Muffled guitar plays. Where ive been before. Were at rehearsals for a Music Festival held every year in memory of claires son, dylan rocha. Take me down. This is one of dylans songs, erm, that he wrote, but no one actually found it until after hed died. He was special, obviously, from the minute he was born. As soon as he could talk, the first thing he asked for was a drum kit. Always very, very musical. Before you take me. This isjonas thats my son. This is paddy thats dylans best friend. And this is carlos thats dylans dad. Guitar feedback. He was, er, unique. Charismatic, funny. Leather trouser wearing, black hair box dye, obviously. Hard to describe, butjust brilliant. He loved performing. Hed get really nervous, but you wouldnt be able to tell when he was up there. Your black hair. I think most of his musics probably on soundcloud. Hed upload onto there, in the hope that people would listen and enjoy. I do think he was a musical genius. What would he have made of all of you gettin
Of the world, and The Economist calculates that more than 39 of the worlds population lives under authoritarian rule. Well, across this edition of The Media Show, were going to discuss how states are now major sources of disinformation, how technology is changing the threats to freedom of speech, and how major Media Organisations such as the bbc see their role in responding to this. Its a lot to get through, and were going to start by understanding how restrictions on the press affect the information that people are able to access. And well begin with the situation in three countries that have a long history of muzzling the media russia, china and iran. And with us, weve got three experts from bbc monitoring. It, as the name suggests, monitors Media Activity Around The World. Kia atri follows the iranian media and, kia, just describe first a regular. A normal person, if you can say that in iran. What is their media diet . What sorts of information are they getting and where from . Thei
And i think i can go back to the last page, actually, just to show you again what those numbers are, totting up all the totals, the bbc Election Team have added them altogether and this is it. Sadiq khan, 1,080,000 votes, susan hall way behind on 811,000. The greens almost pipped the lib dems into third place, they will be pleased with that. But stand back, the big result, sadiq khan gets that third term as london mayor. That result, sadiq khan gets that third term as london mayor. Term as london mayor. That is unprecedented, term as london mayor. That is unprecedented, i term as london mayor. That is unprecedented, i think, term as london mayor. That is unprecedented, ithink, is term as london mayor. That is| unprecedented, ithink, is not . Term as london mayor. That is unprecedented, i think, is not . This unprecedented, ithink, is not . This comes despite this incredible flutter we had last night, saying that the race was going to be much tighter than predicted. How did we get into
Street and his labour rival, richard parker. Votes rechecked, a recount in coventry and this result in the last hour or so. The number of votes recorded for each. Weve waited all day for this moment. Its happening now. The result. And i do hereby declare that richard parker. Cheering this is the most important thing i will ever do. This week, people here voted for the person and the party. | they recognise that a labour mayor can make a positive. Difference in this region. So where do i go . A winner and a loser and the finest of margins. Mr street, commiserations. What do you put your loss down to . Very straightforward, chris, isnt it . We didnt persuade enough people across the West Midlands of our record and our plans for the future to give them confidence to go and vote on thursday. Ive always said it was my campaign and we didnt get over the line. Bluntly, is rishi sunak to blame . No, this was my campaign. Idid it. The famous words. I did it my way, and it was always going to be
About what he believes the result represents. Today, the people in our area have not only spoken, theyve hollered at the top of their voices with two simple and clear messages. To the government, enough is enough. And locally, labour is delivering in power. Up and down this country, ordinary people are fed up with the chaos, mismanagement and decline the tories have presided over. Despite this, though, were getting on with the job locally. This result isntjust a rejection of the tories. Voters in our city region arent easily kidded. Its a Ringing Endorsement of what were doing locally too. Steve rotherham, there are. Lets speak to henry hill. Hes the Acting Editor of Conservative Home. These results obviously disappointing for the conservative party, but they were forecast to be difficult . ~ ,. , ~ party, but they were forecast to be difficult . ~ , ~. Difficult . Absolutely. I think what the show when difficult . Absolutely. I think what the show when you difficult . Absolutely. I th