heavy, frequent, with some thunderstorms as well. more details on bbc breakfast. it s saturday 26 august. our main story: pressure is growing for the president of the spanish football federation, luis rubiales, to resign after he kissed spanish player, jenni hermoso, on the lips following the team s women s world cup final win over england. the lionesses have called the incident unacceptable and backed spanish footballers who are refusing to play for the national team until rubiales stands down. hermoso says she did not consent to the kiss. our reporter zoe conway has more. a moment of victory, notjust for the women of this team but for women everywhere. that was the hope. but now the spanish players are refusing to play again for their country until the football official, luis rubiales, is gone. his forceful kiss ofjenni hermoso and the moment he grabbed his crotch while in the presence of spanish royalty, has caused outrage. and notjust in spain. the lionesses may have be
the beat with ari melber starts right now. hi, ari. hi, nicolle. thank you so much. welcome to the beat. i am ari melber. i m happy to be back with you. out for a couple of days. did anything happen? it seemed like a lot happened. i want to catch up with you, because we have a lot of developments out of these first two official days of the trial with the jury impanelled, and everyone hearing from both sides. and that star witness david pecker. what are we learning out of this case? the court today was off, but we have so much that we re learning from, including the prosecution s opening statements. i can show you some of that right here. the first witness as mentioned was the tabloid star witness david pecker. by the on the other hand of this hour, i m also going to get into trump s defense arguments which are important to understand and draw on what we learn from his own lawyers, what they ve said in court, in public and sometimes even on this program. right now we loo
in paula hancocks. paula, the fifth nuclear test north korea appears to have conducted and the most powerful one and coming on the heels of president obama s visit to asia. reporter: that s right. the timing certainly is interesting, john. the fact is north korea announced on state-run television saying they successfully tested the nuclear warhead and they can put that on any one of the ballistic missiles. it is impossible for the world to verify that specifically in washington and seoul and tokyo. in the past hour, there has been an intelligence briefing for lawmakers here in seoul. they have said they believe north korea s goal is to mount a nuclear warhead on a scud missile. remember 28,000 u.s. troops in south korea are here now. this is going much quicker than expected. intelligence says north korea has advanced quicker than expected. there is large interest around the world in china and japan and russia condemning the nuclear test. it shows that kim jong-un is determi
we continue along. you re watching cnn, i m brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. let s get to it. donald trump just detailed what he would do if he is elected commander in chief, a first run-up to his first commander in chief forum with hillary clinton tonight. unlike the upcoming debates, the first one in less than three weeks, the two won t be on the same stage but they will face the same crowd, no doubt, the presidential contenders know that absentee voting begins in one week. and many people will be sending in ballots early. many of those folks who are active duty military in his speech, speaking of, donald trump said he would boost defense spending, that he would pump up troop numbers, battalions, ships, jets, and he was there in philadelphia. he laid out his plan for rebuilding of the nation s military and in doing so, he ripped into hillary clinton, into her foreign policy. her e-mails and, oh, so much more. in a trump administration, our actions in the mid
and a presidential nominee stuns morning shows by saying what is aleppo. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. last night felt like a debate donald trump and hillary clinton went one after another. the dualing narratives were enlightning. some foreign policy experts would say how detached from the facts on the ground they were. sarah murray is in cleveland. it is hard to argue that anyone had a particularly good night last night, so hillary clinton this first thing going on the offensive. it seems that trump was set on making sure clinton did not get the last word. you re right, donald trump was in in cleveland at a charter school he could not help rehash some of the topics that came up last night. he went into a lengthy defense saying that he was an early opposer of going into war in iraq excite the evidence to the contrary and he went after hillary clinton one more time on her e-mails. last night was yet another test, and donald trump failed yet again. hillary cli