we ask the experts. good morning. one of the most famous victories in scotland s history as they maintained their perfect start to euros qualifying with victory over spain at hampden park. and after sleeping outdoors for three years, the boy in the tent is coming back inside having raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity. good morning. it is a mild and murky start to the day today, many of us will have cloud with some rain in the forecast, windy and temperatures higher than yesterday. tv presenter and comedian paul o grady has died at the age of 67. in a statement, his partner andre portasio said he passed away unexpectedly but peacefully yesterday evening and thanked fans for all the love they have shown him over the years . our entertainment correspondent lizo mzimba looks back at his life and career. he said came to fame as the charismatic drag queen lily savage. the act had to be turned down the tv but it was as acerbic and acid tongue as ever. i walked in a
hello and welcome. starting with our starting with our headline starting with our headline stories. the high court has been hearing a council s bid to block government plans for an asylum centre at an raf airfield. braintree district council is bringing legal action over the proposed use of raf wethersfield in essex. with more on this from our correspondent dominic casciani. he is in the newsroom for us. take us through it. he is in the newsroom for us. take us through it us through it. yes, this is crunch time for one us through it. yes, this is crunch time for one of us through it. yes, this is crunch time for one of the us through it. yes, this is crunch time for one of the home - us through it. yes, this is crunch - time for one of the home secretary s key strategist to try to deal with what she says is a genuine emergency situation with regards to managing the flow of migrants coming across the flow of migrants coming across the english channel. the vast majority o
we begin in sri lanka where gotabaya rajapaksa has sent a letter formally handing over power to his prime minister, but stopping short of a resignation. our correspondent is in colombo with the latest development. we just had a statement from the office of president gotabaya rajapaksa, somebody that the protesters behind me, they have spent months camping out here in the centre of colombo, desperate for president gotabaya rajapaksa to resign and they blame him for this country s economic woes but we have had a statement from his office and it doesn t look like it is very clear exactly what he is planning to do. i have got the statement here. effectively he doesn t resign in this statement and he says that he is transferring the presidency to ranil wickremesinghe who is currently the prime minister, while he is out of the country, so this is a man who promised he would resign but he hasn t done that yet, and this is now leaving even more uncertainty, we are reading to the stat
the reason for that, says the wmo, is that the world has got far better at warning people when these events are coming and managing the effects when they hit. take cyclone mokka, the ferocious storm that hit parts of the coast of bangladesh and myanmar last week. 800,000 people needed emergency food aid and other help, but only a few hundred are reckoned to have died at the last count 145 in myanmar. at the last count, 145 in myanmar. in the past, a storm like this would have killed tens, possibly even hundreds of thousands of people. that is why the un is pushing for early warning systems to be improved all around the world. it wants everyone to be covered by one by 2027. thanks to justin for that. a man has been found guilty of the murder of a father of three who was stabbed to death in a shopping centre in essex. 29 year old michael ugwa was killed on april the 28th last year after complimenting a woman.