These are pictures coming into us from charlotte and we will be monitoring these Voting Pictures throughout the day. Our North America correspondent emma vardy has been looking at the events of the last 2a hours leading up to Super Tuesday. She sent this report from colorado. Americas getting ready for a big political contest. But despite the millions of votes being cast, its already pretty clear which candidates will be facing off in the president ial battle. As colorado goes to the polls, Sisters Mandy and nicky are headed to the ice. We are such a divided nation. But the one thing i like is when i walk into the hockey rink, were all the same. The feeling is rather different on the campaign trail, as 15 states are holding votes to pick their president ial candidates. Crooked joe biden, youre fired before polls have even closed, theres been a victory for donald trump. The state of colorado was in a fight to kick him off the ballot entirely for his role in the capitol Riots Onjanuary 6
But he says you never know what the future holds. The norwegian s contracted to the club until 2027 but real madrid are thought to be long term admirers. Haaland, whos preparing to face Fc Copenghagen in the Champions League tomorrow has scored 80 goals in 84 appearances for city including 28 this season. Therell probably be be a massive headline. You never know what the future brings, but again, im happy. You can write this, but you can always have to write Everything Else before. Im happy, and yeah, thats what i want to do. Its a huge night in the Champions League for Thomas Tuchel and his Bayern Munich side, who have it all to do against lazio with a place in the Quarer Finals at stake. They trail 1 0 at the halfway stage of that last 16 tie. Bayern are ten points behind Bayer Leverkusen in the bundesliga with ten games to go, their season could effectively be over if it doesnt go their way later. But tuchel, whos leaving at the end of the season, says theyll give it everything. I l
Bitcoin hitting record highs, the continuation of a rally that has been building for a couple of months. There are a couple of factors the mainstreaming of bitcoin. You may recall earlier this year regulators in the us open and investing opportunities attached to crypto currencies to more investors, and since then funds have been pouring into that. There was a report that huge figures have been raised. That has definitely increased things on the demand side. On the supply side, there is a 0n the supply side, there is a process called halving, part of the bitcoin protocol, only a certain number are issued, and once every four years, a reward for bitcoin miners, that number decreases. That may also have an impact on what investors think the supply will be. All of this i think you can safely say is leading to that craze for laser eyes, the meme that bitcoin fund is used when they are feeling optimistic about it. ~. , they are feeling optimistic about it. We will come back to it. Michelle.
Wyrie davies has more. One positive note from cairo is that they have gone into a second day with delegation from hamas, egypt, qatar, and The Americans talking about the stability of a six or seven week ceasefire in gaza. But israel decided not to send a delegation. Israels says the preconditions it insisted upon that hamas should provide a list of the hostages who remain alive, and those who might be exchanged in a prisoner swap, or hostage swap, with the palestinians, that wasnt forthcoming. So israel has decided not to send a delegation to cairo. That has been criticised in many parts of the israeli media, and the israeli public, as an unsustainable position. That isnt to say that had israel gone to cairo, there would be an automatic ceasefire there would be others stumbling blocks. Hamas wants the withdrawal of israeli troops from Populated Areas of gaza and the citizens of gaza to be allowed to return to their home areas in northern gaza. And those are significant issues that isr
It took 19 years to bring iain packer tojustice, leaving him free to attack other women. Emma caldwell s family lawyer says she was failed by a toxic culture within the police of misogyny and corruption. Our correspondent steve godden is at the First Ministers residence, bute house. Like bring us the latest. The Caldwell Family arrived here around ten minutes ago and have gone into the building behind me. We expect the building behind me. We expect the meeting to last around an hour. It is an opportunity for Margaret Caldwell, Emma Caldwell s mum, to ask First Minister humza yousaf and the justice ask First Minister humza yousaf and thejustice minister, to hold a Public Inquiry, that she has been calling for since iain packer was convicted of murdering Emma Caldwell and sexually and physically assaulting 21 other women. After that verdict Police Scotland apologised for failings in the original inquiry and one of the questions the Caldwell Family want the Public Inquiry to answer is why