lieutenant mark schwartz, former _ october seven.ecurity coordinator between israel and the palestinian authority, thank you very much for bringing us your assessment here on bbc news, we appreciate it. you canjust see on the screen goes live pictures of the scene right now injerusalem where in the last 5—10 minutes what we�*ve seen on our screens is flares there on that night sky. it is approaching two there injerusalem local time. we have been told by the white house and by us intelligence drones could start hitting targets by around 2am local time there in israel, and we also know by the reuters news agency at least two us officials have said they have shut down at least one of those drones. in the meantime, we can go nowjoined bbc persian reporter siavash ardalan from london. here is a tweet that we�*ve gotten. conducted on the strength of the un charter pertaining to legitimate defence, iran�*s military reaction is against... matter can be deemed concluded but should the israeli regime and make another mistake iran�*s response w

lieutenant general mark schwartz, former us security coordinator between israel and the palestinian authority. let's cross now _ being with us. thank you. let's cross now to — being with us. thank you. let's cross now to joe _ being with us. thank you. let's cross now to joe patino, i being with us. thank you. let's cross now to joe patino, thank| cross now tojoe patino, thank you forjoining us this evening. ijust want you forjoining us this evening. i just want to you forjoining us this evening. ijust want to begin ljy evening. ijust want to begin by getting your assessment on what we are seeing unfolding tonight. i what we are seeing unfolding tonitht. ., , ., what we are seeing unfolding tonitht. .,, ., �* tonight. i hope what we're sa int tonight. i hope what we're saying is _ tonight. i hope what we're saying is kind _ tonight. i hope what we're saying is kind of _ tonight. i hope what we're saying is kind of a - tonight. i hope what we're saying is kind of a single l saying is kind of a single chapter this, you know the drones and ballistic missiles and that's it. i think you know, iran

earlier i spoke to retired us army lieutenant general, mark schwartz about the operation to get the aidon coordination to this point has been superb, obviously, the uk, france and the united states, to build this floating pier to have another major avenue of aid coming into the country, into the gaza strip is great. the challenge is going to be as chris pointed out, getting it from the pier to the point of need. i agree, ideally, you will see, whether it is palestinian or the kingdom ofjordan or egypt providing those transport drivers to help enable the aid to the point of need. let's look at the wider military state of play, specifically at rafah. what is your assessment of where we are? last week, with the activation of two reserve brigades that i believe the intent of those two brigades are going to be backfilling two of the more capable active duty brigades that are currently in gaza, to free them up to start rafah operations. i think, i don't know if it is days, but certainly weeks, as you mentioned, the fact that there have been some concerted dialogue on negotiations as recently

earlier i spoke to retired us army lieutenant general, mark schwartz about the operation to get the aidrdination to this i think the level of coalition coordination to this point i think the level of coalition coordination to this point has i think the level of coalition coordination to this point has been superb, obviously, the uk, france and the united states, to build this floating pier to have another major avenue of aid coming into the country, into the gaza strip is great. the challenge is going to be as chris pointed out, getting it from the pier to the point of need. i agree, i from the pier to the point of need. iagree, i ideally, you will see, whether it is palestinian or the kingdom ofjordan or egypt providing those transport drivers to help enable the aid to the point of need. lets look at the wider military state of play, specifically at rafah. what is your assessment of where we are?— rafah. what is your assessment of where we are? last week, with the activation of— where we are? last week, with the activation of two _ where we are? last week, with the activation of two re

laura - blumenfeld and mark schwartz, thank you for being with us for this rolling coverage.e didn't last very long. it was beaten on saturday. we've got temperatures up to 21.8 degrees celsius at rydell in essex. that now is the highest temperature recorded so far this year. we've got a big drop in temperatures on the way, though, across england and wales. and in some places those temperatures will be dropping by around seven degrees celsius. you will notice the change as cooler air that we have had across scotland and northern ireland works southwards. now over the next few hours we've got a few showers around. they tend to become confined to northern and western areas of scotland. otherwise, the skies are clearing. it's going to be a cold start to sunday morning with temperatures for quite a few places down at around four degrees celsius. might be chilly, but there will be plenty of early morning sunshine, clear, blue, sunny skies in many cases. but there will be some coastal showers in western scotland. and through the day, showers become extensive. scotland, northern ire

we can cross over to retired lieutenant general mark schwartz who served as the united states securityings have been developing in the past couple of hours, the fact that we have seen some 200 drones, cruise missiles employed as well — how serious do you believe this situation to be? well, in terms of the threat of iran to israel and involvement in this, the gaza is really complex, it has not been any more serious than it has been in the last a hours or so when we first received notification that drones had been launched from iran followed by cruise missiles as the footage just showed there so i think tensions are as high as they have been and there have been statements that have come out of the islamic regime of iran that they believe that they have addressed all responded to primarily the attacks that occurred against seven leaders, to general offices in damascus. so, from israeli standpoint, i would say that the integrated air defence that they have in place, augmented certainly by the united states and other partners and allies in the region has been extremely effective given the m

schwartz, ivey foreign affairs and defense correspondent. nato said he fifth anniversary april 4, 2024, and the world's largest ultralight has much to celebrate this milestone marks 75 years of collective defense and since 1949 natives 12 hours of turned into 32 member countries at together have deterred military threats and delivered relative peace and security. now we're looking ahead to an important summit in washington and this milestone will form the backdrop of this summit. not while there's much to some but there's also an intense threatening from nicotine is to prevent innermost challenges to catalytic security and defense. i am here with all-star panel today. i will start on the end. we have james roscoe, deputy head of mission at the british embassy, a job he sultans july 2022. the four that he was viewed ambassador to u.n. general assembly and he sold a number of other senior positions. in the british foreign service. let's see, next we have thomas wright, special assistant to the present, seem to correct for strategic plan at the nsc, prepa's director and senior fellow at brookings and issh written several books including aftershock, pandemic politics