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
And i dont know about you guys at home. Or you, emma , but guys at home. Or you, emma, but im dubbing today, super saturday, because the results of the london Mayoral Elections. Sadiq khan against susan hall. Are announced around about 2 00. And at the moment, the rumours are the whispers are that sadiq khanis are the whispers are that sadiq khan is under big, big pressure. So all eyes on that. Everything to play for. Its going to be very unpredictable. Yeah, but let us know what you think. Is sadiq under pressure . Do you want him back pressure . Do you want him back in office . I dont think many of you would, but i think theres probably some of you who dont mind him that much. And also other results from the local elections yesterday coming through as well. But before all that, heres your News Headlines with ray. Thanks, guys. 10 01. Our top stories. The Prime Minister faces another challenging day after losing hundreds of councillors in the local elections, with 102 of 107 councils
The general election will prove positive for his party. Keir starmer came here twice, Rachel Reeves came here three times. But even they couldnt dislodge ben and the fantastic conservative team , right. And conservative team, right. And they also threw a lot of mud. It needs to be said in this election because they were angry. Angry that ben has delivered more for this region in seven years than labour Party Managed in 30 years. Well, lets take one final look tonight at the latest council results from across england. Counting has now finished the final election result for tonight being declared tomorrow. Those remaining results will follow with seven contests to be announced. London, the West Midlands, greater manchester, west yorkshire, liverpool , south west yorkshire, liverpool, South Yorkshire and in salford. In yorkshire and in salford. In other news, the family of murdered schoolboy alfie lewis have thanked him for making them smile every day. He was stabbed to death by another s
Palestinians sheltering there. Our correspondent, anna foster is injerusalem. I asked her about increasing pressure on hamas to reach a deal. Yeah. Were at the same stage samantha where an israeli deal has been put on the table. It was described at the start of the week by the us Secretary Of State, antony blinken, as extraordinarily generous. And it seems to be that in this latest iteration of the deal, there had been some movement in terms of potentially agreeing to talk about a permanent ceasefire. Now, from israels point of view, of course, its priority at the moment is trying to ensure the release of all the remaining hostages that are being held in gaza. One of hamas s key priorities is to try and get some sort of agreement towards a permanent ceasefire rather than a temporary one. So while it seems that the two sides are moving closer together, there is still a disconnect, i think, on that point. And i think also on the number of hostages to be released. Now, originally we were
To give its first formal response after they arrive in cairo. The cia director William Burns is reportedly in cairo and thats very important because us support for this deal has been crucial. Now, the Sticking Point in all of this is that hamas wants a commitment by israel that the fighting stops. Israel wont give that commitment, partly for political reasons and partly for political military reasons. It believes the remaining four Group Battalions of hamas are hiding out in buffer, probably below ground entitles and yahya sinwar, the leader of us, the military leader of us, the military leader and the architect the october seven massacre, is amongst them. Hiding out there, possibly even surrounded by hostages. So the Israeli Military want to go in and finish thejob. Now, a Ceasefire Deal would certainly postpone, if not shelved that rafah Military Operation altogether. But hamas are taking their time over responding and i think they will want some reassurance that they dont give up ho