of the driver, a woman in her 40s, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. police officers, firefighters and paramedics, including london s air ambulance, responded to the incident at the study preparatory school in wimbledon just before 10am this morning. the metropolitan police say the incident is not being treated as terror related. the prime minister is sending his deepest condolences. his thoughts are with all wood involved. it would have been terrifying for children, spy have been terrifying for children, spy staff and parents. the staff. in the last hour, the emergency services gave this update. very sadly, one of the children, an eight year old girl, died at the scene. our thoughts are with her family at this incredibly difficult time. the driver of a car, a woman aged in her forties stopped a woman aged in her 40s, stopped at the scene and has since been arrested for causing death by dangerous driving and remains in police custod
white house deals with the fallout over that cocaine found inside the west wing on sunday. secret service officials expect to wrap up their investigation in ex week, but are downplaying expectations of those findings. and the white house is trying to pivot attention off the probe and onto today s jobs report with what they say is bidenomics working for the american people. correspondent mark meredith is following it all, joins us live from the north lawn with the latest. good evening mark. reporter: bret, good evening to you. tonight top white house aides say they do not believe national security was compromised after someone brought drugs into the west wing but tonight the white house says they re still looking into this. like the secret service and the rest of us, trying to figure out how those drugs ended up here in the first place. mr. president, any update on the cocaine. president biden once again ignored reporters questions about cocaine found in the white house.
i m lewis vaughan jones. i m lewis vaughanjones. welcome to the daily global, where we bring you the daily global, where we bring you the top stories from around the world. we start in south london where an eight year old girl has died and 15 people have been injured after a car crashed into a primary school. it s a girl school for children between 4 11. it happened just before 10am during what was thought to be a children s garden party for the last day of term. ten people were taken to hospital. a woman in her 40s has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. our special correspondent lucy manning reports. tables, chairs and mats laid out. a sense of excitement about the last day of term. the young girls celebrating the end of school for the summer. now a terrible, heartbreaking scene. this outdoor party crushed beneath the car. just before ten this morning, the land rover smashed into one of the buildings at the study prep school. the damage done to
intriguing question ofjust exactly where the leader of the russian mercenary group yevgeny prigozhin actually is. he s been a high profile figure in the russian invasion of ukraine but two weeks ago he led a short lived mutiny and was thought to have fled to belarus under an amnesty agreement. now the leader of belarus, alexander lukashenko, says that mr prigozhin has gone back to russia placing his future potentially into question. our russia editor steve rosenberg travelled to the capital of belarus minsk. he was one of only a handful ofjournalists in the room to speak to mr lukashenko who the uk does not recognise as the legitimate president of the country. there are still so many questions about the russian rebellion. would he have the answers? the leader of belarus, alexander lukashenko, brokered the agreement that ended the mutiny, so we are told. under a deal with the kremlin, wagner mercenary yevgeny prigozhin was supposed to move here to belarus with