while answering questions about the negotiations. we ll have those comments for you in just a moment. and they come as president biden is busy with world leaders at the g7 summit in japan. we ll recap yesterday s events and preview what s ahead including a new round of sanctions for russia aimed at closing loopholes that moscow has been using to security previous attempts to hold it accountable for the invasion of ukraine. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, may 19th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning on capitol hill where it appears that at least some progress is being made on the debt ceiling. house speaker kevin mccarthy shifted to optimism yesterday on the negotiations saying a deal could now be made in time in order to avoid a default. i just believe where we were a week ago and where we are today is a much better place because we have the right people in the room discussing it in a very profes
we fail to pay our bills. we re going to come together because there s no alternative. we have to do the right thing for the country. we have to move on. those were president biden s comments on the debt ceiling negotiations just before he took off for the g7 summit in japan. we ll have the very latest on the budget talks and the president s trip overseas. he has arrived. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, may 18th. i m jonathan lemire. because right now these are indeed live pictures from hiroshima, japan, where president biden is meeting with japanese prime minister kishida ahead of their bilateral meeting. g7 leaders are gathering there where they will likely focus on the war in ukraine and tensions in asia. the president, of course, had announced he was cutting short his planned trip to the pacific, no longer visiting papau new guinea or australia in order to get back on sunday to continue those debt ceiling negotiate asians. we ll bring you
the wire. the u.s. has 10 days before it could default on its debt. president biden returning to washington from an all important meeting with kevin mccarthy in the coming hours. it was a bountiful trip to the g-7 for ukraine s president heading home with military aid as the bloody battle for bakhmut reaches a critical stage. plus a historic mission, spacex and saudi arabia s first female astronaut into space. a message to the world live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. did to have you with us, with the g7 summit now behind him, he was president joe biden s back in washington to face his most pressing issue right now. the impasse over the u.s. debt ceiling. in the coming hours, president biden will meet yet again with house speaker kevin mccarthy to try and strike a deal on raising the country s borrowing limit. mccarthy says he had a productive phone call with mr. biden as the president was returning from japan on sunday. there is only about
we start with an emphatic win for manchester city who ve beaten the 1a time winners real madrid 4 0 to reach the final of the european champions league against inter milan. 5 1 on aggregate. it s the one trophy pep guardiola is yet to win at city, in a season where they re chasing a treble. twice beaten at this stage by real. this was finally city s night. our sports editor dan roan was watching at the etihad stadium. this was billed as a battle between the two best club sides in the world but there were only two in the stop the second leg after the 1 1 draw in madrid last week in the first leg but manchester city were way too strong for the champions, the serial winners of this competition, real madrid, running out 4 0 winners, 5 1 on aggregate and means manager pep guardiola s side got compelling emphatic revenge against the side which knocked them out at this stage of the competition both in 2016 andindeed of the competition both in 2016 and indeed last year and it means c