hello, i'm luxmy gopal. the princess of wales has made her first official public appearance since announcing she was being treated for cancer. she joined the rest of the royal family at the annual trooping the colour parade to mark the king's official birthday. it's the first royal engagement she has carried out this year. 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 salute from the parade ground next to his son and heir to the throne, prince william, himself the royal colonel of the welsh guards. the princess of wales only announced she was attending the event yesterday, and it's a welcome sign about her recovery and recuperation. although the weather hasn't been ideal, the pageantry of trooping the colour is the same, with the king braving the elements outside buckingham palace. this has been an incredibly difficult six months for the royalfamily, but today they are together for one of their grandest celebrations. charlotte gallagher, bbc news. our correspondent sarah campbell is in central london. she sent this earlier. it celebrates the king's official birthday but as you say there are many eyes on the princess because as we said this is herfirst appearance since her cancer diagnosis. in fact, her first public appearance since before christmas. let's talk to robert hardman of the daily mail and author of charles iii: the inside story. the palace are very keen to point out that this is not a return to royal duties for the princess. that is still some way off because her cancer treatment continues. that's right, she has said and they have said, in a personal statement, she said, "i have my good days and i have my bad days." no question today was a good day. i would say this is the most upbeat, probably the happiest day for the monarchy this year. the last time we saw all of them together smiling and in good spirits was last christmas. since then we have had all the dramas, the medical diagnoses. they have been through a lot. there is still a long way to go but what we did see today was that the direction of travel is going the right way. both the king and the princess very much showing that the monarchy are doing their best and united as a family today, a strong family day. it is an international event. it will be watched from an international perspective. but as you say it is a family event, it always feels like a family event, and that image when they are standing on the balcony as the red arrows fly overhead, it is often used as a defining image of the royal family that year. so it would have been important to them that that is the image as opposed to a depleted family, shall we say. you are absolutely right, had the princess not been there, then i think they would have been a pall hanging over it but that's the picture that will be on the front pages, notjust in this country but on newspapers around the world tomorrow — the message could not be clearer. yes, these are challenging times but we are getting through this. the daily mail's robert hardman speaking to our correspondent earlier. dozens of world leaders are joining president zelensky in switzerland to explore how to bring peace to ukraine. mr zelensky is hoping to sustain the momentum of this week's g7 meeting, when leaders pledged $50 billion of loans from the interest accrued on seized russian assets. he also signed a ten—year security deal with president biden. but no—one from russia was invited to the two—day summit, and china is staying away. the ukrainian president was in a positive mood as the summit opened. today is a day of ourjoint success. indeed, we all managed to give diplomacy a chance. ukraine never wanted this war — this criminal and absolutely unprovoked aggression of russia and the only one who wanted it was putin. i believe that we will witness history being made here at the summit. thank you for your support. and may a just peace be established as soon as possible. president zelensky speaking at the summit opened. the bbc�*s sarah rainsford is at the summit venue. she says everyone taking part is being realistic about what can be achieved. this is not even being described as a peace summit, it's being described as a summit on peace. i think that is key, because it's about trying to feel the way towards some kind of deal that, first and foremost, will be acceptable to ukraine and then could potentially in future be presented to russia. president zelensky of ukraine is already here, holding meetings with a number of world leaders. he is already presenting the fact that this event is happening at all as a success. he is very keen to point to the huge number of people and countries here but, as you mentioned, china is not here. i think that's key. if russia at any point — and we're talking some way down the road here — if russia was pressured into accepting any kind of deal that ukraine and its allies come up with, then china may be key to that. without china involved in this process, it's difficult to see how russia could ever be pressured into accepting this deal. and before the summit even happened, president putin made it clear he would never accept any deal. in fact, he issued an ultimatum which he described as a peace proposal, but it was an ultimatum, saying that ukraine needs to withdraw from all four regions that russia claims to have annexed, ukrainian territory, and ukraine has to give up on its ambitions ofjoining nato. so there is a massive gulf between ukraine and russia at the moment, the fighting is still intense inside ukraine, so this is very much an early and tentative step. the bbc�*s sarah rainsford. as we mentioned, ukraine was a big part of the g7 summit of world leaders that has been taking place in italy. it has just wrapped up after tackling the topics of migration, chinese trade policy, and artificial intelligence on friday. pope francis made an historic address, championing a discussion about al. it's the first time a pope has participated in a g7 summit. italy's prime minister, giorgia meloni, has been speaking at the final news conference of the event in the last hour. translation: we know that areas of conflict - are multiplying around the world. and we know that some saw things differently and didn't believe that we would continue to show support for ukraine as we have. we continue to have a