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 porn 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 him centres on this woman, the porn star known as stormy daniels. ahead of trump s 2016 election win, she was paid $130,000 to stop her going public with claims she had had an affair with him something he denies. hi
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
dw. strikes by security guards at london heathrow airport will go ahead as planned from today, after last ditch talks failed to resolve a pay dispute. the walkout will end on easter sunday. it threatens disruption at the uk s largest airport at the start of the easter school holidays. i spoke to our transport correspondent katy austin a little earlier. well, it s security guards who work at terminal five at heathrow, which is only used by british airways. they are walking out today, and also security workers who deal with cargo coming in and out of the airport as well. but even though it is only those specific groups of security officers taking part in the strike, it does mean that staffing is stretched when it comes to security, and this is a very busy few days. today, the weekend, is the start of the easter getaway, so lots of passengers expected to be turning up to go on those holidays. and i think the impact on the ground, when we were at terminalfive earlier, to be fair,
Im philippa thomas. From here in the worlds newsroom, we send out correspondents to bring you the best stories from across the globe. In this weeks programme on the frontline of the battle for mosul. Quentin somerville joins iraqi forces as they meet fierce resistance to their assault on the last stronghold of the so called Islamic State in iraq. The town of abu saif is under attack. It is all that lies between these men and mosul city proper. Famine in the worlds newest nation. Alistair leithead reports from south sudan, a country devastated by years of civil war. Cracking albanias people Trafficking Rings. Reeta chakra barti follows the brutal trade to the uk, meeting the victims whose lives have been broken. You were raped every day. Translation yes, every day. Many men . Yes, many. What we could do is say that. And life behind the camera, but still in the spotlight. Angelina jolie talks to yalda hakim about directing her new film on cambodia, her family, and her split from brad pit
while i do the forecast. thank you, janine. it is just adorable while i do the forecast. thank you, janine. it isjust adorable nurse overload here this morning! but the weather this morning isn t shabby either, in fact the forecast for many of us as a dry one, it will be warmer in the east, and in the west of the cloud will start to build and we will see some rain coming in. the reason for that is we have got a weather front just coming reason for that is we have got a weather frontjust coming in from the atlantic, and you can see ahead of it we have a ridge of high pressure which is going to be pushed away, so a lot of settled conditions, although this morning it is a chilly start, with clear skies and also some showery rain moving across southern scotland and into northern england, and that will tend to fizzle through the day. the rain will continue to come in, we have brisk north westerly winds, and the wind picking up with the weather front coming in bearing the rain. temperatures