To Lord Of The Dance. Michael flatley on 30 years since that life changing eurovision moment. Good morning. Today in the west it will be fairly cloudy, wet and windy. Further east we are looking at drier and brighter conditions with some sunshine but sao is coming to the south east later. All of the detail throughout the programme. Its tuesday the 30th of april. The Scottish National party has officially started the process to find a new leader, after humza yousaf announced his resignation as scotlands First Minister. He quit ahead of two no confidence votes at holyrood which were due to be held in the wake of his decision to eject to Scottish Greens from his power sharing government. Nominations to replace him opened just before midnight. Our scotland correspondent lorna gordon reports. Politically, there was nowhere left for humza yousaf to go. His leadership fatally wounded, not by his party or by the voters, but by himself. And so this admission that his time as First Minister had
Grateful to his medical team. Hes been receiving Outpatient Care since february and will continue to be treated for the undisclosed form of cancer, a palace spokesperson said. His majestys medical team are very encouraged by the progress made so far. Charles and the queen will visit a Cancer Treatment centre on tuesday to meet medical specialists and patients. A coroner has ruled. The deaths of three terror attack victims in reading were probably avoidable, and cited failings of multiple agencies friends james furlong, doctor david wales and Joseph Ritchie bennett were fatally stabbed in june 2020 when libyan refugee kyrees al harwin targeted them in forbury gardens. Three other people were also injured before saadallah was chased off by an off duty police officer. The coroner said failings by the home office and berkshires nhs Community Mental health team contributed to their deaths. Health team contributed to their deaths. Humza health team contributed to their deaths. Humza yousaf s
With other parties. Its after the collapse of the snps power sharing deal with the greens yesterday. But humza yousaf says hell fight on. I fully intend to, not just win that vote, but i intend to fight to make sure that the government stays, not just the government stays, not just the government continues to deliver on the priorities of the people, like, for example, investing in affordable housing. So theres all that political game playing happening from the opposition. It will not be taking part. It will be getting, of course, on with the job. And when the vote comes, i fully intend to win. The Foreign Office has summoned the Russian Ambassador after a british man was allegedly recruited as a russian spy. 20 year old dylan earl has been charged with conducting hostile activity in the uk to benefit russia. Hes accused of masterminding an arson plot on london businesses. Masterminding an arson plot on london businesses. Four masterminding an arson plot on london businesses. Four other
Loner. ,. , holding rates higher for loner. , longer. Economic activity has been stronger longer. Economic activity has been stronger than longer. Economic activity has| been stronger than expected, stronger than we all expected. And so what you are seeing is that this is what people believe as of now will be appropriate to achieve what we are looking to achieve, which is progress toward our inflation goal. Is progress toward our inflation goal. Central bank now preject inflation goal. Central bank now project higher inflation goal. Central bank now project higher growth | inflation goal. Central bank. Now project higher growth and lower unemployment for next year. If they are right for the us will have avoided a long recession. The decision gives policymakers more time to assess whether they have done enough over the last 18 months to tame inflation. The fed began lifting Interest Rates from near zero in march 2022. Central banks here in asia keep a close tab on the fed always because
Were prepared to do whatever we have to do, so, the membership is ready, the membership is fed up. Were fed up with falling behind. Its been decades of falling behind and especially this past decade, in the most wealthiest times of the history of these companies, there is no excuse, these companies have made a quarter of a trillion dollars in the last ten years. 21 billion in the last six months alone. And our workers wages and conditions have gone backwards police. Police in Southern China say theyve detained some staff at the Wealth Management unit of embattled Property Developer evergrande. The identity of those whove been taken by authorities and the charges that they might be facing are unclear at this stage. Evergrande is at the centre of a crisis in chinas Property Sector which has seen a string of Debt Defaults since late 2021. Focusing on the Business Calendar which this week is heavy with central bank meetings. Taking a look at what were looking ahead to. On wednesday, Chinas