and tributes for the hollywood film starand model, raquel welch, who s died at the age of 82. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the search has begun for the next leader of the scottish national party and first minister of scotland following nicola sturgeon s surprise decision to stand down on wednesday afterjust over eight years in power. the snp s national executive committee will meet on thursday to draw up a timetable for a leadership race. nominations have already opened. the party s constitution says a candidate for leader needs to have the backing of 100 members from at least 20 different snp branches. if there s more than one candidate a vote of party members will choose the new leader. ms sturgeon plans to remain in office until her successor is elected and continue on as an msp until at least the next holyrood election. with more on wednesday s events, here s alexandra mackenzie. scotland s first female and longest serving f
terms if they refuse to appear for sentencing. nominations for the snp leadership race close at midday with humza yousaf, kate forbes and ash regan expected to appear on the ballot paper. and new research for the bbc suggests the price of pasta has nearly doubled in two years with the rate of food price rises still running at almost 17%. good morning and welcome to bbc news. president volodymyr zelensky has said ukraine will do everything it can to defeat russia this year in a statement marking the anniversary of vladimir putin s full scale invasion. ceremonies are taking place across the country remebering those killed or forced to flee from the conflict. here in the uk rishi sunak will urge allies to increase military support to ukraine during a meeting of g7 countries. there will also be a minute s silence across the uk at 11 o clock. our first report comes from james waterhouse. a thud, marking the moment when ukraine and the world. air raid siren sounds. ..changed foreve
in the third round. 0n the other table, england s jack lisowski has beaten noppon saengkham of thailand 10 7. lisowski will face the winner of the match betweenjudd trump and anthony mcgill, that s going on right now. these are live pictures from the crucible. mcgill is 6 3 up, this one best of 19, remember, at this stage. but trump is about to take the tenth frame in sheffield. later, manchester city can keep up their pursuit of history in the champions league and set up a semifinal with real madrid. pep guardiola s side take a 3 0 lead to germany to face bayern munich in the second leg of their quarterfinal. city have won ten in a row going into this and are looking to lift the trophy for the first time. bayern have enjoyed doing that six times and guardiola isn t understimating his old side, despite his city s lead. i have been here at bayern munich and i know the mentality of this club. it is in everywhere, the streets, in the skin, and i know what they believe, that they
you for what you re doing and god you for what you re doing and god you all. presidentjoe biden with a pretty defiant speech stressing the united states and nato allies, support for ukraine will not waiver speaking of course in the run up to the first anniversary of russia s full scale invasion of ukraine. he has been in warsaw and a cheering crowd there that as he put it, president putin lust for power and land would fail. he painted the struggle as a generational one for freedom he said that autocrats had grown weaker over the last year and all of that, of course follows what president vladimir putin was saying in moscow this morning when he delivered a fiercely anti western and nationalistic address to russian parliamentarians. putin accused the west of provoking the war in ukraine of starting the war of escalating the conflict of trying to defeat russia it s self. the white house called his allegations absurd while ukrainian officials said that his speech was laden with c