this is bbc news broadcasting in the uk and around the globe. a warm welcome to our programme. i'm shaun ley. our top stories: the former pakistani prime minister imran khan is travelling when here gets there, the authorities have suspended the ability to be able to hold rallies and protests so there will be a close eye on the courts later today. us presidentjoe biden has welcomed the international criminal court's arrest warrant against russia's vladimir putin. the icc have accused president putin of committing warcrimes in ukraine. the us government is investigating the chinese parent company of tiktok for possible spying. tiktok says it will co—operate

with any investigations. a fraud victim has won a £153,000 refund after the bbc�*s money box programme contacted lloyds bank about him being targeted. a warm welcome to bbc news. we start in pakistan — where security has been tightened across the capital islamabad — as the former prime minister, imran khan, prepares to appear in court. he left his home in lahore on saturday morning — after a court lifted the arrest warrant issued against him. he's charged with corruption while in office — charges which he says are politically motivated. his convoy has been accompanied by dozens of supporters — they had earlier prevented police

from trying to arrest him at his home. the security services have said they will not allow any of mr khan's supporters to enter islamabad while carrying guns. for his part, mr khan has warned of a huge reaction across pakistan if he is arrested — or if any attempt is made on his life. imran khan has been tweeting during hisjourney from lahore to islamabad and he has accused the police of entering his home — he calls it an assault — where his wife, bushra begum, is alone. and he has questioned the legality of the development. mr khan's pti party has issued these images, which do appear to back up the claim that police have entered his home in lahore. we only have this very short clip to support the claim. 0ur pakistan correspondent caroline davies is following mr khan's convoy — and she sent us this update as he set off. this is the start of the journey for

imran khan to the cold in islamabad, imran khan to the cold in islamabad, i much promise appearance, on the basis of this appearance of his arrest warrant was suspended yesterday. many of his supporters have turned out, as well as security because his team have talked repeatedly about threats to his safety. when here gets to islamabad, we know the authorities there have suspended the ability to be able to hold rallies and protests so there will be a very close eye on the courts later today. we hope to hear from caroline davies in the course of the next hour. i'm joined now by dr ayesha siddiqa who is an expert on civil—military relations in south asia. she is the author of the book military inc. she's also a fellow at the department of war studies at kings college london.

0n on this occasion, it appears former prime minister khan is in trouble with the civil authorities. can you explain to viewers who might be new to the story what is on? let me clarify that here is not only in trouble with the political government, civil authorities but also with the military. the army chief also wants him out. the problem is the reason why, the breeze is trying to arrest him is because there are charges, different charges brought against him. one of thatis charges brought against him. one of that is a corruption case in which here has illegally sold state gifts, gifts that were given to him, very expensive gifts. for example, diamond studied watch by the saudi crown prince, he's sold it and he did not declare, he put it in his wealth declaration which legally he

is bound to. there are other gifts that he was supposed to declare, which he has not done. that is one case. there are other cases, like the case of the daughter, not legally declared as his daughter,, when she is. a charge of threatened and a rally during his speech, there are 80 cases about him. the most latest one is that the last three days, there has been a battle between police and his supporters his residence. petrol bombs were lobbed at the police, police officers were injured. the different cases now brought against him. he has to appear but the more important thing is that for months, he has not bend, he is refused to appear in the

court. now the court says he has to, they ordered the police to arrest him and bring him if he does not come voluntarily. now he is going to islamabad, to appear before the court. what are the prospects for him in such a court case? is it conceivable he could face a prison term? well, very clearly, the first thing, they will bring charges against him. they will frame charges and the case will start. possibility of him going to prison, yes, that is a likelihood. thank you very much for being with us. let's talk now to our correspondent, who is in islamabad. let me ask you first of all what happened on the journey into islamabad.

imran khan, as he was called by the court, he left his home. it is a four to five hours drive, he was en route to islamabad, in the meantime the police near his home entered his residence in an area, they entered his residence, we could see videos on social media shared by his party. they were shared on domestic media as well. we could see police forced entry into his home, destroying what seems to be the alta gate of his residence. later on, police entered his home and arrested eye view of his home and arrested eye view of his party workers. he added that petrol bombs and other bombs, bomb—making materials at his residence. imran khan and his party

