hello, i m mark lobel. ukraine s president zelensky has arrived injapan, where he s meeting world leaders at the g7 summit. he s said that peace will become closer , after the us agreed to train ukrainian pilots on american f 16 fighterjets, paving the way for european countries to supply the warplanes to kyiv. moscow said western countries will be running colossal risks if the jets are sent to ukraine. our political editor, chris mason, reports from hiroshima. the airport here has welcomed rather a few leaders in the last few days. and here came another one. after a tour of europe and a trip to the middle east, president zelensky arrived in japan today. long haul diplomacy amid a long, drawn out war and ongoing pleas for help. they met on monday in the uk and they met again here. the president and the prime minister made it. ukraine s leader said enhanced cooperation would bring victory for him and claimed peace is closer and closer to peace. for months, ukraine has been
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James landale has more. not surprisingly, it s been welcomed. asking for f i6s is something that s become a very familiar chorus, heard notjust from the sort of shuttle diplomacy of president zelensky, but also other senior figures, members of this government, wherever they are in the world, they always ask for more military support in the air. and that s for a very simple reason. it s because the air above us is a contested space. we know that ukraine has a lot of air defenses, but as we experienced here ourselves last night, you know, it is a battlefield. the air is frequently filled with missiles and drones from russia that pose a real threat almost on a daily basis to the people of ukraine. yes, the air defense has managed to shoot down most of them, but ukraine is painfully aware that it does not command the authority of the skies. so it wants to be able to do that.