a 15 year old boy and girl are charged with the murder of 16 year old brianna jeye who was killed in a village park in cheshire on saturday. one of the 12 boys rescued from a thai cave in 2018, has died in the uk after suffering a head injury. the uk s most expensive drug saves a toddler with a rare genetic condition. but it s too late to save her terminally ill older sister. nicola sturgeon is stepping down as scotland s first minister, and leader of the scottish national party. she ll leave office as soon as her successor is chosen. ms sturgeon says she can no longer give the role the full commitment she believes it requires. and she hinted that after eight years as first minister efforts to broaden the appeal of scottish independence could be hampered by what she called polarised opinions about her. we ll look back at nicola sturgeon s career and get political reaction from edinburgh and london. but first lorna gordon reports on events this morning. she is scotland s lon
a jet, powered by waste fats and plant proteins flies from london and arrives in new york. live from our studio in singapore this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. starting with news from india where 41 construction workers who had been trapped in a collapsed tunnel in the himalayas for 17 days have been rescued. they were greeted with applause as they emerged from a steel pipe that had been pushed through the rubble. they re said to be in good health but will now be fully assessed at a nearby hospital. the bbc s south asia correspondent samira hussain sent this report. this moment, more than two weeks in the making. 41 trapped workers finally rescued. cheering. an eruption of cheers from workers and onlookers. people sharing sweets and hugs. these are the ambulances with the first workers that have come out from inside the tunnel. 17 days, they have spent inside that tunnel and now they are finally out and in those ambulances. rescuers spent the last sev
councils and charities think that new refugees are not being given enough time to adjust before they are told to leave their accommodation. they say some have been given little notice to find somewhere else to stay. 0nce individuals become refugees, the responsibility to look after them falls to the council. need a plan and we need a plan that s resourced. david carter is the chief executive of the whitechapel centre, a leading homeless charity in liverpool. we re in the middle of a housing crisis and a poverty crisis. as a city, we ve got 572 households in emergency b&b accommodation, plus over 700 in the commissioned homeless services. this has been exacerbated by the recent home office changes to increase the asylum decision and programme. people are actually fighting for the same resources, so ultimately are going to be going to be competing for the exact same thing because there isn t enough to go round. is it causing tensions? yeah, you can see that that s going to caus
emerged from any of those inquiries that steers police away from the belief that she fell or went into the water that day. as far as the search for nicola bulley is concerned, it is still ongoing. police are still pouring plenty of resources into it to try and find any trace of her. as to yet, unsuccessfully. we had a private company searching the river wyre last weekend they did not find any trace of her either. the police investigation will continue. quite unusual for the police to give so much detail away about such an inquiry as this, but i think they have had so much speculation and some criticism in some circles about what they have been doing, and lots of people filling this vacuum where there is no information with wild theories, that they felt they had to come out and be very straight about where they see this inquiry going, and what they believe happened. two is year olds have appeared in court charged with the murder of 16 year old brianna ghey. brianna was found with stab w