The G7 leaders have published their final communique - a document summarising the summit's agreements and pledges.

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In it, the G7 pledges to deliver more than one billion coronavirus vaccinations to poorer countries and raise $100bn to help them cut carbon emissions.

Other pledges include supporting a target to get 40 million more girls into education, with at least $2.75bn for the Global Partnership for Education which works to give all children a chance at education.

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US President Joe Biden opened up his Newquay press conference to a wide range of questions from the waiting media.

The president was asked about his upcoming meeting with Vladimir Putin in Geneva, where he said he agreed with the Russian leader that US-Russia relations are at a low point. He dismissed a question about why they're not holding a joint news conference after their meeting - saying the matter is "not a contest" and would become a distraction.

He also covers a number of topics surrounding China, including alleged human rights abuses and the need for transparency when investigating the origins of Covid-19.

The US President will now travel to Windsor where he and his wife will be welcomed by the Queen.

During questions from journalists, French President Emmanuel Macron is asked about reports that he said Northern Ireland was not part of the UK during a G7 summit meeting.

On that subject, Macron says "we all need to stay very calm".

“Let’s not lose time in disagreements which are often created in corridors or empty chambers," he says, adding the G7 has been focused on other priorities.

“What I’d say to Prime Minister Johnson... France has never allowed itself to question British sovereignty, the integrity of the British territory and the respect of its sovereignty."

We've also heard from the Italian prime minister, Mario Draghi, who has talked about differences with China, one of the main points of discussion of the G7 leaders at the summit.

"We need to cooperate but we also need to be frank about things that we do not share and do not accept. The US president [Joe Biden] said that silence is complicity," he says at a news conference.

"It's an autocracy that does not adhere to multilateral rules and does not share the same vision of the world that the democracies have."

One of the main stories from the G7 summit today is on comments reportedly made by French President Emmanuel Macron on Northern Ireland during a meetng.

Macron reportedly said Northern Ireland was not part of the UK , externalin response to Boris Johnson asking how he would feel if sausages from Toulouse could not move to Paris.

The pair were discussing the Northern Ireland Protocol - part of the Brexit deal that requires extra checks on items moved between Great Britain and NI. Sausages are among the goods that could soon face these extra checks.

Johnson was asked by the BBC whether he was offended by Macron's comments.

The PM said problems over the Northern Ireland Protocol occupied "a vanishingly small proportion of our deliberations" at the G7 summit.

President Biden says the G7 has agreed to work together to address corruption - such as "the abuse of shell companies, money laundering... and cyber threats, from state and non-state actors" - and to hold countries accountable that harboured those criminals.

"The only way we are going to meet global threats is by working together," says the US president, citing G7 commitments to deliver vaccines globally, driving economic recovery around the world, fuel infrastructure development where it is most needed - and fight climate change.

"The US is going to do our part - America is back at the table."

"The lack of participation in the past was noted significantly... not only by the leaders of those countries but by the people in those G7 countries."

"America is back in the business of leading the world, alongside nations who share our most deeply held values.

"The bottom line is, I was very pleased with the outcome of the entire conference."

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, is also addressing the media. He says the meeting "sped up" the commitment to share Covid-19 vaccines with developing countries.

He says France will double the amount of doses shared to 60 million by the end of the year. He also says Africa, in particular, needs help to increase its capacity to produce vaccines.

Macron also talks about China, which has been a key topic at the summit. He says the G7 isn't a club that is hostile to China but that they have differences with the Asian nation, citing the issue of forced labour.

China, he says, is an economic competitor that must respect international trade rules.

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US President Joe Biden is giving a press conference from Newquay after leaving the G7 summit earlier today.

He describes the event as an "extraordinary, collaborative and productive meeting" and says everyone at the table understood the challenges and responsibilities they are facing, including the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent need for economic recovery.

Biden describes a US commitment of 500 million doses of the Pfizer jab as the "foundation" to what was agreed by other leaders. He says 200 million of these doses will be supplied by the end of 2021, with the rest in the first half of the next.

