where he will meet other key international figures. meetings on the sidelines of the world economic forum summit are expected to discuss the war in gaza and possible ways forward. this week could be a pivotal one in scottish politics, as confidence votes are planned in both the first minister, humza yousaf, and his government. he has written to opposition leaders in an attempt to find common ground. uk ministers insist health is a priority, after the tory mp daniel poulter defects to labour because of concerns over how the nhs is managed. and it's party time in milan. thousands turn out to celebrate italy's football champions inter milan. you are watching bbc news.

let's get more on our top story, the palestinian president says only the us can prevent an israeli attack on rafah, where more than a million have fled. efforts are under way to negotiate a truce between israel and hamas. the us secretary of state is heading to riyadh, where he will meet arab leaders to discuss the situation. let's speak to gina abercrombie—winstanley, president of the middle east policy council and former us ambassador. thank you very much for coming on the programme. antony blinken on his way. what you think he is hoping to achieve? he's got a tough road ahead, he has got to convince the players he is meeting in riyadh are several things. players he is meeting in riyadh are severalthings. number players he is meeting in riyadh are several things. number one, players he is meeting in riyadh are severalthings. number one, he has got to convince the saudis there is a deal ahead, that the us security guarantees are going to make it worthwhile for them to continue forward. he has got to convince other gulf states, the emirates, qatar, perhaps kuwait and others

that there is a deal achievable that will allow them to put investment into the gaza strip for that day after. �* , ., ., into the gaza strip for that day after. �*, ., ., _, . into the gaza strip for that day after. �*, ., ., . ., ., after. he's got to convince all of them that _ after. he's got to convince all of them that the _ after. he's got to convince all of them that the united _ after. he's got to convince all of them that the united states - after. he's got to convince all of them that the united states can i them that the united states can bring the israelis up to scratch, they can get a deal done and right now the wild card is prime minister netanyahu and how much he does want to get a deal primarily to bring the hostages home, or how much does he believe that this continued conflict helps him remain in power.- helps him remain in power. that's uuite a helps him remain in power. that's quite a long _ helps him remain in power. that's quite a long list, _ helps him remain in power. that's quite a long list, that's _ helps him remain in power. that's quite a long list, that's quite - helps him remain in power. that's quite a long list, that's quite the i quite a long list, that's quite the list he's got there. what do you rate his chances of achieving that? a lot of it will hinge on two things, the amount of pressure the israeli leadership is feeling and the amount of pressure the hamas leadership is feeling. for prime minister netanyahu it is those hostages and there have been reports that deals were closed and he has

pulled the negotiators back. the demonstrations that are in the streets saying, get those hostages, do a deal, they have been out there a while and he has shown himself quite willing to resist pressure, domestic and international. for hamas, the pressure is also building. the devastation of the gaza strip, the incredible suffering that the palestinian people are under right now and that it has not improved appreciably, even after the united states are said to the israelis, change your policy, get more aid in, get more food in. aid organisations and palestinians are saying that has not been followed through on, so if they don't do a deal, it is entirely likely they, too, could not remain in power. what both sides... i’m too, could not remain in power. what both sides- - -_ both sides... i'm afraid we had to leave it there _ both sides... i'm afraid we had to leave it there unfortunately. -

both sides... i'm afraid we had to i leave it there unfortunately. joona, leave it there unfortunately. joona, thank you so much for coming on the programme. mt; thank you so much for coming on the programme-— the scottish liberal democrats have rejected an offer of talks with the first minister, humza yousaf, whose politicalfuture hangs in the balance. he's facing two no confidence votes after ejecting the scottish greens from his government. mr yousaf is due to meet the only alba party msp, ash regan, this week, despite ruling out an electoral pact between alba and the snp. alexandra mackenzie reports. humza yousaf is fighting for his political future as he faces a vote of no confidence as first minister in a minority government. after he decided to end a power—sharing deal, the bute house agreement, with the scottish greens. one senior snp mp made an appeal to the scottish green party. i apologise for what has happened this week, it could have happened in a different way but we are where we are. but the choice every member of the scottish parliament has this

