others concerned by higher prices having a greater impact on the world s poor have gathered here and protested but that is the important words, in my sentence. hundreds, not thousands. it is usually thousand that you see and in part they may have been discouraged by the sheer scale of the police presence which goes on for miles around, far, far from the venue itself. and that is the challenge, to justify all this enormous expenditure insecurity, and providing resources and facilities and providing a base for the leaders themselves. can theyjustify and providing a base for the leaders themselves. can they justify what they are doing by what they decide. i m going to pick up on that, actually because a lot of the protesters have been saying, we don t understand why they are meeting. what are the actually achieving? so let sjust meeting. what are the actually achieving? so let s just go meeting. what are the actually achieving? so let sjust go back meeting. what are the actually achieving
what it is for, who benefits, we have had an announcement that russian gold exports will be banned by the g7 countries. effectively, and extension sanctions although in truth, as we heard from our academic and university of nottingham on bbc and university of nottingham on bbc and r ago, that we won t make a lot of difference. there s not a lot of exporting to avoid and evade export restrictions by melting down the gold. in essence, almost a symbol which actually points to the things that they can t agree on and that is sanctions on oil gas and a much quicker speed because that would accelerate the pressure on the energy crisis affecting europe so that as a flavour of the events. we will get more announcements during the course of the next two days at the course of the next two days at the g7. thank you, lots of eye watering figures there. thank you. stay us with, coming up it is the media show. hello and welcome to the media show.
buildings in our home town was destroyed. 220 apartment buildings. whether or not this was the intended target it s shattered the relative calm that had returned to the capital kyiv in recent weeks. it feels like this is vladimir putin sending his own message at a time when those g7 leaders are meeting. these flats are near to an ammunition factory which could have been the intended target. but the head of national police says they are now collecting evidence which could prove this attack was a war crime. there have been more explosions here in the past few hours. the fierce fighting in the east of ukraine is far away. but russia has renewed its effort to strike
ago on this group of leaders met in cornwall, we made a commitment. the democratic nations of the g7 would step up, step up and provide financing for a quality, high standards, sustainable infrastructure, and developing and middle income countries. what we are doing is fundamentally different. it is grounded on our shared values of all those representing countries and organisations behind me. it is built using the global best practices, transparency, partnership, protections for labour and the environment. we are offering better options for countries and the people around the world to invest in critical infrastructure that improves the lives, their lives, all of our lives and delivers real gains. forall of of our lives and delivers real gains. for all of our people. not just the g7, all of our people.