while answering questions about the negotiations. we ll have those comments for you in just a moment. and they come as president biden is busy with world leaders at the g7 summit in japan. we ll recap yesterday s events and preview what s ahead including a new round of sanctions for russia aimed at closing loopholes that moscow has been using to security previous attempts to hold it accountable for the invasion of ukraine. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, may 19th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning on capitol hill where it appears that at least some progress is being made on the debt ceiling. house speaker kevin mccarthy shifted to optimism yesterday on the negotiations saying a deal could now be made in time in order to avoid a default. i just believe where we were a week ago and where we are today is a much better place because we have the right people in the room discussing it in a very profes
ahead on cnn newsroom, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy will attend the g-7 talks in person. we ll go live to hiroshima and london for the latest. congress and the white house could be close to a deal to avert a default on the united states debt, but will there be a cost for democrats? disney cancels plans for a $1 billion campus in florida but makes no mention if this is related to the house mouse s ongoing spat with governor ron desantis, as he is expected to make a big announcement of his own. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. so it is 4 p.m. in hiroshima, japan, where the annual g-7 summit is now underway. soon they add a special guest, ukrainian about the volodymyr zelenskyy. he s due to attend the gathering after first stopping in saudi arabia to attend today s arab league summit according to cnn sources. that meeting will also be significant. already ukraine is top of mind in japan. the uk and european union have announced new
before we move on to events in ukraine, the importance of that meeting injeddah. it is the first time in more than a decade that the syrian president is in attendance. these are pictures coming to us for a few minutes ago. president bashar al assad, who was frozen out of the regional body 12 years ago in relation to that war, the civil war that engulfed the country. these pictures are of him meeting with the saudi crown prince, mohamed bin salman, who is hosting this event in jeddah. this in itself is a very important moment. he was suspended from the regional body 12 years ago after the devastation caused by the civil war in his country. we are expecting to hear from the syrian president a little later. we will also hear from the president a little later. we will also hearfrom the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelensky, who has made that trip tojeddah. two very important speeches and very important moments that we will bring to you live here on bbc news. but we will return
just after 8 in the morning in the united states, it is 1:00 p.m. here in london. i m don lemon. thanks so much for joining us. we re following the pomp and pageantry in the united kingdom as king charles iii is officially proclaimed the new king of england and head of the commonwealth. a second proclamation of king charles has been read out from the royal exchange. it s all part of a shift in power in the united kingdom, the end of one reign and the beginning of the next. the prince charles philip arthur george is now by the death of our late sovereign of happy memory, become our only lawful and rightful liege lord, charles iii. by the grace of god of the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, and of his other realms and territories, king, head of the commonwealth, defender of the faith. the proclamation being read out was signed by members of the privy council, including prince william, the new prince of wales, and camilla, the queen consort. now look
October 7th six months ago that hamas fighters stormed into towns and that they then took more than 250 hostages and killed more than 1000 people. The attack sparked whats become the deadliest and most destructive israel gaza war, killing over Thirty Thousand palestinians according to the Hamas Run Health Ministry. The un says it gaza is now on the brink of famine. Here in israel, the hostages are described as an open wound. There are there a re protests there are protests across tel aviv demanding that the government does more to bring hostages home. Their anger was intensified by news that our body was recovered in another military operation. Elad katzir was taken on october and seventh, along with his mother and father. His father was murdered that day, and his mother was released that was released in november as part of a temporary ceasefire deal. Pressure is mounting on negotiators to try and achieve a more lasting ceasefire. Indirect talks between israel and hamas have resumed in