Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain cut international aid to raise military spending. He’s hoping to make a case for Ukraine in the White House.

US President Donald Trump has said that French President Emmanuel Macron and UK PM Keir Starmer "haven't done anything" to end the war in Ukraine, ahead of visits from both leaders to the White House next week.

Finance ministers and central bankers from the G20 top economies gather in South Africa on Wednesday and Thursday, for a meeting marred by the absence or curtailed attendance of key members and disputes over the main issues of climate, debt and inequality.

President Trump is set to meet next week with two key European leaders amid tensions over Trump’s approach to negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine. National security adviser Mike Waltz

French President Emmanuel Macron tried Monday to inject a dose of reality into President Donald Trump’s ambitions to end the war in Ukraine, insisting they sought the same outcome of peace while simultaneously warning of Russia’s poor track record in keeping its international commitments.

The leaders of France and Britain are both due to meet with President Trump this week. Approaches previously tried with him may no longer work.

French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer will travel to Washington, United States next week amid alarm in Europe over US President Donald Trump’s hardening stance towards Ukraine and overtures to Moscow on the three-year conflict.

French president Emmanuel Macron says he will tell Donald Trump to "not be weak" in the face of Vladimir Putin, when he travels to the White House to discuss America's move to end Russia's war in Ukraine on Monday.

MSNBC’s Ali Velishi does a necessary fact check on Donald Trump’s lies about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin’s murderous war with Ukraine ahead of a face-to-face meeting in Washington between Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron.