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welcome to the programme. ukraine has been a common theme at two major leaders' summits. we will cover it all here tonight on the context. on the first day of their annual meeting injapan, g7 leaders agreed new sanctions against russia. meanwhile in saudi arabia, president zelensky made a surprise visit to the arab league gathering, urging those attending, to support ukraine. also making the headlines at that summit — president assad of syria — it's the first time he's been invited to the arab league since the devastating civil war, that's blighted the country. and later in the p...

The latest from rugby union's challenge cup final is — to learn is currently thrashing glasgow. that is the sport. 21—0. thank you for the support. taking into that story about migration increase. the greek government is under mounting pressure. just days before general elections, video footage was released, showing the forced expulsion of asylum seekers, who were then abandoned in the middle of the sea. the footage, taken by an austrian activist on lesbos last month, was brought to light by a new york times investigation. on april the 11th, 12 migrants — men, women, children and an infa...

He urged people to treat migrants with compassion. migrants arrive in lesbos after travelling through turkey en route to the european union. our special correspondent fergal keane is there for us now. share on lesbos, pope francis made me a second visit to the island since 2016. he was very emphatic in his words and they were clearly delivered in front of refugees but aimed squarely at the european leaders. he spoke of the need not to allow the continuing deaths of people at sea. these mortars behind me he said had become a cemetery without tombstones. he said refugees should not be used as po...

It will take him months to get asylum and it could take him more than a year to be allowed to bring his wife and five daughters from turkey. so it's much harder than you had realized? >> translator: when it became a year, a year and a half, that was something i did not expect at all. >> the doctor is desperately lonely but won't allow his family to take the dangerous journey by boat as he did. >> translator: i might risk my own life for my children, but there is no way i could risk my children's lives. >> the number of new arrivals may drop in the next few months because crossing by sea in win...