mr blackford will stand down next week at the party s agm in parliament. it means there will be someone new in place for prime minister s questions next week. nobody has officially declared that they are going to stand yet but i ve spoken to quite a few people in the snp in the past hour or so and one name that keeps coming up is the aberdeen mp stephen flynn. i think he is very likely to stand and very likely to win although it s not impossible someone else tries to get the job as well. qm. impossible someone else tries to get the job as well- it s 1:16 it s1:16 p m. our top story this lunchtime. nhs ambulance waiting times have risen sharply. coming up, the woman referee taking charge of a men s world cup game for the first time. the moment of history in germany s
French referee Stephanie Frappart, along with Neuza Back and Karen Diaz Medina, will make World Cup history when they step onto the pitch ahead of the crucial Group E game between Germany and Costa Rica
it is 5:00 a.m. here in the east. we begin this morning with breaking news. a deadly past 48 hours in afghanistan. new details of two attacks. an effort to derail the transition of power there. the taliban is claiming responsibility for an attack wednesday that left four americans dead, including senior members of an army brigade after an in-ssurgent detonated a suice vest. thomas kennedy and kevin griffin and walter gray were killed along with an american aid worker and afghan interpreter. and nato confirms that three u.s. service members were killed when a sgun man wearing an afghan forces uniform opened fire in the southern helmand province this morning. no claim of responsibility there yet. new details are expected and well be live at the pentagon at the bottom of the hour with more information for you. and now let s take you inside the wisconsin temple where six peoe were killed, three others wounded by a gunman on sunday. this video shot exclusively by cnn showing