The culture industry, which are either the fourth or fifth biggest contributor to gdp in this country. The Knock On Effect across the whole of the economy is enormous. Every day that goes by loses millions of pounds, so there comes a moment where an industry simply cannot take it any more. Look at the number of pubs, shops that are limp never going to reopen. Just pubs, shops that are limp never going to ream pubs, shops that are limp never going to reapen going to reopen. Just one last question going to reopen. Just one last question. You going to reopen. Just one last question. You have going to reopen. Just one last question. You have a going to reopen. Just one last question. You have a new going to reopen. Just one last question. You have a new theatre are scheduled to open on the 28th Of July scheduled to open on the 28th Of July with Jersey Boys transferring to the trafalgar theatre. I think the big news out of the new Theatre Opening is that it is going to be a theatre with more womens toilets. Certainly, every theatre that we work with, many womens toilets for all of the good reasons that we know thatis all of the good reasons that we know that is important. And much more comfortable seating as well, which is also very important. Is also very important. Thank you. Very good is also very important. Thank you. Very good luck is also very important. Thank you. Very good luck with is also very important. Thank you. Very good luck with that. Is also very important. Thank you. Very good luck with that. We is also very important. Thank you. I very good luck with that. We hope that whatever happens, life will continue to be the vital presence it is in this country, and all over the work your colleagues to do to achieve that. Presence it is in this country. For now, thank you very much. For now, thank you very much. Now on Bbc News this weekend the worlds leading democracies meet for the G7 Summit in cornwall in england. World questions debates how they will they deal with the worlds major challenges. Hello and welcome. I am Jonny Dymond and this is world questions, the G7 Summit. The gathering of World Leaders is happening here in the uk. Im in london and im video linked to an international panel drawn from each of the g7 countries. The g7, or group of seven, consists of the seven most advanced economies. They are responsible for more than half of global net wealth, and they are all democracies. This weekend, their leaders will be debating some of the most pressing issues facing the world and attempting to lead. To mark the occasion, we gather together our own parallel meeting with leading figures and experts drawn from each of the g7 countries. They will be facing questions from Around The World Climate Change, rebuilding after the pandemic, even the threat to democracy itself. There are huge issues for them to tackle. Heres our own g7 panel. From japan, Parliamentary Miniter for defence. Bob rae, from canada, ambassador to united nations. From italy, director of the institute for international affairs. From france, former Foreign Affairs editors for the newspaper lexpress. From the usa, Christopher Hill, former ambassador to iraq. From germany, the Deputy Director of the Xi Society Foundation for europe. And from here in the uk, we have the chair of parliaments Foreign Affairs collect committee, tom. Welcome to you all. Our first question, it comes from oliver in hong kong. My question is how can the G7 Hope to compete with china that refuses to play by international rules and uses its seemingly unlimited resources to push his agenda and every sphere abroad. Thanks, oliver. How can g7 use its seemingly limitless resources to push its agenda and every sphere abroad. Here, we have restrictions on democratic freedoms in hong kong. Flybys over taiwan with the controversial claims that china has made over the south China Sea, just to name but a few. Ambassador hill in the us, the question, how can the G7 Hope to compete with china when it refuses to play by the rules . Can it hope to . This is perhaps the great link between president trumps Administration And President bidens, standing up to china. Of course it can. I think one of the hallmarks of the g7 is the concept that these are a group of democracies, like minded countries who share values. And they also, i think its very important for them to get together and discuss this challenge to our values, and the challenge to World Leadership. I think President Biden has been very clear, as hes just been and just arrived in the uk, hes made very clear the last 2a hours that he considers the summit extremely important. He wants people to know that the united states is back on the stage. He realises this is going to be a work in progress, there are a lot of things we will have to pick up on, and certainly, one of them is dealing with china. China is not going anywhere. China is a very serious player and will be for many years, but we need to figure out policies where together, we can work on shaping the environment for china to perhaps make some changes in the way they approach their environment. Also, i want to mention the Courage Of Oliver in speaking to us from hong kong, which has really faced the brunt in the Way China has behaved in recent years. Some of the reasons why they need to be seized with this issue. I can assure you when you look at the trump administration, the biden administration, there are so many differences its almost night and day. One area where it is not so different is in the matter of dealing with china. We need to have a forceful Response And Work with others. There is no one single country that can do that, but the g7 together can. Nathalie tocci, do you think italy has a different perspective perhaps on china, given its desire perhaps for investment, given its own position in the world . Perhaps different from the us, the uk . No, i think there has been really quite a significant change. I think under previous governments,. Wearers. With an understanding of china. Ithink underthe. Indeed, there was