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measures since losing power backin back in 2010. ian watson has allayed us. , �* , ., ., ., us. friends, it's great to have care on the payer- _ us. friends, it's great to have care on the payer. the _ us. friends, it's great to have care on the payer. the labour— us. friends, it's great to have care on the payer. the labour leader i on the payer. the labour leader claimed it _ on the payer. the labour leader claimed it was _ on the payer. the labour leader claimed it was the _ on the payer. the labour leader| claimed it was the conservatives on the payer. the labour leader i claimed it was the conservatives in medway and kent ended overnight answer keir starmer claimed his party was party nationally. make no mistake, party was party nationally. make no mistake. we're _ party was party nationally. make no mistake, we're on _ party was party nationally. make no mistake, we're on course _ party was party nationally. make no mistake, we're on course for- party was party nationally. make no mistake, we're on course for the i mistake, we're on course for the next general election. cheering and applause. he says he has changed labour and its electoral rebirth is based notjust on seats won but on the geographical spread. labour took control of plymouth and swindon in the south. it regained its traditional territory of stoke in the west midlands, and won control of blackpool in north west england.

but there is a further concern for the conservatives. the lib dems are doing well in areas labour can't reach. with a general election drawing closer, their crowning glory was taking windsor and maidenhead from the tories. five, four, three, two, one. cheering. we knew we were going to do quite well, but i'll be frank, we did not realise we would do quite as well as we have done. the lib dems have shown we can beat the conservatives and we're coming back in our traditional heartlands too. the greens have taken majority control of a council for the first time, unseating the conservatives in mid suffolk. they made significant gains in folkstone and east hertfordshire, at the conservatives' expense. amid a cost of living crisis, conservative staffers were probably grateful for this food delivery. rishi sunak promised to deliver policy promises, too. what people want us to do is focus on their priorities — halving inflation, growing the economy, reducing debt, cutting waiting lists and stopping the boats. those are the country's priorities.

the bbc is projected national share of the vote is an estimate of how the parties would've performed if the whole country had voted. it puts labour nine points ahead of the conservatives, a bigger gap in any local election since the party lost power nationally in 2010. even before the final results have been declared, the parties have been indulging in their own version of a post—match analysis. the conservatives have been pointing out areas where their opponents have been doing less well why labour has been arguing it now has enough political momentum to take it to a general election victory. but, in truth, it is difficult to be that definitive. yes, labour have made significant seats gains compared to what was a poor performance by them in 2019, as well as a poor performance by the conservatives, but compared to last year the labour share of the vote, on the sample so far, and it is only a sample, is pretty much unchanged. rishi sunak is meeting world leaders ahead of the coronation. after today's's results, it's perhaps not surprising

he wants to focus on global, not local politics. iain watson, bbc news. lets go to our political correspondent david wallace lockhart who can give us the latest picture. you've been digging into the numbers for us. that's right. they it's to get an overall picture is a look at the change we're seeing in counselors. i will bring that up and we can start there. this is a comparison to 2019, just for a bit of context was up in 2019 the conservatives had a very bad set of local elections. labour didn't have a great time either, the lib dems did quite well. on changes to the 2090 local elections, labour at this point are up by 430 seats. conservatives down by almost 800 and lib dems up by 275. they were already starting from quite a high bar. significant gains for the greens who are up by 178. what does this mean for changes in council

numbers? labour had gained 17, conservatives lost almost 40 mac, the live dems up by seven, the greens up i want for that will have more later. let's delve into a few seeds that tell perhaps a bit of a story of the selection so far. we will start on the kent coast looking at medway. this is somewhere that labour managed to take from conservative control put up this had been a conservative council since 2003, labour haven't controlled it since 1998. that's all changed now. we saw in the report this is where keir starmer chose to go to celebrate put up an interesting thing to note about medway, look at the eu referendum result in 2016. 64% leave for that we know in years after brexit the labour party really struggled in areas that had backed brexit. perhaps that is starting to change now. very pole the mac pro brexit area but good result, their seats up by 11 compared to 2019, the

conservatives down by 13. go to berkshire, windsor and maidenhead, slightly different story here because it's a lib dems that have done particularly well at the expense of the conservatives with this has been a conservative council since 2007. a very significant local mp, former prime minister teresa may of course a conservative mp but this council has gone liberal demographic that they needed 21 seats for a majority, they got 22. we can look at what's happened in the change of seats with a conservative vote has collapsed down by 16, lib dems up by 13. these two seeds really do illustrate the problem that rishi sunak has up is facing fights on two fronts. there are seats, possibly pro brexit seeds like medway and kent with the labour party seems to be making significant inroads. there are prosperous traditional conservative areas like windsor and maidenhead with a live dems are threatening the conservative party.

