we have to leave it there, sir richard dalton, we are out of time for this half hour.with more reaction here in a moment, when we will be live at washington. hello. it was a real weekend of contrast. some exceptionally wet weather across scotland, in fact the wettest spot having nearly 180 millimetres of rain. so, there are still some flood warnings in force — that means danger to life. details on the website, including numerous other flood warnings. and there are more weather warnings out for tomorrow, but for today the weather front is still with us, but it's a weak affair, so a respite from the rain for many parts of scotland, just dribs and drabs on this weather front remaining. it will tend to pep up as it pushes north later. but for most other parts it is largely dry, bright and sunny spells, quite warm, temperatures again knocking on the door of what we saw on sunday for northern ireland, england and wales. but overnight temperatures not falling back much, but the misty low cloud around the coasts will creep inland, one band of rain pushes into the northern isle

i'm joined by sir richard dalton, a former british ambassador to libya and iran, who has worn many hatsu so much for being with us. here we are, three weeks into this war. what is your assessment of where we are now?— war. what is your assessment of where we are now? facing a long war. we had an important _ where we are now? facing a long war. we had an important moment - where we are now? facing a long war. we had an important moment last - we had an important moment last night when the international community voted on what the un secretary—general and the regional arab powers are calling for, namely e humanitarian ceasefire or pause. for two purposes, to allow negotiations over hostages and also to get supplies into gaza to avert the imminent total disaster which faces the people of gaza, as the un have made clear repeatedly. but at that point, the atlantic community, with the us in the lead, chose to give priority to israeli war aims. but without at all being clear with their own citizens, certainly in the case of the uk, what war aims we are supposed to be supporting. so, yes, it is

so richard dalton, we appreciate you joining us and sharing your thoughts. thank you.gh the north —— north of loch lomond. it's pushing eastwards and we have an amber warning pushing eastwards and we have an amberwarning in pushing eastwards and we have an amber warning in place for impacts inspected through the rest of today right through to early afternoon and especially cross the grampians towards murray, inverness and aviemore and in aviemore there's many roads that are impossible with a severe flood warning indicating there is a risk to life and property so with more rain still in the forecast today we're into him having to watch things very closely so it's linked to this weather front which is stranded across scotland at the moment and to the south of it, dragging in the air from moment and to the south of it, dragging in the airfrom the near continent. it has been warm and sunny and we start in that vein again this morning with this being a short while ago in devon. we have the sunny skies developing overhead and demirtas will climb. central and southern england