Can seem far away , and its can seem far away, and its natural to ask why does this matter to america . So let me share with you why making sure israel and ukraine succeed is vital for Americas National security. And thats as National Security. And thats as Prime Minister rishi sunak continues his whistlestop tour of the middle east in a bid to attempt to prevent the israel hamas war sparring spiralling into a wider conflict. As we speak. Rishi sunak is meeting with the Saudi Crown Prince in riyadh. Storm babet prince in riyadh. Storm babet batters scotland as a woman is swept to her death and hundreds are told to evacuate their homes as a red weather warning remains in place for parts of britain. In place for parts of britain. And so heres alex burkill with more on that. Hello we have some further exceptionally wet and windy weather to come through today due to storm babet. Ill have more shortly and paul coyte is here with your latest sport. I am. We have a springbok off weekend tomor
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 f
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