Biden and Putin open summit with a handshake
Biden and Putin open summit with a handshake

US president Joe Biden and Russia’s Vladimir Putin have opened face-to-face talks at a highly anticipated summit in Geneva, at a time when both leaders agree that relations between their countries are at an all-time low.The two leaders sat in a book-lined room at the start of their meeting, with both appearing to avoid looking directly at each other during a brief photo opportunity before a scrum of reporters.