russian president vladimir putin is there as well. perhaps we can lean on putin to stop selling his weapons to syrian war lords because selling weapons to violent foreign... oh, (bleep). (laughter) anyway, executive privilege! it's obviously a very tense and complicated diplomatic issue. >> talk about the big chill. let's see this. this is body language between president obama and russian president vladimir putin. (laughter) >> jon: really? body language? we can really try and divine the status of international policy negotiation it is same way mystery on the pickup artist lets nerds know if girls are into them? are we doing that? >> the two men barely looked at each other. >> they did not sit very close together. >> they were not making eye contact. >> you didn't see any smiles. >> they could not have been more far apart physically. >> putin appeared to lean away. >> media reports describe their demeanor as "chilly" like a cold moscow winter. (laughter). >> jon: obama looked nervous and vladimir drank only water. is this couple on th

base say their fate will not be decided by the judge but by vladimir putin himself. bbc news, moscow. >> you are watching "bbc world news america." we will go live to london where the olympic action is underway, and the chinese are doing back flips about gymnastics gold. in india, power has been restored to millions of homes after one of the biggest power cuts ever. even the water supply in nine states in the north of the country were affected and up to 370 million people felt the impact target that is more than the population of the u.s. and canada combined. we have a report now from delhi. >> on the tracks, but not on the move. they were stranded in northern india after a massive power grid failure lasting six hours. the metro in the capital city of delhi, which normally carries 1.8 million passengers daily, was also temporarily shut, which means lots of waiting around. >> of the water. and then there were the problems. the entire country was at a standstill. >> bit chaotic roads were even more congested. more than 300 million people were affected by the power fail

president val vladimir putin and noda agreed to resume stalled negotiations over the islands but they fail to set a date. for more on medvedev's visit to the island. >> prime minister medvedev maintained the main purpose of his visit was to observe the progress of infrastructure project. but observers say he is also came to display his political inference over the far middest east to vladimir putin. the decision to go ahead despite protest from japan signal a strong resolve on the part of russia to continue developing the country as it's own. the impact of the visit on the diplomatic tie between tokyo and moscow is unavoidable. it's going to be a major issue in the next line of talk between president vladimir putin and prime minister noda. over the past few months, putin has showed that he is ready to solve the dispute. the contrast with the action of prime minister medvedev could be a way of testing japan's willingness to make a compromise. >> all right, nhk moscow bureau >>> british bank chief executive stepped down amid an interest rate rigging scandal. he said he was stepping down

on the day, he was among tens of thousands of people who protested against vladimir putin's returned to the russian presidency. the authorized demonstration began peacefully but then escalated. the kremlin blamed the opposition. he insists the demonstrators were provoked by the police. >> it is totally obvious that the police behaved wrongly. they came down hard on the demonstrators, beating them. you can see how shocked the people were. not one of us planned to provoke clashes or attack anyone. >> 16 protesters were arrested. found guilty of inside -- if found guilty of inciting violence, the good reason to 13 years in jail. thousands of organized protest calling for the release of those still in detention, a staging demonstrations in russia has become more dangerous. shortly after taking all this, putin passed a law protecting the rights to peaceful assembly. protesters now face fines were several thousand euros or detention. >> times like these show how valuable our movement is. we spent months protesting on the streets. many of us were not -- were not even up to believe three big

those key sticking points are what is expected to be discussed between kofi annan and president vladimir putin today in fact russia saying that the west is not living up to the promises that were agreed upon in geneva just a short time ago which were to promote a dialogue between all parties involved in the conflict and for all sides to lay down arms in fact russia saying the west is using this as an opportunity for the u.n. resolution to try and impose sanctions on syria and possibly also to promote a foreign military intervention something that russia is really trying to avoid pointing to libya as an example as a way that western military intervention just didn't work out saying that the situation in libya right now is just as messy as it was before the uprising in libya russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov said that the west is trying to blackmail russia into swing to their side lavrov also said that threatening that russia over its position on syria is beyond the scope of diplomacy and decency russia supports kofi annan on some peace talks in fact what they say is they support tal

will be the focus of today's meeting between international peace envoy kofi annan and president vladimir putin in moscow russia accusing western nations of not working towards peace in syria and blackmailing moscow to take action against the syrian government for more on this we're joined live now by parties thomas sean so the talk certainly do come at a crucial time for syria i mean we see violence getting bloodier every day people dying in massive numbers and foreign powers of course failing to find calm. ground on how and day what can we expect from this latest high level meeting. well karen there is certainly conflict in how to deal with the syrian crisis between the west and russia in fact those key sticking points are what is expected to be discussed between kofi anon and president vladimir putin today in fact russia saying that the west is not living up to the promises that were agreed upon in geneva just a short time ago which were to promote a dialogue between all parties involved in the conflict and for all sides to lay down arms in fact russia saying the west is using this as

