the, she's known here by her nickname, the king, and the other. that was good to go over. that was really a good one day i i and i love this tuesday, setting the tone for the summit, but him a potent points to the anti russian rhetoric coming from washington. as he grilled an american tv about jailed opposition leader election of only cyber attacks moscow's military build up. i'm surprised that we've been accused of provoking the black lives matter movement. that would have been a good line of attack, but we didn't do that. i had the geneva, some ed biden cole's potent worthy adversary, yet avoid giving a direct answer about whether or not he still thinks poaching. that killer is that

still your beliefs or that he is a killer? actually the 1st question. i'm laughing to switzerland, boost security, as you'd expect adding manpower and fly over restrictions to insure safety at the upcoming vitamin foods. in some correspondence center in geneva to check it all the is the villa where joe barton, but i mean putin arguing that means obviously security here is nothing to laugh at . ah, hello and good day for mosca. this 15 to june's kevin over here to international with the latest for you for the next task. now one's story dominating the 1st half of coverage this of wednesday. so it is leading the news agenda to around the globe today. the 1st us russia face to face of the pilot presidency that's going to be

held in geneva tomorrow. question is, will it bring it resets of relations or could it inside spoil the is ahead the who's well the find out soon enough or we before the some democrats and gave an exclusive interview to america's mbc news. he was grilled on jailed criminal critic alex in a volley. also a string of cyber attacks on the us as well as all metro threats, allegedly coming from russia. really trying to pick it up from there. few. at some points, the nbc journalist said he's got quote unquote, a weight of evidence. a long list of alleged state sponsored cyber attacks by russia. among other things, he listed the 20162020 votes in the us, as well as hacker attacks on coven vaccine researchers,

to which the russian leader responded pretty much getting back to the same old finger, pointing that the u. s. elite and journalists have been up to, doesn't equal to actually presenting facts which prove guilt. he's can, we can give nation. and i see that the american relationship has always been a victim of the vicious political infighting within the us. we see it's, we're well aware that we've been accused of all kinds of things. election interfere and cyber attacks and so on and so forth. not once, not one time did they bother to produce any kind of evidence or proof, just unfounded accusation. i'm surprised that we've been accused of provoking the black lives matter movement. that would have been a good line of attack, but we didn't do that only it makes out unusual for some viewers who are used to the u. s. narrative. but the russian government is actually ready to work together with the americans on cyber friends and wants to outline the rules of the game and

some sort of legal framework. the question ahead of geneva, though, is whether joe biden will go for it, or just keep blaming russia, promising more consequences, something else. the us president is keen to challenge the kremlin boss on is what the west sees as issues with human rights in russia. well, it almost looks like the nbc, corresponding to himself had a plan to take up that challenge instead of mr. biden. and it all led to quite an exchange with constant interruptions and mr. prudent, even stressing at one point, don't gag me. let me ask you about human rights, an issue that a president biden will raise. mr. president, and you were ready to be an issue for us, the nation nominate russian jail. mister president, why are you so threatened by your position?

who says that i feel threatened by opposition or will threaten by opposition? who told you that i am scared by opposition? just lawful both in the united states. the law on foreign agents was adopted a long time ago. it's in operation and sanctions under that law. a much harsher than here up to and including imprison that you got better than the other if you must, the patients. and let me finish saying what i mean to say everything will be clear to you what you don't like my answer. and if you don't want my aunt to be heard by your view as if the problem you're shutting me up, is that freedom of speech? is that freedom of expression, the american way? what can i ask you to make? just ask you a direct question. did you order, alexia navarro, and assassination? of course not, we don't have this kind of habit of assassinating anybody. that's the 1st thing that or 2nd, that i want to of you. did you do the assassination of the woman who walked into

congress and was shot and killed by police officer when he sees a whole bunch of questions were about china were actually i should say about the problems. the u. s. government has with china like bay jeans, reluctant to take part in arms control talks, china's aircraft carriers and the way the chinese government's treating national minorities the way mister poop read into these was quite surprising to the correspondent. he said he could feel how much the like to be us would love to break russia and china up and added that such questions also had absolutely the same purpose. not a chance was his response. moscow doesn't see china as a threat, won't metal and its affairs, and will keep up the friendship. both leaders have admitted us. russian relations are the lowest point in years, but jo buttons acknowledge the potent as a worthy adversary. i have met with him. he's bright. he's

