an end to the fighting in gaza. a lawyer for donald trump tells the bbc that nothing will change in the former us president's run for the white house — despite his criminal conviction. hello, i'm carl nasman. south africa's election looks set to bring the biggest political change to the country in decades. with almost all votes counted, the ruling african national congress has lost its outright majority and will now have to find coalition partners for the first time since it won power as apartheid ended in 1994. while the anc is the oldest liberation movement on the african continent, many voters blame the party for high levels of crime and corruption, and a lack of basic necessities, like water and electricity. results from wednesday's election show the anc winning

around 40% of the vote, while former president 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 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 rule that kept black people separate and unequal. archive: there's mr mandela. i mr nelson mandela - a free man. the moment of triumph —

nelson mandela released from prison, the first black president in south africa's new democracy. the downfall marked byjacob zuma. he presided over a period of rampant corruption. now he's making a comeback. understandably, i'm very disappointed. but this anc veteran says the party hasn't recovered since then. we have failed. we talk about renewal, the renewal of the anc, and it would take the form of making sure that elements who are really corrupt are removed from the organisation, and we've really failed to act decisively to do that. the anc is still the biggest party, but it needs to find partners to share power. south africa now faces weeks of turbulent coalition talks. barbara plett usher,

bbc news, johannesburg. i spoke to the former us ambassador to south africa, patrick gaspard. we have almost 100% in, it looks likely to be a very big disappointment for the anc. it is an extraordinary watershed moment for south africa and most especially for the anc that has maintained a majority in an unbroken line for three decades now. it's a watershed moment but also a moment of reckoning. there are tens of millions of young people in the country called the born free generation, born after 1994 after the end of apartheid. they feel their country underwent a political transformation but not an economic one, and they feel they have been on the outside looking in. in reality they have been on the outside looking in. by one measure, the world bank called south africa the most

unequal society in the world, with 10% of the population holding 71% of the wealth, while the bottom 60% holding just 7% of assets. that's the fundamental dynamic at play for why the anc has tumbled out of its majority. you think it's the younger generation in south africa that is likely behind a watershed moment, as you call it? overwhelmingly. when you have 11 million eligible voters that did not register, another 13 million who did registered but didn't who did register but didn't participate, overwhelmingly young, and all those who did participate in places like kwazulu—natal, anc stronghold, jacob zuma's new party absolutely dominated, and it's overwhelmingly young people who are disenfranchised, who feel the anc has lost its way and become corrupt, not essentially focused on creating

shared prosperity. that's driving a lot of volatility in the system. when i had the privilege of serving, i observed a national election there in 2015, and it was already becoming clear there was a downward trajectory for the anc because they were failing to deliver on essential services in the country. rolling blackouts, whites who represent 7% of the population, owning 50% of the farmed land in the country. there has never been any transfer of assets, legacy wealth for black south africans. and education, vocational training, opportunities to get a toehold in the middle class have been fading. looking forward, the anc will be looking for coalition partners. is there an obvious one? how will the puzzle pieces start to fit together? jacob zuma just rose

from the dead like a phoenix and believes he is the obvious one. he and his cadre have continuously said they will not form a coalition with the current president cyril ramaphosa. he was formerly zuma's deputy, they were sworn enemies. now zuma gets to play kingmaker if the anc gets into coalition with this new party. i suspect we'll end up with a governing party of national unity cobbled together from several smaller parties, constituting 50 plus one, to enable the anc to continue to govern. but the challenges are going to be profound at a local level. the economic centre of the country, gauteng, with the city ofjohannesburg, which has had close to a dozen mayors in the last few years

because of the volatility. economic strains are profound. many of the problems in south africa under the anc, there will be some new blood in the government. will this address the problems? lack of electricity and water, high unemployment as well. i should have started by commending south africa for continuing to model inclusive participatory democracy. that's an election that went off basically without a hitch and without a sense that everyone wasn't being included with the opportunity to participate. that's not always the case on the continent. it's a commendable thing. as somebody who loves the country, i believe there isn't anything wrong in south africa that wouldn't be cured by everything that's right in south africa.

