and no one knows what will happen next. the us, egypt and qatar urge israel and hamas to agree to a new peace deal as international calls grow for an end to the fighting in gaza. a lawyer for donald trump tells the bbc that nothing will change in the former us president s run for the white house despite his criminal conviction. hello, i m carl nasman. south africa s election looks set to bring the biggest political change to the country in decades. with almost all votes counted, the ruling african national congress has lost its outright majority and will now have to find coalition partners for the first time since it won power as apartheid ended in 1994. while the anc is the oldest liberation movement on the african continent, many voters blame the party for high levels of crime and corruption, and a lack
on the city of rafah in gaza comes at a heavy price for palestinians in the first place. the israeli air strike last sunday on the tel al sultan area of rafah, where 10,000 refugees were gathered, had terrible results. fire swept through the tents where people were sheltering. survivors said there d be no warning beforehand of the attack. internationally, the onslaught against rafah is doing considerable damage to israel s support. its relationship with egypt, for instance. egypt has already backed south africa s case at the international court ofjustice, accusing israel of genocide. without egypt s security support, israel will be much more vulnerable. and europe, one of israel s strongest backers, is now split. spain, norway and ireland are backing a palestinian state.
syrians, have swamped lebanon s schools and hospitals, and brutal invasions by syria and israel have done it immense damage. this is the famous corniche. when i was in beirut recently, i was shocked by the number of beggars on the streets people who ve been forced out of their homes in syria by the civil war there. now, perhaps unsurprisingly, a backlash against the refugees is growing in lebanon. i spoke to carine torbey, the bbc s beirut correspondent. there is absolutely no end in sight for this crisis. lebanon is already overwhelmed with its own problems, which are massive. this is a country with a very delicate demographic balance. so this is all coming together to make the lebanese, for the first time, say, enough is enough. is it important that these refugees, a million and a half of them, are from syria,
that think that, really, the idea of a two nation solution for palestine and israel is finished now? no, i m not, i can t see a. i can t see another workable solution, and in order to ostracise the men of violence, you need to create a road, a pathway to peace, that is realistic. and if any silver lining is going to come out of the appalling events of october 7th, and the conflict in gaza that has followed, with all these thousands of people killed or kidnapped, it should be that the world pays some attention to actually sorting this out once for all. i can t see this happening while hamas rules gaza and netanyahu rules israel. frank gardner, bbc security correspondent. benjamin netanyahu s determination to carry on with an all out attack
or majority stakes in things like the shard, sainsbury s, the london stock exchange, barclays, and they ve invested billions in this country. but they are controversial at the moment, because they provide a home to hamas, to the political wing, the external political wing of hamas. a lot of israelis will say, what do you mean, the external wing, the political wing ? there s no such difference, they re all terrorists, all of them. but qatar doesn t view things quite that way. qatar is very much on the side of political islam, and that s why it was up on the naughty step recently for several years. saudi, bahrain, uae all ostracised qatar. because they don t trust qatar. they think that it is a trojan horse for letting in the muslim brotherhood and its ideology that they find dangerous. and finally, on our geographical tour. mm. ..are you one of the people