comprehensive, integrated, unified approach to help this nation, which has been attacked, to look to the future. italy's prime minister giorgia meloni. our diplomatic correspondent james landale gave us this update from the g7. as ever, the summits are a mixture of an awful lot of issues they pack into two or three days. they talked about migration, they talked about artificial intelligence, they talked about the threat from china, notjust in terms of support for russia and ukraine but also its threat to global markets. but the central focus of many of the discussions that took place here both formally as part of the g7 and also bilaterally in the margins and in the corridors here, was of course the war in ukraine. the italian prime minister summing everything up today said that there had been a comprehensive and united approach to defend ukraine. she also said that the g7 sends a strong signal that people would support ukraine for as long as it is necessary. in terms of the actions at this summit they have agreed to raise $50 billion in a loan for ukraine that's going to be paid off, if you like, by using interest made on frozen russian assets. we got a bit more information about that today from the italian prime minister. she said that the united states, canada, the uk and japan would be the main countries providing that loan. and then the european countries would join in in terms of sharing that debt. she also, in her press conference summing the summit up, addressed the so—called peace offering, the offer of ceasefire and peace talks made by president putin just 2a hours ago — she described this as a propaganda move, not something that should be taken seriously. effectively, she said it was like saying to ukraine you can leave ukraine if you want to sit down at the peace talks. giorgia meloni joining others in the west in dismissing this attempt by president putin to try and get ahead of the peace conference that is taking place in switzerland to discuss ukraine's own ideas for peace. so that was the broad perspective that we got today from this g7. the italians are very happy with the way it went. i think the problem, though, is this. this is a weaker g7 than other years. many of the leaders apart from giorgia meloni face electoral challenges. it's very unlikely that the same seven people will be sitting around this table again. so the summit has demonstrated some unity on ukraine, but as ever the question will be, will what has been decided here in italy actually last and have an impact in years to come? that was our diplomatic correspondent james landale there. now let's talk politics. we're at the halfway point in the general election campaign here in the uk. the political parties are out campaigning again this weekend. it's now three weeks until the next government is formed. gary o'donoghue's is on the labour campaign bus for us today. the polls show they are perhaps more trusted than the conservatives on the nhs. that's been true for many years. and they have a bit of an offer they are highlighting today, notably the 40,000 extra appointments and operations per week, 2 million over a year, to try and bring down the waiting list, which we know is over 7.5 million at the moment, people waiting for some kind of treatment or surgery. they have been focusing on that and also having to answer questions about how they're going to pay not just for that but also for the broader reform and broader of the health service which they are promising. their leader sir keir starmer was asked about that when he was at bassetlaw hospital in worksop with us this morning. we have been clear about the 40,000 extra appointments each and every week and how we will pay for them. that will make a massive difference to those people on waiting lists, 2 million a year, and just as we did when we were last in government we brought the waiting lists down so we will do so again. 0n the broader area, yes, of course, we need money for the nhs but also we need to reform. i ran a public service for five years and i know that more money at the top does give you a slightly better service but you only get a materially better service if you reform. as far as health is concerned, we need to reform to go to the preventative model, we need much more in our communities. we have got fully funded mental health support in our community set out in our manifesto, but we have to change the model and use much better technology. he doesn't really answer the question about the wider funding. he's promising that 40,000 appointments as the first step, but what about the wider reform, the one of transformation we talked about? there is very little detail on how that will be paid for. he talked about employing the most ever people in the nhs. people cost a lot of money and we are not getting too much detail on how that's going to happen, but this is something i think they feel on reasonably good territory about because waiting lists, of course, we have seen this week have gone up again and it is one of those areas where rishi sunak has made specific promises he hasn't really been able to keep and so labour feel pretty confident on this one. gary 0'donoghue on the labour campaign bus. the liberal democrats are calling for a boost to front—line policing in a bid to tackle car crime. 0ur correspondent, jenny hill has been on their campaign bus. the lib dems have had a rather damp afternoon in the surrey countryside, ed davey enjoying a game of rounders with some of his supporters. as i say, it was rather rainy, we have been treated to the full range of the british summer. ed davey proved, as if we needed proof, that politics is indeed a very competitive sport. if he is worried about what's been happening with reform and its position in the polls, he is certainly not showing it although i'm quite sure his aides behind—the—scenes are keeping a close eye. we asked him what he made of reform and where it sits in the opinion polls, it is polling ahead of the lib dems, though that doesn't necessarily translate into votes. he said to us, it is not something to worry about. we don't share reform or mr farage's values, and appeared to be very unconcerned, making the point that in his view the lib dems is the only party offering real political change, and therefore a potential home for