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In dealing with the pressure, goal scoring and movements and assisting and dealing with the pressure, he brought everything to the table that we could possibly hope for. Britains Geraint Thomas remains second overall after stage five of the giro diitalia. It ended in a Sprint Finish in luca in tuscany with frenchman Benjamin Tomma claiming the First Grand Tour stage win of his career. It was also the first victory of the year for his cofidis team. Thomas finished in the main group alongside overall leader taday pog archer and remains 46 seconds behind the slovenian. Rafa nadal insists hes exci...

Hello and welcome to the bbc news at one. In the last hour, the mp Natalie Elphicke has become the latest conservative to defect to the labour party. Natalie elphicke has been the mp for dover in kent since 2019. Our chief Political Correspondent Henry Zeffmanjoins Me from The Houses Of Parliament henry, was this a surprise . It was a shock. If you had asked me before this afternoon to list 100 conservative mps most likely to defect to the labour party, Natalie Elphicke would have been nowhere near that list. And i think that was reflected in the faces of conservative mps at prime ministers qu...

There is crucial for the success of the war. In other developments, israels military says three soldiers were killed, and several injured after hamas fired rockets from an area in southern gaza, near the rafah crossing. Israel responded by closing the karem shalom border point. Peace talks in cairo have ended no progress on a Ceasefire Agreement was made. The Israeli Government has also forced the News Network Aljazeera to shut down its operations in israel calling It A Mouthpiece for hamas. Frank gardner reports from jerusalem. In a country that prides itself on free speech and democracy, Isr...

Noon, and a few minutes after that, the Party National secretary confirmed that there was only one nominee who had reached the threshold of 100 backers across 20 local branches of the party, and that was john swinney. 0f local branches of the party, and that wasjohn swinney. Of course, that wasjohn swinney. Of course, that followed the decision last week of our potential rival, kate forbes, to declare that she was not going to contest this Leadership Challenge with mr swinney. Now it Isjohn Swinney who will be taking over. He has led the party before, from 20002004. He has led the party before...

Allies. A source close to him said resignation had become an option rather than letting the vote go ahead. This is a live shot of the official residence of the Scottish First minister, bute house and humza yousaf is expected to make a statement around noon. Lets talk to our Political Correspondent in edinburgh, lynsey bews. What is the latest you are hearing . We expect to hear from the First Minister around noon, we are here at bute house, the official residence of the First Minister and we expect to hear the current First Minister say he will resign following the collapse of the Power Sharin...