hello, i m anna foster. south africa s governing party has two weeks to form a coalition, after losing its outright majority for the first time in 30 years. with almost all the votes now counted from wednesday s election, the anc stands at around 40% a sharp drop from almost 58% in 2019. the anc has accepted the result and, as the anc, what is foremost now in our mind are two things. one is the fact that there is a clear protest from our people. our people are saying we love the anc, but the anc must self correct. we have already started that programme of organisation. i think we need to fast track that. we must no longer only speak about it, acting against corruption, we must be seen as doing that. we must be seen as giving our people the service. that is the message that our people have said to us and it s a message we have received loud and clear. catherine byaruhanga is injohannesburg. this really is going to be a shock for the anc, the fact that it is just one 40% of t
remax borussia! borussia! and borussia dortmund prepare to face iii time champions real madrid in the champions league final in london. hello and welcome to bbc news. i m lukwesa burak. we begin in south africa, where it is the end of an era. with almost all the results from this week s 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 b
i am on the conservative campaign bus which had its launch event today and previously viewers have seen us aboard 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 earlier the prime minister, rishi sunak, did get on the bus for it s kind of inauguraljourney 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 fund to
a new plan to end the war in gaza, unveiled by us presidentjoe 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. it 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 a three phase proposalfrom us presidentjoe biden, who says hamas is no longer capable of launching another october 7 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
the three part plan would begin with a six week ceasefire, with the israel defense forces withdrawing from populated areas of gaza. the deal could eventually lead to a permanent cessation of hostilities . the electoral campaign in the uk enters its second week the prime minister rishi sunak is heading to the north east of england with a pledge to give 30 towns across the uk £20 million each. the labour party is launching a five thousand mile battle bus tour while vowing that, if they win the election, its main mission will be creating wealth. and south african parties are gearing up for coalition talks as the ruling african national congress party looks set lose its majority in parliament after wednesday s general election. here in the uk, the labour leader, sir keir starmer,