on behalf of the trump family. and that's because ivanka trump worked very closely on these loans that are in question to the banks. but on the stand, ivanka trump said that she had never worked on her father's financial statements, echoing a lot of the defence that her brothers have used over the last few days. but in other moments, even when presented with email communications with the banks where they were negotiating some of these favorable terms, she noted that she didn't recall those conversations, and when pressed further, she admitted that there was no reason to doubt the authenticity of the evidence presented to her, but again, reiterating that she could not recall those conversations. and it's important because these loans that came from deutsche bank really relied on a guarantee by donald trump to maintain a certain net worth and certain liquidity. and so the attorney general�*s office says that these fraudulent financial statements were key to mr. trump getting these loans that saved him tens of millions of dollars. and it feels, doesn't it, nada, that she is trying to distance herself as much as possible from her father and from what's happened here. she's certainly trying to do that. and we heard the attorney general, letitia james, outside of court here saying that she can try to do that, but she's inextricably linked to the trump organisation and its business. and the judge agreed ruling when she tried to say that she shouldn't have to testify, that she was very important to this case, that she would help give the big picture of what was going on. now, ivanka trump has certainly tried more than her brothers to distance herself from the family after donald trump left the white house. but here she is being dragged right back into it, having to talk about conversations that are right at the heart of this case. live now to shira scheindlin, a former united states district courtjudge for the southern district of new york. such a pleasure to have you on the programme and thank you forjoining us. first of all, what are the next steps in this current trial? the state's case — steps in this current trial? the state's case is _ steps in this current trial? he: state's case is going to press now. i think ivanka trump is the last witness and then the defence can put on its case. the defence has said it is going to go into december. so it will be interesting to see what he does for an entire month. it does plan to recall some of the same witnesses that have already testified. i would not be at all surprised that the trump sons and may be donald trump again and accountants and other business people and they will probably call experts to say that the valuations were accurate. so we will see a long defence case comping. h0??? were accurate. 50 we will see a long defence case comping._ were accurate. 50 we will see a long defence case comping. how does this trial compared _ defence case comping. how does this trial compared to _ defence case 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there, thejury will not be the decision making are there, the jury will. will not be the decision making are there, thejury will. the will not be the decision making are there, the jury will. the other difference is that a defendant, of course, cannot be compelled to testify in a criminal trial. a defendant has rights to fifth amendment privilege as to not give evidence against himself and has a right to remain silent so if trump's lawyers convince him not to testify, we will not hear from him. lawyers convince him not to testify, we will not hearfrom him. but, knowing who he is, i'm not sure his lawyers can control him. if he wants to testify, he will testify even in the criminal case. once he takes the stand, then he no longer assert his fifth amendment, he has the answer all the questions both under direct examination and cross—examination. so it will be very interesting to see how those criminal cases fill out. the other difference is here in the civil trial, thejudge, and nonjury trial, thejudges the civil trial, thejudge, and nonjury trial, the judges are decided liability. so thisjudge in new york has already said, the trump organisation is liable for committing fraud in these financial statements and defrauding the banks with consequences. the only thing i trial that was the amount of damages to impose. trial that was the amount of damages to im ose. ., ., , trial that was the amount of damages to imose. ., ., , ., to impose. how long will it be to know? it will— to impose. how long will it be to know? it will be _ to impose. how long will it be to know? it will be long, _ to impose. how long will it be to know? it will be long, the - to impose. how long will it be to know? it will be long, the trial. know? it will be long, the trial has to end which _ know? it will be long, the trial has to end which will _ know? it will be long, the trial has to end which will be _ know? it will be long, the trial has to end which will be in _ to end which will be in december, then thejudge has to end which will be in december, then the judge has to make a ruling, i don't know how long it will take him, i don't think it will be long, but he has been living with this case so i'm not sure. but then come the appeals. and there are two levels of appeals and new york. the intermediate appellate court which is heard several parts of this case are ready and has already stated one part, have already stated when part of the currentjudge's decision. so the appellate will have to hear an appeal of the entire verdict both the damages and then after that the rules, they can try to take the case of highest court in new york called the court of appeals and that could take another six months — one year. so between the two levels of appeal, i don't think there will be any final decision until after next november's collection. really interesting. _ november's collection. really interesting. so _ november's collection. really interesting. so good - november's collection. really interesting. so good to - november's collection. really interesting. so good to talk . november's collection. really| interesting. so good to talk to november's collection. really - interesting. so good to talk to you and thank you once more for giving us the pleasure of your expertise. let's go back to our top story now. the israeli military says its forces have destroyed more than a hundred entrances to a vast network of hamas tunnels inside gaza. a spokesman said israel had also