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
volodymyr zelensky. amongst the issues discussed, china and the ongoing war in ukraine. nick marsh has more. the g7 is a political organisation but this years summit was dominated by economics that it was at the very heart of any news that the leaders discussed this weekend, ukraine and china. i will start with ukraine. before the summit even kicked off on friday the us introduced a raft of measures targeting russia, 300 sanctions aimed at restricting moscow s ability to source battlefield materials. the uk then followed suit, having introduced an import ban on russian diamonds, copper, aluminium, nickel and then the g7 leaders jointly agreed on a statement that said they would continue to impose sanctions, tighten them, and specify the need to crack down on sanctions and evasions, the use of third party countries as a loophole for russia to get around these restrictions. they also acknowledge the fact, separately to the joint statement that there would be a need to utilise t
plays out back home. it s forcing him to cut his trip short, raising new questions about how this drama is impacting the u.s. abroad. plus, montana says time is up for tiktok. the state banning the popular social media app. it s the furthest any state has gone to target the chinese-owned brand. is that brand legal? court challenges are likely as tiktok says it will defend itself. a race to rescue children who may have survived a plane crash 17 days alone. we are following these major stories coming into cnn news central. president biden has now met with japan s prime minister in hiroshima. friday they will sit down with other leaders of the world s top economies, as a massive fiscal catastrophe looms, thanks for a stalemate here in washington over the debt ceiling. the discussions appear to be slowly progresses, but the u.s. could default, and anything thinks g7 allies accomplish there could be thrown into disarray from the global financial meltdown that could result.
this rain in eastern areas will slowly tend to peter out and we will get some sunshine coming through and we could generate some showers all the way through yorkshire to the west midlands and into the west country. there will be some warm sunshine for many parts of the country and temperatures on the whole very similar to what we had today, but it may well be a bit warmer in scotland particularly in the east because we will see more sunshine. this area of low pressure is storm nino and it could bring more rain into italy and perhaps more rain into italy and perhaps more flooding, dominated by high pressure although there is this stripe of cloud in from the atlantic. i think on saturday looks quite cloudy for much of scotland and northern ireland, not much rain at all and most of the cloud quite thin and high. more on the way of sunshine for england and wales, that a fair weather cloud, one in the sunshine, temperatures 20 or 21, holding at 16 or 17 for scotland and northern i
he had his first bilateral meeting with the prime minister of japan. that was his first event here at hiroshima. listen. i m proud that the united states and japan are facing it together. and, you know, we stand up for the shared values, including supporting brave people of ukraine as they defend their sovereign territory and holding russia accountable for its brutal aggression. when our countries stand together, we stand stronger and i believe the whole world what we do. so thank you again for having me here today and we look forward to the next several days. so the russian invasion a big topic as you said along with president biden, what he calls a climate crisis. while here the world leaders will come up with a unified way to respond to a more aggressive china. we ll also hear about those emerging technologies like quantum computing and artificial intelligence, overshadowing the entire trip. a lack of a deal to raise the debt ceiling. the president said all along