many believe that lukashenko wants to recreate stalin style grip on the country, so nobody dares to contest the next election. many belarussians came here to lithuania in an attempt to flee the repressions. there are currently around 19,000 of them living here. in retaliation, the belarussian regime has decided to target their relatives who stayed behind. and many fear that this isjust the beginning. anatoly was detained more times than he can remember, but he says that families of activists were not being targeted before. translation: this is the first time. it was always a war, but there were some rules. there were some lines they wouldn t cross. now we have gotten to the point where, before shooting their enemies, they put our children in front of us. in a country that claims to have no political prisoners, there are currently almost 1,500 people in prison for political reasons. one of them is ex presidential hopeful viktar babaryka. his son eduard was his campaign manager
first champions league final in 13 years. they beat city rivals ac milan 2 0 at the san siro to grab the advantage heading into next week s second leg. earlier, i spoke to our european football reporter john bennett for his take on an eventful night. an astonishing start, dzeko with a brilliant side foot volley on just eight minutes. then three minutes later, henrikh mkhitaryan. a parting of the ways of the ac milan defence, he runs through makes it 2 0, and it could easily have been 3 0. the referee gave a penalty. martinez going down, a challenge by simon kjaer. it was then overturned. the var told the referee to go to the screen. he changed his mind and ac milan didn t have a shot on target until the 81st minute, inter hit the post. milan did hit the woodwork as well, tonali, but they were completely outplayed advantage inter they ve got one foot in the final. inter milan will be the hosts if you will in that second leg with both into an ac playing their home games at the
has quit after a report found evidence of widespread bullying, misoygny and harassment in the party. welcome to the programme. we start in pakistan, where the former prime minister, imran khan, has been remanded in custody for eight days after his arrest on corruption charges. his detention has sparked protests across the country at least eight people have died in clashes and police say about a thousand people have been arrested. if convicted, it would disqualify mr khan from standing for election , which is due this year. our pakistan correspondent, caroline davies, has more from islamabad. waiting, watched by pakistan. this compound is where imran khan is due to appear. a night of unrest. calm now, but for how long? roadblocks installed around the entrances, hoping to stop the protesters. in the centre of the capital, clashes between the police and protesters build quickly and surge unexpectedly. the tear gas is coming pretty thick and fast now. i think we need to move ba
Ukrainian forces were fighting what he described as the best prepared units of Russian Wagner mercenaries. Now on bbc news, the big cases killing my childrens abuser. A warning this Programme Deals with upsetting themes. A woman has beenjailed for stabbing to death a convicted paedophile. Paedophiles tear lives apart. Its what they do. Her children had been sexually abused. Were you glad he was dead . Yeah. Oh, yeah. Definitely. She stabbed Michael Pleasted repeatedly. He bled to death. 20 minutes later, she re emerged. You can see the knife. I bring life into the world. It never occurred to me that i would be guilty of taking life out of the world. Did a man need to die . Did children need to be hurt for the truth to come out . I had the knife in my left hand and i remember him trying to grab it. I had taken the law into my own hands, i had done that. In 2014, sarah sands, a single mum, and her young sons moved into their first proper home a maisonette on this estate. Her elder son br
but his owners say the secret to his 20 long years is the calm, peaceful environment he lives in. time for a look at the weather. here s tomasz schafernaker. the weekend is not looking bad at all for most of us, we have some sunshine in the forecast. the main feature is it is going to be turning a little bit colder and also overnight frosts will return, and on top of that we will have some mist and fog but it won t happen until early into next week. at the moment it is relatively mild out there, you can see this wedge of mild air, warm air over us, can see this wedge of mild air, warm airover us, but can see this wedge of mild air, warm air over us, but the wind will change direction from sunday onwards and we will have a colder area of whether over us. but at the moment mild and often cloudy, some of the cloud is quite thick, producing a little bit of drizzle and light rain here and there, particularly in northern scotland and western coasts of the uk. glimmers of brightne