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it's been confirmed that ukrainian president below them is it ends key will now join them on sunday. the 1st session is currently on the way with the war and ukraine on china is rising. influenced, helping the agenda, japanese problem, and it's definitely a casita. we'll also seek the support of the g $74.00, transparency around existing nicholas stopped off. let's go straight toward the plastic edison. james space is covering the summit for us in hiroshima dream. so we learned today that presidency landscape will be attending was that expected. that's why we always knew that he'd be taking policies to pos as well in the g 7 last year . but virtually we were being led to believe that it would be virtual this time. but of course, they would never tell us too much in advance that he was going to be making a journey like this. and i think perhaps the ukrainians are a little annoyed that the information is already leaked out. but he will be here on sunday taking part in the g 7. i think that's an effort from him to get further

support from this body. this firmly behind his efforts in the war, political support, military support, financial support for his assets. for example, he's trying to lo be some of the g, g 7 countries that f sixteens bind to jets are needed by his policies. also the, the, they're all the attendees that come to a g 7 invite to guests and that's some pretty important countries. countries like india, indonesia, brazil, countries that all perhaps is firmly on his side, one would say, and it's certainly not providing any military support. he will lobby them too. and there is an intriguing prospect of at some point on sunday, seeing him with the other g 7 lead. ready standing shoulder to shoulder with them, that would be a pretty historic image. i see would be here in person. but also because russia used to be part of this grouping. it used to be called the g 8. and effectively,

we might see presence the lensky set standing in the place. what president putin used to stand on times talking of symbolism, the stomach being held in the shutter of the hair. she, i'm a piece memorial. absolutely deliberate choice of the venue by the japanese of japan has initiatives with regard to nuclear weapons that would like much more transparency on nuclear weapons. some of the g 73, a nuclear armed state. the others actually hosts nuclear weapons from those countries on that type of trade. it is an important issue. all these leaders paying respect today that those to those that died here a back in 1945 at 8, 15 in the morning, back on august. the 6th of that, yeah, i'm, they heard of from one of the survivors of what happened. one of the worst things

that's happened in human history, and i can tell you from my own experience being here for the last 48 has they can't help to be moved by what they hers around the world. most people know what happened in hiroshima, but even though the rhetoric nuclear bomb was dropped to almost 78 years ago, visiting for the 1st time is a deep, clean moving experience. since i can know what it's over to joe, and it's humbling to meet somebody, but it's like 90 roadside a custody ok. both her parents died. she showed me a picture drawn from her recollections, showing the last moments of her badly boned father. and she recalled what happened at 8 15 in the morning, on the 6th of august, 1945 minutes at a bunch of what i know my the when i finished my tours in the morning, i saw this beautiful bright light in front of my eyes. it looked like the 1st sunrise of the beautiful orange lied. and while i was starting to wonder what it was, the front window exploded. i was hit by broken glass and pushed towards the wall by

the power of the blast. i did not understand what had happened. that's how it all started. up to a 135000 people died in the city for the 60 to 80000 were killed when a 2nd bomb was dropped 3 days later on like a saki. 8 1945 to she could knock a who lost both of her parents and many other family members was just 6 years old. she has this message for the g, so i know good buckled. i want them to really pay attention to what happens when you use a nuclear weapon. there was a war and ukraine now, and this stomach should not be a place where you make military preparations. in a rush, i'mma we have experienced a new coupon, says tend. this meeting should be a place where they find a way towards peaceful and put them into until listen. daniel hofstra is the acting direct to the international campaign to acknowledge equally weapons which won the nobel peace prize 5 years ago. and the g 7 summit is taking place in the context of

