Adding more rain to what is already a pretty nasty situation. Matt, really good to have you across that, i know you will follow events throughout the day and that new red Weather Warning that comes into force later. Matt taylor in the bbc wetter centre. Full detail on the bbc website and with your local bbc radio station. You saw some of that weather coming in and the disruption it is causing not only for homes but infrastructure train lines and other Public Transport heavily affected by that weather. Now, let us get more on what is happening in the middle east and that conflict between israel and gaza, earlier we were showing you the un Secretary General, he was at the rafa crossing between egypt and gaza, he was there with hundreds of lorries that are lined up trying to get goods into gaza, just 20 have so far been given the green light to enter the territory, we had to interrupt that to take you to keir starmer� s speech, earlier, so let us bring you the rest of what we heard there from the un. That a lifeline between life and death for so many people. In gaza. And on the see them stuck here makes me be very clear, what we need is to make them move. To make them move to the other side of this wall. To make them move as quickly as possible, and as many as possible. Recently, it was announced by israel, and by the united states, that humanitarian aid would be allowed to enter gaza. And i know that there is also an agreement between egypt and israel to make it possible. But these announcements were made with some conditions. Conditions. This must be a sustained effort. We are not looking for a one convoy to come, we are looking for convoys to be authorised with a meaningful numbers of trucks, to go every day. So that will be the big story of the day, whether those trucks are permitted to enter guards to get that much needed humanitarian aid to the people who need it, including medicines, food and water, crucially no fuel and a lot of charities telling us fuel will be vital to power generator, to get electricity working, particularly in places like hospitals. We will have the latest at the top of the hour on the ongoing situation. I want to events closer to ehome, we are following the topping developing story of labours key victories overnight. Keir starmer The Labour Leader says people are crying out for change after his partys crushing defeat of the conservatives in those two parliamentary by elections, they managed to overturn big majorities in what were traditionally considered to be safe tory seat, one of which has been held since 1931. In mid bedfordshire, the labour candidate Alstar Strathen won the seat. It gives the party a majority there of 1192. It is a swing from there of 1192. It is a swing from the conservatives to labour, of 20. 5 . This is what keir starmer said earlier at a rally in tamworth. What you have seen here replicate what is is going on across the country, people are fed up to the back teeth with 13 years of decline under this government. They want a fresh start, they want to go forward, a positive case, with a changed labour party. Laserfocussed on building our economy, rebuilding our Living Standard across the whole of the country, opportunities for every young person. Turning on Great British energy, making sure our nhses is fit for the future. These are the positive things that we can do as an incoming Labour Government, but this constituency has spoken now, loud and clear. No more of the tories, yes, please, to labour and there were tory voters yesterday who went to the ballot box to vote labour. And that is because. Cheering and applause that is because they are fed up with the decline and despairing at the party they used to vote for. They have put their trust and their confidence in us, we accept that victory humbly, and go on from here, to make the case across the country, to make the case across the country, to usher out 13 years of decline, and bring in a positive Labour Government and a decade, i hope of national renewal. Sop government and a decade, i hope of national renewal. National renewal. Sop that silly keir starmer national renewal. Sop that silly keir starmer there, national renewal. Sop that silly keir starmer there, saying national renewal. Sop that silly keir starmer there, saying that national renewal. Sop that silly l keir starmer there, saying that it is history in the making. The conservatives blame poor results on a low turn out. They say voters stayed at home. Here is their Party Chairman greg hands. We stayed at home. Here is their Party Chairman greg hands. Chairman greg hands. We are disappointed chairman greg hands. We are disappointed to chairman greg hands. We are disappointed to have chairman greg hands. We are disappointed to have lost chairman greg hands. We are| disappointed to have lost both chairman greg hands. We are disappointed to have lost both the by elections, we had great candidates, think we had good campaigns, the biggest problem was previous conservative voters are staying at home, the turn out was very very low, in both the polls, we didnt really see any increase in labours vote, the Liberal Democrats didnt do well, sol labours vote, the Liberal Democrats didnt do well, so i think it was principally a problem we need to find better ways to energise our conservative voters to come out