i m christiane amanpour in london. welcome to the a history anpour hour. in the next 60 minutes we will take you around the world to ask the tough questions and tackle the big problems and let history be our guide. here is where we re headed this week. who is banking on the united states failing to deliver. ukraine watches the clock run out as military aid stalls in congress. former national security official and russia expert, fiona hill calls it the winning point for putin. this is the ticking point where the united states and ukraine and europe and everybody loses. former cop president who cried tears of regret when he tried to ween the cold off coal and reacts to the new climate deal off of dubai. i certainly think this does spell the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era. also ahead, an afghan family fights for their teenaged daughter s life, after taliban rule drove her, like so many other girls to total despair. and finally, from the archive, as vo
we fail to pay our bills. we re going to come together because there s no alternative. we have to do the right thing for the country. we have to move on. those were president biden s comments on the debt ceiling negotiations just before he took off for the g7 summit in japan. we ll have the very latest on the budget talks and the president s trip overseas. he has arrived. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, may 18th. i m jonathan lemire. because right now these are indeed live pictures from hiroshima, japan, where president biden is meeting with japanese prime minister kishida ahead of their bilateral meeting. g7 leaders are gathering there where they will likely focus on the war in ukraine and tensions in asia. the president, of course, had announced he was cutting short his planned trip to the pacific, no longer visiting papau new guinea or australia in order to get back on sunday to continue those debt ceiling negotiate asians. we ll bring you
In italy and irregular crossings of the Central Mediterranean sea have been increasing since 2020. But its true that over the last 12 months the situation has worsened from this perspective and also it has changed in terms of the composition of the flow. Now we have more people from Sub Saharan African countries trying to reach in. To reach italy and they are departing from tunisia. Paradoxically, tunisian citizens are not the first group represented in the flow towards italy any more, as it has been between 2018 and 20. And last year actually. And probably one of the main causes, the internal situation in tunisia, where policies introduced by the government, the discriminating sub saharan migrants presence or transiting through to the country have been pushing many, many, many people out of the country and towards the italian shores. Europe has tried and failed for many years. Excuse me. To find a collective response to this. Ive sat in on so many summits in brussels when these things