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G7 leaders meet in Japan as the US plans new sanctions on Russia,

plus TikTok creators Sumantana over the state's blanket ban of the platform

and a journal investigation ties at least 50 car models to a potentially explosive airbag part.

Auto makers are kind of between a rock and a hard place where they're aware that there could be a potential problem,

but they haven't yet been told by the supplier to actually bring those cars into the shop and repair them.

It's Friday, May 19th. I'm Luke Vargas with The Wall Street Journal,

and here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

And we begin in Hiroshima, Japan, where world leaders are meeting for the G7 Summit.

Overnight, we've learned that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelinsky is expected to make an in-person appearance at the summit

in an effort to press allies for military support.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine will be a major focus of leaders attending with President Biden planning to unveil a new round of US sanctions and trade restrictions targeting Russia's military industrial complex.

Wall Street Journal White House reporter Annie Linsky is in Hiroshima, and I asked her about Biden's goals for the summit beginning with those new sanctions on Russia.

The remains support for Ukraine, especially in this moment, as this anticipated counteroffensive is on the verge of occurring.

G7 allies are looking at Russia's economy. They had thought that sanctions and various restrictions on the economy would have been more effective quite frankly than they have been.

And what we're hearing is that there's going to be an examination of where is their leakage and where can they stop that leakage.

So an obvious place, of course, is sort of different countries where companies are able to send goods to a third country and then that country sends it on to Russia.

Those are sort of obvious areas where leaders are going to be looking at in order to tighten some of the restrictions that are already in place.

And we understand Annie that the other big focus of this summit is going to be about countering China and its economic and political dominance in Asia.

What is the administration's thinking about that?

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