vision, vision for tomorrow's journalism. register now and join us for this discussion at the 16th edition of d w's global media forum. the . this is the w news live from berlin, ukrainian president of learners. lensky arrives in japan to join the g. 7 leaders other 2nd day of the summit in hiroshima, where the u. s. has promised to help ukraine get american finder chance to landscape will also get a chance to meet with other heads of state who remain neutral on russia's invasion

. also coming up syria's bus sharla sod returns to the international stage as the arab league welcomes him back into the fold after 12 years of isolation. but the western nations are not ready to forget the brutality of serious error of spring crack bound and ongoing civil war. plus tens of thousands of people are evacuated as italy, struggles with its worst floods. in this century, the mariana evans dean. it's good to have you with us ukrainian president of what am your zalinski has arrived in japan to attend to the g 7 summit. he touched down in hiroshima after a short stop over and saudi arabia where he addressed the arab league. soleski is expected to seek further support for his country's defense efforts against russian

is comes as the west says, it will allow its western allies to supply ukraine with training and a possible delivery. a fighter jets, including american made of 16, the w as cheese international editor richard walker is covering the g 7 meeting and her oshima, and he joins us now for the latest. hello to you, richard. so we understand that. so lensky has now arrived in hiroshi. my just how significant is the ukrainian leaders appearance in person at the g 7 summit and what is the hoping to achieve? yeah, well it's certainly very significant marietta, i mean, he's just coming from the arab league. of course, we saw him on the eve of this visit to, to japan. so reaching out to countries that have not necessarily being very clearly on the ukraine side in this war sofa. and now coming to japan, a to meet the g 7,

which is certainly a, you know, a grouping. this being among the strongest supporters for ukraine during the course of this war so far. but also equally or even more importantly, to meet some of the partner countries that are present here in japan. for this summit, i'm thinking of new venture emoji the prime minister of india, or the president of brazil, president lula. and both of those countries have had much more kind of the most unusual positions lula has shown some sympathy towards the russian position. and direct promoting has been studiously trying to avoid getting too much stuck in to one side of the other of this call of this conflict. uh so lensky now having an opportunity to have face time with both of those lead. this is going to be hugely important if he can move the lead the needle of the views that positions on the war a tool. he will see that as a significant achievement. and now richard loves keys. arrival comes just after

the us presidential bite, announced that he supports the training of ukrainian pilots on modern american made jazz such as the f sixteens. so is the landscape going to leave this summit with a pledge to actually receive deliveries of this fighter jets? well, he's got full most as good as that so. so the americans have said, yep, joe biden has said that the us will support the training for the use of these jets and also then down the road probably in a few months. one. so training a few training pilots, it is by the accomplished then the transfer of jets to ukraine. um, so it probably some months from now and that's a significant wind for the ukrainians. they've certainly be ongoing projects for the last several months. but we've seen this process repeated several times during the course of the war. we saw it last with, with tanks a few months ago that uh, that was pressure at that time on need to put to transfer the electric tank,

which is a german made tank knit germany eventually came around to that. now we see the united states coming around on this subject to these as $2616.00 fighters, which is seen as the ideal fights a jet for ukraine to obtain. so this process has been kind of ongoing and a series of different heavy weapons through the course of this war. but an important when certainly for the ukrainians, that selection will be very happy to trumpet when he's here. and now we understand that the g 7 leaders issued their final communicate just a short while ago. can you tell us about that? yeah, so the communicate 40 pages long, everybody's pouring through this a lot of detail and also a lot of subjects. but i think i would pick out then what they're saying about china. this is being the other really big issue, i think for discussion at the g 7 here in japan this year. and i'll just read a couple of quotes from one of the key passages on china. i mean, it starts by saying that our policy approach is not designed to harm china. and nor

do we seek to sward china's economic progress. so there's trying to push back against chinese arguments that it sees the west is ganging up on it as trying to, to hold it back in the end, it imagines has a really serious global power. but then saying, i think we are not decoupling or turning inward. so rejecting some of the more extreme arguments by kind of the most cool case views on china that the west needs really set a lot of economic ties with china. we take the same time, we recognize that economic resilience requires the risk inc. and now the risk being is when you buzz with that, it seems that everybody in japan, the united states, europeans can all agree on in their approach to relations with china. so they need to try to eliminate as much of the risk in that relationship as they possibly can, both with respect to dependence on on economic relations, whether it's china as a markets, the european or western goods, or also china as

