african national congress — the oldest liberation movement on the african continent — has lost its outright majority for the first time in 30 years, since the end of apartheid. many voters blame the anc for high levels of crime and corruption — and failures in the supply of basic necessities, such as water and electricity. the bbc�*s africa correspondent, barbara plett usher, reports. had been a slow steady day, and then this. jacob zuma has created quite a stir here, he has made a rock star entrance. his party came third with an unexpectedly strong showing, taking a lot of the doubts away from the anc. and still trying to take more. he announced he had evidence of election rigging, and said he was demanding a full revote. the results are not official yet, but they are clear— the anc has lost the majority it has held for 30 years. this is uncharted territory. we it has held for 30 years. this is uncharted territory.— it has held for 30 years. this is uncharted territory. we ask for all electoral stakeholders _ uncharted territory. we ask for all electoral stakeholders to - uncharted territory. we ask for all electoral stakeholders to please l electoral stakeholders to please remain calm. for leaders to lead this nation at this time, and for voices of reason to continue to prevail. the anc was born out of the struggle against apartheid, the violence of white minority rule that kept black people separate and unequal. archive: there's mr mandela. mr nelson mandela — a free man. the moment of triumph — nelson mandela released from prison, the first black president in south africa's new democracy. the downfall marked by another president, jacob zuma. he presided over a period of rampant corruption. now he is making a comeback. understandably, i'm very disappointed. but this anc veteran says the party has not recovered since then. we have failed. we talk about renewal, the renewal of the anc, and it would take the form of making sure that elements who are really this corrupt are removed from the organisation and we've really failed to act decisively to do that. the anc is still the biggest party, but it's lost its majority. it needs to find partners to share power. south africa now faces weeks of turbulent coalition talks. barbara plett usher, bbc news, johannesburg. now, the champions league final hasjust finished between real madrid and borussia dortmund at wembley. let's find out what happened. let's speak to 0lly foster, our sports correspondent at wembley. take us through it. there is a very stranue take us through it. there is a very strange alchemy _ take us through it. there is a very strange alchemy when _ take us through it. there is a very strange alchemy when it - take us through it. there is a very strange alchemy when it comes i take us through it. there is a very strange alchemy when it comes to take us through it. there is a very - strange alchemy when it comes to the champions league, and real madrid. real madrid, the 14 time when there is, coming to wembley against borussia dortmund. they were rattled, borussia dortmund should have been 2—0 up by half—time. but carlo ancelotti, four european cups to his name as a head coach, whatever he said, whatever he tweaked we will find are from the players and the next few hours. well, it worked. real madrid grabbed the game by the scruff of its neck, they got back into bed. there are serial winners within that real madrid aside. dani carvajal, who has already got five champions league winners medals to his name, he gave real madrid the lead with a header. jude bellingham, the la liga player of the year, he set up then issues during euro. even though vinicius of the year, he set up then issues during euro. even though viniciuer sort of scuffed his shot, there was nothing the dortmund keeper could do to keep it out. both of real madrid's goals coming in at the last 15 minutes. borussia dortmund have won champions league win to their name, way back in 1997, they were absolutely distraught. their fans were magnificent throughout, they brought the noise, they brought the flares, but they could not find a way to beat the serial winners in real madrid. carlo ancelotti, now a five—time winner as a coach. so many of those players, dani carvajal has now six winners medals. that equals the record. you have to feel for dortmund, who really fought all the way, but it was just class and pedigree, and like i say, perhaps some alchemy that the spanish champions bring with them into europe. after a week of general election campaigning here in the uk, all parties are once again out and about this weekend, vying for public support. prime minister, rishi sunak, has pledged to give 30 towns across the uk, £20 million pounds each if the conservatives are re—elected. labour, meanwhile, has vowed to boost employment and increase support for people living with long—term illness. and from the liberal democrats — a promise to make ten premier league games available, on free—to—air—tv, per season. 0ur political correspondent, ione wells, reports. applause and cheering cheers, change and cheesy grins. labour are hoping to show a positive front today, with... the launch of the bus — angela's bus. and doesn't it look fantastic? laughter ..after their campaign was a little derailed this week by internal fallout over whether diane abbott could run as a labour candidate. sir keir starmer clarified yesterday she was free to stand. well, i dealt with that issue yesterday. today is about taking our argument to the country, and getting people back to work. there are millions of people who aren't in work, who are on benefits, who desperately want the dignity and respect of being back to work. we're putting our plan on the table to reform thejob centres so that they can actually be places that support people back into work. applause and cheering the conservatives are also trying to refocus this weekend, after another former tory mp said they were switching their allegiance to labour. and that's what we're going to stop, aren't we? audience cheers rishi sunak�*s pitch to stop others following was a promise to invest £20 million in 30 towns. the majority are seats currently held by the conservatives. he denied the choice was political. i'm not going to make any apology for supporting towns. it's where the majority of people live. they were neglected for decades under previous labour governments, and we're in teesside today, it's a great example of a place that we've focused on as a government. people can see the change in the community as it's happened. i want to make sure we spread that type of