These by elections were billed as nail biters. Close, tense. In the end, they delivered two significant victories to labour. First in tamworth the 57th Safest Conservative seat in the country before last night. Edwards, sarah siena, labour party 11,719 votes. Cheering. The new mp was elated. It is certainly feeling very historic. I think one of the things we can take is a lot of comfort from the fact that people have seen labour are offering a positive vision, that they want a fresh start, and they are not seeing that the Conservatives have anything to offer. The defeated conservative candidate chose not to stick around. In a statement the tories described it as a difficult result on a much reduced turnout. But it was about to get even more difficult for them. Over in Mid Bedfordshire, when the ballot boxes started arriving, it had still been too close to call, in a rare three way fight between the Conservatives, labour and the lib dems. The liberal democrats doubled their share of the
And the countdown is on, here is the olympic Countdown Clock marking 100 days before the opening of the paris games. Welcome to jerusalem welcome tojerusalem three days after irans unprecedented attack from iran. Across the region and in capitals around the world to try and avoid a dangerous excretory spiral. Both iran and israel have been on the phone to many capitals. Here in jerusalem today, germanys Foreign Minister and the British Foreign secretary have been meeting a senior israeli officials including the Prime Minister engine netanyahu. Both of them conveyed the same message. That israel could do Everything Possible to avoid an escalation. Prime minister netanyahu answered saying that while israel appreciated their support and suggestions that only israel would decide on the next steps. Translation iam now coming from meetings with the Foreign Ministers of Great Britain and germany. Last night i spoke to Prime Minister sue nack germany. Last night i spoke to Prime Minister sue m
Sensation , has died. He was 76 and had cancer. The African American running back was also a successful hollywood actor. But his fame turned to infamy in 1994 when he was accused of murdering nicole brown, and a friend of hers in los angeles. Journalist David Margolick covered the oj Simpson Trial for the New York Times he told me what that covering the trial had been like. Well, yeah, it was really at the centre of the world for several months. I mean, covering it was unlike any experience that i ever had before. Everybody was watching it. Everybody was talking about it. There was enormous pressure on covering it well and sensitively, and it was an enormous professional challenge to get through it. A professional challenge because in part it was so divisive, wasnt it, in the way that americans saw the case, the trial and indeed the verdict . Well, thats true. And i think that on the one hand, you could get buried in the testimony and the day to day challenges of covering a trial on th
so with the conservatives, it s all about labour. it s all about not what a conservative term in office would mean, but what a labour term in office, especially with a supermajority that phrase that has become part of the political lexicon in the last few weeks would mean. that s what rishi sunak s been talking about today. that s what rishi sunak is going to be talking about until midnight wednesday slash thursday labour. it s also about what labour would mean, but they have a much more direct way of talking about it. they use one word change, but the slight shift between the start of the campaign when they were using that one word, change, and now is that they say if you want it, you ve got to vote for it. and they keep repeating that and expect to hear that again and again and again until wednesday night, thursday morning. and the reason they do that is because there s just this slight twinge of concern in the labour campaign that the polling landscape means that s
After a global Computer System failure. Ba says it hopes to get passengers onto the next available flights over the weekend. As you can see behind me there is a huge Queue Waiting for any information. My main concern is that i dont want my 80 year old grandma spending the night on heathrow floor. The Terror Threat level in the uk which was increased to the highest status of critical following the Manchester Bombing has been reduced to severe. There will be more arrests and more searches, but theres greater clarity and progress has led jtac, the independent body that assesses threat, to come to the judgment that an attack is no longer imminent. Police and Army Bomb Disposal experts evacuate an area of moss side as part of an ongoing search linked to the Manchester Arena bombing. There are new revelations about president trumps son in law, jared kushner, and his alleged involvement in secret dealings with russia. Us media is reporting that the fbi is investigating claims he discussed ope