There’s been confirmation overnight that the Freedom Front Plus has now agreed to join the new coalition government - that means that there will now be seven parties in the government

Israeli forces are still dropping bombs on the central parts of the Gaza strip - killing Palestinians who have been forced to move first to Rafah - and then out of Rafah as the Israeli operations moved there.

The Table Mountain National Park now says that there has been a big increase in the number of fires on the mountain this year - there were a hundred and twenty fires in the last year - that’s thirty five more than in the year before