captured about 4,000 weapons. hamas health officials say more than 10,500 people have been killed since the conflict began in gaza — nearly half of them children. israel has repeatedly warned palestinians to head south to greater safety, despite also bombarding that region. israel says about 50,000 people today left the north of gaza on a road that was opened temporarily. the israeli army released video showing a long line of people on foot, many of them waving white flags, some holding their hands in the air. but are the palestinians getting out? bbc verify has been looking at the latest video and satellite images from the area to get a clearer picture. merlyn thomas from the team is in the verify hub with more. israel has been ordering civilians in northern gaza to move south for their safety as they continue their offensive in the north. but what does that mean for the civilians of gaza? it's one of the most densely populated areas in the world. there were overi million people in the northern part before this conflict started. and the israeli military have been telling people to move south down this road, salahadin road, it's one of the two main arteries connecting the north to the south. and we've seen them doing this. these are people who are moving down that road, as you can see, carrying white flags. these are children, men, women walking down this road, fleeing from the north, carrying all the possessions that they have. now, this footage was filmed by the afp news agency on monday. they spoke to one of the gazans on the road about her experience. translation: it was so scary. we saw tanks from both sides. we didn't see soldiers, just tanks. we held our hands up and we kept walking. there were so many of us. we were holding white flags. it's true that we were scared, but finally we made it through. so how has the israeli military been telling people to move to the south? these are pictures of one of the mass drops of leaflets over northern gaza. now, these white specks here, you can see those leaflets dropping to the ground. these have messages urging people to move to the south for their own safety. they've also been posting on x. for example, today the israeli military posted in arabic that the main road here we've just been talking about would be open between 10am and 3pm local time. yesterday, the israeli military posted a video on x showing civilians walking down salah al—din road. and we've just paused a frame here so you can see an israeli tank in the foreground. now, using the shape of the buildings and the composition of the road, we've managed to verify this location is approximately three kilometres north of wadi gaza. the israelis consider this to be the boundary between the north and the south of gaza. we've also found this satellite imagery taken yesterday showing the exact same stretch of road. and if you look closely here, you can see the outlines of people on the road moving down the road. and if you look elsewhere in this picture, you can see signs of damage to the buildings and the debris that spilt out onto the road. this is what those people would have had to cross. and finally, you can see here, if you look closely, right next to the road, this is an israeli tank here too, which these people will have had to walk past. we've also been analysing satellite imagery. now, these satellite images are captures on 31st october and 3rd november. now, using both of these, we've assessed the amount of damage to the road and to the buildings around it. so every single drop here you can see represents damage of some kind to the road. so, craters on the tarmac of the road or building damage close to the road. but we can't tell exactly when this damage occurred. but let's take a closer look at two of these. so we're going to take a closer look at those two points. this is one of them. if you look here, you can see a crater on the main road itself. and i'm going to show you the second point here. these are buildings which have been destroyed and some of the debris has scattered onto the road itself. we don't know how many people have used this road to move to safety. the un suggested that thousands have moved on a single day. but the question remains as the fighting continues in the north, how many more desperate people will make this choice? around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. bbc news, bringing you different stories from across the uk. a shift on board this double decker with a difference. david is behind the wheel. i've been driving buses all my life. it's good. first stop is a pub car park in south shields. many items for sale on board would have gone to waste. for the price, you can't be wrong. 25p. the charity runs a foodbank, but this is something different. whilst running the foodbank we realised that there's a lot of people out there that also need help that aren't in abject poverty. and perhaps we shouldn't be waiting until people get into that critical situation and we should be possibly helping them by reducing their food bill in as many ways as we possibly can so that they don't end up at the level of poverty that we see our beneficiaries when they arrive at the foodbank. for more stories from across the uk, head to the bbc news website. you're live with bbc news. staying the us, there were elections across the country on tuesday — for both governors and local officials. people were also asked to vote on constitutional issues in several states. in perhaps the most headline—grabbing outcome — voters in ohio approved a measure that will guarantee the right to abortion there. that makes ohio the seventh state in america to amend its constitution, or bring in new laws — after the us supreme court overturned the roe versus wade ruling — which removed the national right to abortion. our special us correspondent, katty kay, has more from washington. the president, of course, was not on the ballot in any of these state elections. but the white house is waking up this morning to a much better mood than it's had over the last few days. it had had a string of swinging polls showing donald trump ahead ofjoe biden in next year's election campaign. and they didn't like that. but these election results are good for democrats. that result you spoke about in ohio, which was basically a referendum on abortion. and by a large majority, the voters of ohio decided to vote to keep abortion rights enshrined in ohio's constitution. ohio is a pretty conservative state, and yet that issue