of the war in ukraine cast on them both. first, the g7, where the world s most advanced economies are meeting in japan. the us has said it will support providing advanced fighterjets including us made f16s to ukraine and also back training ukrainian pilots to fly them. meanwhile, moscow s closest ally in the middle east, syria s bashar al assad, received a warm welcome at a summit of arab leaders in saudi arabia after years of international isolation. during syria s bloody civil war, it was only massive russian military support, that allowed assad, condemned by many as a war criminal, to cling onto power. the summit was also attented by the ukrainian president, volodymr zelensky, who is due tojoin the g7 group in hiroshima on sunday, where its expected he ll address leaders and hold a meeting with us presidentjoe biden. details on that later
coming here to japan, he will be coming from jeddah where he has been addressing arab leaders in saudi arabia, safe to say that that would be the least receptive audience he has ever had. since he has tried to build diplomatic ties with the rest of the world after his country was invaded last year. now he is u-oin to be now he is oin to be comin- now he is u-oin to be comin- to now he is going to be coming to japan, a much more receptive audience. we heard from jake sullivan earlier saying he did not have a chance to talk to the ukrainians to see how the meeting went but he will have president biden will have a chance to talk to zelensky when he gets here. the symbolism of this kind of visit is quite clear. it s the first time zelensky will have had a chance to be in the same room as all these other g7 allies, a real message of solidarity. he has been to visit them one by one and they have been to kyiv themselves but when they
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speaking at the g7 summit injapan, white house press secretary karinejean pierre set out what could happen if the us is unable to pay its bills. states could not be higher microvolts steaks. a default would plunge our economy into a recession, economists estimate that millions of americans could lose theirjobs, hard working families could ha rd working families could lose hard working families could lose their retirement savings, so our team will stay at it, we will stay focused and we hope that speaker mccarthy s team will negotiate in good faith as well. and before we go a reminder of those latest developments at the g7 summit of world leaders in hiroshima. the ukrainian president volodymr zelensky will meet g7 world leaders in person at the hiroshima summit this sunday. the confirmation of the visit follows the us backing the supply of f16 fighterjets to ukraine and that they will provide training. it s not yet clear who will ultimately supply the aircraft but the news was welcome