extraordinary enterprising young people, and reformers within the anc and other political parties, who will set the government right again. focusing on economic disparities in that country. two key right—wing figures in israel's government are threatening to leave their posts if prime minister benjamin netanyahu agrees to a peace proposal announced by president biden. israel's national security minister, itamar ben—gvir, says any deal that results in a ceasefire before hamas is destroyed will be a victory for terrorism. israel's finance minister also opposes any truce before hamas is wiped out. the peace proposals are backed by the israeli opposition and mediating countries. hamas also reacted positively to the plans. the united states, egypt, and qatar released a joint statement on saturday urging the two sides to reach an agreement. the uk's foreign secretary, lord cameron, told the bbc his thoughts on the deal. i think what the deal contains is a staged process for the release of hostages

in the first phase and a pause in the fighting, and then it goes on to a second stage with a longer pause, with more israeli withdrawals and the release of further hostages, then going on to a third stage, hopefully without any return to fighting, when you get on to the rebuilding of gaza. now, of course, all these plans are incredibly difficult to put in place. but fundamentally why i think this is a moment we should seize to try and bring this conflict to an end permanently is that, you know, it's one thing to call for a ceasefire, but of course, if you can't put in place the conditions that make a ceasefire sustainable, then it won't last. and this is an attempt to start to put those conditions in place, because we all know you've got to look at issues of israeli security and issues of palestinian statehood alongside each other in order to make a deal last and to solve this problem. former us security coordinator for israel and the palestinian authority lieutenant

general mark schwartz shared his thoughts on how the deal has divided the israeli government. 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, 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 the right direction for immediate and long—term security, for the israeli people, it falls well short, because there's no discussion, at least in the plan, about, other than a statement that those responsible for 0ctober7th, israel still has the right to pursue those and bring them to justice — so that implies their intelligence services

and special operations forces probably continuing to pursue. but there's a major security gap that will be created by the withdrawal of israeli forces with no security replacement inside of gaza, starting with the major urban centres and then ultimately, if you go to phase two, where you see the withdrawal of israeli forces. so i can certainly appreciate the concern expressed by those within the israeli populace, and even here in our own country, in terms of, if the us is saying that hamas mexicans will go to the polls on sunday to choose a new president, as well as hundreds of representatives for congress and thousands of local positions. the election looks set to be a watershed moment for mexico. it's widely expected that the country will also elect its first female president as both the leading candidate, claudia sheinbaum, and her closest rival, mexicans will go to the polls on sunday candidate, claudia sheinbaum, and her closest rival, xochitl galvez, are women. but it has also been

the most violent campaign in recent memory. voting was suspended in two southern towns on saturday, with authorities unable to deliver ballot boxes due to a turf war between rival drug cartels. authorities say 22 candidates have been murdered and many more threatened and intimidated. an estimated 27,000 security personnel have been deployed around the country to keep order ahead of the vote. i spoke with our correspondent, will grant. further violence on saturday which could end up affecting voting in some regions, what's the latest? it's an indication ofjust how violent the campaign has been. so many candidates have been killed and threatened, and intimidation is a key part of the toolkit of the cartels when it comes to political violence. there was a municipality in the southern rural state

of chiapas, masked gunmen set fire to an electoral building where the ballots were held. so that has been called off. in other places they cannot get in to deliver the ballots. but the most terrible violence happened as the campaigns were closing — one final candidate was murdered, shot in the back of the head as he was about to deliver his campaign speech. and this all underlines the point that whoever does become president will have a pretty big task to tackle, won't they, when it comes notjust to political violence but violence of all types in the country? yeah, that's an important distinction — between political violence and common violence. when claudia sheinbaum, the former mayor of mexico city, launched her campaign a couple of months ago,

we spoke to people in the main plaza. even though they supported her and her political mentor president lopez 0brador, to a person, they pointed to security at something they wanted to see improved under her. and her challenger galvez also said she is running on a security platform, that she intends to take on the cartels. we have heard a lot of talk about immigration being a top issue in this election. what are we likely to see there? i think if it is an extension of the current administration, under claudio sheinbaum, we will sort of see similar policies to those of president lopez 0brador. with regard to immigration, that speaks to the fact he has been under pressure over the years from washington to strengthen mexico's southern border with guatemala, as it were, to stop central american migrants even making it in, let alone making the journey to the northern border.

