i was a superstar cities like case studies to make it the transformations over the past decade. advance mega project most go for 2021, the largest international congress on make it said he development this is archie international just minutes left now until joe biden arrives in geneva for his summit with lativia post and. and does that count down gets near the end? we look through the big ticket issues on the agenda, head of a thing, the us president calls that even posted a worthy adversary, but avoid giving a direct answer as to whether or not he's still thinks the russian lead it is a killer. is that still your beliefs are that he is a killer? especially the 1st question i'm laughing to offer in the run up president putin points to the anti russian rhetoric for washington. as he's gro loan american tv

about jailed opposition leader likes you need cyber attacks on moscow's military build up supplies 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. ah, that tuesday afternoon, as 5 here in moscow, wherever you are, the world watching this is art international. welcome from be and the team. now it wednesday, us russia, somebody say, is leading the news agenda around the globe today. but when it bring a recessive relations, or could it in fact spoil the years ahead or will become a parents in geneva tomorrow? are special coverage tape? is that right now? the, who's

me with well, in case you didn't get the, we are in geneva, switzerland. we can see the famous fountain behind us, which shuts how much water every 2nd up, 500 liters, every single 2nd camera, me and tells you the camera every single time we're in geneva to say though, this makes up for all those times. we've stood on freezing cold streets and minus 30 in snow and rain and that'll get on the wrong side will come on. going to regret was thought is the truth and in case you missed that we are of course, in geneva. why? because joe biden, the u. s president is set to meet with lead to me, a potent the russian president here on wednesday, just about 2 kilometers but way in a very lovely chateau. yes. a very lovely shot to that has a very big history. and while we are very high up, we've got a view of the whole city. we want to show you even back the pictures we're going to show you satellite images of the historic venue,

why i thought is going to take place. now it is actually located in one of the most scenic parks in the 18th century, villa log growers, i will say yes, it is indeed very, very beautiful and very green. and as i said, it is no stranger to historic offence. so in fact, in 1864, it actually hosted the signing of the 1st geneva convention and not a cool set, the framework for humane treatment of civilians in conte conflict. now as we also mentioned, the presidents all set to meet face to face in the pillars. library for a potentially key to conversation. that's not what the media is preparing for. it is also in a way what they think preparing us for to everything will be on the agenda from cyber attacks, to sanctions, to nature, human rights. those are the that the 2 of their neutral superpowers are going to join up and discuss. but of course it is going to be a pretty tough challenge ahead. i think it's safe to say they come from very

different don't says i'm not as something that i was looking at when we were walking around geneva taking in the sight. but also looking at the most difficult challenges ahead. the behind this son who tenant by 10 will meet face to face. and if you're lost in the sea of what to expect, i made it easy because there are a few of that favorite thing. just weeks before the summit, americans were in crisis. no gas, no grass fed beef, ransomware tox left people queueing for hours to refuel that tanks. anything beacon vargas fuentes. and you'd never guess who's to blame. i'm going to be meeting with president. and so far, there is no evidence based on from our intelligence people that russia is involved . although there is evidence that of actors ransomware is in russia,

but the president and i looked a little like someone starring the priest on that part. he is a veteran of russia gate off to rule the r yes, america, the favorite foreign policy tool. just perfect will be mega, solo and pack. not all who did it, but let's just function a few russians. a few rush tech that i'm throw in a few russian fine up. so group q, the applause joe biden is sending a truly message to russia. theories of tough news, sanction new tough sanctions on moscow. president biden is signaling that a new sheriff isn't counting on the campaign trail. president biden said, who were coming for you, and now he is sanction so much more fun than dealing with one's own to stick problems. i'm all right, joe. moscow then expelled some americans and blacklisted some us groups, apparently up to meddling, the stabilizing. no good. the. a slippery

