plus speak to experts about what the leaders could achieve. and the cost of the queen s funeral is revealed we ll break down just how much the government spent on the historic event. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hi, there. it s 8:00 in the morning here in singapore, and 9am in hiroshima, japan, where the country s prime minister fumio kishida hosts his counterparts from the us, the uk, germany, italy, france and canada for the annual g7 summit. it s a packed agenda for the world leaders who ll be discussing the war in ukraine, the rising influence of china and the increasing tensions between china and the west over taiwan. the summit officially begins in the coming hours, but already deals have been struck. british prime minister rishi sunak was among the early arrivals, he s agreed a new defence and economic arrangement with japan. nick marsh is in hiroshima for us. with hiroshima for us. the french president emmanuel with the french p
conservative cabinet minister justine greening and ron christie former adviser to george w bush. welcome to the programme. it has been a fractious few days, nato allies openly criticising the decisions in berlin, the german chancellor refusing to send his tanks, unless the united states also had skin in the game. but out of delay and a whole lot of diplomatic wrangling, has come a momentous decision. nearly 100 nato tanks, will be sent in the coming month to the front line and the border with russia a move that was unthinkable months ago. we will provide battle tanks to ukraine, the leopard two. this is the result of intensive consultations with our allies and international partners. i want to stress that it is right that we did not allow anyone to pressure us but that instead we relied on close cooperation on the special issue and we will continue to do so. the americans took some convincing. the abrams while readily available, will take longer to ship, they are more compl
coercion chains and issue of economic coercion by china is a mechanism which is going to be addressed to improving resilience in global supply chains resilience in global supply chains and that will actually reduce chains and that will actually reduce the effectiveness of that reduce the effectiveness of that type of mechanism by involving more economies in the suppty involving more economies in the supply chain. involving more economies in the sopply chain- supply chain. china is quite unhappy supply chain. china is quite unhappy about supply chain. china is quite unhappy about this - supply chain. china is quite unhappy about this notion l supply chain. china is quite . unhappy about this notion that it weapon rises its huge powerhouse economy in disputes with other countries and whether, i don t know, it s desirable or even possible or european countries, especially, to de risk, to diversify the supply chain. is this a reasonable ambition? i think these types reasona
border. we have heard that that does need to happen. if that were the next book should be putting plants in place so that ukraine can commission and supply their own war effort? we commission and supply their own war effort? ~ , ., ., ,., effort? we ust heard about the need for a effort? we just heard about the need for a su -l effort? we just heard about the need for a sopply chain effort? we just heard about the need for a supply chain strategy effort? we just heard about the need for a supply chain strategy if - for a supply chain strategy if you re going to have tanks there you need to make sure that the maintenance is available. i think both in the short term as bc more and different sophisticated weaponry going to ukraine i think you were right to ask about the next steps. i am sure that they will come. in the long term, there is also the need to stay safe. whatever happens in ukraine there will be a russian that stays on their doorstep and continues to have its aspirations
seeing an issue within their warehouses. what we are also seeing as it is warehouses. what we are also seeing as it is not warehouses. what we are also seeing as it is not affecting all fuel retailers as it is not affecting all fuel retailers and that is because they perhaps retailers and that is because they perhaps have planned their supply chain perhaps have planned their supply chain for perhaps have planned their supply chain for fuel in different ways, and i chain for fuel in different ways, and i suspect those retailers are not seeing and i suspect those retailers are not seeing issues at the moment, they had not seeing issues at the moment, they had a not seeing issues at the moment, they had a buffer or contingency within they had a buffer or contingency within their supply chain, not just for fuel within their supply chain, not just for fuel itself, but also of the hgv drivers for fuel itself, but also of the hgv drivers needed to move the fuel around dri