live from london, this is bbc news. pakistan's former prime minister — imran khan — has been arrested in islamabad in connection with a corruption case. in a scaled—down parade to mark victory day, president putin links russia's war in ukraine to the soviet struggle against nazi germany. and for eurovision fans — the wait is over. the first of the semi—finals kicks off in liverpool this thursday. hello and welcome, i'm ben thompson. pakistan's former prime minister imran khan has been arrested at the high court in the capital

islamabad. he was there for an unrelated hearing on corruption charges — one of several court cases mr khan is facing. mr khan was ousted as prime minister in april last year and has been campaigning for early elections since then. bbc pakistan correspondent carrie davis has more. the moment of arrest. imran khan are waiting to appear in court. the glass in front of him smashes, paramilitary troops sent to arrest him pile through into furniture and his supporters. surrounded by officers in riot helmets and shields, mr khan is marched from the court to a waiting car. where he was being taken, officers didn't say. the police say he was arrested on corruption charges. it has been over a year since corruption charges. it has been over a yearsince imran corruption charges. it has been over a year since imran khan was ousted from power any vote of no confidence. court cases against him have been mounting. the former prime minister has continued campaigning, criticising the government and

pakistan's powerful military. earlier this year, when imran khan's supporters in lahore blocked the police attempting to arrest him, the government said he was using his supporters to avoid the rule of law. national elections are meant to take place in pakistan this year. and as the country's economy falters and inflation soars, politics is pulling bugs apart. —— is pulling pakistan apart. that is the story so far today. let's take you to some live pictures of karachi. this is after the party of mr khan calling for supporters to come out onto the streets to protest against that arrest. we have seen similar protests taking place in lahore and peshawar. those protesters previously have been successful in preventing the arrest of mr khan. they have tried to do that since he was ousted from power last year. security forces have tried to detain him on a number of previous occasions at his residence

in the city of lahore. we will leave those pictures they are so you can follow events in karachi, but let's you know from our site asian regional editor who has the details on how to�*s events played out. any dramatic development, pakistan police officers took mr khan, the former prime minister of pakistan into custody in connection with their corruption case. these were very dramatic scenes, as you can see. some of the videos on your website, there are dozens of police officers having a riot gear, dragging mr khan and putting him intoa van dragging mr khan and putting him into a van and driving away. no any pakistani interior minister says that he was arrested in connection with the case are bound by the national accountability bureau —— now any pakistani interior minister. this is the accountability watchdog and he failed to reply to the notice of this accountability bureau, that

is why he was arrested. supporters of mr khan have strongly condemned this arrest. they say he was abducted from the court complex because he was there to appear for other cases and they have called for their supporters to protest against mr khan's arrest. where hearing about dozens of his supporters holding protests in the cities of lahore, karachi and peshawar. this has plunged the country further into a political crisis.— a political crisis. yes. and this is a political crisis. yes. and this is a war of words _ a political crisis. yes. and this is a war of words that _ a political crisis. yes. and this is a war of words that we _ a political crisis. yes. and this is a war of words that we are - a political crisis. yes. and this is a war of words that we are now i a war of words that we are now seeing escalate. and ijust remind us, if you will, this is after the army accused mr khan of levelling baseless allegations against them. this was against a senior army officer. just explain that relevance in this context. since he was ousted from power, mr khan has been holding rallies across pakistan.—

rallies across pakistan. addressing his suworters. — rallies across pakistan. addressing his supporters, saying _ rallies across pakistan. addressing his supporters, saying he - rallies across pakistan. addressing his supporters, saying he was - his supporters, saying he was unfairly removed from the government. he also accused at the army and other political leaders of behind the spot manoeuvring and during one of these rallies in last november, shots were fired at him and he was injured in the leg and his supporters say it was clearly an assassination attempt. later on, mr khan repeatedly accused one senior pakistani military officer of involvement in the plot. that was an allegation. the military came out with a very strong statement on monday saying these allegations were baseless and they were very unfortunate and deplorable. the arrest comes a day after mr khan, after the military issued a statement. before he left for the court complex today, mr khan issued a very defined video addressing the military directly, saying it is my pakistan, my country, and he was repeating this allegation. and the relationship between the country's powerful military and mr khan has