topic over which the u. s. has been sanctioning everyone something it's feet and even pulling its allies. but that is, you know, it's got tired in what way, where we were going to be able to stop a project in another country that had been rebuilt, 95 maintenance bite. and of course, was praised for being reasonable, so much more reasonable than you know. the one for nato has been waiting, rouses 1949. but i pacific union or russia to start a war and you will really, it doesn't mind and want to be waiting. it's been building miss all bases. i'm doing massive wardrobe, but not aggressively. you know, nato is there to defend all our allies. and this exercise sends a message about our ability to transport a large number of troops, equipment across the atlantic, across europe, and also to protect maritime power. a power, totally coincidental,

but it's all just happening, you know, near ross's borders. and while the criminal does believe in coincidence, it's an so not a fool knowing that there is now a nita rocket, just 15 minutes away from moscow. it's formed a few new military units, but not aggressively. you know, america's take on that. that's why it keeps people in painters at the border and dozens of indefinitely entertained according to mo bay, with hundreds of others, having been tortured, meeting with president prudent, in a couple weeks in geneva, megan declare that we will not. we will not stand by. let him abuse those rights, which some could say has a distinct width of double standards since you flew him up. but we are following with interest. the persecution of those who are accused of the rises on january the 6th this year. also really interesting things are happening there from the point of

view of the rights of the opposition and protecting those rights. washington shopped at its own reflection. the mirror replied that it doesn't need any tips from russia, from international law. thank you very much. the will it be smooth, the lint chocolate? will they be reaching those famous swiss army knife? you have to watch and see what is an awful lot to get that teeth into full boat, joe biden. and vladimir putin during that summit as an awful lot for the journalist, the analysts that everybody else is paying attention as well. we're going to do just with marker gas station, international affairs commentators just now marco, can you hear us? yes, i can have a very well ex wonderful, thank you very much for joining us now. this meeting with cold by the united states, heading into it, vladimir putin has said that he wants dialogues,

that they want. they want to continue with stability as well. does the united states want that dialogue? what is the us looking to get from this? well, normally these meetings are one home you experts to lever away from months to create a kind of basis for consensus at the top level between the 2 presidents. this time none of that has happened. so we have to ask ourselves, why is that happening? oh, and it's happening at the us. so what we know is they want to be a huge amount of detail that emerges at the end of the list. they may be a key message which we should pay attention to, but it's possible that the reason for this invitation to russia was foreign policy establishment and its presence to come over and talk to the americans in geneva without any clear agenda is for the americans to take the temperature about a very important of a player, and that's china. obviously, the american are aware. it's always been their intention to stop

a potential writing, gaining access to resources which could fuel their emergence as a rival. so us, well, the american nightmare has come true. russian results is off fueling, the chinese economy, which is over taking the american one. so it's the penny has dropped in washington . and i believe that what they really want is to privately found out the russians on the question of how much, how important is the partnership with the west? it was to be made available to them. and the russians gave the right a noise. is it possible that we could have a kind of slow motion they found whereby the russian back came in from the cold and this summer is about testing the temperature for that in my well, that's really interesting that you thought that i was thinking recently when the announcement came that bite and said that he was going to waive the sanction on that swift faced job and company building noting to pipeline and everyone said ok

so reasonable. it's such a compromise. so i thought, you know what, maybe there was an aspect to this that he thought, if he gets russia a little, kara says, you know, i'm going to let you finish pipeline. maybe he can try and peel back some of that russian partnership with china. so ready, partnering militarily in space. do you think that there is something about that that they think that they could maybe try and weigh more go over specific, maybe in regard to trying to? well, i think it's too late for northridge through that will happen. but the point is, is a descent, the opposite point as well. the more that they demonize sanction russia, the more they drive it into the secure arms of china. and that obviously is not what they want. what they want is to weaken the roughly chinese axis, which will be absolutely crucial in creating a unit, a multiple world in the u. s. dominated unipolar world of before. so what they, what their maximum, obviously is to get russia away from china. the minimum is

a weak and aligned to so distrust to gather information about the weak points in the allies into play on those. so it's a kind of, it's really about china and russia is now viewed as eligible for entry into a kind of a provisional stations. obviously, the west, it agrees to play ball. however, i think russia would be perfectly insane to do so, given the history as being the feature of the last decade. now, joe biden has taken a lot of criticism at home for holding this meeting in the 1st place. you mentioned a multi polar world just there. there's a lot of critics of the u. s. president. it's essentially reaching out and having these type of meetings in the 1st place is the united states ready for that multi polar world that i think many people can say already exist. so is they, are they still clinging on? so i hope so as the dominant figure on the world stage. i think it's really the

