Israel's PM Netanyahu faces leadership challenge
Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party votes to decide on the party's next leader.
Israel's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu is facing his biggest challenge for a decade today when the governing Likud party votes to decide whether he's the man to lead it into another general election. There were two this year and both times Mr Netanyahu wasn't able to form a governing coalition.
Also in the programme: A powerful typhoon hits the Philippines; and protests against the citizenship amendment bill continue in India.
(Picture: Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Credit: REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun)
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