The former president. Speaking after day one of the trial, mr trump sought to cast doubt over the legitimacy of the court. Its a scam trial. If you read all of the legal comments, from all of the legal scholars today, theres not one that i see that said that this is a case that should be brought to trial. Its a scam. Its a political witchhunt. It continues for ever and we are not going to be given a fair trial and it is a very, very sad thing. Live now to new york to speak to our correspondent john sudworth. John, bring us up to date with what happened today . When Donald Trumps motorcade left the precinct here in a man well used to breaking the norms of political life hit another milestone, this time a legal one, becoming the first us president to face a criminal trial. When it did get under way, as is often the case, the business was pretty humdrum, procedural discussion, the defence raising a number of issues and discussions over the timing. Donald trump suggesting he needed a day o
Good evening. Donald trump has become the first us president , former or current, to stand trial in a criminal case after appearing in court in new york. Hes accused of falsifying his Business Records to disguise a Hush Money Payment made to the former adult film star, Stormy Daniels, shortly before the 2016 election. Mr trump has pleaded not guilty and was his usual defiant self outside court, claiming the attack was an assault on america, and repeating unsubstantiated claims that the trial is a witch hunt against him. Our north america editor sarah smith reports. Its become a well rehearsed ritual Donald Trumps performance on his way to court. But this time its very different. The first criminal trial of a former president , and it comes with a possible prison sentence. Just look at his face. He seems drained of all his usual bombast, while insisting he is the victim of a conspiracy to derail his president ial campaign. This is political persecution. This is a persecution like never
Danny danon injerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me again, stephen. Israel has a vital choice to make right now with regard to iran. Does it respond again, up the ante, escalate, or does it not . What do you believe the choice will be and should be . Frankly speaking, stephen, i dont think we have a dilemma here. We have to retaliate. The question is how we do it, when we do it, against whom. But i dont think we can sit idly by after the attack we saw two nights ago here in israel, 300 projectiles that came from iran directly into israel. Im not familiar with any other sovereign nation that will not retaliate after such an aggressive attack. And we have to make it very clear. Iran chose to send those rockets, missiles and uavs from iran. For many months and years, they use their proxies in the region. They built a very Massive Force around israel, but they decided to escalate. They decided to create a new equation by sending all of those rockets from iran into israel.
performance at the result we wanted. now it s looking forward. liverpool go top for the time being, after coming from behind to beat crystal palace. and slade to the rescue for exeter, who score a famous late win to beat toulon on the opening weekend of european champions cup. also coming up on sportsday. a series victory for england s women in india, who seal a clinical win with another excellent bowling display. hello there and welcome along to sportsday this saturday, and after being named manager of the month for november, erik ten hag and his manchester united were brought crashing back down to earth at old trafford this afternoon, delivered a shock by bournemouth, who came away with a stunning 3 0 win. dominic solanke got the visitors off to the best possible start, with the opener after less than five minutes. headers from philip billing and marcos senesi in the space of five second half minutes completed the victory. bournemouth could have even had four, but the last