in that row continues because john sweeney as saying taxpayer.he recommendation of a parliamentary committee to suspend mr matheson from parliament for 27 sitting days. that is a lot of detail but the point is it's another event, another challenge for the snp that has the potential to blow him off course. i suppose that underlines a particular issue for the snp is distinct from other opposition parties opposing the uk government at westminster is that the scottish government and i suppose labour in wales as well and not only fighting the uk government but they are trying to defend their own record as well. in but they are trying to defend their own record as well.— own record as well. in that sense there is the _ own record as well. in that sense there is the same _ own record as well. in that sense there is the same fundamental. there is the same fundamental challenge with the voices for change. just in terms of scotland, the importance for the labour party given what happened in the last election and the amount of seats potentially up for grabs

john sweeney looks set to become scotland's first minister after his potential rivals joined forces withdged to create a modern, diverse and dynamic scotland and to give the former finance secretary, ms. forbes, a significant role in his government. other candidates have until monday to come forward. the man charged with murdering schoolboy at daniel anjorin with a samurai sword in london appeared in court. marcus monzo was remanded into custody over the attack in my note morning. the magistrates court heard daniel, who was 14, suffered fatal stab wounds, and four others were injured. take that error that latest pop group to move their concerts from the co-op library arena in manchester. a show by the wrapper a boogie with a foodie was called off from that olivia rodrigo has also had a concert canceled. there are two things happening simultaneously in ukraine that are deserving of much greater attention. it is the middle -- since the middle of march, moscow has intensified its attacks on ukraine's energy infrastructure and today, 50% of it is damaged. it is the price of living ukraine ex

john sweeney will become scotland's seventh first minister after being nominated by parliament.eader succeeds youssef resigned today. there have been no trains on some of the busiest commuter routes in the country due to strikes by train drivers. disruption is expected to continue throughout the week. tomorrow it is a different set of operators which will be affected. among them, avanti west coast and great western. it has been revealed prince harry will not meet the king during his visits to the u.k. this week. a spokesman for the duke of sussex had a meeting between father and son was not possible because of the king's busy schedule. harry is in london to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the invictus games games which he set up to rehabilitate wounded or sick service personnel. you are watching bbc news. the white house said this afternoon at is hopeful israel and hamas can close the remaining gaps on a cease-fire agreement the palestinians have accepted but israel has rejected. so why did the israelis appear blindsided by a negotiation? cia director bill burns was so involve

does not rule out. sending troops to great britain has allowed key to use is long range. missile john sweeney is the new leader of the ruling scottish national party and is now set to become scotland 1st minister. he was the sole content or for the top job. when i'm use up, it's resigned last week. as many served as deputy 1st minister for nearly a decade in the state of israel is closing the local offices of the guitar, a broadcaster l g 0 siding, a risk to national interest. national security rub. israel's main cable tv and satellite providers have also removed the channel from the offerings l. g 0 has failed to take legal action. united nations and free speech groups have conducted the closure. israel is marking holocaust, remember and stay. sirens rang out nationwide and people stop to commemorate the more than 6000000 jews killed by the nazis in world war 2. the prime minister and president let us ceremony at the holy cost for more this ukrainian forces are struggling to hold back a wave of russian assaults in the east of the country. moscow says it has captured several 100 square kilome

s. presidential election in november. scottish national party lead a john sweeney has been sworn in as the 1st minister when he won the nomination and upon them entry voters on tuesday. his main goal is to win independence from the united kingdom to achieve it to you and have to rebuild these policies. reputation after a struggle scandals and political missteps. russia has stepped office attacks on your claims energy infrastructure about drones and missiles have targeted pals facilities in chief and 6 of the cities fulsome you're trying to limit energy supplies across the country. it's on home and reports from keith of the keys, so it's like trying to pick out drawings in the early hours of wednesday. for the crating, the defense is, can still move. explosions were heard in several parts of the country. russian forces moments, 50 missiles and 20 joins, said the ukrainian government. there was some damage in the key region, but the main big thing was the country. so electric plants, pots, if you create enough, struggling for power, already 80 percent of the tech stuff or electric genera