and support the government. That conservative voters to come out and support the government. Conservative voters to come out and support the government. That is greg hand there from support the government. That is greg hand there from the support the government. That is greg hand there from the conservatives. I hand there from the conservatives. What about the Liberal Democrats in all of this . Responding to the Results Daisy Cooper emphasised that the party had been able to attract conservative voters. This the party had been able to attract conservative voters. The party had been able to attract conservative voters. This is clearly in the end turned conservative voters. This is clearly in the end turned out conservative voters. This is clearly in the end turned out to conservative voters. This is clearly in the end turned out to be conservative voters. This is clearly in the end turned out to be a conservative voters. This is clearly j in the end turned out to be a three way seat, and as i say, we are really proud of the fabling we managed to almost double or share of vote and we did win over the support of thoughs and thousands of lifelong conservative voters, clearly we won a lot of support in more of the rural villages, there was about 48 villages in mid bedfordshire, we know that labour focussed more on the towns in that area, but if the success we had in winning support in those villages was replicated that would put us on course to win a number of constituencies is at the next General Election. 50. Number of constituencies is at the next General Election. Next General Election. So, what could these next General Election. So, what could these two next General Election. So, what could these two victories next General Election. So, what could these two victories for next General Election. So, what could these two victories for labour overnight mean, if there were a General Election . Earlier Professor John rentall explains how significant it could be. The turn out was roughly significant it could be. The turn out was roughly what significant it could be. The turn out was roughly what you significant it could be. The turn | out was roughly what you would expect in by elections, the important things to look at are swing, and there, you know, as professor Sirjohn Curtis explaining, these swings were come par panel with the swings tony blair was winning in opposition s i par panel with the swings tony blair was winning in Opposition Slam not saying keir starmer is the Second Coming of tony blair, but this is the Second Coming of blairism. This suggests that labour is heading for the kind of swing in a General Election, that tony blair won in 97. We are hearing from keir starmer this morning, though, saying he is not complacent. Labour cannot afford the get carried away, he said there is still a long way to going for, he makes the point, he says it is a game changer that shows there is a confidence in what he says is a changed labour party. And that has been the Labour Strategy here, it has been about, it has come back to us, we have changed, is that working . Us, we have changed, is that workinu . ~. ,. , us, we have changed, is that workinu . ~. ,. , working . Well, clearly, and it is very much working . Well, clearly, and it is very much a working . Well, clearly, and it is very much a carbon working . Well, clearly, and it is very much a carbon copy working . Well, clearly, and it is very much a carbon copy of working . Well, clearly, and it is| very much a carbon copy of what working . Well, clearly, and it is very much a carbon copy of what tony blair did in the � 90s. That doesnt mean we are heading, i have seen a lot of commentary round suggesting that labour is heading for a blair style majority, that is not right. Because you have to remember that labour starts the next General Election from a much lower base that than tony blair did, in 97. So this, you know, if we are looking for a kind of blairite result in a General Election, we would be looking at a labour majority of maybe up to 60. But, that, ithink, keir starmer would take rather gratefully cannering the state of the party he inherited in 2000 to 0 i am looking at some of the inherited in 2000 to 0 i am looking at some of the headlines inherited in 2000 to 0 i am looking at some of the headlines here inherited in 2000 to 0 i am looking at some of the headlines here and. Inherited in 2000 to 0 i am looking | at some of the headlines here and it is hard to find much reason to be hopeful if you are a conservative mp, the first time labour has made two by election gains on the same day since 1962. No government has previously lost so safe a seat as tamworth, to the Opposition Party in a by election. What do you any is going on in conservative party head quarter, how do they come back from there. It is notjust his two by elections, there is the previous one. Byelections, there is the previous one. ,. ,. , byelections, there is the previous one. , byelections, there is the previous one. People took their eye off the selby byelection one. People took their eye off the selby byelection in one. People took their eye off the selby byelection in north selby by election in north yorkshire, uxbridge was on the same day and the conservatives did well to Hold Uxbridge but we can see that was a single issue