we will also have a quick mention of mid soffit. this isjust we will also have a quick mention of mid soffit. this is just outside ipswich, had been a considerable loss in 2019, no one had a majority here. going back previous elections the conservatives did very well. it's now a green council, the first majority they have ever had on a council in england. quite a significant moment for the green party there. the conservative vote has shot down, they've lost ten c compared to 2019. the greens who really targeted the seat very hard to have done well. they made 12 gains and therefore the greens get their first majority on a counsel for the more results to come in and for the more results to come in and for the more councils being declared. for the more results to come in and for the more councils being declared. we for the more results to come in and for the more councils being declared. we will for the more results to come in and for the more councils being declared. we will keep for the more results to come in and for the more councils being declared. we will keep across throughout the evening. david, thank ou ve throughout the evening. david, thank you very much _ throughout the evening. david, thank you very much for _ throughout the evening. david, thank you very much for talking _ throughout the evening. david, thank you very much for talking us - throughout the evening. david, thank you very much for talking us through | you very much for talking us through the numbers. let's take a look at the numbers. let's take a look at the royal politics of this. where do you think this leaves all the parties now? i

you think this leaves all the parties now?— you think this leaves all the arties now? ~' ., ., parties now? i think the overall icture parties now? i think the overall picture that _ parties now? i think the overall picture that we're _ parties now? i think the overall picture that we're increasingly. picture that we're increasingly getting as we know how have more and more results in is that conservatives branding this is a disappointing day for them is probably a little bit of an understatement look up i think they have lost nearly 800 seats overall. they are potentially on course to lose 1000 or more, which was discussed sitting in conservatives circles kind of a band for them prior to election. basically a pretty good result for all of them in a way, labour are certainly highlighting what they feel as successes in winning a broad spectrum of different types of seats that would be key areas to try and win if they wanted to make inroads at the next general election. they have one seats like medway but also seats like stoke in the midlands as well. also seats in the south like plymouth. they are pointing to the range of geography of a positive sign for them for the liberal democrats particularly happy today,

they've exceeded expectations, they say of gaining some of those seats in the south of england particularly windsor and maidenhead. which puts them on track to potentially eat into more of those traditionally conservative heartland seats in southern england. also greens celebrating today for gaining control of mid soffit, the first counsel that they will have overall control over. in terms of opposition party, all broadly happy today. one thing that some in labour may be contemplating is whether the results today are enough to make them confident that they would potentially exposed full suggest over recent months be on course to win the next general election is the bbc�*s prediction and projection showed at the moment, if these results were to be replicated across britain and people were to behave in the same way it would give labour a nine point lead. doesn't necessarily suggest that labour are making significant more gains than they did in the last set of local elections.

conservatives not quite back at record lows that they have seen in the past. i think both sides will potentially still feel that there isn't a clear cut, definite picture of where this could go in potentially a year's time or whenever we do get the next general election. ., , ., ., ,, whenever we do get the next general election. ., , ., ., ~ i” election. lots to ponder. thank you for that. the world health organization says covid— 19 is no longer a global health emergency, after three years of lives and economies turned upside down, and millions of deaths. the who's head, tedros adhanom ghebreyesus made the announcement. yesterday the emergency committee met for the 15th time and recommended to me that i declare an end to the public emergency of international concern. i have accepted that advice. it's therefore with great hope that i declare covid—19 over

as a global health emergency. our reporter nicky schiller is in the newsroom with more. what does all this mean? the world health organization says this is a major step towards the end of the pandemic. they said it was a moment for a celebration but also crucially, a moment for reflection. we do need to reflect on it. the actual emergency was declared back in january the 30th, 2020. actual emergency was declared back injanuary the 30th, 2020. the last three years we have all had to learn to live with covid and the pandemic. back then the death rate was 100,000 people per week. that has fallen and thatis people per week. that has fallen and that is part of the reason why the world health organization made the announcement today. if we look at last month's figures, 3500 people per week lost their lives to covid. that sheer number of people is something that doctor ted rose reflected earlier today.

in the three years since then covid—19 has turned our world upside down. almost seven million deaths have been reported to who. but we know the toll is several times higher, at least 20 million. 20,000,000, worth bearing in mind there is still a covid death every three minutes around the world. which is part of the reason why doctor ted rose said countries must not let their guard down. they now need to treat covid like any other infectious disease. doctor tedros did pay tribute to the scientist who created the covid vaccines. he also warned that he would not hesitate to reimpose the emergency status if there was a very hands that he felt was going to cause problems around the world, a significant risk, he called it.

