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
I mean for us all and lets do business chinas Foreign Trade continue to fall in october exports drop slightly imports plunged trade with the United States is down almost 16 percent the trade war is making its mark on the worlds 2 biggest economies and its unclear if theres an end in sight a day after beijing announced an agreement between the 2 governments to roll back tariffs there are reports of backpedaling from washington. U. S. Firms are among the thousands of Companies Taking part at the China Trade Expo theyre hoping to keep doing Good Business in the country despite the trade dispute. The statement this week from the Ministry Of Commerce In Beijing is likely to have raised their spirits. Over the past 2 weeks the chief Trade Negotiators of the 2 sides had serious and constructive discussions on how to resolve their respective core issues and agreed to cancel the other tariffs in stages. So he seemed. Shocked i dont question. For their part the United States confirmed the statem
somalia, from afghanistan to yemen and libya, that should have been stopped long time ago. to tell you the truth, if tyranny had at least once received such a response to the war raged, it would have ceased to exist. zelenskyy effectively saying, why do you exist, if not to do something in this moment, u.n. security council? it is a good question. of course, the dilemma is russia is a permanent member of the u.n. security council, so nothing gets out of there on this issue. and china. yeah. and it s been that way for quite some time. since it was formed. david, what does the united nations do? what does nato do? what does the west do? every night, seeing mass atrocities just streaming across our televisions, across our phones, across our ipads. what do we do? you ll see more.
joining the table, we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle. former u.s. senator, now an nbc news and msnbc political analyst, claire mccaskill. and editor of the new yorker, david remnick joins us. david doesn t know much about the russians, but we invited him anyway. appreciate it. new develops with ukraine. the country is set to get another $100 million worth of javelin missiles from the u.s. the state department says that brings the total u.s. security assistance to ukraine to 1. $1.7 billion since the invasion and $2.4 billion since the start of the biden administration. ukrainians are being trained on the weapons systems supplied. the biden administration is set to announce additional sanctions on russia for the attacks in bucha. the package, taken in
the crosshairs on you from the branch davidian compound as i m sure steve schneider and wayne martin could feel from our tactical teams that had everybody covered. the meeting is positive. the fbi negotiators arranged to meet again in two days and deliver written assurances requested by koresh, but schneider abruptly cancels the second meeting. he indicated that david didn t think it was necessary, so i said, wait a minute, you don t want to come out or david doesn t want you to come out? he says, well, david doesn t think it s necessary. for agent sage, a heated phone conversation that follows provokes a crucial realization about koresh. at one point he is talking about my salvation and i said, david, i am absolutely confident in my salvation as a christian. and you, partner, are not in a position to judge me.