point that everybody united on was that there needed not to be an escalation of this and there needed to bea escalation of this and there needed to be a return to the un for political talks. thank you very much for now at un headquarters. let us speak to james geoffrey, a former us ambassador to turkey. he was deputy national security adviser during the george bush administration. welcome to peep buts, donald trump saying that this is a one off attack that this is meant to be an deterrent. what is your feeling about whether this indeed has been a deterrent or will prove to be? i am sure if there is another chemical attack by the syrians there will be another strike almost immediately by donald trump. he has put his prestige on the lean to stop chemical weapons being used against syrian civilians and he has done it in a way that has brought in the entire diplomatic community. we saw the support america is getting among friends and ally, britain, france, germany, australia, japan, and states in the region. israel, turkey, saudi arabia. this was not only militarily well done it was diplomatically well done. a bit surprising but he picked an issue where there is a lot of justification, and he is limiting this, we may be against assad staying in power but we won't use military force to throw him out. we will use military force to stop him trying to kill his own population with chemical weapons. trying to kill his own population with chemicalweapons. if trying to kill his own population with chemical weapons. if as you say there were to be another use of chemical weapons and therefore the follow u p chemical weapons and therefore the follow up that you predict, that then though, is a grim enormous escalation, isn't it? not at all. it isa simple escalation, isn't it? not at all. it is a simple tit—for—tat. you use chemical weapons, the field that you launch them from will disappear, which is what happened with a barrage of 59 cruise missles. aren't you then into a full on war situation? now, they will run out of aeroplanes before we run out of cruise misses, i hate to be so blunt. this is a serious situation that has been escalated in the face of security council resolution and the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of people. it has led to the refugee crisis it has led to a spread of terror and it is instability in the region and it has led to the possible spread of chemical weapons, if it isn't clear to anyone you can't use them. think of north korea. so, where does this leave the relationship between washington and moscow? because of course, putin is so moscow? because of course, putin is so important in all of, in terms of the influence he could have in syria? he is very important. ithink he would be willing to accept a compromise solution, where he keeps his bases and he perhaps keeps assad as part of a true geneva process, un sponsored reconciliation, he was willing to go along with iran and syria, pushing to reconquer the whole country by slaughters or driving out to europe, some ten million sunni arabs, that won't happen any more, the big point with putin, he can huff and puff in the un and moscow, but he had one action he could have taken which was to cancel the tillerson visit, he hasn't. i spoke to a former british foreign secretary who said he thinks what will come from this eventually is that russia will put pressure on assist to finely it is down round a table. we could see some diplomatic talks, do you think that is a possibility? i heard that interview. it's a possibility. you can't count oni it's a possibility. you can't count oane it's a possibility. you can't count on i we hope that will be the case. if not, there are things that the us and the coalition, including britain and the coalition, including britain and france and others can do to put indirect military pressure on assad, as we have done in the past, think of the soviet union in afghanistan, without a direct military confrontation, i think trump may be going in this direction. thank you very much forform going in this direction. thank you very much for form joining us. which are going to get an update on the story that has dominated in the last few hour, the situation in stockholm, because a lorry has driven into a group of pedestrians in the swedish capital. at least three people believed to have been killed, many more injured is what we are hearing, the authorities haven't put a precise figure on the injuries but we believe a large number of people have been injured. let us talk to a journalist with swedish television and has been talking to people at the scene. what stories have you been hearing? yes, i have been talking to two people, that were at the scene, one was a female doctor, who tried to help one of the victims, who was badly hurt, this victim. she thinks she didn't actually, she wasn't able to save her. and the other man was a man who saw the lorry crash into the department store, started to burn. they saw also a lot of injured and some dead people too. and with your experience there as a journalist, are you shocked, surprised, if this turns out to be an act of terrorism, will that surprise you in any way? actually not. that is the first thing that comes to mind. we don't know for sure what you the motive was for this, but it's, it is very like other attacks, like in nice or in germany, so it could very well be terror attack. the man who did this, is still at large and the swedish police is trying to hunt him down. they have published a picture of this man. and if it does transpire that this is terrorism, what sort of impact do you think that will happen on swedish society, because for example we have been talking a lot about the fact that stockholm is very open. it doesn't have a massive cctv cameras ass we might be used to in lots of british cities or other countries, will that change people's attitudes and approach, do you think? yes, of course it will have a large