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Pakistan's state TV channel is back on air - and under army protection - | :00:00. | :00:15. | |
after anti-government protesters briefly shut it down. | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
As Ukraine moves to boost its defences against separatist | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
rebels - the country's president accuses Russia of launching, | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
"direct and open aggression" in the east of the country. | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
Pro-democracy campaigners in Hong Kong disrupt a speech by a senior | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
Chinese Communist Party official - after China rules there will be no | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
And what impact could these stunning solar flares on the surface | :00:37. | :00:45. | |
of the Sun have for all of us here, back on Earth? | :00:46. | :01:08. | |
Pakistan's national television channel is back on air, | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
after security forces removed anti-government protesters | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
These are the latest pictures we've received of protesters storming | :01:13. | :01:21. | |
the PTV building in central Islamabad, where they're | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
This was the announcement made by the presenter, as the demonstrators | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
entered the studios, just before the station was taken off air. | :01:28. | :01:40. | |
Protest is have managed to barge their way into the headquarters and | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
some of the newsrooms, the armed with sticks. We remained calm. There | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
is no reason to panic at this stage. We will update you with more news as | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
it comes end. -- comes in. The PTV building is now | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
under army protection. Its occupation followed renewed | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
clashes with riot police as protesters demanded the resignation | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
of the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Addressing his supporters | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
a short while ago, opposition leader Imran Khan appealed for calm | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
but renewed his appeal for We say to the Prime Minister he | :02:12. | :02:25. | |
should step down now because protesters will come out against him | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
across Pakistan, causing damage to property or because he has no moral | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
ground to continue as Prime Minister. I asked correspondent | :02:35. | :02:41. | |
whether the violence was predictable after weeks of protests? It was | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
always possible. We saw quite a bit of confrontation meet on Saturday | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
night. Yesterday as well. But what happened today did not make a lot of | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
people because the police retreated and marchers were allowed to go on a | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
rampage. Hundreds managed to get near the house of the Prime | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
Minister. Another set of angry young men carrying sticks managed to get | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
into the headquarters of the state television. They got into recording | :03:14. | :03:21. | |
studios and cut cable wires and smashed equipment. They were there | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
for a good while until the Pakistan army started arriving outside. As | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
soon as the army God bear and ordered them to leave peacefully, | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
they obliged. They were shouting slogans in favour of the army. Their | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
anger is aimed at the Prime Minister, his government and the | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
police. They are strongly in favour of the Pakistani arms deal. Where do | :03:48. | :04:01. | |
you think this is heading? They are putting a lot of pressure on the | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
army, does it look as if the Army is going to have to step up and take a | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
more active role as we have seen many times in the history of | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
Pakistan? The pressures on the government and the Prime Minister. | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
The Army issued a statement last night which urged the government to | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
resolve this politically and not use force. That is why we saw the police | :04:27. | :04:33. | |
did not retaliate. They did not fight back and that's why these | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
marchers were allowed to go on a rampage. This situation has brought | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
the government to a standstill. Everyone is keen for this to settle | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
in a way which does not do real dog democracy of Pakistan. The Prime | :04:48. | :04:54. | |
Minister is adamant he will not resign. He believes he was elected | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
in the election last year, despite some irregularities the election was | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
seen as credible and accepted by Imran Khan and others. He is | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
supported by parliament as well as opposition parties. They do not want | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
to see him resign and the government collapsed. Thank you. | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko has accused Russia of launching | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
"direct and open aggression" in eastern Ukraine which he says has | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
radically changed the balance on the battlefield. Meanwhile, | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
Ukraine is sending military reinforcements to the key | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
south-eastern port city of Mariupol to help defend against Pro-Russian | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
