they probably will. president obama has said he has a business-like relationship with president putin. the hope is to get him to stop the flow into ukraine and bring this to a political resolution. that is the objective and that is what they have to do. already world leaders, angela merkel of germany, british prime minister david cameron have spoken to privately and individually with president putin. that is the mission and the message they are transmitting. apart from that, of course, president obama has clearly tied in not just the tribute and the remembrance and the commemoration of so much sacrifice that took place right on these beaches 70 years ago to the very real crises and troubles that need to be resolved right now. he talked about normandy as having been the beach head of democracy. he talked about this sliver of sand, as he put it, this tiny sliver of sand that became not just the fate of this war, but
eastern europe. we are present on one of the beaches that was pivotal on d-day. and now in a political setting that is once again relevant as we look at the brink of hostilities and the two men that can hopefully control the situation. set some perspective to all of it for us. reporter: as you re watching the pictures of these world dig tears going to lunch, behind me is the practices for the international celebration that s going to take place just over an hour from now. that is again where president putin, president obama, the german chancellor are going to get together and probably have another opportunity to talk if they care to after lunch. obviously some of these leaders have met already with president putin and their message is that he must stop supporting his surrogates in eastern ukraine. despite their official denials,
situation and what you hear in his voice. what i hear is somebody who is emotionally flat because they re struggling. they re not just struggling because they re in a mexican prison which is about as bad a place you can be. we re talking about bowe bergdahl. we re make ting this case. i get it s a different situation. but the guy needs help. and it s a story that we have to follow here because part of the job the case doesn t make a lot f sense. it is not clear how this is going to go. and we don t know what the state department is doing. we had secretary kerry on the show. the guy seems like he s a little bit out there on his own with his family and he needs support. his mother has been his only he s got pts. you heard him say he s not taking the medication. important to get his voice
leaders, specifically obama and putin take the meaning of a day like today and use it as momentum to fix a situation before it leads us into more violence. reporter: as you say, i m at sword beach which was 70 years ago, the british landing place. what you can see behind me are preparations, military bans for the big international celebration that president obama, president putin, the queen of england, president holla hollande that will turn up in the next hour. i ve seen one of the pictures broadcast live from inside the castle not so far from here where they re having that lunch. they are sitting very close to each other. they re sitting on different tables, but both sitting towards the top of their tables. president hollande is standing in between giving the opening speech. the idea here is that maybe they ll talk.
the commemorative ceremony about d-day. it s tough to see on the screen, but we believe that president obama and vladimir putin will be just a few people from each other. just walked up to get into position. looks like he s next to francois hollande. the woman in blue next to her would be vladimir putin on her left and we see president obama to the right of the queen. the only other woman would probably be merkel. we ll continue to watch and see if they can zoom in for us. they call it the family photo, if you will. this is they get together be these grand large gatherings of world leaders. it takes a lot of coordination to get these people in place. and where they stand in relation to each other is actually very important. you see president obama next to queen elizabeth.