washington ratcheted up the pressure on iran at the naval strike group heads to the persian gulf to back up a u.s. aircraft carrier and bombers already there washington says it s responding to threats from terror on. welcome to the show south africa s governing african national congress has secured a 6th straight term and power but with a diminished mandate with all votes counted the a.n.c. has been declared the winner with 57.5 percent but that s its lowest share since the end of white minority rule 25 years ago the party has been battling corruption scandals a sluggish economy and record unemployment even so it was far ahead of its closest rival the opposition democratic alliance which trailed at just under 21 percent.
report came a day after south korea said it detected several short range projectiles holds from the north north eastern coast. pope francis has arrived in vogue area to begin his three day visit to the balkans he wants to improve ties with the orthodox church and will meet the country s patriarch near fit in severe but in his address opening address francis urged vogue area to take in more migrants. south africa s governing african national congress has held its final campaign rally ahead of a general election on wednesday president cyril run oppose it told the tens of thousands of a.n.c. supporters that victory was certain despite high levels of corruption and unemployment he said his government was entering a new era of accountability and he d be stepping up if it s to fight corruption and graft he also promised new jobs and economic growth. christine milne who has been at that rally she sent us this update. the official figures are not yet
way who ve not registered to even participate in this election the i.e.c. this is the electoral commission talks about the number of youngsters not having registered this is eligible voters not having registered for the election about sixty percent of them are below to age of thirty these are frustrated people who are tired of politics many of them didn t come to the stadium today but what i m opposed to was hoping to do was to sort of send a message that the a.n.c. is changing course that that the possibilities ration headed by jacob zuma that it s it s a new direction that the party s taken he s made remarks before about nine wasted years and that going forward things will be changed. to the bundesliga now where shaka have retained their place in the german top flight for next season they drew no mail with to clinch the point they needed to avoid relegation table sides freiburg and dissolute off to one one and some days of final game leave
out but the n.c. was expecting a crowd of about one hundred thousand people to come out today to listen to saddam opposed to give his final address before wednesday s election as expected and i m up also addressed the issues that south africans are facing he talked about houses being built in the next five years jobs being created he talked about investment coming back into the country most poignantly he addressed the issue of the party having neglected its mandate of looking after the people saying we ve looked into the process we ve seen where we ve gone wrong and we will now be putting the people first that message appears to have resonated with a lot of people here i must add though that this is a lot at stake for the african national congress twenty five years into this country s democracy and millions of africans are without work this is one of the most and equal societies in the world there is desperate need for investment and job creation in this country we re talking often une
attack it s really quite inconceivable that it could have happened like that have been two inquiries already on the parliamentary level at the state level and i think it s very likely that in the central parliament there will also be some sort of inquiry on this. thanks for that. and we ll have much more on the story throughout the day you can also find out more by going to our website w dot com now for some of the other stories making the news at this hour u.s. investigators say a passenger train that derailed onto a busy highway was traveling nearly three times the speed limit at least three people were killed dozens were injured when the amtrak train left the tracks it was the inaugural run of a new route linking the cities of seattle important. south africa s governing african national congress has elected a new leader deputy president cyril ramaphosa defeated president jacob zuma exwife