I have tried to play minecraft but it does not work and this comes up for 1.7.10

I try to login into minecraft but every time I do it just comes up with this error

Fatal error launching game. Report this to http://mojang.atlassian.net please!
java.lang.NullPointerException
at net.minecraft.launcher.GameLauncher.cleanOldNatives(GameLauncher.java:515)
at net.minecraft.launcher.GameLauncher.launchGame(GameLauncher.java:360)
at net.minecraft.launcher.GameLauncher.onDownloadJobFinished(GameLauncher.java:693)
at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.download.DownloadJob.popAndDownload(DownloadJob.java:124)
at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.download.DownloadJob.access$000(DownloadJob.java:15)
at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.download.DownloadJob$1.run(DownloadJob.java:94)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Please help me