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Good morning for the Financial Times.

Today is Friday, March 25th, and this is your FT News Briefing.

We'll start the show in Brussels where world leaders have gathered for a whirlwind diplomatic

effort focused on Ukraine. And we'll talk with Katie Martin about Russia's financial markets,

which reopened this week. I guess this is a bit of a move on the Russian side to

give the impression that, you know, we're back in business.

Plus, we'll have the latest development in the ongoing corporate saga that is Toshiba.

I'm Joanna Gao, in for Mark Philpino, and here's the news you need to start your day.

Leaders at the G7, NATO, and EU gathered in Brussels to try and come up with ways to help Ukraine.

They're also trying to address the economic fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Here's the FT's Andy Bounds with some of the key agreements.

The main one from the G7 meeting was sanctions on gold, so Russia is trying to avoid it's

obviously being cut off from a lot of swift transactions, a lot of dollar transactions.

So apparently it's been trying to sell its foreign reserves of gold in order to, you know,

generate currency, and therefore they've taken actions to try and stop that.

And then secondly, a big issue for the EU is it's very reliant on Russian gas.

And obviously that sends lots of money to Russia, which they can use to fulfill their war aims.

So the US is going to step up and announce that it's going to provide or try to provide some more

liquefied natural gas to the EU in order to mean they don't have to buy as much from Russia.

It's a small dent, really, and they are looking to other countries as well to do more.

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