Hello and welcome to bbc news. The israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has declared victory after his governing likud party held a leadership contest. He tweeted the official result is due in the next few hours, but a preliminary count indicated the long Time Party Leader was headed for a landslide win. Our correspondent Barbara Plett usher explains the background to this leadership contest. Over the past year, there have been two elections and in both of them mr netanyahu two elections and in both of them mr neta nyahu was an two elections and in both of them mr netanyahu was an able to form a government, he was able to get enough allies who support him to actually create a government that he could lead. Hanging over all that was the pending possibility of criminal charges on Corruption Cases and that, is by the belief, he wants to form a strong government that would grant him immunity. It wasnt able to do that and that hung over his ability to form a Coalition Government exac
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
Good morning from moscow its friday the 27th of december. International with the world news were going to start with breaking news from kazakhstan in central asia 1st though a passenger plane has crashed shortly after taking off from port killing at least 15 people dozens more seriously injured including 9 children across this force is our correspondent. Welcome back. To you know if you i was on from when this crash happened. One called what a tragedy just a few days before new years eve but if there can be a case in which the words good news are appropriate after a plane crash well this is the one because its been confirmed by doctors that the majority of the passengers on that. Which apparently means that this cant have been. A High Altitude so what happened was at about 20 minutes past 7 local it was still dark and thats the biggest city in kazakstan this plane took off from the airport but then started quickly. Hit a concrete wall before crashing into a small boy. Only 2 floors in
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