Speaking earlier Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov insisted | :05:32. | :05:40. | |
there would be no Russian military intervention in eastern Ukraine, | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
and said peace talks due later in the Belarusian capital, Minsk must | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
Russia's President Vladimir Putin said the question of statehood | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
for eastern Ukraine must be part of the negotiations. | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
But his spokesman was quick to clarify | :06:01. | :06:02. | |
that the president was not talking about an actual independent state. | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
This comes as the EU threatens further sanctions | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
against Russia and key American senators, including John McCain, | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
have called for the US to send weapons to help Ukraine fight what | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
The BBC's Richard Galpin has the latest from the city of | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
Mariupol, where there are fears that a rebel assault could be imminent. | :06:25. | :06:35. | |
At the moment it is quiet here. Over the past few days we have seen this | :06:36. | :06:44. | |
pro -- new front opened up by Russian separatists where it is | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
believed Russian troops have moved across the coast to Mariupol. Since | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
then, they have not moved any further. However, there has been | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
serious fighting in other parts here in the south east of Ukraine. With | :07:01. | :07:07. | |
the rebels claiming they have taken quite a lot of ground back from | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
Ukrainian army. So there are several fronts, the conflict goes on and it | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
has intensified. The question is, what is going to be the next move of | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
the rebels? Will be move on the city, Mariupol? Will be hold tight | :07:24. | :07:33. | |
for the time being? What is daily life like for those who are not | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
involved themselves personally? Wearing one of the main squares in | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
Mariupol and people are going to work. People are walking about. The | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
people we have spoken to, there is the sense of fear obviously. You are | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
worried about what might happen, whether there will be an assault. We | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
know that quite a few people have already left. This is a city of more | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
than 400,000 people and we understand thousands have left. The | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
majority remain. We have been told for example, one person who has been | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
going to work, her colleagues have been coming in with bags packed, | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
ready to go in case it is some kind of attack. Some people are on edge. | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
Clearly the Ukrainian military has been bringing in reinforcements and | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
fortifying positions around the city to try and defend it in case that is | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
an assault on the next few days. In Hong Kong, | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
police have used pepper spray to stop pro-democracy activists who | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
tried to storm an event attended They are in the city | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
on a charm offensive to persuade citizens to support controversial | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
new rules on democratic reforms. A day after the Chinese senior | :08:51. | :09:06. | |
leadership in beginning -- in Beijing chose the selection of the | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
next chief executive in Hong Kong, officials have journeyed south to | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
justify their decision to the general public. This was the | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
unexpected welcome they received. I group of invited guests, including | :09:21. | :09:28. | |
high-profile pro-democracy lawmakers protest it, chanting they had lost | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
faith in the government. After reading his composure, the top | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
Chinese official explained the reasoning behind one of the most | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
controversial new requirements for the 2017 chief executive election. | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
TRANSLATION: CAP NEXT the goal of the nomination committee is to | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
reduce the risks involved in universal suffrage. It reduces the | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
risk of political confrontation. It casts the risk of a constitutional | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
crisis and three it minimises the risk of populism. But outside the | :10:12. | :10:21. | |
venue, the Chinese government position has already created | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
confrontation. Here democracy activists try to forcefully enter | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
the main stage. They were pepper spray by police. With many other | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
groups planning their own protest in response to the Beijing | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
announcement, it is clear that political risk in Hong Kong has only | :10:44. | :10:52. | |
become more serious. I am joined now by the representative from the BBC | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
News service. Do we met -- do we know where this support lies in Hong | :10:59. | :11:05. | |
Kong? We can see there are divided supporters for each camp. Some of | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
them are and see the main group and support the pro-democracy group and | :11:13. | :11:20. | |
others support central government. Some are asking for true democracy. | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
