again in lahore, one of imran khan's close friends named mr. latif khosa is with one of the important figures of muslim dig. nawaz's branch competed and won, this was one of the important wins for tehreek-e-insaf in paranar, which is actually more of the region. there is a shia resident, mr. hamid hossein al-muhandis from hizb vahdat muslimeen, who is a shia party and is in an alliance with tehreek-e-insaf there. i said that there is a protest against the result of the election, which led to the death of 4 people, and a ban on gatherings has been announced in islamabad, and for the time being, there is a certain amount of atmosphere in this regard, because anyway, there are whispers from groups and parties protesting that it is fraud. it has been done and these things are being brought up that the results of the election will be delayed a bit , it might add to the conditions, it is possible . the independence of pakistan because all the problems that occurred for imran khan was that he was a foreign policy. regarding the western and american is

nawaz sharif failed in one place, but he succeeded in lahore. but in one of the cities of balochistan called he won there and entered the parliament. mr. bilal bhutto zardari in two the point where he was a candidate won in sindh state and entered the parliament. and the characters are like this. in lahore, one of imran khan's close friends named mr. latif kusa. he competed with one of the important figures of the nawaz muslim league and won. this was one of the important wins for tehreek-e-insaf. in paranar , which is actually a shia-populated area , mr. hamid hossein al-muhandis from hizb vahdat muslimeen, which is one of the shia parties and is in coalition with tehreek-e-insaf, won there and entered the parliament . one or two more points as a news item, i should mention that there were some protests in some places, such as in the city of shagla in khair province of pakhtunkhwa . yes, yes, there have been conflicts. now, in some places, the attacks have been in the form of terrorist attacks and bombings . there are some protests against the

from lahore, pakistan correspondent caroline davies reports. celebrations on the streets of lahore. seats than anyone else this election so far. but his supporters think they should have won more. accusing the other side of vote—rigging, which they deny. there are complications. because the election commission doesn't recognise khan's party, all of his candidates ran as an independent, and other parties are already talking about trying to absorb them. if in a few weeks' time, we suddenly hear that you have left the independence group and you're part of a party, what should we think? it would be the last day of my life. i mean, i cannot even think of, conceive of such a thing. i have said that all these votes, they have not been casted for me, they have casted for imran khan. celebrations on the other side, too. nawaz sharif�*s party were thought favoured by pakistan's powerful military establishment. normally, that would mean they won. this gathering has political speeches, there's been music, there's even been fireworks. it feels like a victory parade, but the election results aren

caroline davies, bbc news, lahore.al that sees millions of travellers to the country. the party has been soured by an unwanted guest. hundreds of party—goers have flooded the streets of rio dejaniero by a surge in dengue fever. 53 people have died from the mosquito—borne disease, prompting a public health emergency. —— rio dejaneiro despite. on friday, brazil became the first country to provide a new vaccine against it — though it will initially only be given to children aged ten and eleven. despite the rise in cases, residents say they're not shying away from the big party. it isn't easy, but what we can we do? we canjust care it isn't easy, but what we can we do? we can just care about the water, our houses, but here at carnival, it isn't a big problem, because it isjust about the party, and the mosquitoes — what can we do about it, right? the party goes on. russian president vladimir putin's highly anticipated interview with conservative us media personality tucker carlson aired on thursday. the interview, which was

celebrations on the streets of lahore.anyone else this election so far. but his supporters think they should have won more. accusing the other side of vote—rigging, which they deny. there are complications. because the election commission doesn't recognise khan's party, all of his candidates ran as an independent, and other parties are already talking about trying to absorb them. if in a few weeks' time, we suddenly hear that you have left the independence group and you're part of a party, what should we think? it would be the last day of my life. i mean, i cannot even think of, conceive of such a thing. i have said that all these votes, they have not been casted for me, they have casted for imran khan. celebrations on the other side, too. nawaz sharif�*s party were thought favoured by pakistan's powerful military establishment. normally, that would mean they won. this gathering has political speeches, there's been music, there's even been fireworks. it feels like a victory parade, but the election results aren't finalised

