In dealing with the pressure, goal scoring and movements and assisting and dealing with the pressure, he brought everything to the table that we could possibly hope for. Britains Geraint Thomas remains second overall after stage five of the giro diitalia. It ended in a Sprint Finish in luca in tuscany with frenchman Benjamin Tomma claiming the First Grand Tour stage win of his career. It was also the first victory of the year for his cofidis team. Thomas finished in the main group alongside overall leader taday pog archer and remains 46 seconds behind the slovenian. Rafa nadal insists hes excited to be playing in a tournament that hes won 10 times before, even if hes going into the italian open ranked 305 in the world, hes Playing Zizou Bergs in the first round in rome later in another stop of whats expected to be his final year on tour before retiring. My my feelings are better, in terms of tennis, why not . I am here to try my best and tomorrow it is going to start and all the matche
It is the privilege of my life, and i look forward to dedicating my future to serving the people of scotland as i have done so for so many years, and to do that as First Minister. What are your priorities for government . My overriding priority will be to work to eradicate Child Poverty in scotland. Cameras click. The formalities over, the focus has now shifted here to bute house, the official residence of the First Minister, Wherejohn Swinney is appointing his cabinet. The big change last years snp leadership contender kate forbes is back in government as deputy First Minister is back in government. It is an enormous privilege and i look forward to supporting the First Minister as he pursues the priorities of the Scottish People eradicating poverty, ensuring Economic Growth and ultimately uniting the country behind the great opportunities of our day. It all brings back memories for this man, labours jack mcconnell, now in the house of lords. So, what advice does the third First Minist
Hello and welcome to the bbc news at one. In the last hour, the mp Natalie Elphicke has become the latest conservative to defect to the labour party. Natalie elphicke has been the mp for dover in kent since 2019. Our chief Political Correspondent Henry Zeffmanjoins Me from The Houses Of Parliament henry, was this a surprise . It was a shock. If you had asked me before this afternoon to list 100 conservative mps most likely to defect to the labour party, Natalie Elphicke would have been nowhere near that list. And i think that was reflected in the faces of conservative mps at prime ministers questions, as keir starmer announced at the start of his question that he wanted to welcome her to the labour side. Mps had not noticed her there, and they were expressing to bewilderment to each other. Natalie elphickes announcement will hurt rishi sunak, because she goes for him on an issue that is central to his attempt to recover his political position. She accuses him of failing on small boats.
Going to start in the us. Protests over the war in gaza have come to a head, with angry and sometimes violent scenes at campuses on both the east and west coasts. Take a look at these pictures. These are clashes at the university of california, los angeles campus. This was the early hours of wednesday morning, just a a few moments ago. A pro palestinian encampment has grown in size in recent days, as has the group of pro israeli protesters. There have been clashes between the two sides. These pictures are not live but we have been watching these pictures over the last couple of hours as they have been fed into us here at the bbc. Violence escalated around 11pm here at the bbc. Violence escalated around pm local time. It is now a around pm local time. It is now a a few hours after that. These are some of the most recent pictures we have. Dylan winward is a Student Journalist at the daily bruin, uclas student newspaper. He told me more about what has happened on campus. From 10. 50 this