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
We begin with breaking news. Theres been a plane crash in the Central Asian country of kazha kstan. Details are still coming in, but its understood the aircraft was carrying around 100 passengers and crew. It went down near the city of almaty, en route to nur sultan. In the past few minutes, the official death count has risen to 9. This statement from the Kazakh Aviation Authority, published in the past hour, says at 07 22 flight no. 22100, of bek airline, in the direction almaty nur sultan lost altitude during take off and broke through a concrete fence. There was a collision with a two storey building. Rescue operations and the evacuation of passengers and crew began immediately. The plane was a fokker 100 video published on social media appears to show much of its fuselage intact as search and rescue operations continue. The Kazakh Aviation Authority has now suspended all flights of this type of aircraft until the circumstances of the accident are clarified. According to preliminary
Hello and welcome to bbc news. Somalias president has pledged his country will not be demoralised after a massive bomb killed more than seventy people in the capital mogadishu. The explosion took place at a security checkpoint in the south west of the city. Its being reported that at least 16 of those killed were university students. No one has yet admitted carrying out the attack but its assumed the Al Shabaab Group a long time threat in somalia is to blame. Our africa correspondent Andrew Harding reports. Moments after the blast, an eyewitness films the scene. Smoke still billowing from a vehicle, the remains of what is thought to have been a massive car bomb. Shocked civilians move in to look for survivors. The attack was timed to catch the morning rush hour in mogadishu. Many students had been heading to classes. Dozens were killed when the bomb exploded at a busy intersection in the somali capital. Attacks like this are not unusual here, but they are seldom so deadly. This man sai
The president of somalia has blamed al shabaab militants for a deadly bomb attack but said they wouldnt succeed in demoralising the somali people. 70 people died and many more were injured in the capital mogadishu. Our africa correspondent Andrew Harding reports. Moments after the blast, an eyewitness films the scene. Smoke still billowing from a vehicle, the remains of what is thought to have been a massive car bomb. Shocked civilians move in to look for survivors. The attack was timed to catch the morning rush hour in mogadishu. Many students had been heading to classes. Dozens were killed when the bomb exploded at a busy intersection in the somali capital. Attacks like this are not unusual here, but they are seldom so deadly. This man said the blast caught him as he was getting out of a minibus heading to work, his leg injured. Within minutes, emergency workers were at the scene. Somalia, plagued by violence for decades, is still wrestling with extremism. The countrys president quic
The president of somalia has blamed al shabaab militants for a deadly bomb attack that killed about 70 people. But Mohamed Abdullahi farmajo said they wouldnt succeed in demoralising the somali people. The explosion took place at a security checkpoint in the south west of the capital mogadishu. Its being reported that at least 16 of those killed were university students. Our africa correspondent Andrew Harding reports. Moments after the blast, an eyewitness films the scene. Smoke still billowing from a vehicle, the remains of what is thought to have been a massive car bomb. Shocked civilians move in to look for survivors. The attack was timed to catch the morning rush hour in mogadishu. Many students had been heading to classes. Dozens were killed when the bomb exploded at a busy intersection in the somali capital. Attacks like this are not unusual here, but they are seldom so deadly. This man said the blast caught him as he was getting out of a minibus heading to work, his leg injured