funding for social care. hello and welcome to bbc news. we go straight to new york where donald trump will be in court in the next few hours, to face criminal charges. that has never happened before and as you d expect, there s huge focus on the former president. these are live pictures from manhattan outside the courthouse. there s a heavy security presence as you d imagine. the charges relate to hush money paid to a porn star just before the 2016 election to keep quiet about an affair. the full details of the charges will become clear when the indictment is unsealed. let me show you pictures from trump tower. in terms of what we are likely to see in the coming hours, it will not be donald trump when he is there but the judge has it will not be donald trump when he is there but thejudge has ruled it will not be donald trump when he is there but the judge has ruled the media will be allowed to take still pictures in the courtroom, but cameras will only be allowed in t
welcome to bbc news. straight back to new york where donald trump will be in court in the next few hours, to face criminal charges. that has never happened before and as you d expect, huge focus on the former president. these are live pictures from manhattan, outside the courthouse. there s a heavy security presence, as you d imagine. the charges relate to hush money paid to a porn star just before the 2016 election to keep quiet about an affair. donald trump is currently holed up at trump tower with his legal team in the hours before going to manhattan and the courthouse. we will learn the charges themselves when the indictment is unsealed. in terms of what we re likely to see thejudge has ruled, that the media will be allowed to take still pictures in the courtroom just before the hearing gets under way but tv cameras will only be allowed in the corridors outside. let s get the latest from our correspondent gary o donoghue who is live from outside the court in manhatt
that is what we are here today about. this is one of their tools now, sadly, in politicking, which is using the states, notjust the do] and the fbi but the states, to charge candidates, and if you look at this from 30,000ft and don t take a partisan view, if the republican simply say that donald trump shouldn t run because he has been indicted, then the democrats will have succeeded and they will have an incentive to do this again and again and that is what is so troubling. you talk about politicisation but a central plank is that no one is above the law, including the president. you accept that as the central foundation of american justice, don t you? yes, but that is not what we have today if you consider the fact that there is a two tiered justice system.
today about. this is one of they are tools now, sadly, in politicking, which tools now, sadly, in politicking, which is tools now, sadly, in politicking, which is using the state, notjust the doj which is using the state, notjust the doj and the fbi back the states, to charge the doj and the fbi back the states, to charge candidates, and if you look to charge candidates, and if you look at to charge candidates, and if you look at this from 30,000 feet and don t look at this from 30,000 feet and don t take look at this from 30,000 feet and don t take a partisan view, if the republican simply say that donald trump republican simply say that donald trump shouldn t run because he has been trump shouldn t run because he has been indicted, then the democrats will have been indicted, then the democrats will have succeeded and they will have an will have succeeded and they will have an incentive to do this again and again have an incentive to do this again and again and