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i m samira hussain. i m arunoday mukharji. well, india hasjust had a mammoth election. 6a2 million people voted over a month and a half. and these elections are important because whatever happens here has global ramifications. and the results, they were surprising. narendra modi will keep his job as prime minister. but the intractable leader, well, he now depends on other parties to back him up. actually, arunoday, you broke down the numbers. let s take a look. the world s largest democratic exercise. elections in a country of 1.4 billion, done and dusted. here s everything you need to know about the results. the bjp won the most number of seats, 240, but it s still not the victory narendra modi was hoping for. he has 63 less seats than what the bjp won in the last election, and less than 272 that is needed to have a majority, which means he is not the final word on politics or policy, and will have to rely on unpredictable alliance partners and establish a consensus. o ....
democratic exercise. elections in a country of 1.4 billion people done and dusted. and here is everything you need to know about the results. the bjp one the most number of seats, 240, but it is still not the victory that narendra modi was hoping. he has 63 let s seats than what the bjp one in the last election in less than 272 thatis last election in less than 272 that is needed to have a majority. it means he is not the final word on politics or policy. he will have to rely on unpredictable rely alliance parties and establish a consensus. other things didn t go as anticipated. the state which was supposed to stand by the bjp didn t. 80 lawmakers come from uttar pradesh and thatis come from uttar pradesh and that is where they suffered the most losses. from 62 it is down to 33. the bjp alliance may be forming the government but the growth of the opposition was the real surprise. over two dozen parties came together to take on the bjp and that is clearly worked. the opp ....
godlike personality that has grown around him, that is not seen as invincible any more. russia has faced repeated rounds of western sanctions, but its economy has continued to grow thanks to help from china. it means the mood at russia s equivalent of davos welcome to newsnight. our political panel tonight philip collins, who was tony blair s speech writer and worked alongside sir keir starmer on his 2021 conference speech, and mercy muroki, who is a former policy adviser to the conservative s kemi badenoch. today has been very much about the fall out from last night s tv debate when mr sunak claimed housesholds would be paying £2,000 more in tax if labour win. we questioned energy secretary clare coutinho on newsnight last night straight after the itv debate. clare coutinho, where did you get this £2,000 figure from? because it is not an impartial independent figure, is it, it is your own tory special advisers who have added this up and come up with the sums? no, ....
lone piper plays. tonight at 10:00, a vigil in normandy here at the bayeux war cemetery to remember the fallen on the eve of the 80th anniversary of d day. more than 4,000 gravestones are lit up one by one a tribute to those who never returned. in portsmouth, the king tells the last surviving d day veterans, we are eternally in your debt. more than a0 british veterans have travelled here to normandy i ve been speaking to one of them. all these memories of d day and all the men in the water, swimming, sinking, scrambling ashore in the sands and the other main stories on tonight s programme. wales s first minister, vaughan gething, gets emotional and loses a confidence motion after barely two months in the job. scientists say may was the hottest on record globally, as the un chief warns the world is playing russian roulette with the climate. and how president putin s war economy is funded by the countries buying russia s oil. and join us later for bbc london, whe ....
Of government that india has not been accustomed to where the prime minister would take decisions without consulting with anybody, do monetisation, finance minister completely in the dark, stringent lockdown during covid, a few hours notice. even the chief minister couldn t implement it. everyone finds out from the television. that kind of thing has to end and what has happened now is the voters have ensured that mr modi has to have partners in his government where we will have to consult decisions like this in future. this in future. the big question this in future. the big question of this in future. the big question of course . this in future. the big question of course is| this in future. the big - question of course is what is the opposition going to do? are you going to try and form a government? you going to try and form a government? right now the numbers with government? right now the numbers with the government? right now the numbers with the bjp, - government? righ ....