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Sabtu, 12 Juni 2021

No joint press conference for Putin and Biden: Joe REFUSES to stand next to Russian president - Daily Mail

No joint press conference for Putin and Biden: Joe REFUSES to stand next to Russian president for questions from the media after the pair meet for 'candid' talks next week, with the White House wary the meeting will throw up HUGE differences

President Joe Biden will hold a solo press conference after his meeting with Vladimir Putin next week
Two leaders meet in Geneva on Wednesday
'We expect this meeting to be candid and straightforward and a solo press conference is the appropriate format,' White House official said
White House reluctant to grant Putin yet another prominent platform in addition to the summit itself and put Biden in unscripted situation
Trump held joint presser with Putin when two leaders met in Helsinki in 2018

By Emily Goodin, Senior U.S. Political Reporter In Cornwall and Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor In Geneva

Published: 12:11 BST, 12 June 2021 | Updated: 13:32 BST, 12 June 2021

President Joe Biden will hold a solo press conference after his meeting with Vladimir Putin next week, denying the Russian president the opportunity to stand by him and answer questions from the press.

A joint press conference is traditional when two world leaders meet and President Donald Trump held one with Putin when the two men met in Helsinki in July 2018.

It was an indication both of the administration's reluctance to grant Putin yet another prominent platform in addition to the summit itself - as well as a reluctance on the part of the White House to put Biden in an unscripted situation that could go off the rails.

President Joe Biden will hold a solo press conference after his meeting with Vladimir Putin next week

White House will set a different tone for President Biden's meeting with Vladimir Putin compared to when Donald Trump met with the Russian President

The two leaders meet in Geneva on Wednesday in an 18th-century Swiss villa overlooking Lake Geneva. It's their first face-to-face meeting since Biden became president.

'We expect this meeting to be candid and straightforward and a solo press conference is the appropriate format to clearly communicate with the free press the topics that were raised in the meeting—both in terms of areas where we may agree and in areas where we have significant concerns,' a White House official said on Saturday.

If they were to do a joint presser, Putin would get the chance to undercut serious warnings Biden wants to deliver on Russian dissident Alexei Navalny and cyber issues. Putin has already scoffed at the issue by raising treatment of US Capitol rioters in an effort to establish equivalency.

The format of the meeting is still being finalized but, according to the official, the plan is 'for both a working session and a smaller session.'

Russian and American officials have been going back-and-forth on the format of the meeting, volleying ideas and jockeying for position as the date gets closer.

The sit down comes amid rising tensions between Washington and Moscow, with Biden making it clear he will take a tougher stance on Russian aggression than his predecessor in the Oval Office, Donald Trump.

'We're under no illusions that this is going to be an easy relationship; it is going to be an extremely challenging relationship. And I think we've been quite clear about that,' a senior administration official told reporters on a briefing call Friday.

Biden meeting with Putin in March 2011 when he was vice president

President Trump held a formal press conference with President Putin in Helsinki in July 2018, where Putin gave him a soccer ball and Trump sided with him over US intelligence agencies

Whatever the final format ends up being, it is expected to be much different than the last meeting between a Russian and American president - both in message and visuals.

Two years ago, Trump met privately for two hours with Putin in Helsinki and, afterward, they stood side-by-side to answer questions from reporters.

At the time, Trump sided with the Kremlin over US intelligence agencies, claiming he believed his Russian counterpart when Putin said the Kremlin didn't interfere in US elections.

'President Putin says it's not Russia. I don't see any reason why it would be,' Trump said.

Additionally, images of the two men smiling as Putin handed Trump an Adidas soccer ball undercut the stern messages of lawmakers and the intelligence community.

The White House also has yet to answer questions about who will be present during the smaller session, having faced questions about Trump and Putin's decision to meet with only note takers present during past summit meetings.

Biden will deliver a much tougher message when he talks election interference, cyber attacks, human rights and the Ukraine.

He previewed it earlier this week when he kicked off his eight-day trip to Europe with a speech to US Air Force personnel stationed in the United Kingdom.

Speaking at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk he said: 'I'm meeting with Mr. Putin to let him know what I want him to know,' drawing cheers from the troops.

