Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert begins sentence for bribery

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has begun serving a 19-month prison sentence for bribery and obstruction of justice.

Olmert is the first Israeli prime minister to serve time in prison. TV footage showed him walking into the Maasiyahu prison in central Israel.

The 70-year-old was convicted in March 2014 in a wide-ranging case that accused him of accepting bribes to promote a controversial real-estate project in Jerusalem.