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how a genetic test could reduce the chances of people having a recurring stroke. west ham have done it — they beat az alkmaar, to celebrate reaching their first major european final since 1976. and whilst its a fine friday for many, in parts of england and wales they could be some thundery showers later. your full forecast coming up. good morning. its friday, the 19th of may. our main story. its friday, the 19th of may. the uk has announced a new raft of sanctions against russia, whi...

General election if rishi sunak doesnt change course. The tories are reeling after one of their worst performances in a local election in decades. Labour has been celebrating a key win in the West Midlands mayoral race after its candidate, richard parker, narrowly beat the conservatives Andy Street Who had served two terms in the role. The labour mayor of london, sadiq khan, was re elected for a historic third term. Overall, the conservatives lost hundreds of councillors in the local elections i...

Plan had not yet come to fruition. Our first report is from our Political Correspondent, hannah miller. Applause. Labour won mayors, councils, and police and crime commissioners. Rishi sunak left clinging on to just one mayor in the tees valley. Even his majority diminished. This morning, the former home secretary, and one of the Prime Ministers biggest critics, warned of a total wipe out for the conservatives. I despair at these terrible results. Theres no spinning these results, theres no disg...

Here it is. A fascinatingly close result. Richard parkerfor labour, 225,000, andy street for the conservatives, 224,000. The majority, despite there being more than half a million votes, wasjust 1508, thats reflected in the percentages. Votes, wasjust 1,508, thats reflected in the percentages. 37. 8 for labour, 37. 5 for the conservatives. One interesting thing to point out is independents 12 , that was a candidate critical of labours policy on gaza. Still didnt stop them winning, just. Have a l...

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Richard parker, narrowly beat the conservative� s Andy Street Who had served two terms in the role. The labour mayor of london, sadiq khan, was re elected for a historic third term. Overall, the conservatives lost hundreds of councillors in the local elections in england. This morning, the transport secretary, mark harper, said while the results were disappointing, the General Election was still all to play for. But speaking to the bbc, Suella Braverman insisted her party here is this report f...

My guest is shaharzad akbar, former chairperson of afghanistans independent human rights commission. What would morally acceptable engagement look like . Shaharzad akbar, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Its good to be here. Its good to have you here. If i may, im going to start with some powerful words of yours. You wrote recently, i spend every day with a fire burning in my heart with the pain of injustice that women in my country face. Of course, since the taliban takeover, youre no longer liv...

there are reports of house—to—house fighting in the city. as the israeli bombardment of gaza continues, the united nations says half the population of the territory are starving and nine out of ten can t eat every day. it comes as the world health organization holds a special session on the health situation in the occupied palestinian territories — we will hear from our correspondent on that later this hour. but first, our middle east correspondent yolande knell has the latest. t...

israel has ordered residents to leave the centre of gaza s main southern city, khan younis, as fighting there intensifies. there s been heavy bombardment of the territory overnight; the head of the israeli army has called for the military campaign in gaza to be stepped up. israeli tanks are reported to be slowly advancing towards the centre of khan younis and there are reports of house—to—house fighting in the city. the head of the world health organisation has said the war in gaza...

Canada marks its 150th Anniversary. 500,000 people attend celebrations in ottawa. Hello and welcome to bbc news. We begin in mosul, where, after intense fighting, Iraqi Forces Say theyve taken control of the so callled Islamic States main base. The militants have also been driven from a hospital compound, where several senior is leaders were thought to have been hiding. But fighting is continuing around part of the old city. Commanders say they are confident a final victory is in sight. A symbol...