Focus and tactics. Hello, im matthew amroliwala. Donald trumps former personal lawyer has told a court in new york that he lied to getjobs done for his former boss, when required. Testifying at the former president s criminal trial, Michael Cohen also said that as part of his personal legal work he intimidated reporters whose coverage mr trump disliked. Mr cohen is being grilled by prosecutors about his role in paying a porn star, stormy daniels, so she wouldnt reveal her alleged affair with mr trump on the eve of the 2016 president ial election. Donald trump denies charges of falsifying Business Records to cover up reimbursing mr cohen. Lets speak to our correspondent, nada tawfik, who is live for us in new york. This is the star witness in this criminal trial, take me through some of the things hes been saying. Yeah, thats absolutely right, matthew. Prosecutors really need to pull together a few threads here to complete their case and convince jurors that all of this was done at Dona
Days of intense violence. Inside gaza, it looks every bit as if palestinians are feeling the full force of Israeli Military power. Israel says hamas is responsible for the suffering of gazas civilians. And its retaliation for the hamas attack is only just begun. Hamas has threatened to start killing its israeli hostages. The air strikes rolled on, hour after hour. Palestinian armed groups, undeterred, kept up their own barrage of israel. 0ur bbc team was in ashkelon in southern israel, not far from the gaza border when a salvo came in. Ashkelon is so close to gaza that there is no more than a ten second warning. Israel is moving in more fire power. The next stage of the offensive against hamas looks certain to be a Ground Offensive, much bigger than other incursions since hamas took over in gaza in 2007. Lines of cars outside a Military Base on the road to gaza were parked by reservists as they reported for duty, getting ready, saying their goodbyes. Parents came to the base for a few
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After 18 arduous months, ukraines conscripts and wounded wage a war with no end in sight. In our third film this week from the ukraine war, mark is on The Front Line in the east where the conflict seems to go on without end. Also tonight, amid the rwanda refugee row, could the uk really leave the European Convention on human rights that churchill helped to found . The Home Secretary Suella Braverman this week floated the idea, apparently with the approval of number 10 . Its extremely unlikely that the government is going to withdraw from the echr. If you look at the judgements of the Supreme Court and indded of the Supreme Court and indeed the court in strasbourg, they have said rwanda is legal in principle. The defeats the government has suffered are on technical grounds. We discuss this and the battle for the soul of the Conservative Party ahead of its conference. And sir michael gambon, bafta and Olivier Award winner, with roles from Professor Dumbledore to the singing detective, di
Coming up this hour us officials have warned that iran could launch a major attack on israel as soon as today, in retaliation for last weeks air strike on an iranian diplomatic compound in syria. Well look at what the implications could be for the region. Well have all the days sports news, and look at glasgow offering to host the Commonwealth Games if no other host can be found for 2026. This is after singapore joined malaysia in saying they wont bid for it. The australian state of victoria pulled out of hosting back injuly because of costs. 0rganisers say a glasgow games would have to be scaled back, and well talk about the boat thats the brightest of all Time Scientists have worked out what caused the most brilliant burst of light ever recorded, but its thrown up other Big Questions they thought they had the answers to like, where do heavy elements like gold actually come from . And well talk about the boat thats the brightest of all time us officials have warned that iran could lau