last of the u. s. united states washington establishment to be more precise. you've hoping that by studying russia into a junior partner of the u. s. on the nato establishment. if you'd like in the long term, it will create a circumstance in which well leadership will once again pass back to the us and hopefully in a put on their way from that point of view. oh, thank you very much that with marco gas international affairs call me and tell you that. thank you very much for talking to us this meeting here in geneva. well, it is the left leg of what is being a whistle. stop european to it for us president joe biden. what we've seen is joe biden, 1st at the g 7 in the united kingdom. he was then in brussels for meetings with nate. so with the a you today, but during those meetings with night, so we heard,

well, lots of for talk about not only russia, but china as well, but when it came to who was mentioned, but most 63 times in the official communicate. a lot of times russia was mentioned 10 times china was mentioned that was significant, of course, because it was the 1st time china was outlined as a particular threat to the alliance. but russia still very much dominating those talks in colleagues to meet the poke, had a good look at how those relations between russia and a so currently stand relations between nato and russia have always been complicated . but today, it's safe to say they're at one of the lowest points in history. so low, in fact, that even the alliances own leader has admitted it is reminiscent of the cold war era. our ship with russia is at its lowest point. it seems that cold war with sanctions at an all time high, there doesn't seem to be a clear way out. nato is literally at rushes doorstep,

and both sides are getting fidgety. both sides continue to carry out military exercises just miles from each other's borders. the block cleans its actions, are merely a response to the quote russian threat. while moscow grows is defensive capabilities due to increased nato activity at its borders. the actions of western calling destroy the global security system and force us to take adequate counter measures. rushes aggressive actions constitute a threat to euro atlantic security. terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, remains a persistent threat to all. but at the core of this decade belongs to your ration lies a broken promise. a promise made in the 90s that nato would stop expanding its borders to day. some claim, no such promise was ever made. but the evidence is there. it goes without saying that a broadening of the need his own is not acceptable. we agree with that. it's clear

that the promises were made and several times in fact, but only verbally, there was no sign documents ceiling. this assurance, and for the russian side, it turned out to be a stab in the back. during the us a saw gorbachev, who still thank god with us, ask him, go to promise of verbal promise, but still there will be no nato expansion east. what is with that promise to waves of expansion? live a little sure. you know, where we've got written down wherever that promise written down done in the religious. clever. that's right. you got us good is they say everything should be fixed in writing. but what was the point of expanding need to east bringing this infrastructure to our borders? and you say we're the ones behaving aggressively why use, although much of the diplomatic ties between the 2 blogs have been severed. there still are venues for communication and a chance for prolongs peace, but with talks of russian aggression becoming more frequent in certain countries.

tensions continue to grow nato is, is an alliance looking for a reason to justify its existence. and so that's a war. so a war time alliance and searchable war and so there are very aggressive forces in nato, especially in eastern europe, which are looking for a confrontation with russia. the more mature elements and nato, such as germany, for example, realize how utterly foolish that would be. and they realize what a dangerous situation has been that has been created in a, in the eastern ukraine. if a conflict starts, there are the conflict which already exists, escalates. it will be europe that pays the price, not the us. the us is 7 or 8000 miles from the ukraine as well out of harm's way, but europe would be in that line of fire. and therefore, europe does not want to get involved because i want to get dragged into

a military confrontation with russia. now one thing that has created a lot of pause was an interview taken with president putin by and nbc john, less and really that got people sort of appetite and desire to see what's going to happen. really going because it has been 3 years since president putin did speak to the american press and he made it quite clear that nothing was off the table here. he'd be willing to speak about anything from sanctions to legit cyber attacks. and of course, america always likes to bring it off. it says that it's, it's sort of june of democracy. it protects human rights. human rights did, of course come up biden's promising that he's going to hold putin accounts that i'd explain of all you came up. president britain tried to on the question up, but really he couldn't manage to get a while. didn't wait. take a look. let me ask you about human rights, an issue that a president biden will raise?

