for naughty the, the, the, the, the, the headlining this hour, restoring contacts, organizing direct dialogue, pretty mid post, and share his expectations of the upcoming summit with joe biden. plus in the big news stories of the week g. 7 leaders agree on a global infrastructure plan to compete with china's belted road initiative. first in person summit, since the pandemic brought to a close in england the french president get slapped in the face while trying to get up close and personal with a crowd is supposed to support us in the south of france. and after its recent blocking in nigeria,

twitter christ foul calling an open free internet of basic human rights and social media platform steadily, senses, excuses, united states, ah, by that lives are worldwide. this is archie international from moscow. it's sunday, that means we're going to take you through some of the biggest stories that we've been covering here over the past 7 days 1st. so getting you up to speed on what's happening this weekend to restore contacts, organized, direct dialogue. this is what ladiva approach and says he's expecting from the upcoming summer in geneva with joe biden. the russian president cabbage thoughts and a newly released interview with stacy television. right. let's get across that. now, to shed more light on that correspondent he drank with a good, it's pretty ras president put in to talk about an upcoming summit. so we'll keep an outlining while this time mister pool, who was quite specific about the things that he is intending to bring up in geneva

when he meets joe biden. and 1st of all, the russian leader mentioned global security. this is a very important issue. mister poking pointed out moscow's concerns for when it comes to ne toes missile defense systems that are close to the rushing borders. it is done. we have always try to behave with sufficient restraint. after all, we did not take a single step in any of the areas which would aggravate the situation. we're talking about security issues about these red lines about the possible deployment of all kinds of combat systems. there was a missile strike and so on. i have already mentioned poland and romania missile defense systems are already being deployed there and strikes systems can be supplied to them as well. but we have removed our military base from cuba because we don't do such things. but our partners, unfortunately,

are doing just that mr. brewton said that he was hoping that the summit could at least create the conditions for a proper and fair discussion on these matters. and then he went on to explain why the hope is there. and he actually praised the white house for constructive approach. and at least one aspect, because one of the 1st steps when it comes to the international agreements that was made by the joe biden administration when they began their work in the white house, was prolonging the new star treaty, which is the last remaining pillar of nuclear arms control and will know when the new administration lead by president biden extended the new start treaty, a 1st step. and i think this is a very important step. and in general,

of course, on the part of president biden, this is a manifestation of professionalism. of course. president putin also touched on cybersecurity, which is one of the more headline grabbing dents in the us, russia policies at the moment. how did he elaborate on that? well, what is global security without cybersecurity? that's something else that's major and that's going to be on the table clearly, according to latimer potent attacks on infrastructure systems, industrial systems could lead to very serious consequences. and clearly, in that aspect, the russian leader was hinting at the recent cyber attacks on us infrastructure and while criminal maintain that moscow didn't have anything to do with it. the russian side really wants some kind of bilateral agreement to be hammered out to make sure that all of this is under control. and i can tell you that back in 2013 work on that had already begun. but then ukraine happened. accusations of russian hackers

meddling, influencing the us election and then everything was wrapped up, but it wasn't the russian side that really wrapped it up according to vladimir putin. this, the u. s. is to blame for it. and the russian leader once this work to resume possibly we'll hear about that after the some difficult one, isn't it? because cybersecurity haven't so much in the shadows, it's difficult to get a lead on. all right, we're going to get some thoughts next for now, though alia patricia, thanks very much for getting up to speed on that. we're going to get life now to independent journalists and rights and marketing services. welcome back to our c, martin, president putin. some who, most conciliatory, citing biden's professionalism regarding the start treaty that really was just talking about of biden's coming in of all combative mode. what do you think that is? well, i think it was always brought to me. pizza is behaving professionally. does no point going to summit lightness binding the table like chris shuffled issue. those days

are over. and let's hope that boyden comes with a similarly constructive mentality. if you don't have a meeting, it's all you might as well, you know, probably in calmness, even where you disagree. president biden's also going to hold a solo news conference after his meeting with him. what lies behind his decision? where do you think? well, i don't think the american saw most of the joint press conference because it's on the scripted and you know, stuff may come out that they don't want to come out on understand the blinking is going to be in the meeting with pearson. and in many ways this, this is an american meeting, they've set it up, they've lived down the conditions that they're prepared up to meeting under. and i think the russians are responding constructively to this opportunity for dialogue. do you think, i think that without 2018 joint use conference with donald trump in helsinki, where he doubted the claims as russian election meddling. that's

