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
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.
turned a blind eye. that s right. surprise visit turned a blind eye. that s right. surprise visit overshadowed - turned a blind eye. that s right. | surprise visit overshadowed what turned a blind eye. that s right. - surprise visit overshadowed what we thought would be the main news event, the reintegration of president assad, but he came with a plea to arab countries to take sides, not to sit on the fence, to protect our people. he spoke about the virus of aggression, he spoke about ukraine defending itself against colonialism and imperialism, and it was a desperate plea for the arab world to look at itself and to in his mind take the side. take his side, take the right side. he was coming to a country that has close ties with moscow, but there were warm words for the saudis, who have also offered to mediate in the wall and who have also been involved in the release of ukrainian prisoners from russia last year, but a very interesting development.
backin intervened to support him. he is now back in the international fold, certainly the arab world, it s extraordinary, given everything that has happened, and certainly western leaders will look at what he said today and be disturbed by that message where he simply said, the world has moved on. the message where he simply said, the world has moved on. world has moved on. the world has moved on- world has moved on. the world has moved on- i world has moved on. the world has moved on. i also world has moved on. the world has moved on. i also think world has moved on. the world has moved on. i also think it world has moved on. the world has moved on. i also think it was - moved on. i also think it was interesting him talking about a historical opportunity to address issues in the middle east without foreign interference, some irony there given that it was russia and iran that helped him win the war and put him where he was today. i think his presence there also sends a fairl
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