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PRESIDENT Joe Biden and the leaders of the G7 summit have denounced China and demanded a "transparent" investigation into the origins of coronavirus.
On the final day of the G7 summit, the leaders collectively urged for a probe into COVID.
"We will promote our values, including by calling on China to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms, especially in relation to Xinjiang and those rights, freedoms and high degree of autonomy for Hong Kong enshrined in the Sino-British Joint Declaration and the Basic Law," the leaders said, according to a .
They added: "We remain seriously concerned about the situation in the East and South China Seas and strongly oppose any unilateral attempts to change the status quo and increase tensions."
The push for a probe comes after the director of the World Health Organization, Director-General , told the press Saturday night that while talk of vaccine sharing among leaders at the G7 summit is encouraging, "we need more, and we need them faster."
He said: "The challenge, I said to the G-7 leaders, was that to truly end the pandemic, our goal must be to vaccinate at least 70 percent of the world’s population by the time the G-7 meets again in Germany next year."
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BIDEN BLASTED BY BREXITEERS
Tory backbenchers and the DUP leader Edwin Poots slammed Joe Biden for warning the UK that their stance in Northern Ireland was "inflaming tensions" there.
Supplies and trade have been disrupted there as a result of Brexit, resulting in violent riots on the streets - and Biden is expected to reprimand Boris Johnson for jeopardizing the Good Friday Agreement.
But Tories lambasted the US president for "driving a coach and horses through the Good Friday Agreement."
"This is effectively a constitutional change," said Poots, who wants the Northern Ireland Protocol of the Brexit deal taken out.
"Would president Biden for example allow Alaska, which is separate and distinct from the rest of the land block of the USA, but still part of the USA, to be taking laws from Canada, and have its laws applied from Canada?"
An unnamed Tory MP told Politico: "America should remember who their allies are... unfortunately [Biden is] so senile that he probably won't remember what we tell him anyway.
"Unless an aide is listening I'm not sure he's going to remember for very long."
Biden and Johnson are due to meet at around 9.55am ET.
GOOD JAB
Today, Joe Biden is expected to formally announce that the US will be donating a whopping 500million doses of the Covid-19 to about 100 countries, reports say.
He's slated to confirm the news during his 6.10pm press briefing (around 1.10 pm ET).
BORIS SPEAKS OUT
BoJo wrote an article ahead of his meeting with Joe Biden this afternoon, touting the special relationship between "the world’s richest and most powerful democracies."
In the lengthy article, Johnson also addressed what he, Biden, and the other G7 leaders would be discussing at the much-anticipated summit from tomorrow.
"At Carbis Bay, the G7 will pledge to distribute vaccines to inoculate the world by the end of next year, with millions coming from surplus UK stocks," he wrote.
"We will begin the framing of a new global treaty on pandemic preparedness so the world is never caught out in the same way again.
"And we will go further in strengthening the political and economic ties between us, relaunching the G7 as a means of expressing the values that unite us: openness, freedom, democracy, and free trade."
You can read the full essay .
JOE AND JOHNSON
Joe Biden issued a statement ahead of his meeting with Boris Johnson.
"Today, I’ll be meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson ahead of the G7 Summit in Cornwall," the president tweeted.
"I look forward to affirming the special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom and discussing how we’ll tackle our shared challenges together in the years ahead."
STARK WARNING
Joe Biden is set to give Boris Johnson a stern warning during their bilateral meeting today.
They are due to meet at the G7 summit in Cornwall during his first trip abroad as US president this afternoon.
Yesterday, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters: “President Biden has been crystal clear about his rock-solid belief in the Good Friday Agreement as the foundation for peaceful co-existence in Northern Ireland.
“Any steps that imperil it or undermine it would not be welcomed by the United States.”
Meanwhile, top US diplomat Yael Lempert in the UK gave London a formal diplomatic reprimand for “inflaming” tensions with Ireland, according to The Times.
Biden has been vocally critical of Brexit.
