For Scottish Politics. Humza yousaf has stepped down as snp leader and scotlands First Minister afterjust over a year in office. His politicalfuture had been uncertain after the Shock Announcement last thursday, that he was ending Power Sharing with the scottish greens they clashed with the Scottish Government on its approach to gender reform and climate targets. He had been facing two votes of no confidence in the Scottish Parliament. The snp now have 28 days to find a new leader who is supported by a majority at holyrood. And we can go live to edinburgh, and our correspondent laura maciver. A very good evening to you. Humza yousaf started today as the First Minister of scotland and Leader Of The Snp. He ends it with that party looking for a new leader, and there will be a successor to him first got his First Minister. It was an emotionalfirst his First Minister. It was an emotional First Minister who made his Resignation Statement earlier, and james cook has been following the events throughout the day. Mr yusuf, are you resigning today . A simple answer yes. Not at home in dundee, but here at the official residence of the First Minister in edinburgh, the place which gave its name to the Power Sharing deal with the greens which humza yousaf dumped so disastrously last week. Unfortunately, in ending the Bute House Agreement in the manner that i did, i clearly underestimated the level of hurt and upset that caused. I have concluded that repairing our relationship across the political domain can only be done by someone else at the helm. I have therefore informed the snps National Secretary of my intention to stand down as party leader and ask that she commences a Leadership Contest for my replacement as soon as possible. As a young boy born and raised in scotland, i could never have dreamt that one day i would have the privilege of leading my country. People who looked like me were not in positions of political influence, let alone leading governments when i was younger. Politics can be a brutal business. It takes its toll on your physical and mental health, yourfamily suffer alongside you. Iam in i am in absolute debt to my wonderful wife, i am in absolute debt to my wonderfulwife, my i am in absolute debt to my wonderful wife, my beautiful children, and my widerfamily wonderful wife, my beautiful children, and my wider family for putting up with me over the years. Im afraid you will be seeing a lot more of me from now. Humza yousaf, glasgow. Humza yousaf. Humza yousaf will have a place in the History Books as the first muslim, the First Descendant of immigrants, and the first scots asian to lead scotlands devolved government. But his time in office was tough most of all when his in laws were trapped in gaza for a month. But he also lost a westminster by election to labour and endured Policy Problems from hate crime to gender health care, all with his party under the shadow of a police investigation. The drama here today isntjust about who occupies this house, but what they want to do while they are in there. And this whole affair has highlighted divisions in the snp divisions on how to achieve independence, divisions on economic policy, and divisions as well on social issues, not least the most contentious topic of gender. So who will inherit those challenges . Will you be the new snp leader . There is a lot to happen today. Could it bejohn swinney, who led the party two decades ago and had pretty much retired from front line politics . I am giving very careful consideration to standing to be the Leader Of The Snp and i am somewhat overwhelmed by the requests that have been made of me to do that, with many messages from many colleagues across the party. So i am giving that issue very active consideration and it is likely i will have more to say about that in the days to come. But what about kate forbes, the former finance secretary who ran humza yousaf so close in the Leadership Contest a little over a year ago . She is said to be thinking about running for the job. But the greens, whose support she might need, are not fans of her agenda. It is entirely up to the snp to decide who they want to lead their party, it is for them to decide what kind of party they want to be. Do they want to continue to be a Progressive Party . Do they want to continue to make Income Tax Fair . To work for the Climate Emergency . Or do they want to take a different direction . As he found out, governing is hard, but governing without a majority is much harder. James cook, bbc news, edinburgh. As viewers can as viewers can see on as viewers can see on their screens, newscast has a Special Edition with james, whojust newscast has a Special Edition with james, who just heard there, adam fleming and chris mason to discuss whats going on in the role of Scottish Politics. Laura, good to have you on the show. Let me ask you a bit about where we are heading from here . Because of course, once the dust is settled, itll be on who will take over the all important job. Will take over the allimportant ob. ,. , ,. , job. Indeed, and that conversation moves on so job. Indeed, and that conversation moves on so quickly, job. Indeed, and that conversation moves on so quickly, doesnt job. Indeed, and that conversation moves on so quickly, doesnt it, i job. Indeed, and that conversation moves on so quickly, doesnt it, in this event . What seems to have happened over the day is that consensus has gone behind two potential candidates at the moment. Kate forbes, who ran against humza yousaf in the Leadership Contest which he won, and alsojohn swinney, who is a former deputy First Minister here in scotland and a seasoned minister of the Scottish Parliament here too. So the conversation seems to be going around them and different people already showing their backing, particularly a lot of backing behind john swinney. Our conversations will doubt go on about the direction the party wants to go in, two very different candidates with different attitudes kate forbes, with her social attitudes were one of the reasons why it was deemed that, did not win the Leadership Contest last time, and john swinney, a safe hand in Scottish Politics with lots of experience. Thats the conversation that many scottish proletarians will be having over the coming days. Laura, thank you very much indeed for that. Lets go to the middle east where there are renewed hopes of a breakthrough between israel and hamas, after weeks of stalemate between the two sides. The us Secretary Of State says hes Hopeful Hamas will accept an Israeli Proposalfor A Ceasefire and hostage deal in gaza. Antony blinken is in saudi arabia to make the latest push for peace, while hamas are attending parallel negotiations in egypt. Heres what mr blinken said about the deal. Hamas has before it a proposal that is extraordinarily, extraordinarily generous on the part of israel. And in this moment, the only thing standing between the people of gaza and a cease fire is hamas. They have to decide, and they have to decide quickly. The foreign minister, david cameron, echoed his american counterpart� s hopes of a deal between israel and hamas to release prisoners and hostages, and had more details on it. There is now, you know, lets be frank, a very generous offer