in the last few days. new zealand s jacinda ardern says she feels sad but relieved, after announcing her resignation as prime minister. and, the harrowing anti war epic all quiet on the western front leads the nominations for this year s british academy film awards. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. it s 9:00 in the morning in singapore, and 5:00pm in los angeles where we begin our programme with the news that the hollywood actor alec baldwin is to be charged with the involuntary manslaughter of the cinematographer halyna hutchins who was shot dead on the set of the film, rust. the film s armourer, who was responsible for the weapon, will face the same charge, after a gun that the actor discharged on set was found to contain live ammunition. halyna hutchins family say the charges are warranted and that no one should be above the law. sophie long has the latest from los angeles. the frantic efforts to save halyna hutchins in the moments after
yes. so, in summary, what is it? so, what happened was, last month, the scottish parliament, by a pretty big majority, passed this legislation and the legislation, this gender bill, seeks to remove administrative and medical barriers to changing the sex on your birth certificate. that s basically what it does. it s passed the scottish parliament and it was waiting to be given the rubber stamp by the king, royal assent. but, crucially, while the issue of trans rights is devolved to the scottish parliament, the issue of equalities is something that s decided at westminster on behalf of england, scotland and wales and the uk government says, hang on a minute, we think those two clash. and there s a line in the rule book that set up devolution a quarter of a century ago that allows us, they say, to pull this trigger and stop that proposed law becoming law and getting royal assent. that s what they ve done and it s caused one heck of a row. right, well, let s chat a bit more a
a political clip for instagram. and a senior un official visiting kabul says progress is being made to ensure that afghan women continue work with aid agencies, despite the taliban ban. you are watching bbc news. now newscast. hello, it is chris, back in the studio in westminster and no longer in edinburgh. here in the studio. we have got this week, we ve had to guess in recent weeks in the first edition of newscast in this, we have three. forthe edition of newscast in this, we have three. for the price of one. we have brigid phillipson, labour, shuttle education, we have grand, the business secretary and we have the deputy leader in the house of competence. and we ll talk about that in the second and an issue that has dominated our lives down the last couple of days which is the coming together of two very naughty and complex and controversial issues and complex and controversial issues and what is the uk constitution and the other one is this planned lot of the other one is
torture and other cruel treatment is punishment about an 84 as well as customary laws that might get in their way including from european court of human rights. international law is binding, no case up, they are supposed to adhere to it. that is why they signed update in the first place. it is abject nonsense. the law society of england and wales wrote further, and state quite clearly that domestic legislation cannot immunise the government from the enforcement of international law but up to claim it can is disingenuous. they also state that refusing to comply with an interim measure would be a clear breach of international law. they accuse the uk government further of using a plot to manufacture a reality and it is the time of year where all indulge in christmas magic and imagine reindeer on the roof but this government has asked the entire legal system of the uk to engage in a former dangerous pretence. the uk supreme court sought out the facts for itself and upon that clea
minister manages to navigate it, but it is a marker of how tight things are that the climate minister graham stuart is on the way back from cop28 for the vote tonight, every single vote matters in the government because my eyes on this, they have all hands on deck having meetings, whips calling round trying to figure out whether they have the numbers, make sure they have the numbers. and you wouldn t normally expect to be at this stage in the second reading of a bill with a government that does have quite a significant majority. but it really is a mark of the times we are in and how controversial this legislation is within the conservative party that we are even having this conversation and the fact that right now, i can t give you a clear indication of which way it will go. give you a clear indication of which way it will 90- way it will go. yes, you re talking about a tight way it will go. yes, you re talking about a tight vote, way it will go. yes, you re talking abou