Uk actionline. This is bbc news, the headlines. A crucial day in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial in new york. His former lawyer Michael Cohen admits he lied to getjobs done for his former boss and intimidated reporters on the former president s behalf. The uk government says it will appeal against a ruling by a Belfast Court that parts of the rwanda policy should not apply in Northern Ireland. The bbc sees new evidence that the British Government was warned by its embassy in washington as long ago as the 1980s about the risks from contaminated american blood products. Turning now to a potential setback in the uk governments plan, to detain and remove Asylum Seekers to rwanda. Ajudge sitting in the high court in belfast has ruled it should not apply to Northern Ireland. Mrjustice humphreys ruled in favour of a challenge to the act saying that the law breaches Human Rights Protections guaranteed under post brexit arrangements. Rishi sunak has said the decision will not change the rwanda p
The us Secretary Of State, Antony Blinken, has warned an all out assault on rafah will provoke anarchy without actually eliminating hamas. In gaza, the fighting has returned to the north, where israel says it has seen signs of hamas regrouping. Good evening. When Michael Cohen informed donald trump in 2016 that a former adult film star, Stormy Daniels, was selling a story about an alleged sexual encounter, trump hit the roof. The Access Hollywood story was already hurting his campaign with female voters. Cohen said trump feared that if this got out, the women would hate him. Cohen testified today that trump wanted him to buy the rights to that story so it would not come out ahead of the election. According to cohen, trump didnt care much if the story came out after the election. He wasnt concerned about his wifes reaction to it, and there is the nub of the prosecutions case. They need to prove that trump was directly involved in the payment to daniels and wanted her story killed becaus