ahead on cnn newsroom, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy will attend the g-7 talks in person. we ll go live to hiroshima and london for the latest. congress and the white house could be close to a deal to avert a default on the united states debt, but will there be a cost for democrats? disney cancels plans for a $1 billion campus in florida but makes no mention if this is related to the house mouse s ongoing spat with governor ron desantis, as he is expected to make a big announcement of his own. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. so it is 4 p.m. in hiroshima, japan, where the annual g-7 summit is now underway. soon they add a special guest, ukrainian about the volodymyr zelenskyy. he s due to attend the gathering after first stopping in saudi arabia to attend today s arab league summit according to cnn sources. that meeting will also be significant. already ukraine is top of mind in japan. the uk and european union have announced new
vinnitsya for us. give us the latest at this hour. reporter: this is across the street from the blast site. this streetcar, you can see all the windows are blown out. they re trying to figure out how they re going to move it, if it still runs at this stage and how they re going to get it out of here. i ll take you over here. this is called the house of officers. it is actually a concert venue, a theater. it s obviously from the soviet era, quite old. this building was completely gutted on the inside. we can actually walk past the lawn, and you can see inside, bits of it. they are still at least they were a few minutes ago still hosing down parts of it, some of the hottest spots. they re trying to dismantle parts of it. i want to take you over here for one second. people have started to lay flowers here, stuffed animals as well, and the reason why is because earlier in the day, there was a photo that was put out by the foreign minister and other officials showing a strol
is joining me from jerusalem. what in terms of the focus, what have we seen here for the president s visit? reporter: well, we just saw president biden arriving in bethlehem at the presidential compound where he was greeted by mahmoud abbas. this is the first visit by a u.s. president to meet with the palestinian authority president since president trump visited in 2017. and this comes as the u.s. is really trying to shift its policy towards the palestinians. we have watched the biden administration turn back on the spigot of humanitarian aid to the palestinian people that was cut off by the trump administration. we ve seen since president biden came into office about half a billion dollars of aid. and today we re expecting president biden to announce a total of $316 million of additional aid for palestinians including $100 million for the east jerusalem hospital network that serves palestinians. here is the president earlier this morning at one of those hospitals in east j
i m brianna keilar with john berman this morning. we begin with major news just in, president biden will officially be making a controversial trip to saudi arabia. what was really an open secret is now being confirmed by the white house. the middle east trip next month will include visits to israel as well as the west bank. the controversy surrounds what biden said as a candidate, he vowed it punish the kingdom and make the saudi crown prince a pariah for the assassination of journalist jamal khashoggi. arlette saenz live at the white house with this official announcement, arlette. what are they saying? reporter: well, john, those comments from president biden appear to be in the rear view mirror as he is now preparing to travel to saudi arabia next month. the white house saying this will be part of a broader trip to the middle east, spanning from july 13th to july 16th, starting with those stops in israel and the palestinian west bank. the president will then travel on t
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Group. He didnt say he spoke to the Department Of Justice or the State Department. Hes not speaking to any other gun control groups, but the president took to twitter to say i have reached out to the nra. So those of you who have Chanlted Over And over, drain the swamp, walk us through why you would go to the industry group. Why would you contact the largest Lobbying Group ever, the nra, on what to do about the ghost gun. As of last week, one of the organizations videos called 3d guns freedom and innovation. Tom costello has more on the guns and why the president should be checking with his own state Department Rather than the nra. This morning, growing pushback against a new type of firearm that some people can actually build in their own home. Eight Attorneys General now asking a judge to block a Texas Company from publishing the downloadable instructions for 3d printers to manufacture guns. From handguns to sem