i'm told that we can now go to as a big who's in lahore, assets gonna talk to my friend. it is good to have you envision you were on the phone with us last year because communication, sorry, lost our because communications, as you explained to us, have been shut down. the hold on, let's try again. i said as big as in the or acid, can you hear me? this is sarah lindo. so all right, we'll come back to that when we can still ahead on alice's 0, where in the democratic republic of congo were thousands of people have been forced from their homes. will explain why when we come back the there has been improvement in the weather in the east and matter of the last few days. so in the immediate future, the breeze is coming up from the south. it may well create some shars in southern turkey or otherwise it's sunshine. and that's true for serious sites which to egypt for temperatures will stats to right now, there is a hint. those channels are girl cypress, inter 11 and, and maybe beyond that we might find the bit for the sense, but up until friday things still look sunny and relativ

caroline davies, bbc news, lahore. to the us next.t kamala harris has hit out at an official report that described president biden as an elderly man with a poor memory. she accused special counsel robert hur of making a gratuitous and politically motivated attack. mr hur, who is a republican, said the 81—year—old president struggled during interviews about his handling of classified documents at his home to recall key life events. here is what the vice president had to say. so the way that the president's demeanour in that report was characterised could not be more wrong on the facts, and clearly politically motivated. gratuitous. and so i will say that when it comes to the role and responsibility of a prosecutor in a situation like that, we should expect that there will be a higher level of integrity than what we saw. with the us presidential election just nine months away, our north america correspondent john sudworth has been finding out what voters in washington think about mr biden�*s age. a warm welcome for the german chancellor

a lahore i side internet and phone services were suspended. busy what's been the impact on, on the vote and the turnout? well, some of the impact of that has been people unable to communicate with this other because the bank holding stations is supposed to be at no point stations have closed is full. those coach cox wife had the clothes just under 15 minutes ago. i forgot to show you. people are still pulling up one thing, 2 boys and they've been banking on these mondays. those are also going to be left tend to be able to vote if i could just speak to one up. unfortunately, i import existing bundle up because the of what the notes are, you know. okay. okay. so the way of saying is that they came here to vote for him, ron con. so they wanted more time for the boat upholding, says he should say, opened another unable to vote, and that was what hearing and other parts of the country pulling stations of clothes for. but still people chewing to vote on part of the impact of the internet shut down has been that people are unable to know which that p

defense lawyer yasmin rashid candidate of tehreek-e-insaf in lahore, who was a rival of nawaz sharif, announced results are in favor of nawaz sharif. challenged in the lahore court and claimed that the results of the election were manipulated. the independents who won the election must enter the parliament within 3 days by joining a political party and must let's see which party the independent candidates who are affiliated to tehreek-e-insaf will join, but it is interesting to note that the pakistan army announced in a statement that the elections were held successfully and peacefully, we are at your service, please, thank you very much, thank you for the explanation. the us president's special inspector's report on biden was met with anger and criticism from the white house. kamla harris , joe biden's deputy , accused robert hoare, the us justice department's inspector, of political work and said that he intends to hit biden with the report. this report said that biden in when the vice president. he kept and disclosed classified documents at home. however, there is no charge against

caroline davies, bbc news, lahore.th asia programmes at the us institute of peace, and i asked her if it was unusual to not yet have the election results. it's not absolutely unusual not to have the full results. i monitored elections several times in pakistan, and often it was a day or two before you had the full final results. but this level of uncertainty is unprecedented to have so few official results out and the ecp is not continuing to release data. i think that is unusual. it is a big surprise to people, i think, who are watching these elections. as your commentator said before, most people thought that these were a done deal and that prime minister nawaz sharif, former prime minister nawaz sharif and his party would have a pretty clear path to victory with the unofficial results that news news is reporting. pakistani press is reporting it's much more unsure. and so we will probably have to wait till tomorrow at least to see the final results. indeed, a lot of speculation and allegations made about made about t