at least eight people have been killed in serbia's second mass shooting this week. the gunman opened fire from a moving vehicle about 40 miles south of belgrade. police have arrested the suspected attacker. the country's president has promised gun control measures that would include removing thousands of guns from peoples homes. bethany bell sent this report from the scene, which some may find disturbing. a forensic team combs the ground for clues after a gunman went on a deadly shooting spree. locals say an argument broke out last night. they say the suspect went home, collected a gun and opened fire, killing and wounding people in neighbouring villages. many of the casualties were young, in their teens and early 20s. police launched a huge manhunt which went on all night. they arrested a man believed

to be around 21 years old early this morning. you can still see blood on the ground outside the small village school in dubona. there are discarded bandages as well. this was one of the sites where the gunman struck. people here are in shock. this man, stephan, says he's very surprised as he wouldn't have believed the suspect was capable of such violence. he said he'd always say hi and talk to people normally. the violence comes two days after a 13—year—old boy shot dead eight fellow pupils and a security guard at his school in belgrade. serbia's president has proposed tough new gun control measures. he said the shootings were an attack against the whole country. bethany bell, bbc news, dubona.

russian media has released video footage of the wagner group berating the russian minister. as you can see and hear the wagner leader was extremely irate as he shouted at the camera. the location of the video is unclear but you see him walking among the bodies of dead fighters in ukraine. amongst all that he condemns russia for not sending the mercenary forces enough ammunition. let's get more on this with vitaliy shevchenko, our russia editor for bbc monitoring. an extraordinary video. it is extraordinary. hours later wagner published and video in which he says that he is going to withdraw his

mercenaries from bakhmut, which is a key battleground in the war between russia and ukraine. —— prigozhin. this raises the stakes significantly. prigozhin accused people of military bureaucrats deliberately starving his everyone company of ammunition. we knew that there was no love lost between prigozhin and russia's top brass. but this takes their confrontation to a whole new level. whether or not he's actually going to withdraw his troops, as he says on the 10th of may remains to be seen. because prigozhin is a bit of an attention seeker. in the passage been accused, especially from western governments of disinformation and manipulating information, he's been sanctioned

for that. a lot of people are taking his threats with a degree of scepticism. ukraine said that military officials bear did not believe that wagner mercenaries are actually going to withdraw from a place as important as bakhmut. something that is... the video is difficult to watch. but the implications of it, how likely do you think that the threats of leaving the area fully actually are? it shows how deep the riffs are within the russian political establishment and within the people running what's known as the special military operation. it's true as far as we can tell that russia, as well as we can tell that russia, as well as ukraine has been experiencing a

shortage of important military ammunition and hardware. but what prigozhin is saying is that the official russian army has enough ammunition, it'sjust not official russian army has enough ammunition, it's just not sharing with him. if he does go ahead and pull out of wagner, it will be extremely difficult for prigozhin and his wagner group to get back into the thick of things, the important role that he is playing right now fighting in bakhmut, which is a key location, which is extremely important for both russia and ukraine. if he pulls out, many people think he will have burned too many bridges to get back in. thank ou ve many bridges to get back in. thank you very much _ many bridges to get back in. thank you very much for _ many bridges to get back in. thank you very much for that. _ we will turn now to the preparations for the kings coronation for the

live pictures of buckingham palace in very nice sunshine. hasn't been like that all day throughout london. pretty thundery and rainy at points across the uk today. expected tomorrow as well. the events in buckingham palace this evening. there is a reception going on about seven o'clock local time, we think. lots of dignitaries in there. as to what's been happening throughout the day we did get a walkabout from king charles walking down the mall, which is just in front of buckingham palace and meeting lots of people. let's take a listen in.— let's take a listen in. we're so roud let's take a listen in. we're so proud of _ let's take a listen in. we're so proud of you- _ let's take a listen in. we're so proud of you. happy _ let's take a listen in. we're so | proud of you. happy coronation let's take a listen in. we're so i proud of you. happy coronation day. god save _ proud of you. happy coronation day. god save the king! fire proud of you. happy coronation day. god save the king!— god save the king! are you all camina god save the king! are you all camping here? _ god save the king! are you all camping here? yes, _ god save the king! are you all

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bbc. are you out overnight? i will be here everyday. it's going to be a long one. hopefully it will be dry. are you tired? a bit. yeah, it's long hours for everybody. it is, it is. but, no, it's a really great moment. a celebration as well. have you got an early start tomorrow? yes, an early start, but i think everyone has. nice to see you. lots of people do have an early start, lots of preparation lots of people keeping very strange hours at the moment. that bbcjournalist who we've just heard they are talking to kate during that walkabout on the mall this afternoon, wasn't the only person who got to speak to her. she also spoke to debbie hoover who is a woman who had thrown over from texas for the coronation. debbie got the princess to talk on her phone to her aunt back in tennessee, who was supposed to make the trip but had broken her leg. let's take a listen. �* , ., ,