tough, and i have found that he is a, as they say, when he used to play ball a worthy adversary. the remark came as a surprise to many cars not long ago. of course, joe biden triggered those shockwave by coating as rushing kinds of product killer and journalist press the you as president. and now on whether he changed his mind about that comment weekend interview, vladimir putin laughed at the suggestion that you had called him a killer. is that still your beliefs are that he is a killer? specially the 1st question i'm laughing to they actually well look, i mean he is made clear that the answer is i believe he is in the past,

essentially acknowledge that he was or certain things that he would do or do. but look, when i was asked that question on air, i answer honestly, but it's not much of a, i don't know the, i don't think it matters a whole lot in terms of this next meeting we're about to have, you know, go ahead and put you think he's a killer who i do, so what price must he pay? the price is going to pay. well, you'll see shortly due to me when, when i was a child and we had arguments in the courtyard, we were thing balances of me and sticks to you. and it's not just the children things the meaning is very deep in the present by regret calling fatherhood. and the killer knows the president gave a direct answer to a direct question which i want to avoid prison by then to continue discussion. but on the condition that it's going to be live online,

we want to stable predictable relationship. i had to encounter the u. s. leaders been intensely preparing with aids to counter attack, the so called tactics of let me put me here as it was, officials president posted was also apparently a top conversation to during biden's recent t with the queen of england and geneva, the venue for the much anticipated one, i was also braced, call the cold, as you'd expect. security really big rams up there with city, including restrictions on local air space and deployment of thousands of extra troops and police officers. the presidents are set to meet in the library of the very grand 18th century. villa garage was billed as a potentially heated debate. senior correspondent, the export garcia was already there in geneva. looks ahead, leaf is the villa where joe barton and when i put in are going to meet. obviously,

security here is nothing to laugh at thousands of troops as well as police officers patrolling the area of the utah leg for this area of the city will be locked out to everyone jarring the meeting, the pedestrians, the gods, even to the aircraft. the boot obviously to provide the 2 leaders with a common safe environment to discuss the many differences that both countries have to try and salvage what is left of relations. the data that they're really into establish, at least the semblance of trust, the understanding between russia and the united states, a lot of paddles are being drawn between the 985 meeting between gorbachev's and reagan. also here in geneva. accept and then sorta give you an idea of how far relations have fallen back. then reagan and gold, which were they were all smiled as difficult to imagine biting them to, to be ruled, smiled the sob around the differences between russia and the united states. now

they are tremendous, the 2 leaders will discuss all all manner of subjects from the miss profit. they both have for each other to the global arms control to regional conflicts, financial and economic subjects, as well as sabra tax. the. com, a change the pandemic. what both countries can do to work together. there isn't much of an expectation for a breakthrough. during this meeting is a short, a very official summit. and these subjects had to be coordinated. they tend to be scripted both sides of already agreed. what they'll say at the end, they both even be a mutual press conference. joe biden has said that he's go to host his own relations off and then incredibly sorry, was that it'll be up to both the, the tomorrow to set the tone. what the summit will also be an opportunity for the senior officials in both administration. to meet that mingle on the side rod, perhaps that will be even more important than the meeting between button and put in

that pre scripted as it will be. so certainly the, the hope these, that these summit will establish a foundation foundation in which russia and the united states will be able to build that relations doing into the future. happy days. and if it happens, question is, will it? let's go love to talk to robert. good. she a journalist and leading scholar and journalism studies at lancaster university, thanks for making the time you live and out into national. so the golden question is the 1st meeting of russian and american presidents. number 3 is your prognosis? well, i always think these are very interesting experiences where media western media and officials go in questioning the commentary from the position of the united states. very rarely does it come back and say, well, hasn't the united states in the last 5 years had human rights atrocities themselves on the southern border and the militarization of police. so this is going to be,

even though there might have been some of these conversations, the same old, same old in the sense that it's the u. s. dictating really what the questions are, again, russia or other places outside of north america. not this, i wonder, that's a recent food interview went down in america. a pretty pragmatic responses. some would say sensible responses, let me put in, gave wasn't much reaction to the interview. want to be say, well, it's about believe ability. and if media organizations believe that audiences will believe the russian president or anybody else who sydney against a u. s. journalist. so i think there's a lot of people snickering in the background that they just, quite frankly, don't believe bladder or button. but when you watch joe biden, as responses to things that i liked, the countdown that you did, looking at how many seconds it took for by to really get to some sort of answer, you have to wonder if we're questioning biden's reality or food is reality. can we

