edward lawrence joining us now with more from hiroshima. good to see you, e. ward. reporter: good evening, i can tell you that president joe biden is in for the night right now. very interesting, the g7 communique came out and specifically calls out china for the first time if the very specific terms. now, it s very specific if about saying that it s the not meant to thwart china s development or progress, but it does get very critical of china s actions in specifically the south china sea as well as including the actions they re taking with taiwan, saying that changes to the status quo would not be tolerated. it also calls on china to end the programs meant to undermine security and safety in other countries as well as end human rights abuses. now, critics say the president has been dragged into criticizing china, taking a long time to push back. china s within helping russia as russia continues to try and take ukrainian land. the ukrainian president made a surprise visit
k kyiv to show support for ukraine without a large military presence. without that military presence, of course, it is different from other presidential visits to afghanistan or iraq for instance, and the air raid sirens as biden is walking side by side with volodymyr zelenskyy and it is the first trip to the country since the russian invasion. he made the decision friday to make this visit to ukraine, and the president had invited him prior, and he was informed hours ahead of the arrival there which tended to deconflict to make sure that russia would not fire on kyiv while he was there. in a news conference this morning, there was a new round of sanctions including another $500 million assistance and more weapons, and biden s trip gets them closer to victory. freedom is priceless. it is worth fighting for, for as long as it takes, and that is how long we will be with you, mr. president, for as long as it takes. for as long as it takes. kaitlan collins is in warsaw in kyi
david: yeah. in terms of russia escalating the war as a result of the f the-16s, they haven t escalated as we move from one advance weapons system to the another despite the brandishing of nuclear weapons. david: a lot of questions of what s coming out of the g7 meeting on china which is now russia s ally. and, of course, they re buying billions and billions of dollars worth of oil from the russians. but there was a communique that they put out, it says our policy approaches are not designed to to the harm china, nor do we seek to this wart they that s economic progress and development. a growing they that that plays by international rules would be of global interest. you really think that president xi is going to the start playing by the rules? no, he s not going to play by the rules. and they re parsing those words to be very careful, because not everybody in the g7 is exactly on the same page, most notably macron from france who wants to
remarkably well, but it is tired with the worn out mig 29s, and the 16s and missiles will add a lot. and at this point, the russians have been so vicious in the aggression, anything along that type including long range missiles are completely justified. no, i think that they won t be per se a game-changer, but it is going to make it a whole lot harder for russians to get too close with the cruise missiles and other capability, and the f-16s have a very good ground attack capability. we will be watching closely. brigadier general peter zwack and doug brinkley and david, we are grateful to have you join us. and now, on a new scale of
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