malawi with more than 200 people now confirmed dead after storm freddy hit southern africa for the second time any man. and a small number of wolves have started to settle in belgium in more than 100 years as numbers increase across europe. hello and welcome to bbc news. let s begin today with the latest from pakistan, where the police appear to have stopped the operation to arrest the former prime minister imran khan. it appears to be due to a cricket match taking place. they say they will resume trying to arrest him afterwards. unrest continued through the night as imran khan s supporters clashed with security forces after police made another attempt to arrest him on a court order. he has accused the authorities there of acting outside the law and trying to arrest him. pakistan s information minister said the government had nothing to do with the arrest order. joining me now from islamabad is our correspondent. what is the latest from in and around the compound where imran
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Gains. Another blow for conservatives, they also lost a blackpool by election. The third biggest swing in the postwar by election history. Heres our political correspondent, hannah miller. The Prime Minister touring a Military Base with very little to laugh about. Laughter. Trying to defend his partys losses after a dismal set of results. Obviously its disappointing to lose good, hard working conservative councillors, but weve still got lots of results to come as well. And there are also things that i would point to. Harlow, for example, where keir starmer held a rallyjust on wednesday saying that was a place that he had to win to be on track to win a General Election. That hasnt happened. The conservatives did deprive labour of a win in harlow, but they still lost five seats and are considering that a success. The party had also pinned its hopes on ben houchen remaining tees valley mayor, though he wasnt even wearing a rosette. He did thank the Prime Minister in a later show of unity.
And theres just hours to go in transfer deadline day in the premier league. Everton sign defender ben godfrey from norwich city in a £25 million deal. Hello, good afternoon. Number 10 says an investigation has begun into the error which meant that the close contacts of nearly 16,000 people with coronavirus were not traced last week. Public Health England has blamed what it described as a technical issue, and the investigation will look into why the problem wasnt discovered sooner. Although those testing positive were informed, their details were not passed on to the test and trace system to alert those theyd been in contact with. The bbc has been told by Senior Public Health officials a significant proportion of the unreported cases are from the north west of england. Phe says the issue has now been resolved, but labour has called the situation shambolic. The Health Secretary matt hancock is to make a statement to mps this afternoon. Heres our Health Correspondent cichard galpin. Test
Plans in the budget announcement later. let s speak to nick ardley, a cheap little corresponding, who joins us from downing street, a busy day there today. broadly speaking, this is a budget that is looking to boost growth. is it going to be able to do that? ~ ., , to do that? well, that is the million dollar to do that? well, that is the million dollar question, - to do that? well, that is the l million dollar question, really. there has been a big debate in the uk about the best ways to achieve economic growth. there are some conservative mps who are urging the chancellor to cut taxes to try and do that. don t think that is going to happen, don t think the chancellor thinks there is room in the economy to do that. labour argue that the government has been guilty ofjust that the government has been guilty of just using that the government has been guilty ofjust using sticking plasters for the last few years, when actually what s needed is a much more wholesale review of the system.