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Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. We will watch the situation very closely. Paula, thank you for the report. Jury selection begins later this morning in the federal trial of the former Trump Campaign Paul Manafort for alleged financial crimes. The first test for special Counsel Robert Mueller and his prosecutors although russia is not the center of the trial. We have more from evan perez from washington. Reporter dave and laura, Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman, is going on trial in Virginia On Federal Tax and bank fraud charges. This is the first trial to come from Robert Muellers investigation. Dont expect the trial to be about russia or collusion or President Trump. Prosecutors and attorneys plan to stick closely to the issues in the charges which have to do with the governments accusations that manafort used secret Foreign Bank Accounts to hide millions of dollars he earned working for the Ukrainian Government and failed to report it to t
if they can and they have fuel, they ve been going northwards to to the egyptian border and commercialfirms and others that have a duty of care for their employees have also been trying to evacuate staff that way. the port sudan is a place that there are evacuations going. both gulf states, saudi arabia has evacuated by sea. there is there are aeroplanes flying people out from port sudan. the united kingdom doesn t seem to be doing that from port sudan, although i think they may need to consider on how to try and get british nationals onto other evacuation routes through there. there clearly is an there s clearly a concentration of uk nationals in port sudan from what you re reporting. and then i think it s really important for the the regional mediation efforts to really start kicking in. the regional body egad is calling for a cessation de escalation and a return to the negotiating table. the president of south sudan, salva kiir, has been kind of leading on that for egad. i think tha
an incredibly difficult task. we just broke some news over the last few minutes saying that the un chief was going to take part in a virtual meeting with the au, the arab league, and other relevant parties. are you hopeful that something will be able to come out of that? because just in the last week, we have heard from the us secretary of state, he has spoken directly to these generals, he has asked them to to stop the fighting and yet it hasn t happened. am i hope will this will result in anything? frankly, no. the united nations and other regional bodies the inter governmental agency on development, the egad, the african union, even bilateral countries have all been using the same kinds of tools that effectively got us to where we are. there was a process before this fighting broke out between bullhorn that couldn t get them to agree. and in fact, that is in many ways, i think what hastened this confrontation between them. the way in which that mediation