off. just ahead our countries stand together and we stand stronger. and i believe the whole world is s safer when we do. we haven t degreed to anything yet, but i see the path. they should have held them accountable for the war crimes that they committed and most importantly for the war crimes he is still committing. probably my last year on the professional tour. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, may 19th, 9:00 a.m. in london, 5:00 a.m. in japan where the g7 superintendent summit will soon be welcoming volodymyr zelenskyy. he is expected to attend according to cnn sources. the war in ukraine is already making headlines in japan. a source tells cnn the u.s. will not stand in the way of allies who want to send f-16 fighter jets to kyiv and uk and european union is taking aim at moscow s funding for the war with new restrictions on russia diamond sales. salma abdelaziz is in london and kevin liptak also. kevi
this hour, we see ukraine high on the agenda. volodymyr zelenskyy is set to join in person, seeking commitments from the world s wealthiest democracies. also, the u.s. is now signaling that it will not block allies from sending f-16 jets to ukraine. we will look at how that could change the battlefield, and tens of thousands of israelis marched through jerusalem s old city for mostly peaceful but tense flag parade. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. leaders of the g7 nations are meeting at this hour in hiroshima, japan russian invasion of ukraine, of course, high on the agenda. and now we are learning they will be welcoming a special guest, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. the uk and european union have already announced new sanctions targeting russia s diamond trade. and in a key development, sources tell cnn the u.s. will not stand in the way of allies setting f-16 fighter jets to ukraine, something kyiv has been requesting for mon
it wasn t a family member or close friend. al sharpton. watch. put their arms around all of us, who keeps choking us to death? we will stand up and there will be no justice, there ll be no peace. i don t know but but i have a question. why is al sharpton giving the eulogy? did he personally know jordan neely prior to his death? of course not. but you see al sharpton is a race hustler. he is there to politicize this tragedy. why else was aoc at the funeral? sharpton wants to fire up the bales so they donate to groups like blm who could really use the money right now. but don t just take my word for it. listen to this. blm donations have dropped 90% since the summer of love. in 2020, the group raked in $90 million. a lot of which was spent on mansions for the blm leaders. but in 2022 they raised just 9.3 million. all the money has dried up. so it sounds like it a convenient time to manufacture another george floyd moment, doesn t it? and that s why al sharpton is there. d
investigators who investigated the ties between the trump campaign and russia and beyond. as new york times reports today, durham delivered a report that scolds the fbi but fails to live up to the expectations of supporters of donald j. trump that he would uncover a politically motivated deep state conspiracy. he charged no high-level fbi or intelligence official with a crime and acknowledged in a footnote that hillary clinton s 2016 presidential campaign did nothing prosecutable either. to no one s surprise though, the disgraced ex-president and his allies have used it as evidence of their priors and what amounts effectively to a campaign of disinformation. once again from the new york times, predictably the reporter s actual content, it contained no major new revelations and it accused the fbi of confirmation bias rather than making a more explosive conclusion of political bias, made scant difference in parts of the political arena. mr. trump and many of his loyalists iss
that s coming up. also, i have a break you how, with everything we have been through and everything we ve learned should deal with a proven liar and now someone liable for defamation and sexual abuse, donald trump. how do we deal with him? how do we cover interviews and town halls? we re not against interviews. i have a breakdown on that later. what donald trump said on his live and lengthy appearance on cnn last night is our top story. we ll get to that later. the top story tonight is the tapes. george santos back in washington voting on an unemployment fraud bill, which is wild considering that is part of what he s been indicted for. santos arraigned on 13 separate federal charges wire fraud, money laundering, abusing public funds. doj claiming santos spent money he claimed was for his campaign but he basically grifted, pocketing it according to the filing for personal expenses, luxury designer clothing, credit card payments for his own personal use. these charges come