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He failed to declare income from the sale of gifts he received while in office from 2018 to 2022. The verdict means he is not allowed to hold Public Office forfive years, with pakistan just months away from a general election. Our correspondent, caroline davies, reports. Sirens blaring, police truck after police truck, arresting former Prime Minister imran khan. The judgement came from here. Police filled every corner in islamabads session court. Mr khan says that the case is politically motivated. The court said hes dishonest. So 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� imprisonment. Outside court, shouts of your show is over, khan. Minutes later, we heard hed been arrested. This was what happened last time mr khan was arrested. Protests, some violent. Mr khan was released, but his party faced a dramatic crackdown. Many of his senior Party Leadership were arrested, then announced that theyd left the party. Police picked up thousands of his supporters. Will the protests happen again . Imran khans Team Released this pre recorded video after hed been arrested today. Translation iwant to make one request. You should not sit quietly at home. All my struggle is not just for myself. It is for you, for the future of your kids. If you do not stand up for your rights, you will live like a slave. Outside his house, there were a small number chanting, waving flags. Then quickly taken away. Its been a matter of months, but the atmosphere in pakistan has changed. This decision will mean mr Khan Cannot Run in the upcoming elections. Its pretty useful for your party, though, that your main political opponent has just been disqualified in the run up for a general election. Well, you have to be accountable for your deeds in law. This is nothing to do with politics. A person whos been Proven Guilty by the court has to be arrested. His lawyers intend to appeal the decision but, for now, mr khan is held by police and his politicalfuture is deeply uncertain. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky says a russian bomb hit a Blood Transfusion Centre in his countrys northeast. He says rescuers are at the scene in the town of kupiansk, saying there are, quote, dead and wounded. The reported strike has happened shortly after ukraine says missiles hit a facility which manufactures engines for aeroplanes and helicopters in the countrys west. Heres our ukraine correspondent, james waterhouse. President zelensky gives updates like this every evening. And he claims tonight that a Blood Transfusion Centre has been hit by a russian guided missile in the kharkiv region. There are unconfirmed reports that it was close to a village that was near to the front line, and there is a reality here, whether youre talking about cities like zaporizhzhia or villages in the kharkiv region. Even when Russian Forces retreated from there late last year, if you live close to the russian border, or if you are close to the front line, you are typically in range of missiles and artillery fire, and it is a daily occurrence where strikes like these take place. Now, if there is accuracy to president zelensky� s claim, it appears once again a medical building has come in harms way. We have seen it before with a Maternity Hospital in the besieged city of Mariupol Last year. We saw it with a Mental Health hospital in dnipro. That was just a few months ago. This is a war synonymous with civilian areas and cities being directly targeted. President zelensky� s tweet says that this war crime says everything about russian aggression. He says defeating terrorists is a matter of honour for everyone who values life. Now, this is typical rhetoric you get from president zelensky as he tries to boost his countrys morale under this sustained kind of attack. We are told that there are dead and wounded, but we dont know anything outside of zelensky� s tweet. This is happening as talks are taking place in saudi arabia aimed at finding a solution to the war in ukraine. It comes a few months after the gulf country hosted president zelensky at a summit of the arab league. The ukrainian delegation� s leader admits this weekends discussions wont be easy. A sunday deadline for the coup leaders in niger to reinstate elected president Mohamed Bazoum is fast approaching. West african bloc ecowas has threatened to use Military Force if it isnt met. But political leaders in nigeria, west africas most powerful nation, are urging their government to pursue diplomatic rather than military options. Nigers Prime Minister has been in paris saturday, meeting lawmakers and greeting protesters outside the nigerian embassy. He has dismissed pro coup protests taking place in his country. Earlier, i spoke with alexis akwagyiram, Managing Editor at the news website semafor africa. Thank you for being here. There is a lot of talk about. First, i want to start with this seven day deadline given by this group of west African Leaders to reinstate the democratic government there in niger. That deadline is set to expire in really a matter of hours now, coming up on sunday. What do you expect will happen when that deadline expires . So i strongly expect that when the deadline expires, we wont see any fireworks. There will probably be more efforts behind the scenes to pursue a diplomatic solution, because ultimately, ecowas does not want a full on conflict. It really doesnt want that. And we will see more efforts to try and find a way to make this work. Ultimately, that seven day ultimatum that was issued said after a week, then all options would be on the table. That includes the