a brutal invasion of ukraine by russia. when nuclear threats are kind of used as nuclear blackmail and that in that context. and they say that the risks of the use of new girlfriends are the highest they've been out since the 19 eighties and probably so what we really need to see from the g 7 leaders is, is leadership, the survivors, old, now elderly. and in a matter of years, what happened here? one of the was things, ma'am, colleen does have a software will pass beyond living memory. it will not vote must not ever be forgot the world owes it to this place and its people, the memory is never extinguished. shaped space, which is 0. russia, china, as president, is using, paying has wrapped up a regional summit with the leaders of 5 central asian nations. presidency unveiled a plan for central ages, trade and development. beijing says it aims to expand transport length and speed up

the expansion of a gas pipeline that will sub members who will serve pledge $3700000000.00 in financial support to the region. jessica washington has moved from sham. this is certainly an important week of diplomacy for president. she didn't pay host leaders of catholic sand. cubic of sun trust minnes done. it was dick has done. and projects done. now he met earlier. he's specify natural meeting was with the cosmic president. costume joe wants to kind of where he remarks that china and catholics don has an in, during friendship and us a message that he reiterated to the, of the central asian lead is the message of friendship. a corporation of china being a reliable partner for the region. and today, as the summit takes place, the group has this, this group meeting president. she didn't think earlier, deliberate a speech. and i will read some of that to you. he remarks that they will be a, an upgrade to biological investment agreements, and that development costs are independently chosen by central asia and must be

respected. that sovereignty security independence and territorial integrity must be safe, got into very much for trained china as a reliable cotton us as a consistent partner and one that was with the regents rather than interfering in any internal affairs. and meanwhile, a chinese state media has vermont on the g 7 conference. that is d 7 leaders that is taking place in japan. chinese state media says that actually it welcomes any comparisons or any media noting that this is a week of power. lo, some is with for us, it and she is having one summit. and meanwhile the g 7 is meeting in japan. and some of those editorials noticed that the us is pushing coercive diplomacy that actually works against developing nations and some editorials. also accuse the g 7 is being closed and narrow minded and very quickly in terms of the way that it engages in diplomacy. and meanwhile, the chinese state media editorial say that the summit, the president,

she is hosting this week let's see on, is actually a model for, for diplomacy that china is working with old countries developing and develop a and working towards the quality. jessica washington out to 0. c. okay, let's get more on this. we can speak to neva. yeah. she's a non resident fellow at the atlanta counsels global china hub. she joins us now from a multi in kazakhstan. thank you so much for your time. is it notable that russia wasn't invited to the summit? i think a china has been experimenting with various different more formats of increasing diplomacy with central asia, including ones that are excluding russia. but when we look at a cross regional perspective, when china starts at 16 plus one in eastern europe in 2012, russia also never protested. so also right now trying to increasing the presence in a central asia is actually something that must go find a non threatening. and this china is growing importance to these countries,

make russia are less important to them. and i think we have to remember that most converging both work in the various different sexes in the region, according to the effect is that they're good at so for most of the sectors that they have always been having of dominance over its security because of the law enforcement and the military of the region are trained uh, by russia. they are very strong ties with russia and the old russian speaking, you know, this is a start to that, trying to find it extremely hard to penetrate. whereas a china have a much stronger presence in the economy of central asia because that's what a china is able to do more. whereas, you know, this is not an area that most who can actually do so there has been this kind of ease of the fishing of labor for many years already. but it's not by design is just based on what these 2 countries are cut up and for the entire time both must go and beach and actually have goals that are 1st similar to each other,

which is not to have the region of democratize, not to have to reach and uh, engage them all was the west and they both in the various ways support each other in the region. yeah, that's interesting. i'll pick you up on that in a 2nd. but thomas, more about china's motivation here and getting close to the central asian countries, what are they hoping to achieve? the train is goals and the region is actually rod at domestic having the region reaffirm china's position legitimacy and seeing jot has been an issue that is been escalating over the 30 years. so 30 years ago, it was about having central asia agree with the board agreements with china. that formerly legitimize the people's republic of china is ruling over the single region . you know, if it wasn't for these border treaties, it would have been in dispute even today like kashmir. right. so 30 years ago this was a lashley achieved. and then 20 years ago, it was about criminalizing any of the groups that operate in central asia, because we have to remember that these turkey giving us a t such transporter,

