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and while russia and the us were talking, ukraine's president zelensky was in turkey with president erdogansterday european leaders held an emergency summit in paris to discuss ukraine and european security, underlining the urgency being felt about president trump's plans to resolve the war. 0ur diplomatic correspondent, james landale, has all the latest on the day's events. a moment of history — americans on the left, russians on the right. senior officials face to face for the first time in years. both sides silent and grim—faced for the media. but, russia back at the top table without making a single concession and clearly glad to come in from the cold. america's top diplomat marco rubio said they had agreed to improve diplomatic relations and appoint negotiators to find what he called "a fair and enduring solution" to the war in ukraine. i came away today convinced they are willing to begin to engage in a serious process to determine how and how quickly and through what mechanism can an end be brought to this war. whether we can ultimately reach that outcome will obviously depend on eve

president erdogan. correspondent, tom bateman, is travelling face to face in a saudi royal palace, a picture that makes history. here was the us, the biggest single backer of ukraine, sitting ended their isolation and the world was about to be shown it. start of the meeting. so the doors opened, the press brought in, and then level in three years. what concessions will be asked of russia? if the us was demanding any concessions of moscow, to engage in a serious process to determine how and how quickly on every side in this conflict�*s willingness to agree to certain things. so russia moved from being pariah to partner. how are the latest comments president likely to be president trump likely to be received in to president trump likely to be received in _ president trump likely to be received in ., , ., ., received in ukraine? three it was very idea, three years ago..it was very to hear vladimir pdtin. he ennodnced'he 77 do vladimir pdtin. he ennodnced'he do are mgcligdir pdtin. he ennodnced'he do are fa

were talking, ukraine's president zelensky was in turkey with that country's president, recep tayyip erdogansterday, european leaders held an emergency summit in paris. france is understood to be planning a second meeting wednesday to discuss ukraine and wider european security, underlining the urgency being felt about here was the us, the biggest single backer of ukraine, sitting down with its friend's enemy — russia. both sides were silent and stony—faced for the media, but vladimir putin's team clearly happy that president trump had ended their isolation. and the world was about to be shown it. we were brought in for a short amount of time at the very start of the meeting. so the doors opened, the press brought in, and then we saw taken place at that level in three years. i shouted questions for marco rubio. what concessions will be asked of russia? there was no answer and the doors were firmly closed. they weren't telling anyone else today. the americans called the talks upbeat and constructive. they even had time to eat with the foreign minister they sanction. after this break, there wa

delegations of those countries, because of course, media come as travelling press, say, with president erdogansident of france. their own cameraman. i'm sure you... as spokesperson in 2010 at lisbon, one of my toughest jobs was to negotiate with the russians, who were then part of the nato—russia council. dmitry medvedev was then president. "before the secretary general of nato and president obama," because the russians were pushing for them and this is how they negotiate, both inside, but also in terms of media. and that desire to have the first move, you say at the summit in lisbon. would they try and do that more broadly, wherever absolutely. and you can see that in every meeting at all levels. and you could see that in riyadh. that was very clear to me, you know, from the pooling arrangement, you could see that the russian foreign ministry, the russian media pool, was the fastest news agencies were using the russian pool images. is this image of russia and the us on a par, sitting at the same table, the big world powers carving the world's perspective on what is happening. of this equation

delegations of those countries, because of course, media come as travelling press, say, with president erdoganh negotiations. as spokesperson in 2010 at lisbon, one of my toughest because the russians were pushing for them to come out first. they want to have the advantage of the first mover. the russians were doing that, or trying to do that at the summit in lisbon. would they try and do that more broadly, wherever perspective on whatever�*s happening out first? absolutely. and you can see that in every meeting at all levels. in distributing those images so that even western news agencies were using the russian pool images. because, of course, what is at stake for them sitting at the same table, the big world powers carving especially stung by president obama saying, in 2014, that russia wasjust a regional power, so ever since, and a lot of what we're hearing now is how countries or individual leaders are trying to shape the world's perspective of this equation too, but i'm imagining, 0ana, sometimes, whether you're nato or an individual country, consumption, it's aimed at one particular lead

president erdogan from has said that ukraine should be present in any future talks so we'll see whethercond timed down the line. >> on the face of it nothing spectacularly special. five men sitting around a table and yet that image, that is already a diplomatic victory for moscow. the fact that senior u.s. officials were sitting down with senior russian officials while russia was waging wash against ukraine, that is a sign, i think, that western efforts to isolate russia over the war have fail and would that russia is back on the global stage. now, a single meeting was not going to resolve all the issues in u.s.-russia relations and it wasn't going to end the fighting in one day but i think after these talks, question remains how is the ukraine war going to end? moscow continues to push for an end to this war on russia's terms, terms that basically amount to ukraine's capitulation. 23469, today, the day of these talks, russia hardened its demands, not only saying that ukraine mustn't join natea, it's demanding that nateo disavow the promise it made to ukraine in 2008 that it could one d

