Rift develops between UK and US over Iran crisis

Downing Street has found itself at loggerheads with the White House after the Prime Minister's official spokesman made it clear Donald Trump would be committing a war crime if he went ahead with threats to attack cultural sites. It comes after Mr Trump warned Iran via Twitter that if it were to retaliate over the drone strike that killed its military leader Qassim Soleimani, there were 52 Iranian sites, "some at a very high level and important to Iran and the Iranian culture… [that] will be hit very fast and very hard". As hundreds of thousands of Iranians gathered in the streets of Tehran for his funeral, Soleimani’s daughter issued a warning to the US. It is worth reading this analysis by Defence Editor Con Coughlin, who says no one will be taking a closer interest in the deepening tensions than the rulers of Russia and China. And here is what the Iran fallout has done to the price of shares and gold.

Back in the UK, Labour's National Executive Committee has revealed the party's next leader will be announced on April 4. Supporters may have just 48 hours to sign up to get a vote in the leadership election and have to pay £25 - the same as under the last leadership race in 2016. Earlier, former deputy leader Tom Watson attacked Rebecca Long-Bailey as the "continuity candidate" representing "Corbynism in its purest sense". Here's a reminder of the candidates vying to replace Jeremy Corbyn.