting today in brussels of course is looking at is all issues related to a russian relations to ukraine but the foreign minister also born off luxembourg here also said today on the up on a rival for the for the foreign minister meeting that not too many expectations or even hopes should be placed in this meeting by trump and putin yet the affair is that trump could reach an agreement with putin that would be against european

interests what are the fears here. other fields here is look president trump was asked had of this meeting what he would make of for instance military exercises in the baltics and he said he would be prepared to even talk about that now that in itself is a statement that makes european politicians novices then when it came to crimea which has been annexed in two thousand and fourteen by russia and hence force european union has placed fear sanctions on russia when asked about that he said he can tell so that is not exactly the foreign policy line the european union would like to see him representing or him confronting putin with his subjects and any move in that direction of course particularly for baltic european union members would be a shock so that is the part where where really key western security policy lines are affected is what was most politicians here are keeping an eye on and putting an alliance that has been in place for so many decades care and in threat we heard

germany's foreign minister saying today that we can no longer comply it completely rely on the white house that this was after donald trump said in an interview that the european union was a foe in regard to trade what do you make of these comments. federico for mockery of the foreign policy chief of the european union this morning said look just because an administration of a country changes it doesn't change the friendship and that is basically a line that a number of foreign policy foreign policy chief here and foreign ministers have followed they have emphasized the u.s. remains a key ally it is remains a strong friend and nothing is going to change that or no tweets and no comments from the american president and then let me quote again the luxembourg foreign minister also born who then went on to say that maybe the fresh air in scotland playing golf has helped donald trump here to get it right who is friend and who is

full and he doesn't he believes maybe european politicians shouldn't take all these tweets and all these comments all that serious and rather look at the facts what is polities he moves will be that being said carrick on all of these issues that are on the table as we mentioned syria ukraine in particular on sanctions where do european union officials fear most that donald trump could give ground. big concern is of course as i've mentioned the whole issue with crimea but as you have analyzed as well and talked about before they also know of course that the danger here is really limited donald trump himself signed a deal where congress really has to agree to any move on the sanctions so he can't just unilaterally declare for instance that the sanctions regime or reduce the sanctions but of course the concern here is and we've seen this with north korea where he wants to send

a signal and where he suspended military exercises that something similar in that direction may happen and that is a major concern particularly for european members in the east of europe but also for the rest of the club we see meanwhile that senior officials are meeting with the china's premier league in beijing amid these rising economic tensions with the u.s. what have we heard there from european council president trusts and his team and are we seeing at this realigning that we've heard some in brussels talk about. i would say that using this again as an opportunity to point to the international order that from the european union here really is at stake the the architecture of multilateral agreements such as the world trade organization when it comes to the rao over terrorists that is something where they seek in china i see that both countries are now hit with the u.s. tariffs that the global architecture of multilateral institutions is cherish and

that is why today said he wants to ease global tensions on trade and he believes the e.u. has a duty not to disturb the you rather donald trump russia also everyone internationally has a duty not to destroy the global order that has provided prosperity but also security in the process of decades. there are again as you're speaking we've been looking at some pictures from hell thank you of course we're expecting the summit to get underway in about fifteen twenty minutes time and i just want to get your perspective on what care was talking about this idea that this alliance has protected security in europe for seventy years essentially at the same time we're seeing such division and such undermining of that relationship in the rhetoric between these two sides is europe right to continue to rely on this friendship despite tweets and you know sessions from the u.s. president i think it's time to what are the reagan strategy which is trust but

verify you know they need to start to come up with europeans need to start to come up with contingency plans in the event that the u.s. wouldn't back them up i mean you know rhetoric often paves the way for policy and to the extent that the rhetoric has done that you know the signs are very worrying it is time to think about enhanced investment and pesto in a joint military. establishment for for europe that's not just institutionalized but also operational something the. can be used because it's not a given that the united states will always be there what would that look like well you know it would be a multinational it would be imbedded in european structures it would hopefully bring in any country that would be interested in joining and that's kind of the strategy that brussels has taken in pursuing this joint military unit the hope is that they don't get too fixated on you know where should this planning headquarters

