that make the difference. andrea mitchell is joining us, our chief foreign affairs correspondent, who is live for us in geneva. we re also joined by angela stent senior advisor for the center for eurasian, russian studies at georgetown university. andrea, no breakthrough, but talk toe into what you re hearing about at least lowering the temperature here. reporter: well, lowering the temperature for now. the talks were, quote, frank, candid, so they were tense, but they haven t moved off their positions, their basic positions. blinken has agreed secretary blinken has agreed to respond in writing as foreign minister lavrov is demanding to the vladimir putin proposal, the treaty proposal, that would require basically tearing up the nato charter, which angela knows so well having worked for
kazakhstan s decision to seek russian military aid to deal with an ongoing wave of violent unrest. the first of about 2,500 russian led troops have arrived there, though moscow says the deployment is temporary. russell trott has the latest. more troops and equipment on its way to kazakhstan. the intervention marks the first deployment by the eurasian military alliance of five former soviet republics and russia. after days of violence in which more than 20 protesters and almost as many security personnel have died, kazakhstan s government is seeking to regain control of the country. the us had this warning for the regime over its recent reliance on moscow. the us had this warning for the regime over its reliance on moscow. one lesson from recent history is that once russians are in your house it is sometimes difficult to get them to leave. in a televised broadcast
thin, right, to respond to this. no doubt this is a short-term relationship of convenience. longer term we will have issues as the balance has shifted from where the soviet union and china historically stood. now china is more of a dominant super power. economies are mutually compatible. what china needs russia can offer and vice versa. even this energy deal is not in u.s. dollars. it is showing they are trying to move away from u.s. currency. or there two things sort of on display here. jim touched on it, john. number one, biden wants to pivot to asia. putin says, try that. look at me. here i am. and then if the biden administration is trying to isolate putin on ukraine, it worked to an extent in europe. but, boy, you re not isolated if you have one of the world s largest global powers by your side. this is russia flexing its muscle as the eurasian power.
but there was no other way out. translation: there is nothing good in it. - everyone has friends and relatives there. i can t find words to express it. the longer the war continues, the harder it will be to convince russians that their president took the right decision. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. earlier i spoke to daniel freed who previously was the secretary of state for european and eurasian affairs and networks of the atlantic council. i asked what he thought president putin s intentions were. 5 thought president putin s intentions were. s intention is to crush intentions were. s intention is to crush ukrainian - is to crush ukrainian sovereignty, nothing tricky about that. tonight will be very dangerous. zelenskyy said the tonight the russian army could try to take kyiv. if
wild lions, and it could take years to resolve. but look at how far and wide nato reaches and the fear is that if nato forces join the fight in ukraine, war could spread across the whole continent. the president has across the whole continent. tue: president has been across the whole continent. tte: president has been very clear that we will defend every inch of nato territory. i think that s the most powerful deterrent against president pruden going beyond ukraine. but it may be of little solace to the many thousands of people trying to flee kyiv station putin. where guards fired warning shots to keep the crowds. crowds choosing to head west rather than rely on the west. james landale, bbc news. earlier i spoke to the head of the eurasian democracy in the richard mcevoy initiative, is returning to help the city after earlier fleeing with his family. after earlier fleeing with his famil . ~ . , , after earlier fleeing with his famil. . , , , family. we are pretty depleted, it s ob