[sirens wailing] John Thats whats been happening in israel over the last couple hours. Air raid sirens, alerts blinking red all across the country. As iran throws the full might of its ballistic Missile Arsenal of israel. You see a couple impacts. They look like they might have gone down into the Mediterranean Sea just to the west of Tel Aviv. No significant casualties, no significant damage that we know of and for all intents and purposes this appears to be over. At least for the moment because Air Spaces have reopened. People have been told they can depart the Bomb Shelters that theyve been in. To wait out what iran had to throw at israel. Here we go again. Last time this happened was back on april 13th. Didnt result in any significant casualties or damage and that appears to be the case tonight. Sandra this is coming from iran. Still reporting what we are seeing. Per a senior iranian official to reuters, the u. S. Was alerted by iran through diplomatic channels shortly before these
to account. all of that while lula faces a mountain of economic, social and political challenges. my guest is celso amorim, former foreign minister, now lula s foreign policy advisor. is brazil becoming ungovernable? celso amorim in brasilia, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. mramorim, i believe you are talking to me from your office in the presidential palace. just a few days ago, that building was invaded by a mob. how safe and secure do you feel right now? 0h, personally, i feel very safe now. i don t think anything will happen these days or the next days. but of course, that was a very worrying situation, to say the least. not very much unlike what happened in the capitol hill two years ago. we didn t expect, of course, that to happen, but certainly there were failures in the security apparatus. part of it was omission, part might be incompetence, but part might have been connivance. but when you came in to work today and you showed your security pass and i dare sa
ahead of more action planned on thursday. they re calling for fresh elections. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. brazilian democracy was shaken to its foundations earlier this month, but it is still standing. now, president lula has to try to fix the cracks. his government must figure out whether another assault on government institutions is likely, and hold those responsible for what looked like a half baked coup attempt to account. all of that while lula faces a mountain of economic, social and political challenges. my guest is celso amorim, former foreign minister, now lula s foreign policy adviser. is brazil becoming ungovernable? celso amorim in brasilia, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. mramorim, i believe you are talking to me from your office in the presidential palace. just a few days ago, that building was invaded by a mob. how safe and secure do you feel right now? 0h, personally, i feel very safe now. i don t think an
The prosecution has called 19 witnesses so far. The most significant one is expected to take to the stand tomorrow. Michael cohen. Given a stern warning from the judge on friday. The judge said while he cannot subject Michael Cohen and other witnesses to a gag order he did tell prosecutors to let them know key is being ordered from the bench to stop talking about the case. This comes after he repeatedly used tiktok to live stream his commentary on the trial and cant trump despite repeated warnings from the prosecutors to also stop. He stream to from the apple wearing a tshirt with the photo of trump with him behind the bars. The former president has already been fined a total of 10,000 for violating a gag order that keeps him from talking about witnesses. He has been warned that he faces jail time if he violates it again. A perjurer at the center of the prosecution case. Accused of falsifying Business Records to hide reimbursements made to who was made to stormy daniels. Talking about
Now we are expected to hear from former President Trump whose testimony wraps for the day in the historic criminal trial. I am john roberts in washington good friday afternoon. Hello im aisha hosch and he for sandra smith and this is America Reports here we go. An eventful week in Court Spending hours listening to Adult Film Actress Stormy Daniels testify in extreme graphic detail about their alleged affair. Really hear from the man at the center of the case Michael Cohen. Webex versus afternoon to cover over than weve heard so far. Aishah but first lets go live to Eric Shawn Standing live outside the state Supreme Court work or just wrapped up for the week. Hi, eric. That it did for the weekend back on monday. You know there is always a call the pit bull for donald trump. He defended t donald trump heatedly all the time but starting next week the defendant may feel his bites because Michael Cohen is set to take the stand here probably start on monday. I have been told prosecutors have