president erdogan also said that turkey is reaffirming its support for ukraine hospitals territorialindependence when asked directly by a ukrainian said these are must—have for turkey in any future peace talks that are going to happen. let's show you a shot from a press conference that is due to start in toronto and we are expecting to hear from the airport which on the crash of the delta airlines flight in toronto and we will go to that we can. around the world and across the uk, around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. continuing their advance in the drunk humanitarian crisis. the rebels were largely ethnic, have taken over territory and captured the largest city in the mineral rich region. united nations is up to 3000 people were killed as it fell in around 400,000 people have been forced to flee in recent weeks because of the rebel advance. just a warning, you may find this report from a correspondent distressing. the road to victory for the m 23. self—styled liberators. they now control the second major city they have taken in recent weeks. the rebels have city they

another thing i want to bring up is turkey hosted hamas leaders last week, erdogan.ato ally and we need president trump not only to show we support israel and we need to bring all the hostages home, including the american citizens, including the babies, but also that president trump is going to retake a leadership role on the global stage in nato and tell all these other countries we won't tolerate you cozying up to hamas, treating their terrorists in your hospitals. we need to really support israel in their war and make sure we bring all the hostages home. >> dana: we look forward to hearing what you do in the future. thanks for joining us today. we'll stay in touch. >> john: all right, dana. just minutes the senate finance committee will be voting on whether to advance robert f. kennedy, jr. for the full senate for a vote. pete hegseth and border czar tom homan visiting the southern border coming as we get reports of new cartel threats against border patrol agents. tom homan will join us from el paso, texas in our next hour. stay with us. know. is this what he's do

instead its president volodymr zelensky was in ankara meeting his turkish counterpart president erdogan. mr zelenskyy criticised the us—russia talks for not including a ukrainian representative — nor a european one. mr zelensky stressed that talks about his country must not happen behind its back. we see nervousness and anger amongst european leaders they gathered in paris. rajini — you were in paris for that summit — what was the atmosphere like about the eu leaders? in many ways european nations feel they have been shut out from the stalks and we have heard that. this was a hastily arranged summit. what was so striking was we did not get a big joint photo opportunity afterwards, there was no big communique. yet some leaders like the uk prime minister keir starmer saying that he was going to take some of the views from that meeting yesterday when he meets donald trump in washington next week. in many ways it felt like europe does not really know yet what the next move is because it is being led by what is happening where you are, of course and what is happening in moscow. some think th

call a leader out until they started dismantling constraints and the media and people understood erdogan. he was a good leader. and looked in our data, some corelation how the media and with this concept of personalism, it is something you can see before a leader is elected and there is utilities even on day one, a leader who comes to power backed by a personalist party, the risker is higher and make decisions about how you allocate resources. the moral of my story and take-aways from doing this research is realization that democracy can decay even when there is strong support for democracy. we put a role on the ruling party. the ruling party has to push back when a leader ex ertz power and they are willing to accept or endorse or condone a leader. that is problematic but sends cues to supporters and telling people that there is no problem here, but what is part and parcel. so it has an important interaction how voters understand what is inbounds and out of bounds. the other peace -- piece is polarization. we have thoan about helping to give rise to these leaders. but what we find is tha

so the ominous example, erdogan is a poor role model in my view for president trump. not quite as bad as mr. ormonde in hungary, the principal exemplary. we know hungary, also a nato member, part of the eu and very complex set of relationships. we know countries like turkey, sensible allies, turkey has been a good ally in some ways in nato historically. as well as countries that have a more intense or even hostile relationship with the u.s., and even friendly countries. every foreign national that you deal with is an intelligence risk. their nations all want something from the united states. so in that environment, to have enforcement action where we are trying to cut off in the adams prosecution, establish accountability for an american official. in my judgment, the evidence was quite strong. to see this unraveling where you have ended quid pro quo that are alleged. not only that adams did favors for turkey and the accountability as that is the front end, the basis of the prosecution. then we flip around to the backend where an extremely conservative interim united s

