French president had lunch with Donald Trump ahead of the summit
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, said he hoped to convince world leaders to pull back from a trade war and heal growing divisions at the G7 summit in Biarritz, before sitting down to an impromptu ocean-front lunch alone with Donald Trump in order to smooth relations.
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