workers are taking a stand after the offer of two in order pay rise. it said it cannot afford to meet the demands and called the strike unprecedented and disproportionate. more on those stories on the website. now taking you to a summit let s turn to a major summit taking place in brazil. leaders and representatives from 12 south american countries have gathered in the capital, brasilia. the country s left wing president, president lula, has urged banks to finance development in the region and said governments should take coordinated action to tackle climate change. it s the first summit of its kind in nearly a decade and it marks the venezuelan president s first visit to brazil since he was banned from the country under former right wing presidentjair bolsonaro. let s speak to our correrspondent will grant talk to us about the significance of this, there is a lot on the agenda, but what will be the most pressing
and food security has also come on the agenda we are actually witnessing countries decoupling from china or be risking as the eu has preferred to call it. it is a very interesting time in a sense that we re actually seeing very different kind of approaches even coming from the g7, very evident with omicron s visit earlier this year which he actually emphasised he wanted to have more than a different kind of approach to the united states and i think in a way the g7 is about really kind of reuniting the democratic countries of the g7 against russia and much remains to be seen whether or not they want to do this and balances economic needs at any time. do this and balances economic needs at any time- at any time. while this is happening in ja an at any time. while this is happening in japan china at any time. while this is happening in japan china is at any time. while this is happening in japan china is having at any time. while this is happening in japan china is having its - at
investigation for tax fraud allegations totaling 1 billion. one of the other searches done was on the home and office of the head of the kyiv tax authority. and officials there found cash totaling $175,000 u.s., luxury cars, luxury watches, things like that, that person is accused of essentially looking the other way on unpaid tax. and the interesting is the timing because tomorrow there is a ukraine/eu summit taking place this kyiv. they want to show that the eu stands by ukraine as firmly as ever and deepen further our support and cooperation. of course one of the things likely to be discussed is corruption because the eu won t allow ukraine to become anywhere close to being a member unless they can stamp out the problem. scott, thank you.
that was the us secretary of state speaking from that summit taking place in israel. our middle east correspondent yolande knell has more on the historic summit. this is the first time israel has been able to host. it has now gone up to four arab foreign ministers that are going tojoin the arab foreign ministers that are going to join the foreign ministers from the united arab emirates, bahrain and morocco, all countries with which israel has had one of these us brokered normalisation deals, the so called abraham accords, in the past year also, egypt will be here, the egyptian foreign minister is coming and egypt has actuallyjust marked 43 years since it signed its peace treaty with israel, but of course that peace treaty was described as producing a cold peace. it is very much a different situation with those other arab countries. israel
russian president putin that followed the g-7 and the uk. things were moving seemingly in the right direction. since then there have been these setbacks in u.s. diplomatic efforts including afghanistan, and i think that s undermined confidence that the french and other european allies, the germans, have differences with the u.s. on several of these issues. that s why this g-20 summit taking place this weekend in rome is so critical. absolutely. great to see you guys. thank you so much. we ll be watching and bringing you the moments as they happen live as the president will be meeting with french president, we believe, this hour. we ll bring you that as it happens. while the president is overseas, house democratic leaders in the united states, they were again forced to delay a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill yesterday. this is after the president s trip to the hill yesterday, laying it all on the line to his party in that closed-door meeting. so where are things then head