His way to the opening day of his criminal trial. First, his usual claims that this is a politically motivated witch hunt orchestrated by president biden. These are all biden trials. This is done as election interference. Everybody knows it. Im here instead of being able to be in pennsylvania and georgia and lots of other places campaigning, and its very unfair. Inside the court, we see a man accustomed to being in charge now not in control. Forced to sit and listen to the prosecutions allegations, whether he likes it or not, with the jury carefully watching his reactions. The story of the porn star Stormy Daniels is central to the case. The prosecution said that paying her 130,000 in hush money was election fraud, pure and simple, orchestrated by donald trump. The court will hear evidence from trumps former fixer, now sworn enemy, Michael Cohen. Hell describe making that payment on mr trumps instructions. The defence will brand him an admitted liar and convicted criminal, whos now obs
The report ignores the severity of the problem, and offers cosmetic solutions that do not deal with the enormous scope of hamas S Infiltration of unrwa. Meanwhile, israels allegations against unrwa staff have so far led to the suspension of 450 million to the agency. Criitics of that decision say it has further complicated the humanitarian crisis in gaza. The bbc spoke earlier with carl skau, executive we are predicting famine to be around the corner unless things change substantially in the next couple of weeks. We have over the past three weeks been able to get more into the north. We are using a route along the fence, where we have been able to get approximately ten tracks may be every other, every third day come into the north and distribute in a quite orderly and controlled way. We have also been able to open up four bakeries in the north, bringing in some fuel and gas to have the bran and the weight they need to bake but we need to get completely different volumes. We need at lea
Its a policy hes made central to his premiership, and now rishi sunak says the latest version of his Rwanda Policy Will Pass Parliament tonight in his words, no ifs, no buts, these flights are going to rwanda. He promised they would leave by the summer. The safety of rwanda bill, which is designed to deter people crossing the channel in small boats, is currently going back and forth between the commons and the lords, in a parliamentary procedure known as ping pong. Theres been months of deadlock and, tonight, the lords sent the bill back to mps once again. Where it is now being debated. Official figures show the backlog of people waiting to be removed from the uk rose from more than 1,700 injuly tojust under 52,000 a week ago. Lets go to westminster and get the latest from our political editor, chris mason. Chris. Hello, it is one of those nights here where i feel a little like an umpire. 0ne nights here where i feel a little like an umpire. One minute, i am looking down there at the H