week is are we going to support that government under humza yousaf to make sure that we deliver the legislation that we all agree on? but the greens insist they will not back mr yousaf in the coming days. the scottish green group have said we will vote in support of a vote of no confidence against humza yousaf and i cannot imagine anything at this point that could change that position. this was a spectacular breach of trust, from going on tuesday to saying the bute house agreement was worth its weight in gold, to stopping it unilaterally on thursday, that is broken. the snp leader has written to the opposition leaders at holyrood, inviting them to discuss their concerns and priorities. ash regan of the alba party could be kingmaker. her support alone might be enough for mr yousaf to survive. alba's leader set out the political price for that support, prioritising a re—emphasis on independence.

ash regan, who leads alba in the scottish parliament, is obviously in a highly influential position, given the political arithmetic. she will be meeting with humza yousaf at his invitation, she will take with her some very reasonable, positive proposals which hopefully if the first minister accepts them will help him to get out of a very tight political corner. the main opposition parties say the first minister has run out of road, but the snp leader struggles on in a bid to secure enough support to keep hisjob. alexandra mackenzie, bbc news. the haulage industry is calling for urgent clarity on how new post—brexit checks on food imports from the eu will work. the trade body, logistics uk, has warned of chaos and confusion — even though the new regime is due to come into force in two days. with more on this, let's talk to our business correspondent marc ashdown.

what are the concerns here? we don't want to see — what are the concerns here? we don't want to see more _ what are the concerns here? we don't want to see more of _ what are the concerns here? we don't want to see more of this _ what are the concerns here? we don't want to see more of this sort - what are the concerns here? we don't want to see more of this sort of- want to see more of this sort of stuff, queues at the ports. it's all about checks on what they call high and medium risk products arriving at ports from the eu. we are talking about things like fresh veg, fresh fish, meat, even the plants and dairy, that sort of thing and what the government is concerned about his bio—security, the possibility of importing diseases, viruses, things like african swine flu. these checks were supposed to come in back in july 2021 but they have been delayed five times now and they are now due to start on tuesday. but a committee of mps wrote to defra last week asking for and i quote, urge and clarity on exactly how all this will work. they criticised poor planning and inconsistent messaging. they say

it looks like a scaled—back version will start on tuesday, in effect they believe that is more less another delay. now, uk logistics has also waded in. that is the umbrella group for trucks, lorries, also waded in. that is the umbrella groupfortrucks, lorries, companies which import goods. they say this kind of delay again sums up the chaos and confusion surrounding the new rules. they say they have been raising issues with the government for many months now and they're worried about things like the infrastructure at ports, how this will work, the manpower, how many hours it will be open a day, resources. they say it shows a system completely in disarray, makes it very difficult for businesses to plan. what they really want now is clear and unambiguous rules, an explanation of how this will work from tuesday. the port of dover and the channel tunnel are the big concerns here, they tend to be the pinch points post—brexit when new

rules come in. the figures we could see big delays like this, lorries are stacked up on the motorway and more costs involved in some of these checks as well, so that potentially could see prices rise in the shops for consumers. defra says it's been in regular contact with about 30,000 businesses and porters, keeping them up businesses and porters, keeping them up to date with what they are planning. they say they have been running webinars, consultations. they say these consultations will be introduced slowly and gradually ramped up to try and ensure we don't see scenes like this and we keep the smooth flowing of goods into the uk. there are calls for more drug and alcohol support to be offered to people from black, asian and minority ethnic communities, following concerns from charities that these groups are often under—represented in treatment. anna crossley has been speaking to kim, a south asian woman who was addicted to heroin for 16 years and is now in recovery.

i'm quite nervous. my stomach's churning. i feel quite sick, really, because this is where my addiction started. i'd come away from a really unhappy, horrible marriage, and i thought i was going to start a new life here, but ended up spiralling into addiction. i didn't know. i didn't know that i was addicted to drugs. this the first time you've been back here? it is, yeah. i think it was about time somebody spoke out. i don't know if i'm going to be appreciated for it or if it's going to go down well, but i felt after all these years it needed to be out in the open that there's addictions that go on in south asian communities.

