Haverfordwest and the wales title might live Election Debate. The wales live Election Debate. Applause good evening and welcome to the pembrokeshire county showground in have rfordwest pembrokeshire county showground in haverfordwest for a special live Election Debate, and welcome to viewers beyond whilst watching on the bbc news channel. Over the next hour, we will be testing the pledges and ambitions of five Political Parties in wales. I will be chatting to our audience, who have a wide range of viewpoints and are very keen to quiz our panel of politicians on a range of subjects, not just brexit, to politicians on a range of subjects, notjust brexit, to get the answer is that matter to wales. You at home canjoin in on social media. The hashtag is on screen. We asked the five main parties to nominate a leading representative to take part in the debate. For the lib dems, their leader in wales, jane dodds, for the conservatives, david tc davies. For plight comrie for plaid cymru,. And f
welcome to bbc news. more now on the news that a massive earthquake has killed more than 500 people in turkey and syria, and i canjoin my colleague for more. welcome to all of you watching on pbs and around the globe. we are bringing you special coverage of breaking news this hour. a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake has struck northern syria and also south eastern turkey. official figures say officialfigures say more official figures say more than 650 people have been killed, that figure will rise. the earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.8 struckjust before dawn. the epicentre was in the turkish province of gaziantep. buildings collapsed, hundreds of miles away. there were also reports of many of the casualties in northern syria, across the border. the tremor was also felt in lebanon, gaza, jordan, cyprus and iraq. turkey has declared a state of emergency. syria s government, meanwhile, has also held an emergency meeting in order to decide how they will respond. witnesses from
Bollywood film of all time . And coming up in the sport on bbc news, englands cricketing summer has started. Theyre in bristol, playing a one Day International against ireland. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. The conservatives have made big gains in the local elections, recording their best results since 2008. Many of the votes cast yesterday across england, scotland and wales are still being counted, but labour has fared badly in many areas, including losing control of its former stronghold of glasgow. Ukip has seen its vote collapse, only winning a single seat so far. The Liberal Democrats have had a mixed result, and havent found the breakthrough they had been hoping for. Just a few moments ago, this is how things looked. It means the conservatives have so far gained 240 seats, labour have lost 177, the Liberal Democrats of lost 177, the Liberal Democrats of lost 31 and ukip have lost 68. When it comes to councils. The tories have picked up five councils, labour h
Order. The questions to the Prime Minister. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Nature and has made a belfast prison officer died last week as a result of injuries from a bomb placed under his vehicle. Investigation is underway and one man charged with the connection to the attack. We should offer condolences to the families and friends. Mr. Speaker, let me briefly update the house on the terrorist attacks yesterday in brussels. Details still emerge but our understanding is 34 people were killed and many other injured. In istanbul on the 19th of march. One british national. We faced a common Terror Threat and im sure the whole house will join me in expressing our full solidarity with the people of belgium following this terrible attacks. I spoke to belgium Prime Minister yesterday to pass on our lives. By police and agencies are doing everything they can to support the investigation. In this country weve increased patrol importers screening. The secretary will be making a statement later said in t
Mr. Speaker, let me briefly update the house on the terrorist attacks yesterday in brussels. Details still emerge but our understanding is 34 people were killed and many other injured. In istanbul on the 19th of march. One british national. We faced a common Terror Threat and im sure the whole house will join me in expressing our full solidarity with the people of belgium following this terrible attacks. I spoke to belgium Prime Minister yesterday to pass on our lives. By police and agencies are doing everything they can to support the investigation. In this country weve increased patrol importers screening. The secretary will be making a statement later said in that office that were taken. Mr. s acre, britain and belgium share the same values of liberty and democracy. The terrorists want to destroy everything our two countries and for, but we will never let them. This morning i had meetings with others in from a duty and hospital have are their meetings later today. The and the public