they all have families and friends across the board. and in order to stop the flow of ideologies that were emerging in seeing jonathan political move medicine for his movements that were coming from seeing jobs, central asian states need it to help trying not trying to needed the help to actually combat this issue. so try to already started to boot influence of at the beginning of central asian independence in order for the region to help trying to secure some jobs. and we can see that even today, this has stepped out because we can see that right after the china, if it's the causing start out. so you can think visit a cause it's on it who's back as on september last year, the 2 countries out in the united and the patient's human rights council for to, to not have the single issue investigated by the instructional community. and briefly, as we mentioned, the west america specifically also has an interest in the region. we have the us next year of state and to the blinking visit the region recently. how do these asian, a central asian nations view,

the united states interest versus china is and rushes ok. so when the, when as get a sense of what was the me a issue for american foreign policy? america actually has military bases in central asia, but they are left in the 2010s. and of course right now as us no longer put us got us on as such a priority of the foreign policy. the way that us engaged from central asia no longer have this of dentist on angle which actually worries central asian states because they are still left here worrying about, you know, what are the potential over spill. so this is where, you know, the security guarantees that used to be able to counter some of the russian influence in the security sector. america. unfortunately, we have left this a domain about the remaining interest of, of the us and europe is the fact of central asia is do. uh,

especially since the whole under crane has been put in a very difficult situation. whether or not they can maintain this neutral and peaceful policy that the central asian calls multi factor policy, which is to balance the influence of russian china and the west. and is increasingly proving that a central asia is not able to actually balance and is now much more being brought into the old bit of russia and china. really interesting to speak to you need a yeah. known resident fellow at the atlanta counsels global china hot. it's an east farm, they'll be says heavy rain and flooding has caused incalculable damage to land in the north least betsy and people have been killed while 10000 more have been displaced by the storm. that's good to hold out of the mead who is now near amolla in north east, and it's really all the it's been described as it's of these west flooding in a hundreds of years. took us through what you're saying, how extensive is the damage a while indeed, as you said,

the worst flooding in a 100 years, and that's because you have 6 months worth of rain pouring down in just a span of 36 hours. now we've been a little around the air because a lot of roads have been shut down. what you do see is a seems like this one, basically stories that are completely flooded. we are now in the village of my solemn bottom that and it's raining again today, not as heavy as it was in the previous days, but certainly this scene will continue now because it's very difficult to clear those trees under the current situation. now also local authorities, the, the civil protections are telling us that more than 20 rivers have burst the bags of causing really this flooding does about $400.00 municipalities that are submerged in water. and as you said earlier, also

a lot of damage to agriculture lab. this is a area that is known as the food basket of italy. this is the time where they would start with the beginning of summer, reaping some of those foods. well apparently, according to the agricultural cooperative in the region, about 5000 farms have basically lost their crops hold. of there's been some criticism of the government not being best prepared to deal with this flooding. uh, what a resident saying to you. well actually we were just talking to one of the, of the people here living in this village. and he was sort of pointing the finger to the authorities because nothing was made in preparation of that. but there's also another reality. and that mutual just pointing out a to they said that this year has also been the dryer steer on record of for this region. and the so it was so dry that they could not absorb all that had been down

for a raid or the same time. now a lot of people would tell you here that the infrastructure is old, that things need to be prepared and that there is something called climate change was this man was telling us, but they saying that's a, sorry, jesus, what i'm looking at it with a no show is not really not really re error being proactive, but actually reacting off to that. but the reality is that this has this down for rain, has actually taken everyone by surprise at the time when the conversation initially was about the drought was about how that hasn't been any down for rain since the beginning of the year. how about how the poor river, which is the largest river in this country, it was actually below is normal level just a few weeks ago. so it's usually very difficult time to deal with this guy. methics changes in a part of the country that does suffer the most. okay,

