today at one... nicola sturgeon resigns as first minister of scotland and leader of the scottish national party. she says after eight years as leader she can no longer give the job the commitment it deserves. giving absolutely everything of yourself to this job is the only way to do it. the country deserves nothing less. but in truth, that can only be done by anyone for so long. pressure had been mounting on the first minister but here in edinburgh there is still a sense of shock at this sudden decision. we'll have all the political reaction to the announcement. also this lunchtime... the bittersweet gene therapy that can save the life of toddler teddi shaw, but not her terminally ill older sister with the same condition.

two 15—year—olds appear in court charged with the murder of brianna ghey. the death toll from the earthquakes in turkey and syria rises to more than 40,000 but people are still being rescued alive — nine days on. and more turmoilfor welsh rugby, as players threaten strike action over uncertainty about their playing contracts. and coming up on the bbc news channel. welsh rugby players will consider strike action had of hosting england in the six nations in cardiff next week due to contract disputes. hello, and a very good afternoon. nicola sturgeon has resigned

as scotland's first minister and leader of the scottish national party. she says she can no longer give the full commitment she believes the job requires and says it's time for a new leader to take both the country and her party forward. the snp leader hinted that after eight years as leader what she called "polarised opinions" about her, may be getting in the way of broadening the appeal of the case for an independent scotland — so it's time for someone else to carry that case forward at a critical time. nicola sturgen will stay on until a new party leader is elected. we'll look back at her career and get political reaction from edinburgh and london, but first lorna gordon on nicola sturgeon�*s resignation. she is scuttled's longest serving first minister, the first female to hold the position. and today nicola

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the double rapist initially sent to a women's prison, she's been less sure footed. too often i see issues presented and as a result viewed not in their own merits but through the prism of what i think and what people think about me. no one individual should be dominant in any system for too long. but while it is easy to hold that view in the abstract, it is much harder to live by it. with this decision i am trying to do so. she said there were too many people to thank for their help during her eight years at the top. there will also be time in the days to come for me to say thank you to a very, very long list of people without whom i would not have lasted a single day in this job. firstly my husband and family, few people understand the price families of politicians pay for the jobs we choose to do. mine have been my rock

throughout. nicola sturgeon said while stepping down from leadership she was not leaving politics altogether and will remain involved in issues close to her heart. she has dominated scottish politics for almost a decade and will remain as first minister and leader of her party until a successor is found. lorna gordon, bbc news. in her more than two decades in the scottish parliament, nicola sturgeon played a key role in pushing for independence long before she became leader of the snp. as leader she became one of the most recognised faces in uk politics. jonathan blake now looks at her impact. prominent, popular, a familiarface. nicola sturgeon has dominated scottish politics for a decade. and just weeks ago when asked about her future was adamant she wasn't going anywhere.

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was interesting to _ party and for independence. yes, it was interesting to hear— party and for independence. yes, it was interesting to hear a _ party and for independence. yes, it was interesting to hear a very - was interesting to hear a very personal speech from nicola sturgeon, quite a reflective speech from nicola sturgeon. she was talking a lot about the impact that being at the front of politics for so long had had on her and her family. and also as you say, this idea that she has become a polarising figure in scottish politics, although i think to be totally honest with you it is probably the issue of the constitution, the issue of independence that is the real polarising factor rather than any one individual or any one character. i suspect that whoever takes on the mantle of leadership of the scottish national party and therefore being first minister of scotland is likely to face some of the same challenges because there is still a big debate about how the snp can move scotland closer to independence, clearly first minister nicola sturgeon has had a successful tenure in some regards, but she has not been any

closer to that dream.— closer to that dream. thank you, james. closer to that dream. thank you, james- now _ closer to that dream. thank you, james. now to — closer to that dream. thank you, james. now to jonathan - closer to that dream. thank you, james. now to jonathan blake i closer to that dream. thank you, james. now to jonathan blake in | james. now tojonathan blake in westminster. what has been the reaction there to this unexpected news of nicola sturgeon's departure? surprise as much as anywhere, wherever you happen to be in the united kingdom nicola sturgeon probably enjoys more recognition than many senior politicians here at westminster might do. it is the prominence that she has achieved as first minister of scotland which supporters but also opponents of hers are acknowledging in their statements today as they mark our departure, which has come out of the blue for people at westminster as it has for people everywhere today, although mps aren't here, parliament is on it's half term break, as people digest the news, nicola sturgeon's decision will lead big questions about devolution as a whole, how much power should be transferred from westminster to the devolved nations, for independence of course the big question and for

