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Talks at the G7 summit in Canada have failed to resolve deep differences between US President Donald Trump and leaders of major industrial nations.
The divisions were laid bare on Friday, notably over trade.
Allies of the US are furious over Mr Trump's recent decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, raising fears of a global trade war.
It is unclear whether a communique agreed by all will be released when the meeting concludes later on Saturday.
The two-day summit is being held in the town of La Malbaie, in Quebec province.
Mr Trump is due to leave early on Saturday to head to Singapore for a landmark meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Divisions wider than trade
By the BBC's diplomatic correspondent, James Robbins, Quebec
This summit started very badly, and it could end without the usual communique agreed by all.
Divisions between Mr Trump and the other six leaders go way beyond trade - they include climate change, relations with Iran and the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is one of those arguing it might be better to set out those differences clearly rather than give a false impression of unity. It's more honest, she said, than pretending everything's OK.
Others still believe some sort of consensus can be found, and Mr Trump says he's hopeful of progress. But there's no doubt about Mr Trump's isolation.
He dislikes negotiating with groups, and he will leave well before the end of this G7 summit: next stop Singapore, to face Kim Jong-un, and seek the sort of one-to-one deal he much prefers.
Why are there divisions?
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On 1 June, the US imposed a 25% tariff for steel and 10% for aluminum on imports from the EU, Canada, and Mexico. Mr Trump said the move would protect domestic producers that were vital to US security.
The EU then announced tariffs on US goods ranging from Harley-Davidson motorcycles to bourbon. Canada and Mexico are also planning retaliatory moves.
On Friday Canada's foreign minister called the tariffs "illegal ". European Council President Donald Tusk said they threatened the "rules-based international order".
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has said she wants the EU to act with restraint.
French President Emmanuel Macron said he believed all sides were willing to reach agreement.
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What is the G7?
It is an annual summit bringing together Canada, the US, the UK, France, Italy, Japan and Germany, which represent more than 60% of global net worth between them.
Economics tops the agenda, although the meetings now always branch off to cover major global issues.
Russia was suspended from group in 2014 because of its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. On Friday, Mr Trump made a surprise call for Moscow to be readmitted, but German Chancellor Angela Merkel said other members were against the idea.
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Meanwhile, another international summit is being held in China. President Xi Jinping is hosting a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a regional security bloc, in the eastern city of Qingdao.
President Vladimir Putin of Russia, as well as leaders from Iran, India, Pakistan, and four central Asian, are taking part.
What else is being discussed at the G7?
The five themes for this year's summit are:
Inclusive economic growth
Gender equality and women's empowerment
World security
Jobs of the future
Climate change and oceans
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According to the leaders' programme, Mr Trump will miss the talks on climate change, the environment and probably gender equality on Saturday.
Skip Twitter post by @EmmanuelMacron Pursuing the conversation. Engaging, keeping the dialogue alive, now & ever. Sharing, reaching out, always, to promote the interests of the French people, and all those who believe in a world we can build together. With President Donald Trump, prior to the opening of G7 Summit. pic.twitter.com/SD5hzLBO0X — Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) June 8, 2018 Report
The US president was the odd man out on climate change during the G7 in Italy last year, later announcing his intention to withdraw from the landmark Paris agreement.
Iran is also a sticking point. Mr Trump recently ditched the 2015 agreement aimed ar curbing Iran's nuclear programme. This angered the other signatories who have since sought to shore it up.
(CNN) On Friday morning, President Donald Trump left the White House for the G7 meeting in Quebec. But before he boarded Marine One, he took questions from reporters for almost 20 minutes. The conversation moved from Trump's unhappiness with Canada and France to his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and porn stars to Trump's views of Dennis Rodman's rebounding prowess.
Below, I picked out the 26 most noteworthy -- and newsworthy -- lines. Enjoy!
1. "I think I did our country a really great favor when I fired him."
The "him" here is former FBI director James Comey, who Trump also referred to as a "dishonest man" and noted that he has been "saying it for a long time." How Comey is viewed by history is inextricably tied to the Department of Justice's Inspector General report regarding the 2016 election and his handling of Hillary Clinton's private email server. That report is expected to be released next Thursday.
2. "If we are unable to make a deal we'll terminate NAFTA and we'll have a better deal."
What is that "better deal," you ask? Trump has no idea.
3. "These one-week preparations don't work. Just ask Hillary about the debates."
An absolutely amazing answer -- even for Trump -- to a question about his pledge on Thursday that he doesn't need to prepare for the June 12 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Trump kind of, sort of tried to say he had been preparing, but then, in taking a shot at Clinton, essentially debunked that idea. Also, not for nothing: Clinton was widely seen as having won all three general election presidential debates against Trump.
