Who had served two terms in the role. The labour mayor of london, sadiq khan, was re elected for a historic third term. Overall, the conservatives lost hundreds of councillors in the local elections in england. This morning, the transport secretary mark harper said while the results were disappointing. The General Election was still all to play for. Lets speak to our correspondent rajini vaidyanathan, who is in birmingham. That is where the West Midlands mayoral result was announced yesterday. She has been there getting reaction. It was already a difficult few days after thursdays local elections for the Conservative Party but i think many pin hopes on the West Midlands mayoral contest that declared in birmingham late last night, about nine oclock. That is because it was a close race, but the conservatives hoped their incumbent mayor andy street would hold on for another term but in the end, it was the Labour Candidate who is now the mayor, Richard Parker, who won by a squeak, by abou
the president of cop28, sultan al jabar, said, it s an historic agreement that sets the world in the right direction. but many had wanted a strongerform of words calling for the phasing out of coal, oil and gas. our climate editorjustin rowlatt reports from dubai. we waited and we waited and then. hearing no objection, it is so decided. with the bang of a gavel, the deal was done. applause. and it got a standing ovation. so the hammer has just gone down here, and that was the fastest that an agreement text has ever been agreed. the presidency is calling this an historic agreement, but it is hedged around with questions and doubts. it calls on countries to contribute to ambitious actions to tackle climate change. now, i could do a single plate and claim to have contributed to doing the washing up, but would you consider that i had really pulled my weight? the president of these talks was in no doubt how important it was. together we have confronted realities, and we have
iam here i am here in southern israel where the renewed bombardment is entering its second day, after the collapse of a week long truce. this is live looking across at northern gaza. a spokesman for the israeli military said they were now hitting hamas targets all over the gaza strip. we ve had reports of heavy smoke hanging over the area. also the sight and sound. you can hear often the sound of machine gun fire which is happening across in gaza at the moment. let s just talk about what has been happening over the last 2a hours or so. israeli air strikes have hit areas in northern gaza and in khan yunis. the health ministry has said more than 200 have been killed and 600 injured since the fighting we started at seven o clock yesterday morning. khan yunis is seeing some of the heaviest bombardments that have been seen in this conflict so far. israeli military also dropped some leaflets earlier and part of southern gaza warning people to actually leave the, move even further s
we begin with breaking news and in the past half hour or so we received a statement from mossad, which is israel s intelligence body. it says there has been an impasse in negotiations for a further temporary ceasefire. we have heard some conflicting suggestions in the last 2a hours about what happens when that ceasefire came to an end at seven o clock yesterday morning and we were told i had been intensive talks up were told i had been intensive talks up until the last minutes but in the last hour or so the reuters news agency have reported a team from the israeli mossad in doha negotiating for a resumption of the ceasefire deal. negotiating to try to release some of the female hostages and perhaps a hostages as well but very shortly after that there was so statement from the israeli prime ministers office who said the situation was quite different and that there was in fact an impasse in negotiations and benjamin netanyahu had urged his team to leave doha and qatar and come
covid inquiry she would find it hard to pick a day when regulations were followed and, as a summit begins about the safety of artificial intelligence, we hear about al s success in grading a rare form of cancer doctors say it could benefit thousands. and coming up on bbc news. another century for quinton de kock. he gets his fourth of the world cup as south africa hope to take a further step towards a semifinals against new zealand. good afternoon from jerusalem. the rafah crossing from gaza to egypt has opened, and there are reports that ambulances carrying a small number of seriously injured palestinians have entered egypt. it s the first time people have been able to leave the besieged territory since the current conflict between israel and hamas began. the foreign office says the rafah crossing is expected to open for limited time periods to also allow specific groups of foreign nationals through. it says british nationals will start to be taken out in stages over the c