and checking out printing and checking out news. pakistan election commission printing news. pakistan election commission has disqualified the former prime minister for five years as a consequence of that conviction over the weekend in that case about selling state gifts and islamabad on saturday in sentencing macro two to three years in prison and this means that imran khan will not be able to contest elections that are coming up later in the year or able to any public office until the year 2028 and the commission says in this notification that imran khan has been de notified as a member of parliament with immediate effects and significant news after sentence cut on saturday that imran khan is been disqualified from taking part in any sort of elections for five years and that will bring you more in my correspondent later in the programme. we turn to brazil and a landmark summit to protect the amazon rainforest. the leaders of eight south american countries that share the
the leaders of eight south american countries that share the amazon, have gathered in the city of belem. the summit s host brazilian president lula da silva has urged leaders to agree on common policies to protect the environment and boost sustainable development. scientists are concerned that, deforestation in the amazon may be approaching an irreversible tipping point. president lula is hoping for a co ordinated regional approach, to tackle illegal mining and logging as well as other environmental crimes. he s promised to end deforestation in brazil by 2030. our south america correspondent katy watson reports from para, the most deforested state in brazil. virgin forest still exists here in the amazon, but every day the illegal loggers get closer. from up high you can see the damage done, the large patches of land totally cleared. this part of brazil has the highest rate of deforestation in the country. president lula has promised to fix the problem, telling the b
for me, very exciting to be here. but i m trying to understand what has happened to this land of yours, because when you arrived here, this was an intensively farmed land, wasn t it? it was. my husband, charlie, inherited it from his grandparents when he was in his early 20s, and this was back in the 1980s. and every inch of the land was ploughed, it was producing arable crops and dairy. and we fully expected to be farmers for the rest of our lives. mm. 17 years on, we were £1.5 million in debt, tearing our hair out and realised that, you know, this is very marginal land. we re walking on 320 metres of clay, over a bedrock of limestone, and it s an absolute pig to farm. so you were literally close to going out of business? yeah, the farm was a failing business. and we did everything we could. we diversified, we tried different crops, we tried different cows. we sold ice cream. we did everything we could. but always it was this clay that was against us. so let s just stop for
and is it possible? hamas is.is notjust people with guns, it s also an idea. it s hard to kill an idea, but it s turning out it s also quite hard to kill people with guns. china s economic woes continue, but whose fault are they? xi jinping, china s leader, did not follow through on the promise to take the state out of the economy. one of the world s largest countries, indonesia, goes to the polls, but might the result be dangerous for democracy there? this is a trade off that - i think indonesians are kind of toying with at the moment. they ve got stability, they ve got growth, i but you also see very little accountability. i before the hamas attacks of the 7th of october, the southern town of rafah in gaza had a population of around 170,000. now about 1.5 million palestinians are crammed into it. israel s prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, says he s sending troops into rafah to destroy the four hamas battalions which he maintains are sheltering there. most western governme
case that many people tuning in will remember, a very brutal case, a very brutal murder that took place in what many people know as leafy cheshire. , ., , ., ., cheshire. so, this was a brutal and ferocious murder cheshire. so, this was a brutal and ferocious murder of cheshire. so, this was a brutal and ferocious murder of a cheshire. so, this was a brutal and ferocious murder of a 16-year-oldl ferocious murder of a 16 year old girl by two children even younger than her. the two killers in this case were 15 when they attacked brianna ghey on february the 11th last year in linear park in culcheth which is a village just outside of warrington. the two of them had planned this murder, it was a premeditated attack on brianna ghey by somebody who she thought was one of their friends. she felt she was going to meet a friend in scarlet but in fact was going to meet 215 year olds who would ultimately murder her. they met her from a 215 year olds who would ultimately murder her