Issues with the proposal. A phone call between President Joe Biden and israels Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, is said to have focused on the negotiations. Americas top diplomat Antony Blinken has arrived in Saudia Arabia at the start of a new trip to the middle east. Hes also expected to visitjordan and israel. Israels military says Aid Deliveries into gaza will increase in the coming days, as the un warns that palestinians are facing catastrophic hunger. The Israel Defense force chief spokesperson Daniel Hagari says aid going into gaza has increased in recent weeks. Lets listen to what he said. Over the last few weeks, the amount of humanitarian aid going into gaza has significantly increased. In the coming days, the amount of aid going into gaza will continue to scale up even more. Food, water, medicalsupplies, Shelter Equipment and other aid. More of it is going into gaza than ever before. Live tojerusalem and our middle east correspondent yolande knell. It is good to have you,
Announced his resignation. Last week i stood here announced his resignation. Last week i stood here to announced his resignation. Last week i stood here to announce announced his resignation. Last week i stood here to announce the announced his resignation. Last week i stood here to announce the ending l i stood here to announce the ending of the Cooperation Agreement between the snp and the greens. And the snp would seek to govern as a Minority Government. I made that decision as leader of the snp as i believed and then Bute House Agreement was the right one for the party i lead, and i still do believe that to be the case, but most importantly i believe it was the right decision for the country. My hope was to continue working with the greens in a less formal agreements as the snp moved into a new face of Minority Governments. Unfortunately, in ending the Bute House Agreement in the manner that i did i clearly underestimated the level of hurt and upset that caused my green colleagues.
As a result, he had been facing two separate votes of no confidence this week. Well, in an emotional statement a short time ago, mr yousaf said hes not willing to trade his values and principles simply to hold on to power. Our scotland correspondent lorna gordon has this report. Under pressure and out of time. Humza yousaf facing judgment on his future, jumping before he was pushed. A Route Through this weeks motion of no confidence was absolutely possible. I am not willing to trade my values and principles or do deals with whomever simply for retaining power. Therefore, after spending the weekend reflecting on what is best for my party, for the government, and for the country that i lead, ive concluded that repairing our relationship across the political divide can only be done with someone else at the helm. I have therefore informed the snps National Secretary of my intention to stand down as party leader and ask that she commences a Leadership Contest for my replacement as soon as p
Patrick harvie and lorna slater were given Government Minister Rolls and they were summarily sacked last week in the early hours of the morning. And then turfed out onto the street to face the media, something that made them extremely angry with humza yousaf. The party had been planning to have a meeting at which their own members would have potentially brought that agreement to an end but obviously it would have been on their own time so some felt on the was under pressure to push them out before he jumped was under pressure to push them out before hejumped but the manner in which he did so, he perhaps underestimated the strength of their fury and im not sure if he did the sums and he left himself in the position of requiring the support of ash regan from the albot party which is led by alex salmond, she is the only msp and she defected from the msp ansell humza yousaf was left needing her boat and i believe he would have got her vote but within his own party it was unacceptable to be
Celebrate victory on derby day, but theres no shaking off the holders Manchester City, who remain hot on their heels. Good morning. Some heavy rain in Northern Ireland this morning. That will push north and east during the course of the day. It is the south east that will hang on to the driest and silliest conditions for longest. All of the details later on in the programme. Driest and sunniest. Its monday, the 29th of april. The Irish Government says it will pass Emergency Legislation to return rising numbers of Asylum Seekers arriving from Northern Ireland, because theyre fearful of being sent to rwanda. Irish ministers estimate that 80 of recent arrivals have come to the country via Northern Ireland but the uk government says it wont accept any Asylum Returns from the eu via ireland. Our Political Correspondent helen catt reports. The border between the republic of ireland and Northern Ireland is designed to be easy to cross. But the Irish Government says its recently seen an influx