Hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me from washington, d. C. Im fredericka witfield. We begin with the apocalyptic destruction from the deadliest Natural Disaster in hawaiis history. Almost 80 people are dead and thousands displaced. At any moment, lahaina residents could return to assess what might be left. Crews are working to fully contain three major fires and prevent flareups on maui. The devastation costing an estimated 5. 5 billion. Governor josh green has ordered a comprehensive review of the states response. Lets go to cnns mike valerio. Last hour you were approached by a woman who was very frustrated about the road closures. Whats been happening there . Reporter good morning. The sun is now up over maui. This is the moment, fred, that people have been waiting for for more than 14 hours. Hundreds of car s queued up in the background, now able to move through the main route that goes into the Disaster Zone o f la h these are people who have been waiting after
could go out of business as the government scales back its energy support this weekend. good morning from manchester, where i will speak to businesses facing a huge increase in their bills. good morning, a wet start across england and wales in particular. we have coastal gales through the english channel. in scotland and northern ireland, cloud with showers. temperatures lower than yesterday. good morning it s friday the 31st march. our top story. donald trump will become the first us president in history to face criminal charges after a grand jury voted to indict him over a payment made to a former porn star. stormy daniels claimed she had an affair with him and was given a hush payment during the 2016 presidential election campaign. mr trump says he has been the victim of a witch hunt. our correspondent 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 immi
you can keep up with all the latest developments on bbc website. from the six team, it s goodbye. break the news from around the world this is bbc news. it certainly what we can see so far is that donald trump continues to dominate american politics in the landscape. i dominate american politics in the landsca e. ~ , dominate american politics in the landscae. ~ , ., , landscape. i think it s actually more competent landscape. i think it s actually more competent than - landscape. i think it s actually more competent than that. landscape. i think it s actually - more competent than that donald trump certainly is not dominate the landscape, he is still most popular person in republican party in that may have changed in the recent days but i think may be a short term spike. interesting when you talk to many of the uk or your contrast what a lot of americans are saying, i think there s a lot more fear in the uk that donald trump will get the nomination, there is a lot of sc
we know that harvey weinstein s convention was overturned. a lot of evidence was a highly prejudicial. certainly, the stormy daniels testimony and the testimony from david pecker wasn t really pertinent to necessarily stormy daniels. the issue as far as the money that was given over. her s testimony went way beyond the business record record. this is what this case was about. then you have a conspiracy that was argued which was not charged, you have a menu of three different crimes that the jury could pick from, and they didn t have to agree on which crime they would rely on. you have a law which was incredibly novel as to the way it was used. it s never been used that sway. the actual charges were time barred, but because of machinations relating to how they took this up, they brought this into court. so there are a lot of questions here, and of course you have thejudge, questions here, and of course you have the judge, whether he was biased, whether that affected the jury,
not feel supported by the royal family. at one point meghan admitted she d thought about suicide. but i knew that if i didn t say it that i would do it. and i just didn t i just didn t want to be alive anymore. and that was a very clear and real and frightening constant thought. just one of many bombshell claims. another stunning revelation, harry and meghan say there were questions about what color their baby s skin might be. meghan says they were told the baby might not have security or get a title. and meghan says the tabloid reporting she made kate middleton cry ahead of her marriage to harry was exactly the opposite of what happened. it was kate that made meghan cry. at one point prince charles stopped taking harry s phone calls. and harry says he and his brother william still need space and time to heal. i want to get some reaction to all of this from ana stewart in windsor england. you ve certainly covered the royal wedding and other events with the duke and duch