caroline davies, bbc news, lahore.female records. parkrun insists the move is simply about making the free 5k runs less off—putting to new entrants. thousands of people take part in parkruns in hundreds of parks across the uk every saturday morning. but the move follows criticism for allowing transgender women to compete in the female category. natalie pirks reports. it started 20 years ago as friends running together on a saturday. now, more than 9 million people take part globally, many of whom love breaking parkrun�*s records, like 0llie. go on, 0llie. but now he, like thousands of others, has suddenly seen those records disappeared from parkrun�*s website. i very proudly had the most first finishes as a man in the world. being part of that list was quite a proud moment for a lot of people who were never going to be 0lympians, we�*re never going to be world champions, we�*re never going to be that pinnacle of sport. and now kind of being off that list, it�*s all a bit of fun but it�*s a shame, right? ready, go. so w

who's on the phone from lahore? i said we expected to have you envisioned, but as come out just explained we're having communications issues, not just us, but because columns are down in parts of pakistan. explain that to us. says absolutely. now there's been a message been tied by the interior ministry saying that because of the deteriorating security situation, they forced to closed on part of the phone. that was not many detracted to say that they were expecting this to happen. that the excuse of the security situation will be used to close that network and the internet. now i'm here in the hold. it's the capital of the punjab, probably the most popular scrubbing and the terrorist attacks. so those are the tests that they have been taking place and different companies like that but but interest on the what's the execute on for them to close on the internet in punjab, both on the board for example. now, what's important to know to that many people have been saying that the ministry is involved and the density comm

placing 2nd and 3rd and thursday's election, the parties are sitting down for coalition talks in lahore in an attempt to form a government a lot to see what we are. right and so but candidates backed by jailed ex prime minister in ron khan. and his p t i party won the most votes p t i supporters say they would have won even more seats if the voting had been free and fair met. adored by the gold around. 1 54000 votes and my nearest rival and got only 17000 a year. i wanted to take this protest to quote, we have faith in the judiciary. we hope bill declared candidates victorious as the people voted to that demand down your phone. go to the other thing is we got about one of our electronic over sensitive p t. i supporters say the jailing of party leader in run con on corruption charges is an example of foul play. the former prime minister and pakistan's most popular politician, was unable to run for office in the election. this demonstration is a protest against the forces that have stolen the people's mandate. against those forces that do not accept the public opinion and think they can i

let's head over to lahore now. and outside bagels, therefore, as internet and phone service is suspended for most of the election day in lahore. what has been the impact on that, on the voltage? so for what we've seen in the people that we've spoken to the fact that the hub is that people were trying to find out which opposing station was the day with the big the big thank you to the responding station they're going to come to both sides that was made very difficult by not having internet access, being able to communicate to other people that sometimes when you travel together in the public facing the front to access website, an application that i'm supposed to be here to, to find i need that kind of data is between different, different types of between dependent type of data is sunday. i also want symbols that candidates tires on the by the payback that's been enlarged me, the problems that people have faced, the dose of frustration. many people who are struggling, garage in the morning. lots of appearing up, look

it is a very populated commercial hub here in lahore. next to a main road that is called... road, so where this act took place is in walking distance of around 45 minutes from the main road, so the cars cannot directly access the area in which this incident had taken place. when we reached the shop area where that woman was being held, she came with her husband to do some shopping in that commercial area, however, when the men saw the calligraphy on the shirt that she was wearing, they asked her to remove the shirt and wear a different book. she told him she should not be told what to do when she is with her husband and it is an independent state and she is a citizen of a country where her rights are being protected. so an argument in shoot and then later on argument in shoot and then later on a mob gathered around the shop. they took her to a mini restaurant, where she was held captive for some time and the shutters were pulled down. and outside that restaurant or mini cafe, there were about 100 or 200 people shouting slogans, chanting

