Our top story russias support of separatenists ukraine dom natures day 1 at the g20 summit in australia. The leeders in brisbane, the g20 summit began with a promise to jump start structures around the world. The topic turned to russias involvement in ukraine. Vladimir putin was criticized by president obama. German chancellor Angela Merkel and other leaders of the European Union. Climate change made headlines with president obama urging leaders to commit to fighting global warming. Andrew thomas has more on the first day of the g20 summit. The focus of his speech was expected to be the United Statess strategic pivot toward asia with a nod to the g20ss economic talks to come. But unexpectedly action one of baracks obamas main themes was the environment . As we focus on our economy, we cannot forget the need to lead on the global fight against Climate Change [applause. ] more than six minutes of the president s speech was devoted to Climate Change in what looked like like a direct rebuk
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