All eyes on Rubio as Iran, Ukraine set to dominate G7 meeting in Paris

Moving on, foreign ministers of the G7 group are meeting in the French capital for two days of talks. The meeting is seeking a fair settlement for Ukraine in the war against Russia, while deterring Washington from further military action against Iran. However, Russia's war against Ukraine has now gone on for nearly five years, while Washington is still not ruling out new attacks against Iran. All eyes, of course, being on the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who's attending both days of the meeting. Let's cross now to Clovis Casali, who's covering the gathering. Clovis, it's the first day of the two-day summit. The location changed at the last minute, but the topics are still the same, aren't they? Ukraine and Iran. Absolutely. This G7 meeting of foreign ministers was set to take place in Marseille for logistical reasons. It was changed at the last minute to be here in Paris. And you've got guests such as Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, to name just a few. And of course, Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State for the U.S., is here. We saw him arrive and all eyes on him. Many topics on the table, two hot ones, Iran, Ukraine. Regarding Iran, Israel and Prime Minister Netanyahu has been pushing for weeks for fresh strikes on Iran, but it seems Donald Trump refused to do so, refused to support him, of course. But Washington remains divided on the issues, even though it has to be said that Donald Trump did say that the midterms defeat recently was partly caused by the war on Iran And of course, Ukraine. What is the U.S. strategy in Ukraine? Coming up tomorrow and day after tomorrow, talks in Abu Dhabi with Ukrainians and Russians, European nations. refuse to be excluded from these peace talks. They say it's a vital interest, of course, for Europe with Ukraine on its eastern border. Jean-Noël Barrault, the French foreign minister, said that France will have a representative at the talks, but it does remain to be seen exactly what kind of role Europe will play, and it wants to play a strong one. Now, as you mentioned there, the U.S. Secretary of State is attending, but will the results from the midterms lead to a change in U.S. foreign policy? That really is the question. This is the first trip of Secretary of State Rubio outside of the U.S. since this crushing defeat at the midterms with the Democrats winning the House of Representatives and the Senate. So a difficult result for Donald Trump, who partly blamed it on Iran. His vice president, Vance, went even further, saying that it was clearly because of the war on Iran. What could the implications be? Well, diplomats in France, for instance, believe that it might not change so much on the US strategy, that Donald Trump is still very much the man in charge and likes to be that person and will be very keen to show his leadership. In other words, won't necessarily listen to the Democrats. But today in Paris, of course, it will be on the table with foreign ministers discussing it, trying to understand whether Rubio Indicates a change of strategy when it comes to Iran, when it comes to Ukraine. Of course, the G7 is a chance to discuss all that, but it's behind closed doors. Tomorrow we'll have more statements, even though we will get to talk to the Canadian foreign minister and the German one and French one, notably this afternoon.