hello, i m anna.. anna foster. south africa s governing party has two weeks to form a coalition, after losing its outright majority for the first time in 30 years. with virtually all the votes now counted from wednesday s election, the anc stands at around 40% a sharp drop from almost 58% in 2019. the anc say the result has been a wake up call for the party. the anc has accepted the result and, as the anc, what is foremost now in our mind are two things. one is the fact that there was a clear protest from our people. our people are saying, we love the anc, but the anc must self correct. we have already started that programme of organisational renewal. i think we need to fast track that. we must no longer only speak about acting against corruption, we must be seen as doing that. we must be seen as giving our people the service. that is the message that our people have said to us and it s a message we have received loud and clear. let s go live to our correspondent cath
a permanent ceasefire in gaza. yair lapid says if right wing members of benjamin netanyahu s coalition resigned in protest, his party would continue to support the government in its efforts to secure a hostage deal. it comes as mr netanyahu says israel will continue to focus on the destruction of hamas and the freeing of all hostages. he was responding to a three phase proposalfrom presidentjoe biden who says hamas is no longer capable of launching another october 7th style attack on israel. meanwhile, egyptian state linked tv is reporting a meeting between egyptian, us and israeli officials will take place on sunday to discuss the re opening of the rafah crossing. let s look at some of the reaction. in the central city of deir al balah, where many have recently fled following israel s ground assault on rafah last month, people are living in tents with no running water. here s what some of them have said about the potential deal. translation: this proposal came late but bette
hello, i m anna foster. south africa s governing party has two weeks to form a coalition, after losing its outright majority for the first time in 30 years. with almost all the votes now counted from wednesday s election, the anc stands at around 40% a sharp drop from almost 58% in 2019. the anc has accepted the result and, as the anc, what is foremost now in our mind are two things. one is the fact that there is a clear protest from our people. our people are saying we love the anc, but the anc must self correct. we have already started that programme of organisation. i think we need to fast track that. we must no longer only speak about it, acting against corruption, we must be seen as doing that. we must be seen as giving our people the service. that is the message that our people have said to us and it s a message we have received loud and clear. catherine byaruhanga is injohannesburg. this really is going to be a shock for the anc, the fact that it is just one 40% of t
ending the war has not changed. this is the notion that israel would agree to a permanent ceasefire before these conditions are fulfilled is a nonstarter so is your understanding that israel have committed, in this new deal, to permanently end the war at a committed, in this new deal, to permanently end the war at a future point from phase three? what permanently end the war at a future point from phase three? point from phase three? what they are committed point from phase three? what they are committed to point from phase three? what they are committed to is point from phase three? what they are committed to is to point from phase three? what they are committed to is to say - point from phase three? what they are committed to is to say that - point from phase three? what they are committed to is to say that we | are committed to is to say that we are, if the hostages get released and we get a pose in the fighting, we are happy to go on talking, and then the crucial question
understanding that israel have committed, in this new deal, to permanently end the war at a future point from phase three? what they are committed to is to say that we are, if the hostages get released and we get a pause in the fighting, we are happy to go on talking, and then the crucial question would be can we get the conditions in place, that turn a pause into a permanent ceasefire. we know what those conditions are, and from the palestinian point of view it is support for the palestinian authority, setting out the parameters for a palestinian state and on the israeli side it is going to be that you cannot have gaza run by hamas, and we need guarantees about security and no repeats of october 7th, and attacks from gaza into israel, so it is fundamentally two twin things, it is statehood for palestine and security for israel. if that can be achieved through a political process