For the reform party. The labour leader, sir keir starmer, called the result seismic. The result seismic. The counting is also underway as london decides its next mayor, will sadiq khan , make mayor, will sadiq khan, make a third term . Eyes also on key red wall areas in the West Midlands and the tees valley in eight regional battles , with lawless regional battles, with lawless britain dominating the headlines , 38 police and Crime Commissioners are also being elected across england and wales. Currently, the conservatives and labour have one each in the declared results so far , all declared results so far, all results across all elections as we get them throughout the day on gb news today, with quite a bit of wet weather across the country, but the far south should be brighter than yesterday and again, north west scotland doing okay for spring sunshine. The weathers staying pretty mixed as we go into the Long Bank Holiday weekend. Join me later for a full forecast. Also coming up for
Coming up in the next half hour, defeat for the government on the brexit bill. To be right, 309. To the left, 305. 0rder im sure you want to hear the result to make sure it is correct. The ayes to the right, 309. The noes to the left, 305. The ayes have it, the ayes have it. A lock. Hear, hear a last minute concessions failed to persuade the rebels. Downing street was said it was the disappointed despite strong assurances. The government will now decide if further changes to the bill are needed. So how did such a dramatic day unfold . Throughout day seven of a detailed consideration of the eu, a rebellion was afoot. It was the fault of clause 9. I know youre following the minutiae of this so i want me to tell you, butjust in case, clause 9 combines the twin concerns of government is taking power away from parliament and whether parliament will get a meaningful vote before the deal was finalised. The key amendment was number seven table by the former conservative attorney general, domin
John kerry will be in cuba tomorrow to help raise the u. S. Flag over the new u. S. Embassy in havana. The United States and cuba are reopening their embassies in their respective capitals for the first time in more than half a century. We will have live coverage at 9 30 eastern on cspan 2. This weekend on the cspan networks, politics, books, and american history. From the iowae state fair, president ial candidates speak at the candidates so talks soapbox. We will hear from Rick Santorum and Lincoln Chafee and bernie sanders. And sunday afternoon, more live coverage from the state fair with ben carson at 5 00 followed by george pataki. Night,an2 saturday Claire Mccaskill on her life and political career. Dineshmorning at 10 30, disused talks about his new book. , with many president ial candidates, we will learn about the fairs history and its stop on the road to the white house as we look back at the 2008 president ial race. Saturday evening at 6 00, on the civil war, on the 1864 batt
And the other path is pitchforks or stones or rocks. More of them in the hands of more and more unemployed young men. I vote for a sensible losti vote for a sensible rebalancing. We are a great and generous people. If you have any doubt where america is heading, talk to our young people. You really need among them denying that Climate Change is real or that the government to do a thing about it. You rarely meet young people who want to discriminate against gay couples. Our future can be better but we need to act like americans again and together we well, together we must and together as americans, you and i are going to give our children a Better Future that all American Kids deserve. I need your help, thank you. [applause] [chanting omalley] thank you, god bless. Does he need a microphone . Governor, thank you so much for being here. I am a retired educator with over 40 years of experience. My question is this. I appreciate your position on Early Childhood education, prek. My question
And we were on the last draft of the beach that have been closely held. I took it up to him and you obviously obviously knew this speech inside out. I will never forget this. It was very corny but a experience for me. I gave you the speech and you didnt say anything for a moment moment of any set i just want to push the envelope as far as i can on human rights and womens rights. [applause] i was so struck by that. This is the corny part. I was so glad to be in america and to have a first lady who is going to go into what was kind of the diplomatic minefield at that time and make this assertion. You went on to say after that that womens issues and womens rights are the Unfinished Business of the world. Im just wondering where do you think things stand now . Listen that speech which you worked so hard on an Madeline Albright was with us and she provided great feedback as we were going to the drafts, was so important to me personally because i thought the United States needed to leave on