option of force. But i think ultimately, the regional body will want to reserve the use of force as a last resort. They wont want to do that initially. What other options are on the table . What else could ecowas do to try to pressure this junta to return the control to the democratic leader . There are a number of levers they can pull. One is to just make life as difficult as possible. For example, the giant southern neighbour, nigeria, has turned off the lights. Niger relies on it for much of its electricity, they have turned off the main transmission lines. As well as that, we have seen an ecowas delegation go to neighbouring algeria and libya, so those are the Northern Borders of niger, to speak to them. So those ports are open because at the moment, ecowas has imposed economic sanctions and closed access to ports to the south, but to the north, as access routes are still open, they might want some kind of partnership, some kind of buy in from those oher countries in the region, to make life harder for thejunta there. As well as that, what they might do is pursue some kind of diplomatic solution whereby they can arrange the release of the democratically elected president Mohamed Bazoum in exchange for him agreeing to some kind of democratic process whereby he stands down and there is an election. Because ultimately, what we have seen is that now, there is lots of Popular Support for what has gone on, and its awkward for ecowas, because then if they push and try and install, reinstall the president whos now seemingly not so popular, then its hard for them. So that might be another thing, some kind of diplomatic solution, in that respect. You mentioned that Popular Support for whats really been a coup. Weve seen demonstrations on the streets. And among those demonstrators, weve seen pro russian sentiment, russian flags being waved, and chanting pro putin slogans. What is behind that amount of support and maybe even a desire for russia to get involved in niger . I think weve got to be cautious. To some extent, that might have been choreographed in some way. There is a degree of Stage Management because, obviously, russian flags dont come from nowhere. But i do think there is a genuine push from people to move towards russia. But the idea is that people are frustrated about what they see as the french, and the failure of the french, the fact that the french were the colonial power and that they never really left. And that ultimately, there has been an insurgency on a number of fronts in niger, and the western push has not stopped it. So there have been islamist insurgents in the south east who are allied to islamic state, and in the south west, who have come from mali and are allied to alqaeda. And thousands of people have either been killed orforced to flee their homes. Now, what these people have seen is that in neighbouring mali, the military rulers there have pulled in the russians and they feel that its been more effective, because mali pushed out french troops, they pushed out the un peacekeepers, and said what they want is a Fighting Force of more aggressive troops that will fight the islamist insurgents, and they feel they have that in russia. And russia has also done this elsewhere on the continent. So the Central African republics president really owes his existence, the fact he is still in power, to russian troops, because he brought them in and they fought insurgents there. So basically, the people in nigerare thinking, well, the russian Fighting Forces from wagner are proving to be far more effective in battling these insurgents. And, alexis, youve done some interesting reporting as well with semafor about the potential influence of russian propaganda in niger. Absolutely. I think this is actually part of it as well. Over the last two or three years, the russians have fought a very effective propaganda war, specifically against france, but also more widely against the west. They have sought to set themselves up as allies, as partners against colonial invaders, and theyve done this through rt russia today, the rolling News Tv Service and through sputnik, the de facto wire service. Through those two outlets, they have partnered with african broadcasters, providing content. It could be Audio Content in a podcast, or tv footage, video footage, of the likes that in the west, we would get from news agencies. You could get that from a Russian News Agency as well. And all of that is Framing News Reports so that they are from a russian perspective, a russian worldview. And its very effective, because then, when its delivered on local stations, its not as if youre seeing a russian face or a russian hand controlling that, its coming from a local news broadcasters. As well as that, they have a network of influencers that they work with who are spreading messages on social media as well. Really interesting stuff. Alexis akwagiyram, Managing Editor of semafor africa, thank you so much. Thank you. Police in israel say a local Security Guard is now dead in what theyre describing as a suspected Terrorist Attack in tel aviv. The police say the alleged gunman has also died. The latest violence comes after two palestinian teenagers were killed in the occupied west bank on friday. Meanwhile, protests have been across israel for the 31st week in a row against the governments planned overhaul of the judiciary demonstrators are carrying on with a mass gathering in tel aviv, despite the earlier attack there. The protests have gained in intensity in recent weeks as the first bill in the governments programme was put before parliament and voted through. A federaljudge