carried away was calling to report the birth of the u. s. and vales that most the ability of another round of sanctions against russia and just 4 days after the bio summit in geneva. and in spite of the optimistic messages from both sides also. and the stories had shaped the whig moscow said a grim record of a daily number of colbert 19 cases, the words to an all time. the city's mirror has been on the raft of new measures. i reach of central. it's really wants to welcome tourists who have received brushes, but let me show this by the last of approval so far from the european medicines agency, a regional counselor spoken to we all know what works and therefore,

just probably a continuation of the european union policy toward the russian federation, devastating floods leave one person dead to missing and 24 injured in southern rushes, crimea, province cells authorities declare a state of emergency corresponding reports 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 the street you could probably take on the store until on a canoe or something. i with the top stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment developments to welcome to the weekly and rti. i mean, the known in the u. s. government has said it's drawing up yet another round of anti rushes sanctions. it's happening to spike largely off beat messages. having

emerged from the biden summit, which took place just 4 days ago. russia's foreign ministry spokesman has condemned the mate saying moscow will be forced to retaliate. we have always given a consistent response to legal actions of the united states. it is strange that some people in washington enjoy this obstacle course so much. american idealogues have revealed themselves. they need all of the fuss around a supposed poisoning as a tool for solving the problems of their own non competitiveness. it is a surprise and you know, given this latest twist that we're seeing right now, it seems that you know, the relationship between russia and the us. they are not going to improve anytime soon. in fact, they can get even worse because jack salad than the us national security advisor has just sat on scene and that they did. the biden's administration is preparing new sanctions against moscow. we are preparing another package of sanctions to apply and these case as well. we've shown all along the way that we're not going to

pull our punches whether it's on so or waynes or elections interfering, or na valley when it comes to responding to rushes harmful activities. it will come as soon as we have develop the package is to ensure that we are getting the right targets. and when we do that, we will impose further sanctions with respect to chemical weapons. this comes on the heels of the geneva, somewhere between vladimir putin and joe biden, where they had their 1st face to face meeting since the american president took office and both sides hailed as talks as constructive and overall positive. and even though there were, there wasn't any major break through, at least it seemed that 2 leaders were committed to try to improve the poor state of the bilateral relationship between russia and the us and switches. just days after the summit, the senior american official announcing that they will prepare new that they're going to prepare new sanctions and not just with regard to lexia and the valid. he also reaffirm that they will continue to impose several sanctions against companies

that are related to the north stream to gas pipeline. so on, you know, that's a stark contrast to how the russian side acted after the summit in geneva, reputed, for instance, he oh, but defended joe biden. and made allegations he's facing at home that the u. s. president might not be in his best, physical or mental shape. you know, he's often seen not being able to read properly, probably teleprompter or you know, losing sense of direction but that my food and after the summit he basically talked joe biden, up, your billing, you could give mister and there was no hospitality from 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 out different positions close together. image that is being drawn by the media kind of low you 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. so i can tell russian official policy maker. they can feel a bit confused after this about face jack sullivan, the u. s. the, the national security advisor. he talks about new anti rush and russian sanctions like, you know, the summit never happened. and you know, it is especially bizarre if, especially if you recall what the americans talk before the sun that they were talking about predictable and stable relationship between the us and russia. that's something they are seeking. and what they're doing right now after the summit, it doesn't necessarily falls under the category of predictability lie, spoke with independent journalists, martin summers. martin thinks the upcoming sanction show the extent of the anti

russian lobby in the us. well, i think it shows disarray only us side. it was always going to be very difficult for boyd and to make any kind of concessions because there's a huge lobby inside the united states based within the sort of security apparatus. when the media, who are determined to sabotage constructive relations between russia and the west, the fraction which you're pushing for a sanctions. they weren't very happy perhaps of the meeting took place at all. and therefore, they have no recovery that their master nations in order to prevent anything positive coming on today. on the same side as the source gets a free media, it makes just common sense to saw. she talked to each other. so of course, we had the meeting last week, but i can't say on terribly surprised to see that the, the reiteration of all still, etc,

