was politically orchestrated. a new israeli proposal to end the war in gaza is set out by president biden. the white house calls it a comprehensive plan sent by israel to her mask, as president biden says now is the moment to grasp it —— sent by israel to hamas. after days of confusion over the status of diane abbott, labour's leader says she is free to stand in the election. england's lionesses roared into the lead against france tonight in their euros qualifier, but could they hold on? and the moment you hope someone is watching the skills you never knew you had. and stay with us here on bbc news for continuing coverage and analysis from our team of correspondents in the uk and around the world.

good evening. after his conviction on multiple counts of falsifying business records, donald trump today went on the offensive — delivering a rambling 30—minute off—the—cuff monologue — during which he attacked among others thejudge and the district attorney involved in his prosecution. president biden called his words dangerous and irresponsible. mr trump is due to be sentenced injuly — he says he will appeal. also injuly is the republican party convention — where he is expected to be confirmed as the party's presidential candidate. he still faces three other criminal trials. let's go live to new york and our correspondent, gary o'donoghue. reeta, just a few hours ago donald

trump left this building, headed for one of his golf courses, after what has been a turbulent 2a hours for the former president. his one appearance today, he took aim at pretty much everyone and everything, even wandering off into a tie raid about electric cars. the appeal is, of course, will come after a few months, but for the moment he remains a convicted criminal. this is where it all began ten years ago, and today, donald trump returned here to begin his fightback. scrapping the teleprompter with its scripted remarks, he spent a0 minutes ad—libbing and railing against his opponents, hurling around insults like "fascist" and "sleazebag". it was a rigged trial. we wanted a venue change, where we could have a fair trial. we didn't get it. we wanted a judge change, we wanted a judge that wasn't conflicted and obviously he didn't do that.

nobody has ever seen anything like it. this is the man donald trump blames for his legal woes, even though it was a jury of donald trump's peers that found him guilty. it's reckless, it's dangerous, it's irresponsible, for anyone to say this is rigged, just because they don't like the verdict. ourjustice system has endured for nearly 250 years and it's the cornerstone of america. eight years ago donald trump famously said he could shoot someone right here in the middle of fifth ave and not lose voters. now he really is a criminal, multiple times over, those voters may well get their chance to prove him right or wrong. as commuters arrived for work from republican—leaning staten island, there was plenty of loyalty for the former president. i love trump. why?

because he will make america great again. i'm not a fan of him, or biden, but he's very charismatic. - i think people are still going to vote for him, no matter what anyway. according to the trump campaign, more than $34 million was raised from small donors in the hours following the guilty verdict, almost doubling their previous daily record. party leaders were also completely on message. this is a purely political exercise, not a legal one. key figures, like house speaker mikejohnson, said the conviction was absurd and outrageous, and plenty more leading republicans followed suit. donald trump has their complete loyalty. donald trump will undoubtedly appeal against his conviction, but that won't happen for months. before that, he'll be sentenced and will enter the final lap of this presidential election with a criminal conviction around his neck.

this is uncharted territory in the 250—year history of this country. gary o'donoghue, bbc news, new york. so how has the verdict gone down in swing states in the us? georgia is seen as a crucial battleground in this november's forthcoming us presidential election. last time around, voters went forjoe biden — causing a political upset. but the result was wafer thin, with a democrat majority of some 11,000 votes, out of an electorate of millions. nomia iqbal has spent the last 48 hours in georgia, talking to republican voters. out in the suburbs of georgia, it is voters who will decide donald trump's fate, not jurors. rachel is an independent voter who leans republican. that's right? really, he's guilty? they found him guilty? guilty on all 3a counts. all 3a counts. donald trump's now been convicted.

does that factor in to how you will vote in november? i did not have any idea that he... i honestly did not think he would be convicted. just because, i know that sounds ridiculous, but he's got away with everything else so far! we already knew he was a bit of a liar and a cheat kind of before he got in! it is date night for conservative couple ron and mickey at their local spa. their peace and quiet is momentarily disrupted to take in the verdict. wow. what's your reaction, ron? i'm not surprised at all. because i think that he was guilty as well. but i'm... i'm pleased, yeah. i am. mickey voted for donald trump last time — not this time. i think he's a complete narcissist. i think that he is, it's all about him and he doesn't take the heart of the american people to heart. for moderate republicans, they are still processing this verdict. i'm not 100% there, i'm not.