deteriorated in the past two years orso deteriorated in the past two years or so now that he is levelling this allegation against senior army officers, the military is really not happy with him. that is our south asia regional editorjust explain in some of the significance of the event so far today. the pictures you're looking at now our live pictures of protests in karachi. we have been following disturbances any number of cities, in lahore, pasha r, and this at the scene in karachi. this coming after mr kan�*s party called on supporters to come out onto the streets of —— peng shuai. we heard video message from mr khan whilst he was on the way to islam as bad as saying that he was ready for what lay ahead. the court says, come to me with warrants, my lawyers will be there. if you want to send me to jail, he said, iam prepared be there. if you want to send me to jail, he said, i am prepared for it. we were hearing from our south asia

editor there that the call to energise supporters or related to what mr khan sees as a government plot to remove him unfairly from office. in april of last year. he has been campaigning for early elections since then we know general elections since then we know general elections are due to be held in the country later this year. that is the scene at their live, that vehicle being set on fire in karachi. we will stay across those images and if there are further developments, head straight back there. that is our main story, imran khan arrested this morning in islamabad. elsewhere, the russian president vladimir putting has said civilisation is at a turning point because of the war in ukraine. in a speech in moscow, marking the anniversary of soviet victory over the nats is in the second world war, he claimed that russia is once again facing exchange threat —— the nazis. he told people

they were engaged in a patriotic struggle for their country. it is a russia editor, steve rosenberg. it despite security events, victory day parade went ahead on red square. to commemorate the defeats of nazi germany. but they were in ukraine are made this feel a very different 9th of may. the 80—year—old t 3a, the only tank on display here. modern tanks are normally a feature of the victory day parade. not this year. there was no military

fly—past. it was cancelled. and there were fewer soldiers here than normal. watching from the stands, russia's commander—in—chief. vladimir putin is under intense pressure. his invasion of ukraine has not gone to plan. but he continues to blame the west. translation:— continues to blame the west. translation: ., ., . ., ., translation: today, once again, civilisation is _ translation: today, once again, civilisation is at _ translation: today, once again, civilisation is at a _ translation: today, once again, civilisation is at a decisive - civilisation is at a decisive turning point. a real war has been unleashed against our homeland. we have repulsed international terrorists in the past. now we will protect the people of the dundas. we will ensure our security. == protect the people of the dundas. we will ensure our security.— will ensure our security. -- of the donbas. security _ will ensure our security. -- of the donbas. security has _ will ensure our security. -- of the donbas. security has become - will ensure our security. -- of the donbas. security has become a i donbas. security has become a problem for those running russia. less than a week ago, this happened. an apparent attack on the kremlin.

the russian authorities blame it on ukraine. these too. in recent weeks there's been a string of drone attacks on russian territory, and on russian—occupied crimea, as well as bombs targeting the railways and power lines. citing security concerns, several russian regions had cancelled local victory day events. for the kremlin, it was important to keep calm and carry on in the capital, but the red square parade was shorter than normal. what was once a showcase of russian military might this year seemed to highlight military problems more than 14 months after the kremlin launched a full—scale invasion of ukraine. steve rosenberg, bbc news. so how will all that to be viewed in ukraine? our correspondent hugo bachegais ukraine? our correspondent hugo bachega is in the capital following