the other parties, the snp�*s gains came at largely labour's expenses of labour and the conservatives are seeing this as an opportunity to regain ground in scotland. jonathan blake, regain ground in scotland. jonathan blake. thank _ regain ground in scotland. jonathan blake, thank you, _ regain ground in scotland. jonathan blake, thank you, from _ regain ground in scotland. jonathan l blake, thank you, from westminster, and james kirk in edinburgh, thank you, too. today's other news now and a toddler with a rare inherited condition has become the first child to be treated by the nhs with a new life—saving gene therapy. i9—month—old teddi shaw has mld, which severely damages the brain and nervous system. the treatment costs almost £3 million and is the most expensive medicine ever approved for the nhs. teddi was diagnosed because her older sister nala showed symptoms. it was too late to treat nala, who is now terminally ill. 0ur medical editor fergus walsh reports. he sings imagine having two

daughters with a devastating genetic condition, but only one can be saved. wheee! nala and teddi have mld — metachromatic leuko—dystrophy. children are born apparently healthy, but the condition gradually attacks the brain and body. this was nala when she was two. now, a year later, she can't walk or talk, and is tube fed. her body is basically kind of gradually shutting down. she will lose her eyesight. she will lose most of her senses. and so it will basically come to a point where there's nothing left for her to lose. if she was born like that, then from the day she was born, we would have known what we were dealing with. but the fact that we had just a normal toddler and then all of a sudden our worlds have been turned upside down with a terminal diagnosis, that'sjust, you know,

you don't really know what to say or what to think, really. nala's mld had progressed too far for her to be treated. but it meant the condition was picked up in her sister teddi, before damage was done. she's at royal manchester children's hospital, having stem cells removed from her blood. the first stage of a groundbreaking gene therapy. so when they told us that there was treatment available for teddi, it was kind of like a bit of a bitter pill to swallow, because nala can't be helped. so, you know, we're extremely grateful in one sense and then really sad on the other sense, though. two months later, teddi's personalided therapy called libmeldy, is ready. scientists have added a working copy of the faulty gene which causes mld to teddi's cells. wow! the magic cells.

they're your cells. libmeldy costs more than £2.8 million, though the nhs has agreed a confidential discount. this one—off infusion aims to stop teddi's disease in its tracks. teddi will need to spend several more weeks in hospital while her gene altered cells make their way to her bone marrow and start to produce the crucial missing enzyme that causes her condition. doctors who specialise in treating mld say libmeldy is a game changer. i mean, this truly is a breakthrough. we have had almost nothing to offer families with this condition for decades. instead of many years of terrible neurodegenerative disease, we have the potential for a full life, lived healthily, and so it's very difficult to put a cost on that.

fewer than ten children a year in the uk are unlikely to be eligible for libmeldy. —— are likely. one reason why the price tag is so high. more children could be treated if mld was diagnosed earlier. the heel prick blood test screens newborns for nine genetic conditions like cystic fibrosis, but not mld and many others. we now have the technology to be able to screen for these conditions. we have the ability to offer potentially curative therapies, and we are letting our children down by not screening for these conditions because they are so, those devastating conditions are so preventable if you can identify them at birth and then offer these kinds of innovative therapies. hi, nala, that was cute! now, back home in northumberland, teddi is going from strength to strength. who's that, nala?

but nala is continuing to decline. her parents know their time with her is limited. i've always said nala saved teddi's life, and that's how i wanted to kind of think about it. fergus walsh, bbc news. you can watch bittersweet medicine, fergus walsh's exclusive programme looking at the patients, families and clinicians using the uk's most expensive medicine, on bbc iplayer now. just search for bittersweet medicine. two is—year—olds have appeared in court charged with the murder of brianna ghey, who was 16 and transgender. she was found with stab wounds in a park near warrington at the weekend. let's speak to our correspondent fiona trott who's at chester magistrates court. fiona.

