A couple of hours ago. Hes charged with 3a counts of fraud, relating to hush money allegedly paid to the former adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 president ial election. Hes now in the courthouse itself for the start ofJury Selection. Prosecutors accuse him, of arranging payments to Stormy Daniels in an effort to buy her silence. Donald trump has pleaded not guiltydescribing the case as a witchhunt. He spoke to the media just before heading into the courtroom. Hes been in the courts for around an hour and a half. Lets hear what he had to say. Something like this has never happened before. Theres never been anything like it. Every legal scholar said this case is nonsense, it should never have been brought. It doesnt deserve anything like this. There is no case, and theyve said it. People that dont necessarily follow or like donald trump said this is an outrage that this case was brought. This is political persecution. This is a persecution like never before. Nobodys ever se
followed by screams. israel claims that hamas, described as a terror organisation by the uk and us governments, uses hospitals as a base for military operations. people sheltering in the grounds also recorded the moment and its aftermath. israeli tanks are reported to have surrounded several other hospitals in gaza. israel says it will continue four hour pauses every day in its military action in the north of the gaza strip to allow civilians to flee. these are the pictures from earlier today. it is now almost five weeks since the start of this war. the hamas run gaza health ministry said over 11,000 people have been killed, including ii,500 children. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, says far too many palestinians have died in the conflict, which began after hamas killed more that 1,400 people in the attacks on october the 7th. let s start this hour with this report from yolande knell. explosion panic and bloodshed in gaza s shifa hospital this morning. as families
i wasjust thinking, gosh, all i wanted was to stand with other women. hundreds of demonstrators are gathered this evening near the houses of parliament. earlier, they lay on the ground for a minute s silence. authorities in the republic of ireland recommend temporarily suspending use of the astrazeneca vaccine, after a report of four new cases of blood clotting incidents in adults who d had the jab in norway. the foreign secretary makes another call for the immediate release of british iranian nazanin zaghari ratcliffe after she faces new allegations of anti government propaganda in court. and it s the music industry s biggest awards night of the year, the grammys. they re being held at a virtual ceremony in los angeles. good evening. the commissioner of the metropolitan police has defended the tactics of the force in breaking up last night s vigil for sarah everard, the 33 year old woman whose body was found in woodland on wednesday. dame cressida dick said she welcomed an
in the forum of the heads of state and government of nato, i stressed that the open door policy has to be maintained towards ukraine. of course, today there is a war in ukraine. today, nato is supporting ukraine and ukraine is not part of nato, but ukraine has got the clear support of nato, very strong and very clear as a country whose democratic, independent, sovereign, and which was attacked without any reason and without anyjustification in a brutal way by russia. but are you frustrated that nato didn t heed your warnings? you have been warning about russia for a long time, and it fell on deaf ears. are you not frustrated that it s come to this? she translates question. translation: i cannot say that i feel some kind of frustration. l
and which was attacked without any reason and without anyjustification in a brutal way by russia. but are you frustrated that nato didn t heed your warnings? you have been warning about russia for a long time and it fell on deaf ears. are you not frustrated that it has come to this? she translates question. translation: i cannot say that i feel some kind of frustration. l i am happy that nato responds in an adequate way to what is happening east of poland. and let me put it in the following way. from my perspective, from the polish perspective, this response is satisfactory. today, we have got in poland nato troops deployed. today, we have 11,000 us troops in poland. today, we have got infrastructure in poland, and today, president biden announced that us presence will be transferred into permanent presence. the president stressed today