Putin also didn't sound hopeful about the sit down.

'We have a bilateral relationship that has deteriorated to its lowest point in recent years,' he told NBC News.

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2021-06-12 11:11:09Z
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Paris riot: Fury against Macron explodes as protesters storm and trash government building - Daily Express

Outrage at Emmanuel Macron's civil service reforms has seen riots erupt in the French capital of Paris. Furious Parisian garbage collectors and sewer workers stormed a municipal building in the capital over the French President's proposed austerity measures. The protesters trashed the building, with footage showing people overturning rubbish containers inside the courtyard.

Trade unions claim the new labour reforms would reduce annual leave and increase working hours.

The austerity measures were approved by Emmanuel Macron's cabinet back in 2019, prior to the Covid pandemic, with the aim to slash over 120,000 civil service jobs across three years.

French political analyst Anne-Elisabeth Moutet told RT: "It's not just resistance to change. There's a guerrilla war between the Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo and President Emmanuel Macron.

"Macron wants to streamline the finances of the country. He ordered this before the Covid crisis, which has made it much more difficult because we have spent so much."

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She added: "He is very unpopular with the people with whom he is unpopular but he still has a fairly important rump of people that will support him. He is very polarising and divisive.

"I think he is worried. The polls are much more narrow and he is within the margin of error in some polls against Marine Le Pen, such as 52 against 48 percent. So yes, he is worried."

The protest, which took place on Wednesday morning, saw hundreds of furious workers storm a Paris town hall in the French capital’s 13th arrondissement.

The demonstration, which saw entire rooms were ransacked, was organised by the General Confederation of Labour (CGT) trade union.

Regional elections will be held in the country this month and a presidential election is scheduled to take place in 2022.

According to the Politico Poll of Polls, President Macron’s approval rating as of June 2 was at 38 percent.

A total of 58 percent disapprove of Mr Macron, while six percent said they had no opinion.

President Macron’s approval rating has not been above his disapproval rating since December 2017 according to the poll, when the rating rose to 48 percent.

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2021-06-12 06:42:00Z
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Hong Kong activist Agnes Chow released from prison - bbc.co.uk

Agnes Chow (centre) leaves prison in Hong Kong. Photo: 12 June 2021

Hong Kong's prominent pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow has been released from prison after serving nearly seven months of her 10-months term.

She was greeted by supporters and media - but was driven away without making any comments. The authorities did not say why she had been freed early.

Chow and fellow activists Joshua Wong and Ivan Lam were jailed last year for their role in protests in 2019.

China later imposed a national security law to stifle dissent in Hong Kong.

Chow, 24, left the prison gates at about 10:00 local time (02:00 GMT) on Saturday.

Her supporters were heard shouting "Add oil!" - an expression that became a rallying cry during the mass protests.

Chow did not speak to the waiting media, as she was picked in a car by her friends.

Alongside Wong and Lam, also in their 20s, Agnes Chow became the face of Hong Kong's protests. They remain in prison.

Chow's supporters have dubbed her "the real Mulan", in reference to the legendary Chinese heroine who fought to save her family and country. Others have called her the "goddess of democracy".

Nathan Law, another prominent young activist, has been given asylum in the UK after fleeing Hong Kong.

What is the national security law all about?

Hong Kong - a special administrative region of China - was always meant to have a security law, but could never pass one because it was so unpopular.

So this is about the government in Beijing stepping in to ensure the city has a legal framework to deal with what it sees as serious challenges to its authority.

The details of the law's 66 articles were kept secret until after it was passed last year. It criminalises any act of:

secession - breaking away from the country
subversion - undermining the power or authority of the central government
terrorism - using violence or intimidation against people
collusion with foreign or external forces

The law came into effect at 23:00 local time on 30 June 2020, an hour before the 23rd anniversary of the city's handover to China from British rule.

It gives Beijing powers to shape life in Hong Kong it has never had before. Critics say it effectively curtails protest and freedom of speech - China has said it will return stability.

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2021-06-12 04:24:29Z
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Jumat, 11 Juni 2021

Putin: Russia's relationship with US at its 'lowest point' - Sky News

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the relationship between his country and the US is at its "lowest point" ahead of his meeting with Joe Biden.

