PETER APPS: The various agendas of Joe Biden, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin
Wednesday showed Biden, Putin and Xi all struggling to assert themselves in an unravelling, unpredictable and violent multipolar world
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Wednesday showed Biden, Putin and Xi all struggling to assert themselves in an unravelling, unpredictable and violent multipolar world
The rouble had lost about a quarter of its value against the dollar since Putin sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022
A fitness app called strava. and we do know that he was using that app because we were able to find his social media profiles and match them to the application. and his profile was public, which means that anyone could see where he was running and where he was cycling. now, he was also very consistent and he often uses the same routes over and over again. this is the map from the 3rd ofjuly, where he was running, and this is the same route he used two days later on the 5th ofjuly. and interestingly, the area where he was reportedly killed is here on that exact route. now, who is to blame? the ...
Minister was taken aback when who he thought was ukraine's prime minister floated the idea of nuclear weapons. >> i think more than being neutral, russia would really hate that. >> for sure. we know this. >> reporter: the british government condemned the prank as straight from the kremlin playbook. >> why haven't you prank called prominent people in russia, like vladimir putin, like the head of the chechen republic, like prigozhin, the head of wagner? why aren't you crank calling those people to expose the truth about them? >> make a disaster in our country because such calls could make damage...
Distance russia from ukraine. >> i'm glad you're not prank calling me now. >> reporter: in getting to the truth, what would otherwise be left unspoken is what the pranksters told me they are all about. [ speaking non-english ] >> translator: first, it's about what this person is really like, how a president of a country behaves in an informal conversation. we're interested in getting more honest answers than we would in an ordinary public interview. >> one of the criticisms that is leveled against you is that you're always, you know, sympathetic to the kremlin point of view. let me ask you dir...