galvez too has spoken about the need to strengthen controls. both candidates have been a little light on policy details during all these weeks of campaigning. briefly, it looks like it will be a historic election, likely to be the first female president in the country's history. very likely to be the first female president in the country's history, and that is huge, when we take into account the deeply entrenched machismo and the patriarchy in mexico, just how difficult it is... if it is claudia sheinbaum, would be the first woman mayor of this city and the first woman president. and galvez, one of the women senators. so a historic moment for this country. a lawyer for donald trump has told the bbc nothing will change in the former us president's run for the white house — despite his criminal conviction. trump was found guilty on thursday of

falsifying business records, to conceal hush money payments made to the former adult film star stormy daniels in 2016. mr trump has denounced the verdict, and says the trial was "rigged". his defense team has vowed to appeal. in the 2a hours after his conviction on 3a felony counts, his campaign said it's raised $53 million. trump attorney alina hahbba claims the influx of donations is proof that "trump is the victim of selective political prosecution". here's what she said when speaking to the bbc. we have seen some corruption that this country has never seen before in our judicial system. it is very real. it is not posturing by any means. it is 100% a problem. our people are speaking loudly. they're donating, they're small donors, and they're standing up because they're afraid, because we cannot have this happen to us. for more on what happens next, i spoke to the former us attorney and former deputy assistant attorney general at the department ofjustice, harry litman.

we know donald trump has said he will appeal this verdict as soon as he can. a long list of grievances, really, from the location of the trial to the unique way a misdemeanour was turned into a felony. do you think he has a case? what are the chances that an appeal might succeed? i think the things he is talking about are fairly remote. there is this issue of how things were elevated, but it would be customary, and no surprise, that he would appeal. the important thing to note is an appeal will go to the intermediate court in new york where he was convicted, and it would take 18 months, two years, which is a millennium in political time in this country now, because of the pivot point coming up of the election. so he will appeal, no surprise there. but there's no particular

reason to think it is auspicious for him. and some of trump's supporters have called on the us supreme court to intervene. is that a likely scenario? no, that's fanciful. there's no basis for them to do it, no possible basis for several years until things have gone through the state courts. it's really bravado and a funny kind of posturing, like, oh, this is just where we want things to be because it brings so much support. i was in the courtroom. it was really a very workaday, very... in some ways inspiring, because all around, there were these hail storms of abuse raining down by trump and his supporters, but inside the courtroom, it was very much business as usual — a jury trial, i've spent my life doing them. it's got no sort of connection with reality, the kind of broadsides you are hearing

from people outside the court. the next big date is going to be likelyjuly11, the sentencing date for donald trump. i know you have been looking at some of the options on the table, and there are many, ranging from prison time to fines. what do you think will happen onjuly11? it's somewhat complicated, because a normal nonviolent offender, first time, like donald trump, probably wouldn't get a sentence of prison time. but there's so much swirling around him, that i think will be brought to bear, especially because i think we can expect him to continue to be unrepentant. most people who are convicted, when it comes time to try to minimise their sentence, become contrite. i can't see that with him. the important point again, even if the judge sentences him

to a few months, it'd be no more than that, it would not actually play out. he would not be injail even for a few months until the appeal has run its course. so in that sense, it's more of the kind of scarlet letter of the conviction and sentence, no actual prospect of trump behind bars. for a couple of years, i mean to say. right. we have seen reports in us media that trump supporters are trying to dox, publicly reveal the identity of the jurors in this criminal trial. what do you think comes for some of thejury in terms of going back to normal lives and facing the threat of their name being out in public? you know, it's despicable. by all accounts, i don't see how even the trump lawyers of the world can take the jury to task for doing its job. there are ways to minimise risk, but i think they will

probably be looking over their shoulders, maybe indefinitely. and as the cost of just doing theirjob. it's sort of what happened to law enforcers onjanuary 6. it's really pernicious. indefensible, but it's a feature, the autocratic impulses that trump brings to the political landscape in the us. there is no way, i think, to fully eliminate it, and it's really a shame. an attempt to get flight crews into space on the boeing starliner spacecraft had to be postponed moments before takeoff because of a computer system error. it's the latest setback for the boeing space programme which has already faced years of delays, as our science correspondent pallab ghosh reports. sta rliner. . . boeing's long—delayed starliner.