questioning whether it is transatlantic credentials, as they have been historically. I think with the current government there has been a very clear repositioning of italy at the transatlantic court, and a very clear distancing from china. So, i think were back to a more traditional italian foreign policy. And a place in The International Community. Daniela, weve heard near unanimity from the panelists on this question. How can the G7 Hope to compete with china . Is germany aligned further with the other members of the g7 . I think today, germany has a very realistic perception of what china is. L its a rising power, an economic | partner to germany, but it is al competitor, and thats what the government has always emphasised. I believe more can be done and there could be more i Emphasis On Human Rights and other issues. But we also need to look at the issues and we and we need to partner with china, i but as we said earlier on, Climb Iti will be a big topic. It will be a big topic at the g7, but also how we need to engage with drain on Climate Change and letting without I Letting Go of the other importantl values that have to defend against china. And you have a very different perspective than perhaps the other g7 countries, you are a lot closer to china, no . No, i think it is. Fora longtime when the European Concerns with very different to the chinese concerns, japan has been very consistent in paying attention to the chinese authoritarian failure in especially the security feels, and it is japan actually who proposed a specific strategy and that is now fortunately the us has also been employing and doing it together, enlarging the coalition of the. In the us and reallyjapan is now very happy that the major European Countries like the uk or france or germany have more interest in the pacific. What i would like to say about china is for china, Japan And China has along history and we are neighbours, geographically we are close, we want a very stable relationship, yet Ourjapanese Territory is actually. By chinese. It is a time for the democracies to have the their Deterrence Capability increased, united at the g7, and sending a clear message to china that it is not chinese interests to take aggressive action is to neighbourhood or in the south China Sea or East Tennessee and to observe the international order, so that it is good for china too, actually. But i think what we have to do now is have a united deterrence capabilities and clear message to china that it can be more safe to observe international order with an order established. Lets move onto the next question. It comes from an international Law Student from levine. I hope i have pronounced that correctly. In Western Ukraine. The tally. A very good day to all of you, cordial greetings from the auditorium of the institute of international relations here at my i question is that given the fact that| Nato International Plays continue to show the systematic neglect of international law, is It Safe to say that the united Nations Security Council and the international Courtj Ofjustice are outdated in Form And Relevance and should be g7 take a more active I Stance when it comes to the Enforcement Of International Law . Well, a question from Western Ukraine there, which of Course Ukraine itself suffered a breach of international law to the illegal annexing of crimea by russia, which led to its expulsion from what was then the g8, and has now become the g7, and various different functions as well. Bob, is the united Nations Security Council which i know canada rather looks at with great respect, is it outdated . Is the international Court Ofjustice outdated . Should the g7 become more muscular . I dont think there is any contradiction in saying that the un is a far from perfect institution and the g7 can do more. I think the g7 can do more and i think impact that is happens. When the Security Council get stuck because of the Veto Power of what we call the p5, the permanent members of the Security Council, we have to find other ways of being more creative and we have seen this. The emergence of what is called the magnitsky sanctions in a number of countries, which has made a difference in terms of our ability to implement sanctions and make them more targeted and more effective. The fact we have been able to create new Accountability Mechanisms in dealing with the situation in syria and in dealing with the situation in myanmar, even though, you know, we dont have the institutional strength to actually enforce things more quickly, we face this dilemma since 1945. The structures we created are not perfect, but i think there is a much stronger Keener Sense among a number of us that we have to become more effective and indeed muscular in how we try to implement international law effectively and how we engage in various coalitions of countries that are willing to engage together to make sure that the bullies in the world, that the authoritarian countries in the world are brought to book and i think that is extremely important. We are facing this growing crisis of authoritarianism. It has affected your country, the tally, very much, and your ambassador does a greatjob here in talking about it on the general floor of the assembly, but we all recognise there is much more to be done and i think that is a clear consensus that you will find talking to a great many countries. Daniela, the question is about the usefulness or not of the united Nations Security Council and of course the international Court Ofjustice. Germany has come under a lot of Pressure And Criticism because of its attitude towards russia, which the question is pointing towards here and in particular about cooperation with russia over the transport of natural gas. Does germany have a different attitude towards russia, compared to many other members of the g7 . On the more fundamental question that he has raised, and the question of law, the integrity of territory, i see no difference at all. The way the german government has always framed the two gas Projects Pipeline