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that i made, i visited nine sisters of isfahan and made documentaries about them, florence, friburg, lahororld for this project, i went to europe, to asia, to the subcontinent. you asked me why i chose bangladesh, but aside from the atmosphere and the people in the nature, i found some very good friends there, and and you know that cinema is teamwork. you can't just go to a country you don't know much about and decide that you want to make a movie there about the culture of the people. of course, making documentaries is an eye-opening experience, you get to know the people, and discover the nuances of their culture, the food they eat, you learn about their daily struggles and this certainly helps a lot in the process of making a movie. in iran, there aren't that many joint film projects. there've been some instances where a director used the budget he had to make a movie in another country, and eventually that movie has lost the narrative, a movie that turned out to be very expensive to make, but was not able to tell its story. our movie is a joint film project. both in terms of the budget

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caroline davis, bbc news, lahore. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.rent stories from across the uk. a couple from manchester with a special place in their hearts for cumbria. secondhome owners like howard and mandy are due to get clobbered with a doubling of council tax from next april. we tried to put as much as we can into the community and to be involved in the local area when we're here. so we don'tjust come and sort of bring all our stuff and then go. a short drive away, don says villages in the above derwent parish have seen a dramatic rise in second homes, and he thinks second home owners should pay more council tax. in this parish, we have a lot of holiday lets also and this is having a knock on effect of young people being able to afford a house to live in the area. cumberland council says the second home council tax premium would still raise £5 million, some of which could be used to tackle the housing crisis in beauty spots like this. for more stories from across the uk, head to the bbc news website. you're live with bbc news. in the uk the

thank you very much aside, aside big life or is that in lahore? less crossover now? to is lama by the end. come out hydra. as we heard the from my sides come all the delayed releasing the results as race, suspicion suspicions, in particular towards the pakistani military. why is that explained to our international audience if you will, the role of the military in previous elections as well in previous elections? there is no denying the fact that the military has had an overpowering role. however, right now, it's difficult to substantiate that the military is directly involved in what's happening. first of all, you have to say that the election commissioner of focused on what you already biased against the focused on derek and soft under article or 2. 28 supports to be the boss. all executive boards the rest, create them during the election and the military and therefore subordinate to him. so the question is that subordinate giving order to disappear? yeah. or did it the other way around the election commissioner of cause had uh what it mandated the election commissi

we have some vague standing by for us in lahore, but 1st let's speak to come out. hi dar who's joining us from the capital is lama bad? so come out so far. i mean, there had been a, a long delay in getting these results out, but they appear to be coming through now what's, what's the latest situation? but it does, it does have been delayed in dade, and that of gauze is now leading to such patients that last minute done brain is on the where the election commission was all the way to the controversial big guy. but now it seems to be compromised. now, according to the latest figures, the progress on that you can solve it, leading as far as the national assembly concerned. that's the latest coming out from those delayed announcements where the garage bug gift on people are watching that very carefully. they want to make sure that the mandate of the people as expected. there have been some pro dates across the country against the chief election and election commission. now, although he has sweeping boards under october to 20 of the constitution, he has all executive fa

from lahore, our pakistan correspondent caroline davies has more.stan's general election are now starting to come in. and it seems pretty clear that imran khan's backed candidates are in the lead, followed by mr nawaz sharif�*s party's, the pmln's, candidates. they have the second largest number of seats. it is not clear at the moment who is going to form a government, but we are starting to see international reaction about this vote. we have heard from the eu who have said they note a lack of a level playing field. from the us, who said there were undue restrictions and from the uk who expressed concerns about the fairness of this election. today, we have now heard from the foreign office here in pakistan. they have said they are surprised by the negative tone of some of these international statements, which would neither take into account the complexity of the electioral process, they say, nor acknowledge the free and enthusiastic exercise of the right to vote by tens of millions of pakistanis. that is quite a firm push back against some of these

as a bank has more on the general election from lahore, the leader of the book's done wisdom league has said that he is willing to form a government. in fact, he wants to form a government as quote on independence, the bucks on people's party to join him. although he doesn't have a majority. and there's an acknowledgement from him that he doesn't have a majority. but he support as well as the rating, and his speech was seen as a victory speech. and the election commission has said that after the results and that's the old independence has around $72.00. i was to join up to 6 coke park. you know the p t i am on cons, p t i, the chairman of that quarterly con, has disputed that she said that it's only the symbol of a cricket batch of the peach you i, that was not too large on the brother's paper and the party is registered with the election commission, so this could end up in the quotes. uh no, the supporters of loss we've had been celebrating. but many people here in focused on believe that if you take into account the independence that they make up the largest parties, not the book's do

