the ah, the weak stop stories are not the 1st us russia summit of the biden presidency in geneva sees lot of fusion, and joe biden agreed to return. never respective ambassadors to that post, though mister putin also as cautioned about relations with washington. i have no illusions following the meeting, neither old nor new, that can't be any illusions at all. moscow set a grim record as the daily number of covert 19 cases, a source to an old time high. city's mayor has an alpha ross of new measures. the region of central italy wants to welcome tourists to have received russia sputnik v short. and despite

a lack of approval so far from the european medicines agency, one regional counsellor spoke to us. we will know what works and therefore just propagation of the european union's policy towards the russian federation. also devastating floods the one person dead to missing and 24 injured and covent rushes, crimea province authorities declare a state of emergency correspondence report from the region. so this is what some of the street here and y'all look like right now. i mean, you can hardly call it even a street. you could probably take on the store and so on a canoe or something i it is good to have you with us today. for the weekly here on our to international, we're highlighting the top stories of the day and of the week on wednesday, geneva welcome to vladimir putin and joe biden, for that 1st

a face to face meeting as presidents of the russian and us leaders both described the summit and positive terms uprooted and said he had no illusions about the relationship the talks last. if 3 and a half hours here is a quick recap of the big day. the the i have no illusions following the meeting, either old or new. they can't be any illusions at all by and sat in vain. russia by the way, that was a joke or 2 to remember. let's look at some of the key takeaways from the summer

biden and potent agreed to hold consultations on the strategic stability and ultimately the issue of nuclear arms control. they also discussed a possible prisoner exchange and agree to return their respective ambassadors to the posts. now there was no breakthrough on the whole issue of cyber security though. they did agree to start regular consultations on the issue. now as far as that goes with stumbling blocks or the 2 presidents raised concerns about human rights issues in each other's countries. they also failed to come up with any serious action plan for ukraine. well, our team was in geneva following us. i'm at for you. here was a long couple of weeks. i little dot high. i was all around, of course, the big russia us summit was building now it's over don, president, fight, and president putin. they sat down, they talked, i'm really the bottom line is, looks like ties between the 2 countries are better today and really looks like the

best you can. i would never going to move mountains in terms of the problems that exist. but what we have seen is them say that they'll read ignite diplomatic relations, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not to say that, but at some point it's going to happen. we'll see a russian, i'm in washington, us some busted it back in moscow. the very basics of diplomacy when it comes to just how they viewed one another. we heard from joe biden saying that it wasn't ever going to be friendly, really, but it was, it was positive, it was certainly positive. and we heard from me saying that it wasn't again, it wasn't context the wasn't somebody school remote points that we don't know when a profi good job wasn't to get one off from someone else. it was sent pete to become and just been communication able to have an open frank dialogue to dissolve to in the future and to do that without any hostility. and that's what we had from your but when you go mr. there was no hospitality on the country meeting was very

constructive. our views differ on many issues, but i believe both sides have shown a willingness to understand each other and to bring up differing positions close together. there wasn't any, any strident action taken where we disagree. i disagree, stated where it was, where he disagreed, he stated, but it was not done in a hyperbolic you atmosphere. both presidents have now left, 3 watched both aeroplanes fly away. we've actually had a pretty good view and it comes to plain spalding. i mean, i know the geneva runway, like no one else travel controls gotten sing on may the lucian 96 is and boeing. busy 7474. now i can see them from about 10 kilometers away out of new stream. but actually the security has been something so note, but for the soldiers we saw the police. we saw the boat. so we're going to on the, on the lake, the sunset over the lake, just behind us here in geneva,

city looking resplendent. it has been roasting hold on one, i always say pathetic fantasy, absolutely perfect for the heated tubes. and i think they probably walk heated bite and himself gave him and that there were some things that he was not willing to negotiate through to moist. also that you know what, we have different views on this. we don't have to look to i, but we still have to protect our own people and protect global security. now course, the best place to tell us everything about, especially president putin's press conference, was more at godaddy, who himself was literally in the hall. i believe he's got a chance to president putin. a questions on the be difficult questions that vladimir putin faced, that which joe barton had the good fortune to escape? what questions about the opposition so that we're putting the point to that the protestors and the rest of following the event in capitol hill that they face as much as 25 years in jail. you 5 years in jail for

a political protest of the year. but to budget has said that there's new comparison to because they're criminal. but alexis, the bombing, who was convicted in serving a 2 year sentence for the violation of his early release. so he was convicted by russian court and vladimir putin. he says that, you know, americans are comparing what happened the capitol hill to the treatment of alexi and yvonne and saying there's nothing in common with the nation. you just, you'll never go the unknown systemic opposition and the citizen you've mentioned this person knew full well that he was violating russian law. and he knew for well, but there was a warrant for his arrest. nevertheless, he came back to russia and he deliberately wanted to be arrested. so he did what he wanted to do. what else can we say here? and one of the things both leaders agreed on is to barger buttons was that need to be rules of the world. so that as

