thank you very much thank you thank you i. thank you everybody. thank. tex and as he said press making images really we heard donald trump say a few things there this will be an extraordinary friendship. yet we may also he also just said you know we're the only two powers you know the nuclear powers put them at the same level it's that elevation of russia that the putin and many of his people are looking for you know if you if you look at the image the body language wasn't super super warm putin a little bit stayed back but at the very end he gave a little bit of a smirk a little bit of a smile and i think he's quite happy with what was said we should also remind our viewers that we're watching the summit taking place in helsinki and the two leaders are expected to give a press conference

a little bit later in the afternoon what did you make of the fact that he pointed to china said our mutual friend here well i mean rhetorical aid that's that's pretty problematic you know we're just one day away from him talking about all the photos on the international stage the first one he singled out of course was the european union he also mentioned china and russia and that breath i mean this follows a pattern of you know speaking very great trying to ingratiate himself to people in front of them while speaking you know poorly about them on twitter or in other places more and cindy but of course talking about their mutual friend china it's almost as if he's trying to form a a new club a new great power club two of the three of which are not democracies so that's quite worrying let's bring in our correspondent peter craven who's been following all of us from outside the presidential palace peter you've been standing there you know give us an idea of what's been happening and what is actually on the agenda we've just seen that handshake between the two leaders what's going to happen next we don't know

a whole lot do we. we know practically nothing about what is on the agenda but we have to assume that i think that was very interesting that donald trump just now mentioned the whole issue of nuclear arms and nuclear proliferation that is something that he's been under a lot of pressure to take into this such a discussion with him there was some anxiety though in the intelligence community in the u.s. that this is one area where he doesn't know the facts the way the. will absolutely will have a game plan set out so they were worried that he was going to have rings run around him on that issue but he mentioned it and i think it will go in there i also think here the reference to xi jinping was interesting and i agree with the comment that we now have three sort of well two autocratic leaders and one sort of american president with autocratic yearnings many of his critics would say sort of almost forming a global triangle that was interesting and i think here yes i mean i've got this building behind me the finnish president's palace and it's very exciting to contemplate the thought that in the next minutes the next coming minutes donald

trump is going to turn and say look lucky me or i'm getting into a lot of trouble here over these meddling allegations is there anything it is simply mir is going to smile slyly and say donald there's nothing in it and you can tell that it's nothing in it and he probably will. amazing if it comes that way but that is that without is the pattern we have seen at the previous meetings this is the first summit meeting where they've had three previous meetings telephone calls and sort of the mention of this method of meddling allegations have been talked about and basically swept under the carpet here we've been talking about that this breathtaking moment as tyson called it the two men sitting together shaking hands how important is this symbolism. the symbolism is very important and the friendship or the body in the space when the two men is very important ever since donald trump came into power he's been yearning for leave reasons i've never been particularly clear for

a summit of flooding near guten and his team it's made of changing team over that period of time but one constant has been they've been saying don't go there don't go there are too dangerous no good reason to do it but donald has pushed and he's got it today why did he want it so badly did he need that private time with flood to move putin personal that does he wants personal recognition from vladimir putin donald trump has a tendency to look down on very many world leaders this is one leader who he clearly looks up to he's almost in a war of the other movements and so maybe he wants to get you know pats on the shoulder from the russian leader. you know well for our viewers are just joining us here we are watching images of donald trump and of lot of meeting in helsinki holding their first one on one talks had together at this summit a very high stakes summit as he said later we don't know exactly what they'll speak about but a whole host of issues could be on the agenda from ukraine to nato a large meant in eastern europe to syria let's see if we can pull in our

correspondent in moscow on my show when he's been following all of this for us. if you can hear us you know what did you make of these opening comments that we heard from donald trump and that body language we were talking about with tyson. well absolutely i think the opening statements were very interesting particularly when it comes to trump putin kind of said very general things he said that trump that it's time to talk about our relations and about the difficult multinational issues in the world so pretty vague from him but much of what trump said would have been music to put in zero is talking about kind of the importance of getting along with russia talking about this extraordinary friendship and how he's looking forward to having a personal discussion all of these things will be music to vladimir putin's ears and also i thought it was very interesting as well sumi that he mentioned the nuclear weapons issue that is one thing that the two sides could come out of this

meeting with something concrete that they could agree about after all there is a nuclear arms treaty the new start treaty which was signed in two thousand and ten and that is supposed to expire in two thousand and twenty one so perhaps the two sides could agree on extending that treaty for another five years perhaps trump's comments today were a hint at that that that and that could be a very much a a kind of neutral takeaway from this very. very dramatic meeting with a very contentious issues on the table. is there a sense there in russia as we're seeing these pictures of the summit that russia is if i may in a sense being brought in from out from the cold being brought back from isolation. well that's certainly the hope here i think and for putin as well i mean he met