of a sustained 40 day cease fire, the release of potentially thousands of palestinians in return for the release of these hostages who have now been in captivity for over 200 days. So i hope hamas do take this deal and frankly, all the pressure in the world and all the eyes of the world should be on them today, saying, take that deal. Our security correspondent Frank Gardner is injerusalem. I asked him what makes these latest talks significant. Its a very good question, because a lot of the details appear to be ones weve heard before the exchange of prisoners, a 40 day truce. Whats different this time is that israel appears to be prepared to allow the return of very large numbers, possibly overi million palestinians who are currently crammed into the south of the gaza strip in rafah to their original homes in northern gaza. Its also prepared reportedly to withdraw a number of its Military Units out of the gaza strip and to increase aid going into the gaza strip. And its reducing, or has been prepared to reduce its minimal demand of a0 hostages that need to come out that number thats now being talked about is 33. Now it hasnt been signed, sealed and delivered yet, theres plenty that could still go wrong but it does appear that the two sides are inching ever closer to some kind of a deal. As we await to hear whether the deal will go ahead, israels bombardment of gaza continues. This was rafah, in the south of the gaza strip you can see a huge plume of smoke towering over a camp for displaced palestinians after israeli air strikes earlier today. More than a Million People are sheltering in rafah, which had been designated a safe area. These pictures are from that camp you can see a makeshift school in a tent. Gaza has a very young population and a large proportion of palestinians caught up in the conflict are children. Lets hear from the School Principle and a student. Translation it is our students | right to complete their education. No one has the right to deprive them of their education with war as an excuse. We have gone through wars all our lives. Its true that this is the hardest war that gaza has gone through, and possibly the hardest war on an international scale. However, students today are very mindful of their education. Translation weve lost| a whole year of education. Its not a problem that we hid in a tent. With knowledge, we build nations. And these pictures are also from rafah. The aftermath of an overnight strike that hit residential buildings there. Most of the dead in that strike are children. In fact, out of the more than 3a,000 people whom the Health Ministry says have been killed in gaza since israel launched its assault in october, most are children and women. Israel says it wants to launch a full scale assault in rafah to root out hamas, despite the us and other allies opposing the plan. The deal being proposed would put that assault on hold as long as hamas releases the 130 or so israeli and foreign hostages it still holds after its october 7th attack on israel. Frank lowenstein, In Washington former us peace envoy for israel and palestinians, in the Barack Obama Administration gave his assessment of the situation. I think this is one of secretary blinken� s most important trips to israel. All of the main us policy goals getting the hostages released, getting more humanitarian assistance in, preventing a war with hezbollah from breaking out, getting the the saudi normalisation deal up and running, preventing a massacre in rafah all of these things are really dependent on a ceasefire. So i think youve seen the United States pull out all the stops with the israelis, in trying to get the qataris and egyptians and others to put some pressure on hamas. But we have a lot riding on this. The first is post conflict reconstruction in gaza. We are hoping therell be arab Peacekeeping Force to restore order and allow construction to proceed. And i think the Biden Administration hasnt given up on whats really a long shot deal to try to get saudi normalisation in place with israel in return for a bunch of things we would give the saudi arabians. All thatis would give the saudi arabians. All that is dependent on a cease fire. Still to come on The World Today. A trial going on in germany about a coup to overthrow the german government. This roman artefact is going on display for the first time in the uk. Around the world and across the uk. This is The World Today on bbc news. Lets look at the protests against the Military Campaign sweeping across College Campuses in the us. Nationwide rallies during which there have been hundreds of arrests are showing no sign of stopping. At ucla, a pro palestinian encampment has grown in size in recent days, as has grown in size in recent days, as has a group of pro israeli counter protesters. On sunday there were skirmishes between the pro palestinian and pro israel groups after a Barrier Separating the two sites was breached. Lets hear from a protester there. The two sites was breached. Lets Hearfrom A Protester there. We hear from a protester there. We heard hear from a protester there. Heard about the counter protesters showing up, they were saying this protest as a protest of hatred. So were just trying to counter them, showing support to the ucla protesters who have been here and there encampment. The protesters who have been here and there encampment. Protesters who have been here and there encampment. The white house has insisted demonstrations there encampment. The white house has insisted demonstrations must has insisted demonstrations must remain peaceful, heres the National SecurityCouncil Spokesperson john kirby speaking to abc. We certainly resect the kirby speaking to abc. We certainly respect the right kirby speaking to abc. We certainly respect the right of kirby speaking to abc. We certainly respect the right of peaceful respect the right of peaceful protest. Respect the right of peaceful protest, people should have the ability protest, people should have the ability to protest, people should have the ability to airtheir protest, people should have the ability to air their views and to share ability to air their views and to share their perspectives publicly. But it share their perspectives publicly. But it has share their perspectives publicly. But it has to be peaceful. We will leave but it has to be peaceful. We will leave it but it has to be peaceful. We will leave it to but it has to be peaceful. 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Take a look at this, it shows the universities with the biggest protests, university of Southern California has cancelled its Graduation Ceremony and what it says our safety grounds. In austin, texas, the state ordered State Troopers to arrest the protesters. Theres also been hundreds of protests. The pictures you see here are from virginia tech. Nomia iqbal, demonstrators have ordered protesters to disband or face disciplinary action. Have they disbanded . At it looks like they havent. ,. � disbanded . At it looks like they havent. ,. , � , havent. They havent, behind me, students get havent. They havent, behind me, students get a havent. They havent, behind me, students got a notification havent. 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