conference is under way. and of course, as you say, this is all about the serious gifts the two leaders can do when it comes to strengthening that sort of special relationship. you re watching bbc news. we are coming to you live from london. let your mind of some of the days headlines. four young children are in a stable condition in hospital after being injured in a knife attack in france the ukrainian president has visited kherson, the area badly affected by the destruction of a huge dam in the south of the country prime minister rishi sunak is at the white house where he s talking to the us presidentjoe biden. they are holding a press conference later we ll bring that to you live. it was their first major european trophy since 1965 and you can see some of the pictures they are. fans celebrating on an open top bus. you can see these live pictures. they are coming to you from east london. that s where players and fans have been soaking up their victory and very nice we
an agreement which will see them working together more closely on a range of issues including trade, green funding and technology. joining me on my panel tonight for the next hour, will be tom peck, political sketch writer at the independent and joel rubin, political strategist at the washington strategy group. also in the programme: wildfires in canada. air pollution in the us. a new el nino weather event. we ll investigate what s going on with our climate. in ukraine president zelensky has been to see the damage done after the attack on the dam. and in france the latest on the four very young children stabbed in a park in annecy. first lets go to the usuk prime minister is in washington. first lets go to the us, uk prime minister is in washington. meeting us presidentjoe biden. this is them a few hours ago now, posing in that familiar room, that familiar pose for the price. they also had a private meeting, of course, and then after the private meeting had a joint
a number of hot button issues, including developing a warmer relationship between the two of them. we will bring you that as soon as it starts. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour, i m john roberts in washington. good friday eve as we like to call it. aishah: almost there. i m aishah hasnie in for sandra smith, as we wait for the bilateral press conference to start, breaking news out of the middle east. john: one of america s top enemies has added a new weapon to its arsenal. iranian officials showcasing what they claim to be their first hypersonic ballistic missile. aishah: get this, officials say it can travel 15 times the speed of sound and has a range of 870 miles, roughly the driving distance between new york and savanah, georgia. john: made possible by none other than china, after they helped obtain the technology for the missile group. aishah: says the chinese communist party has a clear agenda and lies on displacing u.s. orders. they
of classified documents after he exited the white house. plus, the latest from outside the federal courthouse in miami where that second grand jury is a key part of this investigation. and tens of millions of americans are still under air quality alerts as officials urge people to put on their masks because wildfire smoke from canada is continuing to blanket this country. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. i want to begin right here on the roof of 30 rock with msnbc host lindsey reiser covering the smoke-filled skies. you have the same mask on i had on walking to work this morning. i think the governor of new york is making a whole lot of those available. tell us the latest. reporter: and, chris, i m sure you felt it too, itchy eyes, scratchy throat, my nose has been stuffy the past 24 hours. things are better in the new york city area. normally the air quality index should be around 50. yesterday, chris, in the peak of the orange haze
falling to civil servants, and elected officials to decide how northern ireland can balance his books and in a recent budget published by the government in london, there are cuts on the table. so it s really down to senior officials in the light of the packed department of health and the department of health and the department for education who are going to have to decide exactly where cuts are made. officials think that on the whole, northern ireland is going to have to find savings of about £800 million over the next financial year. so what they head of the northern ireland civil service is going to want to talk to politicians about is to get their take on this and if there is going to be a restoration of the devolved government, she would also want to know where politicians were planning on taking policies for the departments that are facing these financial pressures and many pundits and commentators certainly think that after the elections for the local councils which we