He also speaks about the need for countries to better work together so the world is better prepared for future pandemics whenever they emerge.

Why critics will say not reaching WHO vaccine targets is a failurepublished at 15:14 British Summer Time 13 June 2021

15:14 BST 13 June 2021

Michelle Roberts
Health editor, BBC News online

Vaccines provide a route out the pandemic, but only if they are distributed equitably around the globe based on need.

Currently, many richer nations have good access to doses for mass immunisation of their citizens, while some developing countries are yet to receive any.

The UK has bought enough vaccine to immunise its entire population several times over.

G7 nations, including the UK, have agreed to step up production and donate a billion doses, but that will take time.

The ambition is to vaccinate "the world" by the end of 2022.

The World Health Organization estimates at least 11 billion doses are needed to stand a chance of beating the virus, which is why critics say the G7 summit will go down as an unforgivable moral failure.

The final question put to Boris Johnson is from the Guardian's Heather Stewart. She asks whether the G7 is actually taking the climate crisis seriously, given that the $100bn finance package touted at the current summit was first pledged by the G7 "more than a decade ago" in Copenhagen - and no funding mechanism has yet been elaborated.

Johnson says financing climate change is "not going to be easy, it's a lot of money still to raise" - but there have been "big pledges around the table":

"I do think we can get there - and I think it's vital that we do."

However, the prime minister rejects "outright" the suggestion the UK lacks the moral authority to push for more vaccine rollout because of the government's recent cuts to foreign aid.

"Half a billion vaccines are being distributed around the world [because of donations by the UK], those jabs are going into people's arms as a direct result."

"The UK is one of the biggest donors in the world. We are still the second biggest aid contributor in the G7 and I think people can be very very proud of that."

Boris Johnson was asked about tensions over Brexit - after the UK's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called reported comments made by France's Emmanuel Macron "offensive".

The prime minister attempted to stress the harmony between the G7 leaders at the summit, pointing out some of the things that had been agreed during the summit.

Johnson does his best to dismiss concerns cited by a New York Times journalist that the prime minister may be viewed with suspicion by some in Washington because of his government's relationship with former President Donald Trump.

The journalist also raises the idea Johnson may be viewed as by some as a "physical and emotional clone" of Trump - in reference to a comment reportedly made by President Joe Biden at a 2019 fundraiser before he took office.

The UK prime minister reiterates it is the job of all prime ministers to have a "close working relationship" with the president of the US at any given time. He then goes on to highlight a number of policy areas - including climate change - where he feels he and President Biden are closely aligned.

He also dismisses the idea that the Northern Ireland protocol row may impact US-UK relations moving forward and reiterates his view that the EU and UK will find a pragmatic fix for the issue.

Antonello Guerrera, from the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, asks about the relationship between the UK and Italy, which is also a G7 nation.

Boris Johnson says the ties between the two countries, which he describes as "very close", are "intensifying". "We've just signed a partnership agreement... to intensify the relationship on everything from security to tech to trade."

"We see Italy as an incredibly important partner," the PM adds.

The PM is also asked on the importance of improving British ties with the Indo-Pacific region. He says this is an area where there will be "the most dynamic economic growth" in the "next 20, 30 years".

But it's also a region where he thinks tensions "can be allayed by proper observance of the rules-based international system".

The Telegraph asks Boris Johnson whether he can commit that any delay to the 21 June lockdown easing in England will not be longer than four weeks, and what his message would be to people tempted to break the rules.

Johnson says he understands people's impatience to find out but adds: "The best thing is to get this all out in one package so that everybody can understand it in the round.

"And that's what we'll be doing tomorrow."

And on vaccines, the Telegraph asks why Johnson doesn't agree to drop the patents on vaccines - something which would help boost global supply.

Johnson replies: "I think the crucial thing is to make sure that we build up capacity, build up manufacturing capacity - fill and finish and manufacturing - around the world, particularly in Africa.

"I think we should be sharing knowledge as much as we can whilst obviously protecting... the incentives for innovation. So you've got to accomplish both things at once.

