what we have right here is an excellent specimen of an ft17 french designed renaud tank. this tank was built by the americans and used to train the soldiers in france on how to drive and fire the main weapons on tanks. remember before this tank there weren't tanks. the british had tanks and the germans had tanks, but there were no tanks prior to this first generation of tanks. this piece right here is the tank that george patton fell in love with. of course general patton would go onto become the grandfather of american armor. you can see some of the as respects on this tank are very similar to tanks we have nowadays. you have a tour it that can rotate 360 degrees. the one thing i'll point out, or a few things i'll point out first the treads themselves are very aggressive, they're far forward of the tank ands you can see how the treads are designed to grip. the idea being that if this tank had to go down into an enemy trench line, it would be able to pull itself up the other side. further more, in the back you can see a scoop, that scoop was designed to steady the tank so

renaud lavillenie says: >>> does this isolation of the g7 matter to russia. >> i think it does matter. vladimir putin valued his own and his country's international status. his own status as a statesman. he has been respected since he bim president in 2000 -- became president in 2000. the exclusion from the g8 is a big deal. he cares about international prest eege, and i agree it was the right thing to do. >> in addition to tensions with russia in the ukraine, there are other topics on the dispaenda. the g7 -- agenda. the g7 doesn't always stick to its plan. there are other topics. how likely is it that the g7 will get around to addressing the issues. >> i think they will. there's a long record of not much movement. many say that the recovery in the west is not fast enough. there's no major movement on climate change. president obama mentioned that in his speech last week. he has not moved forward. i think russia will dominate the summit and difficult issues that they don't make much progress on. >> among the issues, imposing tougher sanctions on russia. the problem is the e.u. does 1