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in the uk and around the world. hello. there s still confusion tonight over whether the long serving labour mp, diane abbott, can stand in the general election. her suspension from the party ended last night, following comments on race that she made in a letter to a newspaper last year. but she told supporters in east london this evening, that labour wants her excluded from parliament, a claim sir keir starmer says isn t true. joe pike has our top story. will you be standing as an independent? at the last election, she was labour s pick to be home secretary. this time round, diane abbott may not be allowed to run for the party at all. they just want to be excluded theyjust want to be excluded from parliament. 50 they just want to be excluded from parliament- parliament. so what happened to olitical parliament. so what happened to political independence? - what s your message to keir starmer? this morning, she told the bbc, i am banned from standing as a labour candi ....
first, the latest headlines. in the last hour, the jury in donald trump s hush money trial has requested some further evidence after beginning deliberations. the former president is now close to learning his fate after becoming the first american president to face a criminal trial. the polls have now closed in south africa s general election. the vote is being seen as the most pivotal in three decades and is considered a test of the ruling anc s the african national congress hold on the country. the dutch authorities are investigating the death of a person who fell into the spinning turbine blades of a departing passengerjet at amsterdam s schiphol airport. the death occurred outside the busy hub s terminal as a klm flight was ready to depart for billund in denmark. and breaking news a father and son from cheshire are missing after a hillwalking trip in the scottish highlands. tom parry and his 12 year old son richie were due to return home on wednesday after visi ....
thank you for being with us. we start in new york where the 12jurors in donald trump s hush money trial have begun their deliberations in the first ever criminal trial of a us president. mr trump is facing 3a counts of falsifying business records. prosecutors accuse the former president of an elaborate scheme that violated campaign finance laws, to cover up a $130,000 hush money payment to porn star stormy daniels. those business records include entries in business ledgers kept by the trump organization. cheques and cheques stubs from a donald j. trump account. and invoices from his former lawyer, michael cohen, who testified that he paid daniels on behalf of trump to suppress her claim of an affair from 2006. well speaking outside the court mr trump took issue with the wittnesses that were called and the crimes he is being charged with. so it seems that there are a lot of witnesses, a lot of people that they could ve called and they didn t call. dating column obvio ....
attacks by hamas. i m pamela brown in washington. we are also following breaking news in the united states including former vice president mike pence s stunning campaign suspension and new details about the horrific mass shooting in maine that killed 18 people. we start with what prime minister netanyahu called this evening a new long stage in the israel hamas war. israel s military says its troops and tanks are inside gaza now in what promises to be a bloody and complex battle in order to rid the gaza strip of the terrorist group responsible for the horrific october 7th attack that killed at least 1300 is israels. inside gaza, palestinians are trying to shelter and they are mourning in darkness amid a near total communications blackout. as the hamas controlled palestinian ministry of health is estimating hundreds of gazans have been killed by israeli air strikes in just the last two days. meanwhile, the families of israeli hostages held in gaza are growing more ter ....
biggest economy. i will be discussing all of that with these two. there they are, the head of one of south africa s leading business groups, hotels with a top priority for any new government has to be fixing the basics, electricity, water and transport. also, the man in charge of economic policy for the democratic alliance. as the second biggest party, they are said to have an influential say in the future of south africa. plus, working harder in your work day. the big boss of the us software giant that helps power netflix, levi s and fedex tells me why ai will bring a step change in human productivity. wherever you arejoining me wherever you are joining me from around the world, once again, a warm welcome. this week, we are focusing on south africa, one of the most advanced economies on the continent, but one with huge challenges for the new government to get to grips with. unemployment, power cuts and infrastructure are just the start. that is despite the imf, the int ....