i was told how to walk, told how to smile, told how to do everything, so i didn't have my own kind of thought, it was very much controlled by other people. and then when, you know, when somebody is rolling up a joint, a joint of whatever it was, and said, "here, have this, it will make you feel better", i took it. and that was my first pull of a joint of heroin. i didn't know i was in addiction until i was probably about a year or two in, because the heroin was provided for me every day, so i didn't have withdrawals. it was embarrassing. who could i tell? who could i go to? who's going to understand? for me, it was more, i'm notjust a drug user, i'm an asian girl, on drugs. i'm an indian girl, on drugs. who do i turn to? who will understand ?

it is more risky or dangerous not to say anything and to educate our own people and be honest about what happens and what addiction does to people. god, this is awful, this, now, thinking about it, is my little girl came home with a sponsorship form for school one day and i made loads of photocopies of it. and i walked round the whole of bradford, i think, with this sponsorship form, and cheated money out of people. i mean, absolutely shocking. i lived in a housejust here, where the blue door is. this one here? yeah. what was your lowest point? i took an overdose of tablets because i could just... i would just... i didn't want to live any more. i didn't want to be here.

ididn't... i couldn't look after my kids. i ended up back in that horrible spiral again. you know, ifailed my parents. ifailed my kids. ifailed me. you did turn it around, though. i have. idid. it took a long time. i was ready for change, and just in my head, i knew that i didn't want this life and i were damaged. i was seriously damaged. i'd lost my children. and i was going to either die or i was, you know, i needed to change where my focus was going. where are we now? settled. i'm in a happy relationship. andy is brilliant. we've been together for eight years.

i'm happy to be here. and i have earned — i've earned my place here. i've earned my place on earth, i think. the more i do this, i think the word will get out that you can support other women — and men — that are in the same, similar situations. prince harry is returning to the uk next month for the first time since his visit in february to see his father, king charles, after his cancer diagnosis. the duke of sussex will attend a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the invictus games, a sports event for injured military personnel that he launched in 2014. the thanksgiving service at st paul's cathedral in london, on the 8th of may, will be the first major event he has attended in britain for some time. there are growing calls for the introduction of graduated driving licences for young people, restricting their use of cars after passing their tests. it's something families who've lost

loved ones to crashes involving young drivers have campaigned for and has the backing of the aa and some driving instructors. 0ur reporter phillip norton has the story. your first wheels can be fun, but for young drivers, it can often end in serious injury or death, if not for them, for passengers or others on the road. kevin dyas is a driving instructor and also the chair of grimsby instructors association. he wants to see tougher restrictions on new drivers to lower casualty numbers. i think we need to relook at what we do for younger drivers because they are younger. the bit of the brain that deals with risk is towards the front, our brains develop from the back. so it is the last part of the brain that actually begins — orfinishes developing. government figures show a fifth of all fatal or serious injury crashes involved a young driver, with those aged between 17 to 2a four times as likely to be killed

or seriously injured as those over 25. kevin's had a personal experience with one of his students. there was a lad that i took for about five or six lessons. even at that time, could i recognise an underestimating of risk. he did go on to have a crash. he survived it, he was left seriously injured for quite some time, but it killed his female passenger. one idea he embraces is a graduated driving licence for young drivers, which could see restrictions on things like passenger numbers and driving at night. for the night is a different beast. i think it's a good idea because they take their lessons, they pass their test, and they're driving nicely. and when they pass their test, well, they're young. you've got your test next week. how would you feel if you couldn't take passengers straight after it? for me personally, it wouldn't bother me that much. i'll only be commuting to and from work and maybe going to my mates' here and there.