What happened yesterday is that the central government set the limits | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
about how the chief executive should be elected in 2017. What do those | :11:30. | :11:37. | |
limits mean? It means that Beijing will screen the candidates who could | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
potentially be the next Chief Executive. The pro-democracy | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
campaign said they would like to choose. Beijing said no. | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
Pro-democracy are saying they have the nominating committee. Through | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
this they can choose up to three candidates. That is what the | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
pro-democracy campaign are not happy about. They feel restrained by the | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
central government. What will it mean in practice if this change | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
happens? The Hong Kong people feel that they are obliged, the Beijing | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
government promised them to have universal suffrage. But the Beijing | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
government says it is universal suffrage but it is how the | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
candidates are chosen. This is an impasse. Effectively, this is under | :12:35. | :12:44. | |
daily -- Chinese control, effectively how does this affect | :12:45. | :12:55. | |
daily life? They need stability in Hong Kong because it is the | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
financial centre. They can see Beijing will not back off. They | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
realise how strong their position is. Some of them want to keep Hong | :13:05. | :13:13. | |
Kong as a financial centre. If we go through political turmoil, we will | :13:14. | :13:21. | |
suffer more. Others say, this is our prize which makes Hong Kong | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
different from inland areas and this is the price we have to pay. Doesn't | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
look like the pro-democracy supporters will give up easily or go | :13:30. | :13:37. | |
on? I think it is a showdown. They say they will not back off in the | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
short-term. If not immediately, it will happen soon. Thank you very | :13:45. | :13:51. | |
much. Stay with us, much more news to come. The British couple who | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
removed their son from hospital against medical advice, are to | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
appear before a judge in Madrid today. | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
Eating less meat and reducing food waste are part | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
of a combination of solutions needed to ensure food security | :14:09. | :14:10. | |
and avoid dangerous climate change according to a team of academics. | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England have written in | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
the Nature Climate Change journal saying that meat-heavy Western diets | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
will lead to deforestation and an increase in carbon emissions. | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
Our Environment Analyst Roger Harrabin reports. | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
As people in the world are getting richer, and they are eating more | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
It is an inefficient way to make food. | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
As cows grow, they transform just 3% of the energy from the plants they | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
The surge in meat eating will drive more deforestation | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
as farmers seek increasing amounts of land, the study says. | :14:50. | :14:51. | |
Cutting forests releases greenhouse gases from the wood and soil. | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
Fertilisers create greenhouse gases as well. | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
The report says under current trends, agriculture alone will cause | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
the world to bust its targets for reducing the risk | :15:04. | :15:05. | |
Reducing food waste could help a lot, the authors say, and | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
The real challenge is the public's appetite. | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
There is a burger restaurant boom in major cities, and people are | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
It is not normally mushroom burgers they are after. | :15:22. | :15:33. | |
Here in Britain Prime Minister David Cameron is to make a statement | :15:34. | :15:40. | |
on plans to widen anti-terror laws. British-born jihadists in Iraq | :15:41. | :15:42. | |
and Syria could be temporarily banned from returning to the UK | :15:43. | :15:44. | |
under plans being considered by the British government. | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
Proposals are expected to include measures to make it easier to | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
seize suspects' passports. The BBC understands that UK | :15:54. | :15:55. | |
nationals believed to be involved in terror acts would be allowed to | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
keep their British citizenship. The new proposals follows increasing | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
violence in Iraq and Syria and concerns about British fighters | :16:02. | :16:02. | |
returning from the countries. The returning from the countries. | :16:03. | :16:13. | |
This is BBC World News. The latest headlines Pakistan's main | :16:14. | :16:15. | |
TV station has been briefly taken off air | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
by anti-government protesters. The activists - | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
who're calling for the resignation of the prime minister - were removed | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
from the studios by the army. As Ukraine bolsters its defences | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
in the east of the country - its president accuses Russia of, | :16:28. | :16:29. | |
"direct and open aggression". its president accuses Russia of, | :16:30. | :16:30. | |
"direct and open aggression". The UN says militants | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
from the Islamic State group are committing atrocities amounting to | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
