it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin with breaking news donald trump has become the first us president in history to be charged with a crime. he ll be charged in new york over alleged hush money given to a porn starjust before the 2016 presidential election. mr trump, who s running again for president, has repeated he s innocent and called the indictment political persecution and election interference . his son eric said it was the opportunistic targeting of a political opponent in a campaign year. the bbc s nada tawfik s outside the court in new york. we can speak to her now. it is late in the evening there, as i understand it, nada, and the press have been gathering, as you have pointed out. what has been the reaction of people who have been passing you by, talking to you about this? figs talking to you about this? as ou talking to you about this? sis you said, talking to you about this? is you said, a few moments ago, the district attorney was a
Movement, the make americo great again movement and they are diehard, they will stay with president trump even though he is no longer in the white house, they stand up limit every term, they refused to leave him, they are registered republicans and they did have a lot of weight but in the november midterms, what that showed us is the republican party doesn t do so well when it puts forward maga candidates so the small donor fundraising you see, a lot of the money that will be raised after this historic decision, will be coming from small donor maga movement types still in the republican party and that is for expect that ron desantis does not want to alienate. if he does run for president in 2024. he is saying one thing today but in a few months, he may be saying some goals. this is a governor who is known to talking out of both sides of his mouth so he is not going to leave trump s backside just yet and be sure to remember, he
Welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore. i m karishma vaswani. the headlines donald trump becomes the first former us president to face criminal charges. he s indicted after a probe into money paid to an adult entertainer. the former leader will be charged in new york over alleged hush money given to stormy daniels just before the 2016 presidential election. mr trump, who s running to be president again in 2024, has called the charges a political persecution and election interference at the highest level in history. we ll have the latest on president trump s criminal indictment. also on this edition of newsday the oscar winning actress gwyneth paltrow has won a us lawsuit after being sued over a skiing collision in utah seven years ago. voice-over: live from our studio in singapore, - this is bbc news.
Statement coming in from ron desantis who is criticised the indictment, republican florida governor widely expected to be an opponent for dinner for president trump in 2024. he slammed the indictment and tweeted that the state will not assist in an extradition request coming in from manhattan district attorney alvin bragg. what this indicates to me at least, rather than sort of getting rid of donald trump from the republican party, it is the party supporting him, rallying around him. and infact building that base. i’m around him. and in fact building that base. i m not very concerned building that base. i m not very concerned at - building that base. i m not very concerned at all- building that base. i m not i very concerned at all because building that base. i m not - very concerned at all because i see strategy from governor ron desantis. he sees the election for president in 2024 are still a long way away. what he s doing now, he s testing the waters. he really wants the mone