Tell things as it is. it is not always a story of good versus bad. ukraine has wrangled with its own problems of corruption which president zelensky is having a huge push on domestically, which we haven t shied away from telling. if we started avoiding stories that risk a fear of offending our hosts, then the bbc would be nothing in terms of trying to take audiences with us and try to shine a light on what is going on. the g7 summit has taken place in hiroshima injapan, a sombre setting reminding the world s great economic powers of the horrors of nuclear war. the global times of beijing, opinionated, aggressive but always readable, described the g7 meeting as an anti china workshop . but how fair is that?
Then the bbc would be nothing in terms of trying to take audiences with us and try to shine a light on what is going on. the g7 summit has taken place in hiroshima injapan, a sombre setting reminding the world s great economic powers of the horrors of nuclear war. the global times of beijing, opinionated, aggressive but always readable, described the g7 meeting as an anti china workshop . but how fair is that? i ve been speaking to celia hatton, the asia pacific editor of the bbc s world service. all the countries in the g7 aren t sure how they feel about china at the moment. of course there are problems with militarisation of the region, the threat of a chinese invasion of taiwan, yet pragmatically every single one of those countries
An update on what else the french president has been saying, he says that the g7 is an opportunity to convince india and brazil over ukraine. india and brazil over ukraine. india which has been ambivalence that ambivalent with its stance on the russian invasion of ukraine. late5t invasion of ukraine. latest comments there coming from the french president, emanuel macron in hiroshima injapan. let s have a look now at some other news. the white house and republicans have called their latest offer is a step back in negotiations to raise us federal debt ceiling. there were no new meetings on saturday on capitol hill and kevin mccarthy has said that talks were unlikely to move forward until president biden return5 forward until president biden returns from the g7 summit on sunday. lawmakers have until june one to reach a deal to lift the borrowing limit before the us default5 lift the borrowing limit before the us defaults on debt triggering po55ible financial
Go to europe, france, italy, germany and japan. japan. chris is injapan, but he is. let s hearfrom him. hello, james. hello, tina. welcome to hiroshima injapan, the site of this year s g7 summit of world leaders. let me give you a bit of a sense of the the journey here. i think you ve been looking at that picture of all of the westminster reporters huddled around the prime minister on the plane. we were able to ask questions for about 45, 50 minutes on the way here. that s quite standard on these kind of trips. there s no cameras recording it because it be too noisy on the plane. but all of the answers are on the record. and there s been a good number of stories that you might have seen or read or heard about connected to that conversation. i can also exclusively reveal that whilst it s obviously a real privilege to be able to travel the world with the prime minister, it is knackering. so we haven t seen a bed since wednesday morning when we got up to go to the airport.
Dispute, they say they will host those talks should they be required. so lots of things going on right now, these are the images from a little earlier of the syrian president meeting with at saudi cramp and is. crown prince. saudi arabia keen to play a new wider, diplomatic role on the world stage but really welcoming president basher al assad, syria was thrown out of that group 12 years ago. so lots of important developments, there is that summit going on, there is also the g7 meeting going on in hiroshima injapan, and that is where we were head now. leaders of the world s most developed g7 economies gathered in hiroshima for a summit have promised new sanctions against russia. they said the measures would starve moscow of technology, industrial equipment, and services that supported its 15 month war against ukraine. the us is imposing around 300 new sanctions which are expected