Hello, im samantha simmonds. Pakistans former Prime Minister, imran khan, has been arrested after a Court Sentenced him to three years in prison on Corruption Charges. He was found guilty of failing to declare money hed earned from selling gifts he received while in office. Mr khans previous arrest in may triggered violent protests and the army was deployed. Our pakistan correspondent, Caroline Davies has the latest. Sirens blaring, police truck after police truck, arresting former Prime Minister imran khan. The judgment came from here. Police filled every corner in islamabads session court. Mr khan says the case is politically motivated. The court said hes dishonest. This is after months and months of waiting. We now finally have an announcement, imran khan has been found guilty and has been sentenced to three years in prison. Outside court, shouts of, your show is over, khan minutes later we heard he had been arrested. This was what happened the last time mr khan was arrested. Protes
mohammed bin salman, he has of course had a troubled relationship with the united states, he is trying to rebuild the relationship based on pragmatism. and he is also trying to show the world that saudi arabia matters. earlierthis show the world that saudi arabia matters. earlier this year we saw saudi arabia working with beijing, with china to complete a opening vis a vis tehran, iran. they are trying to show that we are a strong middle power in the great game right now. ministers in britain have announced a £2.5 million pound fund to encourage tree planting in urban areas of england. local authorities can apply for the money from today. the scheme has been set up to mark the coronation of the king
corker has been in a pretty public feud with the president. the reason he feels emboldened to to be vocal about this is because he s not running for re-election. as we hear from mike viqueira and knowing rex tillerson also took this question today about corker using the phrase of how president trump has castrated or to castrate tillerson in effectiveness of his job and this is what corker said. when you jack the legs out from under your chief diplomat, he cause all of that to to fall apart. the u.s. working with beijing when is you castrate your secretary of state, you take that off the table. so we know tillerson reacted in a offhanded humorous way saying he s still intact. do you expect republican colleagues to feel me emboldened by corker s language or tough talking about this cabinet and this president? the question is how much of
official that described some escalating tensions between yourself and the secretary of state and using the quote world war iii proportions describing tensions between nouyourself an the secretary of state. what s your reaction to that comment? that is just so much drama. it s all this palace intrigue. what i ll tell you is every member of the nsc works very hard to put options on the president for the table and we all work very well together and our goal is to always make sure we re keeping americans safe. i am glad to be living in new york is i don t want to be near the drama and i don t want to be near the gossip. i m going to continue to do a good job and so is every member of the nsc. i ll ask you another question about something senator bob corker says. he believes some secretary tillerson has been doing particularly with china both on the north korea front and the frayed front. us working with beijing is the you publicly castrate your secretary of state, you take that off t