. hello, and thank you for being with us. it s 10:00 eastern i m ana cabrera reporting from new york all eyes on the white house this hour as president biden prepares to welcome the president of south korea, from nuclear submarines to the fallout from that intel leak, the two leaders are already making news. look at all the pomp and circumstance as they prepare if the big arrival. we ll be checking in there in a moment this all comes on the heels of biden s 2024 launch. his team just released its first campaign ad of this election cycle this morning, and we re live in a key swing state getting reaction to biden s bid and a potential biden/trump rematch. parts of the midwest staring down potentially historic flooding as the mississippi river swells to dangerous levels we ll have a live look at emergency preparations underway, a woman whose family is canoeing to work describes the situation. we have been told there s a possibility the gas is going to get shut off it s nev
western reporters actually inside the country. look at the unrest going on in iran right now, the unrest in russia right now. yeah. people say they ve never seen protests at this scale. it s getting serious. a lot of mothers getting out there. they don t want their sons being dragged off to war. we begin with a new development on the war in ukraine. volodymyr zelenskiy is accusing russia of nuclear blackmail and says he does not think president vladimir putin is bluffing, this as the u.s. announced an additional $457 million in civilian assistance to ukraine. nbc news foreign correspondent erin mclaughlin has more. reporter: days after russian president vladimir putin issued a thinly veiled nuclear threat, u.s. officials sending a message of their own. if russia crosses this line, there will be catastrophic consequences for russia. the united states will respond decisively. reporter: that warning coming the same weekend that outrage, fear, and brutality swept
reported phone call between the white house and one of the rioters involved in the attack. the u.s. is warning russia to stop what antony blinken calls loose talk about nuclear weapons as vladimir putin continues to face military challenges in ukraine. also this hour, we will get an update from iran where the leader is issuing a new warning in the wake of historic protests after a woman died in police custody. we begin this hour with the latest on hurricane ian which is intensifying quickly. the national hurricane center says it expects ian to rapidly strength especially today and produce significant wind and storm surge in western cuba. it is expected to make landfall between tonight and tomorrow morning, bringing more than 13 inches of rain. in florida, governor desantis declared a state emergency across the entire state. and president biden approved a state of emergency already. tampa is now at a higher risk for heavy rainfall, storm surge and strong winds. residents
welcome to bbc news. i m lukwesa burak. france s hard right is in pole position after the first round of parliamentary elections that confirmed their dominance in french politics. supporters of marine le pen s anti immigration national rally cheered as she said the president s macronist bloc has been all but wiped out. marine le pen s far right national rally party came top, with more than a third of the vote, followed by a surge in support for the left wing coalition, with around 28% of the vote with president macron s centre right alliance of parties relegated to third place. final results won t be known for another week with a second round of voting next sunday. from paris, here s andrew harding. a dramatic win yesterday for france s national rally. the party was for years considered too extreme for most french voters with its anti immigration, eurosceptic platform and its links to the kremlin. but last night, the rn, as it s known here, secured more than a third of all v
probably made the right decision. and coming up on bbc news, two of european football s heavyweights, france and belgium, go head to head at the euros with kick off this afternoon in dusseldorf. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. a head teacher convicted of grooming and sexually abusing four girls has been sentenced to 17 years in prison. neil foden was the head of one school in bangor in north wales, and strategic head of another. he d been a well known and well respected figure in the local community before his offending was exposed. made a superhead in 2021, headteacher neil foden was a regular on the tv and radio news. none of us know for certain exactly how their work is going to be assessed. but in september last year, he was arrested after a girl came forward with allegations of sexual abuse. her evidence would prove pivotal. because she was quite involved with the defendant, she had a lot of evidence to give, not only in terms of her own account, but a