Apparatus. Get walked through some polls, walked through some data. All of it, again, meant to be part of the reassuring process. We are now squarely in week two of this, though. There are senators who say they wish all this happened sooner. There are senators who badly want to be reassured. I think that s the thing here. Everyone wants to be reassured. They d like to come down on the point where they can say president biden is the nominee. We re just not there yet. Significant day. The lunch with senators and top biden advisors, nato, and then the 5:30 p. M. News conference. Correspondent ali vaal tee, vitali, thank you so much. Thank you for getting up way too early on this thursday morning. Morning joe starts right now. While congressional democrats are conflicted, we got a clear message today from our nation s most powerful democratic leader, george clooney. [ laughter ] george wrote a new york times oped titled, i love joe biden. But we need a new nominee. Adding, we need a money
As the taliban insurgency in kabul continues. I am sarah mulkerrins in tokyo, where day 12 is underway and we have had a gold for brazil in the women s swimming marathon here below me in tokyo bay. Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. The belarusian sprinter who refused orders to fly home early from the olympics is due to leave japan in the next half hour. Officials from belarus had tried to send her home after she complained about the events the committee had entered herfor. But poland has granted her a humanitarian visa, and she s about to fly to warsaw. In moment we ll be live in tokyo and kiyv, but first our correspondent sarah rainsford has this report from minsk. She s a young athlete thrust into a political row she never sought. When sprinter krystina timanovskaya publicly criticised her coaches at the olympics, they tried to force her back to belarus. She refused. Speaking to the bbc from tokyo, she said she was now scared for herself and for her famil
Now on bbc news: world questions. Hello and welcome. I am jonny dymond and this is world questions, the g7 summit. The gathering of world leaders is happening here in the uk. I m in london and i m video linked to an international panel drawn from each of the g7 countries. The g7, or group of seven, consists of the seven most advanced economies. They are responsible for more than half of global net wealth, and they are all democracies. This weekend, their leaders will be debating some of the most pressing issues facing the world and attempting to lead. To mark the occasion, we gather together our own parallel meeting with leading figures and experts drawn from each of the g7 countries. There will be facing questions from around the globe: climate change, rebuilding after the pandemic, even the threat to democracy itself. There are huge issues for them to tackle. Here s our own g7 panel. From japan, senator rui matsukawa, defence. Bob rae, from canada, ambassador to united nations. From