of the government s plans. hundreds of thousands of workers go on strike in uk today more could be the biggest walk of industrial action since last year. a state of emergency has been declared in malawi with more than 200 people now confirmed dead after storm freddy hit southern africa for the second time in a month. and a small number of wolves have started to settle in belgium, for the first time 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.
need first aid kits as they claim their workers are injured. imran khan also took to twitter and other social media platforms, posted videos there with messages calling his supporters to come out and support his cause and continue in case he is arrested. in one of those videos, on his table in front of imran khan we could see a large number of tear gas canisters and also some bullet cartridges. his party has been claiming that the law enforcers outside his residence are armed, and they are using firearms to disperse his supporters from the location. so this is the situation right now in lahore, this has been happening since yesterday, imran khan s supporters protesting against his arrest and protecting him from getting arrested and there is a large number of police and other law enforcement agencies
welcome to bbc news. these are the headlines. police in pakistan have temporarily suspended their operation to arrest former prime minister imran khan due to a cricket match in lahore, following clashes between supporters of mr khan and the authorities. until and unless we have a general election announced very soon, this political polarisation and this conflict is not going anywhere, to be fair. the uk chancellorjeremy hunt is set to unveil his spring budget today. free child care to parents in england and energy bill support are expected to be part
it is because there is a situation of unrest and mayhem in lahore right now and, as you know, pakistanis are passionate about politics as well as cricket, so they would certainly prefer in this political polarisation to prefer cricket. another problem is, the police have been trying their best for the past couple of weeks to arrest imran khan, and simply to present him to the court, to ensure and impose rule of law that they have miserably failed, because they retain their names to arrest him, the pdi call for protests and workers appear in thousands, numbers. whatever imran khan is, and hence making it very difficult and challenging for the law enforcement agencies to arrest imran khan. and what we need to understand here, is less to do with politics and more to do with love law, because as was explained already, it was alleged
reports from lahore that the police is moving a bit away from the residence, but we are not sure because there has been no order to suspend or cancel the arrest warrant that was issued by a court here in the the police are there to arrest him, but imran khan, the case is about the gift he received and later on sold when he was prime minister of pakistan, which was all very much legal, but as per laws, every parliamentarian in the country is supposed to submit a declaration for electoral commission of pakistan every year in december and the electoral commission alleges imran khan submitted forms that did not contain the correct information, so this is why the case has been sent to a local court, the court has been summoning imran khan but imran khan did not appear before the court, therefore his arrest warrant has been issued. i spoke to a prime time news presenter in pakistan.