speaker, i know the whole house will join me in congratulating john sweeney on becoming s.m.p. leader. i look forward to working constructively with him to deliver for the people of scotland. mr. speaker, this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others in addition to my duties in this house. i shall have further such meetings later today. >> thank you, mr. speaker. last week's prime minister's questions, i highlighted the shocking rise in the number of teenagers trying vaping and i asked the prime minister if he would take decisive action to stop the advertising on football stadiums. he declined to do that. since then i have had an exchange with the scottish chief medical officer, professor sir greger smith, during a session of the tobacco and vapes bill committee and he said, where i become very uncomfortable and i'm not supportive is where the massive attraction of sports companies is used in a way that promotes behaviors that are known to be unsafe or unhealthy. can i ask the prime minister again, does he still think that it is right that vape companies sh

it was widely expected that john sweeney would be unopposed in the contest to replace humza yousaf, who tomorrow at midday, and as the only current contender, it was expected thatjohn swinney would become the next snp leader and seventh first minister of scotland. but there are now reports that graeme mccormick, a veteran activist, believes he will have enough nominations before then. he's someone who's previously been openly critical of the snp scottish government, including about its independence strategy. now, it's important to note too that if mr mccormick wants to win a contest, he could only become party leader. he can't become the first minister of scotland because he isn't an msp. now, john swinney was asked about this potential challenge today. he said he would respect any democratic process, but did argue that a contest could potentially delay the party from rebuilding. but in terms of what's next, if a contest does happen, it will trigger a leadership battle, which could go on until the end of may. the 27th of may is the cutoff for the snp to choose its next leader. but if th

come to cold ahead of the us presidential election in november. scottish national policy lead the john sweeney has been sold. and now as the 1st minister sweeney won the noble nation and a pile of entry both on choose day, his main goal is to an independence from the united kingdom. a deal it takes. i just finished its 12 day journey from athens. html site. that's over 150000 people gathered to the south coast of problems to walk you to arrive over a 1000. but it's a company the 3 master chip called the bell. m, as french olympics, we met champion and floral magnitude brought the flame to land. the flame was led to an ancient linea. earlier in april and on thursday at torch we, they will start across the country. it will end in defense of capital with the lighting of the flame on july, the 26th to month, the stones of the paris olympic games 2020 full. of course, you can follow those stories on our website that i'll just say what comes of texas throughout the day, i'll be back good movies. and just in the hoffman's time the weather was next and inside store like somebody as well. caesar of the

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john sweeney, the snp first minister, has been tracking up a lot of miles also in the last couple of i think he was trying to fly to shetland, but the plane could not take off because of the fog. but the plane could not take off i mean, it is worth saying before we leave this episode that you can get the number of mps in scotland onto a number of labour members in scotland onto a tandem. so that one of the, you know, one of the big issues in our country of the last 15 years has been the snp eating the labour vote in scotland. yes. and if we are talking about themes and framing that battle ground which we can usefully call scotland, we don't have to call it a wall. we can call it scotland. somebody tried to call it a tartan wall, didn't they? but yeah, i mean, its huge. so keir starmer was in glasgow on day two of the campaign, which was very telling, and he was at the scottish labour launch or the labour launch in scotland, depending which way around you want to put it literally on day two. so that was very, very telling. and yes, if you ask the number crunchers looking at the scale

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john sweeney has been sworn in as scotlands, new 1st minister, the scottish national party, a leader, succeeds holmes. i use a full announce his resignation. last week. the body has struggled to recover from a party funding scandal surrounding formerly there nicholas sturgeon in south africa rescue is in a race against time, is a search for at least 39 people missing. after a building collapsed in the city of doors. in the a cape town, at least 7 people were killed, more than 200 imagined c 1st. now i working at the site. those are the headlines. i'll be back in 30 minutes with the onto hearing news out and more about top stories. ology are well continues next to stay with us. the one historical campaign of the talis janine cruz was neither palestine. northern was in teams, the dean from the greek orthodox christian family in syria. he was a revolutionary arab nationalist 1st. and rebels lie too late during life. when his room was founded in 1948, something was the 1st white truth to use the r b cord, neck, or catastrophe. to describe the explosion over around $700000.00 policies, fro