question biden's and is he really telling us the truth when he's sitting in front of a journalist when he's sitting there in a live conversation on the, for all of a, all the journalists of all the build up. so she never really know what's going on behind the scenes, but what indication we got about going to come this question so many times over the next 24 hours about the, the personal chemistry between the pair. is there any chemistry? this seems to be a professional respect, but what about chemistry per se? yeah, i think they're coming from very different positions and in so many ways, not just in terms of politics, but also in terms of personality. i think, you know, joe biden is coming off as she's trying to come up as presidential himself, but certainly put in as much cooler and relaxed in his position. and joe biden seems to always be trying to impress or even upon himself that he in fact is president and is always trying to put the best foot forward,

but seems to trip on it a little bit. so i think it will be an interesting conversation, not just and what is scripted, but what happens on the sideline and always watching for president biden gas to see if he does show, you know, kind of his own his own missteps. and if that takes us to some sort of truth from his business should be democracy, the us main street made it been portraying, and then in real life. well, i certainly think for a long time, we've known that that's a political performance, right? that us democracy is its own sort of scripted, defined, always wavering sort of loose fluid idea of what democracy is into then go into other nation states and question whether democracy is the right thing for those folks. or if they're defining democracy in the, the right way, be the interest of the us. and i think we've known that for a very long time. and i think that this,

these types of summits and these meetings are sometimes farcical and their way of the us always putting forward that they have it right back. so many of us think otherwise. so talk, so we only got 30 seconds. i want you to get your crystal ball. i know you don't have a what are they going to agree on? what are they not going to agree on briefly if you can, they're going to agree on showing each other mutual respect and looking like they know what they're talking about. they're going to disagree on which country is worse, in terms of human rights, energy policies, nuclear weapons, the same old same old. it'll, it'll look nice, but i'm not sure we'll walk away with a lot of the agreement side. maybe we will be having this conversation in just over 24 hours time again to see what did come out of it. talk to robert gucci for now journalist and leading scholar at lancaster university in the states. a thank you things the

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2011. there were about 40 or 50 people there. here in miami, they got 12000 tickets, all the crowd, or some estimates. 1845000 absolute, mad out. a sick warning it set to go global, take over the global economy and put all the circle back out of business. the again, like from russia, this is our to international kevin over here there. so i know that long awaited locked out easing in england was dashed. it's been pushed back by 4 weeks. the announcement real disappointment to 70 people came amid a surgeon cobra, 1900 cases with almost 8000 new infections a day. this new delta vary and spin, spreading really rapidly across england. they seem to be up to 80 percent more

transmissible than the previous dominant strain. the prime minister, not a nice job for him to have to do hopes, the locked and extension that said at least help reverse the deteriorating situation there. for week delay, we think would make even more of a difference in reducing the overall number of, of deaths. and that's why we're, that's why we're doing it. and at the end of the that period of, by, by july, the 19th, we do think that we would have bill top a very considerable wall of immunity around the whole of the population. i was think one of our threats, anti locked in protests is relevant down the street in london on monday chanting shame, all new. we had itself and demanding freedom. we heard from people in the british capital to everyone to do the same dose for 6 months from one to be really positive and, and gets backseat speculated. and then to be told that, you know,

for weeks of things not being no being i've been, it is, it is very frustrating. it's who i like to come out with. plenty of pen is now social distance, sending going out and taking it further. thank is a great idea to try and get them get more people's like i don't agree with closing for the 4 weeks. so delaying everything. because maybe they could have done something before lights trying not to open too quick. 2 people sitting inside because no one knew about the discovery. and so no one knew, hired to be. there are lots of people with businesses and things like that. they've been a really struggle and ex, fully, especially in the country, just clubs, pubs, big venue such bad news. we talked about it with david livermore, he's a medical microbiologist at university of east anglia thinks the delay is not

justified. it's absolutely the wrong thing to do. the vulnerable of all been offered vaccination. the great majority of why use the accepted oxidation lockdown has tele prefects on the told me on to the glory, fun artistic glories for shoot. psychological damage has been done to people by the government. engendering so much fear. the government should now be working to bump down because so many of the vulnerable because as we go forward, we go to the future india and dealt with the last one and we know the vaccines work against it. they get good protection in a chest is not now under both stress with cold, which would be the only justification the ever was restrictions we've