BIDEN'S SCHEDULE THURSDAY, JUNE 10
1.30pm - Biden receives his daily briefing
2.55pm - Joe and Jill Biden leave St Ives, Cornwall, en route to Carbis Bay in Cornwall
3pm - The Bidens meet with UK PM Boris Johnson and Carrie Johnson
3.10pm - Biden views the Atlantic Charter
3.15pm - Biden and Johnson's bilateral meeting
4.30pm - Biden leaves Carbis Bay en route to St Ives
4.35pm - Biden arrives in St Ives
6.10pm - Biden delivers remarks on Covid-19 vaccine and the pandemic.
UK HONORS BIDEN
The US Embassy in London issued a statement as Biden arrived yesterday.
"Such an honor to welcome Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden for their first official visit to the UK for the Summit, affirming our nations’ long-standing friendship - U.S. Chargé Yael Lemper," it read.
WHY DID 'JOE BIDEN IMPEACHMENT' TREND?
A video claiming that Joe Biden has been impeached went viral on Facebook on Monday.
There is no mention of Biden getting impeached in any of the segments in the clip.
Facebook flagged the clip as part of their agenda to curb the spread of misinformation and fake news on their site.
BORIS JOHNSON MAY LIFT RESTRICTIONS JUNE 21
The Prime Minister is set to announce on Monday if England's Step 4 to ease restrictions can go ahead on "Freedom Day", currently pencilled in for June 21.
The government is weighing up the move amid fears over the spread of the Indian - or Delta - variant of Covid.
Cases in the UK today rose by 7,540 in the highest leap in daily infections since February.
Earlier, Mr Johnson gave his biggest hint yet that the June 21 date could be delayed.
MILLIONS OF VACCINES GIVEN TO MEXICO AND CANADA
In a released on June 3, Biden said that Canada and Mexico had already been given 4 million doses.
that the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson hopes to enlist the support of the President to jab the entire world against coronavirus by the end of next year.
Johnson will meet Biden, 78, for the first time on Thursday when he arrives at Carbis Bay, near St Ives.
FAKE VIDEO CLAIMED BIDEN WAS IMPEACHED
A misleading video claiming Joe Biden has been impeached has been taken down.
The 25-minute footage, uploaded to the social media site on Monday, was a clip of a Newsmax broadcast titled “Biden gets BRUTAL impeachment after his ‘v.accine for China’ FOOL”.
There is no mention of getting impeached in any segment of the clip.
flagged the video as part of their agenda to tackle the spread of misinformation and the clip was subsequently removed.
WHAT IS THE G7?
Also known as the Group of Seven, these countries are seven of the largest economies of the world.
Together, they represent more than 62 per cent of the global net wealth ($280trillion).
The group was founded in the early 1970s as the seven countries discussed concerns about the collapse of the oil industry.
Since then, 43 summits have been held across the globe as members discuss everything from the environment to the economy.
The group was previously known as the G8 and counted Russia among its members, but Russia has been excluded since annexing the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in early 2014.
WHEN WILL BIDEN MEET WITH PUTIN?
Biden will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin next Wednesday, their first face-to-face meeting since Biden became president.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Monday it was unclear whether the two leaders would hold a joint news conference after their talks.
BIDEN WILL BE 13TH PRESIDENT THE QUEEN HAS MET
On Sunday, Biden will leave for Windsor Castle to meet Queen Elizabeth.
Biden will become the 13th US president that the 95-year-old monarch has met during her record-breaking reign.
It will be her first such major engagement since the death of her husband Prince Philip in April.
BIDEN'S TRIP TO UK DELAYED BY CICADAS
Cicada's have interfered with Biden's plans to travel to Europe for the past 24 hours, including causing issues to the White House press charter.
CNN's Kaitlan Collins said that their flight to Europe was delayed for "several hours" due to "cicada-related issues."
could be seen batting the bug away from his face while speaking to a guard.
He then turned to reporters and told them to "watch out for the cicadas," before laughing and winking.
BIDEN'S 'RING OF STEEL'
The armed forces were drafted to help police as world leaders, their entourages and thousands of protesters descend for the three-day summit at Carbis Bay.