it in fact i think trump in many ways is key for this and not just in this meeting today but also in the meetings that we've seen in the past month. or putin met with german chancellor angela merkel and such she he also met with my car and there was very much a sense that the kind of disruption that trump has been causing with european partners with the kind of you know threat of a trade war and all and all these kind of issues these disruptions that he's been causing on the european stage that that's kind of a chance for putin to cozy up to european leaders as well to kind of gain on the economic side of things and perhaps to present himself as a more reliable partner in many ways to european leaders than trump and of course now he's meeting with trump today so perhaps this is certainly

a chance for him to for putin to present himself as being you know an important player on the international stage not just with european leaders but also with this meeting with with trump today. they want to pick up one of the points that actually made a possible concrete outcome that would come from the summit is the question of nuclear arms nuclear arms race that you know we've seen mixed messages from the trumpet ministration for trump from trump himself on what he wants syria know he has talked about wanting to eliminate nuclear weapons but at the same time bragged about the u.s. arsenal what do you expect to see on this front well i mean if you put it in the domestic u.s. political context new start was first of all the bullshit about obama which you know anything to go should by obama is the most to president from i don't mind this when you start is for the people who are not usually arms reduction a nuclear arms reduction treaty that reduces the number of nuclear warheads on both sides as president trump himself mentioned the u.s. and russia have over. ninety percent of the world stock of nuclear weapons and this

is a reduction it is set to expire in two thousand and twenty one there is a clause in the treaty that would allow for an extension by five years and this would be in russia's interest to get that extension because they just don't have the money to maintain that nuclear arsenal in the united states is quite controversial it was obviously a treaty to pass these two thirds of the senate it was a controversy among the democrats but it was quite controversial among the republicans so it's unclear to me whether there would be the backing to rescind or extend that treaty among his own republican base that's one point or another potential concrete deliverable but i think it would be quite worrying is an agreement on dialogue on cyber security this is something that the top administration and the russians brought up in summer last year clearly there is russia's already a signatory to the council of europe cyber preventions that. agreements and other things and is not hearing to those agreements so there is a sense that anything that russia would agree to on cyber security would just be

a rhetorical figley and they would not adhere to them so that would not be the best essentially that wouldn't be in russia's interest would it to sign some sort of agreement on cyber security with the u.s. it would be in russia's interest to the extent that that creates the sense the plausible deniability that they are it here into international norms all the while violating them with impunity all right let's go back to peter craven news of course standing outside of the presidential palace where we've been speaking to him all morning peter talk of the bit about you know the european concerns coming into this that we've been talking to our correspondent brussels about this as well how concerned is the e.u. watching this summit that its interests might be compromised. very this is a this is a very very worrying time indeed for europeans and for the european union and as we saw donald trump went to brussels and beleaguered nato leaders there gave them a real telling off the then went to london to the reason may and gave her he boxed

her ears as well you might say and then he came out and declared that the european union is there one of the america's leading foes that it is a foe that is an enemy of the americans this is all very bad news indeed for the europeans especially given that the house to be a question mark about whether one flood to move putin and donald trump are behind closed doors as they surely are now whether they're not going to share an antipathy towards the european union and their determination to push a strategy that will weaken and break up the european union i think that is a very real prospect that that kind of strategy could be adopted by these two leaders informally today and in the longer run in a more firm sense so as i say that would be a very worrying prospect indeed for european leaders and that you know that's what we've heard the comments that we've heard from donald tusk for example but i hear them all the time now in germany where i'm based for torture vella journalist an ordinary people very great concern in europe these days especially peter coming

into this meeting as donald trump in an interview is called the european union a follow on the trade front at least you know what do you make of those words. he's aggressive it's aggressive language and you wonder. where it comes from quite you know that the shared tradition the transatlantic tradition between you and i'm sorry i'm going to have to turn my mobile phone off or come back to it a moment. all right peter craven there covering the summit for us outside of the presidential palace peter's phone ringing lots of people interested in speaking to you peter. and then let's come back to would tyson barker with us here in our studio all right tyson it looks like actually that's all we have time for at the moment we've been following this summit in helsinki between russian president vladimir putin and u.s. president donald trump here you see the pictures this is stuart meeting between the two their first one on one summit together donald trump is speaking in

a few words saying getting along with russia is a good thing not a bad thing we'll have to wait and see what comes out of the press conference a little bit later in the afternoon. thanks for watching. for records. to. their spirit.

for the twenty first century. unique interpretation. tesla in concert and the world of a young piano. twenty one percent johnny in a tree for nothing. sixty minutes. i'm. causes so please. somebody else might do so so nearly everybody around the world is named.

has the balls to take. me. on the one hundredth anniversary of his for the legacy of nelson mandela. hello and welcome to a special edition of pop explore devoted to germany's enduring punk band. will tell the story of the band's success tagalong to meet argentinian fans and take in a concert perform to the symphony orchestra. in a sold over forty million records over the past three and a half decades now here's pop exports portrait of the punk rockers from.