the icelandic capital, reykjavik the fifth in six months. hi there, thanks for being with us. we start in new york where the 12jurors in donald trump s hush money trial have begun their deliberations. in the first ever criminal trial of a us president, mr trump is facing 3a counts of falsifying business records. prosecutors accuse the former president of an elaborate scheme that violated campaign finance laws. they say he and his campaign team tried to cover up a $130,000 hush money payment to adult fim star stormy daniels, in order to supress her claims of an affair with mr trump in 2006. mr trump speaking outside the court. so it seems that there - are a lot of witnesses, a lot of people that they could ve called, that they didn t call. they didn t call them obviously because they would ve - very bad witnesses for them. but take a look at the list i and because of the gag order, i won t go down into individual names. i but you have a lot of big players that would ve
than 40,000 south african miners employed by anglo american. in a statement, bhp ceo mike henry said. anglo had rejected bhp s previous offers, saying they undervalued the company and its prospects. speaking of deals, it s been a big week for consolidation in the energy sector. the latest development? conocophillips s acquisition of marathon oil in a $22.5 billion deal. erin delmore has all the details and more on this rising trend. think about the early days of the pandemic. people are stuck at home, not going out and not driving their cars. 0il at home, not going out and not driving their cars. oil prices crashed, but sent them, prices have come back then. back up. take conocophillips. the share price has nearly tripled and now it s acquiring marathon 0il worth $25 billion including debt. that will help conoco expand drilling in mexico, north dakota and texas and are to equatorial guinea. large and midsize oil companies have been competing to buy up the smaller rivals. a