suspended if a deal emerges to free the hostages still held by hamas. key international leaders are heading to saudi arabia, where they are expected to hold talks on the war in gaza. this week is expected to be a pivotal one in scottish politics. confidence votes are planned in both the first minister, humza yousaf, and his government. mr yousaf has written to opposition leaders in an attempt to find common ground. ministers insist health is a priority after the tory mp daniel poulter defects to labour because of concerns over how the nhs is managed. and a gold pocket watch worn by the wealthiest passenger on the titanic becomes the shipwreck�*s most expensive item ever bought at auction. the timepiece, owned byjothacob astor, sold for more than £1 million. let's get more now on the defection

of a conservative mp to the labour party. dr dan poulter, who works part—time in the nhs, has been welcomed by his new leader, sir keir starmer, who said the former minister would help his party get the health service "back on its feet". dr poulter told sunday with laura kuenssberg why he quit the tory party. let's listen to the interview. well, i'd been thinking about it for a little while and it was alongside my work as an mp. i work — still work — as an nhs doctor and have done. the health service that i saw under huge strain is very different to the health service of maybe a decade ago, and the struggles and the challenges that patients have been experiencing in accessing timely good care were something that really resonated with me and stayed with me, and ifound it increasingly difficult to look my nhs colleagues in the eye, my patients in the eye, and my constituents in the eye with good conscience. and i feel that the nhs deserves

better than it has at the moment in terms of how its run and governed. but you pin that on, then, the government's handling of the health service. because of course the nhs has had lots of problems for a long time, its run by managers in all sorts of places, but you pin that on the conservatives�* handling of it. i think it comes from that. i think it comes from values, as well. very clearly, it's been the case in the last... ..eight, ten years or so, the nhs is not a priority to the conservative party and to the government, and if we want to do better for patients, we want to restore that service to where it was before, then i believe that we need to look to a party that has a track record when it was in government before under tony blair and gordon brown, that has a track record of delivering for patients, transforming services, getting on top of waiting lists, investing in community health care. and that's what keir starmer and the labour party i know will do, and they will be trusted, i'm sure, to do it by nhs staff, as well.

but when you have — as a conservative, you've previously said that labour had been profligate and inefficient at how it ran the nhs. you've attacked labour's record of running the nhs in wales. i mean, i think...certainly the nhs in all parts of the country — be it in scotland or wales or england — is under... ..is under pressure. but the service that i saw during those night shifts was unrecognisable from the service that i worked in routinely before i became an mp. frankly, patients deserve better. it shouldn't be the case that people — a third of patients are waiting more than 60 days for urgent cancer care. that shouldn't be the case in a civilised health system. how would you describe the broader change in the conservative party? we now have a tory party that resembles sometimes a little bit more a nationalist, national party rather than a party of the centre right. and i feel that, actually, the changes that the labour party

has made since 2019 under keir starmer — notjust on the health service but particularly on that offer on health, about tackling the determinants of poor health and housing, poverty and all those issues — are the sort of things that are really going to make a big difference. and i think that's why i believe that... why i've made the change i have and why i believe it will make a difference to the patients i look after. since 2010, though, constituents in your suffolk home have chosen you, sent you to westminster as a conservative. some of them might be angry that you have left the party that they chose. what do you say to them? well, i had two things i could have done. i could have carried on to the election and then stood down. or i could... i could have decided to potentially have — there could be a by—election and call a by—election. but we're at the point where there might be a general election called at any moment. and i think rishi sunak should call a general election tomorrow,

or as soon as possible and let the public choose, you know, and make a choice about who should be in government. and i thought about it and i thought, well, what's the best thing or the right thing to do? on balance, i thought — because there will be an election very, very soon — it didn't make sense to have a by—election. i thought, on balance, it was better to continue to work diligently for my constituents through until the end of this parliament — be that in a few weeks or potentially a few months. 0k. dan, thank you so much indeed for speaking to us today. thank you. staying with politics, scotland's first minister, humza yousaf, is facing a no confidence vote this week after ending a power—sharing deal with the scottish greens. mr yousaf has written to opposition leaders in an attempt to find common ground. 0ur scotland editor james cook reports. these are difficult days for humza yousaf, facing an uncertain outlook as he tries to shore up support for his minority government. that's because he decided to end

a power—sharing deal with the scottish greens. it is in the best interest of the people of scotland to pursue a different arrangement. therefore, the scottish greens msps have decided that we will support a vote of no confidence in the first ministen _ the greens are still furious and insist they will not back mr yousaf in a confidence vote in the coming days. nonetheless, the snp leader has written to all the opposition leaders at holyrood, arguing people want to see political parties work together and inviting them to discuss their concerns and priorities. ash regen of the alba party could be the kingmaker, her support alone might be enough for mr yousaf to survive. alba party's leader, alex salmond, told the sunday times mr yousaf might win her over by striking an electoral pact in which snp candidates stood aside in favour of alba in some seats in future elections. but a source close to