from russia, on the more fundamental question that he has raised, and the question of law, the integrity of territory, i see no difference at all. The way the german government has always framed the two gas Projects Pipeline from russia, whilst it is a Project Run by companies, so a private sector project, that is of course only half the truth because any Energy Project of that kind with such a partner is of course a hugely political project and you can see that the government has come round to understanding this when it started putting a lot of political energy into Negotiating Gas through ukraine to slightly compensate but it was doing with the new Gas Pipeline outside of ukraine. I personally think this is one of the big geopolitical mistakes of the government to actually go into the construction of this pipeline because it undermines german credibility from the perspective of a number of central and eastern European Countries, as well. However, and this is the story that the government tells, it is the way to keep engaged with russia. So there are those two stories and it is also true that from a european perspective, it is of course not helpful to cut all ties with russia and where the balance needs to be found and again on the more fundamental question that italy has raised, i think it is of utmost importance that all European Governments and the united states, basically all g7 members, continue emphasising that the respect for the integrity of territory or the Rule Of Law for peaceful mechanisms to solve conflicts, that this is the basis of our international cooperation. Thanks, daniela. Tom tugendhat, chair of the Foreign Affairs select committee, i think you have been rather clumsily described as hawkish towards russia in yourtime. Do you see a role for an organisation like the g7 to soar to beef out if the united Nations Security Council is paralysed by Russias Membership . We need to fight corruption and what President Biden said the day builds on work that the Foreign Affairs select committee of the united kingdom has done since 2018, when we released our Moscow Gold Report and exposing corruption, preventing the spread of Dirty Money through our systems and holding it until we can release it back to the people from whom it was robbed is exactly what we should be doing because lets not pretend that the government in Russia Today under President Putin is anything other thana criminal gang. It does not represent the people, it merely exploits them. It is a brutal, moneymaking regime for one man and his acolytes. Tom, thank you very much indeed. Ambassador Christopher Hill. After the g7 comes nato for President Biden and then after nato comes their first meeting, the first meeting of President Biden and vladimir putin. What will you look for in that meeting. Well, first of all, i hope that we will not have any of these frankly inappropriate one on one meetings where we have no idea what was done, so. I am pretty sure we will have a return to normalcy. Our president will sit down with the russian president , they will have a meeting, proper notes will be taken and i think there will be an exchange of the agenda items. I do not expect any huge breakthroughs, but i think Mr Putin should go away from that meeting with a clear understanding of what the biden administration is expecting. In terms of the substance of the meeting, one the big issues is of course corruption, which will be there, but the biggest issue will be this issue of cyber attacks. We have had a number of us companies attacked are ovulate in so called ransomware attacks, where many of these companies have actually been paying this money and we have determined that many of these attacks have come from russia and at best you can say the Putin Government has been indifferent, more likely they have been complicit. So i think there will be issues of that kind to discuss. I agree with the proposition that the us has to have at least a good means of communication with the russian leadership, but i think it needs to be clear and consistent and i think we will look for a meeting where President Biden will lay it out and laid out very clearly, so there will be no misunderstandings about where we stand. Ambassador, thank you. Of course, at the g7 there will be nothing heard from russia. It was a member once, it is no longer a member and it has no platform at the gathering this weekend. Lets go on to our next question if we could. It is from emilio, who is a romanian Health Care Worker living in dublin, the irish capital. My question is why china is still considered a developing country, taking. Into account her military Size And Space development, which costs a Lot Of Money and so forth . China is accounting for 23 of World Carbon emissions, by lastl statistics, and here in the eu we are paying for the consequences. Thanks very much, it emilio. This refers to perhaps the most difficult issue hanging over the summit and then later in the cop26 meeting, which is supposed to produce huge results hopefully on the issue of Climate Change. China accounts for 23 of World Carbon pollution by the last statistic, says emilio, and here in the eu we are paying for the consequences. Why China Stubbs considered a developing country . Well, it is indeed a big issue, not only because of the climate, but because in the wto we are measuring countries with different scales. But the point of china is that there are deep inequalities within the country and if you look at gdp per capita levels, china is indeed not anywhere where europe or the united states are. However, china has highly competitive sectors of its industry. It is leading on technology in some regards and that is why europeans are really looking into this question, whether there is fair treatment assured if access to china is permitted upon rules that were supposed to provide a level playing field. Well, china is very protective of its own market, of its public procurement, for instance, but also really tries to protect its own status as a developing country. Senator, we