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taking a number of questions he had just finished he has confirmed a five hours meeting with nikolai patrushev the his russian counterpart just going through a little bit of what bolton say will go through more detail in the coming hour but he did say that they made a lot of progress considerable was a word he used as well after about number of issues the start treaty being deployed strategic nuclear weapons he also said he spoke to donald trump just after the meeting concerning what was spoken about as well ukraine and of course syria as well we'll try and get a bit more detail. in the next thirty minutes or so we'll see what else comes out of that meeting between at john bolton nicholai patrushev all right let's get a check on what else we're covering this news hour here in r.t. international facebook has upped the ante in its crusade against fake news it's not bound hundreds of pages it claims are linked to a round in russia for allegedly trying to sway political opinion here so you. thanks for joining us by millions of franco with your latest news in the world of social media facebook and

secretary patrushev i think is having his own press conference soon we might have had a. joint statement but i felt it was important to mention election meddling which we raised a number of times during these consultations today which lasted a little bit over five hours. but we weren't able to reach agreement on that so we decided to go ahead will each speak individually which is what i'm doing now but on the whole i would say we've made considerable progress and that's what the two presidents had in mind force and hopefully they'll agree with our assessment that in fact we did make progress so let me just stop there and i'm happy to answer questions following the procedure that sarah outlined. yes mr bolton and if we make just ask a question see if we never hear reuters sanctions a two pronged question whether in your discussions and you gave mr pett to each other any details or. raise the issue of the microsoft hacking case that emerged this week did you ask him what there was any state russian state role behind that and then other sanctions relating to iran. did with t

regarding syria presence there it's one of the topics in talks with his russian counterpart nikolai patrushev that's being held behind closed doors in geneva it comes at a time when relations between moscow and washington are especially fraught. well the meeting between these two representatives has taken place in the u.s. mission here in geneva just behind me the groundwork for the mate was laid to during the meeting of presidents trump and last month in helsinki that meeting but i was really overshadowed by the hysteria over the fact that those two were meeting in the first place these meetings they were usually where work is done presidential type of meets more of a photo opportunity is a signature on a on a document it's usually these meets between these type of representatives from governments where they are going out problems but the real problem at the moment and the fact that we might not get much movement on the issues is the fact that the relations between washington and moscow are at such a low ebb right now in fact fresh sanctions from the united states against russia could drop t

nikolai patrushev is a former head of russia's internal security service the fsb.ch russia and the us disagree — election interference, the annexation of crimea, the salisbury novichok attack — and the war in syria. here's imogen foulkes. united states has said it wants all irani and troops out of syria back to iran right away. moscow says it does not necessarily agree with that but it has different views about how to achieve it. it's suggested relaxing sanctions iran. that's the opposite of what they said they want. got a rep of sanctions and jumbled and said they want to exert maximum pressure. for other people long—term peace negotiation watchers is another disappointment and that's the fact that when president trump and president putin met in helsinki mother things apparently at the top of the agenda was nuclear arms reduction. president trump said he was committed to substantial reductions. we had thought maybe john bolton and nikolai would announce the restart of the so—called talks. it stalled for use in russia and america on getting rid of at least some of