a difficult bridge for them to get over the sort of predictable thing is what they're going to want to avoid. and you know, if you go into negotiate with faith when you try and make it as easy as possible for them to talk to, you, don't back them into coolness, try and find common ground. and we've gotten very low expectations of this because the 2 sides are very far apart. are lots of issues. and you know, we cannot, leg was going to be so massive breakthrough. i'm not in the sense, takes the pressure of most leaders because if they can just, i was civilized conversation. that will be enough for now. i suppose any, even small progress is going to be taken as a, when really the optimistic work we've been hearing from president putin to restore contacts, organize dialogue, a sensible goal between 2 major will powers. do you think that can be achieved? well, let's hope so. i mean, in, in the nose all in place, processor in prison. some people who are bitter enemies and have been killing each other for years, found the way to sit down and talk to each other and actually found that they had

a lot in common. not snow, you can't general motion was something like not to a more general situation in the world, but the principle of having a constructive dialogue, even even when you've got many things that you don't agree about. surely that should just be normal. standard operating procedure on the population of the world that side russia on the us expects to see how to be disappointed if they didn't see it or heard what hurt and expect from the sun. what about bite, and what does he expect? do you think he could just send into more russia bashing? well, i'm afraid he could. don't forget the boys. to a large extent for you know, east east eastern strain by the fraction of the politics in the us is extremely belligerent. the media, all things that have been said over the last few years, the son called cyber attacked by russia. the so many things that it's very difficult for him to be constructive. i think the russian side has got to

understand that. but there's not much she can offer. so let's be total if something comes out more can be offered on cybersecurity then because russia more than once a school for cooperation on this and as another positive response. well, i mean it's more views. cyber attacks in the us and of course, the whole russia gate thing, basically provocations, boy, western security services. because they obviously have a big turned in what goes on. and if they decide that they won't have the cooperative relationship, then they will be, will know that i'm not sure that within pay biden's gift. ok. good to talk to you again. martin summers independent journalist, thanks for joining us. can now take okay this, we can the 1st g 7 in person summit since the pandemic is coming to an end in the u . k. app, joe biden. it marked the 1st overseas trip of his presidency ahead of that summit. biden met with his host, british prime minister, boris johnson. they signed

a new atlantic charter based on an agreement that outlined the 2 countries goals after world war 2. the priority. now, according to the document, it's cooperation. that's the g 7. the main talking points were the pandemic trade and climate change plus china and russia. but i'll senior correspondent, i guess div examines why much of that agenda was a bit of a loss from the past. well, america is back. back for watson. when did it ever leave whatever it is that it's coming back to from as unclear. at every point along the way, we're going to make it clear that united states is back. and democracies of the world are standing together to tackle the toughest challenges and the issues that matter most to our future. well, that's good. suddenly again, i can't remember them ever leaving, but if you will, coming back to things you never left then why the heck not some things you've

already signed are revitalized atlanta charter building on the commitments and aspirations that are 80 years ago. the firms are ongoing commitment to sustaining our enduring values and defending them against new and old challenges. so they're defending democracy, defending nato, defending trade, which american britain have done admirably if a tad violently but that's the rule. they will now seek to combat cyber threats. climate change in the pandemic. there's so much to do and what better way to start than with tv jukes. so the prime minister, we have so the both very i'm not sure i'm going to send from that. i'm going to disagree already on the else. perhaps what may be construed as new is that button seems hell bent on returning a call to the glory days of the cold war. and his youth. i've been clear the

united states will respond in a robust and meaningful way, and the russian government engages and harmful activities. we've already demonstrated that, except we've had the same thing in various forms for nigh on a century. if it isn't russia, it's yes, china we will focus on ensuring the market democracies not i know, or anyone else, right? the 21st century rules around trade and technology and we will continue to pursue the goal of a europe whole free and at peace. biden wants to resurrect an old monster. the cold war with vos, standing armies with vos military spending a vase block to crush the competition. and the competition. and he's in russia. the competition is china, which america still doesn't have an answer for me. while the g 7 leaders has come up with an answer to china's belt road initiative by backing us plans for

a vast global infrastructure, dr. whitehouse statement claims that build back better well plan will raise public and private funds to close the infrastructure gap, the poor nations. well, there's some g 7 states including germany and italy have raised doubts about open rivalry with beijing. and the belt road initiative was set up in 2013 to link scores of countries by rail road and c, notably across africa and asia. so now while the g 7 leaders to compete with this in the sphere of infrastructure at the summit, the chairman of the u. s. joint chiefs of stuffs and glowed china and russia as the biggest global threats from a military standpoint. i guess share with us to their perspective on the u. s. pressure on china. but 1st, we have seen successive escalating containment strategies against china since $999.00, each one failing. and now it's by turn, the u. s. desperate to sustain and re enforce its global hegemony. already seen some hesitation from germany and italy and francis said the existing system already