i think that i'm very close because i think most - americans will vote i with their pocketbooks or their wallets and at this_ point, i'm a wallet voter. if donald trump crossed a red line for you, would you vote forjoe biden? no, i would not vote forjoe biden. i would leave it blank. if he crossed a red line. but polls suggest one in four republicans will still dance to donald trump's tune regardless. how can you back a convicted presidential candidate? well, it's not too hard when you look at who is president now. and, you know, i won't go into any of the things that he does that i haven't been pleased with since the day he took office. but if you look at the lesser of the two evils, i would take trump any day. georgia will get to have a say on donald trump twice — once at the polls in november, and at his election interference trial.

the date of that is not yet clear. nomia iqbal, bbc news, georgia. in a surprise announcement this evening, president biden set out a peace proposal and ceasefire offer from israel that he said could end the war in gaza. mr biden urged both hamas and israel's leaders to accept the deal, saying those in israel who wanted "indefinite war" must change their minds. he outlined a three—phase proposal that would begin with an immediate six—week ceasefire. at the same time, israeli forces would carry out a withdrawal from gaza. israeli hostages in gaza would be exchanged for palestinian prisoners and 600 trucks of humanitarian aid would be delivered there each day. in the second phase, hamas and israel would negotiate a permanent end to hostilities. the final phase would include a major reconstruction operation in gaza, with international support. i know there are those in israel

who will not agree with this plan and will call for the war to continue indefinitely. some, some are even in the government coalition and they've made it clear they want to occupy gaza, they want to keep fighting for years, and the hostages are not a priority to them. well, i've urged the leadership in israel to stand behind this deal, despite whatever pressure comes. let's speak to tom bateman, in washington. you're a former middle east correspondent. you know the region well. how significant is this proposal? this is a significant intervention tonight, reeta, by the us president and one designed i think to finally draw a line, tried to bring this war to a close. now, at the heart of the announcement there was one very significant expression phrase byjoe

biden that was about a permanent end to hostilities. he called it a permanent cessation in the second phase, negotiated in the first but after six weeks a permanent cessation. that means an end to this war. and the critical point there is that had been the crucial demand of hamas all the way through and one senior administration telling me tonight that this text gets hamas extremely close to what it had already agreed to in previous talks that later fell apart, already agreed to in previous talks that laterfell apart, so already agreed to in previous talks that later fell apart, so i already agreed to in previous talks that laterfell apart, so i think this is designed to be seen as a major concession by the israelis to try and get a deal back on the table and then over the line. but what about those crucial sticking points? well, tonight hamas have said what they view mr biden has said here positively but one senior official has said they don't see a guarantee to an end of hostilities in there, but also president biden putting pressure on both sides to try and

take this notjust sticks, but carrots can be n, and incentive given to prime minister netanyahu tonight, a joint address to both houses of congress, a letter of invitation has been put to him tonight. that's how far mr biden wants to go to get this deal over the war ended.— the war ended. thank you, tom bateman reporting _ the war ended. thank you, tom bateman reporting there. - sir keir starmer says the veteran labour mp diane abbott is free to stand for election in her north london constituency. it follows days of wrangling over her future, after suspension from the party over comments she made about howjewish, irish and traveller people experience racism. she was re—admitted to labour on wednesday. ms abbott has yet to say if she'll stand. joe pike reports. for four days the questions have kept coming. but it may have been the deputy leader's support for diane abbott, as well as the scottish leader's sympathy towards her, that pushed keir starmer to act. angela rayner down here on the front

| row says that diane abbott should be | allowed to stand if she wants to. anas sarwar standing beside you says he agrees with angela rayner. - do you agree with them - or are you sticking to the line that no decision has been taken? well, no decision has been taken, so that's the factual position. no decision to bar diane. this afternoon that changed. she is free to go forward as a labour candidate. the whip is back with her, it's been restored. senior labour insiders concede this week's events have been a distraction. chanting: we stand with diane! including wednesday's rally on diane abbott's home turf of hackney. theyjust want me excluded from parliament. tonight the veteran left—winger has told me whilst keir starmer�*s intervention is "positive", she doesn't want to speak on camera until after her candidacy is rubber—stamped next week. and we still don't know

