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summit. this was present buys then the meeting the japanese president. on top of their agenda, they will be keeping an eye on negotiations back home on the government debt ceiling, with the possibility of a catastrophic default at the white house fails to reach an agreement with the republicans. biden started by expressing his pride thatjapan and the us have stood together in holding russia accountable in the face of a complex security environment. it face of a complex security environment. face of a complex security environment. , , ., ., environment. it seems to me we are dee enin: environment. it seems to me we are deepening our environment. it seems to me we are deepening our corporation environment. it seems to me we are deepening our corporation on - environment. it seems to me we are i deepening our corporation on merging technology, including partnerships between united states and japanese companies and universities as well. in areas like quantum computing and sem
when the may sunshine comes out from the word go in the west will feel pleasantly warm with temperatures widely in the high teens, low 20s, could be make it 22 in northern ireland, the warmest day of the year so far. second half of the week in, a cold front moving in across the north west of the uk dropping rain and temperatures. the rain milking into wales and north west england but ahead of that we are into the warm air across central and eastern england with temperatures reaching the low 20s but much cooler for scotland and northern ireland across the second half of the weekend. before i go i wanted to show you this, a dangerous looking cyclone set make landfall around myanmar, bangladesh border region, and this is home to hundreds of thousands of rohingya refugees and the weather looks pretty atrocious over the next few days with some very serious weather impacts potentially. thanks, chris. could the us government really run out of money in less than three weeks? if congr
and provide kyiv with all the assistance it needed in the war against russia prime minister meloni also stressed that the conflict would only end when russia stopped its aggression, and withdrew from all ukrainian territory, adding that any other outcome would jeopardise peace in all of europe. president volodymyr zelensky is now at the vatican for a private audience with pope francis, it s the first meeting between the two men since russia invaded ukraine. we can see pictures of that meeting now. our europe regional editor paul moss has been telling us about the significance of this visit. they very publicly embraced each other and as you suggested, ms meloni was vocal in her support. she said she would be an ally of ukraine and the war would only end when all russian troops had left all of ukrainian territory. no sense of a compromise. the italian president was in a similar vein when he said it was an honour to have mr zelensky visit. he thanked them and said about the evil