and good evening, thanks for joining us. we were expecting fireworks in the first day of cross examination on michael cohen, the onetime fixture for the former starts now prompted a sidebar with the judge who asked blanche, blanche why are you making this about yourself the attorneys said he that he wasn t that he had a quote right to show the witnesses bias. the judge sustained the objection. the trial got back underway, but it was wasn t long before blanche returned to cohen s propensity data mouth off on social media, blanche asked cohen, quote, and on that same tiktok. so again, on april 23, you referred to president trump when he left the courtroom, you said that he goes right into that little cage which is where he belongs in. i m going to clean up the language here effing caves like an animal. do you recall saying that blanche asked in respond in quote, i recall saying that that s sort of set the tone for the rest of the hearing where the former president s attorney,
much for watching. our special coverage continues right now on plead with jake tapper cnn breaking news and welcome to the lean. i m jake tapper, the criminal hush money cover-up trial. a former president donald trump is well underway right now in manhattan on the stand, right now is a man named douglas doubts he works for the manhattan district attorney s office, but as opposed to previous days that we re focused on bank records today. we are knee deep in shady deals and sleazy details mentioned today, we re other celebrity scandals involving all cogen and charlie sheen more on that in a second. but the reason we heard all of this today was because of this man keith davidson, who took the stand. he is the attorney who represented both stormy daniel s the adult film star and director, and karen mcdougal, the 1998 playboy playmate of the year. when negotiating hush money payments arrange to keep them twice quiet about alleged sexual encounters they had with donald trump, one
tonight legendary coach hip-hop artists big bad josie mans laura coates and from the ringer and laker king charles starts now. going in going in. king charles starts now. welcome welcome! i m so excited, great work by the crew. thank you so much for joining us. this is king charles iii, brand-new show on cnn. just seeing the two of us should tell you there this is going to be something a little different wouldn t you agree? that s an understatement, but it s gonna be fun. how so? well, because we are going to have fun, gonna be opinionated, i m already a little ray charles i went to the dentist today and i was leaving and said gale said i m really excited about your king charles show with charles barkley, first of all i just want to think the nobodies column itself king charles s gayle king and charles barkley. the method to our madness wearing to talk about some of the biggest stories on the world where a show of what we find interesting some of it will be very
live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it s newsday. good morning. it s 8am in singapore, iam in london, and 3am in the last stronghold of so called islamic state, the syrian city of raqqa. the extremists are facing all out war on several fronts now. across the border, iraqi troops have re taken most of the city of mosul, but not in time to save the famous mosque there. in raqqa, us backed fighters of the syrian democratic forces are close to pushing is out. our correspondent, gabriel gatehouse, and cameraman, fred scott, are with the sdf on the frontline, and sent this exclusive report from raqqa. this has been a long and brutal road. we are inside raqqa now, driving to the centre of the syrian democratic forces, the sdf, a coalition of kurds and arabs. they have onlyjust retaken this street from fighters that called themselves islamic state. here is is often unseen but all the more dangerous for it. a noise in the sky signals the presence of
where mps are debating for a second day, a bill which would allow the prime minister to formally start the process of leaving the eu. the government is expected to win a vote on the legislation when it is held tonight at 7pm, despite opposition from some labour rebels plus the liberal democrats and the snp. we have been hearing more impassioned debates this afternoon as we did yesterday. let s hear a segment of it from the former chancellor, george osborne. truth is that while britain is seeking the maximum possible access to the single market for goods and for services, and while we hope that the fact that we have a trade deficit and a very important financial centre will count in our favour, the government has chosen andi favour, the government has chosen and i respect this decision, not to make the economy the priority in this negotiation. they have prioritised immigration control and that was a clear message from the referendum campaign and they ve also prioritised removi