The deals on top before there job the defense has rested. Testimony has wrapped, and donald trump notably did not take the stand of course, sanchez, alongside jessica dean in the nations capital, and soon the judge and attorneys for both sides are expected to go back in court to go over Jury Instructions. In this historic Criminal Hush Money Trial of the former president. Earlier today, jurors were dismissed for the week the judge telling them to be ready for Closing Arguments next tuesday it comes after the defenses second and final witness, attorney Robert Costello, took the stand for a second day, and once again, the former adviser to Michael Cohen face some tough crossexaminati on prosecutors, youth castellows, emails in an attempt to show he made several efforts to stop cohen from flipping and assured him that he had a backchannel to trump won email dated april 19, 2018, indicated trumps former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was joining trumps team and costello wrote to cohen, quote im su
While this lets turn to the main headlines. Hamas leaders are looking at a new Ceasefire Proposal from israel, with the white house describing the offer is a good one. A leaked document says a teenager who vanished during Anti Government protests in iran was sexually assaulted and killed by the Security Forces. A study in the gambia suggests a stick on Vaccine Patch could help the fight against measles. We will hear from the legend of irish dance, michael flatley, who talked of the bbc about his glittering career to the bbc. Now we can go to the sport news. Hello from the bbc sport centre. We start with the World Snooker championship in sheffield where its at the early stages of the quarter finals. But already world number two judd trump has had to recover from a slight wobble, hes Taking Onjakjones as he looks for a second title. Trump opened up this match with a superb 110 break, but then fell away. Jakjones showing how dangerous he can be, taking the second and third frames. However
To Lord Of The Dance. Michael flatley on 30 years since that life changing eurovision moment. Good morning. Today in the west it will be fairly cloudy, wet and windy. Further east we are looking at drier and brighter conditions with some sunshine but sao is coming to the south east later. All of the detail throughout the programme. Its tuesday the 30th of april. The Scottish National party has officially started the process to find a new leader, after humza yousaf announced his resignation as scotlands First Minister. He quit ahead of two no confidence votes at holyrood which were due to be held in the wake of his decision to eject to Scottish Greens from his power sharing government. Nominations to replace him opened just before midnight. Our scotland correspondent lorna gordon reports. Politically, there was nowhere left for humza yousaf to go. His leadership fatally wounded, not by his party or by the voters, but by himself. And so this admission that his time as First Minister had
Connection with the manson world the president instructed to continuously analyze and monitor the impact on the domestic economy. It teaches us that one of the asean offender in two thousand fourteen there was an increase in the chancellors heirs of the National Bank increased by only six percent and hes twenty six billion dollars of his responsive with it. It is up. Currently the new situation causes us to be careful because we are very closely connected with the Customs Union with russia and galleries. This highly important to connect galaxies to continue monitoring. That would ensue. Is this. Well the police will raise Electricity Tariffs only after a hearing. They have to convince the local authorities and the and theres a real need to change the price is only after that the agency for a donation to the police will consider the application of an enterprise a corresponding baileys being prepared many agency for regulation of natural monopolies. This was announcing the government how
Mother telling the paper her two kids, one 11 and the other 5 were hit. They held a proper protocol and they needed pepper spray when the crowd refused to disburse. They said the chemicals were sprayed on the ground and not directly at anyone but some of the crowd said that was not the case. Today was the final day of early voting in the state. New hampshire, for one, ballots are being processed. In others, theyre being challenged in the court. Subject of judicial over sight because theyre getting tied up in the mail. The president soon making the last of four stops today in pennsylvania, which he won so narrowly last time pinning a very dark picture of what happens if we do not know the winner on election day. Were going to be waiting november 3rd is going to come and go and were not going to know. Youre going to have bedlam in our country. Youre going to have this period of nine days, seven days, whatever it is. And many bad things. Joe biden making three stops today in michigan with