mr yousaf called the idea "a fantasy and ridiculous". the main opposition say the first minister has run out of road. i think it's an act of desperation on the part of the current first minister. we've had plenty of opportunities to co—operate over the years, but to be frank with you, what i'm looking at is a very chaotic government that's frankly incompetent and embarrassing to the people of scotland. well, humza yousaf is one of the most divisive and incompetent first ministers scotland has ever seen, and it shows how desperate he is that he is humiliatingly having to write to his political opponents in order to save his political skin. it's quite clear that both scottish conservatives and the scottish people do need a letter from humza yousaf and that is his letter of resignation. even so, the snp leader still hopes to hold talks with his opponents as he struggles to secure enough support to keep hisjob. james cook, bbc news.

as we heard injames cook's report — there have been suggestions that humza yousaf could keep his government together by striking a deal with ash regan who defected from the snp to the alba party. here's what alex salmond, the leader of the alaba party had to say about that. ash regan, who leads alba in the scottish parliament, is in a highly influential position given the political arithmetic. she will be meeting with humza yousaf at his invitation, she will take with her some very reasonable positive proposals in which hopefully if the first minister accepts that will help him to get out of a very tight political corner. ian blackford, the former snp leader this morning, has told us pretty clearly it's not going to happen, there can't be a deal with your party. no, i think what the rejection was was something about an electoral pact but given i never made the proposal in the first place, that was an overwrite on a sunday newspaper. we are not particularly bothered about that. what ash regan will be taking

is measures how we can reemphasise independence as the priority of the scottish government. that's what both alba and the snp should be interested in. how we can move away from the identity agenda that's taken up so much bandwidth of the scottish government and also how you can return to what we call the people's agenda of education, health, housing and jobs and industry and ash regan has some proposals on how to do that, so these are very reasonable proposals and let's hope that humza yousaf gives it a receptive hearing. that was alex salmond speaking to bbc�*s laura coombs burke. there are calls for more drug and alcohol support to be offered to people from black, asian and minority ethnic communities following concerns from charities that these groups are often under—represented in treatment. anna crossley has been speaking to kim, a south asian woman who was addicted to heroin for 16

years and is now in recovery. i'm quite nervous. my stomach is churning. i feel quite sick, really, because this is where my addiction started. i had come away from a really unhappy, horrible marriage, and i thought i was going to start a new life here, but ended up spiralling into addiction. i didn't know. i didn't know that i was addicted to drugs. this is the first time you've been back here? it is, yeah. i think it was about time somebody spoke out. i don't know if i'm going to be appreciated for it or if it is going to go down well, but i felt after all these years it needed to be out in the open that there's addictions that go on in south asian communities.

i was told how to walk, told how to smile, told how to do everything. so i didn't have my own kind of thoughts. it was very much controlled by other people. and then when, you know, when somebody is rolling up a joint, a joint of whatever it was, and said, "here, have this, it will "make you feel better", i took it. and that was my first pull of a joint of heroin. i didn't know i was in addiction until i was probably about a year or two in because the heroin was provided for me every day, so i didn't have withdrawals. it was embarrassing. who could i tell? who could i go to? who is going to understand? for me, it was more — i'm notjust a drug user, i'm an asian girl, on drugs. i'm an indian girl, on drugs. who do i turn to?

who will understand ? it is more risky or dangerous not to say anything than to educate our own people and be honest about what happens and what addiction does to people. god, this is awful, this, now, thinking about it, my little girl came home with a sponsorship form for school and i made loads of photocopies of it. and i walked around the whole of bradford, i think, with this sponsorship form, and cheated money out of people. absolutely shocking. when i lived in a housejust here, where the blue door is. this one here? yes. what was your lowest point? i took an overdose of tablets because i could just... i would just...

i didn't want to live any more. i didn't want to be here. ididn't... i couldn't look after my kids. i ended up back in that horrible spiral again. you know, ifailed my parents, ifailed my kids, ifailed me. you did turn it around, though. idid. i have. it took a long time. i was ready for change, and just in my head, i knew that i didn't want this life and i was damaged. i was seriously damaged. i'd lost my children. and i was going to either die or i was, you know, i needed to change where my focus was going. where are we now? settled. we are in a happy relationship. andy is brilliant.