hold on. good to speak to you, hold on adult, need a speaking to a staff from nit impala which is a north eastern se. okay, still ahead on al jazeera, getting rid of guns, balls and hits go venus desktop efforts to destroy thousands of legal firearms. the high again, good to see. well, the threat of flooding and transfers from the northeast of italy to the northwest on friday with these rounds of rain would be surprised if we see pockets of a $1200.00 millimeters of rain. so that much rain, that fast could certainly trigger some flash flooding. that's today on friday. let me show you on saturday we get cold air rushing out of europe, meeting up with warm air from africa, and that spins up a storm system in the central mediterranean. so we'll keep tabs on that over the

course of the weekend, back to here in now, and unfortunately it's still gloomy for the western side of the turkey has some showers and assemble as well. you got that wind out of the north. so puts a cap on your temperature of 17 degrees today. now to the northwest of europe, we go gloomy conditions, but also peaks of sun. we had a cold front punch across speller, ruth and western russia that drop down temperature is there. and it's a story of the wind out of the south of france through the valley, eric islands, it's going to generate some showers as well. and wind gusts in this, so in about 50 to 60 kilometers per hour. whether it's in play for how intense this rain will be in northern algeria, wind warnings for libya, seeing gusts here about 60 kilometers per hour. and then some forecast models are showing about a months worth of rain in durban over the next little bit. and it's going to be windy there as well on friday, we'll see you soon. a. the russell bid in southern england with 2 farmers trans safari park. pioneers fits the

attractive nature in the driving seat. i was just absolutely astonishing. the license pulled back even not sorry for somebody. and i am again sophie, i sent you over to me when one by you, me, a ring companies revolutionizing this was the same using funds in our 57th image and here inside you have size. you have a technology, fast fries, phone out, your 0. the, [000:00:00;00] the welcome back. you're watching out. is there a mind a thought top stories? this our 1st session of the g 7 summit is underway and who are she must warn you.

crane on china is rising. influence on to the top issues being discussed, you printing, present the most me savanski is expected to join the latest on sunday. china's president, meanwhile, as wrap to summit with the leaders of 5 central asian nations, judging ping on bales of plants, central ages, trade and development. as lease from low bases, heavy rain and flooding has caused intelligible damage to land. and the noise, especially in people, are killed. all 10000 more have been displaced by the story. the us has condemned on to a nationalist is riley's who talented racist slogans during a controversial variety on cycled flag day for the monks reports. now for monkey parties were some or yes, it tells him he's closing his doors early today is he's supposed to do one day every may. when is reading much is making the street on safe. they love this to

prove that this service and this whole the and that way they will be able to prove that they did either of the city and the city. yes. as own this clothing shop for decades jerusalem's old city. the only home his family has ever known. this is my that's there's my sister and born here, my both good positive and boom and lots of your most beneficial is also but this afternoon he's avoiding the so called flag march and annual event. the over runs this part of town with his rating nation is walking through the streets while the waving flags most of the young much is a both pushed and yet protected by is really please

seeking to prove that the palestinians was shown in tones among the observers where the events so many possible things to this police presence is michael pens like from brooklyn, new york is plenty of security on i don't think uh think during god typical day around here is not so safe for just to walk around for his rallies. i mean, if you a pair like a jewel, now it's a lot of security. you can see here an empty arrow groups, flags visible in black protest is telling us that behavior is not backed by the government. so much is from this one's friends movement. no major players in israel's coalition. a non most so then it's my been given the minister for national security. welcome to the hero. outside the city of damascus, gates his device of rise to prominence, a port, and perhaps more trouble to come to the marks which is 0 or 2 by the series of them