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inside the european union during the whole elder 0 deborah sen, sconces national pa to need a john sweeney has been sworn in as 1st minister when he won the nomination. and upon them entry voters on tuesday. his main goal is to win independence from the united kingdom. to achieve it, he'd have to rebuild his pi, whose reputation officer was strong of scandals and political missteps. the judge in florida has indefinitely postponed to try to former us president donald trump. trump is accused of and legally keeping classified documents such as a state, often even office. the case is now unlikely to come to court ahead of the us presidential election in november. rescue is in south africa. i'm going to race against time is they search for at least 59 people missing after building collapsed to the city of george near cape town. if the 7 people were killed. well, the 200 emergency personnel, the working method dogs, have a listing equipment to find survivors for the people's defense. for some young ma, well ones members of a peaceful and protest movement, but as far as a now on the front lines o

well, you know that if you saw the picture in the paper in daily mail, they showed a photo of john sweeney clouds brewing behind him . yeah, clouds brewing behind him. yeah, it looked so ominous and it felt as though wicker man. yeah, some people the dark clouds are laboun >>i laboun >> i think. >> i think. >> i think some of the scottish might miss her because she seems like from a simpler time, when they were more sure about what was happening, always happens. >> yeah. meanwhile scott also in the telegraph, that brief full flush of full spectrum uk representation looks likely to get another knock in wales. >> yeah, i read the story and i had to read it about four times. i still can't make much sense of it, but apparently this a welsh candidate, this, conservative leader in wales , has mr gething leader in wales, has mr gething has made a few mistakes. he's been a politician in and he's facing a motion of no confidence after just 70 days in office. he's been a bit, careless in his a lack of shrewd strategy. and he's been accused of leaking messages to the media, he's been accused of other

has john sweeney just been granted the keys to holyrood?the chaos in the snp? but before that, i'd like to go through a few of your sage, but get in touch by for your hundreds today and a topic that's really got you going is those protesters. i don't know if i've got any footage we can quickly put on screen. some protesters in peckham in south—east london, just down the road from where i live, surrounded a coach of asylum seekers who they believe were being sent to the bibby stockholm. they did a sit in around it. they put a hired scooter underneath it, and they even slashed the tires of this vehicle completely preventing it from moving. now, two years ago, locals in peckham, the same demographic i know because i live there, they stopped a van. you can see pictures on your screen. there they are. look surrounding this coach. that's a hotel. it used to be a only fools and horses themed tourist hotel. i go past it on my way to work every day. now it's been taken over by asylum seekers. there are hundreds of bikes outside that hotel. these loc

can john sweeney and kate forbes steer the snp away from the gender and hate crime policies pursued bynd usaf without a party implosion ? consider these party implosion? consider these matters i have with me. columnists at the daily telegraph madeline grant former labour adviser matthew laza and former labour mp bill rammell. very nice to see you all on the programme this morning. madeleine can it possibly be that sir keir starmer has discovered a series of anti—terror powers that would be open to a government to use that the conservative government has ignored? >> i don't think so at all. i think it's a classic case of sort of proposing a new law when in fact the existing laws can be used. they've already been making arrests using the current legislation, it seems to me that what keir starmer was promising was very, very similar to what the conservatives have already been doing for some time . but been doing for some time. but removing the potential deterrent of rwanda, which for all its flaws, since it since they have actually began to send a limited number there , we're now hearing,