HMS Northumberland, a Type 23 frigate, will be positioned off the coast and use its radar system to help police identify potential threats from the air and sea.
More than 50 luxury cars and 400 Secret Service agents touched down at St Mawgan airbase near Newquay ahead of Biden's arrival.
A Giraffe agile multi-beam radar system has been deployed - which can identify and track targets while providing coastal surveillance.
WHY IS HUNTER BIDEN FACING BACKLASH?
Hunter Biden was caught up in yet another scandal on Tuesday after it was claimed he used the N-word multiple times in leaked text messages sent to his white lawyer.
The #RacistHunter to trend on Twitter as critics waded in to blast the president's son.
FAKE VIDEO CLAIMED BIDEN WAS IMPEACHED
A misleading video claiming Joe Biden has been impeached has been taken down.
The 25-minute footage, uploaded to the social media site on Monday, was a clip of a Newsmax broadcast titled "Biden gets BRUTAL impeachment after his 'v.accine for China' FOOL".
There is no mention of getting impeached in any segment of the clip.
flagged the video as part of their agenda to tackle the spread of misinformation and the clip was subsequently removed.
HILLARY CLINTON TWEETS AT THE PRESIDENT
The President is expected to announce a plan to donate hundreds of millions of vaccines to other countries.
Former First Lady and secretary of state Hilary Clinton praised the announcement on Twitter.
"This is a great start," she .
"When America is at its best, it’s a force for good in the world."
EXPERTS TO ATTEND G7
The G7 leaders will be joined virtually by experts, including Sir Patrick Vallance, Melinda French Gates and Sir David Attenborough.
Leaders of Australia, South Africa, South Korea and India will join — in person or remotely — for discussions on health and climate change.
It will be the first G7 where all members will have committed to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 ahead of November’s UK-hosted COP26 Summit.
BORIS JOHNSON TO PUSH FOR VACCINE SHARING
Boris Johnson will tell world leaders gathering in Cornwall that they must dig deep to help the poorest nations if they want to end the pandemic for good.
He will be out to convince them he can extend the success of Britain’s jabs campaign to protect everyone on the planet. That means stepping up production, tearing down international distribution barriers and sharing surplus doses.
Britain has already pledged to donate the majority of our extra supplies to those in desperate need — and Mr Johnson will use his role as G7 host to rally the richest countries behind him.
HOW MANY VACCINE INJECTIONS WERE ASTRA-ZENECA?
Almost one in three jabs around the world — 450 million out of 1.5billion doses — have been Oxford-AstraZeneca.
Britain also set up the COVAX scheme to distribute jabs to developing countries, providing £548million early on and encouraging other countries to commit.
COVAX would not have been able to deliver the 80million jabs it already has without Oxford/AstraZeneca, which made up 96 per cent of those doses.
WHAT IS THE G7?
The G7 summit - also known as Group of Seven - is an informal meeting between leaders of the wealthiest nations on the planet.
Biden and Johnson will be joined by Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, French president Emmanuel Macron, German chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian PM Mario Draghi and Japanese PM Yoshihide Suga.
EU figureheads Charles Michel and Ursula von der Leyen will also be in attendance.
WHERE WILL BIDEN LAND IN THE UK?
Biden is expected to land at Newquay airport - Cornwall’s main commercial airport.
In the pre-Covid world, the modest airport would fly to destinations in Spain, Portugal, Germany, Ireland and Switzerland.
Marine Force One - the US president’s helicopter - is believed to be in England ready for Biden to use.
TRUMP BLASTS BIDEN BORDER POLICY IN NEW STATEMENT
In a statement released Wednesday night, Trump went after Biden's "outrageous" maintenance of the Southern Border.
"Our recently secured Southern Border is now worse than ever before," the .
He went on to criticize that the current administration "stopped construction of the small remaining openings" along the wall, as well as taking away authority from "our great border patrol," and ending Trump policies like Remain in Mexico and Safe Third Agreements.
"In the history of our country, it has never been more dangerous or worse. They do not have long to act as our Country is being destroyed!" the statement concluded.