hello, i m mark lobel. ukraine s president zelensky has arrived injapan where he s meeting world leaders at the g7 summit. he s said that peace will become closer , after the us agreed to train ukrainian pilots on american f 16 fighterjets, paving the way for european countries to supply the warplanes to kyiv. moscow said western countries will be running colossal risks if the jets are sent to ukraine. our political editor, chris mason, reports from hiroshima. the airport here has welcomed rather a few leaders in the last few days. and here came another one. after a tour of europe and a trip to the middle east, president zelensky arrived in japan today. long haul diplomacy amid a long, drawn out war and ongoing pleas for help. they met on monday in the uk and they met again here. the president and the prime minister made it. ukraine s leader said enhanced cooperation would bring victory for him and claimed peace is closer and closer to peace. for months, ukraine has been a
hello, i m mark lobel. here in the uk, it s been announced within the last hour that tv presenter phillip schofield is to step down from the programme this morning with immediate effect after more than 20 years on the itv programme, the broadcaster has announced. the 61 year old tv presenter will not return to co host the morning talk show with holly willoughby, with thursday s show being his last. in an statement, itv said that holly willoughby will remain on this morning and will co present with members of the this morning family. despite his departure from this morning, phillip schofield will continue to present peak time shows for itv. this is the statement mr schofield has posted on his instagram a short time ago. we ve also had a statement from his co host holly willoughby. she said it s been over 13 years. she said the sofa won t feel the same without him. with more on this we canjoin robin brant in the newsroom. we will ask him as soon as we get him about the cont
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obligations. it has until the first ofjune to sign an agreement or the us could face an economic catastrophe. in just over two weeks the united states could run out of money to pay its debts. the consequences of breaching the debt limit would be catastrophic for the country. and there is pressure on democrats and republicans to make a deal before june first. us presidentjoe biden spoke about the debt ceiling negotiations before leaving for the g7 summit injapan, a trip he is cutting short to get back to washington to continue the talk. i made clear that america is not a deadbeat nation, we pay our bills. the nation has never defaulted on its debt and it never will. we re going to continue these discussions with congressional leaders in the coming days until we reach an agreement. president biden and congressional leaders have agreed the country will not default but the consequences would be dire for the american economy and all sides are confident that they will be able to ge