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The G7 summit will host world leaders as they meet to discuss climate change, trade, migration and ties with Africa. The Manchester bombing and conflicts in North Korea and Syria are also certain to crop up during the two-day meeting between the world’s seven major economies. Donald Trump will likely use the summit to push NATO allies to “contribute their fair share”, after he berated leaders yesterday for their alleged shortcomings. Theresa May yesterday called on leaders to do more to pressure technology companies into blocking extremist content online, before returning to the UK to oversee a counter-terror operation following the Manchester bombing. As the G7 summit continues, here are live updates and the latest news from Sicily.

World leaders gather at G7 summit 2017 Fri, May 26, 2017 Donald Trump will face Theresa May and world leaders at the G7 summit in Sicily Play slideshow EPA 1 of 8 G7 Summit in Taormina

Saturday May 27 11.40am BST: Donald Trump has agreed to a pledge to include a promise fight trade protectionism in the G7 summit communiqué, a G7 source has told CNBC. "Trump agreed that the fight against protectionism should be in the final statement," the source said. The President has previously supported protectionism, and has claimed that the US has been harmed by unfair trade practices from Germany, China and other allies. 2.50am BST: The G7 meeting is due to reconvene again in Italy today. Friday May 26 7.40pm: White House economic adviser Gary Cohn said today that Donald Trump’s views on climate change were evolving, following the G7 discussions. "I think his views are evolving. He came here to learn,” Mr Cohn said. “He came here to get smart. “His views are evolving which is exactly as they should be. His basis for a decision ultimately is going to be what's best for the United States.” Mr Cohn further said that President Trump was going to treat his economic partners in the G7 in the same way they treat the US. "It was a very robust discussion," he told a press briefing after the first day of the G7 summit. 6.40pm: EU Council President Donald Tusk has urged the G7 leaders to stick to their sanction policies on Russia over the Ukrainian crisis. The news comes just a day after US officials said they had no position on the issue. "Since our last G7 summit in Japan (in 2016) we haven't seen anything to justify a change in our sanctions policy towards Russia,” Mr Tusk told reporters in Sicily. “Therefore I will appeal to the other G7 leaders to reconfirm this policy.” 6.10pm: Theresa May was asked about the US’ stance on climate change and whether or not an agreement was reached. She said: “We had a very good discussion about the importance of this issue of climate change and about how we address this issue of climate change. “The United States is considering its position in relation to these matters and what its policies are going to be. “But there is no doubt around the table about how important this particular issue on climate change is, and we were all very clear about that and the role the Paris Agreement plays in that. 5.55pm: The British Prime Minister underlined her commitment to securing a peaceful resolution to the growing tensions with North Korea. “The leaders were united in their condemnation of North Korea’s continued nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles tests,” Ms May said. “We agree to continue to increase pressure on Pyongyang as we work to secure a peaceful resolution in the region.” 5.50pm: Theresa May who has focused at the G7 on the threat of terrorism, has just gone live at a summit press conference. 5.30pm: Italy has called on world leaders to act on migration and the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean. 5.05pm: President Donald Trump still refuses to back the 2015 Paris agreement to fight climate change, blocking efforts by world leaders meeting in Sicily to get the new U.S. leader to endorse the treaty, Italy's prime minister said on Friday.



But there was agreement on other issues such as Syria, Libya and fighting terrorism, Paolo Gentiloni told reporters in Taormina, Italy, where the heads of the world's seven major industrialised economies (G7) are meeting.



"There is one open question, which is the U.S. position on the Paris climate accords... All others have confirmed their total agreement on the accord," Gentiloni said. "We are sure that after an internal reflection, the United States will also want to commit to it," he added.



The leaders of Italy, the U.S., Germany, Britain, France, Canada and Japan signed on Friday a statement to bolster efforts to fight terrorism, including a bid to remove extremist propaganda from the Internet, Gentiloni said.



"We showed our united commitment and our determination to continue and to strengthen our fight against terrorism," Gentiloni said after the leaders signed a document that also expressed solidarity with Britain after the suicide bomb attack in Manchester on Monday that killed 22.



Gentiloni said they had made progress on the issue of foreign trade, but added that the wording of the final communique still needed to be worked out. Trump has previously promoted a protectionist agenda that alarmed his G7 allies.



"On the major theme of global trade, we are still working on the shape of the final communique, but it seems to me the direct discussions today have produced common positions that we can work on," he said.

GETTY G7 summit: Angela Merkel hitches a ride in Sicily

GETTY G7 Summit: Donald Trump speaking to Japanese President Shinzo Abe at the G7 summit

4.45pm: Climate change is set to become one of the most hotly debated topics at the G7 summit. Donald Trump who has in the past labelled climate change a hoax and a Chinese invention, has also been threatening to pull out of the Paris Agreement – a climate change deal signed by 195 nations. But US Administration officials are now saying Mr Trump will wait until after the summit to make a decision on the issue. "I think he is leaning to understand the European position,” chief economic advisor Gary Cohn told reporters. “As you know from the U.S., there's very strong views on both sides." 4.20pm: Theresa May and Donald Trump renewed their commitment to increase trade between the two countries during a meeting at the G7 summit in Italy, May's spokesman said. "The president and the prime minister reaffirmed their commitment to increasing trade between the UK and the U.S including a post-Brexit trade deal," the spokesman said 4.15pm: Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have agreed to expand sanctions against North Korea for its continued development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, the White House said in a statement. "President Trump and Prime Minister Abe agreed their teams would cooperate to enhance sanctions on North Korea, including by identifying and sanctioning entities that support North Korea's ballistic missile and nuclear programs," the White House said after the two men held a one-on-one meeting in Sicily.