developments. this is the fifth time the capital was targeted in nine days and what we saw here today was the aerial alert sounded around for pm in the morning. the aerial alert sounded around for pm in the morning.— in the morning. the ukrainian military said _ in the morning. the ukrainian military said that _ in the morning. the ukrainian military said that russia - in the morning. the ukrainian military said that russia had i in the morning. the ukrainian - military said that russia had fired 25 cruise missiles. most of them targeting the capital. and 23 were intercepted by the country's air defence systems. again i think it shows the vital role that air defence systems have been playing in protecting ukrainian towns and cities from these russian air strikes. i think this is busily happening as ukraine says, it is finishing its plans for a much anticipated counter offence and perhaps the russian strategy here is to test and exhaust the air defence systems with these air strikes. what

happened came a day after russia launched its largest attacks on the capital in this war with nearly three dozen drones. the capital coming under attack as russia intensifies these air strikes. yes. and interestingly _ intensifies these air strikes. yes. and interestingly have _ intensifies these air strikes. yes. and interestingly have heard from the un secretary—general talking about the potential and, although it may feel very far off right now. it is clear that the two parties completely absorbed in this war, both convinced that they can win. interesting if you listen to what we heard from president putin given those remarks at that victory day parade. he paints a picture that russia is at the country that is the victim here exactly. i don't think there was anything new in what president putin had to say. he said that the west was waging a war against russia will stop he said that the situation here

in ukraine was that the ukrainians were being held hostage to neo—nazis. and i think we've heard this before from president putin. and here the ukrainian say that the only solution to this conflict is a ten point plan that has been announced by president putin, which includes the restoration of ukraine's sovereignty, the withdrawal of russian forces from ukraine in territory. and also the creation of a special tribunal to prosecute russian officials accused of war crimes. so this is the proposal that has been put forward by president zelensky. something that has been rejected by the russians. i think it shows we are very distant from any kind of possibility of having negotiations to reach any kind of solution to this conflict.—

this conflict. our ukraine correspondent, - this conflict. our ukraine correspondent, hugo - this conflict. our ukraine - correspondent, hugo pacheco. this conflict. our ukraine _ correspondent, hugo pacheco. this is bbc news, around the uk and across the world.

you are live with bbc news. the bbc�*s barbara plett usher is following developments in sedan because she is in nairobi looking at talks continuing. they are getting under way in saudi arabia relating to the ongoing fighting in sudan. bringing both sides to the table could prove very difficult. she has been explaining what is at stake. this is the most serious attempt to get things fixed that you could establish humanitarian quarters. that is the narrowing of this to get a humanitarian truce. it is not clear if either side is willing to go that far. they are certainly not willing to talk about a negotiated solution to the conflict and we are

not getting much information at all about what is happening at these talks. they are basically being held in secrecy, hosted by the saudi arabian government. there has been criticism about that, the fact they're happening behind closed doors and also that there are no civilians. at best this would be a closed—door deal between those who carried out the coup against the civilian government in 2021. that is what not what i have been told. it is a reminder that this battle between the two generals who then turned on each other and are now fighting each other has completely sidelined that process of trying to move to transition to a civilian led government. again, criticism the civilian led side was that the international community should have punished the two generals for carrying out that coup in the first place and not giving them legitimacy by that token. what the americans have said is they were punished,

economic aid stops, the debt relief stopped. so on. but that clearly wasn't enough at all to prevent this kind of outbreak of violence and as i said, completely turning over that transition to a civilian led government. barbara plett usher with the latest on those talks to continually a ceasefire in sedan as talks are under way in saudi arabia. here in the uk, london's metropolitan police commissioner has defended the placing of the coronation. describing the arrest of six anti—monarchy campaigners as unfortunate, but stressed he supports the arresting officers are' actions. the group who were detained on suspicion they were planning to attach themselves to something illegally will face no charges. 0ne illegally will face no charges. one of those arrested was graeme smith, the head of the campaign group republic. he says he has received an apology, but once a full inquiry into what happened. the conservative mp david davis said the public order act, which was used to arrest them,