we've been together for eight years. i'm happy to be here. and i have earned — i've earned my place here. i've earned my place on earth, i think. the word will get out that you can support other women — and men — that are in the same, similar situations the more i do this. that was the bbcand across the speaking to kim. a teenager who'd paid to be on the small boat crossing the channel last week, has told the bbc he decided not to make the journey because he was worried about the number of people getting on board. an investigation is continuing into exactly what happened, when violence broke out, resulting in the deaths of 5 people — including a young girl. 0ur correspondentjon donnison, reports from calais. chaos, desperation and violence as more than 100 people tried

to cram onto a small boat in the early hours of tuesday morning. among them was 16—year—old marcus, not his real name, from south sudan. where are you here? i'll be on this side. on that side? yeah, this side. five people were killed, including a seven—year—old girl. and how do people die? there were too many people. they were crushed maybe. i didn't see them die. ijust wanted to save myself. 30 or a0 guys were trying to force themselves on the boat because they did not pay the money. marcus, who is fleeing life as a child soldier in south sudan, says he paid people smugglers $1,000 to make the crossing and even though he was injured in the last attempt, he,s willing to pay more to try again. you can see today that the sea is calm and the wind has dropped, and that means more attempted crossings. here you've got a boat that's been abandoned, it looks like police have slashed it open. you've also got a tear gas canister,

which police have been using, and some abandoned children's clothing. despite the dangers, people like marcus are not going to give up. and what of the government's rwanda policy? the government is saying they will deport people who cross to rwanda. does that worry you? that will not stop me, i will never give up. i will try my best to cross the english channel. and the chance came sooner than we expected. after we left marcus this morning, we heard that he'd headed to the beaches once more for another attempt to reach the uk. jon donnison, bbc news, in calais. the body representing the haulage industry has warned of "chaos and confusion" with the introduction of new border checks on some products from the eu this week. logistics uk has called for urgent clarity on how the system will work before the rules come into force in two days.

a gold pocket—watch worn by the wealthiest passenger on the titanic, has sold for almost £1 million at auction. 0nce fees are added, it's the highest price ever paid at auction for a single item recovered from the scene of the 1912 disaster. a leather violin bag owned by the leader of the orchestra, which famously played on as the ship sank, fetched £290,000. duncan kennedy reports. 105,000. there's nothing like the titanic to evoke memories, passion and buyers. this auction included one of the items that titanic collectors desire most of all — it's the gold pocket watch belonging to a passenger believed to be one of the richest people in the world, jothacob astor. he and 1,500 others died when the ship sank in april 1912 in the north atlantic. what jj astor's watch represents is something touchable from history,

which is why people are still willing to pay so much money for it. the bidding for the watch started way beyond the estimate of £150,000 and kept climbing. at £900,000... applause. add on all the fees and the anonymous buyer will pay £1.17 million, a world record for an item from the titanic. at the end of the day, this price reflects not only the importance of the astor watch but also the enduring appeal of the titanic story. books, films and documentaries have kept the titanic�*s story alive, but it is artefacts like these that make it tangible and desirable. duncan kennedy, bbc news in wiltshire. an appeal has been launched by the national memorial arboretum in staffordshire to raise funds to restore one of its most striking installations. �*shot at dawn�* pays tribute to the 309 british and commonwealth soldiers who were executed during world war one

for desertion and cowardice, but it's been severely damaged by flood water. 0ur reporter liz copper has the story. 0n the eastern edge of the arboretum at alrewas, this is the first memorial to be touched by the sun's rays at dawn. it has also been touched by the ravages of the elements when the nearby river tame overtops its banks. because this is built on a floodplain, we expect the water level to come up. but as of recent years, it has come up high and remained there. so though the posts look like they're in pretty good condition, but you will notice at the bottom they are rotting through and they don't last that many years before they need replacing. there are 309 stakes, each dedicated to a soldier shot at dawn during the first world war. they faced a firing squad for desertion, cowardice, orsimply falling asleep at their post. the stakes are arranged in the form of a greek theatre to symbolise the tragedy of those events.

they will all now be replaced with recycled material to withstand floodwater. people come here — it's an educational resource. children come and visit the memorial, and they see something like this. it is a dark point in british military history, but it is very relevant and a very important story to tell. so we need to provide preserve it. this is just one area here where the effects of the weather have been felt. here they welcome more than 300,000 visitors annually. the arboretum is open all year round. this is a living landscape. that is why staff are constantly working to adapt the site. we have areas of the site that we do know have always stayed wet and despite putting in drainage in, they'll always stay wet. so we're selecting water—resistant species that don't mind having their feet wet for a long period of time. without a doubt, that strategy will change and be refined as climate change changes. back at the memorial, work will begin early next month. the hope is it will ensure these soldiers�* stories will never be

swept away and never forgotten. it is almost 70 years since donald campbell became the fastest man on water in his iconic hydroplane bluebird, smashing the 200 miles—per—hour barrier in front of crowds on the shores of ullswater in the lake district. now, previously unseen photos of the daredevil in action back in 1955 have been discovered, and the search is on for somewhere to display them permanently. andy gill reports. that's the difference here, that people were allowed, which... just to come down on the shore. i mean, that must have been the whole village. at her home in southport on merseyside, gina campbell and andrew price look through photos of donald campbell and bluebird. they were taken at ullswater in cumbria in 1955, the place and year when donald campbell first broke the world water speed record.

