good morning. and welcome to way too early. i m kasie hunt on this tuesday, june 15th. we ll start with the news. president biden continued his european trip yesterday with the nato summit in brussels where he delivered a vastly different perspective than his predecessor. they re ripping off the united states and they re ripping you off. i don t care. i don t want to do that. either they pay up, including for past deficiencies, or they have to get out. and if it breaks up nato, it breaks up nato. i just want all of europe to know that the united states is there. the united states is there. i want to make it clear, nato is critically important for u.s. interest in and of itself. if there weren t one, we would have to invent one. nato leaders also used the meeting to show a unified front against threats from russia and china. the group collectively declared china a security challenge. as for russia, leaders said there would be no, quote, business as usual on the world s
people using a bow and arrow, was known to the police who say they d had concerns he d been radicalised. heavy gunfire in beirut at least 5 people are believed dead, following protests about the investigation into last year s massive port explosion. the government says it s doing everything it can to ease supply chain issues in the run up to christmas. the queen praises the spirit of the welsh people during the pandemic as she officially opens the new term of parliament, the senedd. and, chris martin tells us exclusively how coldplay are making their new world tour carbon neutral. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the increasing pressure on the nhs is underlined by new figures this afternoon which show a record number of people waiting to start routine hospital treatment in england. 5.7 million people were waiting at the end of august for procedures such as hip replacements and cataract removals the highest since records began. waiting times in accident and emerge
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us in the next few hours. with me arejohn stapleton, who is a broadcaster, and kate proctor, who is the editor of politicshome and the house magazine. welcome to you both. what a busy past few hours. let s have a look at what s already in. borisjohnson and his now former policy chief, munira mirza, are on the front of the guardian. four of the pm s senior aides have quit after controversy around lockdown parties and borisjohnson s false claim that sir keir starmer failed to prosecute jimmy savile. two perfect storms on the front of the metro one, those downing street resignations, and the second, the impact of rising bills and interest rates. the same mix in the sun, saying chancellor rishi sunak has taken a dig at the prime minister over his savile comments. the chancellor also in the telegraph, alongside a huge red line showing the increase to the energy price cap, highlighting that cost of living c
overnight, back into northern ireland and southern scotland the rain will track north. now to the north of that band of rain it could be quite chilly for a while in northern this programme continues on bbc one. published by michael gove tomorrow help stamp out extremist ideologies, as it claims? since october 7th, anti semitic and anti muslim hate cases have soared. the government says its new more precise defintiion of extremism will tackle the ever evolving threat of such behaviour in our country. will it? we ll ask the secretary general of the muslim council of britain and the policy director of a think tank called the counter extremism group which works closely with mps. also tonight, the labour leader drills down on the tory party being bankrolled , as he put it, by a businessman who reportedly said diane abbott made him want to hate all black women and that she should be shot. meanwhile, there are growing calls for labour to restore the whip to ms abbott. we l