workers, they say they entered the premises without any warrant and imran khan took to social media, including his tweet, he said while he was coming to the court, police have led an assault on my house. he said that his wife was alone. his sister also spoke to media and she also said that the police entered without any arrest warrant. the interior minister said the police did have the court order and police wanted to arrest those party workers two days ago when police went to his home to arrest him. now imran khan has entered islamabad and he will be in the court in a while. i case... and he will be in the court in a while. icase... he and he will be in the court in a while. i case... he will be indicted today in the case which is about the

concealment of money that he received while selling gifts he received while selling gifts he received from foreign dignitaries when he was in office. in terms of what this kind of remarkable carnival almost as hundreds of people escorting imran khan, forming a protective flank surround him, this must mean enormous headaches for the authorities.— enormous headaches for the authorities. , ., , ,., , ., authorities. yes, absolutely. imran khan has been _ authorities. yes, absolutely. imran khan has been calling _ authorities. yes, absolutely. imran khan has been calling his _ authorities. yes, absolutely. imran khan has been calling his workers i authorities. yes, absolutely. imranl khan has been calling his workers to his residence, way before it all started. long before it all started, actually. there were hundreds of workers outside his residence when police reached there, and they showed quite a lot of resistant. so they could not arrest imran khan, he had not been appearing before the court for a very long time, citing his health conditions as he was attacked during a rally back in

november 2022 and later on he has been saying that he cannot appear before the court because of the security situation and his life is under threat. security situation and his life is underthreat. police security situation and his life is under threat. police reached there, there were hundreds of workers who were there. even today, resistance was shown and police allege that they were fired upon the from ensign imran khan's residence, in which... there is a large convoy with him on the way to islamabad, his supporters and his workers, and his security team. the court he was not appearing before, that has been shifted to a relatively secure place. we before, that has been shifted to a relatively secure place.— relatively secure place. we will have to leave _ relatively secure place. we will have to leave it _ relatively secure place. we will have to leave it there, - relatively secure place. we will have to leave it there, we - relatively secure place. we will have to leave it there, we will. relatively secure place. we will. have to leave it there, we will talk to a little bit later. thank you so much fun watching developments for us there. —— thank you so much for

watching. president biden has said vladimir putin has "clearly committed war crimes" after the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for the russian president. the icc alleges he is responsible for criminal acts, and failing to use his presidential powers to stop children being deported from ukraine to russia. moscow has denied the allegations and denounced the warrants as "outrageous". i'm joined now by our correspondent anna holligan who is at the hague. the slightly odd situation is, president of the united states praising this protest even though the united states does not recognise the united states does not recognise the icc. indeed. even beyond that, there are so many people talking about this being a symbolic move but actually what stands out is being very significant is that in order to issue these arrest warrants, the icc needs to have sufficient grounds, sufficient evidence to be able to actually point the finger at president putin said that is why this is so important. a lot of

people are wondering why focus on the specific crime, those who have been watching the atrocities, the alleged atrocities being committed in russia, in ukraine since the start of the russian invasion will be familiar with the attacks on hospitals, power grids and this is very specific, focusing on the alleged forcible transfer of children, ukrainian children across the border into russia. 0ne children, ukrainian children across the border into russia. one of the reasons, i spoke to the prosecutor last night, one of the reasons as they believe they have enough evidence to bring this case to court. of course, that is just the first part of this. ukraine has spoken about this issue in the past and estimated that 16,000 ukrainian children have been taken across the border into russia, adopted, some of them by russian families. when i'm speaking to the prosecutor, he pointed out the russian had recently signed a decree that made it easier for russian families adopt ukrainian children. the prosecutor has been to ukraine four times since fabry 2022,

the last time he visited a children's home close to the front line, he was surrounded by empty courts. he said then, he said again to me yesterday, children cannot be treated of war —— children cannot be treated of war —— children cannot be treated as the spoils of war. could it be a spanner in the works. possibly, the icc will always say that it possibly, the icc will always say thatitis possibly, the icc will always say that it is driven by evidence rather than any kind of political motivations, this is a due political contacts that we are looking out from this within. the other issue is russia is not a member of the icc, as he said, they have described this arrest warrant as outrageous. the spokesman can pared it to toilet paper. —— can pared it to toilet

paper. they are obliged to now arrest president putin if he steps on the territory, the countries that are signed up, cyprus, serbia. the other thing to bear in mind is that he will be meeting chinese president, that could feel very awkward because he will now be standing shoulder to shoulder with a suspected war criminal. �* . ., ~ shoulder with a suspected war criminal. �* . . ~' , ., the uk's home secretary suella braverman is visiting rwanda in central africa, it's a trip which has deep political significance in the uk, because rwanda is the country to which britain wants to deport migrants who arrive in the uk illegally. that often involves crossing the english channel in a small boat. the british government says it wants to end the practice of people smuggling — after tens of thousands of people came to the country in the last few years. it says rwanda is a safe �*third country�* — but that view