4. "I'm a big, big believer in freedom of the press."
Ahem.
Trump's constant assault on "fake news" (aka news he doesn't think paints him in a positive light) has helped to erode trust in the media and foment anger toward the media. That's not the behavior I'd expect from a "big, big believer" in press freedom.
5. "Comey and his band of thieves...."
First, this feels like a ramping-up of Trump's already super-aggro rhetoric against the former FBI director. "Thieves," really? What was stolen? Second: "James Comey's Band of Thieves" is a pretty good band name.
6. "I enjoyed his show. He was quite a character."
This is Trump's remembrance of CNN's Anthony Bourdain, who died by suicide today at 61 . One big regret of my year-plus at CNN is that I never got to meet Tony. I thought I had time. RIP.
7. "I have been Russia's worst nightmare. If Hillary got in -- I think Putin is probably going, 'man, I wish Hillary won.'"
[narrator voice] He's not.
Here's what we know -- according to the unanimous conclusions by the intelligence community: Russia actively interfered in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump and hurt Hillary Clinton. They did so because they believed Trump would be better for them and their concerns than Clinton would be.
8. "Whether you like it or not, and it may not be politically correct, but we have a world to run. And in the G7, it used to be the G8, they threw Russia out, they should let Russia come back in."
Russia was removed from the G8 in 2014 in the wake of that country's annexation of the Crimea region of Ukraine. Russia didn't seem too upset; "G8 is an informal organization that does not give out any membership cards and, by its definition, cannot remove anyone," said foreign minister Sergey Lavrov at the time.
Trump's argument to bring back Russia to the table goes like this: It doesn't really matter how they acquired their power. They have it. We need to have all powerful nations at the table. The end.
9. "I'll tell you what -- it's what I do -- it won't even be hard."
Say this for Trump: he doesn't lack for confidence. About anything. Ever. This quote refers to his belief that he will make better trade deals with countries like Canada, Mexico and France -- and that it won't even be hard!
10. "When it all straightens out, we'll all be in love again."
"I love lamp. I love lamp." -- Brick Tamblin
11. "I'm thinking about somebody that you all know very well, and he went through a lot, and he wasn't very popular then -- and he wasn't very popular then, no I'm not thinking about OJ -- but he's not -- only you could say OJ -- but he was, look -- he was not very popular then, he certainly, his memory is very popular now. I'm thinking about Muhammad Ali."
This. Is. Amazing. Trump starts this sentence by trying to tease -- without revealing! -- what major figure he might pardon next. After a reporter interrupts to ask whether it's OJ Simpson, Trump says no and then spills the beans: He's thinking about pardoning Ali! Worth noting, Ali's own attorney says he doesn't need to be pardoned. "We appreciate President Trump's sentiment, but a pardon is unnecessary," said Ron Tweel. "The US Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Muhammad Ali in a unanimous decision in 1971."
12. "I'm not above the law I never want anybody to be above the law."
13. "I do have an absolute right to pardon myself, but I'll never have to do it, because I didn't do anything wrong."
He doesn't have an "absolute right" to pardon himself. While no president has ever tried to do so, a memo from the Office of Legal Counsel in 1974 suggests no president can because "no one may be a judge in his own case."
14. "There's been no collusion, there's been no obstruction, it's all a made-up fantasy -- it's a witch hunt. No collusion, no obstruction. No nothing."
In summary:
a) NO COLLUSION
15. "Scott Pruitt is doing a great job within the walls of the EPA. I mean, we're setting records. Outside, he's being attacked very viciously by the press, and I'm not saying that he's blameless, but we'll see what happens."
What a cliffhanger! This quote affirms everything we know about how the ever-embattled EPA administrator still has a job : Because he is doing what Trump wants at the EPA. Done and done.
16. "I didn't invite Lebron James and I didn't invite Steph Curry."
They can't reject my invitations because I didn't invite them! Boom! Also, I broke up with you first!
17. "The fact is they had people in our campaign, they had people doing things that had never been done in the history of our country. It's a disgrace."
The fact is that a human confidential source was used by the FBI to communicate with Carter Page and George Papdopoulos, two Trump campaign aides, to find out what interactions they might have had with Russians. That person was never embedded in Trump's campaign. The use of informants by the FBI is certainly something that has been done for decades.
18. "Mitt's a straight shooter."
"Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University." -- Mitt Romney, 2016
19. "I love Canada but they treat us very unfairly on trade."
20. "She had a big operation. That was close to a four-hour operation. She's doing great."
Trump broke some news with this comment about the length of first lady Melania Trump's kidney procedure last month. Trump also noted that the first lady wanted to join him on the trip to Quebec and then on to Singapore for the North Korea summit but can't travel for a month due to the surgery.
21. "I have work. I have about 15 boxes of work."
