it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin with breaking news donald trump has become the first us president in history to be charged with a crime. he ll be charged in new york over alleged hush money given to a porn starjust before the 2016 presidential election. mr trump, who s running again for president, has repeated he s innocent and called the indictment political persecution and election interference . his son eric said it was the opportunistic targeting of a political opponent in a campaign year. the bbc s nada tawfik s outside the court in new york. we can speak to her now. it is late in the evening there, as i understand it, nada, and the press have been gathering, as you have pointed out. what has been the reaction of people who have been passing you by, talking to you about this? figs talking to you about this? as ou talking to you about this? sis you said, talking to you about this? is you said, a few moments ago, the district attorney was a
remarks about killing taliban fighters in afghanistan in his controversial autobiography. the great british race to space the countdown s on for the first ever rocket launch from uk soil hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk, on pbs in the us or around the world. two years to the day since the capitol riots in washington which saw supporters of donald trump try to stop the ratification of the election results there s still gridlock in the us house of representatives as members attempt for a fourth day to elect a new speaker. this is the scene live on the floor of the house where a 14th vote is now underway. there has been some momentum favouring the frontrunner, kevin mccarthy. 1a conservative republicans who were among a group preventing him from winning a majority have now swung behind mr mccarthy. it still leaves him 5 votes short of the 218 he requires. business cannot be conducted in the lower chamber of congress without a speaker. elizabeth landers
in wilmington, delaware. despite the white house saying the search was complete last thursday. rapid developments here is what we are looking at so far. november 2nd, just days before the midterm election, six days, the president s aides find classified documents and a closet at the penn-biden center, a think tank in washington, d.c. but that discovery was not made public. on november 14th, attorney general merrick garland appoints a u.s. attorney to go over the case. fast-forward to december 20th, the president s attorneys find another batch of documents. these pages that were stored in his garage at his home coming in oh, next to the corvette like he told us. the story finally broke wide open on january 9th. an additional document was then found three days later. that same day the attorney general appointed a special counsel. two days after that more documents surfaced in wilmington. some democrats are staying silent on all of this while others are publicly speaking out inc
Russia, russia, as a continuation of the greatest witchhunt of all time, and i dont think the people of this country are going to stand for it. The former president also attacked new York Attorney general, Letitia James. Ahead of the trial, james responded, saying, no one is above the law, and that she was confident that justice will prevail. Testimony in the manhattan courtroom started with opening statements, and the states first witness, donald bender, a long time accountant for trumps businesses. Bender tesified about financial documents, including discrepancies in the price of ivanka trumps penthouse. Cbs Chief Election and Campaign Correspondent robert costa was in the courtroom during the hearing. He described the scene for us. There was a tense scene inside the courthouse behind me when trump entered the room, the former president did not even look at the Attorney General Letitia James in the first row, then he took his seat up near then he took his seat up near thejudge sittin
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