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 generational dial has jumped too. Like ken and jane, devolution is not something that i have had to get used to, or to adapt to, or to apologise for. Devolution, welsh solutions to welsh problems and opportunities, is in my blood. It is what i have always known through my adult political life and that is the same for a growing number of our citizens and i want us to use this moment as a Starting Point for a more confident march into the future. A march into the future on behalf of a generation that,
Those are our values. It doesnt matter if you are in a different political party. Different political tradition. We always quite literally stand out from what is right. This is another sign of a desperate tory party willing to indulge in dangerous culture wars. Lets be honest, they have nothing else to offer the electorate. We know that the westminster establishment will throw everything at the snp. I am telling you to the, it wont work. No matter what the westminster parties throughout as, there is one thing we have that they will never have. That is an alternative to broken Brexit Britain. And that alternative is independence. That is why the snp will win the general election in scotland. We have to win the general election, because when the snp wins, scotland whence. Scotland wins. We are the only party that will put scotland first. In the years to come we will look back on our 2024 election victory as a crucial step in securing our nations independence. Friends, we are driven by ou
Station. The crews splashed down off the east coast of florida. Cnn this morning starts right now. Good morning, everyone. I often see these moments at burning man and think interesting, probably something ill never be a part of. Except this weekend everybody seemed to care about it because everyone was stuck. Yeah, it is an Epic Burning Man id say. They always say it but this one actually is. Just hour fwrs s from now roads finally reopen. Organizers will make the decision this morning. Roads leading in and out of festival have been shut down since saturday after heavy rain created ankle deep mud. Officials say the thick mud made it virtually impossible for cars, buses and rvs to leave. A lot of people walked for miles through the mud to get out. And here you can see some vehicles that tried to leave but became hopelessly stuck. So much water. We are flooded. Well be stuck here at least a couple days. This is nuts. This is what people have been trudging through for days now. Festivalg
of 800,000 young people who are school teachers, who are doctors, who have come out of the shadows, who have been educated by our system who have been to two, three background checks and say to them, you re going to live in fear now. we re coming after you. we re allowing you know, daca, it isn t like it expires next march. already 30,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers either lost their daca or didn t reapply, because they don t feel that it s worth it. do you have confidence it s going to pass? we need to get it done right away? do you have confidence it will pass in january? here s what i believe. i believe that if we speak clearly to those in powerful positions about the needs of those that are being attacked by what i can only describe as a racist misogynist and xenophobic administration, that we need to raise the bar, too. if we raise it, yes.