caroline davis, bbc news, lahore.uest who is a foreign policy fellow at the brookings constitution. very good to have you back on bbc news. thank you forjoining us. i first want to start with the) two bomb explosions. what does that tell us about the security right now with the elections taking place? the security situation in pakistan has been getting increasingly dire. and this, you know, is part of an increasing spate of attacks that began after august 2021 when the taliban took over in neighbouring afghanistan. and certain groups, like the ttp, were emboldened by this. they have sancturies and sort of a logistical base in afghanistan, which they can operate from. the rise of the afghan taliban also emboldened the isis—k group, which is in opposition to the afghan taliban and has undertaken attacks both in afghanistan and in pakistan. so this is part of that. and in seeing the election come up, gives these groups an opportunity to attack at an even greater rate. and they've done so increasingly in balochistan in th

i beg, who's in lahore? your outside the home of the former prime minister. now i sharif of the p. a midland party. tell us about what's been happening there and, and the reaction to these results that have been coming in well, you've just said he's party is in 2nd phase and that's exactly the information we have from the look toral commission. currently the independence of 62 seats. the pecks on wisdom league have 46 leg button was 3 and the bucks on people's party liked by mister windows has already been all the windows of doughty has 39 seats for the mood here. is that the celebration? i'm not entirely sure what it is. that this celebration we understand the street is going to get up on the balcony assumed to make a victory speech. but the victory hasn't been declared by the total commission. not all the votes in the states have just declared, but it seems like they're very confident that they are going to win this. the discrepancies even his own seat, where he apparent the one the officials such as john was indeed put to the well for me during this visit, posted the paper, the

caroline davis, bbc news, lahore. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.l election. an official annoucement will be made on thursday. it marks a major u—turn and it is expected labour will argue that they have to focus on being fiscally responsible. germany�*s main airline, lufthansa, has had to cancel at least 80% of its flights on wednesday, due to a strike by ground staff in a salary dispute. the company says more than 100,000 passengers have been affected. it�*s the latest in a wave of protests and industrial action in germany since the start of the year. the family of murdered teenager brianna ghey is being invited to a meeting about online safety with the prime minister rishi sunak. it comes as brianna�*s father said mr sunak should apologise for a jibe about sir keir starmer�*s position on trans people at prime minister�*s questions. the pm ridiculed the labour leaderfor u—turning on the "definition of a woman". you�*re live with bbc news. in the uk the prince of wales has spoken publicly for the first time since the king was diagnosed with cancer.

a large crowd gathered outside pmln secretariat in lahore.that his party has won maximum seats, although we do not still have the final result from the election commission of pakistan. what we do have, so far, is almost more than 50% of the seats have been declared. we also know that most of these seats are won by imran khan's favoured independent candidate. but despite all this, nawaz sharif has just made this claim that his party has won most of the seats, and he has also announced that his party will talk to other opposition parties, the parties which were allied with him during the previous government. he said that his party would speak to them, including pakistan people's party and some religious parties as well. he also hinted at reaching out to the independent candidates which are actually backed by imran khan's pti. but he said that his party would reach out to them and they would try to form a coalition government for the next five years. he also said that he aims to take this country out of the troubles it is facing now, and he said

our correspondent caroline davies gave me the latest developments from lahore.are waiting for the final official totals from the electoral commission in pakistan. last night we already saw several of imran khan supported candidates claiming victory in their different constituencies and we saw the party come out and say they thought they had won enough seats to be able to claim and form a government here. but we have also heard from the party of nawaz sharif who said the same thing. they are both trying to capture the narrative and the fact we haven't got the results yet from the electoral commission means there is space for them to start doing that on social media. we haven't heard from nawaz sharif, there's been talk that he might appear to give some sort of speech but as yet he has not appeared in public today. it has been difficult to keep an eye on the flow of how people are feeling. when we went to bed in the early hours, the party of imran khan claimed victory and they were feeling victorious and thought they really had enough votes to be able to have a si

