This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Andrew Peach and in the early hours of Friday the 14th of June, these are our main stories.

G7 leaders agree a $50 billion loan to Ukraine using profits from seized Russian assets.

The US Supreme Court rejects an attempt to restrict access to a widely used abortion drug, and

we hear how hard pilgrims traveling to Mecca are

getting scanned by fake companies. Also in this podcast...

A tentative step out of a shipping crate, a man named Tessa the first of her kind to set foot in Kazakhstan for two centuries. Conservationists are returning endangered wild horses to the golden step of Kazakhstan

and the postman who created a surprise football anthem. Let's begin with the war in Ukraine and specifically Western efforts to help the country

defend itself against Russia.

President Vladimir Zelensky has proven very effective of asking the most powerful leaders in the world for support and getting it.

At the G7 meeting of seven of the world's richest nations in Italy he's done that again they

agreed a 50 billion dollar loan plan using the interest made by frozen Russian

assets he also signed a 10-year security agreement with President Biden.

Today is a truly historic day and we have signed the strongest agreement

within Ukraine and the US since our independence.

President Zelensky, this was President Biden speaking at the same news conference.

A lasting peace for Ukraine must be underwritten by Ukraine's own ability to defend itself

now and to deter future aggression anytime in the future.

Our diplomatic correspondent James Landale has been telling me exactly

what's been agreed.

The G7 leaders have agreed politically that it's right for them to use all those Russian assets that were frozen after the invasion of

Ukraine back in 2022 to try and raise money for Ukraine.

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