Also commit to getting the basics right across a whole range of service areas, ensuring bins are collected on time, our roads are in good condition, and our neighbourhoods are clean and safe places. We will bring a new era of accountability and transparency to this organisation. This will be the cornerstone for our journey to improving basic services, responding to the concerns of our citizens and ensuring that the mistakes of the past are never repeated. Those responsible for the issues of equal pay will be held to account under the terms of a local inquiry that i hope government will be convening shortly. I want to stress that creating a culture of accountability is notjust about punishing people when things go wrong. It is also about creating a culture of trust and collaboration to ensure that we get things right in the first place, and where those, where there are issues, these can be raised openly without fear of retribution. That issues, these can be raised openly without fear of
Virginia but elsewhere, especially considering Different Things happening especially up and down the ballot. In the one hand and we Pay Attention to what is happening with the former president , certainly riding high following the decision yesterday from the Us Supreme Court saying that his name shall remain on the ballot. Of course the state of colorado try to use a civil war ever provision to try to remove his name from the ballot citing his participation in an insurrection or alleged participation in a insurrection with the Supreme Court saying states cannot describe that an sway an election so the former president riding high there. As for President Biden, he is fine tuning his message as far as his campaign. We talked about Vice President kamal harris talking about the need for humanitarian assistance in gaza. Kamala harris talking about the need. People in the United States having critical of the Biden Administration for their stance in support of israel and they are warm with ha
But he says you never know what the future holds. The norwegian s contracted to the club until 2027 but real madrid are thought to be long term admirers. Haaland, whos preparing to face Fc Copenghagen in the Champions League tomorrow has scored 80 goals in 84 appearances for city including 28 this season. Therell probably be be a massive headline. You never know what the future brings, but again, im happy. You can write this, but you can always have to write Everything Else before. Im happy, and yeah, thats what i want to do. Its a huge night in the Champions League for Thomas Tuchel and his Bayern Munich side, who have it all to do against lazio with a place in the Quarer Finals at stake. They trail 1 0 at the halfway stage of that last 16 tie. Bayern are ten points behind Bayer Leverkusen in the bundesliga with ten games to go, their season could effectively be over if it doesnt go their way later. But tuchel, whos leaving at the end of the season, says theyll give it everything. I l
Bitcoin hitting record highs, the continuation of a rally that has been building for a couple of months. There are a couple of factors the mainstreaming of bitcoin. You may recall earlier this year regulators in the us open and investing opportunities attached to crypto currencies to more investors, and since then funds have been pouring into that. There was a report that huge figures have been raised. That has definitely increased things on the demand side. On the supply side, there is a 0n the supply side, there is a process called halving, part of the bitcoin protocol, only a certain number are issued, and once every four years, a reward for bitcoin miners, that number decreases. That may also have an impact on what investors think the supply will be. All of this i think you can safely say is leading to that craze for laser eyes, the meme that bitcoin fund is used when they are feeling optimistic about it. ~. , they are feeling optimistic about it. We will come back to it. Michelle.
It took 19 years to bring iain packer tojustice, leaving him free to attack other women. Emma caldwell s family lawyer says she was failed by a toxic culture within the police of misogyny and corruption. Our correspondent steve godden is at the First Ministers residence, bute house. Like bring us the latest. The Caldwell Family arrived here around ten minutes ago and have gone into the building behind me. We expect the building behind me. We expect the meeting to last around an hour. It is an opportunity for Margaret Caldwell, Emma Caldwell s mum, to ask First Minister humza yousaf and the justice ask First Minister humza yousaf and thejustice minister, to hold a Public Inquiry, that she has been calling for since iain packer was convicted of murdering Emma Caldwell and sexually and physically assaulting 21 other women. After that verdict Police Scotland apologised for failings in the original inquiry and one of the questions the Caldwell Family want the Public Inquiry to answer is why