blazing summer sunshine to begin a three day visit right here in moscow it's a major talks with vladimir putin. reports the two nations who have long been friends will be discussing new ways of furthering cooperation. relations between cuba and russia have always been strong and this meeting between the two leaders castro and vladimir putin serves to reaffirm those relations in fact this is the third time that they've met the first time back in two thousand in havana cuba and a second time here in moscow one time three years ago and then this meeting that just took place now in this meeting they discussed trade agreements and the economy how they can help each other's economies grow and also diversify also they talk about mutual ways that they can invest in each other's governments and economy another way is energy transportation and telecommunications industries the ways that both countries can work to shore up those industries now continuing in his brother's footsteps fidel castro the cuban revolutionary and former leader of cuba raul castro this is his international tour if you will b

powers will be the focus of today's meeting between international peace envoy kofi anon and president vladimir putin in moscow russia is accusing western nations of not working toward peace in syria and blackmailing moscow to take action against the syrian government thomas joins us live now while the talks do come at a crucial time for syria's violence does get bloodier every day and foreign powers are failing to find common ground on how to end it sean what can we expect from this latest high level meeting. well karen certainly there has been a lot of international tension and exactly how to resolve this conflict again is syria of course the west having one side russia and china on the other side wanting to promote dialogue with of the current administration in syria and that is what kofi annan and president vladimir putin are expected to talk about today now russia says that the west is it not living up to their promises that were agreed on yet in geneva just earlier not too long ago and talk those promises were to promote all sides to lay down arms and to to start dialogue so that there ca

president obama spoke with russian president vladimir putin today regarding the escalating violence in. this after a bomb in damascus just this morning killed syria's defense minister and his deputy. also president assad's brother-in-law. syria's interior minister is among the wounded. many fear the country is tipping into chaos. here's how secretary of defense le leon panetta the assessed the attack. >> this is a situation that is rapidly spinning out of control. for that reason, it's extremely important that the international community working with other countries that have concerns in that area have to bring maximum pressure on assad. >> there are also reports today of five separate explosions near a military base in the capital. the division there reportedly led by bashar al assad's younger brother. correspondent a man mew ha dean is in cairo with the latest. obviously, the headline at this hour is the white house confirms president obama has spoken within russian president vladimir putin critical of moving forward with the situation in syria? >> that's correct. there was supposed

his name is vladimir and he saved a puppy from what looks like disease-infested waters.nd i want you guys just to look at some of the stuff on the beach. toilet paper. >> yikes. imagine the smell what this guy is going through right now. >> he's collecting a bunch of garbage that he's pushing to shore as he's bringing that dog with him. >> he's using that limb to push the garbage out of the way. it keeps it from being all over him. >> like a bgarbage plow. >> look at the puppy. >> oh! >> and look at this puppy when it's put on the shore. >> wow. >> it's exhausted. >> it is such a cute puppy too. >> vladimir, you're my new hero. >>> i don't know what i would do in this situation. >> you're pretty torn, aren't you? puppy or filth. >> fabian? >> i really do like puppies. >> would you do it if i handed you a gallon of purell? >> i would do it -- i would do it if -- i would need to get into a shower. there would need to be a shower stall right next to it. >> so you could let a puppy die? >> no, i could not. >> i wouldn't let the puppy die but i would be saying something the w

>> kroft: for instance, there he was with vladimir putin who, at the time, was the president of russia. but it's clear from this interview that mike was the one in charge. >> wallace: corruption is every place in russia. agreed? why? to get anything done-- money. >> kroft: i've never seen the situation or seen an interview that you did not dominate, in terms of personality, in terms of force of personality. >> wallace: that's very flattering, i guess, but... but... >> kroft: how do you do it? >> wallace: i'm nosy and insistent and not to be pushed aside. >> kroft: and confident. >> wallace: confident in the material that i have and the questions that i have. confident that, when i ask a question, there's a reason for it's being asked, that i have the specifics in research to warrant the asking of a question. it's not a question picked out of the air. you are the last major communist dictatorship in the world. >> kroft: mike was always an equal opportunity offender. here with jiang zemin, then president of china. >> wallace: am i wrong? >> jiang zemin: of course. this is a big mistake.

