the 58 year old will become the first person in the us to be executed using nitrogen gas, a method which the united nations has called cruel and inhumane . it will be the state s second attempt to execute smith, who was convicted in 1989 of murdering a preacher s wife, in a hired killing. tom bateman reports. they have a 12 hour window basically from six o clock local time in alabama until six o clock in the morning to carry out this untested and experimental as it has been described by its many detractors method and that will involve kennett smith being led into the execution chamber, having an airtight mask strapped to his face and then pure nitrogen pumped from a pressure ride tank and him being effectively asked to breathe it in. they have of course been many experts suggesting that one of the problems here is this has never been done before. essentially we heard from what of your contributors there, soby contributors there, soby contributors there, soby contrib
to death in nottingham say they ve been let down by police after their killer is given a hospital order for three counts of manslaughter by diminished responsibility. russia says missile fragments and black boxes have been found at the sight of a plane crash which has said to have killed tens of ukrainian prisoners of war. nhs consultants reject a new pay offer with 51% of union staying with the issue of capital punishment and according to amnesty international, the number of executions is rising globally, despite many countries abolishing the use of capital punishment. according to the latest figures, in 2022, 55 countries had the death penalty. one of those is japan, where a man has been sentenced to death following a deadly arson attack on an animation studio in kyoto in 2019 which killed 36 people. shinji aoba had previously admitted setting the building on fire. his lawyers had sought an acquittal on the grounds of mental incompetence, but the judge rejected that a
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hello and welcome to the programme. we begin in the us. donald trump has spoken publicly for the first time since he was charged with 3a counts of falsifying business records, saying the legal action is an insult to america. the former us president earlier pleaded not guilty to hiding damaging information during the 2016 election. speaking to his supporters, mr trump said his only crime was to fearlessly defend the nation from those who would destroy it. in a campaign style speech, he lambasted the biden administration and repeated the false claims that he d been cheated out of office in 2020 by voting fraud. the only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it. cheering and applause. from the beginning, the democrats spied on my campaign, remember that? they attacked me with an onslaught of fraudulent investigations, russia, russia, russia, ukraine, ukraine, ukraine, impeachment oaks number one, impeachment oaks number o
to be charged with a criminal offence. tonight, mr trump is meeting with his advisors in trump tower, no doubt discussing the charges he is set to face connected to hush money paid to porn actor stormy daniels in the lead up to his campaign for the presidency in 2016. the exact charges he faces will be disclosed in full in court tomorrow. mr trump denies any wrongdoing, calling it a witch hunt. and in the city, police are on high alert with barricades erected around trump tower and the manhattan criminal court where mr trump will appear tomorrow. bbc news is covering this story from all angles tonight. joining me live to discuss all this, sarah krissoff, former assistant us attorney for the southern district of new york doug jones, former democrat senator for the state of alabama, and pete king, former republican congressman for the state of new york. but first, let s talk to our correspondent michelle fluery, who s in new york. where all the action is happening right now. yo