a basic stuff. thank you for giving us the insight. even if things haven t changed. you still have a growing need. thank you. if you d like to help, those people in ukraine, you may be in need of shelter, food, water or those basics to go to cnn.com/impact. you ll find several ways that you could help there. now, to pakistan, they could have a new prime minister later today. but the old one isn t giving up yet. we ll go live to islamabad for the latest on imran khan s [inaudible] taha, that s funny. it s messing with me now. i know exactly what it s doing. ok. ok.
welcome to bbc news. i m mark lobel. our top stories: emmanuel macron is on target to win the first ballot in the french presidential election, but marine le pen gains ground at the polls. translation: don t make i a mistake, this is not over. the debate we re going to have for the next 15 days is decisive for our country and for europe. grim discoveries in ukraine. more than 1,200 bodies are found in areas around kyiv that were previously occupied by russian troops. tens of thousands take to the streets in pakistan to protest against the removal of the former prime minister, imran khan, from office. the olivier goes to.
u.s. led compare is a conspiracy is to blame for his predicament, the differences he has over russia and china but doesn t appear that his messages working? you might even get elected again? first we have to put this in the historical context of imran khan s power. he has a lot of power in getting people out into the street, and that s what we re seeing unfold now. he has a very strong base amongst pakistani youth in the working and middle class, and this anti american, foreign interference narrative resonates really struggling with his constituency, because those are the people that have not benefited from the western patronage in pakistan s history. the political elite have benefited from that, so imran khan has benefited from using this anti western
of that, so it s a combination of the internal domestic politics and imran khan s kind of reach into the military space and wanting to go beyond the level that the pakistani leadership military has chosen. that reads you have mentioned with the military, and interesting contrast to shehbaz sharif, the expected next prime minister, and he was always seen as playing good cop to the military against his brother, who can t leave the party now he is in self exiled in the uk, having served his corruption prison sentence. so do you think shehbaz sharif will be welcomed by the military, and he could have a long term prospect in pakistan? he could have a long-term prospect in pakistan? shehbaz sharif was prospect in pakistan? shehbaz sharif was a prospect in pakistan? shehbaz sharif was a very prospect in pakistan? shehbaz sharif was a very seasoned - sharif was a very seasoned administrator, he has a lot of experience running province of punjab, and being a party leader and i think it i
vote. some suggestion that imran khan s members of parliament will boycott proceedings, that they won t be there. his supporters carried out large protests last night here is in islamabad, elsewhere across the country, tens of thousands of people, they allege that this vote of no confidence that resulted in the ousting of imran khan was part of an international conspiracy, they claim, orchestrated by the united states, income hoots with his opponents here. most analysts think it is really something of a cynical move by imran khan to try and rally his followers around this anti western narrative. but it is a narrative that is resonating with his supporters, and there is real anger amongst his supporters at the way in which imran khan has been removed from power, even though it has been according to the rules of