is being challenged by some human rights activists, who say the policy of deporting people who try to claim asylum would break international law. there have been clashes in paris — as protests continued against president macron�*s reforms to pensions. thousands of people lit fires and threw firecrackers at police, who responded with tear gas. a number of arrests were made. earlier on friday, in the french parliament, opposition parties filed motions of no confidence in the government, after it pushed through a contentious raise in the retirement age from 62 to 64. live now to paris and our correspondent hugh schofield. there is both passion in this campaign, as there always has been, there are people who seem to think there are people who seem to think there is something odd about an elective government forcing something through without a vote.

yes, indeed. there is the nub. this procedure, this constitutional procedure, this constitutional procedure it is not unprecedented to, it has been used regularly over the years, predicted by minority governments, and this is a mandatory government. there is not something new about this, because every time it does happen, the opposition cries foul and in this case you have a context in which the country is already very tense, morale is low, people feel their standard of living going down, inflation is rampant, you have a context that makes it more kind of volatile, the situation. it is part of the constitution, the fifth republic was started by someone who wanted to make sure there was a strong presidency and it would not be hamstrung by warring factions in parliament. he put this measure in say that in the case of parliament blocking a piece of law, there was

this possibility to avoid a vote. there will be a vote, this is the government's argument. there will be motions next week, they will bring the government down on the reform will not happen. there's a difference between voting for and measure, which is what the gunmen try to get to do last week, and voting against the government that will happen next week and some of the mpc voted against the government last week will not vote to bring it down next week. so the government will probably survive —— some of the mps. we are seeing some of the pictures of these scenes last night, friday night in paris, we had the campaign, protracted during president macron�*s first time, how would you characterise this protest? are they more the same or do they feel like they have a different edge? it is similar, it has the same edge to it. i would not say we are

exactly the same point, we are not. that one came out of nowhere, this came out of a long, protracted campaign of strikes and demonstrations and so on. what you are seeing is the far left, elements of the far left, radical left to feel they resort to this street protest and violence. you are saying them now with a self—justification saying we did it obediently all that time, what do you expect, the next step in this is to do more violent forms of protest notjust in paris. ran, there has been on awful lot of civil unrest and windows broken and so on. it's containable, it's not

like the country is in danger of big insurrection. bins piling up, then backs outside my home here, as there are across the city. a general feeling that it is a very tense moment. —— bin bags outside my home to. thank you. us media is reporting that president biden�*s government is investigating the chinese parent company of the social media app, tiktok, for possible spying. an investigation was launched late last year, after data from tiktok users in the united states were inappropriately obtained. here's our north america correspondent david willis. it appears that this investigation was launched sometime last year and then ramped up a couple of months ago after bytedance, the company, the chinese company that owns tiktok, confirmed reports here in the american media that some chinese staff had been using the app to spy on american journalists, in particular to get information about their sources of stories that

had appeared about tiktok in the american media. now, bytedance said in response to today's reports that it is strongly condemning the actions of those staff, who, it says, have subsequently been dismissed. but it's only a couple of months, of course, since tiktok, the app, was banned from government phones here and in an attempt to basically head off further restrictions, bytedance have suggested that maybe the company should keep all user data, american user data on servers located here in the united states. well, the biden administration has come under criticism from opposition republicans for not doing enough to ensure national security through apps such as this. earlier this week, the biden administration announced that it was going to demand that bytedance either sell

off tiktok or face a nationwide and here in the united states. let's look at some of the day's other news. more than 175,000 patient appointments were cancelled in england whenjunior doctors held a three day strike over pay earlier this week. it marks the most disruptive round of nhs industrial action this year. the british medical assosiation have accepted an offer the british medical association have accepted an offer from the government to enter into talks. meanwhile train passengers are again facing disruption as rail workers go on strike. workers at 1a trains operators are walking out as part of a long running dispute about working conditions and pay, which they say needs to match inflation. security at heathrow airport's termial five have announced that they will also be

staging a ten day strike over pay. the walk—out is due to start from 31 march and will run through the easter holidays. heathrow has said that contingency plans will be in place. a fraud victim has been reimbursed £153,000 by his bank following a bbc investigation. james was targeted by a us—based scammer who claimed she was in an abusive relationship and tricked him into giving them money. his bank initially declined to cover him because the criminal used an american account — until radio 4's money box programme intervened. with me now is money box reporter, dan whitworth. tell us about the case, was it grim?

