diane abbott, is free to stand for election in her north london constituency. it follows days of wrangling over her future, following suspension from the party, over comments she made about how jewish, irish and traveller people, experience racism. she was re admitted to labour on wednesday. ms abbott has yet to say, if she ll stand. here s our political correspondent, helen catt. the story that s been rumbling on for most of this week has now come to a sort of conclusion after sir keir starmer said that diane abbott, a very long serving labour mp, she was the first black woman elected to parliament, is free to stand as a labour mp at this election. she had claimed she was being blocked by the party. so what we re waiting to hear from in the next few days is to hear from diane abbott herself. she hasn t commented publicly since sir keir starmer said this yesterday, so we re waiting to hear from her to confirm if she will indeed do so. the crucial thing, though, is that it is
indicated it is willing to discuss a new plan to end the war in gaza unveiled by us presidentjoe biden. the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has again insisted that the war will end only once hamas is destroyed. the opposition leader, yair lapid, has urged the prime minister to accept the proposal. speaking earlier, mr lapid suggested that 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 repeated that israel will continue to focus on the destruction of hamas and the freeing of all hostages. he was responding to a three phase proposal presented by us president, joe biden, who says hamas is no longer capable of launching another october 7 style attack on israel. meanwhile, egyptian state linked tv is reporting a meeting between egyptian, us and israeli officials will take place sunday to discuss the reopening of the rafah cr
the economy, dealing with their waiting lists, getting british people back to work, setting up great british energy, those are the changes this country desperately needs. and i think so many people are yearning for change, if you want change, you have to vote for it. that was at the leader of the labour party, sir keir starmer speaking a little earlier on today. their battle bus going off to essex to do more campaigning. that was launched this morning. the conservative party battle bus also lunch today. we can see the image of rishi sunak there. our correspondentjess parker is there. we can see the battle bus behind you. a lot more at the conservative party are offering throughout this election campaign. party are offering throughout this election campaign. yes, we ust the prime minister election campaign. yes, we ust the prime minister lunching election campaign. yes, we just the prime minister lunching effectivelyl prime minister lunching effectively the battle bus.
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
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