with four minutes to go, the spacecraft�*s flight control said it was ready for launch. propulsion. go. hydraulics. go. pneumatics. go. but then the computer said no. hold, hold, hold. hold it. the flight was scrubbed, and out came the astronauts. what happens next is the crew has been disembarked from the spacecraft for the second time now. so last time they were within two hours of launch. this time within minutes, four minutes. they're taken back to their quarters and then the investigation begins. initial findings suggest the system failed to allow a computer—controlled launch. those in charge need to find out why. this is the business we are in. everything has got to work perfectly, like we talked before. today we got really close. it didn't work for us. the team is very professional, they are in their 24—hour turnaround right now, and when we are ready to go, they will be ready to go.

when this spacecraft is ready for launch, its role is to take crew and cargo to the international space station. starliner is a brand—new spacecraft that looks like the apollo module used in the moon landings more than 50 years ago. it carried three astronauts, whereas starliner has a maximum capacity of seven. the spacecraft will take a day to reach the space station when it will test out its docking and cargo transportation systems. the mission will last around a week and on returning to earth, the crew will experience starliner�*s landing system, which will touch down in the deserts in the south—western united states. the boeing spacecraft can only take off at fixed times to rendezvous with the space station. the next launch opportunities are sunday, wednesday and thursday. if the problem hasn't been sorted by then, the test flight will face yet another long delay. pallab ghosh, bbc news.

china's chang'e—6 space probe successfully landed on the far side of the moon sunday morning to collect lunar samples. you can see the probe before it took off in early may from the wenchang space launch center in southern china's hainan province. it comes as beijing pushes ahead with an ambitious programme that aims to send a crewed lunar mission by 2030. that's also in washington as we hand over to our bbc colleagues in london. plenty more coming up in london. plenty more coming up on bbc news. —— that's all from washington. 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 of the country which will see

the best of the warmth and the sunshine. further north and west, it will turn cloudier. that's because around this area of high pressure, we'll see this cloud and a weather front starting to work into the north—west of the uk. so it's a chilly but a bright start for many areas, early cloud clearing away from the south—east. the winds turn lighter here, too. lots of sunshine into the afternoon, a bit hazy in places. but the cloud continues to build across scotland and northern ireland through the day, with even a bit of rain arriving across western scotland as well and the breeze picking up here too. so feeling cooler — 1a degrees for the western isles. a bit warmer for eastern scotland, which holds on to the sunshine for longest, but up to 22 or 23 degrees across the east and south—east of england. now, as we head through sunday night, that weather front with the clouds spills its way southward. so it'll turn cloudy for many areas, with some spits and spots of rain, mainly across northern and western hills. because there's more cloud around, more cloud cover means it won't be quite as cool. so i think a milder night to come for most. then into next week,

we see some changes. monday starts off on a fine note with plenty of sunshine, but it will turn cooler from tuesday onwards, with sunshine and showers. most of the showers will be across the north of the uk. so we've got this weather front straddling the country through monday, slowly sinking southwards. it will introduce quite a lot of cloud initially to scotland and then into england and wales. skies will brighten up for northern ireland too. there may be the odd spits and spots of light rain. but it brightens up for scotland. maybe a few showers in the far north later on, where it'll turn breezier. lighter winds further south. so quite a mixed picture, i think. generally, though, given some sunny spells, temperatures will reach highs of 20, maybe 21 degrees. still cooler in the north—west of scotland. and that's the sign of things to come. much cooler air spills southwards across the whole country as we move through tuesday and wednesday and we'll see showers being pushed into northern areas. some of these showers may have a wintry element to them over the tops of the scottish mountains. most of the showers across the north of the uk. further south, in that strong

earlyjune sunshine, temperatures will rise up to 20 or 21 degrees, but nights will be chilly.

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