countries seized from russia. the final communique says, we reaffirm our unwavering support for ukraine for as long as it takes. together with international partners, we are determined to continue to provide military, budget, humanitarian, and reconstruction support. we remain strongly committed to helping ukraine meet its urgent short term financing needs, as well as supporting its long term priorities. meanwhile, world leaders from more than 100 countries are coming together in switzerland this weekend, by invitation of president volodymyr zelensky, to discuss how to bring an end to the war in ukraine. mr zelensky hopes the gathering in switzerland will sustain the last few days momentum for ukraine. russia and china are notably absent from this weekend s summit. but some countries have reservations. saudi arabia s foreign minister said difficult compromises will be needed to reach a peace agreement to end the war in ukraine. the leaders of italy and germany stron
now on bbc news, it s time for today s episode of newscast, recorded earlier for bbc radio 4. newscast from the bbc. so today we re going to look back at the manifestos that were published this week. what was your name for it, laura, in the end? many festos week. some people called it the manifestival. we re also going to just reflect on what s happening with the polls because there was a kind of quite symbolic moment in one poll that people were talking about earlier this week. and also, i just thought we re halfway through the election now, this is precisely the halfway point, what s everyone s kind of vibe at the moment? laura? my vibe? yes. goodness me. i m not sure i ve ever been asked that before. i think there s something topsy turvy about this whole election, because normally when you have a governing party putting forward a manifesto, they re the ones saying, carry on as we are, in a sense, they re sort of going for the status quo, which the conservatives are sayin
here by andrew from belfast. we sought an answer from bbc news and they told us: the number of competing and contested claims being made by politicians during this election campaign makes it hard to work out what is accurate. thatjob is made considerably harder by the phenomenon of fake videos images and quotes being circulated online. take for instance this appearance by labour s wes streeting on bbc two s politics live last week. what she did was wrong and what she said was wrong and it was right there was a disciplinary process. she apologised repeatedly. but it took five months. it did take a while, but look. if you didn t hear wes streeting describe dianne abbott there as a silly woman , that is because he didn t. but a doctored version of his comments on the programme was widely shared on x, which made it sound as though mr streeting did say those words under his breath. the fake video was supported by a number of comments, endorsing it, including one from someone cl
the king who is also receiving cancer treatment travelled with the queen in a carriage instead of riding on horseback, as he has done in the past. charlotte gallagher reports. the princess of wales, back in the public eye. riding in a carriage with her three children at the king s birthday parade. all eyes on her for her first appearance since her cancer diagnosis was announced. she was a huge draw for the crowds in central london today. this is a day full of tradition and spectacle, but it s also about family. the king and queen in their carriage. it s his first trooping the colour since his own cancer diagnosis, and he chose not to travel on horseback. the troops taking part have been rehearsing for months. every step, drumbeat and musical note has to be perfect. the irish guards are leading the event this year and their colour, or regimentalflag, has been on full display. their royal colonel, the princess of wales, looked on with her children as the king took the salut
with the attachment does not meet the definition of a machine gun under federal law. they determined that the trump administration overstepped its power when it issued the ban back in 2018. that ban came after the deadliest mass shooting in modern us history. 60 people were killed in las vegas and hundreds more injured when a gunman used a bump stock attachment to fire more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition in about 11 minutes. while more than a dozen states and washington dc have already banned them, friday s supreme court ruling sends the decision back to individual states to determine their own regulations for bump stocks. donald trump s campaign weighed in on the court s decision, saying in part: meanwhile, vice president kamala harris had this to say. it was stocks that resulted in 60 people being dead in las vegas, nevada, on1 60 people being dead in las vegas, nevada, on 1 october. and what the court did today is really rolling back the important progress to be made to h