of abortion driving people to the polls and driving people to the polls in a direction that democrats think they can capitalize on next year. interestingly, though, there were exit polls out of that ohio referendum vote that showed that while people didn't want to have their abortion rights taken away from them, it didn't mean they necessarily lovejoe biden. so it's kind of a mixed message for democrats, but for abortion rights campaigners and for democrats who are going to campaign on abortion rights, they think that shows that there is momentum in the issue that they can use next year to get people to the polls. i mean, you've had some senior voices, actually, david axelrod, who was a senior adviser to president barack obama when he was president, of course, joe biden was president obama's vice president, so they know each other well. david axelrod coming out earlier this week after those polls and saying maybejoe biden shouldn't run on that issue of age is not going to get any better. you know, the election is still a year away. ifjoe biden looks frail today, will he look even frailer in a year's time? it's an issue that the white house is worried about. they kind of dismissed it when i'd had conversations with them earlier this year. but i had a conversation just this week with somebody from the biden white house. and they do recognise that it's a problem. it's not a problem they can do a tonne about. they're going to try and make him look as vigorous as possible, have him in groups of people rather than standing a lot of the time alone. maybe that will make a difference. but the age question and the economy question, that's also where the democrats aren't doing well. inflation is still high in the united states. it's coming down, but prices are still up on where people would like them to be. and if those are the two issues that are driving people next year in the election campaign, then it does look trickier forjoe biden. but at the moment, no indications that he's going to step aside and say somebody else should run in my place. millions of australians were left without mobile and internet services because of a network failure at telecoms firm optus. the failure caused transport delays, cut hospital phone lines, and shut down payment systems. the australian government said the crash was caused by a "deep fault" in the provider's network, and it did not believe there had been a cyber attack. it took about 12 hours for services to be restored. our correspondent in sydney, phil mercer, has the details. for millions of australians, it's been absolutely chaotic. this all began about 4 am local time in eastern states of australia and lasted for much of the day. and during that period, trains, hospitals, banks, schools, many, many businesses and millions of customers simply had no mobile phone coverage and no internet connections. so patients couldn't be contacted by their hospitals, by their clinicians. businesses lost out because customers couldn't pay with their credit cards. so all in all, a massive amount of chaos. opposition lawmakers in this country say all of this was a catastrophic incident, but the company involved optus, australia's second biggest telecommunications company, is saying that services have been restored. as for the company's reputation, that might take a bit longer to return to what it was. so safe to say, the company is now trying to find out exactly what went wrong. it's arguably the greatest work of british literature. the "first folio" of shakespeare's plays was published 400 years ago today. to celebrate the anniversary, copies of the publication are going on display in theatres all over the country. david sillito reports. welcome to prescot, nestled between st helens and liverpool. and this is, well, the last time i was here, it was the red lion. it's now... the mermaid tavern in prescot. so why has it changed? it's changed, the mermaid tavern is actually a place where shakespeare used to drink. what used to be greggs is now mercutio's, named after the character from romeo and juliet. this has become the bard. the old mill is now the stage door. and yes, that is shakespeare again, looking down on us. and this is the cause of this shakespearean makeover, in what used to be a town famous for making clocks, watches and cables. shakespeare north, a recreation of a theatre from the 1600s. here it is. this is... the folio. and on this 400th anniversary, it's one of the hosts of a rare copy of an original shakespeare first folio. the best and most beautiful folio. you're on it! we really are. and the arrival of the folio is recognition of the mission here, to use shakespeare to help the local economy and also widen access both to see the plays and perform on stage. for tia, playing here both egeus in midsummer night's dream, this was herfirst big break after an open audition in her home, newcastle. so does shakespeare sound better in geordie? yeah! everything sounds better in geordie! i was just in my element. i've never been able to be on a stage like that. so does shakespeare sound better in geordie? yeah! everything sounds better in geordie! i was just in my element. i've never been able to be on a stage like that. once you're in it, it'sjust, it's the best feeling. it really is. shall i compare thee to a summer's day? and there's good reason to have different voices because the verse wasn't written for the drama school accent that actors like ben crystal here were expected to use. if this be error and upon me proved, i never writ, nor no man ever loved. so "proved" and "loved" — they don't rhyme. shakespeare would have done it? in original pronunciation, "if this be error and upon me prov'd, i never writ, nor no man ever loved". the rhyme, the rhyme works when you get the accent right. absolutely. so on this 400th anniversary, a moment of recognition for a town and a theatre deeply invested in the work and legacy of william shakespeare. david sillito, bbc news, prescot. there's a glimmer of hope in the long—running rail dispute, as members of the rmt union are to vote on a pay deal that could end the continuing waves of strikes. here's our transport correspondent, katy austin. it's been nearly a year and a half since these strikes began on the railway. actually, rmt workers employed by network rail settled their dispute in march following a member's vote. now, the dispute with iii of the train companies, the companies that run services, has continued and only recently rmt members working