delivers independence for scotland. prince harry makes a surprise appearance at a high court hearing in london. he s among several high profile figures bringing a privacy case against the publisher of the daily mail newspaper. israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu will delay regarding the leadership of the scottish national party but before we address those stories, just to bring you some breaking news coming out of the united states the last few minutes, we are hearing of a shooting at a school in nashville. according to everything rehearing on the news agency among others, this is an ongoing situation in the local fire department in nashville, you see the tweet in fact from the nashville fire department saying it is an ongoing situation with, as you can see regrettably there, multiple patients. as the tweet puts it. multiple victims as with some local media are saying and we don t know whether or not that s people will simply been injured or if it is worse than that. i
good evening. the three contenders to become the next leader of the scottish national party have been debating tonight in edingburgh. the three candidates the msp ash regan, finance secretary kate forbes, and the health secretary humza yousaf were responding to questions from a live bbc audience. the voting opened yesterday, there are 100,000 snp members, who have just under two weeks left to decide who they think should replace nicola sturgeon as first minister of scotland. at the beginning of her time as first minister, she said judge me on education and tonight each of the candidates outlined what they would wish to be judged on if they become the next snp leader. eradicating poverty is the heart of everything. any inequality we have weathering education or health or in any other area of government, it always comes back to poverty. we must, if not eradicated, we have to substantially reduce poverty. whoever it is the first minister, certainly if i am, the common thread
forward, the scottish government would work with the uk government to explore potential amendments to the bill. the secretary of state refused this offer stating there would be no further meetings between the governments on this issue. he set up three options for the scottish government. we can drop the bill passed by the majority of this parliament altogether, we can address these concerns in an amended bill without providing which bill without the section 35 on top of it can pursue legal action. the uk government state of does not provide a reason. any divergence of approaching scotland would be unacceptable saying ensure it to different regimes create adverse effects. it is therefore proved impossible to find a way forward or to consider a form of amending the bill that this parliament would agree to and lead to the secretary of state to revoke the order. the scottish government remains committed to the bill as amended and as agreed by a majority in this parliament, which