dominated by the same countries should be reformed and made more equitable. if this is really just an effort to build an anti china block and its human cost will outweigh its benefits. and that's a real possibility here. we see a long term goal to freeze china out. and i don't think that the us reverse course . ready and work with china on something like this, particularly after poisoning the well, we're going to try to recover rhetoric over the last few years. well, i wonder if i fallen asleep and waking up when woke up in 1978 or something, you know it's, it's, it's unbelievable that we need to sign a new atlantic lines. what is the atlantic? we have no idea what the atlantic is, the atlantic has been certainly since the end of the cold war, european countries incapable of developing their own independent foreign and domestic and economic policy, basically blindly following the united states into places like a cannon stand and syria and libya and miss adventure after misadventure. china is the big enemy of the defense secretary austin said we have to start acting like

china is the in the mean, not just thinking like they're the enemy and this is how it works. this is how the u. s. military industrial complex works, you invented and me words, the global war on terrorism, or the global fight against co, good, or the global fight against china. you invent these bogeyman, and then you spend hundreds and hundreds of billions and trillions of dollars that go into the pockets of well connected companies. well connected, think tanks in the washington beltway, and that's what keeps the machine going with the machine is going to end. because the american economy is about to collapse, it's teetering on the edge of collapse. the french president got a nasty shock on tuesday during a visit to the south of the country where he was trying to drum up support for his election campaign. manual mccrory walked up to a barrier to greet locals, and this is what happened next. the

man who being arrested following that assault on president macro. and it's the 1st time that you've been physically assaulted since becoming president, that happens in the south of france near the city of valencia. and as you saw in the video present mike on exits the hotel school where he's been taking a visit. he walked towards a crowd of people who are all behind the metal barrier. the president michael puts his hand on a man's on the man and grabs back president michael. and before administering the all mighty slap, the security agency immediately intervened. and 2 individuals were taken into custody for wilful violence against the person holding public authority. now that's offensive. take them pretty seriously here in france, and could see somebody put in jail for up to 3 years as well as paying a fine, a 45000 years. but of course, that would be up for a judge to decide how lenient they may wish to be. and of course,

for an individual to be found guilty of the offense. and you might have caught just the end of that video. somebody shouting down with macro ism and there is a suggestion that the individuals behind this assault on the president or yellow vest involved and unauthorized process earlier in the day. but the reality is what this is shown is that there is still an under current to presenter and again president michael and his policies. those have been passed the reform as well as those he's attempted to pass to the front. and i bet housing is managed to do so, always hot water them down slightly. there's been a huge reaction hearing from us, including coming from the government, the prime minister showing casting its saying that this was an attack on democracy . the more because she was on it, do you use us? your said? so to democracy is debate. dialogue is confrontation, the expression of legitimate disagreements, but it can in no way be violent,

verbal, aggression, and even less physical aggression. we are all concerned. it is the foundations of our democracy through the head of state. it is democracy that is targeted. you're also, we've heard from a political policy from across the political spectrum with authorization. lead is pretty much on the same page. very rare hearing from all saying that this is simply unacceptable. while democratic debate can bitter, it can never tolerate physical violence. i strongly condemn the unacceptable physical aggression targeting the president of the republic. this time, are you starting to understand that violent people are taking action? i stand in solidarity with the president. well, president, marconi is currently on the top from says it's been cold, he's taking the temperature, testing it to see whether or not he should be running in next is presidential election. he hasn't officially said he's going to,

but the idea that he's making this visit is seen as many as a pre election tool. and it seems as we get closer and closer to the election, we like to see more of that resentment coming through. but for the moment in from present, my phone associate with 2 individuals in the south of france now under arrest, wound full violence against the person holding public authority. on the attack, it was 28 year old demand teryl. he was sentenced to 4 months in prison with an additional 14 month suspended sentence. was also banned from ever holding public office and from owning weapons for 5 years. at the same time, that slap episode provoked an avalanche of jokes and names on line with twitter, in particular, seeing numerous political characters, mocking mac from columbus, texas pool and says it's mac crohn, who's been slapping the french people in the face along the way. we quite believe this is where a manual microns power lies. in other words,

it's the ultra personalized and ultra centralized power of the presidents. obviously, there are still people who are ready to break through rows of riot police to get to the president. violence is unacceptable, and we see how representative of political communities unanimously condemned the flap in the face. but then a sense manju mark on himself represents violence because it's he who authorize the use of normally for weapons by law enforcement agencies. that is why many protesters were injured last the eyesight during the yellow vest demonstrations. there is a huge gap between the manual microns outlandish promises and what he is doing, which is nothing more than a constant communications and marketing campaign. furthermore, he once again intends to return to considering pension reforms. he always has some unpleasant remark in his arsenal. it is he who constantly slaps the french people during his public speeches, and now he gets a slap in the face himself, which of course deserves condemnation. since he is no authority figure, the slot made it through microns personal security guards. this is a lesson for all of us. some news from the central china this sunday were at least

