This time, it is a civilfraud trial. Hes accused of inflating the value of his assets by billions of dollars to secure better loan and insurance terms. Before entering court, mr trump berated the us Justice System and the new York Attorney general who is bringing the case. He described Letitia James as racist and a horrow show. And he dismissed the case as a sham and a scam. He also denied the claims against him. We have a great company. I built a great company. Its got tremendous value. Its got some of the greatest real estate assets in the world. And now i have to go before a roguejudge, as a continuation of russia, russia, russia, as a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time, and i dont think the people of this country are going to stand for it. If i werent leading in all the polls, or if i werent running, i wouldnt have any of these cases, i wouldnt be seeing you this morning. But ill be seeing a lot of you, because this is a horrible thing thats happening to our co
is an act of russian madness . officials say at least six people were killed and more than 30 others injured on saturday when two glide bombs struck the diy store in ukraine s second city, kharkiv. an air raid warning sounded moments before explosions tore through the building, starting an intense fire. the ukrainian leader again urged western allies to send more air defences to ukraine. ukraine s military says the two glide bombs that hit kharkiv were among a0 that russia dropped on ukrainian army positions and civil infrastructure saturday. the ukrainian military says russian forces are continuing their offensive in the kharkiv region, with six attacks repelled by the ukrainian military. the bbc sjeremy bowen is in kharkiv. i spoke to him a short while ago. jeremy, very good to have you with us. this airstrike took place on a crowded superstore there in ukraine s second largest city. what more can you tell us? it was mid afternoon, it s the weekend, it was a pretty nice da
rejected claims of fraud by the opposition leader raila 0dinga. here s our deputy africa editor, anne soy. the message from the kenyan supreme court was emphatic. they threw out all the arguments presented by the petitioners on the nine grounds that they wanted the court to annul the election of william ruto and it was a unanimous decision. previously when petitions are presented before court, they were not as emphatic as they were today and in fact, the language is unusually strong from the judges. they said some of the evidence presented to them by the petitioners was hot air, red herrings and forgeries, and warned them of their lawyers were swearing affidavits that had misleading information and now the opposition leader raila 0dinga has reacted to that. he said that he respect their decision but he vehemently rejects thejudgement decision but he vehemently rejects the judgement that was
there is a stable situation, and and nobody knows when that might happen and what that might look like. nevertheless, this is being seen as a symbolic moment. not long ago diplomats say they could not have imagined that here at the summit ukraine would have been granted candidate status. ukraine would have been granted candidate status. leaders and foreign ministers from across the commonwealth s 5a countries are meeting in rwanda in a long awaited summit that was delayed due to the pandemic. borisjohnson arrived in kigali earlier today ahead of the meeting as it brings together representatives of almost a third of the global population. rwanda joined the commonwealth in 2009, but there s been criticism over the host country s human rights record. let s hear from our deputy africa editor, anne soy, who is in the capital of rwanda for the commonwealth heads of government meeting. meetings have been going on since sunday. youth have been meeting here from across the 5a member countries