advanced fighterjets and training for ukraine. as he arrived, president zelensky tweeted, japan, g7. important meetings with partners and friends of ukraine. peace will become closer today. on the second days of talks in japan, the leaders of the g7 group of advanced nations have issued a statement on a shared approach to promote global economic resilience and to counter economic coercion. they said that any malign actor trying to, as they put it, weaponise economic dependence would fail. the g7 leaders added that their policy was not designed to harm china or thwart its economic progress. the statement also warned against what it said was china s militarisation in the south china sea, and it urged beijing to pressure moscow to end its war in ukraine. our correspondent is in hiroshima. watching the footage of him arriving, getting out of the plane, that french government plane, touching down in hiroshima is a hugely symbolic moment for the ukrainian president, but als
the former president of pakistan, pervez musharraf, has died in hospital at the age of 79. general musharraf took power in a coup in 1999, and served as president for seven years from 2001. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for the new space race. 50 years ago, astronauts would regularly go to the moon. back then, many thought it wouldn t be long before people lived there. now, finally, that could be happening. we re notjust settling for doing the same old, same old. we want to push further. and rocket launches are now commonplace, sending up spacecraft for the benefit of life on earth. space is an integral part of society. 0ur way of working only functions with satellites for telecom, for navigation, for earth observation, for weather forecasting, for many things. so, we need the satellites for our daily life. the country that first sent a person into space is crashing back to earth, because of its war in ukraine. if russia doesn t partner up with another nation l or f
for tomorrow, still this band of cloud bringing a little bit of rain but not very much, across northern england, down into north wales, the north midlands. to the south of that a lot of low cloud cover is the mist, some fog, a little bit of sunshine. the best of the sunshine further north and west for northern ireland and for scotland with a few showers in the north west. temperatures 6 8. here comes the lively bit of the weekend forecast. sunday this area of low pressure passing to the north of scotland and the frontal system which will bring some outbreaks rain. a breezy day generally. it stays mainly fine to the south. early cloud giving way to spells of sunshine. but the winds picking up through the afternoon, to the eastern side of the pennines we could see gusty conditions for a time. also very windy for coasts of northern ireland, more broadly across scotland, in exposed spots in the north of scotland gusts of 65 mph or more with a band of rain pushing southwards and e
To do with the central bank. And we get the inside track from the boss of dulux paint owner, akzonobel, on why hes fighting off a 23 billion hostile takeover. Tonne buchner also tells us what the rise of populism in europe means for big business. Also in the news, amazonsjeff bezos says hes selling 1 billion each year, to get into the space race. Today were asking, for your next space holiday, which entrepreneur would you trust to get you there and back richard branson, elon musk orjeff bezos . Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Welcome to the programme. The worlds two biggest economies come face to face later today, when us President Donald Trump hosts his chinese counterpart, xijinping, in florida. It will be the first time they meet in person. As well as north korea, trade will be at the top of the agenda for theirfirst meeting. Its already an issue thats created tensions between the two. Lets look at it in more detail. Atjust over 659 billion of goods and services in 2015, its one of
the race to space is on. nasa has enlisted a second billionaire to get astronauts back on the moon. amazon sjeff bezos has won a contract to build a spacecraft. the us space agency is already working with elon musk s spacex firm, who was awarded $3 billion to also land on the moon. jonathan amos reports. they are two of the richest individuals on the planet. one, elon musk, has made his fortune by transforming the car industry. the other, jeff bezos, by reinventing the way we buy things on line. but they both have the same passion for space. they are building rockets and spacecraft to get humanity of earth. nasa has already teamed with musk and his spacex company to develop a novel rocket system that will also be able to land on minutes. it is called starship and had its maiden light last month although didn t quite go to plan, blowing up afterfour minutes. now is the turn of