central role to how the western world has operated over the course of the last several decades, leading up to that one-on-one meeting with president vladimir putin. this didn t happen by accident. all of this is cohoreographed t send a message to the world that the west is certainly aligned, they are unified, and they are working to challenge what the president has made very clear is what he sees as an aggressive russia and a rising and competitive china. it plays into this overarching theme that the president has tried to pitch. will it play out as he likes? i think anybody who watches global affairs will say, not to a tee, not how he wants but i think that message is what he wants out there at least to start things and then the real work happening behind the scenes, laying the groundwork for that this week and one other final point i have to say on the vaccines, it s important here. the president is using these meetings, using the g7 really to leverage the global effort, particular
thank you. thank you. mr. president, do you believe mr. president, do you believe you re meeting with putin can change his behavior in a way sanctions have not yet? mr. president, did you warn prime minister johnson a trade deal it looks like the president is not taking questions today but you ve just been listening in to live remarks from president biden in st. ives england. we heard from president biden but he also had the ceo of pfizer there with him as they made this announcement officially that the u.s. is purchasing and then donating 500 million doses of the pfizer covid vaccine to the poorest nations around the world to help as he put it in the global vaccination effort saying in ththe u.s. needs to step up and help and lead. let me bring back our team of reporters and experts, phil mattingly, clarissa ward and we
the uk, in arms.s beaten this virus. i want to thank you all. now i d like to turn it over to my friend the ceo and chairman of pfizer, albert borla. albert, it s all yours. and again, personally, thank you for stepping up. thank you very much. thank you, mr. president, and this is of course a great honor to be with you today for this historic announcement. as the g-7 countries come together for this critical summit the eyes of the world are on the leaders of these powerful nations to help solve the ongoing covid-19 crisis. while great progress has been made in many developed nations, the world is now asking the g-7 leaders to solve their responsibility to help vaccinate people in all countries. mr. president, i know from our conversations that we agree that
string of cyberattacks has tensions flaring. now russia is cracking down about alexei navalny, biden hopes the u.s. and russia will agree to restore respective ambassadors. matthew chance joins us from moscow. so matthew, the timing of this move, labeling navalny s group extremist is no accident, i imagine. what message does this send and does it raise the stakes for this meeting? reporter: yeah, well i think it s been in the works for a while, you know, the idea that the russians have been building up to try and sort of silence dissidence in the country and of course alexei navalny is already behind bars and already silenced. the authorities are moved to outlaw the political organization he was the top of, so there are no more of those investigations into official corruption in the elite circle around vladimir putin and anybody who does support them, or shows support for them is potentially now going to be
plan they roll out is going to be perfect, of course, it s not. never has been. it wasn t perfect 80 years ago. but it s the right direction, and what i ll be looking for is not only what they say today, but what is it like in a month when some things are going better than expected. can we be honest with each other where things are falling shortly, medically, logistically, ethically, you name it and good friendships and effective alliances are able to course correct like that because they re honest with each other or in the words of churchill show charity towards each other s shortcomings. thank you for your insights. please stand by as biden s european trip is in full swing. it may be full of glad handing right now but it will be a different story next week when he sits down with russian president vladimir putin, a