the prosecution allege it is the manner in which she was paid. and how it was ultimately covered up. daniels was paid by donald trump just before the 2016 election. the defence say to protect his family. but the prosecution alleged she was paid through his adviser michael cohen who was later reimbursed for legal services by the trump organisation. an attempt to falsify business records in that way, is typically classified as a misdemeanor, in new york. but the prosecution argue that because it was paid right before the 2016 election that then constituted a campaign finance crime. a felony. for which michael cohen pleaded guilty in 2018. that is what stormy daniels testimony is central to this case. what was she paid for, and why was it so urgent? the former president says there is nothing to see. let s speak to nada tawfik, our north america correspondent, who s in new york. there have been questions in recent days about whether this is actually cutting through. i menti
this girl grew this girlgrew up this girl grew up injenin in the occupied west bank and this holiday was imad s first trip to his homeland to introduce their baby meriam to the wider family. but after attacks by hamas and israel on the 7th of october, the couple made the 7th of october, the couple made the decision to come back to london. my the decision to come back to london. my daughter grew up identifying as british but i want to for her to have the lived palestinian experience. but i think us being in palestine when the war started, when the genocide started, it s like, is that the lived experience i want her to have? comes as a package, being palestinian it s a big package it is inherent pain and trauma two generations. inherent pain and trauma two uenerations. , , ., ., generations. they see even london has not always generations. they see even london has not always felt generations. they see even london has not always felt like generations. they see even london
kirkuk where kurdish forces face a relentless battle with isil fighters. russian opposition leader aleksei navalny has been arrested after breaking house arrest to join an opposition protest. he called on people to join a protest in moscow after he was handed a suspended sentence for fraud. his brother is facing three and a half years in a labor camp. reporter: aleksei navalny arrives in court in moscow with state prosecutors calling for a ten-year term for the political activist. instead he and his brother oleg were sentenced to three and a half years. with aleksei receiving a suspended sentence. his supporters claim the trial is another attempt to curb decent in russia. and the terms of the sentence will certainly remove one of the most effective political campaigners from the political stage. while depriving him of a long jail term. aleksei navalny is for many the credible face of russian opposition. he has been one of the most vocal opponents of president putin, fam
2014 started off as a triumphant year for russian president vladimir putin. he extended his rift into ukraine, and thumbed his nose at the west while doing it. but thanks to sanctions and sliding oil prices 2015 is already looking to be a year of economic hardship for russia. it should be a growing disenchantment. today hundreds of protesters streamed into red square. they came out to protest a russian court sentencing of alex sigh navalny. we ll have more on that in a moment. but first speaking of money, putin s financial problems are only mounting. rur sh russian companies are cut off from western credit. as a result companies now face serious problems services more than $550 billion of russian corporate debt. they can t access western banks, so when they have to refinance, they have got to figure out new ways of doing so. meanwhile falling oil prices are cutting into russia s state budget and fuelling a currency crisis. russia s central bank estimates $128 billion was mo
there was a big spike this year in police officers killed by gunfire. the data come as tensions simmer over police tactics nationwide. and the new football coach in college who asked for less than expected and is still one of the highest-paid public employees in the country. we begin tonight in southeast asia where the grim retrooifal of bodies and debris continues in the java sea. harrowing concrete proof that the flight plunged into the ocean killing everybody on board. it is not far from the spot where the plane last had contact with air traffic controllers. scott heidler reports. reporter: finally news of their loved ones but not the news they wanted. translator: we will find things belongings bodies of the passengers of the plane and we are sure everything will be brought back into our base. reporter: they found this debris and bodies in sector 7, one of 13 areas being searched. it was just ten kilometers from where the air traffic controllers lost contact wi