you about last night at 11:00, we're going to show a picture of two of the victims, 12-year-old vladimir petron jacotin and christopher toto gabriel, and they had been playing in the creek. don harrison traveled today to speak with family members. >> reporter: family and neighbors gather in federalsburg, a small town on the eastern shore to try and make sense of three young boys losing their lives in the creek that runs through the town over the weekend. saturday night the parenters of the boys, 12-year-old vladimir petron jacotin and his 11-year- old cousin christopher gabriel and their 6-year-old friend yamoude dona came home and could not find the boys, the boys were found dead on the banks of the creek sunday morning. this is where the boys were last seen in this church parking lot playing basketball. they were found in the creek about a hundred yards from here. >> i saw all them three boys and then the blood was coming out. >> pastor lieu wee had to identify the children yesterday because the families were too upset. this town has a small but close haitian community and they all fee

kofi annan will meet with vladimir putin. what can he say to vladimir putin that has not been said already? >> what kofi annan has been saying is, if russia fails to join in this international effort to get a political transition in syria a rush job will be blamed. there is evidence -- in syria, russia will be blamed. russia is the only significant prop holding syria up. that is what sergei lavrov means when he says black male. essentially, what kofi annan wants to do -- when he says blackmail. essentially, what kofi annan wants to do is get the use of sanctions enforced -- sanctions and force. >> what are they going to get on friday? >> again, unless we get more muscle in this program, we are going to pull our mission. we just do not have enough behind it. that is the dilemma they are forcing on the russians. what kofi annan and the u.s. would like to see in the new resolution is that trigger of, let's say 10 days, if a cease- fire and movement toward the 6 points towardannan has been pushing -- 6 points that annan has been

in the world is joined to them his brother vladimir but i'm not frightened only. i will work out a plan for the fight with my trainer and we will see what happens on the day of this it will be brings us to the baseball diamond where a plethora of players are looking to increase their stock with the m.l. be treated deadline some eleven days away well it is far from a victorious return to chicago for mark burley who was unable to lead the miami marlins past his former clubs teammates on thursday the thirty three year old pitching maestro receiving a mixed reaction in the windy city after signing a four year fifty eight million dollars deal with miami back in. december alfonso soriano getting the party started for the home siders his eighteenth homer of the year clearly upping the thirty six henschel create value a fifth inning to forget for the marlins with johnson roughing it all by singling to the field for a four zero only the cubs no winning their fifth game for the last six. while the baltimore orioles have mark reynolds the time for pulling out and neil biting

professional winning forty four of those contests on despite the fact it's dr iron fist brother vladimir who boasts the rest of the heavyweight belts charge believes he's up against the best currently on the planet. to be with him on it will be totally pitch poor is the world champion the strongest books in the world is joined to them his brother vladimir but i'm not frightened only. i will work out a plan for the fight with my trainer and we'll see what happens on the day of this it'll be moving to the baseball diamond where a plethora of players are looking to increase their stock with the m l b trade deadline some eleven days away now while it was far from a victorious return to chicago for mark a burly who is unable to lead the miami marlins past his former cubs teammates on thursday the thirty three year old pitching maestro receiving a mixed reaction in the windy city after signing a four year fifty eight million dollars deal with my army back in december alfonso soriano getting the party started for the home team is it the homer of the year clearly up in the thirty six year old po

our relations with the russians the russians looked askance with that and for the last four years, vladimir putin has increasingly felt that he's got president obama right where he wants him. he's put him in a box and now to the point where the meeting they had two weeks ago, vladimir putin lectured obama the entire time. now obama thought that a reset with

and in boxing vladimir klitschko remains the undisputed heavyweight champion off the world after stopping american challenger it's only something never recovered from a big right hand from the ukrainian in the fifth round and in the next klitschko floored the forty year old and the contest and keep his eight year on base and run intact klitschko his record now stands at fifty eight with fifty one of those by way of an elk out on only three defeats he holds the w v eight my b.f. and w b o heavyweight titles. and in football champions league legend clarence seedorf has been given a ruptures welcome at his new club to forgo in brazil more than seventeen thousand fans greeted the former neverland's midfielder as the thirty eight year old descended upon blocks of progress home arena in region a row is a dork signed a two year deal with the side last week and promised to help them become a winning team the cyrano born dutchman truly has the gold and such about him he won four champions league titles and is the only one to do so with three different clubs after spells at real madrid and ac milan

his name was vladimir kuna. >> i heard a lot about vladimir kuna when i got to the prison.nmates. because he was such a high profile inmate he had to be taken into a specific cell before we were able to go in and interview him. so there was this big buildup about his notorious crimes. the violence. he was like a character out of "goodfellas." when i started talking to vladimir he was a calm, gentle guy. he was relaying his situation to me. >> translator: i was living a double life. it was awful for me. it's like watching a horror movie on tv then you're actually living it. >> kuna was serving 25 years for his role as an accomplice in a bizarre organized crime plot that was so infamous that it inspired five books and a feature film. it also involved five murders, including his mother. >> translator: as far as my own personal story is concerned, i should start at the beginning. i grew up without a father. and i had friends, older ones. and one of those older friends became my curse in this case. >> kuna claims his strange journey into hell began when a childhood friend-turned

