it s seven in the morning in singapore, and six in the afternoon in milwaukee, wisconsin where the republican national convention which has already confirmed donald trump as its party s presidential candidate is getting under way for a second day. this is the scene live at the convention centre. we re expecting speeches from several senior republicans in the hours to come and we ll bring you the best of them here on bbc news. we are also hoping to see mr trump and his vice presidential nomineejd vance again although they re not expected to speak today. we ll bring you the latest on the investigation into the attempt to assassinate mr trump and president biden s latest comments but we start our coverage with this report from our north america editor, sarah smith. unusually emotional, almost vulnerable. he walked among them, the great survivor, appearing unbloodied, with just a bandage on his ear. he didn t speak. just seeing him was enough for his followers. welc
france and germany call for investigations, after four israeli strikes on schools in gaza in the past four days. israel says it was aiming for hamas targets. the latest strike last night, near the southern city of khan younis is reported to have killed 29 people. the euro 2024 semifinal between england and the netherlands is currently under way. the score is currently 1 1. gareth southgate s side are looking to make their second final under his management. the winner of tonight s match will play spain in sunday s final. there are busy days in washington, and then there are busy days in washington. world leaders have been gathering in the american capital, as the nato summit gets under way. the alliance, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary, comes together amidst a backdrop of the war in ukraine, and questions over defence spending. and there are questions over it s own existence if donald trump wins the presidency, he s promised wholesale change. president biden is
angle. since democrats have a lot of items on their remake america wishlist, tax hikes, huge expansion of government, killing oil and gas, critical race theory, but through it all, they have one overriding priority. and that is holding onto power. many months ago, the angle told you that the biden administration wouldn t do anything to deter the massive flow of migrants into the country until they were forced to. and it took a group of 12,000 patients camping out under a bridge in del rio, texas, to begin to get the democrats attention. the scenes are so disturbing they can t be kept from the public. there are still thousands of migrants living in this makeshift camp here in the are brutal. it is incredibly hot out here. this border crisis is only getting worse. we see the shocking scene under the del rio international bridge. thousands of migrants living in squalor. the hospital ends up being overwhelmed because of the ems calls coming from under the bridge just don t
survive that january insurrection, now again reliving those memories. i m hallie jackson in washington on this friday morning, with a lot to get to on this busy morning. we ve got gabe gutierrez outside pfizer headquarters in new york, city, shaquille brewster in baton rouge, louisiana, dr. ashish zha, dean of brown university s school of public health. good morning to you all. gabe, let s talk about the fda meeting. when will we know whether that panel will take one single vote on pfizer boosters for everyone ages 16 and up or whether they might break down this decision into different age groups and do it that way? hi there, hallie. that is the big question right now. we expect to know more sometime this afternoon, but right now, that advisory panel is under way, that meeting is under way. just a short time ago one of the first speakers cautioned the advisers on that panel not to pay attention to political or moral considerations in this case but simply to look at the data
make that happen. this is a risky operation. we right now, have established contact with the taliban to allow for the safe passage of people to the airport,, that is working, at the moment. one of the contingencies we are very focused on, laser focused on, is the potential for terrorist attack by a group like isis k, which is a sworn enemy of the taliban. that is the presidents national security adviser, that s a heck of a claim he made, that if you re an american i want to get out of there, they will get you out of there. pentagon says the military can airlift 5000, and 9000 people today currently out of kabul, so far the u.s. has airlifted about 7000 people out of afghanistan. not all of them american, which by the way, has been a herculean effort by the u.s. air force, the airborne, the marines who are there and others. national security adviser jake sullivan just referred to one of the biggest obstacles to evacuation, taliban fighters and their armed checkpoints surroun