this is bbc news. i'm nancy kacungira with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. imran khan is removed as prime minister of pakistan — after losing a vote of confidence in parliament. armoured vehicles and new missiles — borisjohnson pledges more british support for ukraine after talks with president zelensky in kyiv. there is a huge amount to do to make sure that ukraine is successful, that ukraine wins and that putin must fail. campaigning ends in the first round of france's presidential election. polls are due to open in a few hours. tom marshburn making his way down. and there we are. and mission accomplished, as the first all private astronaut team ever launched

to the international space station completes docking. hello and thanks forjoining us. the prime minister of pakistan imran khan has been dismissed from office after losing a vote of no confidence. the country's parliament finally held the ballot tonight after the ruling party delayed it for 13 hours. here's the moment the speaker of the house announced the result. 174 members have recorded a vote in favour of the resolution. consequently, the resolution of a vote of no confidence against mr imran khan, the prime minister at islamic republic of pakistan has been passed by a majority of the total membership of the national assembly.

cheering. our pakistan correspondent secundar kermani has been following events in islamabad. supporters of the opposition have been celebrating, you can perhaps hear them in the background. for a while it looked like the vote of no confidence would not happen, the party would block it for a second time despite an order from the supreme court. instead after the delay of a day in parliament and meandering speeches from imran khan's allies, parties walked out of parliament and a new speaker of the house said voting would start. once it was clear voting would begin, the result was a foregone conclusion and that is because a number of imran khan political allies had already publicly deserted him, giving the opposition the

majority in parliament. they will now get to select and nominate their own candidate for prime minister. that will happen in the next couple of days. he will face real challenges in government, not least from imran khan because he is still insisting he is the victim of an international conspiracy, orchestrated by the united states in conjunction with his domestic political opponents because of its foreign policy decisions, including a recent trip to russia. most analysts and his political opponents have denied any truth to the allegations but has resonated with his voters. he said he will not accept any imported government and has called for his supporters to take to the streets in protest on sunday evening. sajjad karim is a former uk member of the european parliament and ran the eu friends of pakistan group. he gave me his

reaction to the news. of reaction to the news. course, there is a lot of theatricals of course, there is a lot of theatricals and drama involved with these situations but ultimately it is an issue of process and due process. that has got to take it cause and be completed, that is what we have seen this evening. unfortunately, it did take the involvement and the supreme court of pakistan to give the necessary deadlines and direction as to how the process needs to be completed. but ultimately, despite resistance from the government and every opportunity was used to try and filibuster, i suppose it was just a hope in imran khan's mind that somehow something would come through at the 11th hour to save him. but this is an issue of due process that had to be completed and has now

there for been completed through. there for been completed through-— there for been completed throuuh. ., . through. take us back to what started that _ through. take us back to what started that process _ through. take us back to what started that process to - through. take us back to what started that process to begin l started that process to begin with, what has led to this moment where imran khan has seen himself lose his position of leadership?— seen himself lose his position of leadership? well, the issue reall is of leadership? well, the issue really is that _ of leadership? well, the issue really is that this _ of leadership? well, the issue really is that this is _ really is that this is something that has come about in a matter of days, to the situation that has been building up within pakistan for some time. and it involves both issues of a domestic nature and issues of a domestic nature and issues of a domestic nature and issues of foreign—policy nature, all of which of course then become intertwined in imran khan's personal leadership style and the way in which he conducted his affairs as prime minister. there has been a whole series of events and decisions taken by him, over the course of the last three and a half years, which in one way or another have all contributed to us eventually arriving at this particular

point. he found that he lost some of his key supporters and allies, both inside and outside of the parliament in the months running up to where we are today, and then of course he eventually lost his majority in the house as well. eventually lost his ma'ority in the house as well._ eventually lost his ma'ority in the house as well. and when it comes to _ the house as well. and when it comes to what _ the house as well. and when it comes to what happens - the house as well. and when it comes to what happens next, | the house as well. and when it. comes to what happens next, who do you see coming in to fill the position?— do you see coming in to fill the position? well, this is now of course _ the position? well, this is now of course absolutely _ the position? well, this is now of course absolutely crucial - of course absolutely crucial because there has been a period is very real turmoil in pakistan and therefore there is a need for a government to come forward, i hope with a consensual policy framework to deliver and allow the people of pakistan a very real contrast to what they have experienced over the last few months. the

leader of the opposition seb al sharif, younger brother of nawaz sharif, his name has been put forward as the prime minister to replace imran khan, and then of course he will have to form a coalition government and within the coalition government, of course the people's party will play a very prominent part and it will be very interesting to see what role the grandson of... actually takes within this government and framework and setup. but i think it is important to also understand that shove our sharif is someone that comes with a tremendous amount both parliamentary experience and executive government experience as well and that may well provide the sort of leadership