if she will definitely stand. it just reconfirms what we know about keir starmer, and that's that he constantly changes his mind. and it's clear that angela rayner is in charge of his party and not him. in hackney north, this row has left some voters unhappy. as the first black british female mp in history, . the amount she has done - for the community and for those that don't have a voice - is something that has resonated with so many of us around here. i think it's pretty awful, really, how they've treated her. i don't particularly think she has been treated unfairly. she has said things in the past which are not on the political, not politically correct. the tussle over who will be labour's candidate in this seat is all about the age old internal battles between right and left. keir starmer�*s iron grip on the party machinery is perhaps not quite as strong as we thought. and angela rayner�*s arguably decisive role in this row could give us a taste of the dynamics

at the top of government to come, if labour were to win this election. if diane abbott does stand and win, she will become the longest serving labour mp, and the mother of the house. joe pike, bbc news, hackney. and for more on diane abbott and the trump verdict, then newsnight�*s where you should go. let's cross live to victoria derbyshire. as mrtrump as mr trump attracts that new york court for finding as mr trump attracts that new york court forfinding him guilty is this the moment his party declares war on the moment his party declares war on the whole us legal system? what does that mean for that us presidential election. plus sir keir starmer paving the way for diane abbott to stand for labour, we'll assess the election campaign at the end of a very busy week. don't miss newsnight live at 10:30pm. see you then. scotland's first ministerjohn swinney — the third snp leader in 14 months — has admitted his party faces a "tough challenge" in the general election.

campaigning also took the labour leader sir keir starmer to scotland, to launch his party's green energy plan. this is the current state of the parties in scotland, with the majority of seats in snp yellow. some constituency boundaries will change at the election. here's our political editor, chris mason. there's been no shortage of this — a merry—go—round in the scottish national party this spring. 0ne first minister out, a second first minister in. hello. and now there's a general election. so, forjohn swinney today, meeting and greeting on the southside of glasgow, followed by a speech in the city's east end, and his pitch... we've demonstrated that decisions made in scotland are decisions for scotland, and that's the choice that people in this election have. he had a pop at the conservatives... austerity, brexit, the cost of living crisis,

for all these reasons, the tory government deserves to be removed from office and the best way to do that is to vote snp to remove the tory mps in scotland, all six of them, at this election. ..and there was a pop at labour, too, criticising their promise not to put up income tax, national insurance and vat. they've signed up to the tight fiscal limits of the tories, they've signed up to tight borrowing. that is austerity on steroids. and look who was 30 miles away in greenock at around the same time. the labour leader, rather keen on nabbing a whole load of snp seats. the snp say they want you to vote to send a message. i don't want you to vote to send a message. i want you to vote to send a government. and he set out one of his key ideas, which would be based in scotland. great british energy.

that publicly owned company, owned by the taxpayer, making money for the taxpayer, harnessing clean power. i mean, he's been talking - about his net zero ambitions, but yet again there is no substance. there's no ideas, no policy, there isjust a logo, - and the british people deserve a lot more than that _ scotland is critical to the liberal democrats. we have four mps, we think we can get many more after the election. we can beat a lot of the snp mps. the snp has been in government in scotland since 2007. senior party figures, including the former first minister nicola sturgeon, have been under police investigation over the party's finances, and with the prospect of another independence referendum any time soon appearing to recede, how is he managing? yes, it's been an absolutely whirlwind month, you know... and so... let's be blunt. times are pretty tough for the snp. do you feel that? of course. and that's frankly why i'm here. it's why you're interviewing me, as snp leader, because of those tough times.

