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Cup playoffs presented by Guy Called Begin Tomorrow On Tbs Breaking News or is this our multiple breaking stories this hour in the middle east calls for deescalation, right now. Thats after a us official so says israel launched an attack on iran. Overnight explosions were reported about 200 miles south of tehran. And your major Iranian Military airbase. World leaders are now pleading for restraint, hoping to prevent a wider war back here in the, where President Donald Trump returns to court on day four of his Criminal Hush Money Trial of full panel 12 jurors has been selected. Todays order of Business Selective remaining alternate jurors needed so that Opening Statements can begin. Lets begin with the overnight strike in iran, seen as reporters. All around the world to bring you the very latest corresponded Jeremy Diamond has in tel aviv, cnn, chief International Security correspondent Nick Paton Walsh is london and National Security correspondent at the Tasha Bertrand is at the pentag
we are in the final stretch of the first criminal trial of a former president. the defense is presenting its closing arguments in donald trump s hush money trial. the former president s lead attorney, todd blanche, has spent the morning trying to plant seeds of reasonable doubt by saying the prosecution s trove of checks and documents do not link president trump to the crime. they can only believe this if they believe michael cohen. they moved on to stormy daniels, suggesting she hasn t told the truth either. once that s done we think it s getting close to the end of the defense case the prosecution will follow with what s expected to be four hours plus of their closing argument as they tie together their sprawling case after jurors heard from 20 witnesses. they saw about 200 pieces of evidence over a six-week period. the challenge? to sum up those arguments behind the 34 felony counts against the former president. remember, the prosecution has to connect donald trump n
Also today, re forging an old alliance. As brexit negotiations begin, the uk government travels to india to begin the early work on a future trade deal. And picture perfect . Or is itjust too perfect . What melania trumps First Official portrait tells us about the new first lady. Im katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. The pictures are appalling, the pattern all too familiar, and the International Response predictable. Civilians in a rebel held area of syria have been gassed and murdered. It has happened before, with Red Lines Crossed by both sides with impunity. Today, in the seventh year of the syrian civil war, it seems President Assads regime can do what it wants. So far, at least 58 people are known to have died in this latest attack. The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights said the air strikes in Khan Sheikhoun, in the north west of the country, came early in the morning while many were still sleeping. Our Correspondentjames Robbins has the report. He is alive
that we re seeing here yesterday. we saw a lot of people who worked in finance and lawyers. there was a speech therapist, but a lot, a lot of lawyers on finance people so far, this has been a karate instructor. we have seen just various jobs here. there is a shaft on one of them so there s a lot of different people who are getting hast right now. a lot of them saying that they believe that they could be fair. but again, we re still in the first round of this. this is just the judge going through the questionnaire looking at their answers. we have not gotten further than that right now. this might be confusing for people because many believed as of monday that that questionnaire was totally done now, but that was her subset of jurors who aren t called into the courtroom. the whole process is first this questionnaire, then as this discussion with council, where they go more in detail, where they can know a lot of people struck by fact that lawyers are a part of the jury panel. peop