And foreign ministries. South africas Ruling African National congress is fighting for its future according to the party leader and the nations president jacob zuma the party is meeting to elect his successor the race to replace the scandal plagued zuma has caused deep divisions in the end see observers say its in danger of splitting apart. In india raul gandhi has taken over as the leader of the Main Opposition Congress party the forty seven year old becomes the sixth member of the narrow gandy dynasty to head the party gandhi faces the tough task of leading congress back from its worst ever election showing in twenty fourteen. The wildfire in Southern California has been declared the third biggest in the state since nine hundred thirty two winds and dry conditions are helping the blaze spread there been new evacuation orders in Santa Barbara county a more than eight thousand firefighters are battling the inferno. Bankrupt air berlin subsidiary nikky was granted this week when love tons of dropped its bid for the Austrian Airline lufthansa had planned to expand its own low cost carrier with nikkis planes but said the european commissions takeover conditions were too strict tons of had been financing nikki its withdrawal left the carrier insolvent forcing their berlins administrators to look for another buyer. Base in austria nikky employs a thousand workers. It operates a fleet of twenty eight aircraft of which lufthansa wanted to buy twenty one the low cost and charter rail