i do need to point out that you worked with the umno party and yourformer boss the umno party and youryour former bos . , boss was sentenced to 12 years in prison- _ boss was sentenced to 12 years in prison. corruption _ boss was sentenced to 12 years in prison. corruption has - boss was sentenced to 12 years in prison. corruption has been| in prison. corruption has been high on minds of voters as they go to the polls. how widespread is it today throughout the political system? i is it today throughout the political system?- is it today throughout the political system? i think after more than — political system? i think after more than 60 _ political system? i think after more than 60 years - political system? i think after more than 60 years of- more than 60 years of essentially one party ruled, as we say, absolute powers would corrupt absolutely. you would see that in malaysian normal daily life as well. corruption and also collusion between government officials, and this business persons. it's very widespread indeed. and the opposition, vowed to eradicate this level of corruption. t

the former ruling party, umno, appears to have miscalculated badly in pushing for the election to behe other parties wanted, believing it had built up enough support to be able to regain the power that it lost at the last election. in the end, it got its worst election result ever, just 30 seats for its coalition, as the conservative rural ethnic malays that are the bedrock of its support switched their allegiance to the perikatan nasional coalition, made up of umno defectors and the hard—line conservative islamist party. and that coalition now says it's in the best position to form a government, that it has got other parties onside and will be able to do that. the veteran opposition politician anwar ibrahim was after probably his last chance to become prime minister. he led the pakatan harapan reformist coalition actually to win the most number of seats, so in theory, you'd think he could form a government. but none of the other parties appear to want to work with him. if he can't form a government, then we will see, probably given the age he's at, one of the giants of malaysian pol

he was then a rising star in the ruling party, umno, and the anointed successor to long—standing leaderwo men fell out over the asian financial crisis and mr anwar was arrested and charged with sodomy and corruption. he was to spend the next six years injail. his conviction was eventually quashed and he built a reformist political movement that, ten years ago, came close to toppling umno from its long monopoly on power. then mr anwar was jailed again. but rising public anger over the huge imdb corruption scandal finally helped the reformists to win an election four years ago. and saw mr anwar form an unlikely alliance with his old nemesis, mahathir mohamad, with an arrangement in which the older man would govern first, then hand over to mr anwar. but that deal collapsed and the top job slipped through his fingers once more. now he's got there, but at the toughest of times for malaysia, facing notjust the fragmented political landscape but also an economy struggling to recover from the covid pandemic. jonathan head, bbc news, bangkok. let's take a look at some other stories in the headli

he was then a rising star in the ruling party, umno, and the anointed successor to long—standing leaderal crisis and mr anwar was arrested and charged with sodomy and corruption. he was to spend the next six years injail. his conviction was eventually quashed and he built a reformist political movement that, ten years ago, came close to toppling umno from its long monopoly on power. then mr anwar was jailed again. but rising public anger over the huge 1mdb corruption scandal finally helped the reformists to win an election four years ago. and saw mr anwar form an unlikely alliance with his old nemesis, mahathir mohamad, with an arrangement in which the older man would govern first, then hand over to mr anwar. but that deal collapsed and the top job slipped through his fingers once more. now he's got there, but at the toughest of times for malaysia, facing notjust the fragmented political landscape but also an economy struggling to recover from the covid pandemic. jonathan head, bbc news, bangkok. an ancient gold coin once thought to be fake has now been authenticated, revealing the exis

he was then a rising star in the ruling party, umno, and the anointed successor to long—standing leadern jail. his conviction was eventually quashed and he built a reformist political movement that, ten years ago, came close to toppling umno from its long monopoly on power. then mr anwar was jailed again. but rising public anger over the huge 1mdb corruption scandal finally helped the reformists to win an election four years ago. and saw mr anwar form an unlikely alliance with his old nemesis, mahathir mohamad, with an arrangement in which the older man would govern first, then hand over to mr anwar. but that deal collapsed and the top job slipped through his fingers once more. now he's got there, but at the toughest of times for malaysia, facing notjust the fragmented political landscape but also an economy struggling to recover from the covid pandemic. jonathan head, bbc news, bangkok. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines. net migration to britain reached a record ofjust over half a million in the yeartojune, despite government pledges to reduce numbers. 1.1 millio

the former ruling party umno suffered its worst ever performance, but a breakaway coalition, which includes asia correspondent jonathan head joins us now. jonathan, what can we expect next? 3 jonathan, what can we expect next? �* ., ., ., next? a great deal of bargaining, _ next? a great deal of bargaining, and - next? a great deal of bargaining, and for. next? a great deal of. bargaining, and for the next? a great deal of- bargaining, and for the two leading collisions, both claim they have enough seats to form a government. well, the reformist coalition led by veteran opposition politician and why ebrahim has the most seats, but is 30 short of a majority. —— anwar ibrahim. the next is a breakaway from unmo, and ethnic malay coalition, they have about nine or ten seats fewer than mr anwar ibrahim's coalition, but if they get enough parties on their side they could also from government. so they will be a huge amount of bargaining, today could be very intense. what we need to look at in this election is what it indicates. it has been quite striking, what we have seen from it. the last electi

