although she was smiling in the court, this long—running case has been humiliating for sara netanyahu herfamily and has reinforced perceptions that her family lives and has reinforced perceptions that herfamily lives a and has reinforced perceptions that her family lives a lavish lifestyle. mrs neta nyahu was her family lives a lavish lifestyle. mrs netanyahu was originally charged with ordering in hundreds of restau ra nt with ordering in hundreds of restaurant meals worth about £80,000, paid for with public funds, and that wasn't allowed because the prime minister's residence employs a cook. under her final plea agreement she admitted intentionally exploiting the mistake of a member of staff. prosecutors dropped the more serious offence of fraud. she'll be left with a criminal record. translation: the verdict means people with access to public funds, regardless of how senior they are, cannot treat them as their own. taking public funds in significant amounts throughout years against the rules and instructions as a criminal offence that carries conviction and concrete financial punis

a jerusalem court has convicted sara netanyahu the wife of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu of misusing state funds after she spent thousands of dollars on lavish meals at her official residence fraud charges were dropped as part of a plea bargain in which she will pay a fine. now donald trump is famous for putting his name on hotels and casinos but now israel is preparing to name an entire community after the u.s. president that's after trouble recognize the golan heights as part of israel israel gained control of the territory more than 50 years ago in the 6 day war but the united nations and most countries still consider it to be occupied syrian land trump's move was seen as a boost for prime minister benjamin netanyahu and he said he'd rename caliber team in the u.s. president's honor on the israeli cabinet is due to approve that decision later today but if it goes ahead what might that look like w.'s tanya kramer has more. this is the settlement of killer pull him on the occupied golan heights a new neighborhood is planned here named in honor of u.s. president on the tr

jerusalem cora test victim sara netanyahu the wife of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu of misusing state funds after she spent thousands of dollars on lavish meals at her official residence fraud charges were dropped as part of a plea bargain in which shall pay a fine. now a massive power outage has left all of argentina and uruguay as well as parts of neighboring countries in the dark residents of or a boy's capital montevideo were among the 10s of millions of people affected by the outage which began at 7 am local time why is power company blamed the outage on a fault in the argentinean that work sunday's power blackout was one of the biggest ever recorded. while lucy ahead is a freelance journalist based in when i was arias and she joins us now for the latest so what is the situation like at the moment has any power come back on. yes some power has come back on it the concede there is life currently here in this neighborhood in want to fight which is by not unlike one of the most central neighborhoods in the speed but i have a lot of call friends that are living just a few block

a jerusalem court has convicted sara netanyahu the wife of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu of misusing state funds after she spent thousands of dollars on lavish meals at her official residence fraud charges were dropped as part of a plea bargain in which she would pay a fine. to israel now where a new community project named after u.s. president donald trump has been unveiled on the contested golan heights orders zone with syria by minister netanyahu led the ceremony in trump's honor for recognizing israeli sovereignty over the. project aims to strengthen relations between washington and tel aviv trump heights the new settlement is expected to be built near kayleigh in the northern golan heights. our correspondent kramer visited the site. this is the settlement of killer put on the occupied golan heights a new neighborhood is planned here named in honor of u.s. president on his charm only a dozen presidents live in kill or pull him there right many years ago from the former soviet union 30. 1 of them the red is the news by the recent interest in this home. we suddenly have

the wife of the israeli prime minister, sara netanyahu, has admitted she misused public funds and agreedstate $15,000. under a plea deal with prosecutors, more serious fraud charges against her were dropped. yolande knell reports from jerusalem. although she was smiling in court, this long—running case has been humiliating for sara neta nyahu and reinforced public perceptions that her family lived a lavish lifestyle. mrs netanyahu was originally charged with ordering in hundreds of restaurant meals with around £80,000, paid for with public funds and that wasn't allowed because the prime minister's residence employs a cook. under her final plea agreement she admitted intentionally exploding the mistake of a member of staff. prosecutors dropped the more serious offence of fraud but she will be left with a criminal record. meanwhile, the prime minister still faces his own legal troubles. three corruption cases in which he denies wrongdoing. he faces a pre—trial hearing weeks after another general election in september being called because he failed to form a government after an earlier vote

as a part of a plea deal, sara netanyahu has agreed to pay the state around £12,000, some of it in theectricity is slowly being restored to huge parts of south america, after a catastrophic power failure. at one stage today, tens of millions of people were without electricity, in argentina, brazil, uruguay, chile and paraguay. here's chris buckler. at first light, much of south america was left in darkness. a massive power outage left tens of millions of people without electricity and crippled communications in city after city. in argentina, people were preparing to go to the polls, but with trains halted by the power cuts and all the traffic lights out in the streets, several provinces took the decision to temporarily delay local elections. this was a failure on a quite remarkable scale. a 25—minute trip took me almost an hour and a half to be completed, and during the journey i saw three collisions. the collapse of argentina's national grid caused a blackout that stretched not just across this country, but throughout uruguay, and even into some parts of brazil and paraguay. businesse

that election and obviously we're also seeing this corruption case ended now against his wife sara netanyahu admitting to having made made good on somebodies mistakes a lesser charge than she was originally charged with but still having to admit guilt and pay back at least some of the money involved netanyahu of course faces his own corruption cases much more serious ones and there were all sorts of indications that he was trying as he was making his last coalition after this last election victory to get immunity secured for himself and to try to ensure that the courts couldn't overturn any decision to give him immunity. by the knesset the israeli parliament now all of that has been thrown into shopped out by his inability to make that coalition to get a government functioning and the 2nd election he's due to face a hearing all these indictments just a couple of weeks after that election so even if he wins he still faces serious trouble already that thanks very much harmful to reporting from western. libya as u.n. recognize prime minister is offering for peace to end the 5 year civil war. is

in israel, the prime minister's wife, sara netanyahu, agreed today to a plea bargain involving allegations ofsp ovding on lavish meals. she will pay a $15,000 fine to close the case. netanyahu was accused of using state funds to spend some $100,000 at luxury restaurants. an ongoing ebola outbreak in central africa has now claimed its first life in uganda. the world health organization says a five-year-old boy died there today, after crossing from congo earlier in the week. the outbreak has killed nearly 1,400 people in congo since august. back in this country, a north carolina man pleaded guilty to killing three muslim collegeud ts at a chapel hill condo back in 2015. aig hicks entered the pl after prosecutors dropped planso eek the death penalty. instead, he accepted three consecutive life sentences. the victims' relatives said it was a hate crimey born of bigoainst muslims. university dean, william strampel, was convicted today on neglect of dutmisconduct. he was acquitted of sexual assault. strampel oversaw sports doctor larry naar, who admitted to molesting female athletes for years an

sara netanyahu was accused of spending 100,000 dollars of state money on catering and charged with fraudre massive protests in hong kong after the government suspended a law allowing extradition to mainland china. demonstrators want the plan scrapped completely ancall for hong kong's chief executive to resign. >>> turning to a bold gamble to fight the war on drugs, the seattle city of seattle becoming the first in the nation to stop charging people with drug possession including heroin, meth and crack. is this the best approach? here to weigh in is jodi wilkie, a resident nurse. thanks for being here. >> hi. i'm happy on the here. thank you so much. >> so what's going on in seattle because this sounds like a potentially dangerous solution that they have proposed. >> right. i agree. i think that they should go ahead and prosecute people who have broken the law. it's not a good way to go. it's leading to more and more homeless and more and more troubles for the citizens of seattle and the streets of seattle are becoming mer and mod more unsafe. >> you're clean and sober pep tell us a littl