a rule to how both countries should behave in case they come into this agreement over substitute dispute, your outside conflict, ab resolve them as a civilized part. i wouldn't say fred, this is thought, but they need a framework of how to behave and for that to happen, groups, countries need to be held equally accountable. it wouldn't do one country gets away with doing something and the other doesn't feel bad and said phrase the who's quite disturbed on live here. he said, how would the united states feel if it was she'd by the rest of the world as meddling for an election? which much of the world sees the united states as do it. but in this rate, that was us, which is russia, is accused of being predictable. by the way, how is russia planning to change? here, vladimir smudge was that when you should, 3rd story. he's given your name with believe that russian foreign policy is

unpredictable. that will let me send the park back to you with the u. s. leaving the abm treaty in 2002 with absolutely unpredictable. what are they doing? it for that undermine the basis of international stability in the area of strategic security. then withdrew from the i n f treaty in 20. 19, there's nothing stable about that said the open sky treaty withdrawal has nothing stable about it and almost nothing left. thank god, in the field, a strategic stability, mr. by taking a completely adequate decision to prolong the new start, treat for 5 years. and you know, if you take the situation with ukraine with crimea, that's where this all sounds right. what stable about endorsing the qu, they talk when the president yanna covey agreed with all the demands of the opposition. he was basically ready to abandon power, undeclared, new election in about 3 months of the blood hills who was needed let you know the

consequences. southeast of the country, then crimea, and you think it out? predictably, no, i don't think so. what do we do at the end of the day? what happened here in geneva? the summit was basically a trust building exercise. very few specifics was agreed upon, if any they agreed to talk about many things to work on many things, but ultimately it is a trust exercise is about laying a foundation on which russia the united states can rebuild relations. i wouldn't say build on relations because there aren't much left to speak off there, there in taxes. whether it worked, joe biden says, we'll find out within the year whether looks he results from the, from all the tools from all the agreements and all the criticism that both sides had for each other. but the message is, the preliminary. it was successful that he spent the day in the villa where those talks were taking place. this was billed as

a heavy weight clash of the titans. perhaps we weren't expecting any major results, but certainly looking much between 2 political big guns. what they did say, both of them was that they talk to not just the president biden, the president, but joe biden, to mon vladimir per month when they agreed on things that they could cooperate on. they talked about those when they disagree. they made sure that both of their points were made as forcefully as they could. joe biden, the us president saying though, while it was over a record deal, it's likely that they're going to be embracing one another and swaying side to side anytime soon. i don't think he's looking for a cold war. if the united states, i don't think it's about, as i said to him, i said your generation of mind about 10 years apart. this is not a come by our moment is used to say back in the sixty's and united states like less hug and love each other. but it's clearly not in anybody's interest. your countries are mine for us to be in a situation where we're in

a new cold war or despite the generally positive tone from both presidents, the american media apparently were not happy at all. with the summit, they directed a bar, roger of negative comments at joe biden, accusing him of not being tough enough. with that, i may put in saying the russian president got everything he wanted, where the russian leader for his part actually described mister biden as a professional. was a difference just, you know, i'd like to say that the image of president biden, which the press in russia and even in america is drawing, has nothing to do with reality. he's been on a long journey flying across the atlantic. so we're talking about jet like here. you know, even when i fly, it throws me off balance a little. and yet he looked alert. i told him face to face for 2 hours or maybe a little more than that. he's completely in the loop. he did look into his notes from time to time, but we'll do that. and that image has being drawn by the media kind of low view

into a full sense of security. but there's no reason for that whatsoever, because it is a professional. and you've got to be very careful with him in order not to miss anything. he doesn't miss anything. i can assure you. well in geneva, the u. s. leader was fortunate enough to avoid tough questions from the media. perhaps because no foreign outlets were present at his press conference or the russian president, i was just bombarded with questions from international john lists. after the meeting. did you commit to stopping your crank down against the opposition groups inside russia led by election of electing, of owning the why are young people not allowed to protest in russia with the but way press core does, as i pointed out, they never challenge a u. s. leader from the last, so they'll never ask him about julian assange. they will only ask about no vonny and a this bloomberg white house reporter jennifer jacobs. both on twitter about she heckling

