International Diplomacy and Domestic News Updates

Expectations are growing that Sakya Stahmer could be preparing to announce his resignation. His potential leadership challenger Andy Burnham's due to be sworn in as an MP at Westminster today after his victory in the Makerfield by election. Surbir Ahmed resigned as a minister after Labour suffered big losses in local elections last month. He says the party's MPs have reached a point where they no longer have faith in Sakhir. abour Party need to have confidence in a prime minister for them to do their job. I think that was lost a few weeks ago. It's coming to a head now. So I think when the Prime Minister does resign it will be initially as leader of the Labour Party then to allow some sort of contest to take place or people to present themselves to apply for the leadership of the Liber Party and then that will translate into the next Prime Minister. Pakistani and Qatari mediators say progress has been made in peace talks between Iran and the United States in Switzerland. They said the two countries had agreed on a mechanism to end the fighting in Lebanon. Talks are due to continue for the rest of the week. Our chief international correspondent Lisusette is in Lucerne. The main achievement of the Sunday talks is that at last now there are structures in place for negotiations to proceed. There's a roadmap. There's a high level committee. There are working groups focused on nuclear sanctions. There's a monitoring of dispute mechanism when it comes to the Strait of Hormuz, there's a deconfliction cell when it comes to Lebanon. New checks on safe sleep practices will be introduced in nurseries in England from this autumn, as well as an increased number of unannounced offstead inspections. The change from the Department for Education follows a number of safeguarding incidents. The UK's record for the hotter's June temperature looks likely to be broken this week with forecast as high as thirty eight Celsius for parts of southern England. A meton fisher warning for extreme heat is in place until midnight on Thursday, covering much of the south and east. The Midlands and parts of Wales, our environment correspondent Jonah Fisher explains how the extreme heat is likely to affect people . In terms of health, taking particular attention over vulnerable people who might be particularly affected by the hot weather, elderly people, for example, in the general population , thinking a little bit more about things like sunburn, hydrating properly and avoiding heat stroke. There's also an expectation that there could be some impact on transport in terms of trains , the railway, the roads. Tennis, Serena Williams is to return to the women's singles at Wimbledon after accepting a world card for this year's tournament. The forty four year old who's won the Wimbledon Singles title seven times came out of retirement earlier this month