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
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Moving on to football. Luton town can give their hopes of avoiding relegation from the English Premier League a big boost tonight as they take on everton. Theyll move out of the drop zone with victory. Everton have already secured Premier League safety. The visitors did illegal up, Dominic Calvert lewin scored from the penalty spot after a penalty, but i cant tell you that just in the last minute, luton have equalised throughout ican i can tell you luton have equalised through adebayo. Elsewhere, liverpool manager jurgen klopp has hit out at the Premier League and its broadcasters, describing Fixture Scheduling as absolutely insane. Since klopp took charge in 2015, liverpool have featured in more early kick offs than any other Premier League club. But klopp also suggested that lunch time kick off times dontjust affect his team, but are also partly to blame for english teams struggles in europe this season. I watch a lot of football, all over the world, and the Premier League is the wor
Hello and welcome to the program, the detention of dozens of people working in the media in india has been condemned by journalists organizations, as well as press freedom and civil rights groups. The government says the raids were covered out carried out to protect National Security claiming media organizations are using chinese funding to undermine the state. The government opponents say the Police Action is a sign of further erosion of press freedom in a country often praised for being the Worlds Largest democracy. So, what is happening to indias media . And just how free is journalism they are . We will be discussing all of that and more with our guests shortly but first this report. Media office raids and journalists questioned, scenes becoming common in india. On tuesday it was the turn of a news portal critical of the government, police searched the office of news click in the homes of several writers. Dozens of them were detained, interrogated and released. Their laptops and mo