between president biden and benjamin netanyahu after the israeli prime minister accused the white house of withholding military aid. plus, we ll have the latest from vladimir putin s state visit to north korea and the pact that he just signed with kim jong-un. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, june 20th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin this morning with the race for the white house. and exactly one week before president joe biden and donald trump meet on the debate stage, we ve got new polling that shows that the sitting president has moved into the lead. for the first time since october the latest fox news survey finds biden ahead of trump, 50% to 48% among registered voters. now, to be clear, that 2-point difference is within the poll s margin of error. but this new survey marks a 3-point swing towards biden for last month and a 7-point swing for march. that number matters. the change is being driven
all 50 us states have hosted a number of different events to celebrate the 2 countries longstanding friendship. the media the media right to concentrate on big politics so that s why sometimes people forget that the foundations on which our relationship stand is solid and far reaching is something realized across the country come out of their combined to top off the day presidents time i address the audience at the boston symphony hall where he stressed the need for germany and the us to remain together now and in the future thank you. thank you. to zimbabwe now and they re called the cashing go all the brave ones and they make up the ranks of an all women anti-poaching it all started in 2017 this unit unique unit takes marginalized women who have faced hardship and turns them into elite rangers its founder says that the project is changing attitudes to gender conservation and
as always in britain at buckingham palace. i ve been in that garden myself. it s just so striking. what i expect is a symbolic affirmation of this relationship. the symbolism, as always, with the british royal family will be superb, i think we can count on that. i think all of the kind of noise that trump has been making the last few days will fall away to some extent today as we go through the ceremonies. the question that we ll be left with is where does this relationship stand, how solid is britain, how solid is his friendship with the united states. but today i think we ll be focusing on what is securing, which is the relationship between our country, the head of state of britain, the queen and our head of state who is always the president. joining us now is the chairwoman of the editorial board of the financial times.