welcome to bbc news. straight back to new york where donald trump will be in court in the next few hours, to face criminal charges. that has never happened before and as you d expect, huge focus on the former president. these are live pictures from manhattan, outside the courthouse. there s a heavy security presence, as you d imagine. the charges relate to hush money paid to a porn star just before the 2016 election to keep quiet about an affair. donald trump is currently holed up at trump tower with his legal team in the hours before going to manhattan and the courthouse. we will learn the charges themselves when the indictment is unsealed. in terms of what we re likely to see thejudge has ruled, that the media will be allowed to take still pictures in the courtroom just before the hearing gets under way but tv cameras will only be allowed in the corridors outside. let s get the latest from our correspondent gary o donoghue who is live from outside the court in manhatt
in scotland, a community sentence no jail time handed down to a man who raped a 13 year old schoolgirl when he was 17, has been described as extraordinary by a leading kc. sean hogg, now 21, attacked the girl in midlothian, on various occasions in 2018. tommy ross kc said the 270 hour community sentence was very unusual and punishment has also been condemned by rape crisis scotland, who said it was inexplicable . live now to our scotland correspondent james shaw. it correspondent james shaw. seems absolutely extr understand it seems absolutely extraordinary,. understand this case, you have to understand the sentencing guidelines forjudges in scotland were changed last year. in 2022, for people under 25, judges were advised they should emphasise the rehabilitation aspect
person who is on their 8th arrest, people say how did that happen, assault happen, there were seven prior times where this person struggling with addiction or mental health. we need to connect that person to services. this will make us safer. it is intuitive. it is common sense i don t understand the pushback. will: that language is interesting, pete, because in tones, that the real victim in a crime is the perpetrator of the crime, of course you want to be able to attack crime from all angles. you want to always remember the rehabilitation aspect of punishment but that paints a light that the perpetrator is the victim. you know i think we re all sensitive, pete, you re very dedicated to insuring we always want to stay a show that is for the united states of america, not too focused on washington, d.c., not certainly too focused on new york city. here is a story about one borough in new york city, why is it important? i would say is this, this kind of approach to crime has
comments. the thing is, it is great there are people who are on one end of the spectrum thinking that we ve got to be nice to some of these prisoners and there is a way forward and generally speaking, that is true. a bidet the other hand, people like myself are more interested in the public safety aspect of it than the rehabilitation aspect of it. this was given a 16 year sentence and he was let out an eight. and that is just unacceptable. i don t care who they blamed, just unacceptable. martha: he was planning to bomb the london stock exchange, something that has been in the wind for quite a while, a number of people who were involved in that operation. what people at home want to know, you became radicalized when you went to pakistan and india, what changed your heart? for me, it was the 9/11 attacks which made me reconsider
to tell her so she won t find out about it from someone else. i don t want her to have to suffer for it. overall, i think, shooting in eastern europe, the one common theme was rehabilitation. they seemed, the staff, the people that we talked to, seemed to really, really focus on rehabilitation of the inmates. and i think in some cases, when we visit the prisons in the united states, some of that might be lost in just the sheer numbers that are being housed and the amount of resources that they have to put in other places. in eastern europe, it really felt like they were still focusing on the rehabilitation aspect of the prison system