what could the americans do? here s our international editor, jeremy bowen. well, one of the president s officials said actions speak louder than words. what are those actions going to be? well, we can only speculate at this point, but what tends to happen is that the us military gives the president a menu of options that he can choose. and the lowest level, if you like, might be to hit back at iranian proxies operating inside syria or iraq. that might not be enough for the americans, and especially not forjoe biden s critics back home. so they might do something a bit more. they might go for iranian targets in those countries or they could go for maybe iranian targets in the gulf. the most extreme option, and i think this is highly unlikely, would be to attack targets inside iran itself, inside the territory of iran. that s something that the americans have not done. so we get to a situation now where the american secretary of state antony blinken, says that the middle east
A labour party schedule for the visit leaked to the mail on sunday shows the dinner was planned. that doesn t mean it broke regulations, but mr starmer is now in the spotlight and this makes it more awkward. a tweet sir keir sent when it emerged borisjohnson was under investigation, saying honesty and decency matter, calling on the prime minister to do the decent thing and resign. when we called for borisjohnson to resign, he was under investigation for 12 gatherings that he said simply never happened, that he denied that he was at, that we now know included karaoke, bring your own bottle, garden parties. that was clearly not allowed under the rules. they made those rules. they broke the rules. they lied about it and they laughed about it. keir starmer has done not a single one of those things. borisjohnson, after months under pressure, may now be enjoying labour s discomfort. the conservatives losses in the elections are not the story now, but the fact mrjohnson has already been foun
Re opened an investigation into claims the labour leader broke lockdown rules last year. sir keir has strongly criticised borisjohnson about parties held in downing street, and has denied doing anything wrong himself during a campaign trip before the hartlepool by election. an itinery leaked to a sunday newspaper suggests sir keir s beer and curry event had been planned in advance. 0ur political correspondent damian grammaticus has more. he s always styled himself a man of probity mr rules, one of his shadow cabinet put it today. and sir keir starmer would like the focus to be on the election results, yesterday celebrating advances in scotland. this was sir keir in april last year on the campaign trail. covid rules said you could gather indoors if it was reasonably necessary for work, but not to socialise outside your household or bubble. so was he breaking the law? durham police investigated and said no. they re reconsidering.
Mrs biden said the visit was intended to show support to the people of ukraine. doubts over power sharing in northern ireland sinn fein are in line for the first minister s role at stormont but the democratic unionists say they won t take part unless the uk government scraps new brexit trading rules. labour hits back at fresh claims over keir starmer s lockdown meal with colleagues saying he didn t break covid rules actor shooti gatwa has been announced as the new doctor in doctor who. he ll take over from jodie whittaker next year. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the author and journalist emma woolf and sebastian payne, the financial times whitehall editor.