Gang violence continues in haiti, the bodies of ten people have been found in a wealthy suburb. Witnesses said there have an attack of armed criminals and the president announced his resignation. Transitional council will choose his replacement but has yet to be appointed. Rishi sunak has insisted his party is united in the economy is turning a corner as he attempts to move past questions of leadership. Last week saw defection in a racism row in a plot to replace him. Local Election Campaign starting tomorrow in the Business Secretary called on her colleagues to stop the Westminster Psychodrama and the Prime Minister urged them to stick to the plan. The Prime Minister. Six more years for President Putin. In the us, they say. They said the vote took place amid systemic internal repression. Canada criticised the process was flawed and undemocratic. Lets have a look at who did congratulate him. That is iran, china and north korea. Indian Prime Minister offered warm congratulations. And Pr
6:00 eastern. > . tonight a critical moment in the war in ukraine and a crucial one for country supporting it with russia potentially just a couple months away from a spring offensive defense contact group led by america top military leaders met at the base failed to get german sign-off on the allies foremidible tanks, president biden was asked about it today. poland s goal to send the tanks by germany s other countries to ukraine, and ukraine needs all the help they need. as for ukraine s president, he says he needs more than western gratitude to hold off the russian hundreds of thank yous are not hundreds of tanks. also today, the white house told reporters the treasure department will designate the russian bogner group, mercenary fighters made up in part of russian convicts a trans national criminal organization comes day after we learned that c.i.a. director burns briefed president zelenskyy on how the spring russian offensive martin play out. lots to start o
he was responding to a peace plan proposed by the us presidentjoe biden last night. hamas said it would engage with any proposals offering a permanent ceasefire and for israel to withdraw completely from gaza. vincent mcaviney reports. after almost eight months of israeli response to the 7th october attacks by hamas, gaza lays largely in ruins, with the lives of palestinians who call it home turned upside down. more than 36,000 have been killed across the region, according to the hamas run health ministry. hundreds of thousands are displaced and aid is struggling to reach them. the conflict has put the us israel relationship under immense pressure. but in a surprise move, president biden unveiled a new peace proposal and ceasefire offer from israel. i know there are those in israel who will not agree with this plan and will call for the war to continue indefinitely. some some are even in the government coalition. and they ve made it clear they want to occupy gaza. they want
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
campaign here in the uk. all parties out again this weekend vying for support. rishi sunak has pledged to give 30 towns across the uk £20 million each if the conservatives are re elected. he says the money would go towards the long term regeneration of the areas, under the government s levelling up scheme. a topic labour leader kier starmer hasn t been able to escape is dianne abbott. there s been a lot of controversy over the terms of the re admittance of the veteran labour mp into the party. keir starmer has been tackling that issue as well this morning, denying that his party is blocking left wing candidates. 0n diane abbott you said last week you weren t going to get involved in her case. you said the days when the leader rolls up his sleeves and gets involved are well and truly over, that s what corbyn did and ended badly. you said it was a matter for the nec on candidate selection and you avoided having a view becausejeremy corbyn expressed a view and that leads to a