on a singular message that this election will decide whether american democracies survives. will those words move voters? plus, the u.s. scrambling today to find partners for peace in the middle east, even as the israel-hamas war threatens to spin out of control. will secretary of state antony blinken s fourth trip overseas break new ground. and a new front in the war of transgender rights. the stakes are high whether trans americans can run for office using the names they choose. i ll talk to vanessa joy who says she was kis disqualified from her race in ohio because of a law she believes could put other trans candidates at risk. we start with the president s massive political gamble, betting that voters will rally around him as the defender of democracy and reject donald trump s dystopian vision of america. that message is at the heart of a big speech he ll give near valley forge this afternoon and is expected to be the framework for his campaign going forward. they d
be 2024. and the president will be running for reelection in the face of some significant head winds that are turning into quite the hurricane. everything, everywhere all at once. you have wars in ukraine. israel. bombs, still raining down. hostages still desperate for rescue. some of biden s own staff members holing a vigil outside the white house masked to conceal their identities calling for a cease fire in gaza. the president giving a personal message to israel. i want them to be focused on how to save civilian lives. not stop going after hamas, but be more careful. well then there is ukraine. biden is trying to push his own party where they don t seem to want to go. he is open to changing border policy in exchange for the votes to pass the aid that ukraine desperately needs. but democrats have been balking. and the president s approval rating is underwater in poll after poll after poll. now he faces the biggest challenge of all, republican led impeachment inquiry wit
and in ukraine, russian forces advance on the centre of the key city of severa donetsk in the eastern donbas. good evening and welcome to bbc news. breaking welcome to bbc news. news on our top story toda with breaking news on our top story today with the problems at the football over the weekend. we are just hearing in the last couple of moments that you aare launching an independent report, commissioning and independent report into what happened. let s look at the events of saturday night. the french government has blamed what it called industrial scale ticket fraud, for the chaos at this weekend s champions league final in paris. french ministers held emergency talks earlier today with police, and french and european football officials, as the row continued about what happened at the match. there s been widespread condemnation of the tactics of the police, who used tear gas and pepper spray on thousands of liverpool fans as they queued for hours to get into the stadium.