the photographer was andrew's dad, peter price, who died in 2020. it was very difficult for me to go through his archive, because i had worked with him for 30 years, and i started to go through things but it was, you know, tears rolling down my eyes, i was saying, "i didn't know you'd done this, dad, i didn't know you'd done that." but earlier this year andrew, who is also a photographer, did get to looking through his dad's archive. there they were in a little brown envelope with handwritten notes saying "donald campbell, bluebird early attempts, ullswater." and i thought, "wow, i didn't know you had these." once you start on one of these world record attempt, - you're past the point of no return. donald campbell set world water and land speed records. he died in 1967 when bluebird crashed on coniston water. last month, the restored boat returned to coniston after being recovered in 2001.

but campbell's first water speed records were achieved not on coniston, but on ullswater. there's one here, he's obviously just going out for a run. but he's not wearing a hard helmet. no, he's not. would he have had that in the cockpit, do you think? possibly. for gina, who was just six when the photos were taken, they reveal a new chapter of her father's life. myjaw dropped when i first saw them. what it tells me is how famous my father was, looking at the crowds that were there. and me as a small child, with no idea that my father was famous. i didn't know my father was famous. gina and andrew both now want the photos to find a permanent home, a testament to a pioneering british enterprise in engineering and daring. it gets me in my heart, because it shows my dad, to me, what he was — but i didn't know.

andy gill, bbc news. finally, space x has launched its falcon 9 rocket... engines full power, and liftoff. this was the moment it took off from the kennedy space centre in florida carrying a payload of 2 galileo satellites — part of europe's global navigation satellite system. notably, this was the first time an american made rocket was used and launched from us soil for thejoint spacex — european commision project. historically, the galileo satellites were launched using the the russian soyuz or ariane 5 rockets — but the european space agency stopped soyuz since russia's invasion of ukraine. now it's time for a look at the weather with sarah keith lucas.

hello. we've seen some fairly heavy rain through the overnight period and this morning as well, pushing its way northwards across much of england. it's going to sit for eastern parts of england and eastern scotland through the course of the day, gradually easing. but there'll be some sunshine coming in towards the west. so certainly a day of mixed fortunes. this area of low pressure has been bringing us that rain. it's pushing northwards around the east coast in particular, some blustery winds around that area of low pressure too. some sunshine out there for western scotland, northern ireland, wales and the south west of england. but there'll also be a scattering of showers that'll be fairly hit and miss. that rain slowly easing away from the south east of england and east anglia, but sitting across northeast england and eastern scotland for a good part of the afternoon. some blustery winds in and around that area of low pressure in the east. we could see gusts around 30 miles an hour or even a little bit stronger close to that east coast. and it's really going to feel quite chilly, just seven degrees in aberdeen. feeling cooler than that with the wind chill but up to about 13 in the sunshine towards the west. into the evening hours, we'll eventually lose that wet

weather from most places. it's going to linger longest up towards parts of northern scotland, the northern isles in particular, more rain moving in to northern ireland by dawn. for most of us, a frost—free nights, but we still could see a touch of frost across rural parts of central and eastern scotland. now into monday, the next area of low pressure arrives from the west. this time, quite a few isobars ahead of it, showing us it's going to be a fairly breezy sort of day on monday, but certainly an improved day for central, southern and eastern england. mostly dry here with some sunshine. there will be showery rain, though, pushing its way gradually into many central and western parts of the uk. so blustery, quite windy and still rather cool in the north—west. 12 or 13 degrees, but 18 down towards the south—east, so significantly warmer than we've seen over the past week or so. into tuesday, low pressure is out towards the west, higher pressure in the east and that combination means we'll be drawing the air in for more of a south—easterly direction. so the orange colours arriving again across the map, showing us it's going to be a little bit warmer at last. not completely dry, though, and still quite blustery,

showery and rather cool across western parts of the british isles. for instance, belfastjust 12 degrees, but norwich and london sitting at around 18 in the sunnier spells. and then for the week ahead then, we'll continue to see those temperatures rising for a time. could be close to 20 degrees at times towards the south, but low pressure not too far away, still some showers, perhaps something a little drier towards the bank holiday weekend.

live from london. this is bbc news.

the us secretary of state heads to saudi arabia as diplomatic efforts intensify to stop israel's move into rafah. ministers insist health is a priority after the tory mp daniel poulter defects to labour because of concerns over how the nhs is managed. the tesla chief elon musk meets government officials in beijing. they're discussing the future of us—china relations over electric vehicles. and as australia demands an end to violence against women, prime minister anthony albanese says the country's culture must change. hello, i'm catherine byaruhanga. we start in the middle east — where the palestinian president says only the us can prevent an israeli attack on rafah, where more