on sunday night. press freedom campaigners say 140 journalists were threatened or attacked with some claiming that democracy itself is under fire. i am mobeen azhar, and i have been hearing from those who say they have been attacked in an effort to silence them. in may 2023, imran riaz, one of pakistan s most well known journalists, with millions of followers online, is arrested at sialkot airport as he tries to leave the country. in his last speech before his arrest, imran riaz criticised the powerful pakistani military for gagging journalists. he blamed the military for ousting former prime minister imran khan in april, 2022. many believe it was this speech that got him arrested. it wasn t the first time the journalist had paid a price for his critique. there were claims in the media that the tv channels that were broadcasting his show were threatened with being taken off air unless imran riaz was silenced. amidst the firestorm, he resigned. imran riaz is no longer in deten
it comes as the world health organisation says an israeli raid has left the biggest hospital in southern gaza unable to function adding to the humanitarian crisis there. meanwhile refugees have continued to crowd into rafah, close to the border with egypt where around 1.5 million people are now seeking safety. we ll get the latest on the ground in a moment. but first, last november the bbc reported on the case of a young woman and her disabled brother, tala and yazid, in rafah. they were trying to escape but were repeatedly turned away at the border along with their mother and siblings. our special correspondent fergal keane has been following the family s story. we came back to no electricity, no food for today. she s been a constant caring voice from within the siege. and one more day closer to my brother running out of medications. and we re still here. tala s daily life, a relentless struggle to care for her disabled brother yazid. three times they tried to escape raf
the white house is warning the stakes for ukraine and for the entire world remain high. president biden is calling on american politicians to pass the latest package of military aid for kyiv, which has been blocked by common progress. congress. look, the ukrainian people fought so bravely and heroically, they put so much on the line, and the idea that now, running out of ammunition, we walk away, i find it absurd and ifind it and unethical, ifind itjust contrary to everything we are as a country. so i m going to fight to get them the ammunition they need. the ukrainian president was in munich where senior defence officials and world leaders have been gathering a week before the two year anniversary of russia s full scale invasion of ukraine. president zelensky repeated his appealfor more weapons to avoid what he called a catastrophic situation in europe. translation: we are very much counting on this positive - decision of congress. for us, this package is vital. we are not
side at bramall lane. hello there and welcome along to sportsday. it s fair to say england s approach to test cricket has been nothing short of entertaining, and high octane at the best of times. today, their swashbuckling attitude backfired they were beaten heavily by india in the 3rd test, losing by 434 runs. and they go 2 1 down in the series. patrick geary reports. test cricket can be an endurance sport. it takes you to hopeless places and asks if you really still believe. england were more than 300 runs behind, india hurtling towards the horizon. returning from a bad back, felling them forward, battering english spirit. he had a joint record 12 sixes. 556 runs ahead was enough, thought india s captain, so they sent a tired england to the bottom of an unclimbed mountain. too late to turn back for ben duckett, days of watching the test getaway took their toll. crawley didn t make lunch and just after, they really crumbled. spinning around a dizzy england, joe root, the f
knows what they have to do to get back in the series and that it wouldn t be helpful to dwell too long on what went wrong in rajkot. played 100 test matches now and i know that you know, thinking too deep into certain things can actually send you on a downhill spiral. you know, and it s about what we do the next two games. i said after the first game that you know, as good as what it was, as good a feeling as it was, we need to move on to the second game. i said it after the last game and i ll say it after this game as well. you know, we put everything behind us and we focus on what s going forward and obviously it s the next two games for us. so england need to win one of the remaining two matches to prevent a series defeat. our chief cricket writer stephan shemilt is in india and explained what changes they might make for the next test which starts on friday. the damage had already been done on that third day. very similar to what had happened when england collapsed in the