it, with a republican primary dominated by an ex-president who has centered his candidacy around his legal woes, look no further. this morning donald trump, fresh off a decisive win in the iowa caucuses, was at a federal courthouse in manhattan as the defendant in a second defamation trial brought by the writer e. jean carroll. this time there s no question of whether trump defamed her. judge kaplan has ruled trump is liable for remarks he made in 2019 mocking carroll s claim that he sexually assaulted her in a chance encounter at a department store dressing room in the 1990s. and trump is not allowed to dispute carroll s account. the question now is how much a jury should award e. jean carroll in damage for those comments. opening statements are currently under way. we ll have a live report from the courthouse when the trial wraps from the day. so far, donald trump was in the courtroom. alongside his lawyer, alina habba, as well as e. jean carroll and her attorneys. the firs
does, and we will see who s got exactly what the voters are looking for at this particular moment, particularly those voters out there saying that i m open to an alternative to trump. open to an alternative than trump, are there enough? mike pence, charlie, is supposed to announce his candidacy and if you think back to what happened on january six, those hard-core trump voters have no love for mike pence. where is his lane? i think he s in a tough lane running as perhaps the most socially conservative of all the candidates, particularly on the abortion issue where republicans are very vulnerable. i think that mike pence is elena is not a very good one. he might have been in a better lane several years ago being the most orthodox conservative of them running. but i think the republican party isn t a very different plays today than when it was. if donald trump taught us one thing about the republican state is quota, it s not as ideological as we thought.
it is not quite the end of smart motorways. plans for 14 will be scrapped, including 11 that had already been paused. it was a £1 billion but existing smart motorways which make up 10% of england s motorway network will remain. it is good news and it is good that it is gone as far as that has to cover routes are ready currently being built. i did not expected to that far. but obviously it does not cover existing roads and it is the existing roads that are killing us. so it is half the battle but there is still half the battle to go. first introduced in 2006, smart motorways were controversial from the start. they supposed to reduce congestion by using technology, removing the hard shoulder completely to create an extra lane of traffic. but this is what can happen. they do have emergency bays and if a car stops in a live lane, a red x sign is displayed to close it. other types involve keeping a hard shoulder, opening it up at peak times as an extra lane. the bbc s panorama in 2020 foun
with caution, you got the highway code update, you need to let drivers know what is happening. we went from regular motorways to dynamic hard shoulders to all lane running and that s where the confusion happened because people didn t know what they were doing, they didn t know what to do in the event of a breakdown or the event of an emergency. certainly, it s taking it one step further and saying before we do anything now, before having a knee jerk reaction, this needs to be approached with caution and it needs to be approached with an awareness campaign, we need to get this right, absolutely right because we cannot put any more lives at risk. you talked about put any more lives at risk. you talked about what put any more lives at risk. you talked about what happens next, and education is so important, people want to know which lane to stop and if they need to. what you expect the next step will be? do you think the government will be prepared to actually turn around entirely and
however if there is congestion, say from an accident, then technology like electronic signs can be used to slow the traffic down. the second is dynamic, that is when the hard shoulder is opened up to traffic at times of congestion, but then you will always see that the speed limit is reduced. the third is the most controversial, that is known as all lane running. here on the m1, you can see there is no hard shoulder, just four lanes of traffic. however, built along the route are these emergency bays where cars that get into trouble can go in. they are monitored by cctv, however this is the most controversial of the smart motorways. what is supposed to happen is road signs will say if there is an obstruction, however take a look at what can happen. the building of the smart motorways has now been cancelled. campaigners have welcomed that, but they wanted to go further. it is good news, and it is good