This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Thursday the 11th of July, these are our main stories.

President Biden has promised to defend every inch of NATO territory as he hosts a pivotal

summit focused on countering Russian aggression in Ukraine and elsewhere.

He said F-16 warplanes were on their way to Kieve.

Also, the Hollywood actor George Clooney

has become the latest high-profile Democrat

to urge President Biden to drop his bid for re-election. A Ugandan man has been handed a six-year prison sentence for

posts on Tik-Tock deemed to have insulted the president and his family. Also in this podcast.

Amazing, they deserved it.

We win that final. Oh my God, everything. It means everything to all of us. It means everything to everyone. It means everything to everyone.

In football, England are through to the final of the men's Euros championships after beating

the Netherlands 2-1. We begin in Washington. President Biden has vowed to defend every inch of NATO

territory telling leaders of the military alliance we will do it together.

NATO was set up 75 years ago as the dust settled after the end of the Second World War,

and Western nations saw a new threat rise up in the form of the Soviet Union. Now NATO faces one of its biggest

challenges, the war in Ukraine. To those attending a summit in Washington, Mr. Biden

had this to say. For 75 years, our nations have grown and prospered behind the NATO shield.

Today, we're stronger than we've ever been. Since I took office, we've doubled the number of battle groups

at NATO's eastern flank and the United States has.

Finland and Sweden have joined the alliance. the number of allies spending at least 2% on defense

has gone from 9 to 23.

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