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
We will have more on all of those stories. First, though, lets head to the bbc sport centre, round up the sport. Good afternoon. The england and both report have announced a new regulator sport and complete lead change the game. It is in response to a report earlier this or that outlined racism, sexism and elitism in cricket. Here is dan roan. The game has undergone a period of soul searching over the last free months, and nowhere has that process been more relevant or painful than inherent headingley, the county was engulfed in a racism scandal two years ago. It was heavily criticised for the way that it handled the allegations of its former player azeem rafiq, and it was fine hundred of thousands of pounds and docked 48 points in the County Championship by the ecb earlier this year, but this this scandal spreads well be on one county, because three months ago, the independent commission for equity in cricket produced a damning report that found that the game across england and wales
This is bbc news, the headlines. Ukraines Prime Minister warns the west of the threat of a Third World War, if they dont help to arm his country. Police take down an International Cyber crime gang based in the uk, accused of industrial scale fraud. And an end to fa cup replays from the first round onwards as of next season. Well get reaction from former footballer pat nevin. Sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, heres sarah mulkerrins. We start with european football and the quarter final second legs of the europa league, which kick off in just over four hours. Last weeks matches produced first leg leads for roma, benfica, Bayer Leverkusen and atalanta. Liverpool are in bergamo looking to overturn a 3 0 deficit. The odds are stacked against them, butjurgen klopp hasnt ruled out his liverpool side. Everybody thinks it is already decided but, you know, we are here. And we can be good. Obviously we can be not so good as well, so lets see what we can do on the pitch tom
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A year on from the brexit vote, and talks finally begin to settle the terms of the uks withdrawal from the European Union. And portugal declares three days of mourning as hundreds of firefighters still tackle a forest fire which has killed more than 60 people. And in the sport on bbc news, golf has another new major champion. Brooks koepka shot a record equalling 16 under par to win the us open. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Police have said they are treating the attack on a crowd of muslims near the Finsbury Park mosque in north london as a terrorist act. One man died and ten people were injured when a hired white van was driven into people who were tending to a man who had been taken ill. Bystanders tackled the driver, holding him until Police Arrived to arrest him. Theresa may said the attack was a sickening attempt to divide people which would not succeed. Its shortly after midnight and worshippers who have just left the Finsbury Park mosque in london have come