Starts now. Welcome, everyone. Its a special twohour edition of the beat. Im ari melber. This is the second day of convicted former trump lawyer Michael Cohen testifying. Inside the courtroom where cohen was speaking against his former boss and by the afternoon the defense started their crossexamination. Weve been reporting on that. Heres how its been going. Another pivotal day in Donald Trumps criminal trial in new york. The prosecutions star witness Michael Cohen back on the stand. Trumps former fixer Michael Cohen taking the stand for a second day of testimony. Its a whole new game this afternoon. This is the moment weve been waiting for, the crossexamination. The burning question, will cohen keep his cool when trumps lawyers begin an intense crossexamination. Its been an explosive last hour of testimony. Its getting testy. Michael cohen is 45 minutes now into todd blanches cross. Donald trumps attorneys attempted to shred the thats some of what down today. Prosecutors have confirme
welcome to your friday story. the british government has looked. of the possible options but. pushing. the objective here is to is to save life and avert human misery because people are crossing the channel who are being fooled who are being combed by gangsters into paying huge sums of money risking their lives people have died beaking this trying to make this crossing and it is a deeply repugnant traffic that we need to stop well that idea was 1st suggested by pretty little the home secretary amid the escalating migrant crisis though at the time it was branded a sick joke however that idea has now resurfaced from the prime minister barak johnson plow critics have long said that this kind of policy will only make the journey all the more risky and that the government should really be prioritizing legal alternatives and safe passages for migrants to enter the united kingdom but on this latest policy they ve branded as exacerbating the hostile environment it is an inhumane paul
us live from moscow this is our pleasure to have your company my names you know me . the british government is facing a wall d of resistance regarding its plans to send asylum seekers overseas for processing gibraltar on the isle of man are believed to be 2 of the options but authorities there say they want nothing to do with the scheme prime minister boris johnson has defended the idea. the objective here is to is to save life and avert human misery because people are crossing the channel who are being food who are being conned by gangsters into paying huge sums of money risking their lives people have died beaking this trying to make this crossing and it is a deeply repugnant traffic that we need to stop well that idea was 1st suggested by pretty brutal the home secretary amid the escalating migrant crisis though at the time it was branded a sick joke however that idea has now resurfaced from the prime minister barak johnson well critics have long said that this kind of po
training in from right across the globe. to moscow and to r.t. your company line means you need. scandinavian countries are extending a freeze on the use of the astra zeneca. despite the european medicines agency concluding on thursday about the drug wars quote say founder effect of taking us through developments let s listen to. let s start with finland which has now suspended the use of the astra zeneca jab while it investigates 2 cases of potential blood clots on top of that we know the norway denmark and sweden they re all holding back from restarting their programs all of them still have concerns about issues surrounding astra zeneca and say that they going to carry out the investigations now due to several serious cases and no way we want to thoroughly review the situation before we make a conclusion pull blood clots i is the issue that s being discussed over and over nots initially will be the main was investigating over the last week o. say but there have been of the
donald quarter here with you in the studio welcome. italy s new prime minister says rome will be forced to make its own decision on the use of the russian covert vaccine sputnik the if it s not approved by the european medicines agency archies peter all over has more. mario druggies not long been in the job as a tally and prime minister but already he s facing a real crisis as the country stares down a or uneasy sense of deja vu when it comes to covert 19 it was a year ago that italy was at the very forefront of the virus arriving in europe and right now intensive care beds in the country are filling up at an alarming rate as fears of a 3rd wave of the virus have become a reality now that is prompted mr druggy to say that should european one for all and all for one procurement measures not be doing the job he thinks they should be then italy will go out on its own and look after itself and that could include turning to russia s sputnik vaccine even if the european medicines a