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welcome to the show President Barack Obama has landed in saint petersburg
Russia just hours ago for what is expected to be
I guess it's its Bubba I don't wanna overstate it but certainly a tense
g20 summit and we already have any number of new user headlines about this
here's one that I saw come across from CNBC's
even J vers and he took a picture
above president Obama greeting Vladimir Putin
and characterized it as a death stare the picture is over my shoulder for
those who are watching
I it certainly looks like when you look at this picture like President Obama
does not seem too happy with whatever put in but there are other pictures that
are floating around from the same exchange that were you know three
three frames later three frames earlier so to speak
and it doesn't really look that bad so Lewis I think we can't read too much
into one still shot I think video would tell us a lot more
and it has not been able to find it but that doesn't mean that there is not
tension here diplomatically we know that there is
right of course I'm sure this was just like you said
yet the perfect shot to make it look like they there's tension here but
they're usually
Obama is much more well diplomatic you have to admit the picture is funny but
what we do know that is not based on just one
one frame one still shot is written by the Guardians Ian trainer and he says
when world leaders file into Saint Petersburg's
Imperial constantine palace on Thursday
President Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama will be distant from one another
literally as well as politically the seeding order
which would have had the Russian and US leader separated only by the Saudi King
has been reshuffled to put five leaders including David Cameron between the two
key adversaries
over Syria and much else I
I got an email saying this is childish and pathetic
I got another email saying that it makes sense because we there's a serious
diplomatic rift right now between Russia and the United States
I actually don't think Lewis contrary to what some people are saying
that the anti-gay stuff that Russia is doing is really playing a big role
in the breakdown of the working relationship between the US and Russia I
think that the timing of it
is convenient so that I it appears as though that may be a factor in certainly
a lot of people who
are in the Equality Movement as are we
like the fact that there is this conflict which is at least happening at
the same time as the gay rights issues with Russia
although I think that is not really over that I think it is mostly over
over snowed in and then more broadly speaking
it is over some Russian involvement
with mideast I conflict where the US is perceiving Russia to not be
on the right side and I think that the timing just seems to come inside
with the gay rights the bottle and Russia it seems like for a long time
since the Cold War there's there's been a lot of tension Russia stores trying to
stifle us in one way or another
%uh there are a lot of policies that we don't like and there's there's always
been a lot attention but you can't be hostile
blood near Putin also saying that Secretary of State John Kerry is a
flat-out liar
over the testimony that John Kerry gave earlier this week before congress
and he said as he was speaking to his Human Rights Council
and blood for britain said this was very unpleasant surprising for me
we talk to them the americans and we assume they are decent people
but he's lying and he knows that he is lying this is
sad so we'll continue following this will continue following it in the
context of Syria
and more broadly as well