seen a michelle, a massive fire burning at a chemical plant. and roxanne, illinois, in the us, bring in all sorts of problems with it. 45 departments have been cold into contain the blaze of mandatory evacuation has now been ordered in the area were asking residents within the one mile radius of the incident to, to evacuate. i understand that many people have questions on when they're going to be able to go home. right now. we don't have that answer. we had concerns on the environmental impact if we dumped copious amounts of water on this incident. so we stopped some of the water suppression, some of the fire suppression, and we went ahead and let the product burn off. yeah, i think that's the key, the product. what is burning that? i mean, look at the massive explosion that far as expect to the last the days people living in the vicinity or vice, to wear masks, to avoid chemicals in the air. they're also been told as well to not pick up

deborah from the fire, because officials actually don't know what is in the waste. some locals have compared events to kind of explosion. no reports. a serious injury thing happens, but 15 fight has been hospitalized with breathing difficulties. of the news of the day, just ahead of those highly anticipated the talks between the russian in the u. s. leaders and nato summit in brussel said a pretty aggressive tone on monday. a pop from traditionally listing moscow among the major challenges alliance leaders declared that china poses a constant security challenge and is working to undermine global order. while the 30 heads of state and government avoided calling, china arrival it is the 1st time the usually russia focus military lines, as asserted, the need to respond to beijing growing power. we are concerned my child score ship policies, which is fine in contest to developmental values,

enshrined in washington. today, it is opaque in implementing its military modernization. it is cooperating with russia, including through exercises in the you to europe, anthony era. beijing in turns accused nato of slander, urging it to stop hyping up the china threat theory. diplomats argued the bay james defense budgets. a fraction of that of the alliance with demands which to be rather demands. member states spend at least 2 percent of their gdp on defense. and also the chinese nuclear arsenal isn't even in the same league as the u. s. s. t. america's boom bus that got reaction from investigative janice ban. swan who believes china is becoming a new bogeyman from a to, to try to keep the military blog relevant. you know, there is an important issue here and that is the nato issue. how russia has been the center of a lot of these attacks by nato, for so long they still are. but the fact that nato is now turning it sites toward china. remember, nato is

a very antiquated organization. it has had no real use since the end of the cold war. it has sought out enemies of some kind to create enemies. russia has been that in the me now for about 20 years. it's intensified certainly in the last decade and the last few years. and now i think they're turning their sides towards china as well. i think that what we're going to see is kind of a tough stance, but i think we seeing nato really like taking cash in now on this idea of creating new boogeyman enemies that keep it funded and keep it in their mind relevant that the french army stat saying he doesn't want to be in the position to be politicized ahead of presidential elections in the country. his resignation follows political term all around the public letter, signed by a retired generals and other army personnel warning president kron, of a possible civil war. he shall, ado been sky takes up the story today. the head of the french army has chosen the new clear option under my comb presidency resign rather than find himself stuck in

a political crossfire. this is general francois lou calling for his quitting made a row over his handling over time general's accused of instigating insurrection. it . he doesn't want to be dragged into the meli ahead of next is presidential election. the prison told me that he wanted us to continue working together because we have the same understanding of the role of armies. and i told him that i really wanted to leave, in particular to who had politicize ation of the function of chief of staff of the own forces. his resignation came just to merge the call goverlan had for the general to summon 6 retired generals to a higher disciplinary council over an open life that they and others published in april, which suggested the frowns needed a military coup. to save it from work isn't,

and islam isn't despite to polls showing that many people in front supporting the views. the retired generals who held their hands up or the admitted that they signed the letter, have been exposed to disciplinary measures, which could see them losing their pay and even this status. while apparently the court wanted to handle the controversy behind closed doors, ministers had pressured him to speak out against the thinking trees. this apparently was the final straw. it's been a difficult feat. month for the conference. fonts is just nance. it's the end operation. paul can in the saw how in africa a mission against you. hardest has been fruit with failure. there's also been the halting of joint military operations. a molly following a recent ministry key, and that political crisis arising from 2 military falls each warning of

a brewing civil war. have also been rumors about him being on the front line against macro and making him the 2nd chief of defense, the hand over his narrative, over disagreements as from a j. a closer to a presidential effects. the polls showing that many serving in the military are likely to for the last thing with the marine, the pen in war 7 say could be an extremely tight battle if the latest resignation could raise more questions about president mike, on whether as the pressure months he could bundle his whole campaign. so let's even sky. i'll see paris. that's just not sure what we're talking about in other worlds looking for moscow so far today from out in to national. it's kevin over here. delighted you. you've joined me. maybe. can't she get enough? and i was time between now and then next programs on i have you in your car, the oil the

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