Leadership. Next week comes after the collapse of the snps power sharing deal with the greens last thursday, and finally, a gold pocket watch recovered from the body of the richest man on the titanic, has been sold at auction for a record breaking £1,175,000. Now it had been expected to fetch only around 150 k. Previous amount. The only around 150 k. Previous amount. The highest amount ever paid for a titanic artefact was 1. 1 million for a violin, which was played as the ship sank. Businessman John Jacob Astor was 47 when he went down with the ship in 1912. After seeing his wife madeleine safely onto a lifeboat. Now, rather than attempt to get on one himself, the businessman was last seen smoking a cigarette and chatting with a fellow passenger. They with a fellow passenger. They dont make them like that anymore. Well, for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. Common shirts back now to. Mark. Common shirts back now to.
Are at risk from the rays. Welcome to bbc news. President zelensky has renewed his appeal for allies to provide ukraine with more air defences, after another night of russian bombardment caused serious damage to Energy Infrastructure. He called for decisive action, saying the world could shoot down every missile and drone launched by, what he called, russian terrorists. Four power plants were hit in three regions, and Gas Infrastructure was also struck. An oil refinery in occupied slavyansk was damaged. Reports indicate a second oil refinery was also hit, and video has emerged of destruction at an airbase. A little earlier i spoke to victoria vdovychenko programme directorfor Security Studies at the centre for defence strategies, a Ukrainian Security think tank. The most important is the time space and that is very important also, our allies understand that the shortage of the weapons on the ground, in the field, on the ukrainian battlefield in particular, therefore, it was so timely,
Gbnews. Com forward. Slash your essay and join the conversation there. Or message me on our socials were at gbnews was, first of all though, heres the news with tatiana. News with tatiana. Darren, thank you and good afternoon. The top stories humza yousaf is said to be asking leaders of other parties to find Common Ground with him as he ianes Common Ground with him as he invites them to talks at his official residence to see how they can work with his minority government. The Scottish First minister says he will not resign ahead of a crucial test of his leadership next week, and is now reportedly attempting to build bndges reportedly attempting to build bridges with other political political leaders at holyrood. He hopes to hold separate meetings with each group at bute house in edinburgh to discuss how they can contribute constructively. Letters were reportedly sent to the scottish conservatives, scottish labour, the scottish greens and the alba party last night. This all comes after
Scotlands First Minister, humza yousaf, is insisting he will not resign despite a week pof political turmoil. Heres a quick recap of whats been happening. The crisis began when humza yousaf, who leads the Scottish National party, ended its Governing Coalition with the scottish greens. Both parties are pro scottish independence. Thered been trouble in the coalition about the decision to scrap climate targets, and gender policy issues. Theoretically, mr yousaf could lead a minority government, but he faces a Confidence Vote in his leadership and all the main scottish parties say they will vote against him. There is also expected to be a Confidence Vote in his government. Theres the possibility that a former snp member ash regan who defected to another nationalist party could save mr yousaf. But thats highly uncertain. The big picture in all of this is that the position of the Scottish National party is weakening with uk elections due. And that also has implications for the likelihood of
Hour, ill be dealing with andrew neil, my former colleague. Its bad blood. You wont want to miss it. Thats at ten. So two hours of big opinion, big debate and big entertainment. Mark dolan, tonight is your perfect saturday night in. Lets start with mr saturday night himself. The start with mr saturday night himself. The one and only ray addison. Addison. Thanks, mark. Just after nine our top stories conservative mp doctor Daniel Poulter has defected to labour, saying the tories are now a nationalist party of the right. Announcing his decision in the observer newspaper, the former Health Minister said it is abundantly clear that the labour party alone has the will and the trust to restore and reform the nhs. To restore and reform the nhs. He urged rishi sunak to call a general election as soon as possible. A tory party possible. A tory Party Spokesperson has described the news as disappointing , but news as disappointing, but labour leader sir keir starmer called it fantastic. Doctor ca