welcome to bbc news we go straight to new york where donald trump will be in court in the next few hours, to face criminal charges. that has never happened before and as you d expect huge focus on the former president. these are live pictures from manhattan outside the courthouse. there s a heavy security presence as you d imagine. the charges relate to hush money paid to a pawn starjust paid to a porn starjust before the 2016 election to keep quiet about an affair. the full details of the charges will become clear when the indictment is unsealed. the former president with his legal team having added a prosecutor to his team making their final preparations. when were speaking with our correspondent a little while earlier he was telling us about some last minute moves they were anticipating when proceedings get going with the defence team going to ask for the trial to move out of manhattan to staten island so interest in the tactics there in terms of a little more supp
has sweden become europe s most polarised country? tobias billstrom, in stockholm, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. mr billstrom, sweden has, for many months now, had its request in to become a full fledged member of nato. you applied alongside finland. finland got in, in april. sweden still isn t in. how frustrated are you? well, i have to say that one should stay calm and join nato, as it says on the, you know. ..in the writing. i have to say that i think that, when all is said and done, the summit in vilnius with nato was a great success. we got a clear statement between turkiye, between sweden, and between nato that we will move forward, and that turkiye will now finally deliver our document of ratification to its grand national assembly in october, once the summer vacation is ended. and then the ratification will start. and we feel confident that this is going to happen on part of a swedish government. there was a clear handshake between the president of turkiye
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