putin and fantasizes about bite and smiling at her, which says everything you need to know about these denial gophers. they're not holding power to account in their own capital. their heckling the designated enemies of america and hoping to get the approval of their president. well, the mentality of these journalists is the mentality of the east coast establishment . they operate from a place of american exceptionalism and american innocence. they cannot fathom that the u. s. could possibly be literally paying opposition, figures, managing opposition, figures. and so when these reporters were badgering couldn't about nevada the they were unable to accept his response, which was that we don't want to see something like what you saw on january 6 with the movement of insurrection as d a. r g a this is the

weekly on, are you into national. the russian region of crimea has declared a state of emergency and made severe flooding, which is left at least one person dead and dozens injured. almost 2000 people had to be evacuated from their homes, reporting from crimea equals dental. the with me, so this is what some of the streets here and you also look like right now. i mean, you can hardly call it even a street. you could probably take on the store until on a canoe or something. i mean, just walking around here is already a challenge. it's a challenge to keep your balance alone. in fact, on top of that,

i can feel large, bold as every once in a while hitting my feet and legs. now speaking of the st. well, the ground floor of the residential buildings here go on. there are no more. and this is obviously hugely distressing to the locals. so this is where the army and the emergency workers have focus their efforts right now. in 2016, this man's house was destroyed by fire. so we families started from scratch. the final touches had been made just days before the flood hit. it all happened all too fast. oh yes about. i have a dog and he started acting strangely at 4 30 in the morning, so i took it outside my door saved us. the rain was so strong by 6 o'clock, the water had breeched its banks. i will call my son and we started to stop the water from entering our home. but nothing could stop it. we could only grow about documents and not fit. we lost everything. you could show a disaster like this has never happened before. i hope no will ever have to go through what we did. it's

a tragedy. why was making our authorities to help us to help the people, the emergency ministry and the army have had to join the efforts to deal with the aftermath of the flood least as a software that we are clearing the drainage system, removing debris from the flood. so the water drinks away more quickly, efforts are aided by volunteers. in this school, even the little ones have come out to help to the best of their ability. stephanie bebbles up all the basement was completely loaded. rescue work is pumped out the water and we scooped out the silt and mont. now we are taken out the furniture to see what we can still use. our children came to help asking us to give them a job. they carry out toys. we gave them simple jobs. so this is what a beach here normally looks like this time a year. but this is what it actually looks like right now. it was supposed to be the beginning of a high to receive and but obviously that will have to wait. now i'm again done

reporting from crimea. see plenty more still to come here on the weekly on. are you international, including lockdown roles have been extended again in england by 4 weeks. the spread of a new covert very, and i will get reaction from locked down fatigue. londoners. and just on the farm. the near ones will use against by doing the same tactics that republicans, i had to see coming from democrats after come think so they would accuse biting of being too soft, indecisive, of leg can clear agenda not off enough

with the and definitely that they will try to sabotage some of the agreements that have been reached. geneva. ah, so what we've got to here is identify the threats that we have is crazy for taishan, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic. developments only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time, time to sit down and talk. the thanks for joining us for the weekly here. when are you at the national moscow has set a grim record, a new covert infections registering more than $9000.00 cases in 24 hours. new

restrictions on being brought in, including limiting non emergency medical care 4 on vaccinated patients. electronica picks up the story less than 2 weeks ago. the numbers in moscow were plus $2900.00 cases. and there you have it this friday, a new sad record of more than plus $9000.00 in a whole country like mexico for example. this figure is 2 times smaller, so what is going on? it looks like the new delta varian, which are written in india, is taken install on the washing capital. according to the mayor of moscow, almost 90 percent of the new infections in the city are the new delta variance and the goal. so we're going to see them. the delta strain spreads foster, and the worst thing about it is that the person needs strong immunity twice as many

anti bodies to resistance compared to the original hand viruses. so essentially we're going through the same thing again, but with more severe consequences, the government has come to the understanding that the pace of the vaccination has been very slow and now they are rushing to change that. now here's one of the ground breaking decisions, introduced by the medical authorities and the washing capital. in moscow, free non essential care in the hospitals will only be provided for those who have been vaccinated. everyone will still get the emergency treatment if it's required. if you are a patient with cancer or with blood diseases, you will still get all the necessary treatment. but in other cases for non essential care, like i said, a jab will be required. patients have a weekend immune system for them could be 900, is especially dangerous. it is impossible to avoid all contact with them or to

isolate them. all those who can have the jet for special reasons will still be admitted to hospital and emergency medical care will be provided with exception to everybody, regardless of vaccination status. i campaign in the city to promote booster jabs will also begin in the near future. the moscow's mayor office announced mandatory vaccination for 60 percent of the staff in the service sector, so it looks like the russian capital is bracing itself for nothing less but a real vaccination boom. when the bladder approved his press secretary dmitri passcode was asked about what the kremlin makes of the new spikes and the measures . here's what the spokesperson replied. don't get even worse. and he tuition is due to 3 things, the absolute nihilism. that is people failure to comply with restrictions, the low vaccination rate and the slide nature of the virus. in the meantime, the existing anti cove measures in the russian capital have been extended till the

