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Europes first black leader, after winning the welsh labour leadership election. The outgoing First Minister, mark drakeford, will step down from the post next week. Mr gething was born in zambia and is a former solicitor. In his acceptance speech, he highlighted the historic nature of his win. Today, we turn a page in the book of our nations history. A history that we write together. Notjust because i have the honour of becoming the first black leader in any european country, but because a gener...

Staying with cricket, the former england fast bowler steven finn has retired from professional cricket at the age of 34. It brings an end to an 18 year career in which in took 125 wickets in 36 test appearances between 2010 and 2016. He won three ashes series in that time. He hasnt featured in red ball cricket for over a year after suffering a knee injury. Finn says hes been fighting a battle with his body for the last 12 months. Theres been another coup for the Saudi Pro League. Brazilian star ...

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Iam i am working with them very hard and we must get more aid into gaza. No excuses. The us Secretary Of State has also been calling on israel to maximise every possible means of getting aid into gaza. Speaking before talks with qatars prime minister, Antony Blinken said conditions in the territory were unacceptable and unsustainable. Take a listen. It is also urgent, irrespective of the cease fire to dramatically increase the cease fire to dramatically increase this of getting to people inside ...

Has been in the newspapers this morning but as far as i can tell the Equalities Minister is one of those calling for the guidance to be strengthened from original drafts who wanted to go further in restricting the ability of people at school to identify as a different gender. We have reached this place where we do not know when the government is going to do in terms of the timetable for issuing new guidance, we do not knowing exactly when it will arrive when it comes to what it should look like ...

has been in the newspapers this morning but as far as i can tell the equalities minister is one of those calling for the guidance to be strengthened from original drafts who wanted to go further in restricting the ability of people at school to identify as a different gender. we have reached this place where we do not know when the government is going to do in terms of the timetable for issuing new guidance, we do not knowing exactly when it will arrive when it comes to what it should ...

it isa it is a fresh start for some of this morning. a day of sunshine and showers. the heaviest across scotland, northern england. wherever you are it will be blustery. details coming up later in the programme. good morning. its wednesday, 12thjuly. further allegations have been made against the unnamed bbc presenter whos been accused of paying a teenager for explicit photographs. another young person has told bbc news they were sent abusive messages by the male star, while the sun ne...

im fredricka whitfield. thank you so much for joining us. new today, iraq is now summoning a top u.s. diplomatic official in protest of a barrage of punishing u.s. air strikes in the middle east. the u.s. says those strikes hit 85 targets linked to irans islamic revolutionary guard quds force and affiliated militia groups in iraq and syria. the strikes a response to a drone attack in jordan which killed three american soldiers on sunday. iraq is claiming the explosions that just happen...

of which are linked to inflation. lets put this into perspective — because the uks national debt is at record levels. it owes £2.69 trillion. that is almost the size of the uk economy — the so—called debt—to—gdp ratio is around 97.7%. that is a useful guide to how affordable the debt is for a country. the chancellor has pledged to get that ratio down. the uks far better off than some of its neighbours though — italys debt—to—gdp is around 140%. but if we look at german...

who lost loved ones to the illness, or suffered with it themselves. the inquiry began last year, but today is the first public hearing, with evidence expected to be heard for at least three years. covid has been included on the death certificates of more than 225,000 people in the uk. with more details, heres our health correspondent catherine burns. headlines for you at six oclock this morning. nine dead and more than 400 infected with a mystery new virus in china. for many, this feel...