Fifteen boxes! That's a lot of work. I only have eight boxes.
22."I'll be able to work without being bothered by phone calls when you people are writing fake stories about me and we have to respond."
This is why cell phones should continue to be banned on planes! Also: Same.
23. "Rudy's great, but Rudy is Rudy, but Rudy is doing a very good job, actually."
Two observations:
a) "Rudy is Rudy" is the definition of damning with faint praise
b) The "actually" at the end of that sentence just slays me.
24. "I like Dennis, a great rebounder, Dennis was a great rebounder and he wasn't relatively speaking that tall, so that tells you, rebounding, there's a genius to that. Dennis Rodman was a great rebounder."
Soooooo........was Dennis Rodman a good rebounder? Or a great one? I still don't have total clarity on that.
25. "You have a lot of people in the NFL in particular but in sports, unfortunately, not proud enough to stand for our National Anthem."
Say it with me: The anthem protests are designed to highlight the unfair treatment of African-Americans by police around the country. It has zero to do with patriotism -- even as Trump chooses to define it here.
26. "The power to pardon is a beautiful thing."
Many people say it's the most beautiful thing.
'One way in, one way out': why G7 summits are in such remote locations
Until the leaders of the seven most economically advanced nations in the world descended on it, the Charlevoix region of Quebec was perhaps best known for the beauty of its landscapes and the opulence of its state-run casino in La Malbaie. It is also a remote tourist destination, reached by way of an often perilous one-lane highway, and has a population density lower than the (already sparse) national average.
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This is no coincidence. Though it poses certain logistical issues, Charlevoix’s isolation is perhaps its greatest asset when it comes to staging a meeting of these world leaders. In an era where mass protests of such things are a given, Charlevoix offers a key security feature: it is difficult for protesters to get there, harder still to circulate and near impossible to escape the eye of law enforcement.
“One way in, one way out,” says Alan Bell, president of the Toronto-based security consulting firm Global Risk International. “If you go back to some recent G7 and G20 meetings, the downtown core always gets trashed. What they want to do is zero in on the protesters. If they want to come, they basically have to walk in.”
The practice of holding such huge and consequential meetings in hard-to-reach places is relatively new. The first G6 summit was held in 1975 in the Parisian exurb of Rambouillet. The meeting was a low-key affair that dealt almost exclusively in global economic matters. Protests were non-existent; the only delay, it seems, was a result of the Soviet general secretary Leonid Brezhnev’s perpetual exhaustion, according to news clippings of the day. Canada, which joined the group in 1976, held subsequent G7 meetings in Ottawa (in 1981) Toronto (in 1988) and Halifax in 1995. (Russia was admitted in 1998.)
Everything changed with the teargas-drenched spectacle known as “the Battle of Seattle”. In 1999, 60,000 protesters demonstrated at the meeting of the World Trade Organization, fomenting what has become an enduring anti-globalization movement.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Demonstrators travel down a Seattle street during protests in 1999. Photograph: Eric Draper/AP
This large and diffuse group of trade unionists, NGOs, workers and black bloc members managed to disrupt the proceedings. The ensuing damage, and the images of police phalanxes doing battle with mostly unarmed protesters, were a headache for the city, law enforcement and world leaders alike.
“World leaders were taken off guard. A lot of planning and organization went into the protests, and it all aligned in Seattle,” says Barry Eidlin, an assistant professor of sociology at McGill University in Montreal. “The retreat from the city is itself a response to these mass mobilization tactics.”
What they want to do is zero in on the protesters Alan Bell
The G8 meetings held in Canada since Seattle have taken place in Kananaskis, Alberta, and Muskoka, Ontario – like Charlevoix, remote locations to which access can be tightly controlled. In Charlevoix, a designated red zone restricts entrance to residents and summit participants, with a larger fenced-in “green zone” surrounding it, accessible only to those with accreditation. Beyond this is the white zone, the notable home to the summit’s so-called “free speech zone” where protesters can vent – 2km from where Donald Trump and his six peers will gather. The summit and associated meetings will cost Canadian taxpayers more than $600m.
In 2010, Toronto provided a Canadian cautionary tale to the pitfalls of urban-held trade meetings. That year, police “kettled” more than 1,000 protesters –corralling then holding them outdoors for hours on end during a torrential downpour. It led to the high-profile disciplining of a senior Toronto police officer and an enduring black eye for the force.
There probably won’t be a similar event this weekend. Though there have already been limited protests in Quebec City, a massive police presence and the sheer distance to Charlevoix has apparently dulled the outrage.
Of course, those who would like to hark back to the old days of protest-free trade meetings can look forward to the 2020 G20 summit in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, where access is all but impossible given foreigners need permission to visit, and free expression is often outlawed completely.
