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money paid to an adult film star. the decision paves the way for the first ever criminal trial of a former us president. the trial has been scheduled for next month. it s the first of four criminal cases mr trump faces. he s pleaded not guilty and says the cases are politically motivated. here is the former president speaking to reporters. we re here for something that is not a crime. - nobody s ever seen anything like it. what it is is election interference. it s being run byjoe i biden s white house. his top person was placed | here in order to make sure everything goes right. this is a terrible time for our country, this is a real dark period for our country. his top person and others have been i placed into the da s office to makel sure they do a good jobi of election interference. our correspondent nada tawfik, who is outside the courthouse in new york, has more. these appearances at court have certainly become common for donald trump, as he seeks to kind of boos ....
fighting in eastern ukraine. as our correspondent, andrew harding reports from the front line, ukraine s army is struggling with a shortage of ammunition and other military supplies and is urging the us to help out. ukrainian tanks heading into battle. we are close to the russian lines here and to a town the kremlin has been desperate to capture for months. gunfire. inside of avdiivka, it s not going well for ukraine. these troops are increasingly pinned down and struggling. gunfire. in the ditch here, a wounded soldier needing urgent help. so what s going wrong for ukraine after two years of war? a simple answer can be found a few kilometers away. a ukrainian artillery team. last year, these men were firing 80 shells a day at russian positions around avdiivka. not any more. so these are the last two shells that you have? yes , says the officer in charge. and these two don t even work. it is an alarming situation. russia is now outgunning ukraine by perhaps five to ....
around the world. we start in the middle east, where fighting has resumed in gaza. after the seven day temporary ceasefire between israel and hamas expired at 7am local time. the israeli military says it has struck more than 200 of what it describes as terror targets. hamas which is proscribed as a terrorist organisation by many western goverments says more than a hundred people have been killed. before the temporary ceasefire, israel s military had focussed on the north of gaza, including gaza city. this morning, israeli jets dropped leaflets close to the city of khan younis, telling people to evacuate immediately and go to shelters in rafah . in the south of the territory near the egyptian border. but israel s military has hit targets today both in rafah and khan younis. our senior international correspondent orla guerin reports from sderot, just across the borderfrom gaza. gaza awoke to this. a new day of israeli bombing. skies darkened by ash and debris. in ....