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14/07/2018 GMT

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Arrested

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Also over one hundred and twenty people killed by a suicide bomber at an election rally.

The arrest of former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, on his return to Lahore from London after being found guilty of corruption is overshadowed by a suicide bomb attack, which kills over one hundred and twenty people. Our correspondent was with Mr Sharif on his flight. Also on the programme President Trump ends his UK visit at one of his golf courses in Scotland, but how is the relationship between Britain and America looking now? And we hear from Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the cellist who played at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, who is playing at the BBC proms festival on Sunday evening. 

(Picture: Nawaz Sharif. Credit: Reuters)

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