Major test of Public Opinion before a General Election later this year. Theres little good news for Prime Minister rishi sunak. At a by election in Blackpool South, his party suffered its Third Largest swing to the Opposition Labour Party since the second world war. At a local council level, the results are no better. The conservatives have lost half of the seats announced so far. Experts say they could be on track to lose a staggering 500 councillors, one of the worst performances at the polls in four decades. Heres our Political Editor chris mason. Cheering. Northallerton in North Yorkshire this afternoon. The Prime Minister lives a few miles away, and look whos turned up to rub his nose in it. York and North Yorkshire, the wider county so often rock solid conservative, has elected a labour mayor. Weve had really good results across the country all day long, but this is a very, very special moment, david, to become the mayor here. And thank you to the team for all the fantastic work
Team to weigh in. Monday night football overnight, quarterback Aaron Rodgers carted off the field with an injury just minutes into his debut with the new york jet. They still, though, got the o. T. Win against the bills. Cnn this morning starts right now. All right. This breaking overnight, police say the murderer who escaped from a Pennsylvania Prison nearly two weeks ago now is armed and still on the move. Officers swarmed an intersection about 25 miles from the prison late last night after confirmed sighting and sent out this social media post just before 2 00 a. M. He is armed. Residents in the area are asked to lock all doors and windows, secure vehicles, remain indoors. Do not approach. Call 911 if seen. Wpvi reports a pair of shoes believed to be Danelo Cavalcantes were believed to be found in the area and shortly after that Police Received reports of gunfire. Another overnight of major developments. Whats the latest . Reporter well, phil, poppy, this was the update that many fe
tonight on the reidout you know, if donald trump is elected again, we really don t have to worry because the institutions of our government will prevent the worst that he will attempt to do. nothing can be further from the truth because those republicans, you know, house with republicans like mike johnson, a senate with people like josh hawley and mike lee, they won t stand up to him. liz cheney banging that alarm bell with all her might, as her former friends and colleagues abandon democracy for the cult of trump. plus, gaza teeters on the brink of a fullblown humanitarian catastrophe as calls for a permanent cease-fire grow louder by the day. and texas goes full handmaid s tale, creating their own dystopian reality where women are forced to beg for the right to safeguard their own health. but we begin tonight with a threat of america s putin. today, vladimir putin announced his candidacy in the presidential election next march that he is all but certain to win.
it says that the government of israel is obligated to return home all hostages. tonight the government has approved the outline of the first stage of achieving this goal according to which at least 50 hostages, women and children, will be released over four days during which a pause in the fighting will be held. a release of every additional ten hostages will result in one additional day of pause. we will continue the war in order to return home all of the hostages, complete the elimination of hamas and ensure that there will be no new threat to the state of israel from gaza. and right now looking at live pictures from gaza. it is the middle of the night but this news has come in. we can see the images there. it is quiet at the moment but this huge news that an agreement has been approved by benjamin netanyahu and his cabinet. we will work on getting that statement up on the screen for you but again underlined the fact that at least 50 hostages, women and children, will be re
business correspondent, nick marsh. nick, great to see you. what details do we have about what president biden announced? he: didn t really say much in the end, to be honest. he said there is more work to be done when it comes to the indo pacific economic framework. i would say that s a bit of an understatement. we have been talking about this agreement, it s not even a properfree trade agreement, it s not even a proper free trade agreement, let s not forget. we have been talking about it for about a year and a half. still no consensus reached. i think the latest stumbling block was on securing an agreement on workers rights and environmental protections. i think itjust goes to the heart of what s been achievable and not achievable at this apec summit on the diplomatic front, there has been considerable between china and the progress us, the mood music has been positive, the economic issues are much harder to unpick. the united states knows that china dominates this region a