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in sport: still in the title race. tottenham beat crystal palace and keep the heat on leaders chelsea. a boom for books as the publishing industry has a surge in sales and a record year. and carol has the weather. a chilly start in southern areas, with a touch of frost. but here we ve got early sunshine. most of the uk will be cloudy, with showers and a few sunny spells in between. more in about 15 minutes. thank you amcu bend. see you then. tensions are rising in north korea, as the u 5 call for more pressure to force the country to give up its nuclear weapons programmes. last night, president trump briefed all 100 members of the senate, revealing a strategy of economic sanctions and diplomacy. but washington also said they were prepared to defend themselves and their allies, as our correspondent laura bicker reports. the us is piling on the pressure. this is a military exercise just north of the north korean border. a message that the us is ready if diplomatic effo ....
final round of the french presidential election, marine le pen delivers a speech that sounds a little familiar. the far right leader of the front national has been accused of plagerising her defeated rival, francoise fillon, in a spich she delivered on monday. how new proposals to stop doping could mean previous world records by clean athletes could no longer stand. and pulled to safety, after 30 hours in the irish sea. the surfer, who s lucky to be alive. good evening and welcome to bbc news. following the leaked account of a tense meeting between the prime minister and the head of the european commission last week, theresa may has told the bbc she will be a bloody difficult woman in brexit negotiations, and she s already made clearjean claude juncker will discover that. she told our political editor laura kuenssberg that the negotiations with the eu will be tough, and what matters in the coming election is making the right choice of leader to represent the uk s inte ....
welcome to bbc news. in the past hour voting has ended in local and mayoral elections across england, scotland and wales. nearly 5,000 council seats are up for grabs. six new metro mayors, with extensive strategic powers, are also being chosen in england, including the west midlands and greater manchester. the first results are expected in the next few hours but many areas won t start counting until tomorrow morning. let s get the latest from some of the local election battles across england. in lincolnshire the conservatives are looking to gain control of the cou nty are looking to gain control of the county council. let s speak with the bbc political editor. what are you expecting to see tonight? lincolnshire is traditionally trueblue conservative and anything other than a conservative victory tonight would be a huge shock. the ballot boxes have started to arrive here at the hall in the centre of lincoln. they have been carried in bya lincoln. they have been carried i ....
we speak. and in wales they ve lost overall control of bridgend and merthyr tydfil, two councils in their south wales heartland. although they have held on to the capital city, cardiff. also newport and swansea. and it has been a bad night for ukip overnight they lost every seat they were defending. and the party has been wiped out on councils like lincolnshire, hampshire and essex. their vote share is down dramatically, most of it going straight to the conservatives. coming up, we ll be live in glasgow. the snp are trying to take the city council from labour. the scottish counting has onlyjust started, so those results are all to come. labour have had decades of controlling glasgow city council. we ll be covering the results from scotland as they come in. to say the least, there is plenty to talk about! here in the studio we re joined by our political editor laura kuenssberg. the home office minister brandon lewis for the conservatives. the shadow foreign secretary l ....
and we ll speak to a woman who says she was sexually harassed by the former fox news star bill o reilly. hello. welcome to cornwall. we are pretty much in the middle of the county, and we are just off the much in the middle of the county, and we arejust off the high and we are just off the high street, in the main square, a small, pretty square. we are talking to all sorts of people here ahead of the general election. we are asking about the things they care about with 30 days to go. a lot of people say they don t have a great deal of time for politicians. they feel pretty forgotten, actually. geographically, they are 300 miles away from westminster. we will hear from pledge of them this morning in detail. wherever you are, get in touch. what issues do you care most about ahead of this general election? we will hear from about ahead of this general election? we will hearfrom more about ahead of this general election? we will hear from more of you after the news. our top ....