volodymyr zelenskyy postpone his own visit to saudi arabia, meeting today instead with turkey's president erdogan friendly with russia and the member of nato. zelenskyy reiterated there can be no peace deal without a seat for ukraine at the table. >> this russian-american meeting in saudi arabia was a surprise for us. for ukraine and for our region, for europe, it is critical any negotiations to end the war are not happening behind the backs of the key parties affected by the russian aggression. >> today the u.s. dismissed any notion ukraine was being left out. >> shuttle diplomacy has happened throughout history and all over the world, we are absolutely talking about -- talking to both sides. >> for russia, today's sit-down was a chance to lay the groundwork and talk with the u.s. on a wide range of issues, not just about ukraine. >> there was a great interest which we share in resuming consultations on geopolitical problems for both the united states and the russia -- where both the united states and russia have interests and there was a great interest in removing artificial obstacles to mutual

and i believe he thinks he can do this personally with putin, with xi jinping, with president erdogan and others. and he can sort of pole vault over the conventional wisdom that that has emerged. the conventional wisdom being, you've got to have a strong deterrent. you can't do this just with conversations between leaders understanding that russia is an imperialist nation. it has many tools. it's subverting democracy in in europe right now. it's got a gray zone offensive against europe. china is watching. so there's a this is a conflict between really a conventional view of security and president trump's view of his ability to sort of change, change the tables. he wants nuclear disarmament. he wants to cut the defense budget in half. now, senate armed services committee chairman says the defense budget needs to go up by a couple of hundred billion dollars at least, and maybe doubled. and so how are we going to do this with tax cuts? so there's a lot to be resolved and unpacked in all of this. it's early days, fredricka, but one thing clearly came out of munich, and that is the europea

turkey, when erdogan was had had a coup against him and he was doing a crackdown.these things are being done. >> andrew weissman, you worked for the department of justice. let's explain this a little bit. what is different about the department of justice in either in policy or in practice, than some other department, where it wouldn't really matter if there was a lot of interplay between the white house and that department. >> absolutely. so a lot of people will be asking that question like, you know, i don't understand. this is the attorney general is in the cabinet. why isn't she or. he treated. >> just like any other cabinet. >> official who reports to the president? and the president can talk. >> about anything in. >> since watergate, republican and democratic presidents have done this, but for trump. so i want to make sure this. is apolitical. right. the reason that there are norms with respect to the white house and the department of justice is almost. precisely getting at what the clip is that you played from donald trump is that you don't want the white hou

some of the challenges we've heard from our canadian counterparts that what the president erdogan from them was somewhat vague. they came up with some of the solutions. are there metrics you all are using over the course of these next 30 days to figure out okay come is is working, do we need to push for more? >> that's where secretary of state rubio and secretary kristi noem, stephen miller and others and that's where they're working the negotiations. i just, not just those calls, top leader. what i would say to the american people is urine very good hands right now, very good hands. the cabinet is, but i butn imagine a finer cabinet now. the thing i wish is that, that hill behind us here would move down faster in getting confirmation confirmations done. not just at the secretary level, but at the other sector, the deputy secretary, the assistant secretary. it's the tragedy of government, this government, is that it takes a few months to get the government in place. that's almost half the time of a term of office. that shouldn't be. >> or half the time of this interview. [laughing] >>

nick, president zelenskyy will meet with turkish president erdogan today.are the goals for that meeting? against this broader backdrop. >> yeah, i mean, certainly the meeting with the turkish president is, i think, going again to another potential intermediary who in the past three years has been able to provide a kind of window into back door negotiations with moscow. but it's not clear if that's really what's on the table here at all. i think it may be regional allies and the support of a key nato member like turkey, that zelenskyy is trying to find. but he is in an extraordinarily tight spot right now simply because the conversation in riyadh, according to a senior russian diplomat, is about normalizing u.s. and russian relations foremost. and a peace deal in ukraine, essentially part of that. and that, of course, leaves many in kyiv here extremely nervous that in the larger trade between washington and moscow, they may essentially be being asked in the future, not being at the table right now to make concessions that are completely incompatible with kee

obsessive haste to purge a bureaucracy so quickly, or when somebody is defending themselves, like erdoganay now be what a special government employee all of a sudden. but this, as garrett said, is highly unusual. i don't have another reference point for a private individual coming in, infiltrating, trying to turn government to the benefit of his businesses and locking out and federal employees. it is a coup. i'm a historian of coups, and i would also use that word. so we're in a real emergency situation for our democracy, i feel. >> i want to ask you, ruth, what the protective measures are at this junction. if you are now able to sort of agree with garrett's description of this as a coup. >> if you look at what sometimes you know, nations do in situations of emergency, for example, brazil, when bolsonaro was trying to have his january 6th, 2023 coup, which was the playbook of january 6th in our country, applied there. and steve bannon was an adviser. it didn't work. and all of the major authorities went on television and made, you know, a declaration united to declare, you know, this frau

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