pakistan s former president, general pervez musharraf, has died following a long illness. he was 79 years old. president musharraf seized power in a bloodless military coup in 1999, serving in office for seven years from 2001. and in 2019 he was sentenced to death in absentia, for treason charges for absconding the murder trial of one of his successors, bennazir bhuto. at the time of his death, he had been living in exile in dubai, receiving medical treatment. the bbc s gordon corera looks back on his life. 1999. and when troops stormed the national television headquarters to put pervez musharraf in power, the people of pakistan heard a familiar refrain. the nation needed another leader in uniform to save it from self serving politicians. in the past, our governments have ruled the people. it is time now for the governments to serve the people. pakistan had already been under army rule for more than half the time it had been independent. general musharraf portrayed himself as
nursing leaders in england have made a direct appeal to rishi sunak, saying an improved pay offer could be enough to stop strikes, scheduled for monday and tuesday. now it s time for the new space race. 50 years ago, astronauts would regularly go to the moon. back then, many thought it wouldn t be long before people lived there. now, finally, that could be happening. we re notjust settling for doing the same old, same old. we want to push further. and rocket launches are now commonplace, sending up spacecraft for the benefit of life on earth. space is an integral part of society. our way of working only functions with satellites for telecom, for navigation, for earth observation, for weather forecasting, for many things. so we need these satellites for our daily life. the country that first sent a person into space is crashing back to earth because of its war in ukraine. if russia doesn t partner up with another nation or field its own space station, which given the current c
pope francis s historic visit to south sudan ends with an open air mass. he urged people to reject the venom of hatred and pleaded with leaders to find peace. pakistan s former president, general pervez musharraf, has died following a long illness. he was 79 years old. president musharraf seized power in a bloodless military coup in 1999, serving in office for seven years from 2001. in 2008, he suffered defeat in the polls and left the country six months later. when he returned in 2013 to try to contest the election, he was arrested and barred from standing. he was charged with high treason and was sentenced to death in absentia, only for the decision to be overturned less than a month later. at the time of his death, he had been living in exile in dubai, receiving medical treatment. the bbc s gordon corera looks back on his life. 1999. and when troops stormed the national television headquarters to put pervez musharraf in power, the people of pakistan heard a familiar refr
to implement her tax cutting agenda. police investigating the disappearance of nicola bulley in lancashire say they ve spoken to a woman they d described as a key witness. ms bulley was last seen nine days ago. nursing leaders in england have made a direct appeal to rishi sunak, saying an improved pay offer could be enough to stop strikes, scheduled for monday and tuesday. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for click. this week. as we re working towards the metaverse, we re at interpol to see how they re planning to keep it safe. we look at new software that s helping doctors perform delicate brain surgery. lara s throwing her weight around again. watch it! i ve got super strength. yes, that s definitely more powerful. and get ready to feel old. i never thought in my 205 i d be romanticising technology from when i was 13. over the last 20 or so years, we ve seen how difficult the internet and the web has been to police. it s bigger than any one country, and you can base
iranian state television says that the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei has pardoned a large number of prisoners linked to protests. the state broadcaster says that ayatollah khamenei was responding to a proposal by the head of the judiciary. iranian media outlets say that the letter from the judiciary chief said that a number of people, especially the young, had committed wrongful actions and crimes because of incitement and propaganda by the enemy. our middle east analyst sebastian usher gave us this update. this is a pardon that comes on the eve of the anniversary of the 1979 islamic revolution, so there are pardons quite regularly for that. what we don t know, obviously the numbers. we don t know when or how this will happen. we do know the way that it s written says it s an answer to an appeal, a letter from the head of the judiciary who essentially frames it as being many people who went out to protest, particularly the young, were misled, by foreign agents, propag