mister president, still reading the issue of election targeted for us as a nation, nominal russian jail. mister president, why are you so threatened by your position? who says that i feel threatened by your position or will threaten by opposition? who told you that i'm scared by opposition? just lawful in the united states law on foreign agents was adopted a long time ago. it's an operation and sanctions under that law. a much harsher than here, up to and including imprison you got talking about, you know, better than you there. 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. if you don't want my own 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 volunteers, 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 ask you, did you do the assassination of the woman who walked into congress and was shot and killed by police officer with certainly hated between vladimir putin and the journalist from m. b. c. human rights is always going to be an issue for the u. s. media when there were meetings we told russia and night. so i, i love what you're saying, but i'm just going to point out if you could see in the distance a plane, i'm pointing out phosphor cuz we haven't seen a plane in a 2nd of all. we are expecting president biden anytime to land. so i'm just saying that we might have an exclusive of his plan coming to. i'm not promising anything that bought. let's look at mrs. i know, playing sports, those look like a 747 where i could well be air force will. of course, you know,

you always know when the us presidents in town, it's a, it's a big symbol of his arrival the, the presidential plane job has been using it quite a lot in the last few days. he has, he was in cornwall in the united kingdom for, for the g 7, been flu willing to brussels course, absolute carnage in brussels yesterday. i can tell you from some of my colleagues, friends and colleagues in terms of night, his own rooms and traffic being shut down. we are wondering if he's going to do the same thing here. i would think thought is joe biden on air force one. it certainly i'm not pass and i'll tell you why. look quite presidential. that's all i'm going to say moving into presidential fashion. i read lighting into geneva, thought i will say actually on the question of presidential. now of course the president biden's comments have not always been so presidential when it comes to president who turn unimed black. when he came recently, you mentioned, of course, the nato meeting. and we heard about a month ago when he called on national vision,

president pearson, a killer that sent shock waves. but how can you do that at that level? he lightly sort of step without raining it, but it's not people listen to how he range with a bit of delay, side and fashion. the weekend interview, bodamer prudent 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 are 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 think it matters a whole lot in terms of this next meeting. we're about to have just a little bit and then job. well, we can confirm for you that that plane that we sold just a few moments ago was air force. wont joe biden is in town on the ground? heels on the ground is exactly flooded me and we'll be making his arrival to morrow . joe biden rising with a lot of expectation, not just from the united states. we keep talking about the us and russia in this, this, this globalized looking at me thing. and there is global expectation on what the 2 of them can do, because we can't stress enough. the relationship between the united states and russia is as property i've been since the cold war long, long time. so there is a weight of expectation, i think, certainly from what we've seen with joe biden,

his schedule before coming here. that's been an element of getting ducks in a row. make sure that when joe biden speaks to vladimir, he is speaking, not only as joe biden us president, but joe biden, us leader, look that people will. so 7, exactly, but also really interesting is that including what she 7 courses wife joe biden was with him and she had a lot of so to opportunities to and they also how he was to read and like he's been preparing for week, he's been over pad and definitely i think that was a sense that came out with the goal to get people sort of around him. randy around the us kind of a slightly anti trust message on back american fact like he likes to say. and, you know, trump did to a lot of criticism for having time to back on nato for having pulled out of the powers climate agreement for having sort of given your up the cold shoulder a little bit. so yes, definitely a lot of a web pair of people and you don't have to tell me about the cold shoulder being

turned to europe on based in berlin. of course, you know, i speak to few diplomats in it around berlin. be idea of rick cornell as us some of the caused a lot of the nation under the trump years. that was not the way that they'd ever seen the bus authorial duties carried out. it was certainly for me, it was nice and easy. the u. s. embassy is pretty close to our office every time he did something scandalous. just have to new outside and do it for you every day on television. yes, but there's a lot of work for joe biden to write it in. there was a big p all campaign from runs usa, the g 7 need. so there certain extent on that this meeting with you later the time on tuesday as well. but this is the big one. this is the, the sit down with black lane slamming as the 747. it's just come down. we'll be waiting for those pictures to see joe biden, coming down those steps and arriving here in geneva, add security as much,

