ceasefire talks in cairo. the good news is that they are happening and that five nations, orfive parties, are at least all there in cairo. so that s hamas, israel, the us, qatar and egypt. the not so good news is that israel has only sent a fairly low level team they re not there to negotiate, they re there to study what hope there is of trying to bridge the gap between what is acceptable to israel and what is acceptable to hamas, and that gap is still pretty wide. the main sticking point, as my colleague yolande referred to there, is over how this ends. so the fundamentals of the deal are largely intact, they re largely agreed. they can agree this that it will start with a 42 day period of calm, a truce essentially, during which hamas will give up 33 hostages. there s a bit of dispute about whether they would be alive or dead, but 33 hostages. in return, a much larger number of palestinians prisoners would be released from israeli jails and palestinians who had been move
on bbc london their first ever chance to vote. we speak to young londoners about what issues matter to them ahead of the mayoral election on thursday. good afternoon. and we start with dramatic political developments in edinburgh where in the last hour scotland s first minister humza yousaf has announced that he s resigning. he s been under growing pressure after he ripped up a power sharing deal with the scottish green party. as a result, he had been facing two separate votes of no confidence this week. well, in an emotional statement a short time ago, mr yousaf said he s not willing to trade his values and principles simply to hold on to power. our scotland editor james cook is in edinburgh. this was a pretty emotional statement. humza yousaf pretty close to tears at the end of that statement? to tears at the end of that statement? , ., , ~ , , ., statement? yes, he was. as you say, emotional as statement? yes, he was. as you say, emotional as he statement? yes
he did resign from the party because of sir keir starmer post match stance on palestine. you of sir keir starmer post-match stance on palestine. you mentioned other candidates, stance on palestine. you mentioned other candidates, and stance on palestine. you mentioned other candidates, and particularly i other candidates, and particularly interested in the conservative candidates and how they are dealing with being with associated with the government on a national level. that is interesting government on a national level. twat is interesting because last year we saw in milton keynes that the conservatives were all granting themselves as local conservatives. it didn t really help them, they lost five of the seats in milton keynes last year, but they are having a go with that again this year, defending nine seats this time and we are in a situation in milton keynes it is looking very likely that milton keynes will become a fully run labour council after 18 years of there
announced he s to resign. he s been under growing pressure after he ripped up a power sharing deal with the scottish green party. he s been facing a vote of no confidence, he released an emotional statement today, and we have a report from lorna gordon who can tell us what happened today. over the next half an hour, we will go through all of the implications with the bbc s special correspondent allan little, who is with me here. at westminster, we re joined by our political correspondent nick eardley. this starts with nicola sturgeon, whose great strength as a politician is placing herself at the heart of huge grassroots progressive coalition, people very committed to the progressive causes which characterised her leadership. one of the things she could have been failed to have done is to carry public opinion with her, committing to the progressive causes has always been much more strongly rooted in the independence movement than scottish public as a whole. so her government