queues to get through security during the easter holidays. the former olympic and paralympic athlete, oscar pistorius, applies for parole after serving half his sentence for shooting and killing his girlfriend. hello and welcome to bbc news. donald trump has become the first former us president to face a criminal prosecution. the charges relate to falsifying business records to hide a payment to a pawn star, stormy daniels, before the 2016 election. in a statement, mr trump said the democratic authorities in new york were doing joe biden s dirty work accusing them of interferring in next year s presidential election. john sudworth reports. the masssed ranks of the media say it all. donald trump s provided plenty of big moments in american politics, but few bigger than this his own imminent arrest. the news was confirmed in an angry statement from the former president, blaming his political opponents. the democrats, he said, have done the unthinkable. the case against hi
ali velshi filling in live from ukraine, starts right now. hi, ali. hi, joy. thank, you my friend. have a good. evening j good evening from kyiv. i m ali velshi. any moment now are expecting air force one to land with joe biden s planned visit to ukraine and the surprise visit to a. close here in kyiv there is a heavy feeling vetting zion-y air as the world waits and watches now to see how russian president vladimir putin will respond to ukraine s show of strength this week. today putin held a captive audience rally to celebrate the one year anniversary of his invasion, when your anniversary will be on friday. but this happened in a massive moscow stadium, the site of the 2018 world cup. the propaganda event which began with the performance of the russian singer gregory laps, who has faced allegations of ties to the mafia and who until earlier this month was on the u.s. sanctions list. it also featured a grim start involving a number of children the russia claims it rescue
peace out. welcome to the beat. we have a lot going today including giuliani now going under oath after he was targeted for indictment. this was before the georgia grand jury. here was of the scene on a momentous day one many would have not expected years ago given how he was once viewed in the legal community as the once prosecutor had the tables turned arrived in court. the grand jury is a secret. do you believe trump is the target of the investigation? i m not going to comment on the grand jury investigation until i know more about it. what are you expecting to talk about here today? they ask the questions. will you be cooperative? mr. goul making his way inside. you ll know one thing. if you watch the news, and if you re hearing my voice i bet you do, you may recall over all those choppy water, those months of the election drama that giuliani would talk about all kinds of things. out of pocket, dpens his own client s interest. what you just saw was a d
right now, democrats are taking what lessons they can from last week s election. still riding high on big winds. that overperform. but the outlook in 2024 from the white house and now the senate is with the news that west virginia senator joe manchin, west virginia senator joe manchin is retiring, leaving a deep red state up for grabs. and polling continues to show president biden underperforming with democratic voting blocks. get reelected next year. meanwhile, the presidents presumed opponent in 2024, donald trump, is ratcheting up his rhetoric on the campaign trail, calling his rivals vermin, and touting an immigration policy amidst deportation, even more extreme than his first term. all this as his fraud trial is set to resume monday in new york. i last amok reddick jimmy harrison, how democrats should respond to all of this ahead of 2024. from the son charles five, to new york city council district nine joins me tonight. days after his resounding city counc