Biden-Putin summit: 'Shoving match' between US-Russia press as talks begin

President Joe Biden's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin began with minutes of unusually fierce shoving and shouting among US and Russian journalists and security forces.

Organisers at Wednesday's summit in Geneva opened the meeting room to journalists for what's normally a few minutes of news media filming and shouting questions before talks start.

However, the scene devolved into minutes of chaos inside the meeting room.

American journalists described Russian security and news media grabbing them by the arms and clothes to try to hold them back. U.S. journalists tried to shoulder their way in, and a US reporter was knocked to the ground.

Before the scene calmed, some in the crowd shouted they were being crushed in the melee.

Biden and Putin initially sat awkwardly in front of the press, but then watched and at times laughed at the tumult.

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