andy murray will be on court in a couple of hours, and novakjokovic starts his bid for the championship later on tuesday. we speak to the woman who s run 150 consecutive marathons and just completed an epic run across australia. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. we begin in the uk where the government has decided to block a controversial scottish bill designed to make it easierfor people to change their legal gender. it is the first use of a section 35 order, which can block scottish laws. scotland s first minister nicola sturgeon called the move a full frontal attack on the scottish parliament and vowed to oppose it. here s our political editor chris mason. this is the ceremonial mace. it represents the scottish parliament s authority. we re seeing it here at the opening of its sixth session the year before last. and next, the crown of scotland, a symbol of royal authority. but power is shared in the
andy murray will be on court shortly at the australian open in melbourne. novakjokovic starts his bid for the championship later on tuesday. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin in the uk where the government has decided to block a controversial scottish bill designed to make it easierfor people to change their legal gender. it is the first use of a section 35 order, which can block scottish laws. scotland s first minister nicola sturgeon called the move a full frontal attack on the scottish parliament and vowed to oppose it. here s our political editor, chris mason. this is the ceremonial mace. it represents the scottish parliament s authority. we are seeing it here at the opening of its sixth session the year before last. and next, the crown of scotland, a symbol of royal authority. all the laws that are passed here are checked to make sure they don t contradict with laws for the whole of the uk.
to the search and rescue operation in nepal now and teams there say they have recovered two more bodies from sunday s plane crash, near the city of pokhara. there were 72 people on board the passenger plane from the capital kathmandu, and two people are still unaccounted for. rescue workers say it s unlikely that there are any sui’vivoi’s. it s still not clear what caused the crash. an official at pokhara airport says the pilot did not report anything untoward, as he came in to land. the aircraft s flight and cockpit recorders have now been located, and may provide some clues as to what happened. our south asia correspondent rajini vaidynathan reports from the scene. scattered across the river bank. fragments of flight 691. windows still intact. seats mangled close by. like pieces of a broken toy, the remnants of a national tragedy.
it s still not clear what caused the crash. an official at pokhara airport says the pilot did not report anything untoward, as he came in to land. the aircraft s flight and cockpit recorders have now been located, and may provide some clues as to what happened. our south asia correspondent rajini vaidynathan reports from the scene. scattered across the river bank. fragments of flight 691. windows still intact. seats mangled close by. like pieces of a broken toy, the remnants of a national tragedy. reporter: you saw the plane come down fro mthe sky? yes. people living near the gorge, like this man, say they are thankful the plane did not land on their houses close by. translation: | looked -