sahar baloch talking to me earlier from — outlets.'s time for a look at today's sport. we start with some history in the nba. lebronjames has become the first player to score 40,000 career points. this is the moment he reached the milestone against the denver nuggets. the crowd gave james a standing ovation during a timeout and the ball he used to score that historic point was removed from the game. he described it as "bittersweet", though, because his team — the la lakers — lost to the defending nba champions. i'm never thinking about a milestone when i'm out there battling but when it happens, obviously, we acknowledge it. and, obviously, you know, much respect and much loyalty to the laker fan know, much respect and much loyalty to the lakerfan base know, much respect and much loyalty to the laker fan base for showing know, much respect and much loyalty to the lakerfan base for showing me their love during the time and me being the first player to do something is pretty cool in this league because you just know the history and you

sahar baloch talking to me earlierfrom islamabad.way to bring down the tax burden — but insists he'll do it in a way that's responsible. jeremy hunt will set out the government's tax and spending plans on wednesday — with growing calls within the conservative party to bring down taxes. all that has changed, and why? largely because the treasury has less money to play with if it sticks to the rules it has set up for itself to manage the economy. in the one hand, conservative mps are putting pressure onjeremy hunt to cut taxes in a major way, but on the other hand, ministers like michael gove say he is begging the chancellor for more money for housing, grant shapps the defence secretary has written to the chancellor asking for more money for defence. this is what he said to laura kuenssberg this morning. we have always said and been clear that we will only cut was put down my taxes in a way that is responsible and prudent and may say the most un—conservative thing i can do would be to cut taxes by increasing borrowing, because that's j

sahar baloch talking to me earlierfrom islamabad.nts to find a way to bring down the tax burden — but insists he'll do it in a way that's responsible. jeremy hunt will set out the government's tax and spending plans on wednesday — with growing calls within the conservative party to bring down taxes. labour said there was no measure that could be announced that would improve the conservatives' record in power. 0ur political correspondent harry farley reports. a big week for this man. his own mps wantjeremy hunt to cut taxes. 0thers wantjeremy hunt to cut taxes. others want more money for things like defence and housing. the chancellor was giving little away this morning, but he did give this hint. i this morning, but he did give this hint. ., . �* , this morning, but he did give this hint. ., ., �*, hint. i do want, where it's possible to do so responsibly, _ hint. i do want, where it's possible to do so responsibly, to _ hint. i do want, where it's possible to do so responsibly, to move - to do so responsibly, to move towards a lower

our bbc urdu news reporter in islamabad, sahar baloch, has more. second time. i heard a lot of shouting and sloganeering inside the parliament today. as soon as shahbaz sharif got elected, as announced by the speaker, a lot of people from especially the candidates from the opposition parties, they surrounded the dais and did not let him speak for a while now. shahbaz sharif got 201 votes in the parliament today. and this also speaks of the recent elections, the recent general elections in pakistan. they were already being called the most rigged elections by the opposition parties. there was a lot of allegations of frauds and irregularities, especially from the pti backed candidates. so imran khan is currently in prison, but his independent candidates who are backed by his party, his pti party, actually won majority of the seats in the in the national assembly as well. so a lot of people were basically waiting to see who will get elected as the prime minister. so the pti had nominated omar ayub as their candidate, but he only scored 92 votes. now, a

party won the most seats, but failed to get a majority. 0ur bbc urdu news reporter in islamabad — sahar balochot of shouting and sloganeering inside the parliament today. as soon as shehbaz sharif got elected, as announced by the speaker, a lot of people from especially the candidates from the opposition parties, they surrounded the dais and did not let him speak for a while now. shehbaz sharif got 201 votes in the parliament today. and this also speaks of the recent elections, the recent general elections in pakistan. they were already being called the most rigged elections by the opposition parties. there was a lot of allegations of frauds and irregularities, especially from the pti—backed candidates. so imran khan is currently in prison, but his independent candidates who are backed by his party, his pti party, actually won majority of the seats in the in the national assembly as well. so a lot of people were basically waiting to see who will get elected as the prime minister. so the pti had nominated 0mar ayub as their candidate, but he only scored 92 votes. now, as prime minister, shehbaz

we are joined now from islamabad by our reporter sahar baloch with the latest.n is going on were militants apparently attacked security check post. so far, the military has not name the group that so from what we have seen happening in pakistan is that there is a resurgence of militant attacks in pakistan. at the moment, there is a rescue operation under and the military says there is a covert operation going on but we are also witnessing that since december last year, and especially in tone 23, there were 79 attacks that happened in pakistan resulting in around 1000 fatalities. the in pakistan resulting in around 1000 fatalities. . , ., , in pakistan resulting in around 1000 fatalities. . , ., fatalities. the military has named an one. fatalities. the military has named anyone- has _ fatalities. the military has named anyone. has anyone _ fatalities. the military has named anyone. has anyone came - fatalities. the military has named l anyone. has anyone came response penalty for this? so anyone. has anyone came response penalty forthis?_ penalty for this? so fa

party won the most seats, but failed to get a majority. 0ur bbc urdu news reporter in islamabad, sahar balochfrom especially the candidates from the opposition parties surrounded and did not let him speakfor awhile parties surrounded and did not let him speak for awhile now. parties surrounded and did not let him speakfor awhile now. shehbaz sharif got 201 votes in the parliament today and there is also speaks of the recent elections, the recent general elections in pakistan. they were already being called the most rigged elections by the opposition parties would have a lot of allegations of fraud and irregularities especially from the pti backed candidates. imran khan is currently in prison is independent candidates who are backed by his party actually won the majority of the seats in the international assembly as well as a lot of people were basically waiting to see who will get elected as the prime minister, said the pti had nominated another as his candidate but he only scored 92 votes. now as prime minister shehbaz sharif has been elected, now the bigger question is how will this polaris