but had broken her leg. let's take a listen. �* i. , , listen. are you feeling ok? this is ureat listen. are you feeling ok? this is great talking _ listen. are you feeling ok? this is great talking my- _ listen. are you feeling ok? this is great talking my. i— listen. are you feeling ok? this is great talking my. i hope _ listen. are you feeling ok? this is great talking my. i hope you i great talking my. i hope you get better soon. great talking my. i hope you get bettersoon. ok, great talking my. i hope you get better soon. ok, thank you so much. five. that's a phone call you can remember. that is quite nice with the let's take you back alive to what is happening there. this is buckingham palace. just to bring you “p buckingham palace. just to bring you up to speed with the very latest of what's been happening throughout the afternoon in the morning. it started in the morning because the very last rehearsals took place with the king and queen consort this morning inside westminster abbey. they were put through their paces for the last time, making sure they stand when this was his stand, sit when they're supposed to sit, move the right way you the right clothes on, take the right clothes off, lots of technical details that they have to get right in front of so many around the world tomorrow. the service starts at 811

local time, tomorrow. the service starts at 811 localtime, uk tomorrow. the service starts at 811 local time, uk time tomorrow morning. so they were getting their last rehearsals then. not the only rehearsals they been to. we here earlier on from someone there and involved in actually taking rehearsal space up to buckingham palace but that's a very famous building you are sitting right in front of you. they did have a few rehearsals there they also have been having rehearsals for walking through the ceremony inside westminster abbey but with stand ins for the king and queen. they weren't present at every angle rehearsal as you can imagine. that's how the day kicked off. then we had lots more of the arrivals of world leaders, dignitaries, foreign dignitaries flying in, jill biden, the first lady coming in and being greeted at downing street. there was a luncheon at buckingham palace for some leaders, not all. this was the 14 commonwealth country leaders. where

king charles wasn't monarch. there was a lunch in buckingham palace in itself before that walkabout that we saw on the mall. as i say, impromptu, it wasn't guaranteed to go ahead thomas factors such as fat ugly neck safety, timing and the weather went into whether that was going to happen or not. safety, timing. that brings us up to speed within an hour's time there will be a reception indoors, inside buckingham palace for other leaders. a final appointment we're told for the king this evening will be a private dinner. just him and the queen consort, camilla, just the two of them a dinner this evening for a

final thoughts, reflections before such a significant day tomorrow. that is it. this is bbc news. hello. weekend forecast coming up injust a moment. first of all, a look back on friday's weather. and it was a day of sunny spells and widespread showers. northern ireland, england and wales. a number of those showers turned thundery like this really hefty downpour working across staffordshire. our radar and lightning detector picked up those storms, particularly frequent thunderstorms across eastern areas of england with a few for the midlands, wales and one or two rumbling away in northern ireland as well. overnight, very gradually it will become calmer, with showers becoming less widespread. later in the night, though, we're going to start to see rain arrive across the south west of england. now temperatures overnight about nine to 11 degrees. so it is going to be a mild night. then the forecast for saturday,

well, this area of rain is going to be moving up from the south and west. so for london for the coronation, it looks like, yes, there will be some rain around for the most part, probably quite light and drizzly in nature. but there could be a few heavier bursts mixed in as well. elsewhere, the heavier rain will be across south west england and wales. this area of wet weather then pushes northwards, reaching northern england later in the afternoon. ahead of that, for scotland and for northern ireland, saturday will be a day of sunny spells and heavy showers apart from northeast scotland, where it will continue to be quite cloudy and cool with highs of 11 in aberdeen. otherwise 15 to 18 degrees should feel ok and you might manage a few sunny spells across the southeast late in the day. then as we go through saturday night, showers will push the way northwards, eventually reaching eastern scotland. later in the night, it's another mild night. temperatures about nine to 12 degrees. and then through sunday, it is a day where we'll see some showers develop. they are most likely to form across scotland and eastern areas

of england, something a bit dry for wales and western england. not a bad kind of day in northern ireland, although there will be a band of rain approaching from the west late in the day, given a bit of sunshine could actually be a bit warmer. with temperatures pushing up into the low 20s in the warmest spots. we've got more unsettled weather for monday. a day of sunshine and showers. the showers widespread, a number of them becoming thundery and some will have hail mixed in as well. between those heavy downpours in the may sunshine it will still feel ok and it's getting a bit warmer in northeast scotland. so over the next few days, rain around on saturday and showers turning increasingly heavy and thundery over the next few days.

today at six: a bruising set of local election results for the conservatives, with labour making big gains. cheering swindon is one of the key battleground councils labour now controls, along with east staffordshire, and stoke—on—trent. sir keir starmer savours victory in medway, an area the conservatives had controlled for more than 20 years. these are the key battlegrounds as we go into the next election, and make no mistake, this means that we are on course for a labour majority. dejection for the conservatives who saw a collapse in support across england, but the prime minister says he's sticking to his agenda.

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