which is now become endemic. while president putin and biden spoke for 3 and a half hours in geneva on wedding, stay on our team was there in switzerland following all the developments. here's a quick recap of how the day unfolded. the the i have no use in following the meeting, either old or new. there can't be any illusions at all by and said he didn't bay russia by the way. that was a joke. well, here's the main takeaways from the day the leaders agreed to hold consultations on

strategic stability and nuclear arms control. they also discuss the possible prisoner exchange and agreed to return their respective busters to their posts. now there was no breakthrough on cybersecurity though they agreed to start regular consultations on the issue for stumbling blocks, pipe and buddhist, raised concerns about human rights in the other's country. ready they also failed to come up with any concrete action plan for ukraine. mentioned their team was in geneva with peter and south sky fronting our coverage long couple of weeks. i little dot high school that falls around. of course, the big russia us summit was building. now it's over, don, president biden, president putin, they sat down, they talked, i'm really the bottom line is look like ties between the 2 countries are better

today and really look like the best you can hopefully were never gonna move mountains in terms of the problems that exist, but what we have seen is them say that they'll re 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 up back in moscow. the very basics of diplomacy when it comes to just how they viewed one another. 3 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 a person saying that it wasn't again, it wasn't context that wasn't somebody school remote points that i wouldn't know when a prophy job wasn't to get one out from someone else. it was sent pete to become interesting communication. able to have an open frank dialogue to dissolve to in the future and to do that without any hostility. what we heard from you. but when you, when i was given the student,

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 different positions close together. there wasn't any, any strident action taken, or we disagreed. i disagree, stated where it was where he disagreed, he stated. but it was not done in a hyperbolic atmosphere. both presidents have now left. we watched both aeroplanes fly away. we've actually got a pretty good view and it comes to plain spot. i mean, i know the geneva runway, like no one else travel you control, gotten nothing on may. the lucian $96.00 is and boeing 747. for 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 several going mad on the on the lake, the sunset over the lake, just behind us here in geneva,

city looking resplendent. it has been roasting hold off at ours long, i would say a pathetic fantasy, absolutely perfect for the heated tubes and i think it probably was heated by himself gave and that there were some things that he was not willing to negotiate through to moist. also, 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 securities. 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 question himself, the be difficult questions that vladimir putin faced, that which joe barton had the good fortune to escape. what questions about the opposition that we have pointed out that the protesters 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 proto the year. but to buddy said that there's no comparison to because they're criminal, but a leg saying the bony who was convicted in serving a 2 year sentence for the violation of his early 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. but for the nation, you just, you'll never building on non systemic opposition. and the citizen you've mentioned, this person knew full well that he was violating russian law. and he knew full 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? one of the things both leaders agreed on is to borrow job buttons, words they 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 something, it's a dispute your outside conflict as resolve them as a civilized partners. i wouldn't say present thought, but they need a framework of how to behave. and so that to happen, those 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 fraser, who's quite disturb 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 meant to us. russia is accused of being predictable, by the way. how is russia planning to change here like the smog that when you should, dirge, he's given us nearby,

you still with believe that russian foreign policy is unpredictable. will let me send the park back to you. the u. s leaving the abm treaty in 2002 with absolutely unpredictable. what are they doing? it for that's 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. the open sky treaty withdrawal has nothing stable about it and almost nothing left. thank god, in the field, the 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 they will about endorsing the qu, they talk when the ex president covey agreed, with all the demands of the opposition. he was basically ready to abandon power declared new election in about 3 months, no blood hills who was needed that led to known consequences southeast of the

