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Scotland First Minister John Swinney has said he would consider banning US military aircraft from using state-owned Prestwick Airport if it was confirmed they were involved in strikes in the Middle East.

Swinney has previously said he was "concerned" by the US and Israeli action against Iran and did not believe it conformed with an "international rules-based system".

Talking to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg as part of the show's party leader interviews, he said he was seeking clarity from the UK government about the role of US planes using the airport.

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Today, we look at the extent to which the lessons learned from the Iraq war has shaped the UK's response to the war in Iran.

Keir Starmer has taken a position somewhere between full support of Donald Trump’s actions, and direct criticism of them.

In a post on Truth Social, the US president criticised the UK for being less than 100% supportive, saying ‘we will remember’ and "We don't need people that join Wars after we've already won!"

On Friday, former Labour Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair told a private event that the UK should have backed the strikes from the beginning.

But is Keir Starmer’s decision making being guided by some of the failures of the 2003 Iraq war, which Blair led the UK into?

UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher has warned that the war in Iran and wider region is having a "massive impact" on civilians, describing it as "a moment of grave, grave peril".

He also voiced concerns about "secondary impacts" of the violence, saying the conflict risked fuelling an increase in extremism and polarisation in the Middle East and beyond.

"We've got to step back from the brink right now", he told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg.

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Iran's Assembly of Experts has reached a consensus on who will replace Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but they have said some "obstacles" remain in the appointment.

Israel's military has threatened to target any successors of Khamenei.

In Iran, oil depots were hit by intense US-Israeli aerial bombardment, with locals reporting multiple explosions.

An Iranian drone strike on a government building in Kuwait sparked a huge fire overnight and attacks have been reported across the Gulf as the war enters its second week.

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Iran’s president has apologised to Gulf states for attacking them. He has also warned that Iran will not attack its neighbours "unless attacked first".

Laura Kuenssberg asks Iran’s ambassador to the UK, Seyed Ali Mousavi, about the events of the past week, and what the apology really means.

Paddy O'Connell’s been talking to an Iranian woman who has fled the country about her views on the regime and their actions over the past few months.

They get together to discuss what they’ve heard, and have a look at how seriously we should take economic warnings with Gillian Tett, a columnist for the Financial Times and the head of King's College, Cambridge.

Iran’s President has said the country will never surrender, in the face of the onslaught by the US and Israel. Speaking on state television, President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country’s enemies “will take their dream of the Iranian people’s surrender to their graves”. It follows President Trump’s recent statement that only Iran’s total capitulation would bring the war to an end.

The Iranian president also apologised to neighbouring Gulf states for Iran’s recent "actions” after retaliatory strikes on US allies in the region. Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have all come under attack from Iranian missiles and drones.

President Trump responded by stating on his Truth Social media platform that if Iran did not surrender it would be “hit very hard” and faced “complete destruction”. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also said his country would continue to strike Iran “with all our might”.

A military aircraft carrying the remains of six US service members killed in the Middle East has returned their remains to an air force base in Delaware. President Trump and other senior member of his administration attended a ceremony there.

Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Joe Inwood, Jack Fenwick, Nick Beake, Wyre Davies and Orla Guerin.

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US President Donald Trump has vowed to hit Iran “very hard” and threatened to expand strikes to include new targets.

He has also dismissed an apology offered by Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian to neighbouring states.

In a video message, the Iranian president said Tehran would not strike them "unless attacked first".

However, Iran's foreign minister has said the country's "openness to de-escalation" was "almost immediately killed” by President Trump.

Meanwhile, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have reported being attacked by missiles and drones, while Saudi Arabia has said a missile was launched towards a military base.

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Ian Huntley, the former school caretaker who murdered two 10-year-old schoolgirls in Soham has died following an attack in prison.

The 52-year-old suffered significant head trauma after being attacked with a makeshift weapon by another inmate at HMP Frankland on 26 February and had been on life support in hospital.

He had been serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 40 years for murdering best friends Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman in 2002.

The UK Ministry of Justice said Huntley's crime "remains one of the most shocking and devastating cases in our nation's history, and our thoughts are with their families".

Huntley's life support was switched off on Friday.

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Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian has apologised to neighbouring states and says Tehran will not attack them "unless attacked first", in a video address broadcast on state media.

Shortly after Pezeshkian's address aired, Qatar said it had intercepted a missile attack.

There's been an explosion near Dubai International Airport and the BBC has verified video that shows the apparent drone attack.

Some flights are now taking off and landing at the airport, after authorities had earlier suspended operations.

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Gulf oil and gas producers are warning that exports could be cut off within weeks if the conflict with Iran continues. Qatar has said that repeated Iranian strikes on the region's oil producing states risk causing serious damage to the global economy.

It came as the US and Israel continued their bombardment of Iran. The Israel Defence Force said it hit 400 targets inside Iran on the seventh day of the war. The Iranian Red Crescent said more than a thousand people have been killed in Iran.

Iran has continued to retaliate, with its latest strikes by missiles and drones aimed at the UAE, Dubai and Israel.

The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterrez, has condemned all the violence, saying it's "time to stop the fighting." Donald Trump has warned that only Iran's "unconditional surrender" will bring it to an end.

Israel is also continuing a heavy assault in southern Lebanon, where it says it's targeting the Hezbollah militia group. Thousands of people have fled their homes.

Clive Myrie and Anna Foster presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Lyse Doucet, Sarah Smith, Faisal Islam, Nick Beake, Wyre Davies and Lucy Williamson.

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