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 outright majority it held for 30 years, the most dramatic political shift since the end of apartheid. this is uncharted territory. we ask for all 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
spells, although more cloud the further north you are, all the details shortly. it s sunday, june 2nd. our main story. sir keir starmer has pledged to cut levels of legal migration to the uk, if labour wins the general election. in a newspaper interview he set out plans to prioritise british workers and crack down on businesses that break employment laws. the conservatives said no one believed the labour leader was serious about tackling immigration. our political correspondent alex forsyth has the latest. every year, people come to the uk to live, work or study. last year, net migration that s the difference between the number of people arriving and the number of people leaving was 685,000. sir keir starmer, who launched his election battle bus yesterday, has previously said that s too high. now he s promised to cut that number if labour wins the election, though he hasn t said by how much or by when. he told the sun on sunday newspaper read my lips, i will bring immig
in tel aviv to demand that their government accepts the new ceasefire and hostage release deal outlined by president biden. some told reporters that they feared the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, may torpedo the proposal. a group campaigning to bring hostages home has warned that such a move would endanger the lives of those held in gaza. lieutenant general mark schwartz, former us security coordinator for israel and the palestinian authority, told us there are concerns about the long term viability of the plan. i think there s confliction inside of the government and there s certainly confliction inside of the israeli populace. as the elements of this current proposal were rolled out by our president in the united states and more broadly in the international community involved, i think if you re the families of the hostages, certainly the hostages themselves, if you re hamas and if you re the palestinians living inside of gaza, you re very pleased with the plan, but in terms of t
elements of the israeli government coalition reasserted their stated position that they will not back president biden s plan for peace, and in fact will bring down, they say, the israeli government that they are coalition members of if the deal goes through. singapore, where the shangri la dialogue is happening. we will speak to our correspondent in the next hour on bbc news. ukraine s president zelensky has met the us defence secretary lloyd austin. he will be making a speech, we will bring you the latest from singapore too. a busy day of news, stay with us. hello there. it was a pretty decent saturday for much of the north of the uk. we saw highs of 22 degrees, the warmest spots of scotland and northern ireland. but it was cool, cloudy and breezy for eastern england. for sunday, it s a reverse of fortunes. it s the south and east
yesterday, has previously said that s too high. now he s promised to cut that number if labour wins the election, though he hasn t said by how much or by when. he told the sun on sunday newspaper read my lips, i will bring immigration numbers down, i will control our borders, and make sure british businesses are helped to hire brits first. the government has introduced measures designed to cut legal immigration, including raising the minimum salary needed for skilled workers. labour says it would pass a new law so the government, skills agencies and employers had to come up with plans to train british workers in sectors that rely heavily on immigration, and strengthen laws to ban businesses that exploit workers from hiring staff from abroad. the conservatives, who also launched their battle bus yesterday, said no one believed the labour leader was serious about tackling immigration. the snp said labour and the tories had cruel immigration policies that harm scotland s economy.