to the international space station. hello i m lucy grey. ukraine s president zelensky has thanked g7 leaders injapan for their enduring support of ukraine, at the end of a summit dominated by russia s invasion of his country. it comes after president biden confirmed that the us and its allies will help train ukrainian pilots to fly western fighter jets such as the f16. president zelensky has long called for the aircraft, to help in the fight against russia. our asia pacific correspondent laura bicker sent this report. this president knows the cost of war. mr zelensky paid tribute to the victims of the hiroshima bombing and needed no reminder from the sombre city of what can happen when a bitter conflict leads to the use of a nuclear weapon. together with the entire g7, we have ukraine s back, and i promise we re not going anywhere. his meetings with the us president and others are to ensure this does not happen in ukraine. putin will not break our resolve. in a policy shift,
in northern ireland s council elections, sinn fein says the democratic unionist party must return to power sharing government at stormont. sinn fein is now the largest in local government as well as the assembly. now on bbc news. the media show. hello and welcome to this edition of the media show, and this week? our guest needs very little introduction. jeremy bowen joined the bbc as a trainee journalist in 1984 and he is now bbc news s international editor, one of the bbc s most recognised faces. welcome to the show. thanks very much for having me. you have a new series for radio 4 called frontlines ofjournalism, billed as your reflections on the most difficult stories you have covered. one of those is certainly ukraine. we heard the news that the afp journalist had died, killed, we re told, by russian artillery. he was 32 years old and this is a conflict you know very closely. yes, he was killed somewhere in the east, somewhere near bakhmut, where i have spent quite a bit o
restored at stormont. hello, i m lucy gray. president zelensky is returning home from the g7 summit injapan, having secured a pledge of unwavering support as well as more military equipment from ukraine s allies. speaking at the end of the meeting mr zelensky said that russia s defeat would result in lasting world peace. he also insisted russia does not occupy the embattled city of bakhmut. it comes after conflicting reports of who is now in control of the eastern city. russia s president putin has congratulated the wagner mercenary group for capturing the city. our asia pacific correspondent, laura bicker, sent this report from hiroshima. this president knows the cost of war. mr zelensky paid tribute to the victims of the hiroshima bombing and needed no reminder from the sombre city of what can happen when a bitter conflict leads to the use of a nuclear weapon. together with the entire g7, we have ukraine s back, and i promise we re not going anywhere. his meetings with th
and training for ukraine. shortly after landing in hiroshima, president zelensky tweeted that he was expecting to have important meetings with partners and friends of ukraine. he said peace will be closer as a result of the summit. he has met with rishi sunak in the past few minutes. they had already met on monday in the uk, where it was announced britain would send hundreds of air defence missiles and armed drones to ukraine. on the second days of talks injapan, the leaders of the g7 group of advanced nations have issued a statement on a shared approach to promote global economic resilience and to counter economic coercion. they said that any malign actor trying to, as they put it, weaponise economic dependence would fail. the g7 leaders added that their policy was not designed to harm china or thwart its economic progress. the statement also warned against what it said was china s militarisation in the south china sea, and it urged beijing to pressure moscow to end it
the warplanes to kyiv. the rules state that countries can only resell or re export us military hardware if america approves it, but moscow has warned the decision could present colossal risks to the allied countries and china has also expressed its strong dissatisfaction. for the latest, live now to nick marsh, who is for us there in hiroshima. so zelensky arrived today, on sunday he is due to meet president biden and address the g7 leaders, is ukraine dominating discussions at the g7? , ,., , ukraine dominating discussions at theg7? ~ y , the g7? absolutely, president zelensky pretty the g7? absolutely, president zelensky pretty much - the g7? absolutely, president zelensky pretty much stole i the g7? absolutely, president| zelensky pretty much stole the the g7? absolutely, president - zelensky pretty much stole the show yesterday in hiroshima, the agenda was supposed to be dominated by talk of china, but the kind of will he, won t he drama of his arrival took centre sta