the girl who is from warrington and the boy from louis appere to separately here wearing grey tracksuits. the girl was my mother was weeping when her daughter arrived in court. they spoke only to confirm their name, age and address and because of their young age we are not able to identify them for legal reasons. the prosecutor told the court the death of brianna ghey was very brutal and punishing and the children nodded as it was explained to them that because the charge was serious it would be dealt with by liverpool crown court where they are set to appear tomorrow. the death of brianna ghey has affected people beyond warrington, last night vigils were held in bristol and liverpool with up to 1000 people gathering to remember her. it was organised by members of the transgender community and supporters and more events are planned across the country. today in london,

manchester, glasgow, belfastand york. fiona trott, thank you. the death—toll from the devastating eathquake that struck turkey and syria last week is now more than 40,000. but miracles still appear to be happening. a 42—year—old woman has been pulled from the rubble more than 200 hours after the earthquake struck. the focus now though is on the plight of survivors. 0ur correspondent caroline davies has been on board a hospital ship moored near the quake's epicentre. in the aftermath of the earthquake, shelter and help come in many forms. these arrivals at iskenderun port are boarding a floating hospital. this ship arrived about five days ago. it is normally used as a tourist ship. but now of course it has become a floating hospital. and here is where people arrive and they are assessed for what need they have. on board, they offer checkups, a pharmacy, and warm food.

enough for up to 1000 people. nojan and her children have slept here for the last three days. translation: for a couple of days we were on the streets until the ship arrived. we had ourfirst shower here. they gave us new clothes, because we were in filth. we do not know what is awaiting us. as long as the ship docks here, we will be living in the ship. the severely injured have been sent on to permanent hospitals but the ship has set up a hospital ward to help treat those with chronic diseases, unable to get the usual care they need. yasmin came from istanbul to help. translation: we are physically very tired and mentally very tired. exhausted. but we try not to show this to our patients because they need us now, they need a warm touch and we are trying to keep our motivation high. thoughts of what has

happened here are still raw. the search and rescue efforts continue across the earthquake area, each story of survival increasingly rare. the 77—year—old woman was rescued from the rubble after 212 hours and another 42—year—old also pulled from deep beneath. those found alive at this stage are even more likely to be in a critical condition. here other signs of hope. 40 88 bucks with blankets, medicine and food had across the front line from east syria to the north—west of the country and some un aid has also made it across a newly opened border crossing with turkey. but nearly ten days on there is little time to lose residential streets are filled with heavy machinery, buildings turn to piles of dust and rubble now slowly being moved. the dead are still being moved. the dead are still being counted. on the road ahead seems uncertain for many. caroline davies, bbc news, iskenderun.

our top story this lunchtime. nicola sturgeon resigns as first minister of scotland and leader of the scottish national party. coming up, wales' men's rugby team considers strike action which could affect their six nations match with england. coming up on the bbc news channel. "it's a no—brainer to continue." ahead of the upcoming formula 1 season, mercedes confirm they have started initial talks with lewis hamilton over a new contract. price rises in the uk have slowed for a third month in a row — but food costs have risen steeply — especially sugar, low—fat milk and olive oil which all went up by more than 40% in the year to january. official figures show that inflation, which is the increase in the price of goods over time, did fall to 10.1% injanuary, from 10.5% in december,

but food costs remain at a 45 year high. our economics correspondent andy verity reports. in the center of stafford ruby jay has found her own way of coping with one of the highest rates of inflation in the developed world. like thousands of young people, she's living at home, hoping to start a career, singing not for her supper, butjust to be able to afford the travel to her next gig. this is the way to fund it all, i guess, and pop gigs and anything that you can do just to earn a bit of extra money as a musician. i'm missing a few strings, as you can see. i'm two down today, so i've only got four. so it's been a bit of a task to get through songs. how much are they? oh, i've a good pair, a good packs, about 20 quid now, which is quite sad. around the corner is

the headquarters of a hairdressing chain, which trains young apprentices and customers get a discounted hair treatment. went to the cinema the other night. it was like £20 a ticket. i was quite shocked. and then right when you get your drinks and your popcorn and everything, it's like for me, my sisters have got all got kids. so for family day out, that's just too expensive. like thousands of firms, it survived the pandemic lockdowns only to be hit by soaring energy costs. inflation may have slowed down, but so far there's little relief for them from higher costs. prices have gone up. wages have gone up and stocks got hit by everything. i can't think of what part of the business that hasn't gone up recently. i mean, surely they can't get too much higher. surely we've hit that peak and that's what we hope. and we've got to this point where we're dealing with it, we're getting through it. so it's only got to start to steady off and come down. it's notjust the cost of energy which has been shooting up. it's also the cost of raw materials for supplies which have been rising fast. but now they're slowing

