14—time champions real madrid. hello and welcome to bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. with almost all the results from this week's south africa election now in, the anc has lost its outright majority for the first time in 30 years since the end of apartheid. many voters blame the party for high levels of crime and corruption, and failures in the supply of basic necessities such as water and electricity. the anc will now have to search for coalition partners, as our africa correspondent barbara plett usher reports. the verdict is almost in — still not official results, but they're clear. the anc has lost its unrivalled political power. it's done even worse than expected, punished by voters, angry about economic mismanagement and corruption scandals. this is a shock to the system for the anc, the celebrated liberation movement humbled by this verdict on its governance. it's the most dramatic political shift in south africa since the end of apartheid, and no one knows exactly what will happen next. we ask for all electoral stakeholders to please remain calm, for leaders to lead this nation at this time, and for voices of reason to continue to prevail. the anc was born out of the struggle against apartheid, the violence of white minority rule that kept black people separate and unequal. archive: there's mr mandela. mr nelson mandela — a free man. - the moment of triumph — nelson mandela released from prison, the first black president in south africa's new democracy. the downfall marked by another president, jacob zuma. he presided over a period of rampant corruption. understandably, i'm very disappointed. this anc veteran says the party has not recovered since then. we have failed. we talk about renewal, the renewal of the anc, and it would take the form of making sure that elements who are really corrupt are removed from the organisation and we've really failed to act decisively to do that. the anc is still the biggest party, but it's lost its majority. south africa now faces weeks of turbulent coalition talks. barbara plett usher, bbc news, johannesburg. our correspondent catherine byaru hanga who's in injohannesburg, has the latest. we are already hearing from the opposition parties that could form alliances with the anc. the eff, julius malema's eff, say they are willing to enter negotiations with the anc but their focus is on some economic concessions. for example, they want to open a state bank and they want the expropriation of land without compensation. jacob zuma's mk party says it will negotiate with the anc as long as cyril ramaphosa is not head of the party. so there are weeks of tricky negotiations ahead for the anc which is facing these terrible results. to discuss this, we are joined byjamie mighti, who is an africa researcher based in south africa. jamie, we are talking about this as a shock for the anc. how much of a shock is it for south africans? i think some of this was expected for south africans but what was not expected was the scale of basically the drop of the anc in this election. from the projections, it seems it will be close to 40 but not quite 40 which is a 17% drop from the last election so the scale of drop is something that was so inconceivable in terms of conceptually for many people. but the idea or the reality that the anc was in decline, the writing was on the wall. everybody who has been living with load shedding and water shedding, and for the international audience, these are water cuts and power cuts, has been frustrated for a long time and the unemployment numbers have crept up a little bit and high cost of living similar what to what we're seeing in the uk and all of this really created a negative incentive bubble which there was no real strategy to assuage. and in the midst of this, the anc has to form new political alliances with parties that they have perhaps been at loggerheads with for many years. how do you think they will manoeuvre all of this? the anc is adept at making compromises and shifting on its core positioning in the name of real politik, so they have made coalitions over the years that have befuddled people who only approach politics from an ideological or principled standpoint or principle standpoint so they are able to make deals but some deals are worse than others. and the other key figure in these elections has been the former presidentjacob zuma, and his party is projected to win around 15% of the vote. if he is not in the coalition government with the anc, what kind of a role do you think he will play witin south african politics? well, his role, basically, if i were to use a mafia reference, gives instruction and gives the preference but we also know that dudu zuma will be on the parliamentary list. she is very high up and will be going — she is very high up and will be going to — she is very high up and will be going to parliament. that's his daughter. yes, that's his daughter. she will be one of the key people also trying to make sure her father's vision on the floor is executed as he may have preferred. but we have also seen that he does have an appetite to return to parliament and we heard the spokesperson for mk saying that one of their conditions if ever they