Major test of Public Opinion before a General Election later this year. Theres little good news for Prime Minister rishi sunak. At a by election in Blackpool South, his party suffered its Third Largest swing to the Opposition Labour Party since the second world war. At a local council level, the results are no better. The conservatives have lost half of the seats announced so far. Experts say they could be on track to lose a staggering 500 councillors, one of the worst performances at the polls in four decades. Heres our Political Editor chris mason. Cheering. Northallerton in North Yorkshire this afternoon. The Prime Minister lives a few miles away, and look whos turned up to rub his nose in it. York and North Yorkshire, the wider county so often rock solid conservative, has elected a labour mayor. Weve had really good results across the country all day long, but this is a very, very special moment, david, to become the mayor here. And thank you to the team for all the fantastic work
Long disputed territory. The state Department Says mr blinken made the remarks in a conversation with armenias Prime Minister, held in the past few hours. The region is internationally recognised as part of azerbaijan but its population is mostly Ethnic Armenians, who ruled it as a Breakaway Republic for three decades. Earlier this week, an Azerbaijani Military operation routed the Ethnic Armenian separatists and azerbaijan has begun taking full control of the region. Now, Tens Of Thousands of armenians have sought refuge in the main city stepanakert, many of them gathering at the airport. They are coping with dwindling food, medicine and fuel supplies. The red cross has managed to deliver 70 tonnes of aid for the First Time Since hostilities ended. The organisations spokesperson, jason straziuso, said the shipments contained basic staples like wheat. Its an indication of how dire the situation is not enough food, not enough medical supplies. The convoy that we sentin supplies. The con
Armenians in nagorno karabakh, four days after azerbaijan took control over the long disputed territory. The state Department Says mr blinken made the remarks in a conversation with armenias Prime Minister held in the past few hours. The region is internationally recognised as part of azerbaijan but its population is mostly Ethnic Armenians, who ruled it as a Breakaway Republic for three decades. Earlier this week, an Azerbaijani Military operation routed the Ethnic Armenian separatists, and azerbaijan has begun taking full control of the region. Now Tens Of Thousands of armenians have sought refuge in the main city, stepanakert many of them gathering at the airport. They are coping with dwindling food, medicine and fuel supplies. The red cross has managed to deliver 70 tons of aid for the First Time Since hostilities ended. The organisations spokesperson, jason straziuso, said the shipments contained basic staples like wheat. Its an indication of how dire the situation is not enough f
Other allies are directly at war with moscow. Lavrov also blamed the collapse of the black sea grain deal on ukraine. He further criticized kyiv s peace plan as not feasible or realistic. Heres mr lavrov addressing the Un General Assembly on saturday. Translation the collective west has a calling card and iti has long been to reject the principle of equality and their Total Inability to reach agreement. Being used to looking down at the rest of the world, americans and europeans make all sorts of promises and they take on commitments inter alia, written ones and legally binding ones, and then, theyjust dont fulfil them. As President Putin pointed out, the west is one that is truly an empire of lies. Russia, like many countries, knows about this firsthand. The bbc spoke to phillips obrien, professor of strategic studies at st andrews university. He said a lot was missing from mr lavrov s address. It was a speech that you would say really comes from a Point Of View of weakness on ukraine
Of the black sea grain deal on ukraine. He further criticised kyiv s peace plan as not feasible or realistic. Heres mr lavrov addressing the Un General Assembly on saturday. Translation the collective west has a calling card and iti has long been to reject the principle of equality and their total inability to reach an agreement. Being used to looking down at the rest of the world, americans and europeans make all sorts of promises and they take on commitments inter alia, written ones and legally binding ones, and then, theyjust dont fulfil them. As President Putin pointed out, the west is one that is truly an empire of lies. Russia, like many countries, knows about this firsthand. The bbc spoke to phillips obrien, professor of strategic studies at st andrews university. He said a lot was missing from mr lavrov s address. It was a speech that you would say really comes from a Point Of View of weakness on ukraine that he couldnt even mention the ukraine war, that there was no discussion