down or even falling. take this box of gloves, for example. before the pandemic, one of these would cost you about £2. after lockdown, they shot up to 15 quid, and now they're back down to about £5 a box. with petrol prices down, the cost of living isn't rising quite as fast, up10.1%. but that's still much faster than wages. the type of inflation that we have that's concentrated in household bills and food that hits those on low incomes hardest, it's going to be really important for the chancellor to concentrate on the impact of the cost of living crisis. really make sure that those low income households are not suffering too much in the coming months. to tame inflation, interest rates are expected to rise further in the coming months, but then to drop again by the end of the year. andy verity, bbc news, stafford. police searching for the missing woman nicola bulley say she had �*specific vulnerabilities�* that meant she was immediately treated as a high risk disappearence. however at a press conference this morning officers wouldn't elaborate on what that meant. the mother of two went missing nearly three weeks ago

whilst walking her dog at st michaels on wyre. our correspondent danny savage was at that news conference. danny did the press conference pose more questions than it answered? i think there are more questions after the news conference at police headquarters. on friday the 27th of january morning that nicola bulley went missing her partner where's the alarm with police by calling them. information that he gave in that court led to her immediately being classified as a high risk missing person for the police say she had specific vulnerabilities. they will not elaborate on what they wear because of the privacy of the family they say so at the moment we do not not know any more than that about what the issues were with nicola bulley that led her to be classified as a high risk missing person. the overarching theme of the news conference was that police are very

much sticking to their theory that for whatever reason she entered the water close to the bench for her phone was found on that morning and has not been seen since. that is the direction that their inquiry is still going. the labour leader, sir keir starmer, has said his predecessor, jeremy corbyn, will not be standing as a candidate for the party — at the next general election. mr corbyn was leader when the equality and human rights commission said the party acted unlawfully in its approach to anti—semitism. the equality watchdog has been monitoring labour for more than two years, and today said it's now satisfied at the way complaints are handled. wales' mens' rugby team is considering strike action which could affect their six nations match with england. let's speak to our wales correspondent hywel griffith who's at the prinicipality stadium in cardiff this lunchtime. hywel, what's this all about?

like so many industrial disputes that have rumbled through this gloomy winter it comes down to pain conditions. just like the nurses, paramedics, teachers and railway workers, professional rugby players say they need more certainty about their financial position and in fact around 70 of them we understand potentially could be out of contract within a few months and have no certainty of whether they will have a job by next season. now you mentioned the big game, wales against england taking place a week on saturday here but that could potentially be hit by strike action. it is a good example of where the money comes from in welsh rugby, a big event like that the money flows down to the professional regional clubs who employ the players but at the moment there is no certainty over how much money will go down to those clubs at the end of this season. so the clubs feel that they are not in a position to offer

players contracts for next season. some of those players have taken to social media venting their frustration. for example the cardiff and wales centre said on twitter we are speaking on behalf of the regular club players that have the most uncertainty. ifeel regular club players that have the most uncertainty. i feel the anxiety in the changing room. those thoughts echoed by some cross of the ospreys who criticised the way authorities have dealt with this saying they wait until you have four months away from nojob wait until you have four months away from no job or wait until you have four months away from nojob or income and anxiety hit home and then the offer of a standardised contract with a majority will have to take another pay cut. we know around 70 players are impacted, their representatives are impacted, their representatives are set to meet next week and we understand that strike action is one option on the table. in terms of the professional rugby board they say that negotiations are continuing and verbal agreements have been reached but clearly that has not quelled the concern of the players. let's return to our main story now

and nicola sturgeon's resignation as scotland's first minister and leader of the scottish national party. jonathan blake is in westminster for us — what are the political repercussions of this? it was greeted with a slight shock and surprise at westminster as it was 400 miles away in edinburgh. and that perhaps is something of a mark of nicola sturgeon and her prominence in the role of first minister that she has come to define her time in office through what has been a turbulent time in scottish politics as it has been of course for uk politics as a whole. with the tributes that i come from her political opponents as well as her supporters have also come comments and attempts to try to shift the political narrative away from independence. and try to