for them backed strike action for another six months. now they will get a vote, and that's on proposals which include a 5% backdated pay rise for last year. if workers vote in favour of that, the threat of strikes over christmas and into next spring would be lifted. now securing this year's pay rise, 2023, would still depend on changes to working practices being negotiated with individual operators at local level. so we're not quite at the end of the process with this. but if this offer, this memorandum of understanding, as they call it, is accepted, there's a process now that could lead to a resolution. just a reminder, though, a different union, aslef, which represents most train drivers, also has an active dispute. very little progress in that. there are still very much there is very much the threat of strikes in the train drivers dispute still. carol vorderman is leaving her show on bbc radio wales after breaking the corporation's rules on social media. the presenter has been posting criticism of the government on social media and says she is not prepared to lose her voice. the bbc recently published new social media rules for stars and staff. finally on the daily global are you a fan of caramac? the sweet maker nestle has confirmed it's going to stop making the caramel flavoured bar after more than 60 years. our reporter nicky schiller — who keeps up all stocked up on sweets is 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this change will enable us to focus on our best brands as well as develop exciting new innovations to delight consumers�*s taste buds. it is also worth saying. in recent years there have been competitors to caramac one of the good ones is from carrot breeze introduce. big in australia introduced here in 2021. and also a number of the supermarket have their own brands. so i know asda has one, they also have blonde chocolate so there is a bit of competition. tommy about how difficult _ there is a bit of competition. tommy about how difficult it _ there is a bit of competition. tommy about how difficult it was _ there is a bit of competition. tommy about how difficult it was for - there is a bit of competition. tommy about how difficult it was for you - about how difficult it was for you to find a caramac because i know you make you do, let's say interesting things on bbc news. i want sent you to cook cements. you things on bbc news. i want sent you to cook cements.— things on bbc news. i 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flavoured chocolates, bed with the weather. hello. today brought us a more scenes that we've become very familiar with. lots of cloud, outbreaks of rain, some big puddles around. but the rain did clear to a mix of sunshine and showers. there were some brighter conditions to be had. sunshine and showers continuing to be the story as we move through the next couple of days. lots of showers out there through tonight, all driven around an area of low pressure. this band of showers moving south eastwards across england and wales, then lots more showers blowing in towards the west. some of these could be heavy with some hail and some thunder. mostly, it will be too breezy for a frost. we mayjust get down to freezing across some parts of northern scotland. so into tomorrow, the showers focusing in on those areas exposed to the westerly wind. so western england, wales, northern ireland, south—west scotland, whereas for eastern parts of england and for northern scotland there'll be fewer showers, more dry weather and some spells of sunshine. but it is going to be really quite windy around some southern and western coasts of wales, southern england, the channel islands, gusts of 40—50 miles per hour and temperatures a couple of degrees down on where they have been for many of us, 8—to 11 degrees. now through thursday night and into friday, this area of low pressure wobbles its way eastwards. we'll see this little weather system here diving down across wales and southern england that will bring some rain to start the day on friday. some strong winds, too, through south—west england and the channel islands. but generally, as the winds go more northerly in direction, well, that will bring more showers into northern parts of northern ireland, northern and eastern scotland, eastern england and fewer showers across the west and the south—west of the uk. temperatures again 7—12 degrees. our area of low pressure continues its journey eastward, so much so that on saturday morning we should be in a gap between weather systems. could be some frost and fog around to start armistice day. some of that fog could be slow to lift across parts of scotland especially. but then we will see a lot of dry weather and some spells of sunshine. for many, this is likely to be the drier day of the weekend, 7—12 degrees. but you can see a frontal system trying to push in towards the south—west. by sunday, it does look like frontal systems will make some progress northwards and eastwards. just a bit of uncertainty about how far those weather fronts will get. the best chance of staying dry across the north of the uk, and it will be turning milder towards the south and the west. hello, i'm christian fraser. you're watching the context on bbc news. these are the gates to a living nightmare. a nightmare, where people have been suffocating, under persistent bombardment, mourning their families, struggling for water, for food, for electricity and fuel we all agree that humanitarian - pauses would advance key objectives to protect palestinian civilians, to imcrease the sustained flowj of humatitarian assistance, - to allow our citizens and foreign national to exit and to facilitate the release of hostages - this place, after a month of air strikes and a bit more than a week of a ground war, has essentially been left a wasteland. the israeli military says palestians are increasingly heading to the south of gaza strip in search of safety, food water, fand medicine that is not available in the northin an evening briefing, and medicine that is not available in the northin an evening briefing, the idf said hamas was hiding behind the civilian population, and is losing control. but what is the future for gaza. we will get the views from israel tonight on what is being proposed for the aftermath of this war. also tonight we will hearfrom hezbollah who warns there is severe risk of an escalation across the region. and we will get a view from the west bank 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