the governing umno party was trailing further behind.ment of an independent lawyer to investigate cases against him as appalling, corrupt and highly political. the us attorney general has appointed a former war crimes prosecutor as special counsel to handle investigations into the former us president. jack smith will rule on whether criminal charges should be filed against the former president relating to the removal of top secret documents to his florida residence and to the january 6th capitol riots. i've been going through these investigations and hoaxes and scams from the day i came down the escalator at trump tower. and you'd really say, enough is enough, got to get back to work, got to prove that we have a great country again. because right now it's not great, right now it's a laughing stock all over the world. and we've sort of all had it, the people of the country have had it. more than six feet of snow has smothered large parts of upstate new york state, prompting officials to restrict road travel and cancel flights. the cancell

the former ruling party umno suffered its worst ever performance, but a breakaway coalition, which includes, did better than expected. 0ur south east asia correspondent, jonathan head explained what we can expect to happen next. a great deal of bargaining and tuba to leading coalitions both claiming they have enough seats to form government, well the reformist coalition led by a fellow politician has the most seats but fall short of majority. the next coalition is that breakaway, an ethnic malay —based coalition, who have about nine or ten seats fewer than the reformist coalition but if they get enough parties on their side they could form a government so they'll be a huge amount of bargaining and today will be very intense but i think what we need to look at where the election is what it indicates and it's been quite striking about what we have seen from it, the last election in 2018, it ended 61 years of unbroken rule but that happen because a breakaway faction joined the reformist and got enough seats to throw them out. that's coalition broke up in what we saw this time was ethnic malays

the former ruling party, umno, suffered its worst ever performance, but a breakaway coalition which includesia correspondent jonathan head explained what we can expect to happen next. a great deal of bargaining. and to the two leading coalitions, both claiming they have enough seats to form a government, well, the reformist coalition led by veteran opposition politician anwar ibrahim has the most seats but is 30 short of a majority. the next is a breakaway from unmo, an ethnic malay coalition, perikatan nasional. they have about nine or ten seats fewer than mr anwar ibrahim's coalition, but if they get enough parties on their own side, they too could form government. so there will be a huge amount of bargaining. today could be very intense. what we need to look at in this election is what it indicates. it has been quite striking, what we have seen from it. the last election was in 2018 and ended years of unbroken unmo rule. but that happened because a breakaway faction joined the reformists and got enough seats to throw them out. that coalition broke up. what we saw this time was ethnic mala

the governing umno party is trailing further behind.travel and cancel flights. the cancellations are expected to affect the plans of hundreds of thousands over the next week, ahead of the busy thanksgiving holiday. new york's governor has called in the national guard, deploying about 70 members to help with snow removal. nasa expects humans to visit the moon for lengthy stays sometime this decade. officials say that as part of the agency's artemis mission, habitats will be need to be created there to support scientific operations. the last manned mission to the moon was back in 1972. will donald trump be returning to twitter? that debate has reached a new peak after elon musk concluded a 24—hour twitter poll, asking users to vote on whether the former president, who was banned from the site by its previous owners, should be reinstated. people got used to donald trump's often fiery tweets when he was in the oval office, but he was in the oval office, but he was in the oval office, but he was bound by the social media network following th

that coalition broke up and then we have seen 60% of the population moving from umno, towards this breakawaya conservative islamic party. the basic voting processes have not changed that much and the reformist wing in malaysia which includes the ethnic chinese minority cannot really break into majority territory, it seems to be stuck at the ceiling. we don't know which of those top two coalitions will be able to form a government. i think it will be challenging because it is hard to pull other parties around malaysia into coalition. here in the uk, the housing secretary, michael gove, has written to every council and social housing provider in england, to warn that deaths like that of two—year—old awaab ishak must "never be allowed to happen again". an inquest found that the boy died from a respiratory condition caused by mould in his home in rochdale. on saturday, the head of the housing association which rented out the flat to awaab's family was sacked. duncan kennedy reports. he was only two years old. but awaab ishak�*s death brought together the people of rochdale in a mixture of horrif

the governing umno party was trailing further behind.eople doing daily tasks and have been painted onto war—torn buildings in the cities of hostomel, horenka and borodyanka. the footage also shows a man's hand creating the art, but as is typical for a man who goes to extreme lengths to protect his id, banksy�*s face is never seen. here's a look at the art. nasa expects humans to visit the moon for lengthy stays sometime this decade. officials say that, as part of the agency's artemis mission, habitats will be need to be created there to support scientific operations. hello there. weather headlines in recent days have been dominated by the relentless heavy rainfall that we had seen across eastern scotland. in aboyne in aberdeenshire, we had a month and a half of rain since last wednesday, and there is more wet weather to come, but it looks likely over the next five days that the heaviest of the rain will be further south and west. the darker the blues, the heavier the rain. and you can see across the far north—east, hopefully not quite as