, safer and greener london and in what i hope will be a year of great change a future Labour Government led by keir starmer. Government led by keir starmer. Working with us in city hall will mean we can go much further and accomplish so much more. And accomplish so much more. And labours also been celebrating success in liverpool, in South Yorkshire and in West Yorkshire today, and in greater manchester, where andy burnham was re elected. He andy burnham was re elected. He picked up just over 63 of the vote there and said hell always give his best to the job. Im overwhelmed, so have so many people prepared to put their trust in me. 7 is overwhelming. Its humbling, and i recognise that people who vote for other parties at a general election of lent me their support, and its why i will be very, very rigid in taking a place first rather than a party first approach. Seems to me thats what the role of the mayor is all about, bringing people together , you know, get people together, you know
We will not be silent. We will not be silent. We will raise the voice of gaza. We will raise the voice of palestine. Hello . Come back hello . Come back hello . Come back caroline. Lucas. All is forgiven. Meanwhile, in my take forgiven. Meanwhile, in my take at ten, prince harry returns to britain next week. This will surprise you, but i think he should have a heros welcome. Find out why at ten. So, two hours of big opinion, big debate and big entertainment. Ill be deaung and big entertainment. Ill be dealing with the bbc in two minutes time. You will not believe the alleged discrimination thats happening. But first News Headlines and some breaking news with sam francis. Francis. Mark, thank you very much and good evening to you from the newsroom. Its 9 00. And as mark said, we start with some breaking news in the england local elections. There has been local elections. There has been a surprise upset tonight in the last few minutes for the conservative party in the West Midlands, with
captured on october the 7th and held in gaza since then. the three men and one woman have been taken to hospital they re said to be in good health and have appeared in front of cameras. news of their rescue triggered celebrations in israel. these pictures show israelis gathering outside the hospital where the four were taken for checks and remain for treatment. the israeli military has released these picture of the moment one of the hostages, noa argamani, was taken to safety in a helicopter. but the military operation, which israel says was based on precise intelligence it had received, was hard fought. israel s military says it suffered some casualties. hamas says that more than two hundred palestinians were killed during the raid in central gaza. a hamas spokesperson has said that some hostages were also killed during the clash. our middle east correspondent hugo bachega reports from tel aviv. free again four hostages captured by hamas on the 7th of october and taken t
anyway, so just before we dive into this episode of newscast, just a little moment to explain what we actually do. so, we and some of our other kind of bestjournalistic pals in the bbc get together every night, chew over what s happened in the election that day, and then publish it as a podcast, which is newscast. and you can get that every night wherever you get your podcasts. and it sjust, for me, as a journalist, it s really kind of fun, but also kind of in depth way ofjust processing what s happened in this big, crazy news event, which is the general election of 202a. that s right. and i think what we also try to do is open up our notebooks and give people more of the kind of conversations that you have with politicians, advisers, staffers, privately and some of the things, frankly, that you can t necessarily fit into a news bulletin when you ve got 60 seconds or two and a half minutes to explain a story. and we also want to hear from you and you in the next half hour c
and who are believed to have been held in gaza since then. the three men, and one woman, have been taken to hospital they re said to be in good health and have appeared in front of cameras. news of their rescue triggered celebrations in israel these are pictures of israelis gathering outside the hospital where the four were taken for checks and treatment. but the military operation, which israel says was based on intelligence it had received, was hard fought. israel s military says it suffered some casualties. hamas says that more than 200 palestinians were killed during the raid in central gaza. the group has said that some hostages were also killed during the clash. our middle east correspondent hugo bachega reports from tel aviv. free again four hostages captured by hamas on the 7th of october and taken to gaza. finally, back in israel after a dramatic rescue. one of them was noa argaman, who is 25 and became one of the most well recognised faces of this crisis seen