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Russian president said: "We should think about how to stop this tragedy."
The virtual summit is set to be held on Wednesday.
"Did you ever think you’d be sitting at a G20 conference where everyone was preoccupied with the notion of global warming?” the president asked.
Western leaders have been keen to get back on cordial terms with President Xi Jinping.
All eyes have been on the UK's third prime minister this year.
The French leader is still sore over a scuttled submarine deal — and he let the Australian prime minister know it at the G-20 summit.
As fires threaten Sydney, the nation's deputy prime minister dismissed “raving inner city lunatics” over concerns that climate change could be worsening the disaster.
"I am not saying that the Salisbury incident is the way to do it. Not at all. But traitors must be punished," Russian president tells FT.
The president wagged his finger at the Russian leader and told him not to meddle in the US election.