nikki fox, bbc news, hitchin. involved in marking her platinum jubilee, and saying she hopes that the coming days provide an opportunity to reflect on the country's achievements during her reign, as people look to the future with confidence and enthusiasm. the celebrations start in full tomorrow with the trooping the colour parade on bbc one at 10am, and we will of course bring you coverage of all the weekend's events. but for now, it's back to you in the studio. in football, ukraine are a step closer to the world cup in qatar after beating scotland 3—1 at hampden park tonight. they will now face wales on sunday, with the winner quaranteed a place in the world cup in qatar later this year. in the last few minutes, ukraine's president zelensky expressed thanks and pride in his team. our sports correspondent jane dougall has all the latest from hampden park. you might still be able to hear the ukrainianfans you might still be able to hear the ukrainian fans celebrating outside hampden, along with the scotland fans.

nikki fox, bbc news, hitchin. well, the excitement here is building.ome hardy royal supporters preparing to camp out. and this afternoon, buckingham palace confirmed that the queen is to lead the lighting of the principaljubilee beacon in a special ceremony at windsor castle tomorrow evening. the celebrations start in full tomorrow with the trooping the colour parade on bbc one at 10am, and we will of course bring you full coverage of all the weekend's events. and now back to you, sophie. reeta, thank you. football, and scotland take on ukraine at hampden park in just over an hour's time, as both teams push for a place in the world cup finals. it's a match loaded with political significance, with scotland fans acknowledging that victory would be bittersweet, with many people rooting for ukraine. 0ur sports correspondent jane dougall reports. the flag of the opposing country emblazoned on a building in glasgow. a scottish take on the ukrainian national anthem. and this group of ukrainian children, orphaned by the war, but with a new home in scotland, ma

fox two news. oakland city council president nikki fortunato bass issued a statement about last night's violence. she called it quote, heartbreaking and unacceptable for statement goes on with quote from the bottom of my heart are urged us all to celebrate this weekend in the coming days in a manner true to oakland's spirit. in unity, joy and most of all peace. it's been another tough day for summer, travelers. airlines canceled hundreds of flights and delayed thousands more across the country. more than 1200 u. s flights were canceled today in more than 3000 were delayed. that's on top of more than 1700 flights canceled yesterday, airlines, a bad weather and staffing shortages are to blame. transportation secretary pete buttigieg's held a virtual meeting with airline ceos today to learn what steps they're taking to keep air travel running smoothly this summer. bulgaria weather but of a cool down over the past couple of days. no big changes for your saturday but eventually things will be warming up here. in fact, we're talking about a few spots approaching 100 degrees next week, but to no heat fo

fox two news. oakland city council president nikki four, donato bass issued a statement about last night's violence. she called it quote, heartbreaking and unacceptable. her statement goes on to say, quote from the bottom of my heart. i urge all of us to celebrate this weekend and the coming days in a manner true to oakland's spirit, immunity, joy and most of all peace. the city of oakland will close off some roads around lake merritt for juneteenth celebrations on sunday, lakeshore avenue between macarthur boulevard and east 18th street will be closed to traffic and parking from eight in the morning to eight and nine. the westbound 5 80 lakeshore freeway exit will also shut down. afrocentric will host a two day juneteenth festival includes a pan african wellness fest on saturday and a family celebration on sunday. promoting community culture and love. we're actually going to have a robust police personnel response in the area where, um, stepped up our efforts to work with city departments, uh, to allow, you know, public works to come in, as well as oakland department of traffic. we've set up a tra

nation's ambassador nikki haley gave a foreign policy speech in london earlier today and talked about the repercussions of the president' botched afghanistan withdrawal and recent foxpolls give biden low marks on exiting the afghanistan. the latest survey on the u.s. standing on the world stage shows most americans feel world leaders don't respect president biden. 58%. that's a big number. nikki haley, former u.s. ambassador to the u.n., former republican governor of south carolina joins us from london fresh off that speech. ambassador haley, as you are talking about that i can just imagine as we enter way beyond 100 days in this war, people are also looking to see well, is this the president to help that end? >> you know, i think we worked with the politics and we spoke a lot of british leaders came to hear the speech and what i was basically focusing on was, you know, we don't have time for distraction. we have been distracted long enough. at the end of the day we have a clear issue at hand. it is not the ukraine/russia war, it is the chinese/russian partnership announced 24 days before. they are transparent. their goal is to eliminate the west and allow themselv