And foreign ministries. South africas Ruling African National congress is fighting for its future according to the party leader and the nations president jacob zuma the party is meeting to elect his successor the race to replace the scandal plagued zuma has caused deep divisions in the end see observers say its in danger of splitting apart. In india raul gandhi has taken over as the leader of the Main Opposition Congress party the forty seven year old becomes the sixth member of the narrow gandy dynasty to head the party candy faces the tough task of leading congress back from its worst every election showing in twenty fourteen. Chile has declared a disaster zone at the site of a small village destroyed by a mudslide five people died after a night of tarantula downpours rescue workers are continuing to search of the daybreak for at least fifteen people who are missing. Bankrupt air berlin subsidiary nikky was grounded this week when love tons of dropped its bid for the Austrian Airline lufthansa had planned to expand its own low cost carrier with nikkis planes but said the european commissions takeover conditions were too strict of tons of had been financing nikki its withdrawal left the carrier insolvent forcing their berlins administrators to look for another buyer. Base in austria nikky employs a thousand workers. It operates a fleet of twenty eight aircraft of which lufthansa wanted to buy twenty one. The low cost and Charter Airline primarily serve mediterranean routes. The nikki insolvency also in me