hello and welcome to bbc news. donald trump has become the first former us president to face a criminal prosecution. the charges relate to falsifying business records to hide a payment to a porn star, stormy daniels, before the 2016 election. in a statement mr trump said the democratic authorities in new york were doing joe biden s dirty work, accusing them of interferring in next year s presidential election. john sudworth reports. the masssed ranks of the media say it all. donald trump s provided plenty of big moments in american politics, but few bigger than this his own imminent arrest. the news was confirmed in an angry statement from the former president, blaming his political opponents. the democrats, he said, have done the unthinkable. the case against him centres on this woman, the porn star known as stormy daniels. ahead of trump s 2016 election win, she was paid $130,000 to stop her going public with claims she had had an affair with him something he denies. hi
queues to get through security during the easter holidays. the former olympic and paralympic athlete, oscar pistorius, applies for parole after serving half his sentence for shooting and killing his girlfriend. hello and welcome to bbc news. donald trump has become the first former us president to face a criminal prosecution. the charges relate to falsifying business records to hide a payment to a pawn star, stormy daniels, before the 2016 election. in a statement, mr trump said the democratic authorities in new york were doing joe biden s dirty work accusing them of interferring in next year s presidential election. john sudworth reports. the masssed ranks of the media say it all. donald trump s provided plenty of big moments in american politics, but few bigger than this his own imminent arrest. the news was confirmed in an angry statement from the former president, blaming his political opponents. the democrats, he said, have done the unthinkable. the case against hi
dw. strikes by security guards at london heathrow airport will go ahead as planned from today, after last ditch talks failed to resolve a pay dispute. the walkout will end on easter sunday. it threatens disruption at the uk s largest airport at the start of the easter school holidays. i spoke to our transport correspondent katy austin a little earlier. well, it s security guards who work at terminal five at heathrow, which is only used by british airways. they are walking out today, and also security workers who deal with cargo coming in and out of the airport as well. but even though it is only those specific groups of security officers taking part in the strike, it does mean that staffing is stretched when it comes to security, and this is a very busy few days. today, the weekend, is the start of the easter getaway, so lots of passengers expected to be turning up to go on those holidays. and i think the impact on the ground, when we were at terminalfive earlier, to be fair,
from the team, some of those charges have been upheld. matt from the team, some of those charges have been upheld. have been upheld. matt graveling, thank ou have been upheld. matt graveling, thank you very have been upheld. matt graveling, thank you very much have been upheld. matt graveling, thank you very much for have been upheld. matt graveling, thank you very much for that i thank you very much for that breaking news from the cricket disciplinary commission. much more here on bbc news. hello again. it s been a fairly cloudy and wet start to the day for many of us, and very windy across some southern counties, particularly across the english channel and south wales due to this area of low pressure, named by the french met service as storm mathis because of the strength of the winds across northern france. it s also been bringing this rain, you can see it curling in towards kent, the english channel, south west england, south wales and not too far away from northern ireland.
service as storm mathis because of the strength of the winds across northern france. it s also been bringing this rain, you can see it curling in towards kent, the english channel, south west england, south wales and not too far away from northern ireland. a lot of cloud in eastern areas producing some showers and drizzle and murkiness, brighter skies across western scotland and eastern parts of northern ireland, but even so here we are looking at some showers. not as mild as it was yesterday, temperatures down a touch, and this evening and overnight we hang on to the rain in the west. we also hang onto all this cloud in the east with a few showers, not a particularly cold night, the winds continuing to ease down. during tomorrow the storm, this low pressure, moves away, we still have this weather front ensconced in the west which will still be producing some rain. but a ridge of high pressure is starting to build in behind it. rain coming in across northern ireland for a time, in thro