the world s most advanced economies are meeting injapan, with america signalling it s willingness to back the supply of f 16fighterjets, and the training of ukrainian pilots, in the war with russia. meanwhile, moscow s closest ally in the middle east, syria s bashar al assad, received a warm welcome at a summit of arab leaders in saudi arabia, after years of international isolation. during syria s bloody civil war, it was massive russian military support that allowed assad, condemned by many as a war criminal, to cling onto power. details on that later in the programme but first, to the g7. the bbc s nick marsh is in hiroshima for us and we can bring him in now. nick, a lot of news coming out of the g7 so far. much of the initial talks have been members recommitting to the defence of ukraine and some big news involving fighterjets ukraine and some big news involving fighter jets and sanctions as well today. involving fighterjets and sanctions as well today. yeah that s righ
ukrainian fighters on fourth generation jets, including f 16. remember, fourth generationjets, including f 16. remember, was asking including f 16. remember, was asking for including f 16. remember, was asking for this for months. president zelenskyy on every bil president zelenskyy on every big stage has said that we wanted big stage has said that we wanted to boost our forces in the sky wanted to boost our forces in the sky. and it looks like he is getting what he wants now. exactly is getting what he wants now. exactly. today, the focus moved slightly away from the ukraine to russia, china big on the agenda. but i actually wanted to talk to about something that wasn t supposed to be on the agenda this weekend and match this meeting of squad leaders from the united states, india, australia, and japan. that was supposed to be taken place in australia but president biden has got to rush back to washington. that wasn t planned, was it because? tell her still a bit more about th