"But what we think is the right way to go is to sell these vaccines at cost. That's why we champion the Oxford/AstraZeneca model. What we're doing is getting lots and lots of jabs into people's arms by insisting they are sold at cost."

Here's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking earlier in his press conference when he gave details of G7 leaders pledging one billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines for poorer countries.

The Sun newspaper asks the PM about his past comments that pangolin scales - pangolins are a type of mammal, similar in appearance to an anteater - being used in Chinese medicine may have caused Covid. Is that still his view? And what has he learnt this weekend about the theory that the virus leaked from a lab?

Mr Johnson says: "I do think there's a problem with zoonotic diseases.

"It's the practice that seems to be particularly prevalent in some parts of Asia, south-east Asia, south Asia, of farming wild animals. That is really where the risks are.

"At the moment, the advice that we've had is that it doesn't look that this particular disease of zoonotic origin came from a lab. Clearly anybody sensible would want to keep an open mind about that.

"But what we did agree... we're having a new treaty on pandemic preparedness and to make sure the world works better in tackling zoonotic diseases like this."

He says one of things we agreed to do was to strengthen the World Health Organization and make sure their inspectors can get on the scene and determine independently what is going on.

And asked about some of the crowd booing the England team for taking the knee, Mr Johnson says everyone "should cheer".

The BBC's Laura Kuenssberg once again asks if the PM was offended by President Macron's reported remarks about Northern Ireland's place in the United Kingdom on Saturday.

Once again, Johnson refuses to respond beyond saying, as previously, that "it is the job of the UK to uphold the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom".

He again reiterates that the Brexit discussions were a "vanishingly small proportion of our deliberations" at the G7 summit in Cornwall.

Asked by the BBC if he was disappointed - like many environmental campaigners - about the scale of achievements at the summit, the PM said it had been "a highly productive few days" and listed again some of the successes, including the commitment to a global rollout of one billion vaccines by the end of 2022.

Johnson next goes to Robert Peston from ITV News, who asks the prime minister about the lack of binding agreements and timetables about climate change targets.

He also asks about comments made by former prime minister Gordon Brown describing the number of vaccines agreed to by the G7 as an "unforgivable moral failure" and is also asked again about the ongoing row about the Northern Ireland protocol.

Mr Johnson repeats that it's the UK government's job to keep the country as "one great indivisible kingdom" together regarding Northern Ireland.

He also says that he rejects criticism of the vaccine commitments and highlights the UK's individual donations as well as the success of their role in the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab development and distribution. "We are doing everything we can to distribute vaccines as fast as possible," Mr Johnson says.

The prime minister also defends the progress made on climate change, saying while he won't "pretend our work is done" that he will be among leaders "on everybody's case" ahead of the COP26 summit set to be held in Scotland later this year.

Sky also suggests that, amid the Brexit row, Boris Johnson is moving apart from the UK's allies and has provoked a diplomatic row with France. Sky asks: Do you regret some of your remarks?

Johnson says "the vast, vast majority of the conversations we've had over the past three and four days have been about other subjects and there has been a fantastic degree of harmony between the leaders of our countries".

He says he could not have asked for a more co-operative spirit.

But Sky replies, asking the PM about comments made by Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, that France's comments about Northern Ireland were offensive.

"We will do whatever it takes to protect the territorial integrity of the UK," he says.

"Actually what happened at this summit was there was a colossal amount of work on subjects that wasn't to do with Brexit.

"We will sort that out... but I think I'm going to stick with what I've said yesterday."

The first question from the media for Boris Johnson comes from Sky. So far 44% of people have been fully vaccinated, Sky asks - but what percentage need to be jabbed before the next stage of lockdown easing can happen?

Johnson replies that "we're continuing to look at the data" and "no final decision has been taken".

"The right time to fill everybody in on what we're going to do with step four, with 21 June, is tomorrow," says Mr Johnson, referring to the update the government will give tomorrow on the next stage of lockdown easing in England.

"That's when we'll be putting out the whole package of information so that everybody can see it together."

When Sky presses him again on the percentage needed vaccinated, Mr Johnson refuses to answer that point.