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hello and welcome to bbc news. donald trump has become the first former us president to face a criminal prosecution. the charges relate to falsifying business records to hide a payment to a porn star, stormy daniels, before the 2016 election. in a statement mr trump said the democratic authorities in new york were doing joe biden s dirty work, accusing them of interferring in next year s presidential election. john sudworth reports. the masssed ranks of the media say it all. donald trump s provided plenty of big moments in american politics, but few bigger than this his own imminent arrest. the news was confirmed in an angry statement from the former president, blaming his political opponents. the democrats, he said, have done the unthinkable. the case against him centres on this woman, the porn star known as stormy daniels. ahead of trump s 2016 election win, she was paid $130,000 to stop her going public with claims she had had an affair with him something he deni ....
the financial times is reporting that the country s biggest bank, ubs, has offered to buy credit suisse for up to one billion dollars, although bloomberg reports that credit suisse sees that as vastly undervaluing the bank. the swiss banking giant had been caught up in the market uncertainty triggered by the collapse, nine days ago, of america s silicon valley bank. it had been offered an emergency credit facility of more than 50 billion dollars by switzerland s central bank but that had not prevented a sharp fall in its share price. more now on one of our main stories this hour a potential takeover of the struggling credit suisse bank by another swiss based bank, ubs. let s get the latest now from our correspondent in switzerland imogen foulkes. what is the latest on these stories to try and shore up we hearing a lot of things but i can tell you the crisis talks taking just on the road from me in berne financial authority of the banks, people are being very tig ....
vladimir putin, has visited the ukrainian city of mariupol. it s the first time he s ventured inside territory seized by russian forces since last years invasion. his visit, under cover of darkness, has been fiercely criticised by the exiled council of the southern port city, which has seen some of the fiercest battles of the war. i m joined now by the ukranian mp for kharkiv, maria mezentseva. thank you for being with us. what you make of this visit by president putin? well, nothing spectacular really. it is one of the first visit to the occupied territories that president putin has conducted. this is the scene of a brutal invasion. and i am looking at the footage of him sitting all alone in the filler monarch building, and russian authorities are claiming that they have restored the building etc, we are asking, what has been done regarding the cleaning of the green seeds over their quest but this is not a joke for us at all. apart from criticising that visit, i am lin ....
we ll have a special report. hello, very warm welcome to the programme. the financial times is reporting that ubs switzerland s biggest bank has agreed to buy credit suisse for more than two billion dollars. there s been no confirmation yet of whether the offer has been accepted. it s thought an earlier offer of $1 billion was considered too low. the swiss banking giant had been caught up in the market uncertainty triggered by the collapse, nine days ago, of america s silicon valley bank. it had been offered an emergency credit facility of more than $50 billion by switzerland s central bank, but that had not prevented a sharp fall in its share price. our business correspondent marc ashdownjoins me. we spoke a little earlier. it s not offering to billion. offering to billion. they have aareed offering to billion. they have agreed that offering to billion. they have agreed that figure. offering to billion. they have agreed that figure. it s - offering to billion. ....
that is the edward waters university, triple threat. just down the track from us, we can hear them but can t see them but we are glad they are here and we are psyched to be here as well. daytona 500 hearing today on fox 2:30 p.m. eastern, you can see there s a few vehicles traversing the track, will had a chance to drive on it, i have, the great american race for a reason. two and a half miles around the track, 200 lots, daytona 500 on behalf of will kane and rachel fox & friends weekend, we are psyched to be here. it s been an amazing weekend. the thing they showed before the kings, did you see that? baby jesus, usually baby jesus is inside the cake, coming up on that tuesday and that was brought to us a while ago, joey was still an and joey said why is the kid in the cake? that was the baby jesus we explained and assumed like the boys had to look that up as well. they did, they googled it. they got it right eventually. people learn a lot of things live o ....