hello i m sumi somaskanda. welcome to our show. let s take you straight to live pictures from hiroshima, where world leaders are meeting for the g7 summit. at the moment we know that they have already arrived as nick marsh just mentioned, have already arrived as nick marshjust mentioned, we have seen some of the leader is going on, they are expected to exit now and lay a wreath at the hiroshima peace memorial park and there we see them, president biden and the japanese prime minister fumio kishida there as well. the european commission president ursula von der leyen just behind them. again, this is a poignant moment as we just heard from nick marsh there and there of course we saw all of there of course we saw all of the leaders, rishi sunak and the leaders, rishi sunak and the german chancellor olaf scholz. we also see the french president emmanuel macron there and the european council president shall michelle as well as the italian prime minister. we see all of those leader
care it appears receiving a little bit of information about this memorial, some of the inscriptions there are, they are receiving not only information but a translation there as we can see before they get started on their working lunch and get the summit under way, and an important point you made, we saw president biden standing there, he of course was planning originally to go to australia and to papua new guinea, just after this g7 summit, in a sense also to show the commitment to the region and also to counter china, we know now that the president has cut that trip short because he has to return back here to washington because of debt ceiling negotiations, we have also heard that the president is keeping a close eye on that as he is there injapan, he apparently held a call with his debt ceiling negotiation team as well today so he is very obviously keeping a close eye as we said and very much focusing on solving that debt