{"id":23869,"date":"2018-12-01T02:22:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T02:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23869"},"modified":"2018-12-01T02:22:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T02:22:38","slug":"the-astounding-putin-mbs-high-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23869","title":{"rendered":"The astounding Putin-MBS high five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>A video is worth a thousand words: At the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman can be seen flashing big smiles, laughing and giving each other a robust high five before sitting down for their meeting. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">This bizarre image lit up social media. Reporters have been tweeting out jokes about what the two men must have saying. &#8220;You would be happy too if you just got away with murder,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AaronBlake\/status\/1068582651899060226\" target=\"_blank\">wrote <\/a>Aaron Blake of The Washington Post, as he offered his caption.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">But the video is also deadly serious. As these two leaders laugh it up &#8212; and are in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/the-report\/articles\/2018-11-30\/spurning-trump-saudis-and-russians-lean-toward-oil-cuts\" target=\"_blank\">process <\/a>of thawing tensions between their nations by working in partnership to shore up crude oil prices &#8212; there is a total absence of moral leadership from America&#8217;s President. The video comes out as Americans are still recoiling from the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi and on the same day it was reported that the UK authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/30\/politics\/uk-nerve-agent-attack-putin\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">believe <\/a>Putin approved of poison attacks that killed a Briton and harmed a former Russian spy and his daughter. (Saudi officials have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/16\/politics\/cia-assessment-khashoggi-assassination-saudi-arabia\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">insisted <\/a>that bin Salman had nothing to do with the murder and Putin&#8217;s government has said the nerve agent attacks in the UK <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/world\/2018\/07\/05\/uk-nerve-agent-poisoning-russia-response-pleitgen-tsr-vpx.cnn\" target=\"_blank\">weren&#8217;t its doing.<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)A video is worth a thousand words: At the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman can be seen flashing big smiles, laughing and giving each other a robust high five before sitting down for their meeting. This bizarre image lit up social media. Reporters have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}