Announced hes to resign. Hes been under growing pressure after he ripped up a Power Sharing Deal with the scottish green party. Hes been facing a vote of No Confidence, he released an emotional statement today, and we have a report from lorna gordon who can tell us what happened today. Over the next half an hour, we will go through all of the implications with the bbc s special correspondent allan little, who is with me here. At westminster, were joined by our Political Correspondent nick eardley. This starts with Nicola Sturgeon, whose great strength as a politician is placing herself at the heart of huge grassroots Progressive Coalition, people very committed to the Progressive Causes which characterised her leadership. One of the things she could have been failed to have done is to carry Public Opinion with her, committing to the Progressive Causes has always been much more strongly rooted in the Independence Movement than scottish public as a whole. So her government and humza yous
As a result, he had been facing two separate votes of no confidence this week. Well, in an emotional statement a short time ago, mr yousaf said hes not willing to trade his values and principles simply to hold on to power. Our scotland correspondent lorna gordon has this report. Under pressure and out of time. Humza yousaf facing judgment on his future, jumping before he was pushed. A Route Through this weeks motion of no confidence was absolutely possible. I am not willing to trade my values and principles or do deals with whomever simply for retaining power. Therefore, after spending the weekend reflecting on what is best for my party, for the government, and for the country that i lead, ive concluded that repairing our relationship across the political divide can only be done with 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 p
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anything. unfortunately, due to the nature of the situation it was too dangerous for the police to go and investigate the individual shooting at the time, they had to sort of stand back and wait until it was safe to go to my brother and see what was happening. i tried to get over as soon as i heard the news. and i arrived about 36 hours after the incident happened but unfortunately, my brother was already, the bullet caused too much damage to his brain, he was brain dead, there is very little chance he was ever going to wake up and he was officially pronounced the following day. it s notjust me who s lost my brother, my parents have lost their son, my son has lost his uncle and everyone who knew my brother and held him dear has lost a wonderful friend. it s a real senseless act. but somebody knows who did this, somebody has information so we need this story to get out there, especially in atlanta and in georgia and around that area and we need the public to know about what happened and
another tragic loss of life . the sister of a british man who was killed by a stray bullet in the united states has been speaking about his death. dr matthew wilson from surrey was in the us visiting his girlfriend when a bullet travelled through a wall and hit him while he was in bed. police believe the shooting was unintentional. his sister kate said his death was senseless . we know that there were a group of individuals at a nearby apartment complex firing guns. we don t know how many. perhaps two, we believe. and that at the moment that my brother and his girlfriend chose to call the police. a bullet came through the wall and struck my brother in the head. it s notjust me who has lost my brother. my parents have lost their son, my son has lost his uncle, and everyone who knew my brother and held him dear has lost a wonderfulfriend. it s a real senseless act. a man has pleaded guilty to abducting a four year old girl, who went missing