end of june, namely, the closure of bars, restaurants, and clubs. during the night and also a 3rd of staff members being required to work from home. in addition to that, the moscow mayor's office has also bad mass gatherings of over 1000 people. besides this dance floors and football fans, those will also have to be shut down for now. once again, i'd like to point out that so far, these are the measures that have been announced for the washing capital. this isn't on a federal level just yet, but we have received a warning from the authorities that all of this could be extended to other regions of russia if that is required. so this is a possibility in the near future as well. well, in the meantime, a region of central is actually wants to allow tourists to have received the russian sputnik v cobra shot to come and visit the mark a province. as urging the government to open up the entire country to such

travelers. and we heard from the local counselor who actually came up with the idea most everyone knows the effectiveness of scrutiny on neighbor san marino vaccinated with nick, but we're not supposed to allow citizens of san marino to into italy. now, our region tends to open up to continue welcoming russians and we want to maintain relations with russia. we are friends with russia, and we want to continue business in the tourism sector, russian citizens and tourists, even if the vaccinated cannot come to italy. and this is cause tremendous economic loss because italy attracts the loss of russian tourists each year. it comes a week after the european parliament gave final approval to the new digital certificate scheme for covered 19. it includes data on p. c. r tests and the bodies of vaccinations, but only for shots approved by the european medicines agency. and so far the regulator has approved for vaccines, but none of those include the russian chinese or indian ones. giacomo rossi again

says it's become a highly politicized issue. my show, know my opinion, the decision is cost like political reasons and these are not medical reasons because the wireless and therefore it is probably a continuation of european union's policy to russian federation. i have absolutely no sir. we are protecting the intro, mar, k, e, b to protect the conflict with the interests you were in europe. this is what we have primarily in the market. and so we have our interest, especially in such absurd situation. like the one we're talking about, england's long awaited locked down, eating, has been pushed back by 4 weeks. a cobit cases have been steadily rising since thought of june with more than 10000 new infections reported just on saturday. the new delta vary and his report spreading across england,

it's deemed to be up to 80 percent more transmissible than the previous dominant strain. the prime minister says the extra lockdown will help for we 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 sending a virus threat. anti lockdown protest has rallied new downing street in london on monday, chanting. shame on you and demanding freedom is what some people in the british capital told us by going to do that bit. say in those 6 months that seems to be really positive and gets backseat speculated. and then

to be told that you and them for weeks of things not being know being i've been it is it is very frustrating. it to, i like to come out with plenty of pen is now social distance, sending going out and taking it further thinking 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 to people teaching inside because no one knew about the discovery. and so now when you are hired to be there are lots of people with businesses and things like that. but really struggle connects fully, especially in the country just or it is a mother headlights, for you. and brief. armenia is holding a snap of parliamentary election off the months of political turmoil over last year's war in the disputed cut back region. that conflict claimed the lives of 4000

armenian soldiers and ended in a peace deal with major territorial losses to either by john. the opposition accused the prime minister of betraying his country with that truce, forcing an early vote and huge protest and sweeping brazil against the president's response to the pandemic. in south hollow crowds blocked major rhodes, calling for jojo sonata to be full, strong office or even jailed is comes off to the cove with death. astonished past half a 1000000 in brazil with vaccination rates are still very low. and finally, mount aetna has erupt it for the 2nd time and 48 was volcano. when the italian island of sicily sent fountains of hot ash and lava into the night sky. at last, her option forced the closure of the local airport at over 3000 meters. it is europe's highest active volcano or the receiving top stories of the day and of the week highlighted here in the weekly on,

off the international thanks for joining us. another program slated for you and about 31 minutes the join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politics sport. business. i'm show business. i'll see you then. me the me, the me

i learned welcome to all the parts. the politics is still primarily the reality of alpha males, especially when it comes to interaction in russia and the united states with thousands of nuclear ship rockets pointed at one another. with this week's bilateral assignment in geneva, logic put in and joseph biden seems to have, would be march your politics aside and even agreed that they bear the responsibility for managing the relationship between the countries. how long will this commitment last want to discuss that? i'm now joined by i'm the person, the director general of the russian international affairs council. mr. cord. nothing great to see you again. thank you for talking. john. welcome. now you've been following the you are still in the us russian relationship since the very beginning of your analytics career. i'm sure you've seen quite a number of such leaders. some of that can be.