welcome to the world today an hour of international news from the bbc. the former lawyer and fixer for donald trump who once said he d take a bullet for the fomer president, today took the stand as a star witness for the prosecution in mr trump s hush money trial. michael cohen is testifying about his role in what prosecutors say was a cover up of payments to hide an affair with the adult film star stormy daniels. mr trump denies falsifying business records to reimburse his then lawyer for the payment on the eve of the 2016 presidential election, when the story could have been politically damaging. mr cohen a former close ally turned foe of mr trump pleaded guilty in 2018 to tax offences, fraud and campaign finance violations. the latter charge stemmed from the same payment at the heart of the current case. earlier i spoke to our correspondent nada tawfik who has been in new york and staying across the trial for us. i asked her about the latest on what michael cohen h
now, with all the latest sport, here s olly foster. we know that the premier league title will be decided on the final day, but there s a significant match coming up for aston villa on monday night. the former european cup winners can secure qualification for the champions league. a win against liverpool at villa park will be enough to ensure a top four finish, that would see them return to europe s top club competition for the first time since 1983. they were european champions in 1982. it s the penultimate game in charge for liverpool sjurgen klopp, and he s one booking away from a touchline ban. he doesn t want to spoil his farewell at anfield next sunday. unai emery is one of the best we have in our business, 100%. we ve only got two yellow cards. so i have got, over the years, obviously. i have got, over the years, obviously- i have got, over the years, obviousl . ., ., , ., obviously. you need to be on the touchline for obviously. you need to be on the touchline for
barely any aid had been reaching the region after other crossings were closed. with me is mohamed taha from bbc arabic. good morning to you. so, let s talk about rafah to start with before we move onto humanitarian aid. what is happening in rafah? the humanitarian aid. what is happening in rafah? the idf are askin: happening in rafah? the idf are asking more happening in rafah? the idf are asking more people happening in rafah? the idf are asking more people to happening in rafah? the idf are asking more people to leave - asking more people to leave rafah, they asked last week that people in the eastern part of rafah to leave near khan younis. now they are expanding this area to a larger area to ask people to leave rafah, the ground of enzyme rafah, there are many warnings from the united states, from the uk, from the national agency that this widening area of fighting in rafah lots of humanitarian crisis, would cause lots of human casualties between civilians and the s
north yorkshire, one of 27 newly designated bathing sites. some brave souls are already in the water of the river nidd but how clean is it? arsenal take the premier league title race to the final weekend. even the heavy rain at old tafford couldn t stop them as they beat manchester united. and we re set for a thrilling finish to the season. idid it! i love you! top boy, happy valley and the sixth commandment were some of the big winners at the bafta television awards but the crown left empty handed. good morning. yesterday was the warmest day of the year so far. in chertsey, the temperature reached 27.5 celsius. today, rain is coming in from the south west, affecting some western areas. dry, sunny and warm further east. i will have all the details later. it s monday, 13th may. new evidence has been uncovered that the british government was warned by its own embassy staff in the us about the risk of hiv from contaminated blood in the early 1980s. it s now thought more than 1
russia has intensified its attacks in northeast ukraine rausing fears the city of kharkiv could soon be in range of its artillery. the border town of vovchansk has been heavily bombed. kharkiv s governor has said russia trying to stretch the front line ukraine s commander in the area has been replaced. in another sign of the growing strain on kyiv ukraine has said it will need record energy imports after russian attacks on infrastructure. as russia makes progress in the war, president putin is set to appoint a new defence minister, andrey belousov. like his predecessor sergei shoigu, he doesn t have much experience in the field. but he s one of putin s most influential economic advisers. and analysts say that may offer a clue to the russian leader s desire to fund his military ambitions. we ll have more on the changes in russia s defence hierachy in a moment first james waterhouse has the latest on the fighting in ukraine. it s a front line at the moment which is more