crimes against humanity. The warning comes as the | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
UN's Human Rights Council meets in Geneva to discuss calls | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
for an emergency mission to Iraq. This is what its Deputy chief, | :16:48. | :16:49. | |
Flavia Pansieri, had to say. It appears that ISIL intentionally | :16:50. | :17:04. | |
committed widespread and systematic persecution of these ethnic and | :17:05. | :17:06. | |
religious groups, depriving them of their fundamental rights, including | :17:07. | :17:08. | |
the right to life and freedom of religion, | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
denying them of their identity and compelling many to wander in fear | :17:12. | :17:12. | |
in desolate and dangerous areas. These inhuman and odious offences | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
constitute a serious and deliberate attack on human dignity | :17:16. | :17:17. | |
and human rights and they likely The parents of a young boy with | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
brain cancer, whose disappearance from a British hospital triggered | :17:21. | :17:38. | |
an international search last week, Five-year-old Ashya King was taken | :17:39. | :17:40. | |
out of an English hospital But the parents, | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
who may face extradition to the UK, have told the BBC they just wanted | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
the best treatment for their son. For a second time in less than 24 | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
hours, Brett and Naghemeh King The question for the judge, | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
whether to extradite We just want the best treatment | :17:55. | :18:10. | |
Last night, as they were bundled into a police car in handcuffs, | :18:11. | :18:21. | |
they said they wanted the best medical treatment for their son. | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
Their eldest son, Naveed, has posted a new video online, saying his | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
five-year-old brother had been well looked after when he was removed | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
Doctors had said Ashya's life would be in danger. | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
We did not change his foods in any way. | :18:39. | :18:40. | |
We also had this power cord, which is what | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
So he was not starving along the way. | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
Ashya King is suffering from brain cancer, but his parents | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
They claimed doctors at Southampton General wouldn't agree | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
to a treatment called proton beam therapy. | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
The hospital insisted it was trying to help the family | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
I just want to get on with his treatment. | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
And I'm not coming back to England if I cannot give him the treatment I | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
Hampshire Police deny they have been heavy-handed. | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
Doing nothing, they said, was not an option. | :19:16. | :19:17. | |
Medical experts were saying to us that if he didn't get | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
the care that he needed, there was a potential threat to his life. | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
Faced with those circumstances, I make no apology for the police | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
being as proactive as we possibly can to actually find Ashya and | :19:32. | :19:33. | |
What happens next is in the hands of the Spanish courts. | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
It's not clear when Ashya will be reunited with his | :19:40. | :19:41. | |
parents, and whether or not family will be coming back to the UK. | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
There are signs of a shake-up in German politics. | :19:48. | :19:50. | |
For the first time an anti-euro party has won seats | :19:51. | :19:52. | |
Preliminary results show the Alternative for Germany | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
Party is set to beat all forecasts, winning 10% of the vote in | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
This is the first time an anti-Euro party has won seats | :20:00. | :20:13. | |
Preliminary results show the Alternative for Germany, or | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
AFD, have come forth in elections in the eastern state of Saxony. | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
We are very satisfied with the results, because it shows that | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
the AFD is now a steady member of the German political scene, | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
and that the Saxony citizens gave us a lot of confidence. | :20:32. | :20:41. | |
Chancellor Merkel's Christian Democrats lead in Saxony by | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
Stanislaw Tillich, one almost 40% of the vote, with the Left and Social | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
Democrats in the second and third place. The AFD 110%, enough to enter | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
parliament. This is big news in a country where support for the EU has | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
traditionally been strong. The Alternative for Germany isn't even | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
two years old, formed in 28 that -- February 2013 as a protest movement | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
against the euro zone bailouts. The party says it is anti-Euro rather | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
than anti-Europe, and it wants the break-up of the Eurozone. It also | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
wants limits on EU power, with tighter immigration controls and | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
other aim. Critics say it caters to nationalistic sentiments and | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
attracts right-wing extremist. But it appeals to some conservative | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
voters, who think that Angela Merkel has moved too far to the centre. The | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
Christian Democrats' state premier needs to find a new coalition | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
partner, after the free Democrats failed to win any seats. Stanislaw | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