"They also agreed to further strengthen the alliance between the United States and Japan, to further each country's capability to deter and defend against threats from North Korea," the statement said. 4pm: A top adviser to Donald Trump confirmed that the U.S. president had criticised Germany as "very bad" on trade at a meeting with EU officials in Brussels on Thursday. Juncker had played down the comments by Donald Trump and denied the US President said anything negative about the Germans. However White House economic adviser Gary Cohn told reporters at a Group of Seven summit in Sicily "He said they're very bad on trade, but he doesn't have a problem with Germany."

GETTY G7 summit: Leaders stand in a line to be photographed in Taormina

GETTY G7 summit: Theresa May walks with Donald Trump during the G7

3.40pm: Theresa May and Donald Trump were seen walking together in deep conversation as they prepare to meet members of the International Monetary Fund this weekend. Shopkeepers down the hill from where world leaders are meeting boarded up their windows and doors on Friday, bracing for a protest march along the seafront of this normally sleepy Sicilian tourist town. 3.15pm: Disagreements between Donald Trump and other G7 leaders have reportedly put and end to plans for a united response to the ongoing migrant crisis Italy, which is on course to take 200,000 Libyan refugees this year, had drawn up a communique that would have seen world leaders take on join responsibility for the crisis. However, talks are now underway to draft a short replacement which removes any commitments on the US to take in refugees, diplomatic sources have said. One source claimed that the four new leaders at the summit – Trump, Theresa May, France’s Emmanuel Macron and Italy’s Paolo Gentiloni – are uneasy about taking on commitments formed by their predecessors.

NATO countries' heads of states gather in Brussels Thu, May 25, 2017 NATO countries' heads of states and governments gather in Brussels for a one-day meeting Play slideshow REUTERS 1 of 24 U.S. President Donald Trump and Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May react during a ceremony at the new NATO headquarters in Brussels

3.00pm: US President Donald Trump said that North Korea was a "big problem", but assured Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that issues surrounding the secretive Asian state would be resolved.

US President Donald Trump said that North Korea was a "big problem", but assured Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that issues surrounding the secretive Asian state would be resolved. He said: "It is very much on our minds... It's a big problem, it's a world problem and it will be solved. At some point it will be solved. You can bet on that," Trump said sitting alongside Abe in a bilateral meeting ahead of a Group of Seven summit." "President Trump and Prime Minister Abe agreed their teams would cooperate to enhance sanctions on North Korea, including by identifying and sanctioning entities that support North Korea's ballistic missile and nuclear programs," the White House said after the two men held a one-on-one meeting in Sicily.



"They also agreed to further strengthen the alliance between the United States and Japan, to further each country's capability to deter and defend against threats from North Korea," the statement said.



North Korea's growing nuclear and missile threat is seen as a major security challenge for Trump and Abe both. Trump has vowed to prevent the country from being able to hit the United States with a nuclear missile, a capability experts say Pyongyang could have some time after 2020. 2.40pm: The summit has kicked off with a ceremony at an ancient Greek theatre, overlooking the sea. Leaders are then attending a meeting on terrorism and climate change. European leaders have signalled they will push Trump on Paris emissions deal.

GETTY G7 summit: Leaders listen to Donald Trump as he talks on the issues facing their nations

GETTY G7 leaders around the table at the summit

2.20pm: The G7 leaders have been pictured arriving at the summit in Sicily as talks begin. Donald Tusk, European Council president, said before the meeting: “No doubt, this will be the most challenging G7 summit in years,” due to the leaders' differing positions on climate change and trade. He added that Donald Trump agrees that Brexit is “just an incident, not a trend”. “I was positively surprised by President Trump’s comments on Brexit because it was clear for both of us that in fact the EU27 is more united after Brexit than before,” Mr Tusk said, before moving the topic of conversation to terror. He said that he was in agreement with Mr Trump that a “tough, even brutal” approach was necessary to combat ISIS. “It is understandable that terrorism, counter-terrorism, ISIS were one of the main topics during our meeting with President Trump. Manchester was the most tragic context of our discussions,” he said. 2.00pm: European Commission president Jean Claude Juncker took a swipe at Donald Trump this morning. He told reporters: There a four new leaders around the table. We are veterans but it will be very interesting to know thesew new colleagues in a better way. We uphold freedom, democracy and the rule of law. "Those in Europe and elsewhere who do not see how globalisation works for them. We must build bridges not walls."

GETTY G7 summit: Angela Merkel reacts to something Donald Trump has said

GETTY G7 summit: Donald Trump, Theresa May, Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron are among those present

GETTY G7 summit: Donald Trump yesterday attacked his European Nato allies

When asked about Theresa May’s claim that the EU could be forced to pay money to the UK as part of Brexit negotiations, Mr Tusk said: “No, we have to respect our obligations and I think it’s not about money, it’s about rules and also it’s about a good basis for our future relations. “This is why we will be very consistent in this problem, but please believe me, it’s not because of money but because of rules.” Theresa May started her say with a meeting with Emmanuel Macron, where the pair agreed on the need to stop the “spread of poisonous material and propaganda on the internet that is leading people down the path towards terrorism”. Mrs May thanks Mr Macron for his solidarity in the aftermath of the Manchester bombing, which she called “one of our worst terrorist incidents that we’ve ever experienced”. “France itself knows what it is like to suffer from terrorist attacks. And these incidents show us why it is so important for us to work together in defeating terrorism,” she added.

GETTY G7 summit: Jean Claude Juncker speaking ahead of G7 summit of leaders