not yet been made public, but they re thought to relate to falsifying business records to hide a payment to a pawn star during the 2016 election campaign. to hide a payment to a porn star during the 2016 election campaign. it s alleged stormy daniels was paid off in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair. mr trump is expected to appear in court in new york to face the charges and enter a plea next tuesday. he denies any wrongdoing and the affair saying the indictment is political persecution . gary o donoghue reports this manhattan courthouse doesn t normally look like this, but then it s not every day a former president gets charged with a crime. in fact, it s never happened before. it s a political sham, and it s politically motivated. it s finally good to see some justice happen. if you do something wrong, you should be held responsible, right? you can tjust buy your way into getting out of trouble. and this is the man who s brought the charges against donald
they were banned last year in response to russia s invasion of ukraine. but british tennis organisations would have lost millions because the lead up grass court events would have to be cancelled. 0ur tennis correspondent russell fuller says there ll be contrasting reactions. the players again, if you take them as an international group, will be broadly very supportive. they did not like the idea they could all potentially be, as they saw it, discriminated against on the grounds of nationality, but where it will upset people very, very deeply is amongst the ukrainian player contingent. we are now moving towards a situation where the international olympic committee has indicated strongly they want to allow russian and belarusian athletes to compete at the olympics in paris next year and it means wimbledon and the other warm up events on the grass in the uk before the championships will be able to invite russians and belarusian players and some had
in response to russia s invasion of ukraine. the ukrainian foreign minister has describing the decision as immoral . but british tennis organisations would have lost millions because the lead up grass court events would have to be cancelled. they wouldn t be sanctioned by the atp. our tennis correspondent russell fuller says there ll be contrasting reactions. well, the players again, if you take them as an international group, will be broadly very supportive of this decision. they did not like the idea that they could all be potentially be, as they saw it, discriminated against on the grounds of nationality. but where it ll upset people very, very deeply is amongst the ukrainian player contingent because we are now moving towards a situation where the international olympic committee have indicated very strongly they want to allow russian and belarusian athletes to compete at the olympic games in paris next year, and it means
that is based on our constitution so we can, of course if challenged we can defend it. a ukraine team of 20 athletes and nine guides will compete in the chinese capital. there had been concerns the athletes would not be able to travel safely. however, the ukrainian disabled sports committee has announced they will arrive today. two main tennis organisations have announced that players from russia and belarus will be allowed to continue to compete, but only as neutral athletes. it means ukranian elina svitolina s match against russia s anastasia potapova at the monterrey 0pen did go ahead, after the ukrainian top seed was given assurances her opponent would compete under a neutralflag. the international tennis federation has suspended the russian and belarus tennis federations from international team competition. russian formula one driver nikita mazepin will be allowed to race this season. the sport s governing body the fia has ruled