that pakistan needs at this moment in time, bearing in mind, the very real turmoil it has gone through under imran khan's style of leadership. —— shehbaz sharif. borisjohnson has become the latest western leader to hold face to face talks with ukraine's president, volodymyr zelensky. during the meeting, the british prime minister praised what he called the mr zelensky�*s "resolute leadership" and the "invincible heroism" of the ukrainian people. he also set out a new package of financial and military aid, including an offer of 120 armoured vehicles and new anti—ship missile systems, for the war with russia. mr zelensky welcomed the uk's support for his country, and urged other western allies to intensify the pressure on moscow. mark lowen has this report. how are you? little time for the niceties when you are a leader at war. volodymyr zelensky hosting

boris johnson today. pressing the flesh of a key western backer. you are looking well. unbelievable considering which you have been through. the strength of the underdog, ukraine's president battling for the survival of his country, welcoming and pleading for the outside world to fight russian aggression. the unannounced talks came as britain pledged 120 armoured vehicles and new anti—ship missile systems. the two men were keen to suggest ukraine is on the front foot, a walkabout in kyiv inconceivable a fortnight ago. borisjohnson basking in praise for his support from the public and the president. translation: we have to exert pressure in the form of sanctions and i'm grateful to the united kingdom that continues and intensify sanctions and also provides significant support to ukraine by reinforcing

defence capacity. the other democratic western countries should follow the example of the united kingdom. from borisjohnson, arriving as horrors are announced from neighboruring towns, warm words for a leader he called a lion. i thank you for what you have been able to do, i think your leadership has been extraordinary. i think what putin has done in places like bucha and irpin, his war crimes have permanently polluted his reputation and the reputation of his government. borisjohnson was long keen to come here to kyiv but was waiting for the security situation to stabilise following the withdrawal of russian troops in the are and while this city has calmed, the renewed offensive in the east has made ukraine push even harderfor more military aid. russian tanks pushed on today

as a governor in the east charge civilians to flee immediately, warning of troops massing nearby. bucha is now free of russian troops and shows what might lie in store elsewhere. 360 people are said to have died here. ukraine, david against goliath, is still crying out for help. in the east of the country, civilians have been urged to leave the area immediately, because russian forces are increasing their shelling and may be planning a mass assault. two missiles hit a train station in the city of kramatorsk on friday, killing more than fifty people, trying to escape fighting in the area. at least four of the dead are children. our defence correspondent, jonathan beale, has sent us this report, from the city. they were supposed to be taking a train to safety but instead they were leaving kramatorsk by ambulance.

most of the severely injured in yesterday's missile attack had already been taken west to larger hospitals. these, the walking wounded. still needing surgery to remove the pieces of shrapnel from their bodies, and still clearly traumatised. translation: | heard a lot | of explosions and i fell down. when i got up a lot- of people were already dead. there was only me who stood up from the floor. _ it's a wonder. god saved me. i have a penetrating chest- injury on one side and my legs are wounded, like everywhere. i got the shrapnel into my groin, into my artery, i fainted twice, lost a lot of blood. medical staff worked day and night to save the lives of the dozens injured. not all made it, six died before they had a chance to operate,

including a young child. translation: there were life threatening injuries, _ amputations, torn limbs, i torn feet, stomach wounds and brain injuries. those were the severe cases. it's surreal what's happened, itjust can't be explained. - i can't imagine what kindl of person takes a decision to launch a missile into a place where| civilians are gathering. screaming. these were the chaotic scenes after the strike. thousands had gathered at kramatorsk station, hoping to get a train to safety. many of them women and children. they were among the dozens of bodies lying on the ground. aleksei was still looking through the wreckage this morning. normally, he helps recover the bodies of ukrainian troops killed in battle. but, yesterday, he was having to gather the remains of unarmed civilians — the innocents of this war.

translation: when you see our future being killed, _ the future of ukraine, you can't control your| emotions, you understand it's genocide and they are killing. usjust because we're - ukrainian and you see that when you look at the bodies of the women and children. | investigators were still examining the remains of a missile nearby. eyewitnesses say they saw multiple explosions, raising the possibility that it may have contained cluster munitions. it's still not clear what exactly happened here, whether this missile might have been shot down and that's why some of it is still intact, but the state railway company says that a number of missiles were fired at the railway station, and despite russia's denials of responsibility, people here think it was a deliberate attack. jonathan beale, bbc news, kramatorsk. russian troops continue to withdraw from areas surrounding kyiv.

