He was once the former president s lawyer and fixer but he spent the day on the Stand Outlining how he made a payment to the adult film actress, Stormy Daniels, to stop her talking about a relationship she claimed she had with mr trump. The defence is expected to stress mr cohens criminal record and openly stated dislike of his ex boss. Nada tawfik was at the trial in new york and gave us this update. Michael cohen and his testimony is crucial to this case, prosecutors hope that the conversation that Michael Cohen are shared between him and donald trump directly tie his former boss to the Hush Money Payments and to the allegations that trump falsified business records. Michael cohen testified that everything was done with mr trumps sign off, he said the donald trump even ran for president , he warned Michael Cohen to be prepared for negative stories that a lot of women would come forward. When they eventually did, Michael Cohen says the Stormy Daniels story was one he feared could be c
Columbia University Said the students had escalated the protest to an untenable situation and it had no choice but to call the police. Pro Palestinian Protesters have been occupying a tent camp at the Ivy League School for nearly two weeks. Lets speak to omar wasow, a Political Science professor at the university of berkeley, california, who studies protest movements. Columbia University Says it was left with no choice. What are your thoughts . Research that i do look for protesters in the 1960s and what i find is that when protesters are non violent and there are heavy handed tactics by authorities, that builds sympathy for the protesters. That is what we saw two weeks ago at columbia when students took over the building. What i find also is that when protesters engage in protest initiative violence, that tends to build sympathy for more Law And Order and i think that is what we saw today. Them taking over the building today creates legitimacy for this Massive Police response. I i kno
To israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyuahu about the situation in gaza. In a statement the white house said that the president reaffirmed his ironclad commitment to israels security. It referenced what it said was a successful defence against irans unprecedented missile and drone attack earlier this month. The two leaders reviewed ongoing talks to secure the release of hostages together with an immediate ceasefire in gaza. And they also discussed increases in the delivery of humanitarian assistance into gaza through preparations to open new northern crossings, starting this week. The statement concludes that the leaders discussed rafah and the president reiterated his clear position although it didnt give details of what that is. In the last few hours its also been announced that us secretary of state, Antony Blinken will visit jordan and israel after a stop at the World Economic forum summit in riyadh. Our North America Correspondent Will Vernon is in washington with more details
Benjamin netanyuahu about the situation in gaza. In a statement the white house said that the president reaffirmed his ironclad commitment to israels security. It referenced what it said was a successful defence against irans unprecedented missile and drone attack earlier this month. The two leaders reviewed ongoing talks to secure the release of hostages together with an immediate ceasefire in gaza. And they also discussed increases in the delivery of humanitarian assistance into gaza through preparations to open new northern crossings, starting this week. The statement concludes that the leaders discussed rafah and the president reiterated his clear position although it didnt give details of what that is. In the last few hours its also been announced that us secretary of state, Antony Blinken Will Visitjordan and israel after a stop at World Economic forum summit in riyadh. Our North America Correspondent Will Vernon is in washington with more details on the Biden Netanyahu phone c
Progress in finding common ground. In the last few hours, its also been announced that americas top diplomat Antony Blinken will visit saudi arabia this week. Meanwhile, hamas has posted a new video, which shows two of the hostages captured during its october attack. Keith siegel, and omri miran, both identify themselves. While the video is not dated, there is a reference to the recent passover holiday. Its the second such video that hamas considered a terror group by the uk and Us Governments has published in the past few days. Our correspondent anna foster is in tel aviv where families have been gathering to call again for all the hostages in gaza to be released. Omri miran s father was actually already on the list of confirmed speakers for this event tonight. When he got up on the stage, he talked about the moment, he said he was sitting having coffee with someone and talking about his grandchildren when the man he was talking to held his phone and said, look, they have released a v