and i've stepped in to build the snp and to build trust in the snp. does it feel like managing decline? no. it feels like building the party up, and that's what i'm about. we've undoubtedly had a rough period. you've said today that it is important, to quote you, to get rid of the tories. we are in second place in each constituency, so if we want to numerically get rid of the tories in scotland, people just need to vote snp. isn't the easiest way for people in scotland to get rid of the tories to vote for labour? but the people have got to ask themselves, who is going to make the bigger impact in westminster? what happens here in scotland on july the 4th matters, wherever you're watching. chris mason, bbc news, in glasgow. labour says its green energy plans will ensure the uk's transition away from oil and gas doesn't repeat the mistakes made during the phasing out of coal. but the snp says the proposals would put scottish jobs at risk. simonjack looks at how the plan could work.

renewable energy has been a big success. last year, 40% of our electricity was generated by renewables. labour are targeting 100% by 2030. to help hit that target labour wants to create something called great british energy. so what is that? well, it's a government—owned energy company headquartered in scotland funded with £8.3 billion. how is that paid for? labour say by further raising taxes on oil and gas companies. that's the bit of the policy the lib dems back. and those companies will not be granted any new licences to develop fossilfuels in uk waters, although existing grants will be honoured. labour claim it will help the uk decarbonise electricity production by 2030, make the uk less reliant on energy imports and price shocks, while driving down bills by £300 by the end of the next parliament. now, many experts feel that that 2030 target is unrealistic. billions will need to be spent and recouped through bills,

these bills here, to upgrade the electricity network which would offset those lower prices. now, putting the hq in scotland is telling, as it is the centre of both the offshore wind and the oil and gas industry. the snp said labour's veto on new oil and gas would risk 100,000 jobs in scotland, while the conservatives put the number at 200,000 across the whole uk and say it's foolish to import more than we have to. labour dismissed those numbers, saying that existing licences mean oil and gas production will continue for many years, whilst thousands of newjobs will be created in renewable industries. labour originally planned to spend £28 billion per year on green projects and the greens and scottish greens say whittling that back to £8.3 billion for the parliament lacks ambition and urgency. labour says its investment plans have had to be scaled back thanks to the worsening public finances they will inherit if they are elected. remember, 75% of our total energy needs still come from fossil fuels. all the main parties want a greener future,

but how and how fast to get there is one of the clearest dividing lines between them. simonjack there. and chrisjoins me now. end of first full week of campaigning, chris — how's it gone? i think ithink in i think in the last couple of days we have got on the ritualistic gush of announcements, new or otherwise, they are still going on but there have been events and stuff happening, not least the noise in the labour party so they managed another defection from the conservatives but a very public row over diane abbott. 0nly seemingly resolved today. conservatives delighting in suggesting it looks like keir starmer is weak and has been bossed around by his deputy. the labour campaign had been looking pretty focused and polished, that's not how it has looked in the last couple of days. keir starmer trying to move on from it, he had an interview in the times tomorrow in which he says his number—one mission is wealth creation and he wants to,

"win from the centre ground." conservative strategy continues to be eye—catching announcements, new policy announcements, trying to shore up their vote and tempt people about who might be leigh wood by reform uk. we are a week in, week and a bit, as far as the polls are concerned, that does not seem to be any significant movement, labour seem to be comfortable at head. 0ne seem to be comfortable at head. one final point, given there is a lot of focus on the race to be a minister, red against blue, we are in a parliamentary democracy, very few people can actually vote for the labour leader or conservative leader and depending on where you are in the uk there is a plethora, a platter of competitive parties, by my reckoning 13 different parties represented in the last parliament as well as independents so yes, conservative and labour dominate a lot of the conversation but there are plenty of others as well. thank ou, are plenty of others as well. thank you. chris. — germany has nowjoined america in giving ukraine permission to use western—supplied weapons to strike some military targets inside russia. it follows growing alarm over russia's latest military offensive

which is threatening the northern ukrainian city of kharkiv. the kremlin is accusing nato and america of "provoking a new level of tension". jean mackenzie has the latest from kyiv. this is what ukraine has been so desperate to stop — an onslaught along its north—eastern border. russia has been able to bombard the city of vovchans'k with impunity, launching attacks from russian soil then seizing ground. 0vernight, it struck an apartment block in the region's capital, kharkiv, 20 miles from the border. at least six people were killed. elena's husband and mother were inside and are still missing. president zelensky has pleaded to be allowed to properly defend his country by using nato weapons to strike russia. washington has finally agreed, but with strict limits. ukraine can only target russian

