2024 G7 summit: Zelensky won major pledges from leaders

And as well as more support for Ukraine, the G7 in Puglia wrapped up with calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, the launch of initiatives to fight people smuggling, and a promise to harness AI to create jobs. Our correspondent in Bari, Philip Toll, has the roundup. The undoubted star of this G7 summit here in Puglia in southern Italy was the Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, who flew in on Thursday and met with the US President Joe Biden and the other G7 leaders and who has been offered a $50 billion loan for his country to be handed over before the end of 2024. Is to be financed money taken from frozen Russian assets, €300 billion worth of frozen Russian assets and the interest that they generate. Billion EUR a year will pay for that. Vladimir Zelinsky leaves for another summit, a peace summit taking place in Switzerland. Peace summit for Ukraine to be attended by about 80 world leaders with at least a pledge of more money to help in its fight against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Are there. Issues on the headlines here at the summit in Puglia include an agreement by the G7 leaders for A2 state solution in the Middle East between Israel and the Palestinians. They are calling for the respect of the ceasefire agreement announced by President Biden and for Hamas to respect that ceasefire. And also, amongst the other topics that have reached agreement here, a pledge to hand over money to African countries to help stem the flow of illegal immigrants coming to Europe, to help them build their economies so that their residents will no longer want to come to Europe. And of course, there are one or two differences, one of them being over abortion after an agreement last year that abortion rights should figure in the final agreement. This summit, this G7 summit in Puglia, that has not been the case due to veto by Italy, which has fallen out with both France and Canada over the matter. But arguing that the visit by the Pope on Friday was the reason that abortion no longer figured in the final agreement. Although it's known that the president of this session, the Prime Minister of Italy, Georgia Maloney, is against abortion. And Georgia Maloney was the other big star of this G7 summit. Galvanised by the recent boost in support for her Brothers of Italy party in the European elections last weekend, she is now in a much stronger position than many of her European counterparts, who face an uncertain future due to the poor showing of their parties and their countries in the European.