Israels prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has claimed victory in a vote that challenged his leadership of the governing likud party. The contest has been a test of his hold on power at a time of mounting difficulties. Mr netanyahu, who faces trial on bribery and corruption charges, tweeted an hour after polls closed a huge win thank you to the friends and likud members for their trust, support and love. With god and with your help, i will lead the likud to a big victory in the Upcoming Elections one hour later, official results came in, giving mr netanyahu 72. 5 . His rival, gideon saar, who claimed the party needs a new direction, took 27. 5 . Heres our correspondent, Barbara Plett usher. Over the past year, there have been two elections and in both of them mr netanyahu was unable to form a Coalition Government, he was not able to get enough olitical allies to support him to actually create a government that he could lead. Hanging over all of that was the pending possibility of crim
A year. And 15 years after a devastating tsunami killed hundreds of thousands of people across asia many of the survivors are still struggling to deal with their long. A very warm welcome to the program good to have your company libyas internationally recognized governments made a formal request for Turkish Military support thats according to the Reuters News Agency turkeys president earlier said hes willing to send soldiers to tripoli and ancora could vote within the next fortnight on whether to approve that deployment well Turkish Forces will be tasked with fending off fights as loyal toward holly for huffs are they began a military offensive to capture the libyan capital in april half stars backed by the u. A. E. Egypt russia and jordan in the past few hours egypts president has urged u. S. President donald trump to use his influence to end what he called illegal foreign interference in libya well mark would abdul wahid begin sark coverage now from tripoli. This is southern outskirt
Hello to you. For a leaderfacing criminal charges of fraud, bribery and breach of trust it was a big test of his hold on power. But the israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has retained control of the governing likud party, in an internal election, and will now lead israel into its Third National election within a year. It is due in march. Mr netanyahu has tweeted that hes achieved a huge win, and his rival, gideon saar, has admitted defeat. Rich preston reports. This was the first serious challenge to Benjamin Netanyahus leadership are ten years. But he seemed to still have the support of party loyalists, winning more than 70 of the votes. A huge win, mr netanyahu tweeted shortly after polls closed. Thank you to someone members for their love, support and trust. Confidence in israels longest serving Prime Minister had been shaken after two failed general elections and an indictment on corruption charges, accused of accepting gifts in exchange for political favours and doing acc
Countrys government. Back into the program an airliner has crashed on takeoff in kazakhstan killing at least 15 people the back as jet came down there marty airports mashing through a wall before hitting a house rescuers have worked in freezing temperatures to reach the 95 passengers and 5 crew in the wreckage many are seriously injured in hospital those cars that government ordered the immediate grounding of the Airlines Fleet of dutch jets built in the 19 ninetys alexandra gold froid joins me now from moscow and of course we wait to hear about the death toll of the injury toll but what do we know about the circumstances of the crash to start with. Well not very much is known about the circumstances of how this plane crashed what we do know is that it crashed almost immediately after taking off from the arm of the International Airport that it didnt reach a very High Altitude when it lost it and then it crashed into a concrete fence and then into a 2 Story Building it did not catch fi
Calling for change we meet the banking mogul from georgia who decided to take on his government. Welcome to the program an airliner has crashed on takeoff in kazakhstan killing at least 15 people the back as a jet came down. Port smashing through a wall before hitting a house rescuers have worked in freezing temperatures to reach the 93 passengers and 5 crew trapped in the wreckage and exam drug god freud joins us now from moscow lets just start with what we know so far about the timeline in terms of the accident itself. Recent our diary some more details that came out about how the x. s and happened there coming from the. Prime minister of stan was a member of the Government Commission rahmans that he said that theyve seen the traces of the plane hitting twice run away with its tail while it was taking off and then trying to take off losing the altitude hitting the concrete fence and then actually ending up in a small building a 2 Story Building which fortunately the moment was not po