Sir Jeremy Fleming, the former head of GCHQ, tells The World with Richard Engel & Yalda Hakim podcast that the conflict may be used for radicalisation.
Two of those who died were an elderly couple who were in their car as it was swept away by floodwaters in the seaside town of Le Lavandou, France 24 reports.
The arrival of the first aid trucks in more than two months comes as a medical worker tells Sky News that nearly half of all under-fives presenting at her clinic have acute or severe malnutrition.
Work is under way to recover the superyacht that sank off the coast of Sicily last year, killing seven people, including tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah.
Former senior politicians, including Sir Ben Wallace, Jack Straw and Amber Rudd, play a fictional British government pitched against an imagined Kremlin.
Pankaj Lamba was charged with his wife's murder, rape and other offences in March. He is the target of an international manhunt as Northamptonshire Police believe he fled the UK and is now in India.