As more and more countries line up to join BRICS, Chinese leader Xi Jinping is looking to use the summit to showcase an alternative world order and Russian President Vladimir Putin looks to show that he isn’t diplomatically isolated.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with the United Arab Emirates' President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow in Russia.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has canceled his trip to Russia for a BRICS summit after an accident at home that left him with a cut in the neck.