To look at this political and landscaping where the conservatives were certainly hoping to make quite a few gains. And in areas where labor has traditionally been pretty strong. Lots of these seats have a lot of rich labor heritage. So im going to go across to the result center and joined rita once again. Shes got a few suggestions again about the likely conservative gains in wales. Rita . These will change hands from labors to conservatives if the exit poll is correct. And you are talking about being nerdy hugh, just think of this. That labor has come first in terms of seats in the votes in wales in the past 26 elections. That since the first world war. That might still be the case, but still we think these seats are likely conservative gains. The labor majority there was less than 2,000 in the last election. And wherefore casting conservatives to gain that seat from labor. This was number 73 on the conservatives target list, so quite some way down. We think the conservatives might ha
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Welcome to our viewers on Public Television in america and around the globe. In iraq, Coalition Aircraft have joined the effort to regain control of to greet from Islamic State forces. The bbc understands that reconnaissance flights were requested by the Iraqi Government last week. Iraqi forces are preparing a largescale operation to retake to greet. Our defense correspondent has more from the front lines. Reporter this is the road that leads to tikrit. With iraqi forces on one side and Islamic State fighters on the other. The city is now surrounded but there is no surrender. The commander of one of the strongest shia militia backed by iraq. He did he denies the attacks at all. We are not in a hurry. We are destroying their supplies. The longer it goes on, weaker Islamic State will become. The areas around tikrit have now been liberated. This is as far as we have been allowed to go because of the fighters. All around this evidence. This the wreckage from one of the extremist suicide bo