g.s. failure in this regard saying that quote ministers have made an extraordinary admission of collective failure the g eight has failed the world's one billion hungry people look i'm not saying that it's the responsibility of these eight countries to feed the world's hungry what i am saying is that the rhetoric from these summits is almost always empty and baseless so if that's the case what is on the agenda this year will the g it's agenda was dominated by a political conflict in north korea iran and syria as the danger zones even though many had hoped the pressing issue of climate change would have also been on the list of priorities and unsurprisingly the group further showed a lack of unity on syria with seven of the members in agreement that assad should step down and president putin being the lone voice of opposition in the matter here's the bigger picture though why is it only up to these eight countries to decide the fate of syria and the region at large for that matter what is palestine and lebanon only the frame it's this geo political chess game but i digress what i found most