Today. It has finally happened, donald trump and Vladimir Putin have met for the first time, shaking hands at the 620 summit in hamburg. Donald trump called it an honour, the russian president said he was delighted to discuss things personally. In the last few hours we have heard that they agreed a ceasefire in south western syria, which will come an effect on sunday. But a discussion on Russian Meddling in us elections last year is reported to be robust. The bbcs North American editorjon sopel reports. Its hard to overstate the significance of this meeting, this handshake. Two men with Nuclear Arsenals who could blow the world to pieces. Two self proclaimed tough guys who like to win. But today at their first face to face meeting, they were the epitome of restraint and respect. Thank you very much, we appreciate it. President putin and i have been discussing various things and i think its going very well. Weve had some very, very good talks. We are going to talk now and that will cont
The g20 summit has closed in germany, revealing differences and division. Significantly the final agreements made by the World Leaders showed how isolated the United States is among other nations over Climate Change. While members backed the Climate Change in the paris accord the us stood alone after donald trump withdrew from the agreement. In other developments, the us president did say that a uk us trade deal for post brexit would be signed soon. On the summit sidelines donald trump and Vladimir Putin held their first talks with claims of russian interference in the us election at the forefront. And the rights for countries to operate legitimate Trade Defence was recognised while fighting against protectionism. Well, host Angela Merkel was most upset about the lack of a deal on the Paris Agreement, heres what she said. Translation one crucial issue was climate and energy, and what came out of this meeting was what i had already said at the beginning of this meeting. Wherever there i