in the uk and around the world. hello. there s still confusion tonight over whether the long serving labour mp, diane abbott, can stand in the general election. her suspension from the party ended last night, following comments on race that she made in a letter to a newspaper last year. but she told supporters in east london this evening, that labour wants her excluded from parliament, a claim sir keir starmer says isn t true. joe pike has our top story. will you be standing as an independent? at the last election, she was labour s pick to be home secretary. this time round, diane abbott may not be allowed to run for the party at all. they just want to be excluded theyjust want to be excluded from parliament. 50 they just want to be excluded from parliament- parliament. so what happened to olitical parliament. so what happened to political independence? - what s your message to keir starmer? this morning, she told the bbc, i am banned from standing as a labour candidate.
first, the latest headlines. in the last hour, the jury in donald trump s hush money trial has requested some further evidence after beginning deliberations. the former president is now close to learning his fate after becoming the first american president to face a criminal trial. the polls have now closed in south africa s general election. the vote is being seen as the most pivotal in three decades and is considered a test of the ruling anc s the african national congress hold on the country. the dutch authorities are investigating the death of a person who fell into the spinning turbine blades of a departing passengerjet at amsterdam s schiphol airport. the death occurred outside the busy hub s terminal as a klm flight was ready to depart for billund in denmark. and breaking news a father and son from cheshire are missing after a hillwalking trip in the scottish highlands. tom parry and his 12 year old son richie were due to return home on wednesday after visiting g
very hard for him. remember the largest number of registrations in the united states are independents followed by democrats and republicans, the independents who dislike both parties frankly and 83% of the americans by the way do not want either of these two candidates to run for the presidency this time, those independents save doon not want a convicted felon so i do think that would hurt him. but the numbers are not, even though the polls are tilted his way right now and i think thatis tilted his way right now and i think that is because of all the media attention he is getting related to the case, as we get to the end of this thing, as things tighten up, this thing, as things tighten up, this is going to be a get out the vote election, these are two candidates in the united states who have been known to the american people for the last five decades, there are not a lot of people out there are not a lot of people out there who are left undecided about which candidate. so in
thank you 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, to cover up a $130,000 hush money payment to porn star stormy daniels. those business records include entries in business ledgers kept by the trump organization. cheques and cheques stubs from a donald j. trump account. and invoices from his former lawyer, michael cohen, who testified that he paid daniels on behalf of trump to suppress her claim of an affair from 2006. well speaking outside the court mr trump took issue with the wittnesses that were called and the crimes he is being charged with. so it seems that there are a lot of witnesses, a lot of people that they could ve called and they didn t call. dating column obviously b