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comes instead in blazing summer sunshine for a three day visit right here he's here to speak with vladimir putin. well hard times in greece meaning difficult ones for immigrants as well with the economic crisis being blamed for reports of increased racial intolerance a recent human rights group report suggests that police are refusing to give assistance to foreign victims of abuse and are accused of often failing to investigate complaints properly artie said jacob grieves takes a look at. locations of xenophobia and austerity raffish greece. all round the country crumbles some parts of greece are seeing firm foundations take root. in that we want a nationalistic state all of them should go back to where they came from the word of an elected official as unemployment grows hand in hand with extremist sentiments looking for people to blame for their current plight the golden dawn party has proven to be the prime outlet the public anger get that if you ask me about violence i would have to say yes we do have violence increase the not the violence you're suggesting it is the violence that thous

russian president vladimir putin criticizes the west for interfering in arab conflicts saying promotion of democracy is aimed only at maintaining influence. headlines today seriously to accuse the u.s. of fueling deadly violence in the country by partnering with the rebels as his army holds a military exercises on how to repel an attack from the outside. and in the business bulletin a billionaire like very hostile and his former partner battling in. high court all the details in about twenty minutes. it is good to have you with us here on r.t. today i'm a rover sushi i live in moscow russia is mourning more than one hundred seventy lives lost in devastating floods in the southern resort region of krasnodar on friday night over five thousand houses were hit by a wave caused by torrential rain which some witnesses describe as being up to seven meters high i reported on the aftermath tom bot. today is a day of grief and a day of mourning for the victims of flash floods in southern russia the search for bodies does continue as does the cleanup operation made more difficult by the lack of su

our relations with the russians the russians looked askance with that and for the last four years, vladimir putin has increasingly felt that he's got president obama right where he wants him. he's put him in a box and now to the point where the meeting they had two weeks ago, vladimir putin lectured obama the entire time. now obama thought that a reset with russia would improve relations in stopping iran's nuclear program but in controlling and helping usher in a new era that the middle east. and that is the greatest failure of the obama administration. and the final thing that we face today that's the elephant in the room. and that is the indebtedness we have to china. every dollar the government spends 40 cents is borrowed and half of that is to china. and hillary clinton said you don't pick a fight with your banker. it puts the united states in a position where we don't want to be. it puts us in a position that we cannot challenge what the chinese are doing. the chinese have a cybercommand dedicated to stealing military secrets from the united states. they hacked into lockheed martin. i'

dow jones reporting that president obama and russia vladimir putin have had telephone discussions withinion in syria. and differences remain but it certainly brings to mind the fact that this situation is becoming even more serious and the rebellion is knocking on assad's front door. his defense minister and his brother-in-law were killed in an attack today. there have been reports of fighting in the capital city today, as well. nbc's richard engel just returned from syria. he's one of the few if not the only journalist to see the fighting from rebels' side. richard, how long do you think assad can hang on given the escalation that we have seen today? >> it's hard to put a timeframe on it but the rebels themselves believe that his days are numbered. for the last couple of months the rebels carved out safe havens in rural areas. now they were able to carry out an attack not just in damascus but plant a bomb in the very room where the top government officials were meetling. initially, there were reports that it was a suicide attack earlier today during a national security meeting. the rebe

he's put him in a box and he now to the point where the meeting they had two weeks ago, vladimir putin basically lectured obama the entire time, that he really didn't understand history. now, obama had thought this a reset with russia would improve our relations not only in stopping iran's nuclear program, but in controlling and helping usher in a new era in the middle east and it really has not worked. in fact it's probably been the greatest failure of the obama administration. then the final thing i think that we face today but nobody really talks about it, it's like the elephant in the room, we know it's there but we're not really focusing on it, is the indebtedness we have to china. every dollar that our government spends, 40 cents is borrowed. of that 40 cents, half of that is borrowed from china. now, hillary clinton has even said you don't pick a fight with your banker. it puts the united states in a position where we don't want to be. it puts us in the position where we're not able right now to challenge a lot of the things the chinese are doing. the chinese, for example, have

also for vladimir putin is what the base. he's thinking about that. what he wants quite honestly is a moscow spring. how does he react to this. what he doesn't want to do is lose legitimacy or standing or face at home. he doesn't want to encourage people to think if they go out in the streets like they've done periodically that he's kind of an attempt in layered. so my hunch is he's going to look at it through that prism and he might actually decide now is the chance to look statesman like because if he's going to fall get out in front of the parade to switch metaphors. that's what he might do. >> rose: where does the arab spring go now. >> i'm not sure in terms of syria. my worry is it is syria and the factor and hitting iran and does iran activate hezbollah and how wide the search is. >> rose: for the whole mid east. >> so for me the whole middle east erupting. >> in a way we said a lot of gloomy thing. one hopeful thing out of all of this if the syrian regime does collapse and we are pressed with the question of who are the sunni opposition islam e