G20 cohort takes second picture — this time with Biden, Trudeau and Meloni

World leaders at the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, took a second group photo on November 19 — this time with outgoing United States President Joe Biden, who missed the first photo op, AFP reported.
The “reshoot” also featured other world leaders who missed the first cohort photo of this G20 Summit, including Canada and Italy’s Prime Ministers Justin Trudeau and Giorgia Meloni.
All missed the photo on (November 18) Monday due to what US officials called “logistical issues”, the report added.
The second time around, Biden, was placed front and centre in the photo, the report noted. He is on his last G20 Summit as President-elect Donald Trump is set to return to the White House on January 20.
This time, PM Narendra Modi took Biden’s hand as he stepped onto the stage and Trudeau on his right chatted with the senior US leader. Chinese President Xi Jinping was also present. 
Leaders gathered at a Rio art museum to take the photo and when it was all over they clapped and held hands, the report added.
The fulsome show of unity could not have contrasted more starkly with the farcical scenes when Biden missed out on the photo a day earlier.
Biden had been spotted walking through some palm trees towards the photo-op on the Brazilian city’s stunning bayside on Monday — but the other leaders were already dispersing after the picture was snapped.
His no-show had seemed to symbolize the 81-year-old’s waning influence as the world looks towards a second Trump presidency following the Republican’s sweeping US election win.
Throughout a six-day swing through South America, Biden has been making a last pitch for global support on issues from Ukraine and the Middle East to climate change.
But his counterparts have often seemed to have their eyes on January, with Xi saying after meeting Biden in Lima last week that he would work for a “smooth transition” with Trump.
Biden has also kept a low media profile and has not taken questions from the media during his trip, despite major developments such as his granting of approval for Ukraine to use long-range US-made missiles to hit Russia.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov — attending in place of President Vladimir Putin, who faces an International Criminal Court warrant over the war in Ukraine — was in the photo on Monday but not on Tuesday.
Lavrov said earlier Tuesday that Kyiv’s first strikes with the missiles marked a “new phase” — while also urging the West to read a decree signed by Putin that lowers the threshold for Russian use of nuclear weapons.
(With inputs from AFP)