called on others tojoin him in a unity government. from lahore, our pakistan correspondent caroline davies reports. celebrations on the streets of lahore. release imran khan! imran khan s candidates have won more seats than anyone else this election so far. but his supporters think they should have won more. accusing the other side of vote rigging, which they deny. there are complications. because the election commission doesn t recognise khan s party, all of his candidates ran as an independent, and other parties are already talking about trying to absorb them. if, in a few weeks time, we suddenly hear that you have left the independence group and you re part of a party, what should we think? it would be the last day of my life. i mean, i cannot even think of, conceive of such a thing. if i have said that all these votes, they have not been casted for me, they have casted for imran khan. celebrations on the other side, too. nawaz sharif s party were thought favoured by paki
unspun world withjohn simpson. hello. it s good to see you. we re here in the bbc s central newsroom for another edition of unspun world. in today s programme how is it that russia s economy is doing so well in spite of the ukraine war and western sanctions? a quite extraordinary transformation of the russian economy into a war economy, with massive defence spending, with the reorientation of its industrial base towards its war machine. iran s client groups around the middle east get a hammering from us missiles. but what s the point of having the americans in the region? maintaining counterterrorism efforts against isis, and also, they check iranian influence in syria, in iraq, in lebanon. and, is ethiopia yet again going to be a byword for hunger and despair? this is the moment to try and fix this problem, - not six months down the line l when an awful lot more people have died and it s much harderl to turn the whole thing around. russia invades its neighbour after signin