let s start with big news here in the uk. scotland s longest serving first minister, nicola sturgeon, has resigned. she s been the leader of the scottish national party which wants independence from britain for more than eight years. she steered the country through brexit, covid, ukraine, five conservativce prime ministers and enjoyed huge ongoing public support. have a listen to some of what she had to say. in my head and in my heart i know the time is now. let s take a look back at her career. she entered politics full time in 1999 when she was elected to the new scottish parliament. she was twenty nine years old. herfirst big test in government came when she was deputy first minister and health secretary, as swine flu was declared a pandemic. she then oversaw planning for 2014 s independence referendum. the scottish people voted to stay part of the uk but today she said she remained committed to the independence cause. am firmly of the you there is no majority suppor
His comments come as the first deliveries of international aid entered the opposition held areas of northern syria through one of two newly reopened border crossings with turkey. let s look at why aid has been so difficult to deliver. the affected areas are controlled by multiple groups. they include the syrian and turkish governments, kurds, andjihadi rebels in the north west idlib province. on tuesday syria s president bashar al assad, allowed two more border crossings to be opened up, as you can see from this map. before, aid agencies only had access to one crossing for the entire country. but the white helmets they re the group leading rescue efforts say those extra crossings still may not be enough. while we are very grateful that the border crossings are open this is coming very late, this is something we have been advocating for a very long time in the opening of these borders and something that is concerning is that these borders are only open for the next three month
I mean, this is coming very late. it s something that we have been fighting for and advocating forfor a very long time, the opening of these borders. something that is concerning is that these borders are only open for the next three months. with the scale of this tragedy, it s a long road to recovery. so let s look at why that aid is so badly needed in syria, nine days in to this disaster. this is the extent of the devastation in rebel held north west syria. excavators are working to clear away rubble. hopes of finding survivors are fading, but some search and rescue work is still being done. these volunteers have set up a soup kitchen in the town of jandaris, and are feeding hundreds people a day despite limited supplies. also injandaris, volunteer doctors have set up this mobile medical clinic for survivors. a lack of supplies are again a huge problem. here s one of the doctors. translation: the main challenge is that we lost a lot of medical personnel in the earthquake. a large nu
Different approach to. despite the fact that he used to be a key member ofjeremy corbyn s team. fact that he used to be a key member of jeremy corbyn s team. of jeremy corbyn s team. thank you very much- let s turn to syria now, where the government has insisted international aid will be given to earthquake survivors fairly. many syrians are angry over the lack of humanitarian relief more than four million people in the opposition controlled north west received no deliveries from the un via turkey until thursday. here s syria s ambassador to the united nations speaking to the bbc. the un, the international red cross and other international organisations now get more involved in the situation in order to facilitate this process to make sure that this humanitarian aid is distributed without any discrimination and to all syrians who need it.
Why it took so long for international aid to start trickling international aid to start trickling in and of course for many people, it was too late. for those trapped under the rubble every hour, every second mattered and so, the delay they completely inexcusable. in they completely inexcusable. in terms of what happens now, even if there are some concerns about what there are some concerns about what the regime could be doing but some of the aide, the key thing is to try to get the people and there s a lot of worry about the secondary catastrophe where people did not have food, water and shelter. what more should be done now in your view? i more should be done now in your view? ~ . , more should be done now in your view? ~ ., , ., view? i think we really need to get as much aid view? i think we really need to get as much aid as view? i think we really need to get as much aid as possible view? i think we really need to get as much aid as possible into - view? i think we really n