hello and welcome. the former chief executive of scottish national party peter murrell has been released without charge by the police, pending further investigation into party finances. mr murrell, the husband of former first minister nicola sturgeon, was arrested on wednesday morning. a police search resumed on thursday morning at the couple s glasgow home. our scotland correspondent james shaw has more details on the investigations that is being conducted at the glasgow house of peter murrell. as you can see, the scene behind me is a big police evidence tent obscuring the front of peter murrell and nicola sturgeon s house. inside the tent is a police van, and over the course of yesterday and it appears also this morning, police officers have been coming and going, bringing material out of the house and putting it into the van. so clearly, this is a live investigation at the moment. it is continuing, even though peter murrell himself was released by the police without charge
with an independent study into the british monarchy s links to the slave trade. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s six in the morning in singapore and 6pm in washington, where the white house is releasing seven in the morning and 7pm. a report which says little more could have been done to prevent the taliban takeover of afghanistan. the review, commissioned by president biden, does admit the us should have begun evacuating kabul earlier. a spokesman blamed the chaotic us withdrawal in august 2021 on a deal donald trump did with the taliban. transitions matter, that s the first lesson learned here, and the incoming administration wasn t afforded much of one. thus, president biden s choice was stark either withdraw all our forces or resume fighting with the taliban. he chose the former. that s the picture from the white house. i spoke to a foreign policy fellow earlier in washington, who explained the significance of this announcement.
touching 80 mph in the northern isles. widely 60, 70 mph touching 80 mph in the northern isles. widely 60,70 mph in touching 80 mph in the northern isles. widely 60, 70 mph in scotland in the morning, and this is where we have the peak of the winds tomorrow morning. to the east of the pennines, some gusty winds reaching 70 mph. the winds gradually ease through the day and at the same time we have this band of cloud not bringing much rain but heading into southern england. away from here it will brighten up. the showers in scotland become fewer as the winds dropped. another mild one, perhaps 14 or 15 degrees in east anglia. there is rain coming into northern ireland by tomorrow evening, that area of low pressure will come in and the weather front will slide away. it will bring some snow tomorrow night over the scottish mountains, then with the weather front over northern ireland, the north of england and southern scotland, here we will find some rain on saturday. to the north