The World Tonight

The Russian President says it was likely a Ukrainian drone that was responsible for hitting the block of flats in the Romanian town of Alati. The UK’s Europe Minister Stephen Doughty gives his reaction.
Also in the programme: businessmen Shiv Malik explains his plans to build a new city east of Cambridge that could house one million people in affordable homes. And Shaun Ley speaks to Hong-Kong-born conductor Elim Chan, who’ll become the first woman to lead one of the United States’ leading orchestras.

A “perfect storm” of challenges is creating a “lost generation” of young adults who are neither in work, education or training, according to a review by former minister Alan Milburn. As more than a million 18-24 year olds fall into that category, we hear from three political figures from three different parties about how they’d tackle the problem.
Also on the programme: US officials say they’ve reached a tentative deal with Iran to extend a ceasefire and launch negotiations on Iran’s nuclear programme. We get the latest and explore what it might mean for Lebanon and Israel.
And as observers suggest the intense heat in Paris is behind Jannik Sinner’s dramatic crash out of the French Open, we ask what is meant by the “wet bulb” temperature?

Authorities in New York and New Jersey probe allegations that some 2026 World Cup ticket prices may have been artificially inflated. We hear the reaction of former Fifa vice-president Jim Boyce.
Also in the programme: how India is coping with temperatures as high as 45C. And the head of UK spy agency GCHQ urges the public to ditch their online passwords in favour of passkeys. We speak to the head of the consortium that developed the technology.

In a highly critical essay, Sir Tony Blair says the current government has no coherent plan for the country. We hear reaction from two Labour MPs.
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney invokes Brexit as a cautionary tale as he tries to head off an independence referendum in the province of Alberta. We speak to one of the leaders of the independence movement.
And after orbiting the moon, NASA unveils its plans to land - and build - there. What would that involve?

Journalist Declan Walsh reports from the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak in and around the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Also in the programme: we speak to the publisher granted permission to translate Irish novelist Sally Rooney’s book Intermezzo into Hebrew, despite the author’s boycott of other Israeli publishing houses; and as the UK records its all-time highest May temperature, an architect explains how to keep your home cool at night.