he has pledged to improve pupil s speaking skills and said he wants half a million more children to reach their early learning targets by 2030. the speech on labour s education policy was interrupted by green protestors. our political editor chris mason reports. the smiles are big, the dreams are bigger at this primary school in rochester in kent. how does society match boundless aspiration with providing the opportunities to ensure they come true? what would you like to be when you grow up? i would like to be a rugby player. i would like to be a graphic designer and make movies. tell me what you would like to be when you grow up. a scientist. what do you like playing with the car? it s not playing, it s working. good point! in gillingham, keir starmer said he wanted to tear down barriers to home. down barriers to hope. more children must reach early learning targets, he said, snobbery must go. alongside his albeit broad vision for the economy, the health service, energy an
at least 10 people have been killed following another day of protests in iran over the death of a young woman in custody. the father of the british teenager who took her own life after viewing harmful content online tells an inquest how shocked he was after she died to discover the hideous material she d been looking at. and we have a special report from central china as the government continues with its zero covid strategy. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. president volodymyr zelensky of ukraine has received a standing ovation after addressing the united nations general assembly in new york. in a pre recorded video speech delivered in english, mr zelensky said russia deserved to be punished for stealing ukrainian territory and murdering civilians. barbara plett reports. mr zelenskyy got a standing ovation, strong support was shown for his appearance, and he had to have a special he was the only leader he was able to give a video address, because
Tonight, amidst increasing International Pressure on israel over the killing of seven aid workers, the first call by Benjamin Netanyahus main rival in the Emergency Government for elections within months. The Israel Defense force promises an independent investigation into the aid convoy kiilings. Well ask an idf spokeman how it can be independent if its conducted by former idf personnel. They come to their own conclusions. They are independent of the Chain Of Command. They can rule whatever they see fit, based on their professional understanding of the reality. Well be asking the team leader for save the childrens Gaza Response what she makes of that, and speaking to the diplomatic correpondent at the times of israel about the prospect of an early election. Also tonight is the market in the uk for Electric Cars running out of charge . Well examine the data and ask whether theres a risk of our net zero Journey Running off the road. 75 years tomorrow, nato was founded, out of the ashes o
charity medecins sans frontieres says attacks intensified overnight, adding it has lost contact with its medics working there. israel s defense forces have been closing in on northern gaza. these purple areas show the approximate align has come in that operations at al shafi hospital have stopped because of a lack of fuel. meanwhile, in an interview with the bbc, the french president emmanuel macron has called for israel to stop killing babies and women in gaza. france, like the uk, has proscribed hamas as a terrorist organisation. our correspondent nick beake is injerusalem with the latest. this was israel s aerial attack on gaza overnight. an unrelenting barrage, like most nights over the past five weeks. israeli forces have now surrounded gaza city s major hospitals, where they say hamas have built headquarters underground. but thousands of patients and those just trying to seek shelter are stranded on what is now a front line of the fighting. the red cross says hospitals