Tillich has ruled out a coalition with the AFD. But the results will | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
reignite the debate in Germany over cooperation with the newcomer. The | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
AFD 17 seats at the European elections in May, and the next two | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
weeks could see more scenes like this. The party is likely to win | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
seats in two more state elections. It is on the brink of establishing | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
itself as a force in German politics. Over the next four days on | :22:11. | :22:25. | |
the BBC, we're going to be focusing on people living around the world | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
with a disability. In the first of our series, Ukraine's top Paralympic | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
swimmer tells us what it is like to train while surrounded by conflict. | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
TRANSLATION: My name is Iaroslav Semenenko. I am from Ukraine. I am a | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
Paralympian swimmer and a European champion. I have taken part in two | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
Paralympic games. I live in Donetsk, near the airport and the railway | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
station. It is very tense in Donetsk at the moment. People are worried. | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
I'm worried. We are worried for our lives, and for our homes. Because | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
apart from that city, people don't have anywhere to go. It's the same | :23:08. | :23:17. | |
for me. I've lived in Donetsk all my life. I used to go outside a lot, | :23:18. | :23:27. | |
but since the fighting started, I only go out when I have to train. I | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
make up my mind depending on where I can hear the shots coming from. If | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
they are close, I stay in. If they are far away, I go out, and I am not | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
scared. Well, it is still a bit scary. Training, for me, became 100 | :23:42. | :23:53. | |
times more difficult, because it was scary to go outside or to train in a | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
swimming pool that was shaking. Now, whenever I hear noise or some | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
rustling, I think, oh no. Something is going to happen. And then the | :24:04. | :24:13. | |
swimming pool where I used to train was hit. The water had to be drained | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
out, so now there is nowhere for me to swim. I can only do general | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
physical exercise, like sit-ups, and in Donetsk it is really difficult to | :24:26. | :24:33. | |
prepare for competitions. I feel supported by everybody. Lots of | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
people say I should leave the city, but this is my home, this is where | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
my family is. I'm not going anywhere, and I have a great coach | :24:42. | :24:49. | |
who understands and supports me. Iaroslav Semenenko there. | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
The US space agency, NASA, has released new footage showing a | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
series of powerful solar flares. There have been more than half a | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
dozen such eruptions on the surface of the Sun last week. Some have | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
wanted this explosion of energy might have a serious impact here on | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
earth. -- some have warned. For the Sun, it has been a pretty | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
busy week, cosmically speaking. Enhanced pictures from NASA's solar | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
dynamics Observatory proved the point. You can see here on the | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
left, a huge explosion of radioactive material, a solar flare. | :25:24. | :25:27. | |
Over the last few days, there have been more than half a dozen similar | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
eruptions. Look at this image. Particles of superheated energy | :25:35. | :25:36. | |
shooting thousands of kilometres out into space. It is not just about | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
pretty pictures. These solar winds travel through the cosmos, and can | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
reach us here on Earth. It is warned that satellite communications, power | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
grids, even air travel could be affected if the players are | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
particularly strong. At the very least, you may get to see a | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
wonderful display, like the aurora borealis, or Northern lights. This | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
is what happens when solar winds hit the Earth's upper atmosphere. These | :26:03. | :26:07. | |
latest solar flares do not appear to be aimed in our direction, so we can | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
breathe a little easier. But they are an extraordinary sight | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
nonetheless. We're just going to leave you with a | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
reminder our top story. Pakistani state television channel, PTV, is | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
back on air, after the army removed demonstrators who had broken into | :26:27. | :26:29. | |
the station. Anti-government protesters, led by Imran Khan and | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
others, have called for the Prime Minister to resign. They have been | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
clashing with police in Islamabad. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
Sharif has been meeting with the country's powerful army chief. Lots | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
of rumours about what was in that meeting. He is now meeting with | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
other political leaders. We will update you throughout the day here | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
on BBC News. Thank you for watching. I will be back tomorrow, | :26:53. | :26:54. | |
if you can join me. | :26:55. | :26:56. |