japan for the g-7 summit, he says the meetings will bring peace closer, live to heiroshim in a few moments. president joe biden believes the country will not default on its debt but the two sides stopped talking late friday night. we ll have more. and later, florida governor ron desantis takes a swipe at his potential rival for the white house, donald trump, saying it would be easy to be the front runner. announcer: live in cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with paula neeson. volodymyr se lensy is now in japan where he will be meeting with world leaders at the g-7 summit. he arrived a short time ago, you see him there, tweeting he ll be having important meetings and that, quote, peace will become closer today. he s there to boost support ahead of ukraine s expected counteroffensive. now, ahead of his visit u.s. president joe biden agreed to support efforts to train ukrainian pilots on f-16 fighter jets and several allies have, in fact, expressed interest in transferri
tonight with new developments on two key countries for this country and the free world, how to avoid default in debt and how to ensure that russia s invasion of ukraine is rolled back. president biden at the g7 summit is grappling with both. on ukraine, a milestone, with president zelenskyy due to travel from ukraine to japan this weekend. president biden gave his okay for a joint allied effort to train ukrainian pilots on f-16 fighters and other advanced aircraft. and on the debt ceiling, it looks like talks, which the president was being updated on remotely, are back on again. they resumed tonight just hours of kevin mccarthy s republican negotiators called a halt to them earlier today. we have correspondents spanning the globe tonight. phil mattingly traveling with the president in japan. what is the latest you re hearing from white house officials about debt ceiling negotiations? reporter: you know, anderson, as you point out, there was a pause, house republican negotia
medals. across the dnipr river, the director of the children s hospital isn t impressed by shoigu s performance. he says they re not brave, hiding in that bank between houses, they shoot at us. what do you think when you see pictures of him like that? and then he replies, i think that both shoigu and putin are such cowards it s more likely 90% they re hiding somewhere in crimea, at least very far from us, that would probably be wise given that across the river, russian troops are turned a nuclear power station into a frontline redoubt. that is the zaporizhzhia nuclear power station behind me and it s also now a fire base for russian forces, nearly every day they re shelling this town from over there, it s going to be a major problem in any future ukrainian offensive because that is the
appreciation for your military work, sergei shoigu says, handing out medals. across the dnipro river, the director of the children s hospital isn t impressed by shoigu s performance. [ speaking non-english ] he says, they re not brave, hiding on that bank between houses. they shoot at us. what do you think when you see pictures of him like that? and then replies, i think that shoigu and putin are such cowards it s more likely, i d say 90%, that they re hiding somewhere in crimea, at least very far from us. that would probably be wise, given that across the river from nick pole, russian troops have turned a nuclear power station into a frontline redoubt. that is the zaporizhzhia nuclear power station behind me. it s also now a fire base for russian forces. nearly every day, they re shelling this town from over there.