be or where should the you know this this or this base be but rather be much more operationally minded what are the threats that europe faces and how is it supposed to deal with these threats if it pursues that you know there will be a time after donald trump if if that's the pursuit that europe has and it's able to plug and play with the united states and other partners and allies then that would be a net win both for the united states and globally of a threat is russia to the e.u. because we've seen these escalating tensions at the same time we see the u.s. president now sitting down first first summit with to meet putin could that be a good thing for europe to bring tensions back to my way just to just to talk about russia as a threat for the e.u. i think it's an immense right for the e.u. it's clear that the that the russians were funding. campaign operations in the braggs it campaign it's clear that they tried to play a role in the referendum in the netherlands to try to reject ukraine's association agreement this is a strategic and then there's the territorial threat to the balkans or to the baltics excuse me so this is an existential threat to stay three at least three

e.u. members i think that this needs to be taking streatley seriously that's something that moscow of course says is not the case and we can go to moscow we have our correspondent emily sure when standing by for us there i believe that way if you can hear say you are emily you know under trump's presidency we have seen u.s. relations u.s. russia relations deteriorate we were just talking with tyson about russia relations is russia interested in a reset here does this entire summit mean a reset for russia. well i think putin stands to gain a lot from the summit even the fact that trump is just is meeting with him at all they stand to gain a lot on the world stage we've just had the world cup finishing people were praising triplett praising putin for this very successful world cup including trump who said that the world cup was one of the best ever so when it comes to russia's image certainly putin stands to gain

a lot from this summit perhaps much more than trump who has has to be a lot more careful with what he says but basically even the fact that they're meeting at all regardless of the outcome of this summit is positive for the russians regardless of when we talk about the outcome what do you think would be the greatest victory here for vladimir putin. what would be the greatest victory well it's hard to know what can actually come out of this summit when we're talking about concrete results and both sides of kind of been playing down expectations ahead of the summit and we saw a presidential aide even saying you know were we've reached a dead end in relations perhaps we can propose something economically when it comes to syria we've seen in the past few days and weeks putin kind of meeting with israel with netanyahu last week and also with talk to rein in advisors he seems to

be trying to wrangle some sort of deal. that could perhaps satisfy the u.s. and israel as well about a pullback of iranian troops from the border to israel that's something that israel is very much pushing for and of course the u.s. is a is a close ally of israel as well so that could be one thing that we see coming out of this meeting though it's unclear whether whether it's the two leaders will kind of keep that agreement tacit and when it comes to ukraine the two sides are likely to talk about a potential u.n. peacekeeping mission but i think there may not be kind of concrete results on ukraine coming out of this and we mentioned that these two leaders have met in person before on the sidelines of the g. twenty summit last year in hamburg and also you know trump here said that he's looking to forge this personal bond with putin what do you think you can we can expect there in terms of how these two leaders work together.

well i think that's kind of. the main thing that could come out of this the fact that they're meeting at all and perhaps the russian side is hoping that there will be further meetings down the line as well. russians when trump came into power or came became president were very hopeful about him as a present president as a u.s. president that this could mean kind of a reset of relations but things have gotten kind of progressively worse between the u.s. and russia and there was this national security strategy that was published at the end of last year the u.s. national security strategy which kind of very much posited russia as you know an adversary of the u.s. and i think after that russian hopes were a bit dashed i would say but this is of course now

a hopeful moment for the russian side who very much are positioning themselves with with this meeting you know as one of the main players on the world stage that's one of the most important thing things for russia to position itself as a main player on the international stage to me and i want to ask you about that because as we heard emily say there has been plenty of common ground but of course a lot of points of contention between the u.s. and russia where do things actually stand between these two administrations well if you're there it's funny because there's a big disconnect especially in the united states between trump and his administration and the administration is kind of taken what we could call a liberal internationalists line it's a continuation of a policy that is extended through the late bush administration through obama and kind of continues to see strengthening the eastern flank of nato reconfirming the commitment to article five a nato supporting ukraine in hansing that support for ukraine deploying more forces to the international coalition continuing to say that assad must go all of those