were to deal with the anc is there be a pardon forjacob zuma. and if you recall with the constitutional court case they said that the hard demarcator is if you get pardoned you can go back to parliament but just the fact that your sentence was reduced doesn't allow you to go back to parliament, and heeding thatjudgment, they are now negotiating for a full pardon. finally, with president cyril ramaphosa, we have not really seen him since election day and what does this mean for his fate and position within south african politics? he is gathering courage and these are difficult spaces to be in when you have taken the hardest beating as a party leader given to a particular party. we will see what the messaging will be and how he will spin it tomorrow and he typically doesn't enjoy tough interviews and that is also why he hasn't shown up here but realistically he is very vulnerable right now and there are many calls being made in various circles that he actually has to give up the ghost and allow other people to lead the party and try to rebuild the party. thank you very much forjoining us here on bbc news. time is of the essence for the anc because according to south africa's constitution, the next parliament needs to sit within14 days of the election result being announced, and on that first sitting, the parliament has to elect the president so there is a real pressure on the anc to make sure that its chosen leader, president cyril ramaphosa, retains his position in the country. these are going to be difficult days for the politicians but also south africans who are concerned about any kind of political instability. that was catherine get a hunger. —— that was a catherine byaruhanga. to the middle east. hamas has indicated it is willing to discuss a new plan to end the war in gaza unveiled by us president, joe biden. the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has again insisted that the war will end only once hamas is destroyed. the opposition leader, yair lapid, has urged the prime minister to accept the proposal. speaking earlier, mr lapid suggested that if right—wing members of benjamin netanyahu's coalition resigned in protest, his party would continue to support the government in its efforts to secure a hostage deal. this all comes as mr netanyahu repeated that israel will continue to focus on the destruction of hamas and the freeing of all hostages. he was responding to the three—phase proposalfrom us president, joe biden, who says hamas is no longer capable of launching another october the seventh—style attack on israel. meanwhile, egyptian state—linked tv is reporting a meeting between egyptian, us and israeli officials will take place sunday to discuss the re—opening of the rafah crossing. speaking to the bbc earlier, the uk's foreign secretary, lord cameron, gave us his thoughts on the deal. i think what the deal contains is a staged process for the release of hostages in the first phase, and a pause in the fighting. then it goes on to a second stage with a longer pause, more israeli withdrawals, and the release of further hostages, then going onto a third stage, hopefully without any return to fighting, when you get onto the rebuilding of gaza. of course, all of these plans are incredibly difficult to put in place but fundamentally, why i think this is a moment we should seize to try to bring this conflict to an end permanently, is that it is one thing to call for a ceasefire but of course, if you cannot put in place the conditions that make a ceasefire sustainable, then it will not last, and this is an attempt to start to put those conditions in place because we all know that you have got to look at issues of israeli security and issues of palestinian statehood alongside each other, in order to make a deal last and to solve this problem. earlier, i spoke to laura blumenfeld, who is a former senior policy advisor on the state department's israeli—palestinian negotiating team. she called yesterday's ceasefire proposal a "big, bold proposal." i have two reasons to be optimistic for biden�*s ceasefire proposal yesterday and one that does give me concern and first of all, the president presented this as an israeli idea that gives him some kind of control and yes he may be grumbling, mr netanyahu, but he has not said that one word we don't want to hear, no, and president biden is sort of flipping the sort of diplomatic isolation that israel and increasingly the united states was feeling and the world wants to rally around something and by putting out this detailed road map, as he put it, he sort of gives the initiative to israel and shows that they are being forward—looking and shows that sinwar, the leader of hamas, is on the hook and cares about world pressure to respond but i am worried because biden is sort of the voice of reason here and there were other voices that were quite wanting that came out yesterday along with biden�*s and the first is hamas, who were saying that it is violent resistance that produces results and that is why we got the unilateral recognition by spain, ireland and norway last week. through violence, not negotiations. and the second voice that is competing with that voice of reason of biden is the face