local campaign, and that selby was the real indicator of the state of national opinion, and the result in tamworth was bitter than selby, wham must really be depressing the divots conservatives, as they survey the wreckage is labour seem to be improving, still, if you go back to the tony blair era, actually he won a stunning by election victory in dudley west, a few months after he became leader and after that he tailed off, whereas keir starmer is build us up from strength to strength, so, the conservatives really have to worry. They have got, you know, maybe a year and a bit more if they want to push it. John rentoul. More if they want to push it. John rentoul i more if they want to push it. John rentoul. I want more if they want to push it. John rentoul. I want to more if they want to push it. John rentoul. I want to return to those storms, the bad weather that is hitting large parts of the uk but particularly scotland. Storm babet. It has brought rain and flooding to parts of scotland. We can confirm a Second Person has died, Scottish Police telling us that a falling tree hit a van in angus last night, killing the driver. So let us get the latest from the situation in scotland. Louise is there, we can see the weather behind you and the forecast suggests it will get worse before it gets better, what you seeing where you are in before it gets better, what you seeing where you are in yes, that is riuht. I seeing where you are in yes, that is right i am seeing where you are in yes, that is right i am here seeing where you are in yes, that is right. I am here in seeing where you are in yes, that is right. I am here in stonehaven seeing where you are in yes, that is right. I am here in stonehaven and| right. I am here in stonehaven and there had been fears that this town could be hit really badly by storm babet, it is no stranger to flooding, there has been flooding on previous occasion it does appear that here it has escaped the worst, we are not seeing the sort of scenes like we have seen in the angus town of brechin where people have been evacuated overnight. Travel has been disrupted in scotland, though the main a90 road between stove haven here to dundee has been completely closed, trains have been cancelled and network rail say they expect some to not run until sunday. Also while this red Weather Warning remains in place, also, amber and yellow warnings across parts of scotland, for wind and rain, yellow warnings across parts of scotland, forwind and rain, so, yes, it looks like the weather will continue to remain bad, in the coming hours, perhaps, into it can weekend. �. ,. , weekend. And louise, clearly, the wind is the weekend. And louise, clearly, the wind is the biggest weekend. And louise, clearly, the wind is the biggest problem weekend. And louise, clearly, thej wind is the biggest problem where you are right now, as you said it is not necessarily the rain, maybe you have escaped some of the worst in your area but that wind poses huge problems are and i am thinking for infrastructure. Infrastructure. Yes, that is right. We know that infrastructure. Yes, that is right. We know that certainly infrastructure. Yes, that is right. We know that certainly like infrastructure. Yes, that is right. We know that certainly like i infrastructure. Yes, that is right. We know that certainly like i say | we know that certainly like i say here in stonehaven, there havent been too many problems, the Flood Defences were a couple of monthing a were finalised and finished and they seem to have held up here, but we do know that in other parts there have been people who have had to be evacuated, from their homes, we have had reports of some roofs coming off, so yes, this storm has really made its presence known. Louise, aood to made its presence known. Louise, good to have made its presence known. Louise, good to have you made its presence known. Louise, good to have you there. Good to have you there. It is just worth saying that the met office has now issued another danger to life red Weather Warning, for the north east of scotland, that begins at midnight and runs through to saturday, remember, the current one is in force till about now, so suggesting things getting worse tonight, another red Weather Warning issues for scotland. As promised we will have the latest on the Situation Add my day on the middle east. You are live from london, this is bbc news. 100 aid trucks are backed up at the Rafah Crossing Waiting For Permission to cross the border and help ease the humanitarian situation. To make them move. To make them move to the other side of this wall. To make them move as quickly as possible and as many as possible. Greek orthodox clergy condemn a challenge to a church. And im live injerusalem where we are talking about why the aid into gaza is being held up and continuing disagreements between egypt and israel. Hello, im sarah campbell. Welcome to bbc news now. Over the the next three hours we will be bringing you the very latest from israel and gaza as well as looking at the political reaction to labours two by election wins and the damage which has resulted from storm babet. The United NationsSecretary GeneralAntonio Guterres has called for immediate humanitarian access to the gaza strip, where supplies of essential food, water and medicine are dwindling fast