hush money payment to the adult film star stormy daniels, in order to influence the 2016 election, to hide a potentially damaging sex scandal. he denies all wrongdoing and the extramarital affair. and again, opening statements will begin on monday. and we will have coverage of that trial on bbc news on monday. the un office in haiti says more than 2,500 people were killed or injured in gang violence in the first three months of this year. that s an increase of 50% on the previous quarter. in a report, the un agency says most of the casualties occurred in port au prince. haiti has been plunged into violence since february, when gangs that control large parts of the capital launched a coordinated attack to push out the unelected prime minister, ariel henry. some roads in wales will revert to 30 miles per hour
bank. thank you. the former england footballer trevor francis has died. he was 69. his family say he had a heart attack in spain. trevor francis became britain s first £1 million footballer when hejoined nottingham forest on completing a transfer from birmingham city in 1979. he went on to win two european cups there. the uk s last open cast coal mine was supposed to close in september last year when planning permission for the site expired, but it is still operating. inspectors to the site have also now found the company was breaking its licence by mining outside of its permitted area. campaigners are demanding the immediate closure of the site at merthyr tydfil in south wales. 0ur wales correspondent hywel griffith reports. the largest and last of its kind the ffos y fran mine above merthyr tydfil produces two thirds of the uk s coal, but there s a problem. it should have shut ten months ago. so as we look at it now, we can see lorries,
covid, owing perhaps to the restrictions? and the answer to that is a bit mixed because if we look at the data for those cases from 2020, they went up and then they went down again in 2021 and down again in 2022, soi again in 2021 and down again in 2022, so i asked one of the experts who analyses this data whether there was a pattern. she said it was too soon to tell, but she said when it comes to covid and child protection, it is not over, there is a legacy. thank you. sanchia berg. the family of one of the two boys who died in cardiff on monday have told the bbc they will fight to get to the truth of what happened. the deaths of 16 year old kyrees sullivan and harvey evans, who was 15, sparked a riot in the city s ely suburb, but the circumstances behind the accident remain unclear. 0ur wales correspondent tomos morgan reports from cardiff. in the corner of cardiff tonight, around thousand friends and family came together to celebrate. and to
hundreds of people attended a vigil in cardiff last night for three young people killed in a car crash, which has left two others critically injured. it comes as the police force is being criticised over why it didn t find them sooner. 0ur wales correspondent hywel griffith reports. a moment to honour three young lives. friends who went on a night out together and never made it home. darcy ross was 21, the same age as her close friend eve smith. they died alongside rafeljeanne, aged 24. it was one of his friends who arranged tonight s vigil. yeah, we were very close. got a lot of memories together. been through a lot of stuff together. friends for years. pretty much, we were like brothers. i just wish obviously we knew a lot
0ur wales correspondent tomos morgan is in cardiff and gave us this update. not much more about the events that took place in the early hours of saturday morning. though we have heard that sophie russon, who was one of the two in a critical condition in hospital, her mother has spoken to the daily mail. she is another one that s been hugely critical of the police in the way they dealt with this investigation. she said she called them a number of times over the weekend. the impression she was given that it wasn t a priority for them. she was told at one stage to stop calling and at one stage, she actually came to cardiff herself from newport to knock on doors here, to try and find some information about what had happened to her daughter. let me just run through the timeline that we know of so far. three young women, they were out on a night out on friday in newport. they met up with shane and rafel also in newport.