Described in the indictment that was fuelled by lies, lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a Bedrock Function of the Us Government, the nations process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the president ial election. Our North America correspondent nomia iqbal joins me from outside the court. What will we see on thursday . These charges as you outlined there, the Department Of Justice believes it is held a strong case to show the former president of the us tried to select the Election Results of 2020 and essentially tried to overturn the policy. We mention one of the charges, Conspiracy To Defraud the United States, obstruct official proceedings, and others. This is the most serious Indictment Set by the donald trump basis, one of the most serious indictments the Department Ofjustice has brought against a president in terms of what they have laid out in the indictment against him. Having said that, despite the seriousness of it, Department Ofjustice has a cha
Story tonight. thank you very much forjoining us.- story tonight. thank you very much forjoining us. that s our show. for more information please head to our website. our team has a live page up with the latest on the trump indcictment. iam sumi i am sumi somaskanda. thanks for being with us on bbc news. wet and windy weather on the way for wednesday. more on that in a second. but first of all, we start off with the news that for northern ireland, we ve had the wettestjuly on record, with over double the averagejuly rainfall. those records go back to 1836. it was also the wettestjuly on record for greater manchester, merseyside and lancashire as well. now, we ve got more rain to come through wednesday. this area of low pressure continues to strengthen and we re going to see a swathe of particularly strong winds just running to the south of this hook of cloud