so how are residents of the capital feeling? earlier i spoke to oleksandra matviichuk, the head of the humanitarian ngo center for civil liberties. people were released from russian troops. we haven't feelings of relief because they were huge atrocities discovered and first we were seeing shock and now we are in grief. the volunteers documented testimonies of people from the cities and villages even before they were liberated so we know about extrajudicial killings, torture, disappearances of civilians. but we were overloaded by the scope and systematic nature of this crime. so not relief but grief from witnessing the horrors that have happened just outside of kyiv. but what is the feeling

in the city now? is there any sense that things are returning to some kind of normal? people are returning to the city, despite the fact that our mayor asked us not to return because it is not safe in kyiv and the infrastructure is not prepared for returning a huge amount of people. but the city becomes to provide more signs of life, if i can say so. some cafes become open which were closed. some small businesses become returned. so i hope that russians will never return but there is no guarantee before we will not be able to withdraw so i hope that russian troops will never return but there is no guarantee before we will not be able to withdraw them outside our country. and we saw yesterday the head of the european commission,

ursula von der leyen reacting visibly with shock at some of the scenes that she saw in bucha, and she commented that the war crimes there are apparent. do you share that assessment? i can only add that bucha is a small city where 40,000 people lived before russian troops arrived. so, if we see such kind of atrocity which even provide shock to ursula in picture, what does that tells us that awaits us at mariupol where hundreds of thousands of people live and stayed. and what is your reaction to the assistance that has been provided from borisjohnson from the uk today? i am very grateful because we need weapons and we need weapons urgently. we expect a heavy battle in the next several weeks, that is why we need air defence

systems, we need tanks, we need armoured vehicles, we need anti—tank weapons, anti—tank weapons, anti—ship missiles, and a lot more. so, every weapons which is provided for us by great britain and other western democracies help us to defend our cities. the example of bucha shows that russia simply kills unarmed people, so we need weapons. you are watching bbc news, the headlines... imran khan is removed as prime minister of pakistan — after losing a vote of confidence in parliament. armoured vehicles and new missiles — borisjohnson pledges more british support for ukraine — after talks with president zelensky in kyiv. thousands of people have gathered in the sri lankan capital, colombo, to protest

against the country's deepening economic crisis. the demonstrators are calling for the president, gotabaya rajapaksa, to step down. so far, the president and his brother, the prime minister, mahinda rajapaksa, have refused to resign. our correspondent, rajini vaidyanathan was among the protests. thousands have gathered here in the sri lankan capital colombo for a day of mass protest. there is a real strength of feeling here, lots of anger, almost all of it directed at sri lankan�*s government, in particular the country's president gotabaya rajapaksa. throughout the afternoon, protesters have been shouting, chanting, calling for him to step down. so far, the president and his brother, the prime minister, mahinda rajapaksa, are refusing to resign. they say that they will continue the government and get sri lanka through this crisis.

but people here are not convinced, and that crisis is continuing to impact millions of people across this island nation. i talked to many families here today, middle—class families who have good jobs who say they are struggling to put food on the table for their children. they say the value of their salaries has gone down because prices have risen so much. and also they say that even when things are available and affordable, they are struggling to get their hands on them because everything is in such short supply, food, fuel, gas, diesel, everything. and so they say this movement is going to continue. and it has brought this country together, people from all backgrounds, rich and poor, young and old, all united. they say they will not stop their protests until the rajapa ksa family leads power. voting in the french presidential election starts tomorrow. the top two of the 12 candidates will face each other in a final vote in a fortnight.

recent polls show a dramatic fall in president macron�*s lead over his main challenger, the far—right leader marine le pen. our paris correspondent lucy williamson says there's now not a lot between the two candidates on the eve of sunday's vote. they are very close indeed, those two top contenders. there was one poll yesterday, it was the last day polls were allowed, which put them one point apart, macronjust one point ahead in the first round, just two points ahead of her in the second round. other polls putting there may be a point or two further apart but it is really very close indeed. and what is seemed to have changed has coincided with the war in ukraine. president macron tied up with that war, tied up with talking to president putin, didn't start campaigning until about three weeks ago. his rival, the far right leader marine le pen, she has been campaigning for much longer than that, and she has been focusing on rising prices, that is something that is seen as really close to voters hearts here and something that they are even more concerned about because of the war in ukraine. slightly strange because marine

le pen has quite close ties to russia but she has been quite nimble in shifting her position since the war began, and i think she has really gained from the fact that macron had a late start and also that her nationalist rival hasn't been as fast on his feet and he has lost a few votes that have now gone to her. all of this is a snapshot, of course, we don't really know the mood of france until the votes come in tomorrow. there are 12 candidates for the vote, people will cast their votes and the two top candidates will go through to a run—off vote in two weeks' time, and for a very long time, those two top candidates have been seen to be president macron and his far right rival marine le pen, it is what almost all the polls have been saying. president macron promised five years ago to remake french politics. he certainly has done. the first all—private mission to the international space station has docked. the crew — consisting