was too crude and pearly defined. 0ur was too crude and pearly defined. our home affairs correspondent daniel sanford is in the newsroom and has more context. some of the protest organiser there and they went to collect placards more basically did not come back. we heard basically did not come back. - heard quite quickly they had been arrested and went along and managed to talk to some in handcuffs before they were taken away and they were quite clear that the time that the police were interested in luggage straps that were in the van which they were accused of perhaps using for locking on to a building or mailing or something like that. 0ver mailing or something like that. over the weekend, the police had actually, the men had been arrested on suspicion of conspiring to cause a public nuisance, but last night they conceded, yes, they had been arrested using this new law which made it illegal to go equipped for locking on. this law was introduced to deal with people like stop 0il

murmu protesters and distinction rebellion before the change taxes —— change tactics. so they could not remove from causing 0bstruction. . there were concerns about the new law when it was introduced as to whether it had been drawn to lightly —— widely. 0n whether it had been drawn to lightly —— widely. on this mastication it was years, some people have ended up spending 16 hours any police station because of some luggage straps and at the back of a hire van which they were using to carry some placards. that is causing concern of a site that essentially people turning up to do reasonably legitimate protest, waving some placards have ended up being prevented from protesting, prevented from organising their protest and spending 16 hours in custody. the prime minister sunak today has defended the new laws. ., ., , ., , sunak today has defended the new laws. ., laws. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford. _ laws. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford. same _ laws. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford. same with _ laws. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford. same with policing, |

daniel sandford. same with policing, the police who action for sharing her personal information according to the watchdog —— nicola bulley. the first came under criticism after the 45 your�*s body was pulled from a river in february more than four weeks after she was last seen injanuary. campaign groups was the disapproval after the police elected to put elements of nicola bulley�*s private life into the public domain. that included her struggle with alcohol and the perimenopause. eurovision fans, the wait is over! after months of planning, the world's biggest music event kicks off in liverpool later with the first semifinal of the eurovision song contest. maryam moshiri is in liverpool with all the buildup. i know, can you hear? it's a version of last year's runner up space man. i mean, it'sjust amazing. but i can't tell you how the atmosphere here has been over the last day or so that

i've been here. it is electric. there is, you know, eurovision paraphernalia everywhere you go from the moment you step out of the station at lime street, to the moment you come here to the fan zone, there are eurovision symbols everywhere. everyone is happy, everyone's smiling. also, a bit of a different eurovision this year, of course, because it's hosted here in the uk in the lovely city of liverpool, but it should really have been hosted in ukraine because of course ukraine won the competition last year, but because of the war with russia, it's been moved here. but there have been, if you look around you in liverpool, so many touching signposts of ukrainian culture. last night there was a big concert with ukrainian musicians and bands. there are ukrainian songbirds dotted around the city and you can press the button and you can hear specific ukrainian songs everywhere you go. it's really quite wonderful. but this is all about a competition and it is the biggest music competition in the world. 160 million viewers are going to be watching this worldwide. it's a huge event.

and of course there are the favourites, the bookies' favourites, but the bookies are not always right. at the moment, sweden is firm favourite to win, but over the last eight years, bookies have only got it right 50% of the time. so it's all to play for. and one of the most exciting entries is from estonia and the estonian entry is by a singer called alika. it's called bridges. and i want you to have a listen before i speak to her. # there was always time to get back on track, tearing down the walls slowly, every site # now i see myself building up a word # there is one more thing you need to know # that i forget myself all the lies

i said before and i'm very happy to say alika said before is here with me. _ how excited are you about your performance tonight? oh, i'm really excited. my performance will be on thursday. yeah, that's why i'm here right now, i would say. but yeah, i'm really excited, actually. i'm not so nervous. i think we are all nervous about the results, but i'm really confident about my performance on stage, so i'm just going to enjoy it and be in the moment. i think this is the most important thing about eurovision. we heard a little clip of your music video of the song bridges. what is the song about? what are you saying with this song? this song is about building bridges with relationships, but not only with each other, which is really obvious, but actually with yourself also. and i think that all people are lying to each other. it's like a part of the nature.

