Shortly. Sunshine. All the details very shortl. , its saturday 4 may. Our main story rishi sunak has insisted the conservatives have Everything To Fight For, despite the party losing nearly half the seats contested in local elections in england. With results expected in several mayoral races today, the tories will be hoping that andy street can cling on as mayor in the West Midlands. Having already won key councils and a decisive by election, labours expected to hold on to most of the regional mayors up for grabs. Our Political Correspondent, harry farley, has the story. Not many smiles around for the conservatives. The party is that for its worst local elections result in years. One result did bring some cheerfor rishi sunak. X t aur cheer for rishi sunak. Your reelected cheer for rishi sunak. Your reelected mayor cheer for rishi sunak. Your reelected mayor of cheer for rishi sunak. Your i reelected mayor of teesside cheer for rishi sunak. Your reelected mayor of Teesside Ben Houchen
they go on to say they are incredibly proud of who he was, and what he achieved. so, that you can read that on our bbc news live page and we will bring you more here on bbc news throughout the day. we will turn to one of our other top stories in taiwan. more now on taiwan which has been hit by it s biggest earthquake in 25 years. the government says at least nine people have died and more than 700 others have been injured after an offshore earthquake struck the east coast of the island. earlier i spoke to william yang, a journalist in tapei who told us about his experience of the earthquake. the morning at about 8.00am i i was woken up but this very lasting earthquake shake, it was shaking left and right and then up and down and i heard thing falling off my shelves and immediately realising that this is an earthquake that a scale we haven t experienced for many year, so i hid under the table and my first instinct as a journalist is to check the information and see where the e
57 can 525 for pick and mix with g 57 cal is. 52 . For pick and mix with g 57 cal is. 51 wet ror 7 rup. Hello everyone this is afternoon live im simon mccoy. What now for Robert Mugabe . Zimbabwes long time president remains under house arrest but is still supposed to be in charge after the military intervened two days ago. Amid rumours of his imminent resignation and talk of wholl replace him the people of zimbabwe are holding their breath and awaiting news which they hope will answer the question. What next . This report from richard lister. They are headlines most in zimbabwe thought they would never see, the man who had held the nation in an iron grip the 37 years swept aside by the military and now in custody. It is a lot to take in. Steps taken by the army, quite positive. We are a bit uncertain about what will happen. We are still. We have to respect our president , he is too old, we have to give him a safe retirement package and find somewhere to keep him safe. The military say
To get a bit more mild . Isli and we will get the weather. Going to get a bit more mild . Isl am going to be talking about the sport, seemed to be having some problems, we will talk about the controversy around Chris Brennan after double the amount of illegal asthma drug was found in his un, chris brunt says he has not broken any rules but the world governing body of cycling has demanded some answers. Lets see what the weather is doing. We got there eventually. The cold has gone, this is the hard work of those beautiful crafted snowmen, it is less cold out there, in fact its turned to rain, some of it quite heavy, but things could be tricky as we go into the evening, more from me coming up in less than half an hour. Hello everyone this is afternoon live im ben brown. He was the candidate endorsed by President Trump, despite facing a string of allegations of Sexual Misconduct, one of them against a 14 Year Old Girl. Well now roy moore has narrowly lost a Crucial Senate race in alabama a