points all those beat by beats are the same. as the previous administration or white russo skeptic to resort antagonistic the president himself is not toeing that line necessarily on the russia side of the picture of course in the administration is a little more uniform putin and his administration ministration is a reflection of his views and those views are pretty clear as you can speak in tongues and we're looking here at pictures of a trans motorcade arriving here at the helsinki palace to the summit is set to get underway such a significant summit tyson and you know as we're talking about some of these issues on the table like syria like ukraine with such large security issues facing the world right now is another good thing that these two leaders sitting down to talk about some of them it could be a good thing you know if theoretically if the prep and gone into it if the clear deliverables were were were put on the table if the interests were starting to

align there are a couple of let's say green shoots spots that there could be some movement particularly extension of a new start treaty something that would reduce nuclear weapons on both sides that could be something that the russians are quite interested in actually and would probably serve global peace but that doesn't seem to be on the agenda or at least that high on the agenda at this point all right let's bring in our correspondent peter craven who's on the ground there and helsinki. there you have peter you are right there where donald trump the motorcade has just arrived give us an idea of what's been going on what the atmosphere is like. the atmosphere is strange it's not quite what you would expect because of course this is a city that is so readily associated with cold war times and it's it's roasting it's sizzling lee hopes it's a day in the. behind me in this sunshine we just have the cavalcade of the the russian leader vladimir putin arriving about ten minutes ago donald trump is now

with his loss arriving it's always quite a sight to this when you see sixty seventy eighty vehicles it's like an invading army and i say that's about both so it's it's quite soon it's quite a sight and it's taking a lot of time to get it all organized has been delays. arriving at helsinki airport donald trump getting through town that's obviously going to affect the timetabling the meeting was supposed to start in the last hour at least that's obviously going to be delayed there we're going to be meeting for an hour and thirty minutes which would lead to considerable concern among many on the on the american side many of trump's supporters in areas they've been worried about him being in a room on his own with the county with the why only bloody mayor putin for an hour and a half and just to translators maybe that's still going to happen maybe they're going to give it to rethink maybe at the last moment even the great deal maker donald trump will say let's do an hour rather than ninety minutes we have to wait and see i said look around once again over my shoulder they're in the process of arriving

it could take a while yeah it's a way to go peter as you can speaking we were looking at some pictures of donald trump walking into the palace there with the russian premier med bed you have also with the first lady. that you're out to see outside can't see those pictures of them entering but he entered along the same path of course that vladimir putin did about twenty minutes earlier so we're expecting that those two leaders will be sitting down together any minute peter remind us again you know why hell thinking here why this has been chosen and why the state is significant for such a summit. well this is everybody knows that helsinki has had a special significance right down the past you know decades many many decades of bringing together u.s. and american leaders with soviet russian leaders for summit talks of the most famous example was i suppose gerald ford and leonid brezhnev coming together to sign the. helsinki accords which today tones between the cold war period it led to a cooling off in the cold war period it meant the hot war in the cold war period

what could be avoided and it eventually led to the whole long process that led to the decline of the soviet union something that obviously flooding new putin and many of his associates very much regret when they look back so here are the russians back in helsinki it's a bridge building city that's how the people of helsinki that's how the president of helsinki that's how everybody here views their role and we're going to see whether they come up with any magic this time around although i doubt it because everybody's playing the expectations down at this point in time let's see if we can pull in our correspondent emily sherrilyn who is in moscow they are emily i just listening to peter there you know we've been talking about how this all looks from the kremlin perspective how is the summit being covered there in russia being seen by russians. well the russian media have been really referring to this summit as historic but on the other hand we've also seen various politicians kind of playing down expectations so

it's it's definitely a bit of a mix of things but i think that the russians russians here on the streets as it were would certainly be happy to see you know an improvement in relations between russia and the u.s. people here you know have have been recent months and you know even last year as well continuously kind of concerned about the fact that russia is always as they see it blamed for everything on the international stage and i think that people would be happy to see kind of russia's role changing there and i think both in the media as well as on the streets people will be hopeful that perhaps that kind of change could take place as a result of this meeting or or at least that it could set off.