there? anyway, hello, everyone. well, i m just finishing the last meeting of this week s long trip. the us russian summit. i know there are a lot of hype around this meeting, but it s pretty straightforward to me, the meeting. one, there s no substitute, as many of you know, forface to face dialogue between leaders. president putin and i had a shared responsibility to manage the relationship between two powerful and proud countries. a relationship that has to be stable and predictable, and it should be able to cooperate where it s in our mutual interest. and where we have differences, i want president putin to understand why i say what i say and why i do what i do, and how i will respond to specific kinds of
the prime minister is backing matt hancock but if you look elsewhere in this rather weighty blog that dominic cummings posted just before pmqs, he is suggesting that both the prior minister and matt hancock were in an 0rwellian row away trying to rewrite history to claim they never had backed, for example, herd immunity or that in fact they had never really been a ppe shortage, both of which he says are untrue. 7000 words, i believe, in the blood, if anyone s got the time to read it. thank you very much, for the moment, iain watson in westminster. joe biden is meeting the russian leader, vladimir putin, for the first time since he became us president. relations between the two countries are at their lowest ebb in decades. mr biden has previously described mr putin as a killer . 0ur correspondent sarah rainsford sent this report from geneva. it began with a handshake and smiles but these are adversaries, not friends. joe biden, after all,
wrongful imprisonment of american citizens. i raise the validity of of liberty to operate and importance of a free press and freedom of speech. i made it clear that we will not tolerate violation of our democratic sovereignty or stabilise our elections, and we would respond. the bottom line is i told president putin that we needed to have some basic rules that we can all abide by. i also said there are areas where there is mutual interest for us to cooperate. for our people, russian and american people, but also for the benefit of the world and the security of the world. one of those areas is strategic stability. you ve asked me many times what i would discuss with food and before i came. i told you i would negotiate with the investigational with putin. that is to discuss and raise the issue of
called vladimir putin a killer. inside the body language was stiff. the us president asked for this summit toward over its malign activity. but their meeting put russia s front and centre on the global stage. vladimir putin has a long history with us presidents but the relationship has gone from warm to cool, even awkward. barack obama did try a reset but russia s annexation of crimea put pay to that. moscow then had big hopes for donald trump, but accusations that the kremlin helped get him elected dogged relations from the very start. their summit three years ago in helsinki was seen by many as a disasterfor the us, as mr trump said he trusted mr putin s claims of innocence over his own intelligence agents . president putin, hejust said it s not russia. i will say this i don t see any reason why it would be. vladimir putin has metjoe biden before, a decade ago, when the american supposedly told
ofjuly but we can t start the second doses until after that. and the pfizer vaccine would also be the vaccine that would be used to vaccinate children, if that is given the green light. that has an implication for when that could start and how quickly that can be done. ministers have always said supply of vaccination is the rate limiting factor and that is clear, that is more true now as we approach the end of the roll out thanit approach the end of the roll out than it has ever been. approach the end of the roll-out than it has ever been. approach the end of the roll-out than it has ever been. thank you very much. than it has ever been. thank you very much, nick. joe biden is meeting the russian leader, vladimir putin, for the first time since he became us president. relations between the two countries are at their lowest ebb in decades; mr biden has previously described mr putin as a killer . our correspondent, sarah rainsford, sent this report from geneva. it began with a hand