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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 ....
rishi sunak has pledged to give 30 towns across the uk £20 million each, if the conservatives are re elected. my colleaguejess parker has been following the conservatives and gave me this update earlier. i am on the conservative battle bus. it s on its inaugural campaignjourney. and there s a little bit of confusion because, of course, myself and other reporters have been reporting from buses since the campaign began. that was on a different bus. didn t have conservative branding. didn t have the prime minister on board. but we re now on the officially branded bus that was launched earlier today in redcar, and we re continuing to travel across the north east. just to give you a sense of this bus, if the camera will kindly do a little crowd view. this is producerjack bbc producerjack. and then down the aisle there there are other reporters from different broadcasters, from newspapers as well. and of course the idea is that you get to follow the campaign, you get to be ....
jacob zuma s newly formed mk party exceeded expectations to finish third. but the party says it is considering challenging the results in court. and so begins a new era in south african politics as well as new challenges for president cyril ramaphosa, who himself helped negotiate the end of apartheid. the bbc s africa correspondent, barbara plett usher, reports. it had been a slow and steady day, and then this. the former president, now the head of the upstart mk party, an unexpected challenge to the anc. ..already reeling from voter anger over economic mismanagement and corruption scandals. jacob zuma has created quite a stir here. he s made a rock star entrance. his party came third, with an unexpectedly strong showing, taking a lot of votes away from the anc. ..and still trying to take more. he announced he had evidence of election rigging, said he was considering a demand for a full revote. the results aren t official yet, but they re clear. the anc has lost the o ....
hello. i m anna foster. let s start in the middle east, where israel s opposition leader has urged the prime minister to accept a proposal unveiled by president biden aimed at securing 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. it is unclear what that would mean in practice. 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 the seventh 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. a short time ago, i spoke with the uk s foreign secretary, lord cameron. i began by asking him what this deal ....
newsroom. live in washington as well. get in touch. the contact details arejust here. for the trump presidency it s business as usual today. by that i meana business as usual today. by that i mean a cabinet confirmation, legal battles over its travel ban and defending claims it has made that are demonstrably untrue. we will get to those in a moment. first of all,, later an appeals court will hear arguments for and against the ban. it is suspended at the moment. we know some of the justice department s argument because last night it filed some statements. they say the president is best placed to make decisions about national security. it is incorrect to call it a ban on muslims because the seven countries were identified further terror risk. let s back let s bring the bbc correspondent live from washington. a lot of us are getting confused as to where this appeals court fits into the other legal processes. help us out, please? sure. it started at the district court in ....