and training for ukraine. shortly after landing in hiroshima, president zelensky tweeted that he was expecting to have important meetings with partners and friends of ukraine. he said peace will be closer as a result of the summit. he has met with rishi sunak in the past few minutes. they had already met on monday in the uk, where it was announced britain would send hundreds of air defence missiles and armed drones to ukraine. on the second days of talks injapan, the leaders of the g7 group of advanced nations have issued a statement on a shared approach to promote global economic resilience and to counter economic coercion. they said that any malign actor trying to, as they put it, weaponise economic dependence would fail. the g7 leaders added that their policy was not designed to harm china or thwart its economic progress. the statement also warned against what it said was china s militarisation in the south china sea, and it urged beijing to pressure moscow to end it
he s replacing meelo djukanovic the man who dominated the tiny adriatic country s politics for more than 30 years. we will get more with our baltics correspondent a little shorty on what all of this will mean for montenegro. now, to northern ireland, where counting continues after thursday s local council elections. over half of the seats have already been filled, with sinn fein making strong gains. if its momentum is maintained, the party will replace the democratic unionists as the largest force in local government. that would be a first for an irish nationalist party. live now to our northern ireland correspondent, clodagh rice. welcome to you, good to sue you. tell us more about these results and what they will mean for northern ireland. it what they will mean for northern ireland. , . ., what they will mean for northern ireland. , ., ., ireland. it is day two of counting