18 others, including his then chief of staff, mark meadows, and his lawyer, rudy giuliani, have also been indicted. Mr trump has denied wrongdoing and has described the investigation as politically motivated. Its the fourth criminal case to be brought against him since he left office. Lets take a listen to what Fulton County District Attorney fani willis said a short time ago. The indictment alleges that rather than abide by georgia was Mike Whittall process for election challenges, defendants engaged in a Criminal Racketeering Enterprise to overturn georgias president ial election result. Subsequent to the indictment, as is the normal process in georgia law, The Grand Jury issued Arrest Warrants for those who are charged. I am giving the defendants the opportunity to voluntarily surrender no later than noon on friday the 25th day of august, 2023. Earlier, Donald Trumps campaign issued a statement. Lets speak now to sean dilley, our North America correspondent, live from washington, dc
those two cases were on the 30th and sist those two cases were on the 30th and 31st of january and there would almost certainly be more. the central point according to these minutes is that government had a plan to deal with illness. yes. you didn t in fact, plan to deal with illness. 133 you didn t in fact, within the department of health and social care, commission until the 10th of february the plan, the battle plan as you describe in your statement, or the action plan as it was published on the 3rd of march. and therefore, what plan was it that you were referring to cabinet colleagues too, to deal with the illness? firstly, we had the pandemic flu strategy set out in 2011, but by this point we had a whole series of different plans for expanding different plans for expanding different areas. so we had a plan for the expansion of testing within the hd. that plan didn t go fast enough and i had to take serious action to change that in the middle of march. we had a plan for
hello, i m anna foster. we begin with some breaking news about the rafah crossing, the exit of foreign citizens from gaza it appears has been stopped for now. none of them have come out of the crossing so far today. the egyptian authorities are suggesting that no foreign passport holders will be permitted to cross into egypt from gaza until injured people in gaza s hospitals are allowed to travel to rafa. hundreds of foreign citizens have escaped from gaza into egypt through the crossing in the last few days. i vejust been through the crossing in the last few days. i ve just been talking to our producer in cairo and he says that what is unclear at the moment is what is unclear at the moment is what bar is being put on this, whether it is all of the injured in hospitals in gaza or whether it is a question of the numbers actually rising again because there was nearly 80 injured palestinians who left through that crossing on the first day it was opened and that number has droppe