on the war in ukraine. let s start with the g7 meeting injapan. here they are outside hiroshima. with japan the leaders of the us, canada, the uk, france, italy, germany as well as the eu. they ve agreed new sanctions against russia measures they say will restrict the export of technology and equipment that would ve been critical to russia on the battlefield . now, while that s been happening, ukraine s president zelensky made a surprise to visit to that second big meeting the arab league summit in saudi arabia. zelensky asking leaders not to ignore the reality of what s happening in his country. next the arab league meeting was also attended by the syrian president bashar al assad. it s the first time he s been there for more than a decade. since he launched a brutal supression of pro democracy protesters in his own country. it lead to a civil war. hundreds of thousands of people are thought to have been killed. president assad was seen chatting injeddah with leaders. here
now they are putting their hands in his hand. they are distorting their picture among their own people, among the whole world, among the free people, people all over the world. we are as syrians because we don t understand that the kind of interest that they might have after normalising with assad, the only thing that assad can give to these countries the drugs that destroy the countries that destroy their pictures in the whole world. so we want we want these countries to know and to understand that neither syrians nor their own people will forgive them what they have done today in calling assad for this for this meeting, because this assad, who killed more than a million people, who imprisoned hundreds of thousands of people who displaced more more than half of the population of the syrians outside or in our country are going tojump
listen he s a very talented man. he s got a great personality. he s a funny guy. he s a very smarte s at negoor. loves his. he loves his country. his country does love him. his people, you see they have a great fervor. i think that he wants to do a great job for north korea. he wants to do what s right. he was verygracious. i think he trusts me, and i trust him. he s also arguably the world s wor human rights boozer. a man who had his half-brother and uncle killed. imprisoned hundreds of thousands for criticizing him. how is kim jong-un elevated by this type of praise? i think the entire last several weeks to months have seen a real rebranding of a regime that was a rogue regime and a pariah nation moving to the absolute center of the diplomatic dance floor. i think what is striking about it is if you think about this,
president of the united states to get on the stage with this individual who is a war criminal, who has murdered americans, imprisoned hundreds of thousands of his own people, starved millions of people, and that is untenable to elevate him in that fashion. the north koreas show no sign, and the entire regime is built on the prim that they will have nuclear weapons to have leverage and reunify under their terms and conditions. we have a very long way to go. i don t think this meeting i certainly hope this meeting is never going to come off. and i think they figured out a clever way to see, well, we won t meet with him until, and the until measures are not going to happen. was that your take on things, kristen welker? yes, go ahead. jennifer ruben was saying sarah huckabee sanders walking