opportunity and pride right across the country. the liberal democrat leader, sir ed davey, says he is taking today to care for his son, who has severe disabilities. his campaign, though, are out touring the south coast. their pledge today is to change the law to force the premier league to show ten games per season on free—to—air television, criticising the rising cost of season tickets and subscription channels. manchester city, champions again! there are still weeks to go of this campaign, but all parties hope these pledges will help them be victorious on july 4. ione wells, bbc news. the scottish national party leader, john swinney, has also been on the campaign trail in aberdeen, where the party is targeting a number of conservative seats — because of what he calls, "damage" done to the area's economy by "westminster politics". meanwhile, george galloway has launched his workers party of britain's general election campaign with an attack on labour. he told supporters labour leader, sir keir starmer was "indistinguishable" from rishi sunak and had "blood on his hands" over his position on gaza. mr galloway announced that his party was standing hundreds of candidates across the country and he'd be "extremely disappointed" if the number elected was not in double figures. two key right—wing figures in israel's coalition government have threatened to pull out if the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, agrees to a three—stage peace deal for gaza put forward by president biden. president biden unveiled the ceasefire proposal on friday, which the israeli opposition has urged president netanyahu to accept. thousands of israelis have gathered in tel aviv to demand that their government accept the ceasefire and hostage release deal outlined by president biden. some told reporters they feared benjamin netanyahu may torpedo the proposal. a group campaigning to bring hostages home has had such a move would endanger the lives of those held in gaza. speaking to the bbc earlier, the uk's foreign secretary, lord cameron, gave us his thoughts on the deal. i think what the deal contains is a staged process for the release of hostages in the first phase and a pause in the fighting, and then it goes on to a second stage with a longer pause, with more israeli withdrawals and the release of further hostages, then going on to a third stage, hopefully without any return to fighting, when you get on to the rebuilding of gaza. now, of course, all these plans are incredibly difficult to put in place. but fundamentally why i think this is a moment we should seize to try and bring this conflict to an end permanently is that, you know, it's one thing to call for a ceasefire, but of course, if you can't put in place the conditions that make a ceasefire sustainable, then it won't last. and this is an attempt to start to put those conditions in place, because we all know you've got to look at issues of israeli security and issues of palestinian statehood alongside each other in order to make a deal last and to solve this problem. 0ur north america correspondent, will vernon, says the proposals are also posing questions in washington. a tricky situation here for president biden. we heard him yesterday in a pretty optimistic white house address, using quite grand language, saying it is time for this war to end and for the day after to begin, setting out that three—stage peace proposal. mr biden is desperately hoping israel and hamas will sign up to that plan. mr biden in that address yesterday tried to draw a line under the conflict, essentially saying to the israelis, you have achieved your main objective here, hamas is no longer in any kind of position to stage the sort of attack we saw on october 7 last year. we saw benjamin today taking some of the sheen off the biden announcement. he reiterated the israeli war would not end until the complete destruction of hamas and all its capabilities. i think the white house now will be working on a strategy to try and put more pressure on the israelis to accept the deal and hamas as well, of course. that's why we have seen this flurry of phone calls between us secretary of state antony blinken and all the major key players in the region, because most of the region desperately want this deal to work, most of the world wants it to work, and certainly us officials will be hoping that will be the case. does the us still have that leverage with benjamin netanyahu? we saw that leverage come to play last month when in an interview with cnn, president biden announced he had paused one major shipment of heavy weapons to the israelis, and that others were under review. that followed on from a phone call between the two leaders, they haven't seen eye to eye on a lot of things since this conflict started, in which president biden gave the israelis an ultimatum, saying you have to provide concrete steps to improving the humanitarian situation in gaza, otherwise us policy on the war might change. we saw this shipment of heavy weapons, which can be used in major population centres, such as rafah, those are now on pause, several of them. although america remains israel's most important ally, its largest supplier of weapons, there has been increasing frustration with the way the israelis have been conducting this war. earlier, i spoke to laura blumenfeld, who is a former senior policy advisor on the state department's israeli—palestinian negotiating team. i have two reasons to be optimistic for biden�*s ceasefire proposal yesterday, and one that does give me some concern. first of all, the president presented this as an israeli idea, which gives them some kind of control. yes, netanyahu might be grumbling and putting out his own definitions, but he hasn't uttered the one word that we don't want to hear, which is no. second of all, by putting out this proposal, biden is sort of flipping the diplomatic isolation that israel and also the united states was increasingly feeling. the world wants to rally around something. and by putting out this very detailed road map, as he put it, he gives he sort of gives the initiative to israel. it shows that they're being forward looking and hamas is now on the hook, the leader of hamas, and he does actually care about world pressure to respond. i am a little concerned, though, because biden was kind of the voice of reason here, and there are other competing voices which are quite haunting that came out yesterday at the same time in this chorus, along with biden�*s. the first is hamas, who put out a message saying that it is violent resistance that produces results. and