hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. donald trump will be the first former us president to face criminal charges, after a grand jury indicted him over money paid to the former pawn star stormy daniels. mr trump is expected to appear in court in new york next tuesday to face the charges and enter a plea. he denies any wrongdoing and the affair saying the indictment is political persecution . our north america correspondent gary o donoghue reports from new york. this manhattan courthouse doesn t normally look like this. but then it s not everyday a former president gets charged with a crime. in fact, it s happened before. and this is the man who s brought the charges against donald trump, district attorney alvin bragg a democrat and a prosecutor in america s highly politicised legal system. but if mr bragg was saying nothing, the former president wasn t so reticent. he s called it political persecution , election interference and his opponent
upset, angry, but not worried that s how donald trump s lawyer has described the former us president s reaction to his indictment by a new york court. he will appear there on tuesday, charged with falsifying business records. at least one felony offence is included that could result in a jail sentence. it s all linked to alleged hush money paid by mr trump to the former porn star stormy daniels. our north america correspondent gary o donoghue reports from new york. this manhattan courthouse doesn t normally look like this. but then, it s not every day a former president gets charged with a crime in fact, it s never happened before. and this is the man who s brought the charges against donald trump district attorney alvin bragg, a democrat and a prosecutor in america s highly politicised legal system. but if mr bragg was saying nothing, the former president wasn t so reticent. he s called it: ..and his opponents: no one is above the law, not even a former president o
Very few images have come out so far showing any damage. Our middle east correspondent Lucy Williamson has more. A message not of war but of warning. Explosion. That israel could also strike its enemy at home if it wanted. After threatening a harsh and massive response to the smallest incursion, iran has downplayed this mornings strike. Its president didnt mention it once in his speech today. And this is the situation in isfahan, as shown on iranian tv. The message nothing to see here. Other than that, nothing has happened, everything is back to normal. Israel was divided over how to respond to irans barrage last weekend. Thejudgement of one far right Cabinet Minister this morning lame. And injerusalems main market today, many others were disappointed. When a bully comes to you, were going to respond to the bully with restraint, so the bully s just going to come back harder and harder and harder. But if you want to take down a bully, youve got to take down with force. I expected more,
targeting his staff. israel s economy minister nir barkat says it s nonsense to suggest that the idf deliberately targeted aid workers, describing the incident as a tragic mistake. lucy williamson reports from jerusalem. israel s army said it had misidentified them. today, colleagues wrote their names on the body bags that carried them out of gaza. john chapman. james henderson. and james kirby. three british men, among seven aid workers killed in israeli air strikes this week. their bodies driven through the rafah crossing into egypt to be flown home to the uk. today, the head of their organisation spoke for the first time about what happened. they attacked the first car. they were able to move in the second one. again, this one was hit. they were able to move in the third one. in the process, we know they were trying to call. but in the chaos of the moment, whatever happened, they. to try to be telling idf that why are they doing, that they were targeting us, and then they
in new york, former president donald trump s latest appeal to stop his hush money trial was denied friday. the ruling and the selection of a jury sets the stage for opening arguments to take place as soon as monday. mr trump s fate is now in the hands of seven men and five women. they ll be deciding whether he committed fraud by disguising payments to an adult film star. that money was apparently to keep her quiet about an alleged affairwith mrtrump. he denies any wrongdoing. and there were some disturbing scenes outside the courthouse, just shortly after the jury was selected, a man set himself on fire. police say the he threw conspiracy based pamphlets into the air before dousing himself in liquid, and setting himself alight. authorities say the man is currently in hospital in a critical condition. officials do not believe that he was targeting any person or group.