today. britain s governing conservative party has made dramatic gains in local elections, a month before a general election takes place. as well as winning hundreds of council seats, their candidates were elected as mayors in the north east and midlands, traditional strongholds of the opposition labour party. brexit and the unpopularity of the labour leaderjeremy corbyn appear to be the main reasons for their success. the conservatives picked up more than 500 extra seats across the country. they gained many from the left of centre labour party, which lost more than 300. the scottish national party, which is currently in government in scotland, also lost seats to the conservatives. but it was the uk independence party, which campaigned for the country to leave the european union, that fared the worst, losing almost all of its councillors in seats it contested. reacting to her party s huge gains, the conservative party leader and british prime minister stressed her need for a b
we start with some breaking news: the campaign of the french presidentialfrontrunner, emmanuel macron, says it has been the victim of a massive hacking attack ahead of sunday s poll. it says hundreds of internal documents were released shortly before official campaigning ended on friday night. aides to mr macron say authentic documents, which had been stolen, were mixed up with fake ones to sow doubt and misinformation. mr macron‘s en marche! party said the documents showed the normal functioning of a presidential election campaign, but added that the authors of the leak clearly wanted to undermine it in the final hours. we will bring you more on this story as details come through. the fate of emmanuel macron and marine le pen is now in the hands of the voters. with analysis of what we can expect at the polls, our correspondent is in paris. if you speak to people on the left, particularly in the hard left as well, a lot of people don t really see anything to vote for in t
presidential candidate, emmanuel macron, says it s been the victim of a massive hacking attack ahead of sunday s poll. it says hundreds of internal documents were released shortly before official campaigning ended on friday night. aides to mr macron say authentic documents, which had been stolen, were mixed up with fake ones to sow doubt and misinformation. mr macron‘s en marche party said the documents showed the normal functioning of a presidential election campaign, but added that the authors of the leak clearly wanted to undermine it in the final hours. with campaigning finished, the fate of centrist emmanuel macron and far right opponent marine le pen is now in the hands of the voters. with analysis on what we can expect at the polls this weekend, the bbc‘s christian fraser is in paris. if you speak to people on the left, particularly in the hard left, as well, a lot of people don t really see anything to vote for in this election, and a lot of people say they will g
showing virtually unbroken blue skies. but for the north west and west of scotland we have more clout around. but all the eastern side of england based in sunshine and the cloud you can see across the northern half of scotland plaguing many parts with even a bit of light rainfor many parts with even a bit of light rain for the many parts with even a bit of light rainforthe far many parts with even a bit of light rain for the far north and in towards the northern isles. any sunshine will come and go for central parts of scotland and northern ireland but feeling quite warm in the sunshine. most of the sunshine across england and wales and generally feeling warmer than yesterday. most noticeable across eastern areas which have been quite grave for the past week or so. top temperatures close to 20 degrees in the south east. this evening and overnight things turned cool again. some frost possible. signs of change across the south, a weather front bringing patchy rain and cloud wit
to the bbc news. we are going to bring you the latest on the election in a minute, but let s cross to the north irish border where michel barnier is speaking. i am not a super technocrat from brussels. i have been chosen for thisjob, technocrat from brussels. i have been chosen for this job, this extraordinary job been chosen for this job, this extraordinaryjob and i hope it will remain extraordinary. because i am a politician, for a long time. just remember, i have been elected for the first time when i was 22 in a very agricultural country. exactly like this one. so this negotiation, once again will be extraordinary. and very complex and difficult. this negotiation will not be only financial, legal or technical, in negotiation will not be only financial, legal ortechnical, in my view it will be social and economic. the reason why, i want to listen, i wa nt to the reason why, i want to listen, i want to meet the people on the ground. iwant want to meet the people on the grou