it started with an e—mail, one of our listeners, adam, james' son, he explained what had happened to his father and in short, was theirs. 0ver father and in short, was theirs. over the course of 13 months, criminals had scanned and then stolen £153,000 from james, the victim, by indoctrinating, creaming him into believing that he was actually helping a woman in the united states exclaim an abusive relationship and then help to pay for these expensive medical bills. —— escape an abusive relationship. they started off small, then grew larger and larger, some of 10,000, some are 15,000. james was so deceived by the web of lies, the fraud was only discovered whenjames was admitted to hospital a few weeks ago and so believing was he that he was doing the right thing by this person, he asked his son adam to

make a payment to this lady, dissipated lady, while he was in hospital. adam took a look at the bank account, realise what happened, called the police, called the bank, lloyds, and realise it was a scam right away. i spoke to adam earlier this week, and explain the moment he spoke to lloyd, and they said he should be covered by the voluntary code, only the next day to be told by lloyds that sorry, you are not covered, you will not be getting a refund because this code does not cover criminals when they use foreign bank accounts. if there is a code provided by a bank to protect their customers, then it should be an all encompassing code, there should not be any holes in it. if someone is defrauded, then they are defrauded and the code should kick in no matter where the criminal resides or where the money has gone. fortu nately, fortunately, we began an

investigation, lloyds reviewed the case and lloyds have gone much further than banks usually do in cases we come across. they had spotted these transactions, they won't change, they warned him in person in ranch, but so green had he been that he insisted the payments go through. —— in branch, but he had been so green. adam was then told he would get a refund for his dad. it was like a huge weight have been lifted off my shoulders, because i was looking after my dad on this. i felt a huge sense of responsibility to try and get him a good result. he is in ill health and the relief was indescribable, it was phenomenal. that was adam talking to dan, thanks to dan. if you are on the uk, you can listen to money box at 12:0apm.

you can find it also on the bbc sounds app. more news from us shortly. hello. a morning of mixed fortunes, quite a lot of cloud around, i favoured few have seen some spells of sunshine, as you can see from this weather watcher. however, there has been showers and some of them quite heavy at times, this was in kent. i will show you whether showers have been so far. it is all about low pressure that is dominating out to the west at the moment, and the collective mix of systems which will enhance the showers we have seen some in western scotland and central scotland, also to the south—east of england. some showers elsewhere and as we go through the afternoon, if you catch one of their showers due to the

light winds, they could be pretty slow moving. by the middle part of the afternoon, and looks like it will be a case of sunny spells and scattered showers, almost anywhere across england and wales. when you dodge the showers and you keep some sunshine coming through, temperatures out at 13, 15 celsius the hive. shall we rain the out of northern ireland into western fringes of scotland, with some heavier burst to the extreme north slowly heading towards the northern isles, still sitting in the cold are, expecting a high of five or six by the middle part of the afternoon. as we close out the day on saturday, the winds will pick up, the rain will move to the northern isles, we have a trailing weather front weakening, just a band of cloud easing away and as sky is clear, they will fall away. a slightly chilly start to sunday morning, a comparison to of late but hopefully it will be a sunnier start for most of us. not a bad prospect on sunday, gradually we will start the system

cloud pushing in from the west ahead of this weather front, it will arrive into northern ireland by the end of the afternoon. not a bad mothering sunday fan base, 8—13 c is the high. a little bit cooler into the high. a little bit cooler into the northern isles. the change comes once again on monday, wet windy weather, weather purchases across the atlantic. it looks likely to stay on settle where was no longer spells of rain at times, the temperatures pretty much where they should be that this time of year. take care. —— when they should be fall this

this is bbc news, the headlines... the former pakistani prime minister imran khan is travelling to court in islamabad — to face corruption charges. us presidentjoe biden has welcomed the international criminal court's arrest warrant against russia's vladimir putin. the icc have accused president putin of committing warcrimes in ukraine. the us government is investigating the chinese parent company of tiktok for possible spying. tiktok says it will co—operate with any investigations. a fraud victim has won a £153,000 refund after the bbc�*s money box programme contacted lloyds bank about him being targeted.