Countries in asia. Well hear how the money will help in a moment. Voiceover live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. Its newsday. Hello and welcome to the programme. We begin in the United States where a key witness at the Hush Money Trial of donald trump has told the court in new york how he suppressed negative stories about the former president to help him win the 2016 election. The court heard today how the then candidate picked up the phone and called this man, david pecker, former publisher of a tabloid, the national enquirer, to discuss whether to pay off a Playboy Model who was shopping around a story of having a year long affair with trump. Before the trial resumed though, thejudge held a fiery hearing to determine if mr trump violated a gag order, which bans the former president from verbally attacking the jury and witnesses. This was Donald Trumps response. Well, i think the gag order is totally unconstitutional. Cant even allow articles to be put in. For example,
Hello, and welcome to the programme. We begin in the United States where a key witness at the Hush Money Trial of donald trump has told the court in new york how he suppressed negative stories about the former president to help him win the 2016 election. The court heard today how the then candidate picked up the phone and called this man, david pecker, former publisher of a tabloid, the national enquier, to discuss whether to pay off a Playboy Model who was shopping around a story of having a year long affair with trump. Before the trial resumed, though, thejudge held a fiery hearing to determine if mr trump violated a gag order, which bans the former president from verbally attacking the jury and witnesses. This was Donald Trumps response. Well, i think the gag order is totally unconstitutional. Cant even allow articles to be put in. For example, these were articles over the last day and a half. Theyre very good articles. They tell you the case the sham, it shouldnt even have been tri
that is what this entailed trial is about. nada tawfik has been following all the twists and turns. i think we can go to her now. just bring us up to date. absolutely, we have heard thejudge has announced he will call the jury in. we were called in for the jury reading out whether they have found donald trump guilty or not guilty on the 34 donald trump guilty or not guilty on the 3a counts of comp to falsifying it as is. then the otherjurors will have to agree. if donald trump is found guilty onjust have to agree. if donald trump is found guilty on just one of those. he will be a convicted felon. a lot at stake clearly for it on from here. he is clearly hoping that this swift decision not too swift, 11 hours, but that this decision coming on the second day of deliberations will be one that is favourable to him. but we are hearing a lot of tense atmosphere at the defence table right now. donald trump, who was just table right now. donald trump, who wasjustjoking table right
if forces entered rafah s population centres or launched a major ground operation. hugo bachega has more. the remarks by the israeli national security adviser appeared to reject the idea that we could be near the end of the war in gaza. he said fighting might continue for at least the rest of the year although he didn t give details about how intense the conflict might be. now all eyes are on rafah, near the border with egypt. the israeli authorities say it is vital to enter the city because they believe four hamas battalions are still operating there. but israel is under a lot of international pressure to limit its operations in the city to minimise civilian casualties, and officials are describing what s happening there as a limited operation . still, scores of palestinians have been killed in recent days, and the un says more than one million people have fled rafah because they are concerned that the israeli military may launch a full scale operation. virtually everyo
the icelandic capital, reykjavik the fifth in six months. hi there, thanks for being with us. we start in new york where the 12jurors in donald trump s hush money trial have begun their deliberations. in the first ever criminal trial of a us president, mr trump is facing 3a counts of falsifying business records. prosecutors accuse the former president of an elaborate scheme that violated campaign finance laws. they say he and his campaign team tried to cover up a $130,000 hush money payment to adult fim star stormy daniels, in order to supress her claims of an affair with mr trump in 2006. mr trump speaking outside the court. so it seems that there - are a lot of witnesses, a lot of people that they could ve called, that they didn t call. they didn t call them obviously because they would ve - very bad witnesses for them. but take a look at the list i and because of the gag order, i won t go down into individual names. i but you have a lot of big players that would ve