of that music festival massacre who was taken hostage on october the 7th and we all saw the clip of her screaming out, "please, don't kill me," as they drove her off on a motorcycle to gaza and hamas released a voice tape of her pleading to the world so i think that is haunting the idf. there is sort of a divided opinion on whether biden said hamas had been devastated, is the word they used. i think the idf would agree they have been degraded but netanyahu had promised defeat and i don't think we are there yet. after a week of general election campaigning here in the uk, all parties are once again out and about this weekend, vying for public support. prime minister rishi sunak has pledged to give 30 towns across the uk £20 million each if the conservatives are re—elected. labour, meanwhile, has vowed to boost employment and increase support for people living with long—term illness. meanwhile, the liberal democrats have promised to make ten premier league games available on free—to—air tv per season. 0ur political correspondent ione wells reports. applause and cheering cheers, change and cheesy grins. labour are hoping to show a positive front today, with... the launch of the bus — angela's bus. and doesn't it look fantastic? laughter ..after their campaign was a little derailed this week by internal fallout over whether diane abbott could run as a labour candidate. sir keir starmer clarified yesterday she was free to stand. well, i dealt with that issue yesterday. today is about taking our argument to the country, and getting people back to work. there are millions of people who aren't in work, who are on benefits, who desperately want the dignity and respect of being back to work. we're putting our plan on the table to reform thejob centres so that they can actually be places that support people back into work. applause and cheering the conservatives are also trying to refocus this weekend, after another former tory mp said they were switching their allegiance to labour. and that's what we're going to stop, aren't we? audience cheers rishi sunak�*s pitch to stop others following was a promise to invest £20 million in 30 towns. the majority are seats currently held by the conservatives. he denied the choice was political. i'm not going to make any apology for supporting towns. it's where the majority of people live. they were neglected for decades under previous labour governments, and we're in teesside today, it's a great example of a place that we've focused on as a government. people can see the change in the community as it's happened. i want to make sure we spread that type of opportunity and pride right across the country. the liberal democrat leader sir ed davey says he is taking today to care for his son, who has severe disabilities. his campaign, though, are out touring the south coast. their pledge today is to change the law to force the premier league to show ten games per season on free—to—air television, criticising the rising cost of season tickets and subscription channels. manchester city — champions again! there are still weeks to go of this campaign, but all parties hope these pledges will help them be victorious on the 4th ofjuly. ione wells, bbc news. the scottish national party leader, john swinney, has also been on the campaign trail in aberdeen, where the party is targeting a number of conservative seats, because of what he calls "damage" done to the area's economy by "westminster politics". meanwhile, george galloway has launched his workers party of britain's general election campaign with an attack on labour. he told his supporters labour leader sir keir starmer was "indistinguishable" from rishi sunak — and had "blood on his hands" over his position on gaza. mr galloway announced that his party was standing hundreds of candidates across the country and he would be "extremely disappointed" if the number elected was not in double figures. let's speak to our correspondentjess parker. whose bus are you on and where are you? whose bus are you on and where are ou? ., ., ., , ., you? so, i am on the conservative cam aiun you? so, i am on the conservative campaign bus _ you? so, i am on the conservative campaign bus which _ you? so, i am on the conservative campaign bus which had _ you? so, i am on the conservative campaign bus which had its - you? so, i am on the conservative campaign bus which had its launch event today and previously viewers have seen as a board what we have been calling campaign buses and they may not have actually been the properly branded bus but we are now on that after it was unveiled in redcar earlier today and we are now heading back down south towards the capital and early at the prime minister, rishi sunak, did get on the bus for it's kind of inaugural journey as the campaign coach but he is not on it now so it is basically just reporters and journalists who have been tracking the prime minister and the conservative campaign over recent days and we have gone to a variety of places, sort of middle to late in the week, including buckinghamshire, and as i say, we went to redcar and we were in the north—west yesterday as well and there have been a variety of announcements over those days and the one we had