of a pilot and three passengers — have been welcomed inside the international space station. they are due to spend eight days orbiting the earth. the flight is being hailed as a milestone in the commercialisation of space flight. leroy chiao is a former nasa astronaut and iss commander — he explained why he thinks this space flight is significant. this mission is a first in that it's the first of all commercial crew to fly to and dock to the international space station. this is something that's been coming for a while. nasa has been wanting it for many years, and now this is the beginning. nasa is looking, as you know, to decommission the international space station in 2030, so between now and then nasa would like commercial companies to build and operate space stations so that nasa can in the future, lease space aboard the space stations as much as it is now leasing these missions aboard space x space crafts. so completely different change in model, if you will, about how operations

will be conducted. this is the beginning of the space station part of that. the private individuals on board, while not being there's always been a debate on how sustainable space tourism if you will is, you can argue it one way or the other, but the bottom line is we will have to wait and see. yes, these people who have flown to the space station will be conducting some scientific research. it will be of limited value because they are only going up there for eight days as opposed to six months, which is what a normal space station crew would be up there for. also, it is hard to say that they each paid 55 million each in order to do this research. the fact is, of course, they really wanted to have this experience. there's nothing wrong with that. that's part of the commercialisation of space. these folks did go through several months of training, to their credit, it's notjust a matter of buying a ticket

and going, so they had to learn about nominal or normal operations as well as emergency procedures and how to take care of themselves if there were to be some kind of mishap in space. on the other hand, yes, of course, they are not professionals, except for mike lopez—alegria, who is actually a good friend of mine. he and i flew a space shuttle mission together some years ago, but the other folks are paying their way to go and they get a significant amount of training, so they are not specifically speaking "a tourist", but at the same time, they are kind of in the middle of what we call space flight participant, which is a good way to describe it. eastern ukraine's biggest football club, shakhtar donetsk, have opened what they're calling their �*football for peace' tour with a friendly match in greece against league leaders, olympiakos. 5,000 spectators, including several hundred ukrainians, saw olympiakos win1—0. proceeds from ticket sales will go to charities helping ukrainian victims of the conflict. each shakhtar outfield player wore a shirt bearing the name of one of ten cities that have taken the brunt of the russian

military offensive. stay with us on bbc news. hello there. we've got a little ridge of high pressure moving in and that is killing off saturday's daytime showers, allowing those skies to clear and temperatures to fall away so do expect a frosty start to sunday, lots of blue sky and sunshine to begin with but quickly clouding over from the west. so here is that little ridge of high pressure moving over into europe and all eyes focused on this area of low out in the atlantic, this beautiful bass clef swirl of cloud which is going to gradually spill in cloud and eventually some rain from the west. so, enjoy the early morning sunshine, yes, a frosty start. unusual now for mid april but as we push into the afternoon, the sunshine turning increasingly hazy, they will be showery outbreaks of rain into northern ireland, a bit more of a breeze here as well. highs in northern ireland, england and wales, ten to 13 degrees. a little bit colder, still, in the far north—east

of scotland and the northern isles. now, as we move through sunday evening and overnight, we will continue to see quite a lot of cloud pushing in. that low pressure is really taking its time before it brings in potentially heavy rain but nevertheless, that cloud acting like a blanket, preventing those temperatures from falling quite as far. so, monday morning won't be quite as chilly, will see overnight lows, generally, between three and seven degrees. so, a slightly greyer start to the day, and we will see some outbreaks of sharp showery rain pushing in from south—west england, wales, into northern ireland. some of these showers could be quite heavy, with the odd rumble of thunder mixed in their but if you dodged the showers and keep some sunshine around that low pressure, the wind direction coming from the south—easterly, so not quite as cold, highs of 17 degrees. we still keep the cold air in place into the far north of scotland but not for long because that southerly wind driving around that low pressure will push milder air little bit further north as we go through the next few days. so, on tuesday, yes, still the risk of some

showery outbreaks of rain, again some of it heavy, possibly even thundery, but if you dodged those showers and you keep that sunshine, particularly across east anglia and south—east england, once again we could see 19, possibly 20 degrees. so, the rain, the dividing line between that's slightly colder air sitting in the far north of scotland but it will head in your direction. and you can see, as we head towards the easter weekend, once that rain eases away, it will be dry and relatively milder in comparison to the last few days.

this is bbc news, the headlines. imran khan has been removed as prime minister of pakistan after losing a confidence vote. mr khan said he wouldn't recognise a new opposition government, after claiming that there was a us—led conspiracy to remove him. an assembly will meet on monday to choose a new leader. the british prime minister, borisjohnson has pledged more support for ukraine after holding face to face talks with president, zelensky in kyiv. mrjohnson praised what he called the "invincible heroism" of the ukrainian people. mr zelensky urged other western allies to intensify the pressure on moscow. campaigning has ended in the first round of france's presidential election. president emmanuel macron�*s lead over his main challenger, the far—right leader marie le pen has fallen

dramatically in recent weeks.