Allies. A source close to him said resignation had become an option rather than letting the vote go ahead. This is a live shot of the official residence of the Scottish First minister, bute house and humza yousaf is expected to make a statement around noon. Lets talk to our Political Correspondent in edinburgh, lynsey bews. What is the latest you are hearing . We expect to hear from the First Minister around noon, we are here at bute house, the official residence of the First Minister and we expect to hear the current First Minister say he will resign following the collapse of the Power Sharing Deal with the green Party Last Week and that was when the trouble began for him and he has been under intense pressure since then. It was announced here at Bute House On Thursday last week that he would bring to an end the agreement with the green party, thejunior partners in the Scottish Government and he would continue to govern as a minority at holyrood. The scottish conservatives tabled a vo
Celebrate victory on derby day, but theres no shaking off the holders Manchester City, who remain hot on their heels. Good morning. Some heavy rain in Northern Ireland this morning. That will push north and east during the course of the day. It is the south east that will hang on to the driest and silliest conditions for longest. All of the details later on in the programme. Driest and sunniest. Its monday, the 29th of april. The Irish Government says it will pass Emergency Legislation to return rising numbers of Asylum Seekers arriving from Northern Ireland, because theyre fearful of being sent to rwanda. Irish ministers estimate that 80 of recent arrivals have come to the country via Northern Ireland but the uk government says it wont accept any Asylum Returns from the eu via ireland. Our Political Correspondent helen catt reports. The border between the republic of ireland and Northern Ireland is designed to be easy to cross. But the Irish Government says its recently seen an influx
Job sikhala, in a location that we have agreed not to reveal, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much, steve, for your invitation to this important interview. Well, its important to have you on this show. You emerged from more than a year and a half of pre trial detention in zimbabwe earlier this year. We saw photographs of you last year, shackled, as you were Given Health Care while still in detention. I just wonder what impact that experience has had on you physically and mentally. It really affected me to the most difficult depth. I have been maltreated as if im a terrorist. I was not given the basic standards that are granted to prisoners, in terms of both International Law and in terms of domestic law. The way i was maltreated is that they never wanted me to get peace. And also they never wanted me to get on with my proper mental strength. So thats why they have been shackling me at every turn. There is not any moment when i was visited at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison when i
Job sikhala, in a location that we have agreed not to reveal, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much, steve, for your invitation to this important interview. Well, its important to have you on this show. You emerged from more than a year and a half of pre trial detention in zimbabwe earlier this year. We saw photographs of you last year, shackled, as you were Given Health Care while still in detention. I just wonder what impact that experience has had on you physically and mentally. It really affected me to the most difficult depth. I have been maltreated as if im a terrorist. I was not given the basic standards that are granted to prisoners, in terms of both International Law and in terms of domestic law. The way i was maltreated is that they never wanted me to get peace. And also they never wanted me to get on with my proper mental strength. So thats why they have been shackling me at every turn. There is not any moment when i was visited at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison when i
We saw photographs of you last year, shackled, as you were Given Health Care while still in detention. I just wonder what impact that experience has had on you physically and mentally. It really affected me to the most difficult depth. I have been maltreated as if im a terrorist. I was not given the basic standards that are granted to prisoners, in terms of both International Law and in terms of domestic law. The way i was maltreated is that they never wanted me to get peace. And also they never wanted me to get on with my proper mental strength. So thats why they have been shackling me at every turn. There is not any moment when i was visited at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison when i was not shackled. However, i dont want to continuously lament on this because there are several other zimbabweans who have gone through worse treatment by the same regime that has been there since 1980, others who went as far as losing their lives, when they were in a democratic, in the democratic strug