In an exclusive interview with NBC News, Mr Putin said: "We have a bilateral relationship that has deteriorated to its lowest point in recent years."

The two leaders will meet in the Swiss city of Geneva on 16 June.

Mr Putin described former US president Donald Trump as "an extraordinary individual, talented individual, otherwise he would not have become US president".

He added: "He is a colourful individual. You may like him or not. And, but he didn't come from the US establishment, he had not been part of big time politics before, and some like it some don't like it but that is a fact."

Mr Putin described Mr Biden, however, as "radically different from Trump because President Biden is a career man".

"He has spent virtually his entire adulthood in politics."

"That's a different kind of person, and it is my great hope that yes, there are some advantages, some disadvantages, but there will not be any impulse-based movements, on behalf of the sitting US president."

When asked about Mr Biden calling him a killer in an interview in March, Mr Putin said he had heard dozens of similar accusations, adding: "This is not something I worry about in the least."

Mr Biden arrived in the UK late last week and has spent the past few days in Cornwall where he is meeting fellow G7 leaders.

Before the summit, he had said: "We're not seeking conflict with Russia."

"We want a stable and predictable relationship... but I've been clear: The United States will respond in a robust and meaningful way if the Russian government engages in harmful activities."

Mr Putin was asked by NBC about several Russian dissidents who have been killed in suspicious circumstances, including ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned in 2006.

Mr Litvinenko's death is among a number of apparent assassinations that have been blamed on Moscow but Mr Putin dismissed the question as "verbal indigestion", adding that some of those responsible for such deaths are in prison.

See more of the exclusive interview on NBC, MSNBC and NBCNews.com on Monday, as well as here on Sky News.

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2021-06-11 23:11:14Z
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Putin: Russia's relationship with US at its 'lowest point' - Sky News

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the relationship between his country and the US is at its "lowest point" ahead of his meeting with Joe Biden.

In an exclusive interview with NBC News, Mr Putin said: "We have a bilateral relationship that has deteriorated to its lowest point in recent years."

The two leaders will meet in the Swiss city of Geneva on 16 June.

Mr Putin described former US president Donald Trump as "an extraordinary individual, talented individual, otherwise he would not have become US president".

Mr Putin described Mr Biden, however, as "radically different from Trump because President Biden is a career man".

"He has spent virtually his entire adulthood in politics."

When asked about Mr Biden calling him a killer in an interview in March, Mr Putin said he had heard dozens of such accusations, adding: "This is not something I worry about in the least."

See more of the exclusive interview on NBC, MSNBC and NBCNews.com on Monday, as well as here on Sky News.

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Boris Johnson kicks off G7 with plea to tackle inequality - BBC News - BBC News

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2021-06-11 16:22:23Z
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Body found in bag 3,000ft below sea off Tenerife IS missing six-year-old ‘kidnapped by her dad’... - The Sun

THE body of a little girl found in a bag 3,000ft below sea off Tenerife is a missing six-year-old kidnapped by her dad, cops have confirmed.

Olivia Gimeno was identified after carrying out an autopsy on a body found inside a sports bag on the seabed near Port of Guimar, Spain.

Olivia, 6, has been missing for more than a monthCredit: Instagram

Anna, 1, is still missingCredit: Instagram

Gimeno transferred a large sum of money to his bank account before disappearing

Spanish rescuers found the bag tied down to an anchor 1,000m below the surface.

The hunt for the girl's younger sister, Anna, one, is still ongoing after an empty second holdall was discovered nearby.

Beatriz Zimmerman, the anguished mother of the two girls, has been informed of the grisly discovery.

Her ex Tomas Antonio Gimeno, 37, disappeared with the girls on April 27 after failing to return them to their home in Santa Cruz, Tenerife's capital.

A spokesman for Spanish police said: “The body was found by a robot from the search vessel Angeles Alvarino at midday [yesterday] around 1,000 metres below the water some three miles off the Tenerife coast.

“It was inside a sports bag attached to an anchor. Next to it was another empty sports bag.

“The body was taken to dry land for an autopsy. The vessel called Angeles Alvarino is continuing its search.”

