International Tensions and Domestic News Updates

President Trump's weighed in on Sekir Starmer's political future by claiming he'll resign as Prime Minister. In a social media message, he said Sekir had failed badly on immigration and energy, but he wished him well. Pressure has been mounting on the Prime Minister from within his own party after a potential leadership challenger Andy Burnham won the Makerfield by election. Speaking minutes after the president posted, our political editor Chris Mason said it wasn't clear if Mr Trum.p had any extra knowledge. What we don't know as we digest that post is the extent to which this is the president joining the dots or knowing something definitive that we at this point don't. The U. S. president has warned Iran it faces further American strikes unless it stops its proxies in Lebanon. His comments come as U. S. and Iranian negotiators are meeting in Switzerland to try to turn a delicate ceasefire into a lasting peace deal. Yesterday, Iran said it was closing the Straits of Hormuz in response to Israeli strikes in Lebanon. Marco Forgioni, who is director general of the Chartered Institute of Export and International Trade, says Even if there is a permanent reopening of the strait, things will take months to return to normal. The ship owners will need to really have confidence that the peace deal is going to stick. We need to make sure that the mines have been cleared that there's a guarantee of safe passage . So much of the infrastructure has been damaged as a result of the war and because the areas that have been impacted, particularly around fertilizer and level agriculture, it's going to take months and indeed into next year before we are back to the world that existed prior to the war. Network Rail says disruption between Bedford and London is expected to continue until the end of next week following Friday's train crash. A train driver died and nine other people remain in a critical condition after the collision. A thirty two year old Syrian man has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after a woman died while attempting to cross the channel in a small boat. She was found unresponsive on a dinghy carrying more than ninety people and was pronounced dead after it reached over. The king is to become the first British monarch to reveal how much tax he pays. The figures will be published on Thursday after calls for greater transparency following the controvers ies surrounding Andrew Matbat and Windsor. Anna White Lock, who's the Director of the Centre for the Study of Modern Monarchy, says the announcement's long overdue. People will see it as a step in the right direction that has been brought to a head by the allegations against Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, the way in which he was allegedly receiving financial payments , his role as a trade envoy, how he funded his security bill and certainly the payment, of course, to Virginia Gefrey . And an amber heat warning has been extended to cover much of central and southern England and parts of Wales until Thursday, temperatures could reach thirty eight degrees Celsius in places.