Kevin Spacey has denied new allegations of inappropriate behaviour from men who feature in a Channel 4 documentary due to air on Monday and Tuesday. Their testimony is said to relate to what they describe as “unwanted sexual behaviour” between 1976 and 2013. Last year, the actor was acquitted of a number of sexual offences alleged by four men, after a trial in London. In an interview with former GB News presenter Dan Wootton, Mr Spacey denied that his behaviour was illegal. Dorothy Byrne is the Executive Producer of the documentary and was formerly Head of News and Current Affairs at Channel F ..read more

To the biggest elections in the world now, in India, where opposition parties say the government is using arrests and detentions to stop them campaigning – calling it a “nail in the coffin of free and fair elections”. This week police issued a summons to a Congress Party chief minister over allegations his staff doctored a video of the interior minister. Meanwhile, there are reports a prominent opposition figure – Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal – might be released on bail, weeks after he was imprisoned over – as yet unproven – corruption allegations. Ria Chatterjee has more from India ..read more

Labour’s Sadiq Khan has also won an historic third term as London mayor. And despite a Conservative campaign attacking his expansion of London’s ultra-low emission zone – many areas saw a swing to Labour. Minnie Stephenson is at City Hall in London for us ..read more

We spoke to our North of England Correspondent Clare Fallon in Manchester, where Labour’s Andy Burnham has won a third term ..read more

We spoke to the Deputy Foreign Minister, Andrew Mitchell, who was in Birmingham ..read more

Our Senior Political Correspondent Paul McNamara joined us live from Birmingham to discuss that recount in the West Midlands ..read more

We spoke to Rosie Campbell, Professor of Politics at King’s College London and Keiran Pedley, Public Affairs research director at the polling organisation, Ipsos ..read more

One piece of good news, grasped by the Conservatives today came when Ben Houchen triumphed over a Labour surge to remain as mayor of Tees Valley, which includes Middlesbrough, Darlington and Redcar. He was keen to fight his campaign on his own record, rather than that of the Conservatives in government. So what message did voters there want to send to Rishi Sunak ..read more

As we’ve heard, Reform came close to pushing the Tories into third place in the Blackpool South by-election, but their national vote share after the local elections is looking like just 11 per cent. Good enough to damage the Tories, not good enough to win seats themselves – and so far they’ve only won one council seat in these elections. The party’s leader Richard Tice joined us from Westminster ..read more

Israel is facing mounting criticism over the treatment of Palestinian prisoners. Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh, a leading surgeon from Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, died in custody after more than four months of detention. He was detained by Israeli forces while treating patients at another hospital and was later moved to an Israeli prison where he died. An Israeli military spokesperson said that he had been detained for national security reasons but did not comment on the cause of his death ..read more