masha joins us from tbilisi, the capital of the nation of georgia. welcome back to democracy now!out the significance of this summit, vladimir putin and joe biden meeting in geneva, switzerland. we are speaking as they have just sat down. masha: thank you, amy. good to be here. i thinkhis is an event that is more significant for vladimir putin. the very fact of the summit, the fact that biden called him a worthy adversary, that he is being treated as someone to sit down with and discuss the world, all of these are things that are incredibly valuable to putin. he accomplishes what he has come to geneva for by simply having a summit. biden is concerned in the sort of standard american idiom with deliverables, with fighting areas of common -- finding areas of common interest, and he is alone in that, alone in the actually trying to negotiate in good faith. there are other significant stations between these two men. one is the legitimately elected president and state actor, the other is a dictator who shores up his power by murdering his opponents, jailing his opponents, and by riggin

with locations ranging from tbilisi, tokyo, london, edinburgh, and outer space. no, really.a sequence that appears to take place in the gap between this world and the next, meaning that if fast 10 is going to top it, they're gonna have to get the whole cast to drive through a black hole and start racing each other in another dimension. screams. i don't wanna die! as for the action, it's high on octane but low on intelligence, merrily dispensing with basic laws of physics, gravity and most importantly, drama, in search of evermore empty spectacle. i mean, once you've watched vin diesel slingshot his car across a canyon on the end of a piece of string while another car is caught midair by a plane, it's hard to believe any of these characters is in any realjeopardy, especially when one character who died in a previous instalment suddenly turns up miraculously alive because, er, twitter. well, that was new. indeed so farcical is the core team's captain scarlet—like ability to survive being shot at, blown up, burned, drowned, crushed, smashed, bashed, dropped and pummelled — that

house speaker in tbilisi has moved forward to create a committee to investigate the january 6 -- speakerancy pelosi has moved forward to create a committee to investigate the january 6 attack on the capitol. facebook is now the fastest company to reach -- a judge granted its request to dismiss complaints last year filed by state attorneys general. jp morgan reportedly is boosting pay for junior bankers, according to the u.k. financial news. the bank is now offering first your analysts starting salaries of 100,000 dollars. younger bankers on wall street have been complaining of longer hours due to the boom we have seen in m&a. global news 24 hours a day, on air and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm ritika gupta. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> inflation could be enduring. i think policymakers should act accordingly. on the other hand, many will argue it is transitory, and which case we will be ok. as an investor and a policymaker, i would have a cautious bias. jonathan: that was the former u.s. treasury secretary speaking at

with locations ranging from tbilisi, tokyo, london, edinburgh, and outer space. no, really. start racing each other in another dimension. i don't want to die! as for the action, it is high on octane but low on intelligence, merrily dispensing with basic laws of physics, gravity and most importantly, drama, in search of evermore empty spectacle. i mean, once you have watched vin diesel slingshot his car across a canyon on the end of a piece of string while another car is caught midair by a plane, it's hard to believe any of these characters is in any realjeopardy, especially when one character who died in a previous instalment suddenly turns up miraculously alive because, urgh, twitter. indeed so farcical is the core team's captain scarlet—like ability to survive being shot at, blown up, burned, drowned, crushed, smashed, bashed, dropped and pummeled that their invisibility actually becomes a running gag. as for everyone else, well, civilian casualties don't seem to count in the fast universe, meaning anybody who isn't a movie star winds up being disposable cannon fodder. for