12 people have been killed and a 138 others injured in a gas explosion. the powerful blast in the city of shyanne caused the whole of a food market to collapse around 6 am local time. people were having breakfast and buying groceries when the blast ripped through the building, search and rescue teams. so now working at the thing in the us state department, along with some western diplomatic mission, says coulter on the nigerian government to reverse a recent ban on twitter. it also condemned threats to arrest its users. and i jerry outlawed the social media network saying it's persistently used to undermine the countries existence and comes off to the platform that needed a post by the jury and president, which warned local separatists of consequences unless they relent. but while twitter claims a free and open internet is an essential human rights, as he goes on report, it appears to operate according to different principles. the free speech wing of

the free speech boxing. this is how twitter executives love to define that platform . the self righteousness of this is only matched by how far the twitter executives are detached from reality. lately, the band, the syrian president over this tweet, many of those misbehaving today, too young to be aware of the destruction and loss of lives that occurred during the nigerian civil war. those of us in the fields for 13 months, who went through the war will treat them in the language that understand twitter moderator may not be able to find nigeria on the mat. but apparently, their interpretation of the country's history is more accurate than the presidents . who obviously wasn't impressed and he's government wasn't taking any of that. when people were morning stations, i'm gonna police mean a jury duty and us for today. it was about

the right to protest. what a similar to happened when the capital he became for action. when are going to be for by anybody where he wanted to rule. how do thought best of our ability twitter wasn't ready for that, and it is hard to judge them for it. they had already successfully banned one of the most powerful men in the world and got away with a consequence. free nigeria though, did something about it. the das it see, we are deeply concerned by the blocking of twitter in nigeria, access to the free and open internet isn't essential, human rights in modern society, just put everything down for a 2nd, appreciate the absolute, logical pandemonium. here with me, twitter, which is very trigger happy over an arbitrary set of rules to deny people the right

to speak out is trying to be the champion of free speech. you can make this up, but the band caught the eye of some politicians who condemned it. diplomatic missions of canada, the european union, the republic of islands, the united kingdom and the united states of america, convey our disappointment over the government of nigeria as announcement suspending twitter. funding systems of expression is not the answer. these measures inhibit access to information and commerce and some other politicians who in turn got ideas. twitter noncompliance with our rules, will lead to unintentionally consequences, including twitter losing exemption from liability as an intermediary the information most time, even if it appears very attractive. keller, dictator, foreign state hall to live, how to interpret historical events, what movies to watch, or what music to listen to. otherwise,

instead of freedom of speech, it becomes a dictatorship of opinion for sole purpose. and perhaps more efficient should take a closer look at nigeria handling this. because if banning a president over an opinion somehow made it into twitter, his definition of free speech, we all need a lesson in how to deal with big tech care any twitter has no business deciding on what geo political figures have to say about anything because they're not they're not informed enough to do so. they just are responding based on their own political prejudices. with very little knowledge about what the situation involve. especially in nigeria, twitter is pretending to be the government of the world, along with other social media platforms. they are trying to institute their own sort of governmental power, the social media platform to combine,

have more power than all the nations of the world. and in fact, to all the states in the world, in terms of political influence. so no, this is not surprising and it's not unwarranted that these nations would be trying to her twitters political power video would have a merican father, daughter, joe, speaking out against that idea known as critical race theory has gone viral on social media. it's a minute ongoing debate in the united states over the role of this approach to racial studies in education and politics. doesn't matter. black or white or any. doesn't matter if you're black, white, brown. yeah. right. black in how we treat people is based on who they are and whether or not this is how choosing think, right in critical race nearing wants to in now my children are not going to have the video has been re posted to twitter where it's clocked up more than 2000000

views, the theory itself was put forward 40 years ago and essentially suggests that racism is systemic within society. but it has been widely criticized with many calling for a ban on its teaching in schools for being divisive and damaging to students. you know, neil spoke to the man behind the video. i just think people are waking up to what's going on in the vision that's been going on. and i think people are tired, men there, teacher that are tar that are writing me. people going up to school boards now? yeah, i think people want to stand up because they see that they're trying to brainwash our children into seeing each other for the color they are and not the character that they are. how would you describe corey, why critical race theory as proof, so divisive, i would say when you tell any group of people that their whole pressures, because of the color of their skin, and you tell the other group that they are

a pressed because of the color and they're seeing, you're going to find, push back, you are going to see people standing up. we know what martin luther king said, right, just by the content of our cares and the color of our scheme. and when we see people trying to implement that into our schools on to our children, you're going to see pushback. you haven't held back talking, but black lives matter either. you said the movement is for the destruction of america under families. can you just open up and why did you say that? well, the co founder said she was a marxist. so we know what marxism leads to and that's communism that socialism. so for me and for america, that's not what we're about. ok, that is the weekly for this hour up next, the disturbing number of young athletes they mean to be the best in their sport, but i who falling victim to predatory abuses the

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