With the latest, heres our North America editor sarah smith. As donald trump heads to court, waving at the cameras, it looks much the same each day, but theyre not the same. Today, he had to watch a woman who claimed she had sex with him, testify about it. He is accused of falsifying Business Records when he marked a Hush Money Payment to her as Legal Expenses. The Legal Expense that we paid was put down as Legal Expense. There is nothing more you could say. You dont have to put down anything like this, but we put down Legal Expense because it was ilLegal Expense. Is that right, mr attorney . Because it was a Legal Expense. Stormy daniels was paid 130,000 by mr trump to stop her going public with her claims of a sexual encounter, shortly before the 2016 president ial election. The court was shown this photograph of them together, as she described first meeting him at a Golf Tournament in 2006, the day she said they later had sex. It was at this golf course, she said, that donald trump sent his bodyguard to invite her to dinner. When she got to his hotel suite, she laughed at him for wearing black silk pajamas, while he dangled the possibility of her appearing on his tv show, the apprentice. As the prosecution asked ms daniels about having sex with mr trump, she was frequently interrupted by objections from his lawyers. The judge appeared unhappy about the length of her answers and the level of detail she was describing. She said she started thinking about selling her story when she heard Somebody Else was planning to, saying, id rather make the money than someone making money off of me. Earliertoday, mrtrump posted on social media. He quickly deleted it. Hes been warned by the judge that he could be jailed if he continues to post about witnesses in this trial. Sarah smith, bbc news, new york. Lets speak to nada tawfik, our North America correspondent shes there for us, it sounds like at times there was a heated exchange, was there not, between ms. Daniels and indeed the judge and the lawyers on both sides . Daniels and indeed the udge and the lawyers on both sides . Lawyers on both sides . Yeah, certainly stormy lawyers on both sides . Yeah, certainly Stormy Daniels lawyers on both sides . Yeah, certainly Stormy Daniels for l lawyers on both sides . Yeah, l certainly Stormy Daniels for the dead judges liking it was going into too much detail, he said much of it he found into much detail. Told her just to get as answer the questions that were posed to her. I can bring an upside from inside court right now. An update. Thejudge is arguing for a mistrial. The guard rails for Stormy Daniels testimony and those guardrails were thrown out. He called it prejudicial against trump and claims that daniels has changed her story about the alleged encounter. So it kind of attempts there by the defence to kind of come off this very tense nature of Cross Examination to get the entire case dismissed as a mistrial, well see how thejudge responds. But nevertheless, the defence had tried to block Stormy Daniels from even testifying about that alleged sexual encounter that donald trump denies, but the judge had found that prosecutors should be able to introduce that to establish your credibility as a witness. Where do we no your credibility as a witness. Where do we go from your credibility as a witness. Where do we go from here . Your credibility as a witness. Where do we go from here . Well, your credibility as a witness. Where do we go from here . Well, stormy| do we go from here . Well, Stormy Daniels is still do we go from here . Well, Stormy Daniels is still on do we go from here . Well, Stormy Daniels is still on the do we go from here . Well, Stormy Daniels is still on the stand. Do we go from here . Well, Stormy Daniels is still on the stand. She i daniels is still on the stand. She just got to the part of discussing the lead up to the 2016 election, when donald trump was running and when donald trump was running and when many people were offering to buy her story of that alleged affair. And she said that ultimately, as she left it to her agent to negotiate a deal and she wanted to do it now because of the money, she said in 2015 it was one of the best years she had, she was doing well financially, but she just wanted to be safe. She just wanted the story out there. So she agreed to that Hush Money Payment, and i think well hear more from prosecutors but of course then we will go to Cross Examination by the defence. Will go to crossexamination by the defence. , ~ ,. ,. The United Nations says israel is not allowing humanitarian aid and workers into gaza through the rafah crossing after its forces took control of the gaza side of the border with egypt. Hamas has warned that the israeli incursion there aims to undermine efforts to secure a ceasefire. Last night, hamas announced it had accepted proposals drawn up by International Mediators but the deal was rejected by israel as far from meeting its core demands. A hamas delegation has now arrived in cairo for more talks. A hamas spokesman said the ball is in israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Neta nyahus court. Paul adams reports from jerusalem. A deal may now be tantalisingly close, but in rafah, israels military pressure is relentless. Today, severing gazas last link with the outside world, the crossing point into egypt. He and raising the flag, sending an unmistakable message to hamas. The noose is tightening. The sounds of approaching war echo among the displaced, Hundreds Of Thousands of palestinians living in the sand against the egyptian border or next to the sea. I dont know where to stay, heart medicines, stay, this man says, people are fleeing from rafah. I have my children with me. Gazans have been on the move since yesterday morning, heeding israels latest warnings, not knowing if the coming days will bring relief or despair. Translation after what we have witnessed, they have said multiple times that there will be a