looking back at what was a very doc day full, that city and country at law, john sees steve sweeney reports, or maybe 50 people at buttons live by phone while you find new policies in your best. if i do union house massacre, the nobody is being held accountable as a vipers and the families of the victims fight for justice. despite, depending on from day one who was responsible, you know who was gonna be sending to you once shudders at the memories of a terrible tragedy in odessa, where peaceful protestors were brutally murdered, burned to live in the house of trade unions. the criminals who committed that atrocity have never been punished and no one is even looking for them. but we know their names and we will do everything to punish them, find them and bring them to justice. effect the only people that are being charged so full of those who were attacked. we used the do a good a of the stairs video footage on the subject available to everyone. we know the names of those who shot at people jumping from the burning building. the grant and the soldiers have opened a criminal case against thos

our education standards are falling and john sweeney's response to general election is, oh, it's at thelidays. well, people can get a postal vote. and you know what? if the snp paid more attention to actually fixing scotland's problems rather than concocting and sort of anti—scottish narrative at every opportunity? they wouldn't be facing problems that they are facing in this election where they really look like having a hard time, a very hard time. >> i wonder, i wonder, christine, if we'll see anything of, nicola sturgeon during this campaign. would you welcome her on the campaign trail ? on the campaign trail? >> i would welcome her. i don't know, the snp would because she harks back to and you know, she harks back to and you know, she harks back to and you know, she harks back now to an era that they, they really don't want to be reminded of and situations that they don't want to be reminded of. and i, you know, humza yousaf's have probably, you know, he harks back to a penod you know, he harks back to a period as well, but they don't want to be reminded of, and they have a problem

a humza yousaf has congratulated john sweeney on becoming the snp's new leader and has called on thety to get behind him. mr sweeney has been elected unopposed after nominations in the leadership contest closed at midday . with contest closed at midday. with no other candidates coming forward, he's likely to replace mr yousaf as scotland's first minister in the coming days. the scottish conservative leader, douglas ross, has offered his congratulations but says the contest was a stitch up. mr sweeney is due to give his acceptance speech in glasgow shortly. we will bring that to you here, live . rishi sunak has you here, live. rishi sunak has called for unity amongst his mps after conceding for the first time the tories may not win the general election . the prime general election. the prime minister believes britain's heading for a hung parliament, with labour falling short of enough seats to form a majority government. he says the public wouldn't want a coalition with the snp. the conservatives lost nearly 500 council seats and the west midlands mayoralty results. rishi sunak has de

it's true of john sweeney. north of the border. and in truth, i think it's.back a very long time to think, to find a previous occasion when we had a general election where in a sense, none of the parties had a leader who was really able to communicate widely with the public. that's undoubtedly the one of the reasons why there's a lot of interest in how much nigel farage is going to campaign for reform, because mr farage does have the ability to reach out to the electorate, or, of course, on the other side of the spectrum, you know, what impact will george galloway, who will have to try to defend his seat in rochdale, which he won in the by—election how much impact he will have? we do have two people who have charisma, but of course they're associated with relatively small parts of our political system. >> and people are talking about the, the muslim vote, although i know they're not one homogenous group of people who all feel the same thing, but if we imagine it in that sense that their vote will have an effect, is that likely to have much impact on labour? >

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sweeney for all to embody . the 3 prominent siege in easley does have signed political agreements in kenya, speaking to in the conflict done to stop a civilian rule in st. john as well. the main declaration prioritize secular governance and the right to self determination. as it champions non religious, non partisan civil rule, it would ensure equal power and well for all future needs and guarantee freedom of cultural religious identity representation. the declaration was signed by a former street and these prime minister i'm need is of liberation. movements can use president william rudo, helped magic mediate and witness the new agreements. while the warring factions for me is to work together to address the dance challenges. and so just with cease 5 to pave the way for long term peace, the 13 month long comb 6th broke out between call 2 between c. john's army and the rapids support forces parliamentary power mystery. creep night. besides his being willing to concede off that dissolving the civilian governments in 2021 crew, approximately 15000 people have been killed and over 8000000 displaced. finally, the following thing. south sydney's international pol