a source for key role materials such as wrap us important electric cars for instance, but also in terms of technology, trying to prevent china from guessing important technologies the us has been trying to track down on that. so d risking is the new buzzword. i think one of the questions now going forward is, does everybody actually think the same thing when they use the word, the risking? i think there's a lot of debate to be had that, but it's a pretty flexible time that the whole d 7 is being able to get around the w as chief international editor, richard watcher at walker, in hiroshima for us. richard, thank you. of the all, as we've mentioned before arriving in japan flooding, there's a loan ski also paid a surprise visit to the air oblique summit. and jetta and his 1st trip to the middle east and the russians invasion ukraine's president accused. some of the riches leaders of turning a blind item off goes aggression or nations have remained largely neutral over the

war and ukraine. many maintain close ties to russia, including syrian president, bashar al assad. so on ski reminded era leaders that ukraine's own muslim minority has been affected by the war, starting with russia's illegal annexation of the crime in peninsula in 2014. all the summit also solve the return of assigned to the international stage. the syrian president joined the fellow leaders starting a new chapter after 12 years of violation. the league suspended syria and 2011 after a sized crack down on the air of spring protest that's set off a decade long civil war. your granules has never chosen the war. our throats didn't go to other lands. we do not engage in next season's plunder of other nations resources, but we will never submit to any for and there's

or go nicer. that's why we fight. and i'm sure all your nations will understand these our main emotion. and i'm also sure all your nations will understand the main goal. i want to live here in jetta and noble goal to all of you to help protect our people, including you create m mosley community. so let's turn our attention to italy now we're at least 14 people have been killed and what are being called the worst floods in this century. more than 15000 people in the countries north have been forced to leave their homes, and many are stranded with no electricity and dwindling food supplies. authorities have called for residence to reduce their movements to a minimum. the same area was battered by extreme weather earlier in may with at

least 2 people dying during storms. oh, earlier i spoke to our correspondence, sonya fall in the car in bo, anya, and i asked her how things were looking in the affected region. when by the end of the situation, is it still very grim in the flood defected areas? it's going to rain that again. we were used to be in the tone of fencer. this is a small town about 50 kilometers a southeast of bologna, and it has about 60000 inhabitants. and we go from there to really domestic fields of a massive clean up with the rest of them. it's really covered in modern slugs using shovels and wipers. and foxes and machines to pump out water from floods of some of and basements, the shops, there are completely destroyed. people have been evacuated from the ground floor apartments and the loan river there in that town, both the banks the 2 days ago. for the 2nd time in the month, as you mentioned it, lea, a thought to more than this, the experienced intense loving in the me. and this is,

will seem that we single being repeat to the calls 1000 villages with over 20 bubbles and canals. now i know to invest the banks. well, the clean up of course is one challenge, but as we understand there are still thousands of people who are stranded, how our rescue operations going to try and get those people to say for areas for you, right? i mean, there is a massive risky operation underway, but you're absolutely right that there are a major challenges authorities, your a speaking of more than 250 land slides in, in separate regions. and we're getting reports of civil mountain. this village is still being cut off, so it's difficult to get risky teams in there and some places that are widespread. mississippi also just the phone lines of dog, but dislike that there is an operation on the way, you know, yesterday when we went to fence. so we saw units of the time in the army and the course got out in several 1000 villages that a helicopter, as you can show them in the sky, risking people from,

from roofs and upper floors that are also rescue teams will come in some other parts of this, if lead to pitch in huge groups of volunteer is also helping to get people out, people to be evacuated, to filters of the government. no setup in schools, engines and in small stadiums. so you mentioned the army has now been involved and the government has taking steps to set up shelters. how satisfied are people with the response of the governments to this disaster when we speak to the mayor of uh fence, i guess the um, he basically said that, you know, his small town required of much more funds is really a large amount of funding from the state from the italian government in order to cope with the magnitude of the office does all suddenly telling government to certainly be criticized for not you know, doing enough to cope with the challenges of climate change. it could be a seen a rise in the extreme. what the image and this is one of them that was dw

correspondence on your phone, a current reporting from northern italy. sonya thank you to us basketball or brittany griner is set to make her 1st appearance and the w and b. a since returning from detention in russia on drug possession charges this past april bryan or announce she's working with bring our families home campaign formed last year by the family members of american hostages and wrongful detainees held abroad. brittany griner received a warm welcome. when she returned to the court in a w n. b a preseason game, it was the 1st time she'd been back since being arrested in february 2022 in moscow . authorities had discovered big canisters with cannabis oil in her luggage. greiner spent nearly 10 months in arresting prison after she pleaded guilty to drug charges see,

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