positions along the kharkiv border. this is some step forward to that goal which we discussed before, to make the possibility to defend our people who live in the villages through the borderline. but russia is pushing on multiple fronts. earlier, the united states hinted that having changed his mind once, president biden could do it again. we will continue to do what we have been doing, which is, as necessary, adapt and adjust. since the start of the war, president biden has been weighing up on one hand his support for ukraine and on the other, the need to stop this escalating into an even bigger conflict between russia and the west. he has been nervous about how moscow, with its nuclear weapons, would respond to this move. but as the situation on the battlefield has changed,

so too have mr biden�*s calculations. the us has changed the rules of this grinding war. russia, despite its many threats, has yet to make its next move. jean mackenzie, bbc news, kyiv. a man in birmingham has become the first to receive a personalised vaccine to treat bowel cancer, as part of a landmark trial. thousands of nhs patients across england are expected to receive the bespoke treatments, which are designed to help the immune system identify and destroy remaining cancer cells left behind after other treatments. fergus walsh has the story. elliot was diagnosed with bowel cancer last year and has already had surgery and chemotherapy. but tests show he still has fragments of tumour dna in his blood, putting him at increased risk of his cancer coming back. hello, it's here.

so he's come to birmingham's queen elizabeth hospital to receive a cancer vaccine. i feel excited, you know? and if its successful, then it's a medical breakthrough. the time of reckoning! and this is the key moment when elliot receives his vaccine, tailor—made in germany by pharma company biontech to fight his cancer. he'll get up to 15 doses during the trial. so how does it work? elliot's personalised vaccine uses the same mrna technology as found in current covid jabs. a sample of elliot's tumour was analysed, and proteins unique to his cancer were identified. the vaccine instructs his cells to produce those rogue proteins. the hope is this will stimulate elliot's immune system to recognise and kill any remaining traces of cancer. how are you?

elliot is the first patient in the uk to get the bowel cancer vaccine. he's had only mild side effects, but will be carefully monitored, like more than 200 other participants in the international trial. i think it's really exciting. i think this is sort of a new era. the science behind this makes sense. my hope is that this will become standard of care. itjust makes sense that we can have something that can actually help in addition, to help patients reduce their risk of cancer recurrence. first one done. there is huge optimism about the potential of personalised cancer vaccines, but it all depends on the outcome of trials like elliot's, with thousands more patients set to be recruited to studies targeting melanoma, lung and other tumour types. fergus walsh, bbc news. football — and all the home nations have been in action tonight in qualifying matches for the women's euros next year.

scotland had a comfortable win over israel. wales drew with ukraine and northern ireland are still playing against portugal. meanwhile, england's lionesses took on france at newcastle's st james' park, where katie gornall watched the action. many england players began their journey here in the north—east. the region has long been a hotbed for women's football. now st james' park is welcoming the lionesses for the first time. well, england will be hoping to draw on the enthusiasm of this northeast crowd, for the first game of a double—header against france which feels pivotal to their hopes of qualifying automatically for the euros. this was second versus third in the world. england needed their best players on the pitch. mary earps lasted just minutes. further up the field, england were having much more success. beth mead, once of sunderland, bringing stjames' park to its feet. there is mead! france threatened. hannah hampton responded.

but there was nothing she could do about this, from elisa de almeida. it's a lovely goal. this game was living up to its billing. england needed to respond. instead, they dithered and katoto took aim. the net is bowed. england searched for an equaliser but france stayed in control. if sarina wiegman�*s side are to defend their european crown next year, they'll need to do better than this. soon ingle travel to send at him for the second game of this double and el tucker knight, the scotland qualifier with israel was delayed after a protest to chain himself to the goalpost at hampden park and when the game began, scotland monitor, beating israel for thanks to two goals from claire emslie and meanwhile wales made a poor start against ukraine but recovered to draw 1—1 and the northern ireland match against portugal is still ongoing, the latest there is that

northern ireland are trailing 2—0 with minutes remaining. this programme continues on bbc one.