first president to stand in front of a judge facing criminal charges. that s right. caitlin is right there out front of the courthouse in lower manhattan where this will all happen, caitlin. yeah it s notable. the building behind me is 100 center street that is the building where just hours from now president for president trump will enter as he surrenders to local authorities on charges related to business fraud in the building next to it is where the grand jury has been meeting for the last several months before voting last thursday, as we all know now to indict trump, making him the first former president or sitting president to face charges, while the latest details on what to expect, and we re also following a lot of other news today. let s get started with the five things that you need to know for this tuesday, april 4th 2023 donald trump, as we noted, expected to be arraigned this afternoon before returning to mar-a-lago for a news conference later on, he added a new a
hello, i m lucy hockings. finland is set to officiallyjoin nato on tuesday tomorrow. the country applied to join the military alliance in the wake of vladimir putin s invasion of ukraine the finnish border with russia is over 1300km long, and nato leaders are hoping finland s accession will improve the overall security provided by the alliance. turkey was the last of nato s members to accept finland s application last month, clearing path for the blue cross on a white background to join 30 otherflags outside nato headquarters in brussels. this is a historic week. tomorrow, we will welcome finland as the 31st member of nato, making finland safer and our alliance stronger. we will raise the finnish flag, for the first time, here at the nato headquarters. it will be a good day for finland s security, for nordic security and for nato as a whole. a defence correspondentjonathan beale has more on the significance of this. it is beale has more on the significance of this. it is
welcome to bbc news. let s return to events in florida. if in showing you pictures for the last while. the open because we are expecting in the next few moments if we are following the time schedule laid out by the former president to see donald trump leave the building and head to the airport and then begin the journey to new york. that is where of course all the focus is going to be with that indictment, those court proceedings, for the first time ever a former president has faced a criminal prosecution and those details of that criminal prosecution, they will be made public tomorrow. but we know of the indictment in terms of the actual charges and the detail, we will learn a lot more as that is laid out in court tomorrow. today we will see the former president make that move. there is still no actual clarity of perhaps what we will get tomorrow, the optics, whether we get a mug shot of the former president, whether cameras will be allowed in the courtroom for the list of c
day for finance security for nordic security and for nato as a whole. finland joining nato is something that was once unthinkable. but after russia s invasion of ukraine became quite possible now is happening as her sweden they are still waiting to be accepted into nato to really significant move. i believe it or not, russia. became president of the united nations security council on april 1st right it of those five nations that sit on the security council and ukraine says it is the world s worst april fools jokes. a powerful body is charged with maintaining global peace and security. presidency rotates alphabetically among the 15 member nations. russia was last president of the council in february, 2022 during the run up to the russian invasion of ukraine as security council president is supposed to stay neutral. but now russia has the power over meetings on ukraine and can portray the united states and other western