malawi with more than 200 people now confirmed dead after storm freddy hit southern africa for the second time any man. and a small number of wolves have started to settle in belgium in more than 100 years as numbers increase across europe. hello and welcome to bbc news. let s begin today with the latest from pakistan, where the police appear to have stopped the operation to arrest the former prime minister imran khan. it appears to be due to a cricket match taking place. they say they will resume trying to arrest him afterwards. unrest continued through the night as imran khan s supporters clashed with security forces after police made another attempt to arrest him on a court order. he has accused the authorities there of acting outside the law and trying to arrest him. pakistan s information minister said the government had nothing to do with the arrest order. joining me now from islamabad is our correspondent. what is the latest from in and around the compound where imran
making a comeback. having got away with his illegal annexation of crimea in 201a, and emboldened putin launched his brutal invasion of ukraine eight years later. and, as russia continues its illegal campaign in ukraine, china is assessing whether the west loses its patients. today, russia and china have been joined patients. today, russia and china have beenjoined by new patients. today, russia and china have been joined by new nuclear and soon nuclear powers. north korea promising to expand its own nuclear arsenal. and then there is iran, who enriched uranium is up to 83.7%. the level at which there is no civilian application. back in the days of the cold war, there remained a sense that we were dealing with rational
government describes as completely unnecessary. and getting around london will be difficult today, transport for london warning there will be little or no service on the underground today as rmt and aslef union member strike overjob cuts, pensions and working conditions. the us and russia are giving conflicting accounts about how an american surveillance drone plunged into the black sea. washington says two russian jets try to intercept the drone before striking a propeller. russia s ambassador to the us has denied any collision took place and claim the aircraft s presence was a provocation. here s our north american correspondence. an american m k nine drone and two russian fighterjets. their russian fighter jets. their encounter, russian fighterjets. their encounter, according to the pentagon, lasted a0 minutes in international airspace. they were over the black sea, where tensions have risen ever since russia s annexation of crimea in 201a. and where us surveillance aircraft have
president vladimir putin get away with annexing crimea in 201a. later today, the foreign secretary is expected to announce new sanctions on more than 100 individuals with links to russian president vladimir putin s regime. we rejoined now by our chief political correspondent adam fleming. let s talk about the comments that borisjohnson has made in the daily telegraph, that the west made a terrible mistake by letting president putin get away with the annexation of crimea in 201a. lt is annexation of crimea in 2014. it is annexation of crimea in 2014. it is a sliahtl annexation of crimea in 2014. lit 3 a slightly different argument being made by the prime minister that when he was campaigning for brexit during the eu referendum in 2016, when he said that the invasion of crimea in russia was the fault of the eu for causing trouble in the region so some people will be quite surprised that he has changed his mind. the