so it wouldn't really bother me that much, but it differs from person to person. the government needs to take a hand on on this and think we need to do something different here. we need to look at these graduated licenses. they work in lots of other countries. let's find a one find one that works for us and go forward with it and lead something here. the government currently says it has no plans to introduce a graduated license, but says it's researching support for young drivers... boys, chill out back there. ..and targeting them in road safety campaigns. phillip norton, bbc news. an appeal has been launched by the national memorial arboretum in staffordshire to raise funds to restore one of its most striking installations. shot at dawn pays tribute to the 309 british and commonwealth soldiers who were executed during world war one for desertion and cowardice, but it's been severely damaged by flood water. 0ur reporter liz copper has the story. 0n the eastern edge of the arboretum at alrewas, this is the first

memorial to be touched by the sun's rays at dawn. it has also been touched by the ravages of the elements when the nearby river tame overtops its banks. because this is built on a floodplain, we expect the water level to come up. but as of recent years, it has come up high and remained there. so though the posts look like they're in pretty good condition, you will notice at the bottom they are rotting through and they don't last that many years before they need replacing. there are 309 stakes, each dedicated to a soldier shot at dawn during the first world war. they faced a firing squad for desertion, cowardice, orsimply falling asleep at their post. the stakes are arranged in the form of a greek theatre to symbolise the tragedy of those events. they will all now be replaced with recycled material to withstand floodwater. people come here — it's an educational resource. children come and visit the memorial, and they see something like this. it is a dark point in british military history,

but it is very relevant and a very important story to tell. so we need to provide preserve it. this is just one area here where the effects of the weather have been felt. here they welcome more than 300,000 visitors annually. the arboretum is open all year round. this is a living landscape. that is why staff are constantly working to adapt the site. we have areas of the site that we do know have always stayed wet and despite putting in drainage in, they'll always stay wet. so we're selecting water—resistant species that don't mind having their feet wet for a long period of time. without a doubt, that strategy will change and be refined as climate change changes. back at the memorial, work will begin early next month. the hope is it will ensure these soldiers' stories will never be swept away and never forgotten. a new entrance to a pre—historic flint mine will allow the public to explore an underground labyrinth of tunnels dug 11,500 years ago.

grime's — graves near thetford, norfolk — was used as a neolithic mine for hundreds of years. robbie west reports. from the air, you can see how the 430 mines dug in the heart of thetford forest have transformed the landscape. each of the hollows that we're walking through and the hollow that we're coming to is the remains of a a,500—year—old mineshaft. each one about ten, 12 metres deep and a huge undertaking. historians say that these pits were dug using picks made from the antlers of red deer. they're very simple tools, about this sort of size. and they would have had to mine down by hand. and that's hundreds of tons worth of material that they are having to to take out by hand. so they're probably only digging maybe one mine per year. so to get this whole entire mine field, we're talking about hundreds of years.

as you climb down into the pit, it's hard to imagine digging this out without modern machinery. the flint they gathered from the mines was used by the neolithic people to make tools that were crucial for their survival. tunnels like this one connect the mineshafts. you canjust see how small the space is — it's only about a metre high. i think we have so many incredible ancient sites across english heritage's portfolio, but this to me is like the absolute jewel, because you're seeing kind of marks made by man that long ago where they actually are. you can kind of see the people crawling through, you can picture them with their lamps, you can picture them holding those kind of pickaxes and kind of taking out this chalk and this flint. i think it reallyjust brings the entire space alive like no other site. the opening of this mineshaft lets us see how our ancestors worked here in the east, allowing us to get up close to archaeology. robbie west, bbc news.

it is almost 70 years since donald campbell became the fastest man on water in his iconic hydroplane bluebird, smashing the 200mph barrier in front of crowds on the shores of ullswater in the lake district. now, previously unseen photos of the daredevil in action back in 1955 have been discovered, and the search is on for somewhere to display them permanently. andy gill reports. that's the difference here, that people were allowed, which... just to come down on the shore. i mean, that must have been the whole village. at her home in southport on merseyside, gina campbell and andrew price look through photos of donald campbell and bluebird. they were taken at ullswater in cumbria in 1955, the place and year when donald campbell first broke the world water speed record. the photographer was andrew's dad, peter price, who died in 2020.

