cyprus and luxembourg six each. remember, they don t sit according to nationality, they sit within broad international groupings. there are seven groupings in all the left, the greens, the socialists & democrats, renew europe. renew europe is the liberals. then comes the biggest group of them all the centre right european people s party, to the right of them the european conservatives and reformists, and then on the hard right, the identity and democracy group, in which marine le pen s meps will sit. so, let me show you the first projection issued in the last half an hour. you will see there the big gainers are definitely the hard right. it is only an early projection, this, but the losers on this chart very much the losers on this chart very much the greens and the liberals, which include emmanuel macron s renaissance party. neck, when you look at that chart, what do you see and what are the implications of it? i what do you see and what are the implications of it? what
have an outright majority. and, election campaigning continues in the uk, cabinet minister mel stride insists rishi sunak apologised unequivocally for leaving d day events early and the labour party pledges to build more prisons. now on bbc news, sportsday. hello. welcome along to this sunday sportsday on bbc news. i m ben croucher. coming up. the men s singles final has gone the distance at roland garros. will carlos alcaraz or alexander zverev win a first french open? at the men s t20 world cup we ll have the latest from india pakistan and we ll get more on england s faltering campaign just two games in. a super scottish send off. next stop germany and euro 2024 forjohn mcginn and co. and forjohn mcginn and co. i am at the european athle championships and i am at the european athletics championships in rome where britain already have one gold medal and there are hopes for more tonight. hello there, thanks for your company. the men s singles final at the french open wa
ps, and i love this bit. i avoided using tartan wall purely for laura s benefits . so handy, we got you here this week. yes. good morning to you, laura. tartan wool. i m not a fan. i m not a fan of tartan wool either. and we will answer that question, connor. we will answer it, but you have to keep listening. and a few other things to go through today. sure. yeah. we have the various commitments made that seem to be fairly new commitments on welfare reform. and we also have the previews for the manifestos. it s going to be an exciting episode of this sunday s newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello, it s laura in the studio. it s faisel in studio two. it s james in glasgow. hurray! how nice to have the two of you with me here on a sunday afternoon, having been abandoned by paddy and henry and adam and everybody else. i fought my way through thickets of pollen. apparently, it s all male trees that try and mate with you. what? someone planted only male plain trees. and this is
good evening. we start with the european elections. it s still early with exit polls coming in from around europe, but we ve had our first projection of what the next european parliament will look like, and in many countries, far right parties have made big gains. exit polls show a historic win for marine le pen s national rally in france and is on course to trounce president macron s party. far right parties have also made substantial gains in austria and germany. exit polls say 27 countries voting, most of them since thursday, 373 million people were eligible to vote. that is considerably more than the 244 million who will be taking part in the united states in november. so, this is a very big deal, not only because it will set the direction for this parliament at a critical time in europe, with war in ukraine, the economy stuttering, migration a major concern for many, but because what happens in this election so often has a bearing on the direction of domestic politics in