00:00 In Japan, leaders from the G7 nations have gathered in Hiroshima for a summit that's
00:04 taking place under the long shadow of the city's tragic history.
00:09 Denuclearisation is high on the agenda, specifically within the context of the ongoing conflict
00:14 in Ukraine.
00:15 And heads of state have also pledged yet stricter sanctions against Russia in an attempt to
00:20 suppress its war machine.
00:23 Our reporter in Japan, Jake Adelstein, gave us a little bit more detail on what those
00:26 punitive measures will involve.
00:29 The G7 summit opened today in Hiroshima with all G7 nations quickly agreeing that Russia
00:35 needed to be contained and the war in the Ukraine must be stopped.
00:39 In order to do that, further sanctions were agreed upon that will deal Russia a heavy
00:45 financial and economic blow.
00:49 At the same time, Hiroshima was picked for a reason, and that reason was at a time when
00:54 Russia is threatening to use tactical nuclear weapons in the war on the Ukraine.
00:59 Hiroshima is the best place to remind people of the horrors of nuclear war.
01:04 Perhaps the most poignant moment today was when the world leaders gathered at the Hiroshima
01:09 Peace Memorial Park and laid a wreath on the cenotaph to commemorate the 300,000 lives
01:14 lost to the atomic bomb.
01:18 Perhaps Prime Minister Sunak summarized it best when he wrote earlier that an atomic
01:23 bomb is an act of horror and that a nuclear war can never be won and should never be fought.
01:31 But what overshadowed everything else today was the news that Ukrainian President Zelensky
01:37 himself is going to come to Japan to participate in the summit and also visit the Hiroshima
01:44 Peace Memorial Park.
01:46 It is a visit that could have great repercussions for the war on the Ukraine and the Ukraine's
01:51 ability to gather support from its allies.
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