countries and a critical level of the relationship that demands a summit between our two countries because this is the only way to this is the only way to arrange a revolution on our relationship, so prevent further further degradation. reporter: he said that basically the relationship is bad and a summit is the only way really to start the process of addressing that. there is a list as long as your arm between the issues between the united states and russian and whether it s ukraine or cyberattacks against the united states and but none of those issues, the sense i got there, is vladimir putin going to the summit prepared to back down. in his words, don t expect any breakthroughs in this summit. that was matthew chance
look. i think a lot of world leaders, if they were able to say so in public, would probably tell you they have found themselves on the cutting edge of one of the queen s quips. all of these things remain private so we will never know. that is just my impression. you know, kim, there was a lot of royal muscle at the g7 yesterday. a serious note here. i m not how much of a precedent for the gun attendsing the g7. i m sure we have seen that, yes, but prince charles heir to the throne and her grandson second in the loin to the throne, a lot of royal muscle. i wonder how much of that may or may not have been to downing street s request. i know historically downing street hasn t been above asking the queen to come and lend a hand so i m not sure that was the case. fascinating stuff. we will watch her trooping the color for our official birthday today. thank you, cyril, for all of your excellent interviews there