epic conte has openly expressed support for president trump. with tensions rising and a possible trade war looming amongst close allies the future of the g. seven is hard to gauge many observers have said it's likely this summit will and without a joint communique signed off on by all its members. joining me now is our correspondent claire richardson and come back thirty clare good to see you trumpets calling for russia to rejoin the g. seven how big a shadow has been cast over the entire meeting high of a well these g seven meetings are not meant to be surprising generally the countries who are meeting together have hashed out some kind of understanding of what's going to come out of them before they even sit down together so it certainly came as a major surprise when we heard it from calling for russia to be readmitted after it was suspended in two thousand and fourteen perhaps even more surprising the fact that the italian prime minister seemed to support this idea we heard chancellor