We begin with the European elections and big upsets for the two traditional pro-EU parties. Millions across 28 countries chose 751 members of the European Parliament. Mariam Zaidi walks us through the results after four days of voting.

This EU parliament election was billed as the most important election in a generation. A battle for the EU's future. It even gave rise to the highest voter turnout since 1979 at 50.5%.

But the biggest story of the night: provisional results show voters turned away from the two big parties that made up a grand coalition in the parliament– the center-right European People's Party and the Centre-Left Social Democrats. Both suffered a loss of around 35 seats in the parliament.

But despite the losses, the Socialists - always the junior party in the old parliament's grand coalition - are looking to seize momentum.

UDO BULLMANN, CHAIRPERSON GERMAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATS, EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT "Socialists and Democrats will have a very good result and we have also good results with other progressive groups who have similar goals like fighting climate change and fighting poverty. And it will be the task of the next days to come together and to define a very ambitious and joined program for change."

Could that be a plea to the Green party? The Greens were in any case celebrating. Their polling under this new parliament could finally see them seize a position of power.

PHILIPPE LAMBERTS, CO-PRESIDENT GREENS, EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT "Give me a lever and a fulcrum and I will lift the world. That's exactly what citizens have just given us. Leverage is a group of much more powerful Greens in the European Parliament, maybe 70 MEPs, and the point of support is the fact that with the rise of populist nationals that can be to make a stable pro-European majority in this home the greens will become indispensable."

But the pro-European Liberals did one better. Winning well over 100 seats.

GUY VERHOFSTADT, CHAIRPERSON LIBERALS, EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT "For the first time in 40 years since the first elections in 1979 of the European Parliament, the two classical parties Socialists and Conservatives will no longer have a majority and that means that no solid pro European majority is possible without the help without the participation of our new centrist group."

A strong pro-European majority is key to halting the Alt-right who saw an upswing in votes. Over in the UK, the new Brexit Party won over 31% of the vote share. And elsewhere nationalists in France and Italy are looking to shake things up in the new parliament after their ultra-right super group won big nationally.

MATTEO SALVINI LEADER, ITALY'S LEAGUE PARTY "I am happy because for the first time in the history of European Parliament elections, the vote of the Italians could change the history of Europe. Until five years ago it was already known what the final result would be even before voting took place. This is the first time that Italians can change the balance in Europe."

MARIAM ZAIDI BRUSSELS "So this 2019 election has lived up to the hype. Sweeping changes are on the horizon. And the final word of the night goes to the Liberals. Should they emerge as king-maker, their group's President Guy Verhofstadt (a former Belgian PM) could force the hand of any coalition they prop up, into making him the next President of the European Parliament. And they could also get their candidate for the EU commission presidency in poll position for that job too. And this could all happen despite the European Peoples Party winning the most seats. Mariam Zaidi, CGTN, Brussels."