impact, and the people are like prepared that something like this could happen, and i think there is an acceptance for survey yangs and cameras, just to try to stop these things happening. —— surveillance. thank you very much for your time tonight. thank you forjoining us from stockholm. now, we will talk a bit about the continuing impact of the attacks in london, a couple of weeks ago, because the romanian tourist knocked into the river thames during the westminster attacks today died of her injuries. andreea cristea, who was 31, had been visiting london with her boyfriend. her death brings the number of victims killed to five. sangita myska reports. andreea cristea was much loved. she had come to london with her boyfriend, andrei burnaz, when they became victims of the terrorist attack on parliament. on a spring day two weeks ago, the couple had been strolling along westminster bridge when khalid masood deliberately drove his car at pedestrians. miss cristea fell into the river thames, sustaining massive injuries. despite intense efforts by medical teams, yesterday it was decided her life—support machine should be switched off. today, her family made this statement... last week, hundreds walked across westminster bridge to pay tribute to those who were murdered. among them was miss cristea's partner, andrei burnaz, whose foot was broken during the assault. it's emerged that he had intended to propose it's emerged that he had intended to propose to ms cristea that evening. they were coming to london to celebrate their birthday. he intended to ask her for marriage. the floral tributes at westminster bridge to the four people who lost their lives there continue to grow. ms cristea's family say the thousands of pounds raised by the public for her care will now be donated to charity. sangita myska, bbc news. before we leave you this hour, to tell you that really in the last few minute, it has been announced that the british actor tim pig got smith has died. he was 70 years old and still very very busy actor indeed. —— pigott, a huge number of credits, perhaps fair to say that he rose to fame in the 80s, in the television series the jewel fame in the 80s, in the television series thejewel in the crown and he was in the play king charred iii which transferred —— king charles iii, it has been filmed to be shown on the bbc as well. till piggott smith who has died —— tim piggott smith who has died —— tim piggott smith who has died —— tim piggott smith who has died at the age of 70. and we will leave you for now, with a look towards the weekend weather prospects. they come from darren bett. thank you. good evening, lots of sunshine on the way this weekend and it is going to be getting warmer as well. this was the scene earlier on today, with the blue skies in east sussex. it hasn't been sunny everywhere. earlier on this was stirling in scotland but we have seen some changes in the cloud over the past few hours, in between the two location, the cloud has thinned in northern england and northern ireland, so we have sunshine here, to end the day, and the cloud is thinning across scotland too. the cloudier skies will continue in the north—west and the northern isles. it should be larnely cloud free. mist and fog to the west untriand into the south—west midlands. a chilly night under the clear sky, not far away from freezing in a few place, and as we head to tomorrow, it isa place, and as we head to tomorrow, it is a familiar story the pollen, tree pollen at this time of year, high levels across most of england and wales, probably into sunday too. that fog first thing doesn't last long in the sunshine. it soon warms up long in the sunshine. it soon warms up and it will be sunny in all by the far knot of scotland. away from here very lit in the way of cloud at all, and that means it should be warmer as well. notjust warmer as well. not just across england warmer as well. notjust across england and wales, where 20 degrees is likely but higher temperatures for scotland, northern ireland and significantly for northern england where it was cloudy for most of the day at ladies‘ day at aintree, we will find more on the way for the national itself. conflicts going on really though on sunday. this warm air coming up on the southerly breeze, we is that weather front approaching the north—west. the weather on sunday for scotland and northern ireland not going to be as good. we will find cloud moving down from the north—west, and with it outbreaks of rain. some cloud beginning to fill in round some irish sea coasts but otherwise lots of sunshine for the rest of england and wales, a range of temperatures, 13 under the cloud, to as high as 23 in the sunshine. making it the warmest day of the year so far. that warm air isn't going to last too much longer though, this weather front that brings the rain in the north—west on sunday, brings next to nothing as it moves southwards on monday, but it does introduce more of a northerly wind and that will draw down cooler air, soa wind and that will draw down cooler air, so a different in temperatures from sunday to monday, you can see that on our league table here, temperatures dropping by eight degrees in the likes of leeds and coventry. nine degrees here in fact. cloudy skies but dry weather for most on monday, but maybe some wintry showers in northern scotland. 59 missiles were fired by the us at the airbase — said to be the launch pad for a deadly chemical attack on civilians. the targets — aircraft, ammunition bunkers, and air defence systems — all owned and controlled by the syrian government. tonight, i call on all civilized nations join us in seeking to end the slaughter and bloodshed in syria. but russia described the air strikes as an act of aggression against a sovereign state. also tonight: at least three are dead and many injured as a lorry ploughs into shoppers in the swedish capital stockholm. there were blood everywhere, there were bodies on the ground