Latest updates: UK foreign secretary critical of French president over Brexit as final day of G7 sees attention turn to climate crisis
1.19pm BST
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has said that with Joe Biden US president instead of Donald Trump, the world can address its problems “with a new zest”, Bloomberg reports.
“Look, the election of Joe Biden as U.S. president doesn’t mean that the world has no longer problems.
“But we can work on the solution of these problems with a new zest,” Germany’s Angela Merkel told reporters, per @ArneDelfs.
It was Merkel’s final G7. pic.twitter.com/LLjx0c9e5Z
1.16pm BST
President Biden has held a meeting at the summit with the Japanese prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, the Hill reports.
Biden reaffirms support for Olympics during meeting with Japan’s prime minister https://t.co/IWKrDSa1sd pic.twitter.com/tTKPLA4KfG