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
Lets speak to our scotland Political Correspondent, jenni davidson. Jennl jenni, for those of us that dont follow the Politics Of Scotland that much, who is this activist . Follow the Politics Of Scotland that much, who is this activist . Well, he has a bit of much, who is this activist . Well, he has a bit of a much, who is this activist . Well, he has a bit of a track much, who is this activist . Well, he has a bit of a track record much, who is this activist . Well, he has a bit of a track record of has a bit of a track record of challenges to the snp leadership. He is a former lawyer. Last year he stood against former snp msp and former government minister mike russell for the snp presidency. And quite memorably, he also described the snps Independence Policy as flatulence in a trance, whatever that might mean im not quite sure. So we have been Hearing Reports in the last couple of days that Graeme Mccormick is planning to challenge john swinney for the snp leadership. It had looke
, according to the countrys ministry of internal affairs, the organizers are buying up Police Uniforms to distribute them to hired activists. Disguised provocateurs must beat protesters and use weapons in front of television cameras, although the protesters already behave like pogromists, throwing stones and smoke bombs at the cordon. The Security Forces have to use Water Cannons and tear gas in response. As if i were illustrating. Georgia faces an uphill battle to in order to avoid war and maintain peace, despite the promises of the bucharest summit in 2008, georgia and ukraine never became nato members. All such decisions are made by the global war party, which has enormous influence on the european union, on nato; it views both georgia and ukraine only as cannon fodder. This party pitted russia and georgia against each other back in 2008, and in 2014 and 22 they pitted ukraine against each other. All his books are not a simple story of his own life childhood without parents, the fro
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Have thought to be trapped under the rumble and tie. Towns have been devastated in morocco, central regions, following fridays minus, or 6. 8 or quake of worst hed communities are struggling to find food. Water, and shelter. Ouch is here as hasha. Mind bar is near the epi center, and the ton of were gone. Most of the 8, which is going to the severely affected areas including grid again, comes from only one road which is not far from here to the. You can see some yellow vehicles that you can see. The army is deployed multiple vehicles to drive south all the way and they facing a massive obstacle. Do you see these mountain . Just beyond all the areas destroyed by the vin, theres absolutely no way they would be able to move to those affected areas because the books are blocked every 4 or 5 hours. Because the, theres many massive rocks flooding from the mountains, which were also affected by the ethnic or several countries of offer to help morocco with relief efforts. Cutoff, spain, the un