of pakistan s devastating floods. de facto authorities in four russian occupied or partially occupied regions of ukraine have announced plans to hold referendums on joining russia this week as ukraine continues to recapture territory in the north east. proxy administrations in luhansk, donetsk, kherson and zaporizhzhia all say that voting will start this friday. this is what the russian appointed head of the region had to say. translation: i will personally a - eal to translation: i will personally appeal to the translation: i will personally appeal to the president. - translation: i will personally appeal to the president. with l translation: i will personally appeal to the president. with ai appeal to the president. with a request for legal approval of the referendum result as soon as possible and i am sure this procedure will not take much time. it has come from very different areas. french president president macron says the referendum will have no legal consequence,
Ahead of the world cup semifinal with south africa. Freddie steward is in, as marcus smith misses out. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc s news at one from southern israel, where this war edges closer towards its second week with no sign of the crisis easing. The Prime Minister, rishi sunak, has arrived in israel and condemned what he called the horrific acts of terrorism by hamas which sparked this latest crisis, when more than 1,300 israelis were killed 12 days ago. His arrival comes amid some diplomatic success by us President Biden yesterday. He has reached a deal with israel and egypt to allow a first convoy of aid, 20 trucks, to enter gaza, possibly as early as this evening. I eat, food, water, medicine, but not fuel, will enter gaza through the Southern Rafah Crossing from egypt that aid. The Gazan Health Ministry has said that at least 3,000 gazans have been killed in retaliatory air strikes by israelis, and the un said the humanitarian access is urgently needed. It has urg
To kick mccarthy out of his job this week. Plus, transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg will be live in studio as the president frames this whole episode on a fullon failure for republicans. Later, donald trump is expected to travel to new york today and attend the start of His Civil Fraud Trial tomorrow. Michael cohen today. Hes on the witness list for this trial and he could come face to face with his former boss for the first time in years. Were waiting for remarks for President Biden at any moment from the white house and when hes ready well take that to you live. In the meantime, i want to level set on what weve seen in washington over the last couple of days. One Republican Congressman said that the last week was like, quote, riding a Mechanical Bull, quite a visual but pretty accurate. President is going to weigh in after Congress Managed to pass a shortterm funding bill that will keep the government open for the next 47 days. Preventing a Government Shutdown is good news. So f
Good to have you with us today, may. Thanks, martha. Dana fox news alert. Opening statements in the Hush Money Trial against former President Trump are underway in New York City. Moments ago the judge read his decision on what prosecutors can bring up from trumps Previous Court cases if he testifies in his own defense at the trial. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, im dana perino. Bill hemmer is off and thankfully i have martha with me here today. Martha great to be with you. Im martha maccallum. For the first time in history prosecutors are set to present the firstever criminal case against a former United States president and the Manhattan District Attorney has accused the former President Trump of illegally hiding payments, Hush Money Payments theyve been called in this case, and he claims that those payments, which trump says were legal expenses, were done in order to effect the outcome of the 2016 election. Dana we have this just in from our reporter that are there. We d