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to lord of the dance. michael flatley on 30 years since that life changing eurovision moment. good morning. today in the west it will be fairly cloudy, wet and windy. further east we are looking at drier and brighter conditions with some sunshine but sao is coming to the south east later. all of the detail throughout the programme. it s tuesday the 30th of april. the scottish national party has officially started the process to find a new leader, after humza yousaf announced his resignation as scotland s first minister. he quit ahead of two no confidence votes at holyrood which were due to be held in the wake of his decision to eject to scottish greens from his power sharing government. nominations to replace him opened just before midnight. our scotland correspondent lorna gordon reports. politically, there was nowhere left for humza yousaf to go. his leadership fatally wounded, not by his party or by the voters, but by himself. and so this admission that his time as f ....
it s monday the 22nd april, our main story. the mother of murdered teenager stephen lawrence has told the bbc that the investigation into his death should be reopened, after the metropolitan police issued another apology for the way they ve handled the case. stephen was 18 when he was stabbed to death in a racist attack in south london 31 years ago today. the metropolitan police commissioner has apologised to doreen lawrence after questions were raised about another suspect in a bbc investigation. daniel de simone reports. the racist murder of stephen lawrence took place 31 years ago today at a south london bus stop. two of the original five prime suspects were convicted almost 20 years after the murder. but the met s disastrous handling of the case means no one else has been brought to justice. last year, the bbc publicly identified a sixth suspect matthew white, who died in 2021 and revealed multiple failures by the met to properly investigate him. now, stephen s ....
hello, i m lucy hockings, welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. nearly 100,000 people have now been forced from their homes in kazakhstan by what s been described as the worst flooding in almost a century. across the border in russia, entire towns are under water and tens of thousands of people from regions in the urals and western siberia, have been forced to leave their homes. the flooding has been caused by unseasonably warm temperatures melting snow. in the russian city of 0renburg home to half a million people the authorities said water levels on the ural river had reached dangerous levels. thousands of people have left the city. 0renburg lies downstream from the city of 0rsk, which was inundated when a dam burst last week. dramatic pictures coming to us from kazakhstan and russia and we will bring an update on that story today. president putin has been briefed on that situation and is helping or giving help to that ....
paediatrician dr hilary cass, who carried out the review for nhs england, is calling for gender services for children and young people to match the standards of other nhs care, saying the toxicity of the debate meant professionals were afraid to openly discuss their views. our health editor hugh pym reports. sonia wanted to transition from the age of 15, but she found she couldn t get access to care and was put on a waiting list. by the age of 18, she hadn t had a first appointment and was transferred to adult services. after hearing there d be another long wait, she opted to go private until she could be seen by the nhs. sonia says the long delays were hard to cope with. all in all, i spent four years on waiting lists to be seen by an nhs specialist. it was incredibly frustrating and the period between being told that, oh, we re not going to see before you re18th, and being referred on, and then me gaining private health care was an incredibly dark period in term ....
throughout the programme. it s tuesday the 21st of november. our main story. england s chief medical officer, sir chris whitty, is expected to be questioned about lockdowns when he gives evidence to the covid inquiry later. it comes as the government s former chief scientific advisor, sir patrick vallance, told the inquiry that borisjohnson was clearly bamboozled by some scientific concepts. he also claimed that advisors were not consulted in advance about the eat out to help out scheme. our correspondent ellie price reports. he became a familiar face night after night on the covid press conferences, explaining to all of us what was happening with the virus. we will follow the science. we ll be guided by the science, i and that s why we are following the scientific advice in the way that we are the government said it would always follow the science, but sir patrick vallance the uk s top scientific adviser during the pandemic told the inquiry explaining the science to ....