let's go to acid vague, who is in lahore. what are you seeing and hearing i said the world where i say holding station here in the for the whole or is the capstone the province of punjab because most talk to this province and it has around 141 seats in punjab. now we've seen lots of people coming to is by the clothing station this morning. it's been very busy. the majority of people that we've spoken to of voting for in ron khan. and that's what they say. obviously the call book fremont con directly because he's in jail, he's been bought from spending his parties, a symbol of a cricket back has been removed by that box. so what they mean by the voting for these candidates to us on the sending us independents, the majority of young people have spoken to under the age of 50, say that they have voting for these parties. some people are scared to say that they've voting for him, so when they will pass, what they do is they recycle the eye as would be the best if from the court on the ground constitutes he's speech is with this jo

caroline davies, bbc news, lahore. the biggest mass migration in the world is under way in china.he new year. some new year wishes need spiritual intervention. many young people in beijing come to the lama temple to pray for a job. a slowing economy means millions of graduates are out of work. this dragon year, they're clinging to the hope that will change, as well as dressing up for the occasion. translation: the economy has been sluggish. _ you need to have good ideas and back yourself, but praying to the buddha and the burning incense, that will also help. all: happy new year! even the very young have theirfuture in mind. "i want to get top marks in my exams every time," says this ten—year—old. at beijing train station, families are bundled up and loaded up for the long journey back to their hometowns, and with good reason. the sun may be shining in the capital, but heavy snow and ice brought some highways in the south of china to a standstill. thousands were stranded in their cars, dozens of trains were delayed or suspended, and passengers were stuck at wuhan railway station f

we saw some protests in lahore, peshawar, rawalpindi which were small crowds but later on dispersed.n the other hand all political parties are trying to reach out to some small parties and other independent candidates who are not backed by imran khan's party. they are trying to reach out to them so they can form a coalition government in the coming days. the constitution of pakistan says that any political party whose winning seats in the national assembly must form a government within 21 days of the results announced. so, the parliamentarians and political parties have 21 days to form a government. they are legally bound to do that but it seems that right now the mandate to split between three big parties. just now the mandate to split between three big parties.— three big parties. just as we are s-ueakin three big parties. just as we are speaking to _ three big parties. just as we are speaking to you _ three big parties. just as we are speaking to you our _ three big parties. just as we are speaking to you our viewers - three big parties. just as we are speaking to you our viewers

we have life pictures coming in from lahore where election officials are handing out materials to polling stations right now. it's not the political parties that are seen as the main influence or isn't this selection. it's the military. acid base reports from the whore, the they want to be seen as the defenders of the nation for teach reduced by the army shows the army chief asked him when they are inspecting positions and bucket study administer. because you may have one of the most miller tries owns in the world. a region disputed both by india and buck is done to nuclear powers. but it's not the ministry's road and defending the board. is that under the spotlight? it's the influence and politics especially now as focused on get somebody to hold the skin with elections, all right, for you and it's bound to be hung fatherland, a book, date of thoughts, as ousted the pregnancy and grandson, seems to have run the status when speed would vanessa establish lender does a minute to establish, spent that i'm talking about are the pockets so now me, which is the know delivering no, try me to sta

let's go live now to lahore and our pakistan correspondent caroline davies.. . . , tell us the very latest where you are. ., . , , ., ., are. i am currently standing at nawaz sharif's _ are. i am currently standing at nawaz sharif's party _ are. i am currently standing at - nawaz sharif's party headquarters, the crowds gathered, he is due to appear on stage. for all intents and purposes this looks like a victory parade but at the same time the final votes have not been counted, the final result is not an ounce. at the final result is not an ounce. at the same time as nawaz sharif's party is claiming victory we have also heard from imran khan's party, they say they think they have enough seats to be able to form a government. what has been clear in the course of this election is despite all of the different things that have faced imran khan's party, the fact he is injail and disqualified, candidates are all standing as independent press rather than as part of his particular party because his party is no longer recognised by the electoral commission here, he st

