time for a look at the weather. here s darren bett. earlier in the programme it was all about money, money, money, now it s allabout about money, money, money, now it s all about highs and lows. the wind is strongest in scotland. we got some sunshine here and some sharp showers. furthersouth, quite cloudy and damp across much of northern england and north wales. we ve had a bit of rain and drizzle. that s moving southwards. this is what s happened over the past few hours. this raining western scotland is petering out as it runs away from northern england and north wales and eventually we ll see sunshine coming through. not much rain arriving in the midlands and across southern england it may stay dry and there will be sunshine particularly in the south east. here, it should be quite warm, temperatures reaching 21 degrees, but quite chilly across northern scotland where we ve got the stronger winds. this weather front is responsible for the rain moving across england and wales
u.s. policy. basically diplomatic chaos this afternoon. ending with paper statement from the white house in an attempt at clarifying from the defense secretary. white house correspondent peter doocy is traveling with the president starts us off tonight tuesday morning from tokyo. good morning, peter. peter: good morning, bret. president biden spent months explaining the u.s. was never going to fight russia in ukraine. he was very clear about that. and when it comes to fighting china in taiwan, he was very clear about that, too. he just wasn t on the same page as his staff. the future of the 21st century economy is going to be largely written in indo-pacific. the president planned to talk about confronting china economically but wound up talking about confronting china on the battlefield. are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan if it comes to that? yes. you are? that s the commitment we made. but what the president says the u.s. would help t
had been killed. she described the scale of suffering as devastating. the us defense secretary, lloyd austin, in his strongest comments yet on israel s need to protect civilians, said that driving the civilian population into the arms of the enemy would replace israel s tactical victory with a strategic defeat. you see in this kind of a fight, the centre of gravity is the civilian population. and if you drive them into the arms of the enemy, you replace a tactical victory with a strategic defeat. so, i have repeatedly made clear to israel s leaders that protecting palestinian civilians in gaza is both a moral responsibility and a strategic imperative. for his part, the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, said the war would continue for as long as hamas was active. translation: we will continue the war until we achieve - all its goals, and it s impossible to achieve those goals without the ground operation. the ground operation was necessary to bring the results until
was known to authorities in france for trying to stage another attack in 2016. french anti terror prosecutors say they will be taking over the investigation. in the past hour, the french president emmanuel macron has issued condolences to the family members of the german man killed in the attack. fierce fighting has resumed in gaza after the collapse of a temporary ceasefire between israel and hamas. israel has ramped up airstrikes on gaza, telling residents to evacuate to other areas, but aid groups say nowhere is safe. prime minister benjamin netanyahu warned the war is far from over. translation: we will. continue the war until we achieve all its goals which is impossible without the ground operation. it was necessary to bring the results until now and it is necessary to bring the results moving forward. israel s been carrying out intense air strikes on khan younis in southern gaza. israel says hamas leaders are in the city, but it s also where hundreds of thousands of pal
there aimed at agreeing a new truce with hamas designated a terrorist organisation by the uk government had reached a dead end . israel s military has intensified its bombardment of gaza since a temporary ceasefire expired yesterday, with air strikes in north western gaza, and khan younis in the south where hundreds of thousands of people fled earlier in the war to escape fighting. according to the hamas run health ministry, 193 people have been killed and 650 injured since the resumption of fighting. a convoy of humanitarian aid has crossed into gaza for the first time since thursday. humanitarian groups are warning of catastrophic consequences for civilians. the international federation of the red cross says aid workers won t be able to reach people in need if the air strikes continue. read on) our first report this hour is from lucy williamson. khan yunis, gaza s southern capital, once labelled safe. america says this new phase of israel s war in gaza must look diff