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 obviously b
Soa frost. So a wintry looking morning here and the fog will be loathe to clear in some places. In some spots it wont clear at all. Some Western Fringes seeing the best of the sunshine. More likely for Northern Ireland and scotland, a fine day. Away from the Western Highlands where there will abspot or two of drizzle. Chillier further south and where the fog lingers all day, we probably wont get above freezing. All the latest, including Weather Warnings which have just been issued, including Weather Warnings which havejust been issued, will including Weather Warnings which have just been issued, will be found online. Hello. This is bbc news. The headlines at ii. 31pm voters in some parts of england are to be asked to provide proof of id before casting their ballots, as part of efforts to curb electoral fraud. Ministers have rejected criticism the plan is a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Russian Crash Investigators examine a Flight Data Recorder recovered from the black sea, to try to dis
Cassettes as well . No nana, itsjust cds. Why, do you have cassettes . No. The bafta winner played nana in the royle family. One of her co stars, the actress suejohnston, said she was devastated at her passing. In halfan in half an hour, reporters takes a look at the bbcs bestjournalism from the last year, including an exclusive report on chinese militarisation of International Waters. Some Breaking Newsjust in. The author of Watership Down, Richard Adams has died, aged 96. His tale about a family of rabbits was a bestseller and also became a celebrated film. A statement from his family said he died on christmas eve. They posted a quote from the book on the Watership Down website which read it seemed to hazel he would not be needing his body any more. Nick higham looks back at his life. They seem sad, like trees in november. It became a worldwide bestseller and animated film and made its creator a millionaire. Not bad for a story about Intrepid Rabbits originally devised by a Civil Ser
Financial news with aaron. And World Business report. A new clear nightmare 3 billion wiped off the value of the japanese tech giant toshiba, after it buys a us Power Business that turns out to be not so powerful. Beating the giants at their own game we visit the man who couldnt wait for the Electronics Industry to come up with usable Smart Home Solutions so, he built his own. Welcome to World Business report. Im aaron heslehurst. Well, happy. What do you say between christmas and new year . Anyway hopefully we have a bite size look at finance. Shares of the Japanese Technology giant toshiba took another massive hit this morning falling 20 thats the maximum allowed before the Stock Exchange suspends all trading. The value lost off the company today is nearly 3 billion. This follows a 12 drop on tuesday. And its all to do with a not so good purchase toshiba made in the Us Nuclear Power industry. Mariko 0i is in our Asia Business hub in singapore. Good to see you and i hope you had a won
They are all boston strong and we salute them. Im anderson cooper. Good night. I hope you were with us during the last hour and you were inspired as watching adrianne hasletdavis story. She is truly boston strong. One thing she wanted to get across to everyone watching is something her grandmother said to her as a kid it is okay to not be okay sometimes. But adrien is doing okay. And she has a long road ahead of her as do many of the survivors but we will root for her along the way. If you are just joining us, we expect a News Conference any moment from Australian Authorities on the search for flight 370. It is 11 00 a. M. In the search area. The newly refined and somewhat
smaller search area. You see it in the red near the top of the screen. The gray is former search areas. The question right now is will it change yet again when Angus Houston, whos coordinating the search effort, steps to the make phone in perth. Will he make bigger news. We will find out shortly and we expect the Pre