caroline davies, bbc news, lahore.o terms in office. all three rival candidates to replace him are promising to continue his policies. long after the end of dictatorship here, some things still aren't settled. families of those who died or disappeared in the last months of the suharto regime have been protesting outside the presidential palace every thursday for 17 years, demanding answers. this man is one of the disappeared, presumed kidnapped by special forces. "every week we campaign to stop human rights abusers being elected," he said. and he showed me the words printed on his t—shirt. "bring back those who disappeared. don't let him rule the country." by "him" he means prabowo subianto, the former special forces commander and son in law of suharto. this is him 26 years ago, just before he was dismissed from the army, accused of ordering the kidnapping of activists... ...and of masterminding this — the chaos and rioting which preceded suharto's resignation. today, he's the front runner in the election. the transfor

caroline davis, bbc news, lahore.ons. a day after president biden clinched another win on the democrat ballot, one of his long—shot rivals, author marianne williamson, has announced she's suspended her presidential campaign. meanwhile on the republican side, presidential candidate nikki haley suffered a stinging defeat in nevada. ms haley won just 31% in tuesday's contest, well behind the 63% of the ballots cast for "none of these candidates", which observers saw as a symbolic vote for donald trump, whose name did not appear on the ballot. the former president — and current frontrunner for the republican nomination — will instead be running unchallenged in thursday's caucus. regardless of the result, the nevada gop has chosen not to recognise the primary, and will instead award all 26 of its delegates at the state's upcoming caucus. take a listen to one nevada voter who explained his choice in tuesday's primary. i actually voted for none of the above here because the primary here didn't include all of the people, and

we have also seen similar sort of sized protests in lahore and in karachi.ig question is we are seeing growing anger and frustration on social media from a lot of imran khan supporters. is that going to tip over into bigger numbers or is this relatively contained at the moment? we don't know. right now, they have been talking about peaceful protests and these small numbers have been the reaction so far. the kansas city chiefs have clinched a narrow victory in the super bowl, after beating the san francisco 49ers — thanks to a wining touchdown in the dying seconds. the 49ers were on the brink of victory twice during the game — but a last—minute field goal by the chiefs pushed it into overtime — where a touchdown pass won them the game. cheering the chiefs on, from the vip box, was taylor swift — while rnb star, usher, put on an energetic performance during the half—time show. nestor mcgregor has more from las vegas the kansas city chiefs back—to—back champions. the first time it has been achieved for almost 20 years. does this one feel any different? it does,

we have also seen similar sort of sized protests in lahore and in karachi.tage but the big question is we are seeing growing anger and frustration on social media from a lot of imran khan supporters. is that going to tip over into bigger numbers or is this relatively contained at the moment? we don't know. right now, they have been talking about peaceful protests and these small numbers have been the reaction so far. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's look at some other stories making news here in the uk. executives at water companies could lose their bonuses in future if the firm they run causes environmental damage, like letting illegal sewage—spills pollute a beach or river. environment secretary stephen barclay said it was time water company bosses "took responsibility". campaigners and opposition parties said they had been calling for restrictions on water boss bonuses for some time. a key parliamentary committee says the government's plan to send some asylum seekers to rwanda is "fundamentally incompatible" with the uk's human

to a store in pakistan and the city of lahore, but he said to risk a woman where an angry crowd accuser00-300 within minutes to —— up to two 200—300 people, blasphemy is punishable by death in pakistan. this one was saved by a police officer who escorted her to safety. translation or i have served you as a police officer for years translation or i have served you as a police officerfor years now translation or i have served you as a police officer for years now and no one has had any completes. i've that with three cases like this. you should trust _ that with three cases like this. you should trust me _ that with three cases like this. you should trust me to stop that was a police _ should trust me to stop that was a police officer talking to that code and she — police officer talking to that code and she has also been talking to me and she has also been talking to me and spoke _ and she has also been talking to me and spoke about how scared the woman was as— and spoke about how scared the woman was as the _ and spoke about how scared the woman was as the mud was her on her. she was as