live from london, this is bbc news. ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky meets uk prime minister rishi sunak at the g7 summit injapan. after landing, zelensky tweeted that "peace will be closer" as a result of his meetings. sinn fein is for the first time the largest party in both local government and the northern ireland assembly after making huge gains in council elections. ukraine's president zelensky has told world leaders at the g7 summit that "peace will become closer" after the us agreed to train ukrainian pilots on american f16 fighterjets, paving the way for european countries to supply

the warplanes to kyiv. the rules state that countries can only resell or re—export us military hardware if america approves it, but moscow has warned the decision could present colossal risks to the allied countries and china has also expressed its strong dissatisfaction. for the latest, live now to nick marsh, who is for us there in hiroshima. so zelensky arrived today, on sunday he is due to meet president biden and address the g7 leaders, is ukraine dominating discussions at the g7? �* , ,., , ukraine dominating discussions at theg7? ~ y , the g7? absolutely, president zelensky pretty _ the g7? absolutely, president zelensky pretty much - the g7? absolutely, president zelensky pretty much stole i the g7? absolutely, president| zelensky pretty much stole the the g7? absolutely, president - zelensky pretty much stole the show yesterday in hiroshima, the agenda was supposed to be dominated by talk of china, but the kind of will he, won't he drama of his arrival took centre stage, the ukrainians were

very much keen for this in—person visit, and you can understand why, the symbolism of the meeting, his closest seven allies, all here in the same place for the first time speaks for itself. it's important to remember that it's notjust the g7 countries who were here in hiroshima, plenty of other influential nations were invited, they are not part of the club, but there is a recognition that in order to do politics, in order to have a say in how the global economy is run, it's important to engage these nations, to use the diplomatic language known as the out rich nations, and chief among them is india, the world's fifth largest economy, and it's no coincidence that president zelensky met india's prime minister yesterday. we all over india has not come out in condemnation of russia's invasion of ukraine. in fact, they have ramped up ukraine. in fact, they have ramped up buying their acquisition of

russian oil, and this is a real bugbear the g7 nations because it's all very well imposing sanctions but if there are plenty of other can't —— countries not imposing sanctions, then the russian war effort really will not be as financially hit as g7 nations he would have hoped, so there is a growing less —— growing recognition that in order to mobilise opposition, to garner support, you will have to get many more countries on board, stakeholders on board, thanjust these western dominated g7 countries. 50 these western dominated g7 countries-— these western dominated g7 countries. . , . countries. so what you expect president _ countries. so what you expect president zelensky _ countries. so what you expect president zelensky to - countries. so what you expect. president zelensky to say when countries. so what you expect - president zelensky to say when he addresses them on sunday injapan? he willjust renew his calls for support, financial support, calls for isolation of russia, diplomatically, economically, that is easier said than done, the g7 countries have said what they said, done that they have done, they have

imposed sanctions, it's about getting wider buyers, this is a globalised interconnected economy, the world's second largest economy is china, and at the moment they are no closer to getting those bigger countries on board.— no closer to getting those bigger countries on board. thank you for our countries on board. thank you for your time. _ countries on board. thank you for your time, nick. _ sinn fein is for the first time the largest party in both local government and the northern ireland assembly after making huge gains in council elections. counting is still going on, but the party has won a 139 seats, up from the 105 returned in 2019. our ireland correspondent, emma vardy, told me about the impact of this victory for sinn fein. well, that's right. it is another historic moment for sinn fein, just like we saw this time last year when they became the largest party at stormont too, a continuation of their success. will it do anything to change the dynamic and change the stalemate that we see at stormont that's left northern ireland without a government for a year?

