China has started two days of Military Exercises around taiwan as a strong punishment. The drills come after lai ching te was sworn in as taiwans new president this week and made an Inauguration Speech that china denounced as a confession of independence. The late president Ebrahim Raisi was buried in his North Eastern hometown in the last day of state organised funeral ceremonies. The state media have praised the funeral in mashhad, stressing that millions attended the ceremony. Good evening. As theyjourneyed into work yesterday, recess looming, the mps At Westminster were probably planning for a Long Bank Holiday weekend. So much for that today they were coming to terms with six weeks of frenetic campaigning, many of them already back in their constituencies, the lucky ones with Party Leaders alongside. There will be miles and miles of travel before voting day onjuly 4th. Even if they re are mostly guided by the maps that lead to target seats, not the same maps that we might use. The
To hospital beds, and forced to wear blindfolds and nappies. Israels army has said, that restraints are only used when theres Security Risk. Donald trumps defence have rested their case this morning after calling just two witnesses in the former president s hush money trial. Robert costello, the lawyer who advised michael cohen, and was admonished by the judge yesterday, finished his testimony. The uk government has outlined what its described as a comprehensive plan to compensate those affected by the nhs blood scandal. At least 30,000 people were given Blood Products infected with hiv and hepatitis c between the 19705 and early 905. An interim payments of £210,000 will be paid within 90 days for the most urgent cases. Good evening. Medical workers in israel have told the bbc that palestinian detainees from gaza are routinely kept shackled to hospital beds, blindfolded, sometimes naked, and forced to wear nappies a practice one medic said amounted to torture. Israels army said in res
Russia and know when to attack brennan. Who allows is known to be attacked. And now its not happening is israel. And jewish people that go for biden in the democrats did have thanks very much okay, so lets bring in cnns tawam foreman, Fact Checking what we just heard from donald trump. Mr. Foreman, its a lot of what weve heard before jake is i actually remarkable how little invention there isnt this same old thing saying its on the White House House case. The white house is prosecuting those. No, it is not. Alvin bragg is a locally elected official hes been chosen up there. He has not been chosen by the white house. Hes not pushing the white houses case. He says its all about stopping him because hes leading candidate. Same answer. This is a local prosecution of this. Again, with the legal experts, all of them all say its fake, its false. Not true. He said the American People see this trial as a fraud and waste of time. Thats not true either. Back when he was indicted, in fact, 60 of a
Not credible as a matter of law is not something that judges really do i think that to a certain extent the judge was cutting through and saying the standard here is that no reasonable juror could possibly find on these facts and that usually is successful. If the evidence produced the trial skips and element entirely, you have no evidence of a Shooting Evidence is somebody got shot and then they just forget to bring in the autopsy so that nobody actually testifies the guy died. Then you ask for judgment as a matter of law that acquitting on the murder case because there was no evidence of a death and so its unlikely to do here and so i think the judge is kinda needling todd a little bit there with the with the whole idea of not quite able as a matter of law, i will say though these types of motions, even though from the defense sayyed, you know that youre unlikely to win its very useful to prepare for the closing because you kind of preview your argument and then you see what the pros
For joining us. The news continues now, right here on cnn its tuesday, april 30, right now on cnn this morning, Breaking News Protesters at columbia break into an academic that make building a barricaded themselves inside. We are live on campus growing concern in israel and in congress, the International Criminal court is preparing an Arrest Warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and donald trump back in court where the prosecutions third witness is laying out how the hush money for Stormy Daniels was actually paid 5 00 a. M. Here in washington alive. Look at venation its capital on this morning. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us. We begin this morning with breaking overnight at Columbia University. Dozens of protesters breached an Academic Building next to the Protest Encampment and they barricaded themselves inside. Others outside the building, formed a human chain to block out access to the entrance in these images from inside columbias