today, as you mentioned a moment ago, was this idea of kind of extending the levelling up a fund to give up to £20 million to 30 towns across the united kingdom and it is quite interesting to hear levelling up being brought out again as a phrase, as it may be one people more associate with the 2019 general election campaign led to then of course by borisjohnson, a predecessor of rishi sunak, and something borisjohnson really try to use also as part of his campaign to use also as part of his campaign to take those red wall seats of labour so rishi sunak overnight announcing more cash as part of this brand but it has come in for some criticism of course, as we were hearing in the packagejust criticism of course, as we were hearing in the package just then, but also parties like labour, the liberal democrats, the snp, as well basically arguing they think communities have been let down by the conservatives, towns, because this is a sort of towns fund, because of council cuts and they say there has not been enough investment in various communities so it has come in for some criticism but that was the announcement is the conservatives wanted to announce today. conservatives wanted to announce toda . �* . ., today. and we had that sporting announcements _ today. and we had that sporting announcements from _ today. and we had that sporting announcements from the - today. and we had that sporting | announcements from the liberal democrats but i guess we should really explain why so ed davey is not campaigning this weekend and taking time with family. i not campaigning this weekend and taking time with family.— taking time with family. i haven't really been _ taking time with family. i haven't really been following _ taking time with family. i haven't really been following that - really been following that particular campaign, i have been on the conservative campaign bus over the conservative campaign bus over the last couple of days, so we have been following the tracks of rishi sunak who, as i say, will sort it out over the last few days, including today, in the north east where he of course took a walk as well and you may have seen some pictures around the seafront in blyth, and we don't know exactly where the campaign will be going next and these things are very tightly controlled i think by all the parties, whether the conservatives, labour, the liberal democrats, the snp and indeed other parties as well. qm. democrats, the snp and indeed other parties as well-— the latest attempt by the american aerospace giant, boeing, to fly its first crew to the international space station has suffered another last minute setback. the launch of its starliner spaceship, with 2 veteran astronauts on board, was halted in the final minutes of countdown from cape canaveral in florida. earlier i spoke to our science correspondent pallab ghsoh who gave us this update. we came so close and all the flight controllers, one afteranother, said go, go, go, but the computer said no. that was just less than four minutes before the launch and the ground launch system which is a piece of software, it didn't load and boeing and nasa don't know why that is and it could either be that it spotted something the flight controllers didn't and it could be a problem with one of the components on the system or it could just be a software fault and if it is the latter that will be easily fixed and they could have another go but it if it is one of the systems it could take a lot longer. who else is part of this programme? the main party is boeing and they have taken on elon musk's spacex to provide competition for the contract to supply crews and astronauts to the the international space station and there is also the united launch and there is also the united launch alliance who also have the rocket and the spacecraft is the bit on top and of course there is nasa so between the three of them, they wanted to get this first crewed test flight off the ground but unfortunately it has been delayed and delayed because various technical issues and this is just the latest part of this long story, but i think what boeing would _ say is that after all these delays and having come so close, it is probably worth waiting an extra day or so particularly as there were astronauts on board, better safe than sorry. other parties have managed crewed missions. yes, notably elon musk's spacex. boeing and spacex were offered the contract _ boeing and spacex were offered the contract at the same time to get to the international space station. space _ the international space station. space x— the international space station. space x got there in 2020. so they are still behind a bit but boeing will hope it can fix the _ problem and catch up as soon as they can. so, possibly a relaunch tomorrow, another attempt? tomorrow is the earliest but we will have to wait to see as to what the data says and why the computer said no. now let's talk football and look ahead to tonight's champions league final. real madrid face borussia dortmund at wembley in just a few hours. the spanish side are record 14—time winners of the competition and will start as favourites. 