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Transcripts For BBCNEWS Newsday 20240706

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 th ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS Newsday 20240604 01:03:00

And the gender recognition reform bill is passed. this was the moment just before christmas changing when the scottish parliament strongly endorsed changing the law a moment of triumph for some, disappointment for others. this was legislation long in the making, prompting celebrations, resignations, rows, rebellions. so what did it hope to achieve? it would have made the process of legally changing gender faster. younger people would also have been able to apply the age limit dropping from 18 to 16 and it would have been easier because the requirement for medical reports to back up an application would have been dropped. the plan was days away from becoming law. that isn t going to happen, for now at least. speaking before tonight s announcement, the first minister s view was clear. ....

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