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2018. the nobel peace prize winner was, at the time, praised for cracking down on corruption and freeing political prisoners. abiy made many promises but his military companion, tigray, and jailing of opposition leaders has angered many of his constituents. as ethiopians get ready to cast their ballots, the ethiopian government hopes for a democratic election. but it comes at a time of turmoil. where fighting in tigray has killed thousands. leaving people on the verge of starvation and threateni...

Management school. we dont have that sound bite. but he basically said that, look, you know, biden is a shrewd and savvy negotiator. what do you make of what putin has been saying? and what this summit achieved, if anything at all. >> well, its hard to take anything that putin says at face value because he knows how to play games. but i did read his body language in the press conference he gave after the summit, the things that he said, and he was relatively subdued. there was not a sense that p...

States. >> reporter: biden said he pressed putin on multiple fronts and would continue to do so. >> i also told him that no president of the united states could keep faith in the american people if they did not speak out to defend our democratic values, to stand up for the universal and fundamental freedoms that all men and women have in our view. thats just part of the dna of our country. >> reporter: biden expressing confidence that putin would not continue to ratchet up tensions with the u.s....

Putin. he just doesnt have to face questions like this, obviously, at home. so by doing that press conference, he was facing western journalists who were going to ask questions and follow-up questions. but the term whataboutism maybe has been overused over the last couple of days, but its exactly what president putin was doing, comparing january 6th and the black lives matter movements to the murder of political dissidents, to the jailing of alexei navalny. >> and look, its possible that putin b...

Continue to ratchet up tensions with the u.s. >> the last thing he wants now is a cold war. >> reporter: the two agreed to send their respective ambassadors back to their countries in an attempt to establish guardrails on cyber attacks. >> i talked about the proposition that certain critical infrastructure should be off limits to attack, period. by cyber or any other means. >> reporter: at times biden rebuked his russian counterpart after he acquitted jailing political opponents to arresting rio...

Wait and see. i think the question is justified, wolf, because of course you saw president putin, just as i did, come out at that press difference and do essentially so many things hes been criticized for by western democracies for the last several months and years, including downplaying human rights, essentially dismiss them, denies any russian involvement in the ransomware attacks, even though president bidens own officials have said russia is harboring the criminal groups. that could be devas...

0 come into this? putin is a bad actor and everybody knows this. the president has been clear, he does not expect breakthroughs but what wants a professional relationship where adults can talk about important things. whether its on cyber or political rights or on ukraine, and perhaps he will be more muted at the press conference, and president biden has to make his case here of why he believes even though you dont expect any change in putins behavior that it was important to sit down eyeball to ...

Network in three years, and he was frank. translation: we have i a bilateral relationship that has deteriorated to its lowest point in recent years. however, there are matters that still need a certain amount of comparing notes. president biden was tight—lipped when asked about his approach. whats your mindset walking into a meeting with a former kgb agent who you have said has no soul? i will tell you all that when it is over. look, ive been doing this a long time. the last thing anyone would...

They came with political demands. 450 people had been detained -- >> -- >> theyre looking at jail time between 15 and 25 years. and they came to the congress with illegal demands. isnt that persecution for political goals? >> miss keir simmons with that exclusive -- for the record, trying to pull isnt your -- reasoning them on false charges for opposing regime is not the same as jailing someone who tried to violently overthrow the government by -- that was in the process of certifying election r...

The gelling of alexi the valley or likely to be. —— the jailing of russian opposition leader. two very different flavours representing two very different leaders. i have been speaking to a former us ambassador to nato and asked if she believed there was a resurgent nato now waiting to confront russia and china? i do think the nato summit was very positive on that account. i think that this was a first step for president biden to say we need to have a united front as we deal with china, becau...