0ur sports correspondent 0lly foster, is at wembley, where he says the name jude bellingham is being being heard everywhere. the england midfielder was at borussia dortmund and he onlyjoined them this season in his debut season in la liga and he has scored 19 goals in the league and they have won the league and now here he is in his first champions league final and he has been absolutely sensational and so many stories you can look at here and borussia dortmund were in the last final here at wembley 11 years ago and they lost against their great bundesliga rivals bayern munich, and madrid have never played any of those 1a finals they have won here at wembley and it will be an eighth final here staged in the champions league or european cup so thatis champions league or european cup so that is a bit of history they would like to create as well and they are the history makers, real madrid. they are such huge, huge favourites, but they did scrape their way through the knockout stages i needed to get past manchester city on penalties and then you look at borussia dortmund who really pushed their luck against psg home and away but still came through that in the semifinals. they are the underdogs and real madrid are the strong, strong favourites but we willjust see. time for one more story. people in the quiet texan town of lufkin certainly got a shock after spotting an unusual visitor. take a look at this police dashcam footage. that's red, an escaped kangaroo taking to the streets for a hop around the neighbourhood. in fact, it was more thanjust a hop. red travelled for 16 kilometres, bumping into local residents, before law enforcement eventually caught up with him. he was one of two pet kangaroos to escape after their owner forgot to latch their pen�*s door. he looks very friendly. stay with us here on bbc news. hello there. high pressure has brought most of us a fine and dry day and there has been plenty of sunshine around particularly in scotland where temperatures have been into the low 20s in the warmest spots i'm sure that will have felt very pleasant indeed but in central and eastern england we have had more cloud but most areas have at least managed some cloud breaks and some sunny spells and overnight tonight, clear skies dominate the weather picture with high further in charge at these clear skies will allow temperatures to drop away clearly so it will be quite a cold night with temperatures in towns and cities even down to single figures for some and down to 5 degrees ender coldest parts of rural northern england and scotland and this weather front will eventually bring thicker cloud in and eventually some rain to be very far north west of scotland and it may well be quite a nice sunrise for scotland and northern ireland with this cloud being illuminated by the rising sun but the afternoon sees some rain edging into the highlands and islands and away from that it is dry and four eastern areas of england there will noticeably be less cloud around and it be a lot warmer with temperatures rising to 22 degrees in the warmest sports wear was temperatures have come down a little bit for scotland and northern ireland because of this cold front moving its way southwards which will continue to push through on monday as well and bringing with it cloudy weather and the odd spot of rain and then the sunshine will come back out with just a few showers in the far north. temperatures will be coming down a little bit on monday but still when the june little bit on monday but still when thejune sunshine comes out through thejune sunshine comes out through the afternoon it will feel pleasantly warm with temperatures into the high teens and low 20s and on tuesday and wednesday we will see much cooler air arriving, particularly across the north half of the uk and this heralds the arrival of some pretty unsettled weather conditions, really, and showers become widespread across scotland, northern england and northern ireland, some with a hail mixed in and there could be some showers developing through the day further southwards as well and those temperatures continue to ease down a bit 14 in temperatures continue to ease down a bit 1a in glasgow and the average for this time of year is closer to 18 degrees and that call, shall be to the weather continues through much of the week for scotland and northern ireland and temperatures near the average for england and wales with some pleasant units on. —— some pleasantjune sun. this is bbc news. the headlines... in south africa — the ruling anc has lost its majority for the first time — since apartheid ended 30 years ago. the party has won around 40% of the vote — and will now have to hold coalition talks. hamas has indicated it is willing to discuss a new plan to end the war in gaza — which was presented by us president, joe biden on friday. however, the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has again insisted that the war will end 0nly once hamas is destroyed. the uk election campaign is ramping up — labour launches a 5000 mile "battle bus tour" — promising to create wealth across the uk. the prime minister, rishi sunak is in north east england — pledging millions of pounds in funding for local towns if the conservatives hold on to power. now on bbc news, it's sportsday.