Last night, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez reacted to the tragic news that investigators may have found her body, tweeting: "I cannot begin to imagine the pain of the mother of little Anna and Olivia, who disappeared in Tenerife, following the terrible news we have just heard.

“I send a hug and my love and that of my whole family, who today show solidarity with Beatriz and her loved ones.”

Olivia beside her younger sister Anna, who were both taken by their father on April 27Credit: Solarpix

A Spanish rescue crew found the bag containing Olivia's body tied to an anchorCredit: Solarpix

Olivia was seen kissing her sister in a video released just before her disappearanceCredit: Solarpix

The child's body was found by a robot from police search vessel Angeles Alvarino, seen here today in Santa Cruz TenerifeCredit: Solarpix

A Guardia Civil spokesman revealed earlier that a child's body had been foundCredit: Solarpix

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has led the messages of condolence to the familyCredit: Solarpix

Jose Manuel Bermudez, the mayor of Tenerife capital Santa Cruz, announced a minute’s silence for Anna and Olivia would be held at midday Friday.

He said: “There are no words to express the terrible desolation I feel.

“From respect at the mother’s pain and with all the caution the terrible news that is reaching us deserves, I want to express to the family all the solidarity of the citizens of Santa Cruz.”

The Canary Islands’ president Angel Victor Torres tweeted: “Weeks hoping to receive hopeful news and today we receive the worst possible, one that freezes our soul, about the little girls from Tenerife, Anna and Olivia.

“Our condolences, encouragement and strength for their mum Beatriz, her family and friends. Canary Islands devastated.”

Cristiano Ronaldo’s partner Georgina Rodriguez was among those who shared a video of Olivia and Anna released by their mum as part of a huge social media campaign urging the public for help in finding them.

Tomas Gimeno is accused of kidnapping his daughtersCredit: Newsflash

The girl's mum has shared a letter for her 'two angels'Credit: Gaurdiacivi

The trio disappeared after Gimeno picked them up from school two weeks agoCredit: Instagram

Georgina Rodriguez said in an emotional post to her 24 million Instagram followers shortly after the mystery disappearance: “I want to use my reach on this great social network to make sure this reaches as many people as possible.

“These are two sisters who are being searched for in Spain and abroad. They are called Olivia and Anna and are aged six and one.

“Their mum is seeking maximum publicity for this video to try to find them as soon as possible and bring them home.

“I hope with all my heart that the girls are found safe and well and can hug their mum again soon.”

Local authorities said from the start all theories were being explored, including the possibility the girls were dead, although their loved ones said they were clinging to the hope they were still alive and a reunion with their mum could still take place.

Gimeno took the girls without consent and left Tenerife on a boat which was later found empty off Puertito de Guimar, which is on the east corner of the island just over 10 miles south of Santa Cruz.

Police had been using a boat lent to them by the Spanish Institute of Oceanography to search for clues in the spot where Gimeno’s mobile signal was last detected.

Gimeno had never accepted Beatriz's relationship with a new Belgian partner following their split.

Beatriz said after a diving bottle was found on Monday she thought it was part of an attempt by her estranged partner to disguise his flight with the girls.

South America was highlighted as a place Tomas could have taken them soon after he vanished with the youngsters.

A spokesman for the Civil Guard said on Thursday after finding Olivia's remains: “This afternoon the boat belonging to the Spanish Oceanographic Institute, Angeles Alabrino, which was in Tenerife combing the sea bed following the disappearance on April 27 of Tomas Gimeno with his daughters Anna and Olivia, found human remains.

“Those remains correspond with the body of a minor and were discovered in the search area that had been determined by investigators.

“The remains have been taken to the Forensic Medicine Institute in Santa Cruz where they will be analysed for the purposes of identification.”

Zimmerman had previously shared a video of her two daughtersCredit: Solarpix

He left Zimmerman a goodbye note before fleeing on a boat

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2021-06-11 14:43:00Z
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Sabtu, 12 Juni 2021

No joint press conference for Putin and Biden: Joe REFUSES to stand next to Russian president for questions from the media after the pair meet for 'candid' talks next week, with the White House wary the meeting will throw up HUGE differences

What is the national security law all about?

Jumat, 11 Juni 2021

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