in scotland. it is not clear exactly when she will leave office, but as i say, she has been head of the scottish government for the last eight years. she has been making headlines in recent weeks because of a wider debate on teenagers rights, calling for a wider debate on teenagers rights, she defended plans to allow i6 year olds to change their legal sex. scotland s gender recognition bill that she wanted to introduce into scotland brought her into conflict and a clash with the uk government based in westminster, which blocked scotland plus two gender recognition bill. the secretary of state for scotland alisterjack used a special order known as a section 35 order to prevent that there becoming law on the grounds it would have an adverse impact on the laws. those are laws that apply across scotland, england and wales. that was a claim disputed by the scottish government, butjust to remind you, that gender recognition bill was to allow i6 year olds to change their legal sex
we are hearing from there that a number of homes have been completely flattened, there is a video showing people among the debris and they are trying to rush the wounded away from the scene. in one of the neighbourhoods, we are hearing that some of the houses have been destroyed, this is one of the larger israeli strikes that we have seen in recent days, although al shati was also hit yesterday. there are some reports in israeli media that the israeli military has been targeting a senior commander in hamas, but no comment on that from hamas. it did put out a short statement really threatening those that carried out this attack, saying that civilians had been targeted. the israeli military said that it has been targeting hamas infrastructure and that it will give more details soon. this really comes after a day where we also heard of at least 20 people being killed in a shelling in the south of the gaza strip, close to rafah, with the international committee of the red cross c
to services, despite having lived in the uk for decades. the home office said it was committed to making sure those affected got the compensation they deserved. earlier i spoke to a victim of the windrush scandal anthony bryan along with his son dijoun jhagroo bryan. i started by asking anthony about what happened to him. well, the experience i went to was i had a bad thing with the home office because i was supposed to visit my mum because she was sick. she was sick and injamaica. so i wanted to to take my passport to go to jamaica. but in doing that, i hold back travel because by then i had to show myjamaican id, but that was my passport. so by doing that, now they realize that to them i m not british because i m showing the jamaican passport. and how do you feel about what happened? how has that affected you? well, it stresses me out right now. my whole life is being upturned because the woman who helped me through all of this, she was great because i can t i can t kno
parliament behind me to be able to run its own referendum and the london supreme court said it could not. the second factor probably was the gender recognition reform legislation that the scottish government wanted to get through to make it easierfor government wanted to get through to make it easier for people to change their legally recognised gender and in that case the scottish parliament passed the legislation but the uk government vetoed it and said it would interfere with legislation across the uk. also perhaps a sense that nicola sturgeon has done a heck of a long shift, more than eight years through tough times, the covid crisis and you got the sense towards the end of her time she was to some extent running out of steam, that she could still do the job but i think she felt not to the same extent she had done previously. what extent she had done previously. what sort of party extent she had done previously. what sort of party and extent she had done previously. what sort o