country, then crimea. and you think it's also predictably not. i don't think so. what do we do at the end of the day? what happened here in geneva? this entire summit was basically a trust building exercise. very few specifics with agreed upon, if any. they agreed to talk about many things to work on many things, but ultimately it is a trust exercise. it 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, jo button says we'll find out within the year. but let's see results from the, from all the tool for movie a grievance for 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 record, 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 or the united states. i don't think it's about, as i said to him, i said your generation of mine are 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 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. the russian region of crimea has declared a state of emergency and mid severe flooding that's left at least one person dead and 24 injured. almost 2000 people have been evacuated from their homes. our teeth eager shit, dollar reports from crimea. the with me. 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 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, a bucket. 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 reached 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 grab our documents and not fit. we lost everything. you could show a disaster like this has never happened before. i hope no one will ever have to go

through. what we did is the tragedy was making our authority 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. 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 touchable, 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 to 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, yes to machine seen there. this is the rti international go ahead. the russian capital is tightening its coven restrictions due to the like. and please number 23 on morphia, in like the 2nd ah, ah ah, with me ah

ah, i use so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy, even for taishan, let it be an arms race is on often very dramatic development. 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 a log in moscow house set a grim record in new code with infections,

red string more than 9000 cases in a 24 hour period. new restrictions are now being brought in, including limiting non emergency medical care for own vaccinated patients. so our teeth, if a trickle is across the story, he can tell us more. less than 2 weeks ago. the numbers in moscow were plus $2900.00 cases. and there you have it this friday, and 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 is taking its toll on the russian capital, according to the mayor of moscow. almost 90 percent of the new infections in the city are the new delta variance because also 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 resist 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 though and now they are rushing to change that. now here's one of the ground breaking decisions, introduced by the medical authorities in 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 rushing capital is bracing itself for nothing less but a real vaccination boom. when the bladder approved his press. secretary dmitri pascal 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, hello, vaccination range, and the slight nature of the virus. in the meantime,

the existing anti covert 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. busy 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, a region of central italy wants to allow tourists who receive the russian sputnik, the cobra shot, to visit the mark

a province has urging the government to open up the entire country to such travelers. we heard from the local counselor who came up with the initiative most everyone knows the effectiveness of scrutiny on neighbor sand, marino's vaccination, neck but we are not supposed to allow citizens of san marino to into italy. now our region intends 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 actually attracts the loss of russian tourist. each year comes a week after the european parliament gave final approval to the new digital certificate scheme for cobra. 19. it includes data on p. c. r, test antibodies and vaccination, but only for sharps approved by the european medicine agency. so far the regulator

has approved for vaccines. russia, chinese or indian jobs are not among them. g rossi again sees it's become a highly politicized issue. much he show no day, in my opinion, the decision is close to political reasons and these are not medical reasons because he was and therefore it is probably a continuation of european union's policy towards the russian federation. i have absolutely no, sir, that we are protecting the interest of marquee. the too often protects the conflict with the interest in europe, in sicily, european citizens, but we are primarily rest of the market. and so we are interested, especially in such absurd situation, like the one we're talking about high level reaction next from this week's u. s. russia. the summit in switzerland's with donna asking what the last thing i'd come will be that is right ahead in world,

particularly the the the the me, the me a lot of welcome to all the current 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 while

actual simon in geneva lodge put in. and joseph biden seems to have put the 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 sodium, the huge russian relationship. since the very beginning of your career, i'm sure you've seen quite a number of such leaders. some of that can be cold war days. they've dealt literally with the fate of the world. i don't think that could be sad about the junior meeting, although i think there was also a little bit of this history in the making by kids. how do you or staff is significant the significance of these interactions in the grounds came of things.

well, i think that it's fair to say that in the relation between mosca and washington, nothing serious happens without some meetings to listeners. some meetings have been the major catalyst for and you positive change in the relationship. they have elections in states and you present comes to power. he makes a couple of da statements towed to moscow, then he consults with his experts with the system. so it turns out that unfortunately in certain ways, mosque was indispensable. you have to build relations with leaders the year so they put together, i'm at the meeting and after the summit meeting basically a thing. so.