it was very difficult for me to go through his archive, because i had worked with him for 30 years, and i started to go through things but it was, you know, tears rolling down my eyes, i was saying, "i didn't know you'd done this, dad, i didn't know you'd done that." but earlier this year andrew, who is also a photographer, did get to looking through his dad's archive. there they were in a little brown envelope with handwritten notes saying, "donald campbell, bluebird early attempts, ullswater." and i thought, "wow, i didn't know you had these." once you start on one of these world record attempt, - you're past the point of no return. donald campbell set world water and land speed records. he died in 1967 when bluebird crashed on coniston water. last month, the restored boat returned to coniston after being recovered in 2001. but campbell's first water speed records were achieved not on coniston, but on ullswater.

there's one here, he's obviously just going out for a run. but he's not wearing a hard helmet. no, he's not. would he have had that in the cockpit, do you think? possibly. for gina, who was just six when the photos were taken, they reveal a new chapter of her father's life. myjaw dropped when i first saw them. what it tells me is how famous my father was, looking at the crowds that were there. and me as a small child, with no idea that my father was famous. i didn't know my father was famous. gina and andrew both now want the photos to find a permanent home, a testament to a pioneering british enterprise in engineering and daring. it gets me in my heart, because it shows my dad, to me, what he was — but i didn't know. andy gill, bbc news.

space x has launched its falcon 9 rocket... three, two, one, ignition. lift off! this was the moment it took off from the kennedy space centre in florida carrying a payload of 2 galileo satellites — part of europe's global navigation satellite system. notably, this was the first time a us—made rocket was used and launched from american soil for thejoint spacex — european commission project. historically, the galileo satellites were launched using the russian soyuz or ariane 5 rockets — but the european space agency left the soyuz programme after russia's invasion of ukraine. visitors to tokyo's nightlife area were in for a shock when a 100—metre tall godzilla was projected on to buildings. the fictional radioactive monster is 70 years old this year. tourism bosses hope that projecting images of the beast onto buildings in the shinjuku ward will encourage visitors to flock to the area. digital godzilla will be making

three appearances a day at weekends and on national holidays. now it's time for a look at the weather with louise lear. hello there. it was a chilly start with a touch of frost in the north—west but that is where we have seen the lion's share of the sunshine. it was not a morning for playing golf in st albans, heavy overnight rain left a lot of large puddles around and that rain is continuing to drift steadily northwards. that means that much of eastern england and east scotland staying cloudy, wet and often windy at times, making it feel quite cool. further west we keep on to that sunshine with a few scattered, light showers. here highs of 13 degrees but factor in the wind and rain, only 7 in parts of eastern scotland. as we move through the night, the low pressure falls away, the isobars stay with us, another front pushing in from the west. that will bring rain into northern ireland, scotland and western fringes

of england and wales but ahead of it, sunshine and with a southerly breeze, some warmth. so anywhere from east yorkshire down to dorset a much better day, sunny and pleasantly warm. low pressure is going to sit out to the west for a couple of days but the wind direction continues to change for a southerly and we will continue to tap into this warm air coming off the near continent, so a change to the feel of the weather and the irony is tuesday is the final day of april and we will see above average temperatures quite widely. some showery outbreaks of rain out to the west but much of central and eastern england and scotland dry, settled, pleasantly warm, temperatures peaking in the high teens. wednesday could be a messy day, we might drag in more cloud off the north sea and thick enough for some drizzle and by the end

of the day, we will keep an eye on a few showers was moving up from the near continent but again, pleasantly warm out there, 16 to 18 degrees widely across the country. low pressure will pull away and as we head towards the all—important bank holiday weekend, here isjust an early heads up for you, high—pressure building in and looks likely to quieten things down. there will still be a few showers, maybe longer spells of rain on monday but on the whole, it looks quite promising.

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to saudi arabia as diplomatic efforts intensify to stop israel's offensive into rafah. uk ministers insist health is a priority after tory mp daniel poulter defects to labour because of concerns over how the nhs is managed. the boss of tesla, elon musk, meets government officials in beijing. they're discussing the future of us—china relations over electric vehicles. and thousands turn out to celebrate italy's new football champions — inter milan. hello, i'm lewis vaughanjones. we start in the middle east — where the palestinian president says only the us can prevent an israeli attack on rafah, where more than a million have fled. efforts are under way to negotiate a truce between israel and hamas. the us secretary of state is meeting arab leaders

to discuss the situation.