Hello, im christian fraser. Youre watching the context on bbc news. Scotlands First Minister humza yousaf resigns , throwing the future of the Scottish Nationalist Government into doubt. Lets focus on that for a 2nd. Humza yousaf standing guard today, announcing just over a year after he was elected. The Scotish National Party now facing its second leadership crisis in 18 months. Asking the snp secretary to begin the process of selecting a new leader as soon as possible. He will remain imposed until that successor is elected to ensure a smooth, orderly transition. 1 a smooth, orderly transition. I am not willing a smooth, orderly transition. I am not willing to a smooth, orderly transition. I am not willing to trade a smooth, orderly transition. I am not willing to trade my a smooth, orderly transition. I h not willing to trade my values and principles or do deals with whom ever simply for attaining power. Therefore, after spending the weekend reflecting on what is best for my party, f
he s 17, and he is from france. he s not irish. he s come over from france to go to ireland, work at this restaurant. he has like an intern job in the kitchen. and this past week on thursday, on our thanksgiving day here, this young man, 17 years old, he was on his way to work, about 1:30 in the afternoon, and he happened upon a man with a knife who was in the middle of attacking someone. and the kid jumped into the fray. he was armed with absolutely nothing at all. the kid struggled with this armed man. he actually got cut on his hands and his face in the struggle. but the kid managed to get the knife out of this guy s hands. the restaurant that the kid works at, they posted this photo of him online and a testimony to how proud they are of him and what he did. they said not all superheroes wear capes. the irish times also reports that the president of france, emmanuel macron, placed a call to this young man, thanking him personally on behalf of his country, thanking him on b
released, have been handed to qatari mediators, and passed on to israeli negotiators. prisoners being held in israeli jails will be also be released, as part of the delayed deal. a four day pause in fighting in gaza will start on friday morning, at 07:00 local time, after almost seven weeks of fighting. humanitarian aid will start to go into gaza, as soon as that pause in hostilities begins. qatar s foreign ministry spokesman majed al ansari has been speaking about the truce. we have just finished with all the communication with all parties in order to ascertain the lists of those civilians who will be freed as a result of the deal agreed upon by both parties. the lists have been handed to both sides. and finally, in a communication just now, the list has been handed to the israeli intelligence service, the mossad, in order to facilitate the implementation of the deal. according to this, of course, and as the agreement took place, the beginning of the pause will be 7am frid
israel and hamas agree to pause the fighting at seven in the morning, local time. and a giant win for conservation blue whales return to the waters where they were once wiped out by hunting. sport, and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here s chetan pathak. good afternoon. let us go to maga where we are good afternoon. let us go to maga where we are into good afternoon. let us go to maga where we are into a good afternoon. let us go to maga where we are into a doubles - good afternoon. let us go to magal where we are into a doubles decider in the davis cup quarterfinal between netherlands and italy. the netherlands are trying to reach their first semifinal since 2001. they grabbed the advantage in the first match. this match took an hour to win in straight sets means it comes down to the doubles. where sincere is back on the court. sinner is. the first set has gone to the italians 6 3. the winner will play the winner of the final tire. serbia take on gre
269 million americans, that s more than 80% of the population, likely to experience temperatures in the 90s or higher this week. that intense heat is contributing to fire weather alerts across the west. a fast-moving wildfire north of los angeles caused more than a thousand people to evacuate. red flag warnings there are up. wind gusts could reach 70 miles per hour tonight. zohreen shah from the fire zonoi out.ng the om.oting at a michigan splash nee woded, tf critonditi, includ-year-d bo it s just e incidents in a weekend of gun violence. dung star-studded hollywood fund-raiser, the president said the winner of the 2024 race will likely fill two seats on the high court, a court that he said has never been as out of kilter as it is today. overseas, israel announces a daily tactical pause in the fighting to allow crucial aid ti tom soufi burridge reports from tel aviv.the sech for one missi ef finanother ifies. the latest in a string of foreigners to go missing on the isla