but the most important thing that we are lying to ourselves and it's really hard to determine, so i'm building bridges with myself, with all the people who are listening and just giving hope, firstly to myself and to all the people, that there is a way to just begin again and tojust stand up and go straight forward to the future. when you performed this song in estonia, you used a haunted piano, a piano that plays itself. can we expect that today, on thursday? yes, yes. this is a really important detail of the performance. and yeah, it was going, sailing, i would say, from estonia to the united kingdom to liverpool from april, so i'm really happy that it's arrived and it's on a stage. phew, it's safe, it's here! now, how does it feel to be in liverpool? i've just been astounded by the vibe here.

it's just buzzing, isn't it? oh, you can't forget that you are on the eurovision, so the songs are everywhere. i really love the atmosphere here. it's really authentic and a little bit different from estonia. a lot of pubs, a lot of funny people and people just having fun being in the moment. and of course eurovision fans all over the place. eurovillage is right over here, so this is really awesome. so this is really awesome, yeah. how excited is estonia about this competition about thursday night? how big is eurovision in estonia? it's actually a really big thing in estonia because estonia is such a small country, only 1.3 million... let's not let's not let's not bore ourselves with numbers, but it's a small country, but it has a big heart. oh, yes. all the estonians are really supportive. and every year the eurovision is a really, really big event for us and we are all supporting each other. so i'm really glad that estonia

is behind my back and supporting me and not make me to give up. so they're giving me confidence and yeah, they are cool. alika, thank you very much. best of luck for thursday evening. thanks forjoining us. another, we have seen some temperature coming through. through the next few days, _ temperature coming through. through the next few days, we _ temperature coming through. through the next few days, we will _ temperature coming through. through the next few days, we will keep - temperature coming through. through the next few days, we will keep this i the next few days, we will keep this mixture of sunny spells and showers and thunderstorms likely as well. the met office have issued a yellow thunderstorm warnings for this part of the uk. there could be as much as 20 or 30 millimetres of rain falling from those heavy showers. some hail in there as well. not only some downpours across this part of the uk, but we have some sunshine elsewhere and some sharp showers. although western scotland, north—west england and wales may be turning down towards the end of the afternoon. temperature rise, peaking at 17 or 18 celsius once again. a

lot of the showers will fade away this evening, but they will keep going into the night across the far south—east and east anglia and they will become lighter. later in the night, we have more cloud piling on from the atlantic, bringing more service in northern england —— northern ireland. temperatures could be as low a separate celsius in the morning, but we should start dry for many eastern areas with some sunshine, but we will see the increasing. across most parts of england, perhaps into eastern scotland we will see that. temperatures could reach 18 celsius before the downpours but it will be cool in western scotland and northern ireland where we will find a lot of cloud, wrapping around that area of low pressure. that will then come to rest across the uk as we move into thursday. away from the far south—west of the uk, the winds will be light, so once the showers get going, as the heat builds during the day, so the showers will be heavy and thundery and also slow—moving. not so many showers are

not the skull and because there will be a lot of low cloud once again and probably not so many showers are northern ireland, though here we should see more in the way of sunshine. temperatures around 16 celsius. things look different to what the interviewee, to turning drier, high pressure building on from the atlantic, that will mean most places will be dry on friday. still got a lower pressure moving into central europe and just on the edge of that on east anglia and the south—east, could be some showers here. a chilly wind blowing in across an rc. best of the sunshine by the western side of the akiba temperatures will be back up to around 18 celsius.

the debt ceiling dilemma — president biden is set to meet congressional leaders in the bid to avert a financial catastrophe. and — we'll be hearing from the co—founder of apple about his fears on how artificial intelligence may be misused, if it falls into the wrong hands of �*bad actors'. welcome to world business report, i'm ben thompson. we start in the united states, where in a few hours' time