lord kim darroch _ position on these things. lord kim darroch had _ position on these things.d kim darroch had quite - position on these things. lord kim darroch had quite an - kim darroch had quite an experience in washington, not to the taste of donald trump, soon after his cables were leaked, may be from the site, i do not know. will peter mandelson go into this knowing full well the risks he is taken? , ., , , taken? peter is obviously quite a risk taker. — taken? peter is obviously quite a risk taker, involved _ taken? peter is obviously quite a risk taker, involved with - taken? peter is obviously quite a risk taker, involved with the l a risk taker, involved with the eu as a trade commissioner, a high—stakesjob. he was high—stakes job. he was negotiating high—stakesjob. he was negotiating with china and other places. he doesn't go for the easyjobs. this certainly isn't that. difficult, competitive relationship going forward. particularly with the likes of nigel farage trying to undermine the government in the process. undermine the government in the rocess. ., ., proces

so kim darroch, thank you _ government. so kim darroch, thank you very _ government.t. so kim darroch, i thank you very much for talking to us on bbc news. once we get the confirmation, we will bring it to you. sarah king derek who was former ambassador to the us. —— sir kim darroch. some people in hampshire will be waking up to running water for the first time since wednesday, as engineers have been working through the night to fix an ongoing issue. our reporter, jon cuthill, joined me earlier from a leisure centre in eastleigh where people have been collecting bottled water. well, what a difference a day makes. look, we have got the water, we have lorry loads of water here in eastleigh. we have a whole team of people in orange who have been standing by to load boots, but there isjust a single car at the moment. yesterday the cars were queueing around the block but we found out from southern water that as of 2am, all 58,000 customers who had been affected over the last 72 hours were back online. that is a big sigh of relief from the customers who have been putting up

a question that was posed last night by our panelist sir kim darroch, former uk ambassador to the unitedropeans to agree to doing proper security guarantees for ukraine if america is not part of that. in other words, if it's just, say, britain, france and germany saying that we will come to your defence if the russians break the ceasefire and start to attack you. so i think that's the prior question. here is president zelensky after those meeting, speaking this afternoon in brussels. we say that it could be part of the security guarantees. it goes without saying that nato is the best security guarantee for ukraine. and of course, until ukraine is a member of nato, this aspect could be considered as an alternative. but the most important is that it is notjust an artificial issue blown up. we need to have a mechanism, concrete mechanism. if we talked about contingency, how many? details, what they will do if russia is attacking, for example ? many, many questions are being raised. we are discussing them. that start with the military bit. there are two obvious prize blooms. one is the stret

let's bring in our panel tonight, the former british ambassador to washington at kim darroch, and alsongton bureau chief for bloomberg news peggy collins. thank you, both public to have you alongside. saricam, let me start with you. the backdrop to this is really interesting, because our front pages full of nigel farage speaking next to elon musk and that today this phone call is arranged with the president—elect. for what purpose? do you think it is a coincidence or are there concerns about the relationship and even before it has begun? christian, it will be natural if there were concerns, because some of the things that the president elect said on the campaign trail about tariffs, about ukraine, about climate change would give us concern, so i don't know whether the call was initiated by the prime minister were not, but it is a sensible thing to try and get to the president—elect as often as possible before he takes office, to try and make some arguments to him about how we see those issues. so, if keir starmer initiated the call, good on him. i mean, i would think he should be doing