i ve been spending a lot of time in the front. there is no private military company engaged in the warfare there. there are no mercenaries. the fact that there was a mutiny in russia and five days later the president of the republic meets with the head of the mutiny and seems to let it go, mind-boggling. and we should note, you know this as well as me, there are multiple militias in russia today, everybody seems to have their own private army, even the national gas center does. all these power centers, highly armed, deeply unstable. ben wedeman in kyiv, thanks so much. now let s get the view from nato. president biden landed in lithuania a short time ago and cnn s natasha bertrand is there for us. what is president biden hoping to accomplish during this nato summit? reporter: boris, there are a number of key items on the agenda oefrd the next two days and all are pretty major.
. translator: we do not feel that the government is preparing measures since we have no direction for action from the president of the republic. no measures have been announced, and we are still left very disappointed as the situation is particularly serious. translator: i was still waiting for president of the republic to give us a vision, a direction, to tell us how we were going to get out of this and move forward. today we got absolutely nothing. so i m extremely disappointed. officials say on monday night, violence in french cities had decreased by half in 24 hours, with 72 people arrested nationwide. france s largest business union says the riots have caused $1 billion worth of damage. still to come, the road to the 2023 women s world cup. south korea s star player has overcome adversity throughout
she has been threatened for her work and touch now before when she uncovered the authorities crackdown on getting men. before the attack she was covering the court sentencing of a human rights activists. the kremlin has condemned the insulting it requires a serious response. versus human rights is investigating. emmanuel macron said he believes the peak of urban violence is passed in france but he remains cautious. the fresh president met with over 200 mayors of towns and cities that have been affected by violent protests following the fatal police shooting. of the 17 year old last week. some left the meeting unsatisfied with the government s plan going forward. we do not feel that the government is preparing measures since we have no direction for action from the president of the republic. though no measures have been announced we have been left very disappointed as the
presidents visit that cannot be a moment of triumph and smiles at stormont, the usual home of northern ireland in the assembly because it is not meeting them step 11 speech from the president on wednesday, the prime ministers stood to meet him as he gets on the plane in the next half hour sober for both he gets on the plane in the next half hour soberfor both men, the itineraries are pretty low key and both of moved on in the prime minister will be back to london and the president of the republic. tana;r the president of the republic. tony blair was essential the president of the republic. tony blair was essential to the president of the republic. tony blair was essential to the good friday agreement was asked about the role of the bill clinton played in 1997 in 1998 and he said, it was bill clinton s understanding of how to influence the process but not to pressure the parties involved. there is a lesson in that forjoe biden, isn t there?