hear so much about the need to bring china on board in any climate agreement, but from emilio come cynicism about the that china has, the way that china is treated by the Global Community in the last set of climate negotiations. Well, i mean, itotally agree with emilio. China shouldnt be enjoying already that outdated data of developing. Countries because it i is now by 2028 May be the chinese gdp surpasses the us and then in certain technologies they are surpassing the leading economy, and then. I think it was in the past a huge gap in gdp, is. The reason for their starters as a developing country, but in the wto or Climate Change or any other. Areas, i think china needs to be responsible for its own size and its own capability. They are the donors, you know, to african countries or asian countries, of huge amounts of | money they are providing, they had| this capability. The government of china, unlike may be the democracies, they should actually in my opinion are supposed to provide a fluent budget to the people, rather |than buying off some countries for| their own national,. Hegemonic purposes, so i think it is time for The International Community to re evaluate Chinas Status as a developing country. Well, we could maybe differentiate certain. Frameworks, but wto or Climate Change, i think it is time for considering seriouslyj changing that status. Thank you, senator rui matsukawa. Cristiano in france, is it time to change the way that china is assessed . There is something very important to understand about china. The chinese themselves dislike to be considered as a rich country. They want still to be considered as part of what we call previously beef old world. It is ideological and it is previously the third world. It is ideological and it is political. It is for china to get connected to the rest of the world and to the poorest countries, to allow china to open new roads, for instance. So it is not only the rest of the world, but it is above all china which is the case why is china so eager to consider itself is a poor country, ambassador, thank you. Of course, at the g7 there will be nothing heard from russia. Pollution by the last statistic, says emilio, and here in the eu we are paying for the consequences. Why China Stubbs considered a developing country . It is above all china which is the case why is china so eager to consider itself is a poor country, as a country colonised by western countries . Exploited by china, as a geopolitical argument to continue to conquer, if i may say, the rest of the world. Thank you. We are going to wrap up the programme was one last quickfire question. It is from pen with college, which is a sixth Form College very close to where the summit has been held and it comes from a student at the college, a show. Can you panel identify one lesson which we have learned from the pandemic that can help us combat Climate Change . If you didnt catch it, that was could be panel identify one lesson we have learnt from the pandemic to help us combat Climate Change . 15 seconds each, i will start with christian in france. What is the lesson from the pandemic for Climate Change . For the first time in history, the whole World Economy was stopped during. For a while, for health and new reasons, so what has been shown is that if we are not acting together nothing is going to be solved. But climate, we must install more mutual systems and more multilateralism. That is the main solution and that is the main conclusion from this crisis. Ambassador Christopher Hill in the us . I think we are all learning that we are on Spaceship Earth and we are all together in this. I think the pandemic certainly showed that and by the way the american people suddenly came to an understanding of that, there is no more talk of American Postwar America alone. We have got to be with everyone else in dealing with these problems. Thank you, daniela starts in germany. One of the lessons is clearly that we are all safe and healthy in our environment and this all goes into sustainability issues were climate and then on a very practical level i think we learned quite how much we can get done without travelling such as we used to do. That is all we have time for from this G7 Edition of world questions. It has been fascinating to hearfrom our panellists, and we will now watch and wait to see what emerges from this critical global summit. A big thank you to all our panel who have been so generous with their time and thanks also to our wonderful questioners, the pupils and teachers of penrith college, cornwall, and to all of you for watching from whether you are Around The World. Goodbye hello. After sundays heat, fresher conditions are working their way into the north of the uk for monday. Pretty quiet start to the week ahead but looking very stormy for some from Wednesday Evening onwards. Pressure holds us steady overnight and into monday, but this front will make its way into the North West through the small hours, and behind it we do usher in cooler and fresher air. Rain moving across scotland, the front fizzling out as it pushes into Northern England by The End of the night. Not much rain left on it by then. Cooler air into scotland and Northern Ireland first thing monday. Still very warm and muggy across england and wales. The front on a hiding to nothing through monday daytime just some cloud drifting its way south. Still very warm and muggy to the south through monday afternoon. Elsewhere, temperatures 6 8 degrees down on the figures weve seen on sunday. It looks like the Humidity And Heat will begin to build again through the beginning of the week. This is Bbc News. I am reporting live from the G7 Summit where the row between britain and the European Union over the northern Ireland Issue posed backs that has this Summit Meeting of World Leaders. What i am saying is that we will do whatever it takes to protect the territorial integrity of the uk. With the summit in cornwall now over the american president Joe Biden has now landed at windsor to meet the queen. ~. ,