into the reports. the european space agency s new ariane 6 rocket has lifted off from french guiana on its maiden flight. it s intended to give european governments and firms independent access to space. and the first semifinal of the euros between spain and france is taking place right now. france took the lead but spain came back. spain currently 2 1 up. we had to washington in the us. leaders are arriving for this crucial nato summit. us presidentjoe biden to speak. a big test for him. the focus on nato. the security organisation is marking 75 years this week, the focus showing they re united still in helping ukraine combat russian aggression. us secretary of state antony blinken has met with nato secretary general jens stoltenberg at the us state department here s what they had to say. what s to be said in the coming days about the concrete achievements of this summit, i won t get ahead of those, you ll be hearing about those in the next few days. but again, suffice i
pressure continues to mount on president biden, to step back from seeking a second term in office, after last month s poor performance, in a tv debate with donald trump. overnight, a sixth senior democrat, says he should pull out of the race. sarah smith is following events in washington. let s turn to those live shots in washington where that opening banquet of nato leaders is due to take place imminently. nato leaders gathering there ahead of what is going to be a key nato summit for ukraine, ukraine top of the agenda especially after the attacks that we ve been saying on the children s hospital in kyiv, but this will also be a key nato summit forjoe biden as he is facing mounting pressure around his presidential reelection campaign, we will of course keep an eye on that banquet that is due to take place imminently. there were exchanges between reporters and the white house press secretary karine john pierre, which turned testy around questions about resident biden s health
one medical source saying that more than 50 people had been treated so far, and the nature of some of their injuries means that the number of dead could well increase. now, this operation in the city of khan younis started about a week ago. the israeli military say they ve been carrying this out. we know that tens of thousands of people have fled the fighting there. this recent operation that started in terms of what happened tonight, the israeli military say they re looking into reports, but what we ve seen is four attacks on schools in the past four days. and in the previous three cases, the israeli military acknowledged that they hit these particular places, saying that they were home to hamas fighters, hamas politicians and also hamas police officers, the israelis saying that they seek to minimize civilian casualties in all of their operations. hamas is saying that this sort of operation and the number of people dying means that it s really undermining prospects of a peac
his promise to people in the uk government can get things done. yesterday he made his first speech as prime minister emphasising the high moral standards of the cabinet and promising to rebuild britain brick by brick and saying that his government can get things done. as the new government embarks on its mission to get britain working, the new business and trade secretary has been talking to laura kuenssberg about his plans to negotiate a deal with tata steel to protectjobs. we with tata steel to protect “obs. we have with tata steel to protectjobs. - have seen this as a major priority. i have already spoken to tata steel about it, as has the new prime minister. i will be talking to them again today and asking representatives of the workforce and the community and gmb to talk to me next week about it. it is not about underwriting, loss making, and business in the way we may have thought about industrial policy in the past. it s about being a partner for investment in the
lets take you to france because president emmanuel macron is going to cast his vote in the short we saw, just a few moments ago. he is there with the saw, just a few moments ago. he is there with the presidential - there with the presidential entourage of course and this is the decisive second round in an election that has been called very quickly, surprising the whole country and the french political class, it seems, by emmanuel macron. it is the first time that the anti immigration national rally of marine le pen has a chance. of running the government had taken control of the national assembly although current projection seems to suggest they will not win an outright majority. we will not know until all the votes are cast. the other possibility is a split vote, a hung parliament, it is not clear what that would mean in terms of the functioning of the government, of the parliament, with emmanuel macron still remaining president. he is there and we are hearing also that vo