Mare in this kind of warehouse and then it became the symbol of jewish success, where when i went to columbia about a third of the class was jewish and then now there was his place of acceptance of jewish triumph in america. And then now to come full circle to see the ways in which jewish students dont have a basic sense of safety on campus. It feels like a parable about america. Very remarkable. Thanks very much to our panel for being with us this morning. Im kasie hunt. Dont go anywhere. Cnn understands. All starts right now all right. History three in the courthouse Opening Statements set to begin in the Criminal Case against donald trump, and breaking this morning roared on who the first witness will be. Some one who bought embarrassing, damaging stories about donald trump. Columbia universitys president. President is calling for a reset. All class going virtual today he has university grapples with the ongoing propalestinian protests on campus. And jewish students now being urged
The United States, donald trump. The prosecutions main message that donald trump and his allies were involved in a criminal conspiracy and cover up. Cnns paula reid is outside the courthouse paula, how did the prosecution and the defense leg out their cases today before the jury . Well dig we heard doing interpretations of events roughly eight years ago. Prosecutors said, look, this is Election Interference, plain and simple they alleged that these payments to Stormy Daniels were part of a conspiracy to influence the 2016 election then they walked through stepbystep, how they allege trump cohen and then publisher the National Enquirer, david worked to suppress negative stories. And then in the Opening Statement, they briefly referenced the paper trail that will be at the heart of this case. But when it was time for Defense Attorneys to get up, they insisted their client is innocent. They said, look, there is no crime here because trump wasnt involved in this kind of paperwork. He is no
Including against its oil industry which has helped fund its military activities and those of its proxies across the middle east. Data from Energy Analytics firm, vortexa, suggests that in the first three months of this year, iran exported more oil than at any time in the last six years, with most of it going to china. Iran currently produces about 3 of the worlds oil supplies. Earlier i spoke to Philip Worman who is a senior Managing Director we have heard about new sanctions from the us and uk, targeting executives of an Engine Manufacturer that supplied the drones iran used in that attack on israel. Companies also linked to irans Steel Industry are being targeted. Earlier i spoke to Philip Worman who is a senior Managing Director at Risk Consultanchs held. Philip advises on sanctions risk. Well, its interesting. Even with the recent Missile Attacks on israel, the price of crude really hasnt gone up in the same way that you saw with previous geopolitical shocks. So crude is kind of p
Months ago and says it is investigating. Our Political Correspondent Damian Grammaticas reports. Honesty needs to start now. The lack of Clarity Needs to stop. Mark menzies. Of Clarity Needs to stop. Mark menzies, this of Clarity Needs to stop. Mark menzies, this was of Clarity Needs to stop. Mark menzies, this was him of Clarity Needs to stop. Mark menzies, this was him last i of Clarity Needs to stop. Mark menzies, this was him last week urging transparency about the impact locally of a wind farm being built offshore. The allegation about his own behaviour, first reported by the times newspaper, is that last december at three oclock in the morning he called his former Campaign Manager and said bad people had locked him in a flat, adding that he needed £5,000 as a matter of life or death. It is claimed Campaign Donations were later used to cover the payment, and also that he has received £14,000 to cover medical bills. The bbc has not been able to speak to him for a comment but in a
In paris today. A French Police officer was engulfed in flames and seriously burned two more were injured in clashes with protestors. This years may day demonstrations come just six days before the final round of the french president ial election and in a divided nations it is clearly a tense time. The bbcs Lucy Williamson is in paris and i spoke to her a brief time ago. These marches come just six days before the final vote and i expect they are some gauge of the mood in france and it does not look good does it . These may day rallies are an annual event organised by the main unions here. They happen alongside the political rallies and the unions also have taken on something of a politicalflavour today. We saw clashes on the margins on some of the matches, some provocateu rs on some of the matches, some p rovocateu is we on some of the matches, some provocateurs we believe on the margins on one of those events through some Molotov Cocktails towards the police injuring several of them