any voter who might be disillusioned with the current political system. in terms of crime and policing which, as you mentioned, is what the lib dems were keen to focus on today, mr davey is calling, interestingly, for the scrapping of police and crime commissioners. these are the elected officials who are supposed to ensure the smooth running of local police forces, setting their budgets, hiring and firing chief constables and so on. it's interesting because the lib dems were actually in government with the conservatives in that coalition when they introduced police and crime commissioners. now they say they want to scrap them. mr davey says by scrapping them he could raise some £117 million over the course of a parliament. that money, the lib dems believe, would be better channelled into front—line policing. that's been the focus of today. i did also want to give you an update on mr davey�*s knees. earlier in the week his team had him out and about tackling a pretty tough assault course, leopard crawling under tunnels and so on. we had a bit of a look at his knees today as he was bouncing around on a trampoline and i can attest to the fact he had some pretty nasty looking scabs on his knees. both nevertheless, as perhaps we have come to expect from mr davey, still a smile on his face regardless. iour i our correspondentjenny hill on the seemingly static lib dems us, it is probably parked for some reason. and a reminder that like everyday during the election and a reminder that like every day during the election campaign, we have a special live page up and running online where you can get the latest from the campaigns as well as analysis from our correspondents, whilst the bbc verify team will look at the claims made by the politicians. you can find that on the bbc news website or app. i have some breaking news that has just come in in the past few minutes. the israeli army says that eight soldiers have been killed in an operational activity in south gaza. this isjust come in in the last couple of minutes. i willjust repeat that, eight israeli soldiers have been killed in a blast in southern gaza according to the israeli military. there are no further details that we have of the incident at this stage. but what we have heard from writers in the past couple of minutes is that the armed wing of hamas said earlier that it had killed and wounded a number of israeli soldiers in an ambush on an armoured personnel carrier in the southern city of rafah. that particular detail coming from writers there, just to reiterate the news, eight israeli soldiers have been killed in a blast in southern gaza according to the israeli military. it's time to have a look at sports news so let's go to the sports centre. we start with the sad news that the former arsenal and everton striker kevin campbell has died at the age of 54 after a short illness. he'd been in hospital since last month. campbell spent six years with everton, having started his career at arsenal, where he won the first division title, fa cup, league cup and european cup winners�* cup. he scored 148 goals in 542 appearances across spells with eight clubs during his career including nottingham forest, west brom and in turkey with trabzonspor. arsenal have paid tribute saying: "kevin was adored by everyone at the club. all of us are thinking of his friends and family at this difficult time. rest in peace, kevin." whilst everton say: "notjust a true goodison park hero and icon of the english game, but an incredible person as well — as anyone who ever met him will know. rest in peace, super kev." news today, too, that the millwall and montenegro goalkeeper matija sarkic has died at the age of 26. sarkic, who was born in grimsby, joined millwall from wolves in august last year and made 33 appearances for the championship club last season. he played for his country in a 2—0 friendly defeat to belgium just ten days ago. the montenegro football association says sarkic died suddenly on saturday morning, with local media reporting he collapsed at his apartment. millwall say they're "completely devastated" by the news. next to the european championship. after the hosts germany thrashed scotland in the opener, the other match in that group has ended in victory for switzerland who opened the scoring afterjust 12 minutes — kwadwo duah just beating the offside trap. they continued to dominate and struck again on the stroke of half—time. michel aebischer with a well—placed finish from the edge of the box. hungary recovered in the second period as barnabas varga got them back in to the game but as they pushed for an equaliser. but as they pushed for an equaliser switzerland struck on the counter — a delicate chip from breel embolo securing victory for the swiss — who face scotland next. all eyes now turn to group b where, the holders group b where the holders italy face alabania, before that the three time champions before that the three—time champions spain take on the 2018 world cup finalists croatia in berlin — where spanish 16—year—old lamine yamal will become the youngest—ever player to appear at a european championship — he's in the starting line—up. kick—off around 40 minutes away. it's moving day at the us open at pinehurst, north carolina. the third round is under way at the notoriously tough number two course with those out early hoping to move up the leaderboard. the leading contenders won't be in action for some time yet. sweden's ludvig aberg, looking for his first major title, and holds a one—shot lead over 2020 us open winner bryson dechambeau. rory mcilroy, who's last major title came a decade ago, is two shots off the lead. you can keep across it all on the bbc sport website. to the t20 world cup next, where pre—tournament favourites india are set to take on canada. india have already qualified for the super 8s but the start has been delayed by a wet outfield. for those who haven't been following the florida weather — there's been a huge amount of rain over there in the last week. ireland and the united states were meant to play there on friday and waited around three hours until the match was called off. pitch inspection is due soon. canada have already been eliminated, india will be hoping to make it four wins from four. if that can go ahead. after that the defending