behaviour by four women. welcome to bbc news. it is a day of two important summits, with the war in ukraine being the common theme. at the g7 gathering injapan, world leaders met to discuss a new round of sanctions against russia while, at the arab league meeting in saudi arabia, president zelensky made a surprise visit, urging those attending to support ukraine. he told the gathering injeddah that, on this, the asoth day of the war, the world needed to fight the virus of aggression from moscow, stressing kyiv would not give up any sovereign territory to achieve peace. also making the headlines at that summit president assad of syria the first time he s been invited to the arab league since the devastating civil war that s blighted the country. here he is the official handshake and welcome from the saudi crown prince. more on assad in a moment and more on the g7. first, though, let s hear from volodymir zelenski. if there are people here at the summit who have a different
interesting as well that he chose to turn up when this was a summit when we expected the spotlight to be on president assad, and assad of course owns the fact that he was at the summit to the help of russia, whose war planes helped defeat the opposition in syria and have caused so much destruction in ukraine as well. i so much destruction in ukraine as well. . ~ so much destruction in ukraine as well. ., ~ ., ., well. i will talk more about president well. i will talk more about president assad well. i will talk more about president assad in - well. i will talk more about president assad in a - well. i will talk more about. president assad in a moment, well. i will talk more about - president assad in a moment, but well. i will talk more about president assad in a moment, but we are seeing the pictures of president zelensky arriving injeddah. he was addressing that room, saudi arabia repeating the offer to mediate in the war, he said really quite clearly, none of you sitting here