and it's only gotta get tight. so we're hearing things like bridges that are coming across the the links for the leg just behind us here in the space will be shut down . i remember from my time covering the g 7 in tell amena and 27 team tiny little place in sicily where they had the g 7. the the level of security was something i hadn't seen we had that was obviously donald trump's 1st. g 7 were helicopter's, u. s. military helicopters, flying constant rotations, overall hotel on an evening as well. here we've seen the boats out on the lake helicopter killing also, i think i was when we are filming today. i know with some pretty good footage. no, not thousands of foot soldiers and policemen have been deployed. i went to the area around mcgraw's and where that meeting, i mean, you just wouldn't be upset of foot in that. i kind of walked in the direction and already the piece. i want to know, hang on a 2nd. where's your pause was your,

you know, so it definitely has a very tight secure. you can feel like you thought the energy. a lot of the roads have been shut off as well. some of the hotels ready said to more, we're going to have to be really careful. so me, i feel that the city is on a lot, which would be very annoying for the residents of certainly very annoying for the residents. but it, you know, one way to travel, same have, let me put it in as well. i mean, when i flew in to geneva yesterday, there were 3 planes through russian livery plains lined up there that i understood brought president putin's motorcade for moscow. obviously, joe biden, he doesn't, he doesn't take it over from the airport and they've come. vehicles are prepared for them as well. wait, he must never see the traffic light. when you think, if i know, i mean if there's any reason to become president, it's no traffic. i want to say that when we flew in the day before yesterday on the tom i geneva up already 3 russian planes and those were presidential plays that i think had brought sub personnel the ground,

but also party they brought in the president transportation. so i mean, they've been preparing for days. i think they'd probably been preparing on top of the logistics since they announced that. and actually i can see on my very modern technology here, i thought the play has completely stopped. the case has been laid out for the royal reception. president biden will be walking down the steps anytime setting foot on june even fool j. s. i mean, when you said ro receptionist, one of the things joe comes from joe by can comes from a meeting with the queen. just before arriving, he did have tea with the queen before heading off to brussels for those meetings with the, with nato, and with the, with the you. and apparently he brought up president putin with the queen. i don't like a thing because i like the queens had a rough. yeah. who? queen elizabeth has had her own sasha drama while you trudging in your own pots and drama into this too. but the queen, of course, is a sovereign who has seen many presidents come and go audits and anything surprises me anymore. i believe the door's been open,

so we are literally minutes away from one of the 2 main participants of this summit . the upcoming of course, being here, writing it down to me, noting little bit fine. this is just leading supposed to start at 1 o'clock tomorrow. the russian presidential plane scheduled to london 12. a hope you're not going to get off work at 8. we are going to be here for the whole day until everything is done. i think given how many issues they have to discuss. i know for a fact that they're going to split a party to the meetings, into coupon. they're going to have a break in between. there are going to be sub groups as well between sort of lower ranking diplomats as well. i think we're going to be in for a very, very know i would, i would expect. so there is, and we've heard from our guests throughout the day as well. is that, although there's a lot of expectation, there's also, there's managed expectation as well because people are saying that, you know, there's so much to get through in fact,

that they might not be able to make such great strides or concrete strides as it were on anything that this may well be the 1st steps towards biggest steps that could take place. how that's going to go down with the united states domestic market. not too sure, because the big criticism that i've seen coming out of the u. s. meteor is. well, if you meet with vladimir putin and you just going to meet with floods, me uproot, and again, what does this do for us? russia relations? well, ultimately, what we hope it does is it reestablish russia korea relations because they're not, it's not that they're bad at the moment that non existent. i mean, i've done faster in the rather than country, and we do it both 3 cold. so that really does show, you know, the 1st time that the russian and box of the us have been recalled more than 20 years. i mean, if that's not an indication that that's a serious miscommunication going on here than i really don't know what is. and i think you're right, you know, when it comes to, to.