. the foreign ministers of armenian as a by john all set to hold folks in moscow to come tensions on the to speak to the territory of nicole and ive cadillac rushes for an minutes. the 2nd level is missing both sides separately, before a 3 sided took off to was a median as a by john and for to was for control of the contested for the region. the speak to you? yes. couple of alova who joins us now live from moscow. you, you must go, has play the mediating role in the, in the going to kind of buy this conflict for some years. now, what are we expecting from today's meeting? so i should say that the main thing in moscow has already started to is it is an attempt to result. yes. another long stands and conflicts that's been brewing for decades will have statements from the russian foreign ministry. it says russia is ready to assist years on end back here in solving that conflict using political end

to blow mc means. so he, in most cases, we're expecting the to, for administer. shayhu by ramos and our rights mirrors are young to have a 2 pos amazing fast speaking with a child the discussing the piece, tracy that will also be joined by russian for administer, getting a role for the 3 policy tools and then log wrote with hold separately by law, true separate biological meetings with his as it was jani and a mean and counterparts and an exchange of use on, on the most pressing issues on the biological. and the international agenda is blinds time. and is there any indication that they could be some sort of positive outcome to these meetings? um, obviously there's no doubt that everyone wants to live in peace and nobody wants will . but we're hearing, we're pulls that lately that been is kind of shows along the board is again, and the ends again. i mean it blames as a bichon for them and vice versa. and those and the number of me things would be

involvement of the us signs us extra estate on c, blinking in particular. and it was states has the dialogue between back who andrew every box is the only way to result tensions in the courses, regions at the same time the united states. second trip states also promised us support for years on end by 2 and response cremeans spokesman to meet troops, cops trust that the russian side welcomes any assistance and resolving tensions between the year of on and the crew. on the basis of bilateral documents that was signed in the fall of 2020, with the participation of russia and the i mean, and as of a shot, they also had a meeting with the utah source. he's and the participants of the mason discuss the situation on the border between a mean and as the bush on the blue king of the regional transport and economic infrastructure and humanitarian issues. i should say the relations between, i mean and as a bichon escalated can soviet times the conflicts was about the ownership of nego and a car box, which in 1988 announced it's the session from the as the bichon,

socialist republic and during ministry conflicts of 1990 to 1994 by coo, lost control of a car box. and it fell under control of a media. and very recently, in september 2020 the crew to control of a number of supplements during supplemental appropriations in november of the same . yeah, i mean, and does the vision with the participation of the russian federation, signed an agreement on visitation of our students who is in the garden? a car by. okay, thank you for that. you the shop of alova the 1st live in moscow. around $750000.00 on registered guns, estimated to be held by citizens of both near and hudson, convened off to the recent mass shootings inside via there was growing, concerned about the security risk posed by legal firearms on collateral as well. last november, we'll start, sees in bosnia and herzegovina, confiscated and destroyed nearly 2 and a half 1000 legal firearms at

a factory outside, sorry, ever. in recent months, small weapons and pots have been melted down. and these furnaces, officials say they want to reduce the number of legal weapons caped by the citizens . the claim. i mean the estimates we operate with sure that approximately 750000 fire arms are kept by citizens of bosnia and herzegovina. and some recent studies speak of 800000 security experts say this represents a great security threat. not only for bosnia and herzegovina, but for europe as well. these increased concern following to mass shootings in neighboring serbia earlier this month that killed 18 people, including students at a primary school in belgrade was i was formerly perhaps with the help of our international partners, primarily the european union. we should address this issue and use a regional approach to solving this problem. to the european union recently held

a regional conference on fire arms control its promise more than $4300000.00 in new funding to help regional countries crack down on the legal weapons. what would make you to the safe and these becomes more importantly, the challenges, timing, which we live in european leaders same. they're also working on ways to prevent on smuggling shannon just remain the mid term review of the road map shows more needs to be done. for example, on awareness, erasing, reducing in the golf procession, and the diversion of legal weapons into illegality. every one out of 5 people in bosnia and herzegovina report to the owns and the legal weapon. citizens can now turn in the firearms without facing any criminal charges. the waste and bulk ins region has been struggling with the legal weapons since the war and unrest of the