has given Donald Trumps legal team a deadline of 5pm monday to respond to a request by prosecutors. It would limit trumps handling of evidence related to his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The former president s lawyers asked for the date to be pushed to thursday but that has been denied. Special Counseljack Smith filed court papers late friday expressing concern about one of mr trumps social media posts. Prosecutors are seeking a protective order that would prevent him from improperly sharing confidential evidence publicly. Our North America correspondent sean dilley has more. A few more details are coming out, actually. We have been trawling through the paperwork so you dont have to. Ultimately, on friday, the prosecution had applied for what they called a protective order. And they did that because they said they were concerned that when they release information to donald trump, information that he is entitled to to defend himself, by the way, they said they are ready to do that, but if this was shared, it could interfere with the due process of the case and potentially impact witnesses. That is their concern. Now, the defence said that they only had very little time to prepare for this because, they said, that a friday afternoon is a wholly inappropriate time to prepare for something. Now, the prosecution was initially asking for an immediate order to prevent donald trump. Orat least, limit what he could say about this particular case. Thejudge denied that, set the deadline for monday. After the ping ponging between the defence and the prosecution, there has been yet another filing to the court by jack smith, the lead prosecutor. And he says, we disagree with what the defence says. Judge, you should refuse their order to extend. Weve been discussing this with them until wednesday, but they were not playing ball. Already, no trial date set, but there is ping ponging back and forth. There are other court cases mr trump is involved in, the separate classified documents case in florida, for example, that is another case that jack smith, the federal Special Prosecutor Special Prosecutor because he is independent of the Department Ofjustice is involved in. Now, in this case, again, we were expecting this. There is some toing and froing as to how much time the defence needs to prepare their legal defence. Everyone is entitled to a proper defence. The prosecution say, we are ready to go as soon as possible. The defence say, we cant tell you when we are ready until weve seen any of the evidence. The big argument we need to look out for will be on 28 august when, based on the information that is given to donald trump at the prosecution, the two parties will argue when he can stand trial. Will that be before the 2024 date in november or afterwards . Well, it seems eminently possible it would be before. Bangladesh is grappling with a record deadly outbreak of dengue fever, with hospitals struggling to make space for patients as the disease spreads rapidly in the densely populated country. Official figures show close to 300 people have died so far this year more than 61,000 have been infected. At least ten people have died and 18 are missing after Torrential Rains battered Hubei Province in northern china. Officials evacuated more than half its population of 11. 5 Million People on saturday from areas thought to be at high risk of landslides and floods. Unseasonable weather has also hit parts of europe, with flooding in slovenia and austria while storm antoni has been passing over large parts of britain and ireland. Our reporter Nicky Schiller has been monitoring whats happening. Unseasonable summer weather has hit large parts of europe. I want to take you first to georgia and show you some pictures there. As the search for survivors continues after a deadly landslide on thursday, you can see there a torrent of mud swept down that valley. 11 people died and dozens are feared missing. The army has been brought in to try and help find them. The good news is that 200 people were evacuated to safety. Now, if we move to slovenia next, there has been Torrential Rain there. A months worth of rain fell in 2a hours, hitting the north east and centre of the country. Now, three people died. There has been a meeting of the National Security council and, afterwards, the Prime Minister said it was the worst Natural Disaster in slovenias recent history since independence over 30 years ago. He said the scale of the damage from the floods is estimated to exceed half a billion euros, and a clear up operation is under way there. Now, slovenias neighbours, austria, have also been hit by Torrential Rain. We can show you pictures there, where there has been a large amount of saturated land, and that meant that there has been flooding, people taking to boats even to be able to get evacuated out to safety. And a lot of damage to residential properties, and a lot of people using sandbags to try and protect them. Now, elsewhere in europe, i want to move to dublin in ireland now, where there has been a Rescue Operation there. Again, the Emergency Services bringing in inflatable boats to take eight people to safety. Now, ireland and large parts of the United Kingdom have been hit by storm antoni, the first named storm of the year so far in the uk and ireland, and a number of events have been cancelled in the uk. And there have been strong winds as well in parts of wales and south west england. Finally, i want to take you to germany, and one city there, reutlingen, has had to bring out snow ploughs. Let me show you th

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