well, it's not really within sinn fein�*s gift to do that. it's the dup, the largest unionist party here, who've been blocking a return to power sharing. they have these deep objections to the brexit trading arrangements, the border in the irish sea that makes it more difficult to get goods over from great britain and to northern ireland. and while you can see the headlines of sinn fein success and the gains they've made, if you look at the dup vote, well, this hasn't meant a collapse in the dup vote by any means. the dup have largely held on to their vote. largely it's held up and they've held onto about the same number of seats. they've made one gain. so what they see this as, an endorsement of their policy for boycotting stormont until their concerns are met on the protocol. so this success for sinn fein certainly isn't going to push the dup to go back to the government any sooner. what the dup are saying is, look, we have a mandate for taking this very tough stance and for staying out of power—sharing until our concerns are met. and the dup says what it wants to do

is negotiate with westminster, with the british government to get some more guarantees, perhaps even some legislation that helps address the concerns that the dup have. and they say they're not going to be rushed back into stormont by any means. they're not frightened by these sinn fein gains. they're going to be concentrating on negotiating with westminster to try to address their concerns on brexit. but it does leave sinn fein in a very strong position if a power sharing government is restored, perhaps in autumn time, further down the line, michelle o'neill from sinn fein will become the first nationalist first minister of northern ireland. the celebrated british author martin amis has died. he was 73. his works including money and london fields defined a new era of british writing in the 19805 905. later works investigated stalin's purges and the legacy of the holocaust. amis�* death was announced by his wife, the writer isabel fonseca, who said he'd had oesophageal cancer. he'd been living in

the us state of florida. here in the uk, the veteran tv presenter phillip schofield will no longer present itv�*s this morning after agreeing to step down with immediate effect — his last programme was on thursday. the presenter has worked on the show for more than 20 years. recent reports claimed relations between him and co—host holly willoughby were strained. yesterday, his brother, timothy schofield, was sentenced to 12 years for sex offences against a child. today, phillip schofield said the last few days had been very difficult and that itv felt the current situation couldn't continue. earlier, i spoke with pr expert mark borkowski, who says it would appear phillip schofield's star power has waned. most celebrities, particularly who've been on a long—running format, sooner or later, you know, there's a sell—by date somewhere struck on their body.

and i think that phil's time has come. it hasn't been particularly easy. but, you know, holly willoughby is the golden girl of itv. and when it came to making a choice between the two, the channel had decided their investment in the future lies with her. there have been a number of controversies around phillip and holly — most notably, perhaps, the queue for the queen's lying in state, where they were highly criticised for not queueing, although they would argue they were doing it in editorial and journalistic capacity. what do you think of all the events surrounding phillip schofield have been the most damaging for his brand? it was quite interesting. queuegate scandal, which was kicked off by the social media crowd, the twitterati, it didn't sustain. there was lots of tabloid headlines suggesting that the show was in trouble.

advertisers were going to disappear. guests weren't going to appear on the show. that wasn't to be the case. they rode it. they tried to ride it with this one. but when you've got a flawed relationship between the host, which is being described as a deadend marriage, it was inevitable there would be a divorce. it's quite interesting that the tone of the media at the moment suggests, as people are sort of writing obituaries for his career. i don't think so. i think that his time is finished here. it gives itv an important moment to think about the problem again. a crisis presents an opportunity, and this will be rethinking a programme. what it is, it's still an important programme. phil schofield will, i'm sure, after some time of being outside the limelight, getting away from all these negative headlines, which must be hurtful not only to him but to his family, will reappear somewhere. we've seen it on plenty of occasions, that someone who's got talent, and he has, he'll be able to find another role.

for holly, the future is golden. and from itv�*s point of view, they'll be very happy that they can get these negative headlines, get the programme out of the news and get back to normal. and that's what's going to be the future. manchester city have won the english premier league for the third time in a row. this was the winning moment when the team found they had secured the title thanks to arsenal's1—0 defeat at nottingham forest. man city will have the opportunity to celebrate their ninth english league title on monday when they play chelsea at home. the team, managed by pep guardiola, has played exciting football throughout the season. a government source has confirmed that the home secretary, suella braverman, asked civil servants for advice on arranging a private speed awareness course. ms braverman was caught speeding last summer when she was attorney general. the bbc understands that an adviser was asked to organise a one—to—one session but ms braverman was told that wouldn't be possible. the source rejected suggestions she breached the ministerial code.