that's why we got the unilateral recognition by spain, ireland and norway last week. it was through violence, not negotiations. and the second voice that's competing with that kind of voice of reason of biden actually is noa argamani. she's the 25—year—old face of that music festival massacre. she was taken hostage on october 7. we all saw the clip of her screaming out, "please don't kill me," as they drove her off on a motorcycle to gaza. hamas released a voice tape of her pleading to the world. so i think that's haunting the idf. there's kind of a difference, a divided opinion on whether, in fact, biden said that, you know, hamas has been "devastated" is the word they used. i think the idf, the israel defense forces, would agree that they've been degraded. but, you know, netanyahu had promised defeat, and i don't think we're there yet. let's just go back to the voices that we've heard or perhaps not heard from since this was proposed by either israel or the us, and that is arab voices from the region. what reaction has there been from them? arab voices have always been the voices of hope, especially for the administration throughout this process. in fact, saudi arabia is being presented sort of by the administration as the prize, or as one official put it a deal sweetener for all of this normalisation for israel with saudi arabia is considered a major incentive for them to go forward. they may not trust the palestinians. trust, as henry kissinger said, is the currency of diplomacy, but they do trust and look forward to an improved and open relationship with saudi arabia. the question is, is that enough? is israel in the mood for carrots or do they need sticks? in which case, i would say the united states would do well to emphasise that this kind of coalition of coexistence with israel, with the moderate arab states, will serve as a stick ora punishment, rather than a prize, a punishment for iran, which for them is what it's all about. if you trace hamas back to its source, it's iran, iran, iran. that has been netanyahu's obsession more than anything. there's, of course, also islamichhad to consider, isn't there? who operate within gaza itself. just going back to what the opposition leader, yair lapid, had to say. how significant is it that he is offering to prop up mr netanyahu? i think it's significant. look, i think all of this is, at the end of the day, is about leadership for president biden. can he bring this sort of unruly, divided israeli political band of kind of competing leaders and say to them, this is the way forward? there is a vacuum of leadership, not only on the israeli side or of cohesive leadership, also on the palestinian side. last week, we were all we meaning the united states, we were kind of defending and blocking against the icc�*s ruling, the icj ruling, the three european states who unilaterally recognised the palestinian state. next week we're going to see president biden standing on the shores of normandy for the 80th anniversary of utah and omaha beach of d—day. and so i think this is part of biden�*s general kind of approach, which is saying, i'll lead, i'm underwriting this proposal. i almost felt like he was taking out his pen and saying, i will guarantee it, follow me toward peace and toward a better tomorrow. an attempt by the aerospace giant, boeing, to send astronauts to the international space station had to be dramatically abandoned tonight, just four minutes before the scheduled launch at cape canaveral in florida. it's the latest setback for the boeing space programme that has faced years of delays — as our science correspondent, pallab ghosh reports. boeing's long delayed star liner. with four minutes to go the spacecraft�*s flight controller said it was ready to go. but then, the computer said no.— it was ready to go. but then, the computer said no. hold, hold, hold. the fliuht computer said no. hold, hold, hold. the flight was _ computer said no. hold, hold, hold. the flight was scrapped, _ computer said no. hold, hold, hold. the flight was scrapped, and - computer said no. hold, hold, hold. the flight was scrapped, and out. the flight was scrapped, and out came the astronauts.— the flight was scrapped, and out came the astronauts. what happens next is that the _ came the astronauts. what happens next is that the crew _ came the astronauts. what happens next is that the crew as _ came the astronauts. what happens next is that the crew as we - next is that the crew as we disembarked from the spacecraft for the second time now. last time they were within two hours of launch, this time they were within four minutes. they are taking back to their quarters, and that the mitigation begins.— their quarters, and that the mitigation begins. initialfindings su . . est mitigation begins. initialfindings suggest the _ mitigation begins. initialfindings suggest the system _ mitigation begins. initialfindings suggest the system failed - mitigation begins. initialfindings suggest the system failed to - mitigation begins. initialfindings. suggest the system failed to allow the computer control to lunch. those in charge only to find out why. this is the business _ in charge only to find out why. this is the business we _ in charge only to find out why. ti 3 is the business we are in. everything has got to work perfectly. today we got really close. it didn't work for us. the team is very professional, they at in the 24—hour tour right now and we will be ready to go, they will be ready to go. will be ready to go, they will be ready to 90-— will be ready to go, they will be ready to go. will be ready to go, they will be read too. ~ .. , ready to go. when the spacecraft is ready to go. when the spacecraft is read for ready to go. when the spacecraft is ready for much. — ready to go. when the spacecraft is ready for much, its _ ready to go. when the spacecraft is ready for much, its role _ ready to go. when the spacecraft is ready for much, its role is - ready to go. when the spacecraft is ready for much, its role is to - ready to go. when the spacecraft is ready for much, its role is to take l ready for much, its role is to take crew and cargo to the international space station. star liner is a brand—new spacecraft that looks like the apollo module that was used in the apollo module that was used in the moon landings more than 50 years ago. it carried three astronauts, but starliner has a maximum capacity of seven. the spacecraft will take a day to reach the space station, where it will test out its stocking and transportation systems. the crew will experience starliner�*s lending system on r