champions england face a must—win match against namibia in antigua. england currently sit third in group b with three points. a victory over namibia coupled with a scotland defeat to australia would seejos buttler�*s side join the aussies in the super 8s. keep across all that on the bbc sport website. much more there on our top story, including tributes to kevin campbell. thank you. now let's turn to nature. video of antarctic whales — captured using drone cameras — has revealed new insights into the lives of the giant marine mammals. and to find out where their most important feeding sites are. victoria gilljoined the scientists, as they tracked the whales, in the antarctic peninsula. approaching a giant's feeding frenzy. humpbacks working together to feed. a circular net of bubbles corrals and traps the whales�* prey. it's a glimpse into the lives of these huge marine mammals that scientists captured while we were filming with them in the antarctic peninsula. the researchers get close to the whales to study their health. to observe them and to measure the whales�* bodies, they use a drone. humpbacks migrate thousands of miles to these rich icy waters. oh, my word. scientists want to pinpoint and protect their most important feeding sites. they bulk up for three to five months, then they turn around and go back to the tropics to breed. now, that requires a lot of energy and we need to look at strategies to conserve whales. the drones have revealed just how the whales use their entire 40—tonne bodies when they feed. it's using its pectoral fin as a tool, to sweep the prey in. yeah, amazing. they've also revealed how whales have recovered in the four decades since commercial whaling was banned. this blue whale mother and calf were filmed this year, close to a former whaling station in south georgia. drones have even captured playful moments. and watching whales from above and studying them up close lets scientists delve into their lives like never before. so beautiful! this might be the most beautiful thing i've ever seen. victoria gill, bbc news, in the antarctic peninsula. you can see more you can see more of you can see more of those lovely images on the bbc news website. i want to bring you the breaking news that we reported to you just a few minutes ago, just to reiterate in case you were not here when we mentioned that, eight israeli soldiers have been killed in a blast in southern gaza according to the israeli military, that's what they have said. there are no further details around the circumstances of that incident but writers are reporting that earlier the armed wing of hamas had said it had killed and wounded a number of israeli soldiers in an ambush on an armoured personnel carrier in the southern city of rafah. much more on our website. stay with us on bbc news. hello, good afternoon. the unsettled, rather cool theme is set to continue this weekend. more sunny spells and showers to come in the forecast. of course it isjune so in the best of the sunshine it feels pleasantly warm but plenty of showers around, heavy and thundery at times, too. and across the north of england and southern scotland in particular, with very light winds the showers could last for some time and maybe lead to some flooding. really quite blustery in the south, across south wales, the midlands, east anglia, the south of england in particular, gusts of wind could reach 40—50mph as average speeds. the showers will rattle through quite quickly towards the south, sunny spells and temperatures very much sunshine dependent so 14—18 celsius, below the seasonal average still. as we head through this evening and overnight, a lot of the showers will fade away, the winds will ease towards the south but some heavy, persistent rain just tracking westwards across northern scotland and eventually sinking southwards into northern ireland in time for tomorrow morning. it is milder here than it was last night, for most of us 7—10 celsius into tomorrow morning. low pressure sticks around through the day tomorrow, although they showers swirling around it. although the showers swirling around it. but for many there will still be some showers around but certainly fewer of them. it is a slightly drier, warmer feeling day and there will be some bright and sunny spells. that is to say away from the north and west. the heavy rain will sink southwards and into central scotland and away eventually from northern ireland by the time we get it tomorrow afternoon. turning more showery in the north and west. still some more showers further south and with lighter winds they could be slow—moving but a few of them, 19 or 20 celsius in the south of england tomorrow afternoon. those temperatures could improve a little further on monday. again, a general improvement. most of the showers across eastern scotland down through north—eastern england but fewer showers further south this time and temperatures will tend to peak between 15 and 21 celsius. into tuesday, high pressure starts to try and edge in from the south and the west. but low pressure still towards the north and another system across europe needs watching on tuesday. watching on tuesday and wednesday. that could produce a more showers in the south and east as we head through the middle of the week. but otherwise, a little drier and a little warmer, too. this is bbc news, the headlines: the princess of wales makes her first official public appearance since announcing she is being treated for cancer. she joined the rest of the royal family at the annual trooping the colour parade to mark the king's official birthday. it's the first royal engagement she carries out this year. president zelenskyjoins dozens of other world leaders in switzerland for discussions on ending the war in ukraine, but russia was not invited. mr zelensky is hoping to sustain the momentum of this week's g7 meeting, when leaders pledged $50 billion of loans on the back of seized russian assets. and it's arise, siralan! alan bates, the man who campaigned to expose the post office scandal, receives a knighthood,joining dozens of famous names in the king's birthday honours. the former sub—postmaster fought for years to clear the names of hundreds of branch managers, wrongly convicted of fraud. now on bbc news, it's time for today's episode of newscast,