edward lawrence joining us now with more from hiroshima. good to see you, e. ward. reporter: good evening, i can tell you that president joe biden is in for the night right now. very interesting, the g7 communique came out and specifically calls out china for the first time if the very specific terms. now, it s very specific if about saying that it s the not meant to thwart china s development or progress, but it does get very critical of china s actions in specifically the south china sea as well as including the actions they re taking with taiwan, saying that changes to the status quo would not be tolerated. it also calls on china to end the programs meant to undermine security and safety in other countries as well as end human rights abuses. now, critics say the president has been dragged into criticizing china, taking a long time to push back. china s within helping russia as russia continues to try and take ukrainian land. the ukrainian president made a surprise visit
fox s alexandria hoff live in d.c. with the latest. hi, alex. reporter: yeah. 10 a.m. local time in japan, so much earlier today, president biden did receive an update from his negotiating team here in washington. we don t know exactly what that was, but the white house did come out with a statement soon after saying that the president essentially feels that republicans have turned away from a good faith promise to negotiate and are holding the economy hostage. communications director ben lebolt writing, quote: any serious budget negotiation must include discussion of both spending and revenues, but republicans have refused to discuss revenue. house speaker kevin mccarthy said yesterday the white house is not giving enough movement on spending reductions. a meeting with republicans and negotiators for the president was cut short yesterday morning, it then resumed last night. that major sticking point you talking about, expanded work requirements that the gop wants for recipients of f