ceasefire, but we are frustrated and we have no hope. There is no big hope, only a small one. Injerusalem, john and rachel have also battled with belief and fear. Their son was abducted and badly injured on october the 7th. No sign of life until this hamas video two weeks ago. His parents nowjust daring to hope. When we heard the news that maybe there is a deal, we were cautiously optimistic, and we remain cautiously optimistic. It is scary to have military actions going on, there are innocent civilians including our son. We just need this to come to an end and we need the mediators on all sides and the two main parties to just sit in a room and hammer this out and dont come out of the room without a deal. Israels Defence Minister says the Rafah Operation will not stop until hamas is eliminated all the hostages start to return. Or the hostages start to return. Talks are set to continue a successful outcome still far from guaranteed. Lets speak to daniel levy, president of the Us Middle East project and a former israeli negotiator with the palestinians. Would do things stand now with this negotiation for a cease fire . Irate would do things stand now with this negotiation for a ceasefire . We are at a Oint Negotiation for a ceasefire . We are at a Point We Negotiation for a ceasefire . We are at a point we havent negotiation for a ceasefire . We are at a point we havent been negotiation for a ceasefire . We are at a point we havent been at negotiation for a ceasefire . We are at a point we havent been at for negotiation for a ceasefire . We are at a point we havent been at for an | at a point we havent been at for an awfully long time now, where there is some kind of prospect. We are not there yet but i think the main Sticking Point remains this question of is this going to be a limited pause in the fighting after which the assault on rafah, the continuation of the deadly attacks inside gaza, 50,000 plus 15,000 inside gaza, 50,000 plus 15,000 children, or is this going to be a sustained calm, as said in the document itself. The israeli Prime Minister is insisting that the war will continue and this is the analysis of many inside israel, many of the Hostage Families that are out on the streets screaming and howling, protesting, the assessment is that the Israeli Government is committed to continuing the war and that perhaps what we see is both hamas and the Israeli Government testing the intentions of the biden administration. Are they going to do what they can, including on the Weapons Transfers to israel, to force the hand of netanyahu . It may still take some time. Were they going to fold and if this doesnt work theyll simply say, well, of course hamas is to blame and then go right back we started, unfortunately. Right back we started, unfortunately. Right back we started, unfortunatel. ~. , unfortunately. What about the internal political unfortunately. What about the internal political pressure unfortunately. What about the internal political pressure on | unfortunately. What about the i internal political pressure on mr netanyahu . Where does that play into all this . I netanyahu . Where does that play into all this . ~ ,. , all this . I think it is that combination all this . I think it is that combination of all this . I think it is that combination of the all this . I think it is that. Combination of the external all this . I think it is that combination of the external and internal, because i think you only get to a potential internal Tipping Point if the external is sufficiently robust. That is not just the us, the uk could send an important signal if it publishes the legal advice and makes its own designation on not sending weapons. At that internal question, what you haveis at that internal question, what you have is a more vociferous, angry protest but those protesters are still not tipping the balance. These are the kinds of protests, the kinds of numbers one saw over the judicial reform. You dont have even the so called more centrist forces that have joined the cabinet leaving that cabinet or saying they will leave over this issue. You dont have a majority in the parliament to push netanyahu. So thats why i say inside, outside, thus far youre hearing not the netanyahu homebase but most of the rest of that kind of floating israel which hasnt really criticised the horrors that have been conducted, but youre hearing them say netanyahu is sabotaging a deal, the move in rafah that is exacerbating the humanitarian crisis is not going to leverage a softening of the hamas position but it could undermine the ability to get that deal. It is also going to further complicate israel with cases pending at the International Criminal court on war crimes and the International Court ofjustice on israels violations of the genocide convention. Violations of the genocide convention. ,. , violations of the genocide convention. ,. ,. , convention. Daniel leavy, thanks for talkin to convention. Daniel leavy, thanks for talking to us. Convention. Daniel leavy, thanks for talking to us, thanks convention. Daniel leavy, thanks for talking to us, thanks so convention. Daniel leavy, thanks for talking to us, thanks so much. Still to come on The World Today the bbc understands the government suspects china was behind the hack of an armed forces payroll system. And tiktok files a legal challenge to a law that would ban app in the us unless its sold to another company. Around the world and across the uk. This is The World Today on bbc news. Lets turn to a story here in the uk where the bbc understands the government suspects china was behind the hack of an armed forces payroll system. Prime minister rishi sunak, stopped short on naming the country responsible, but said a malign actor had compromised the payroll system. China has described the suggestion as fabricated and malicious slander. Heres the uk Defence Secretary addressing mps in the house of commons. Mr deputy speaker, for reasons of National Security cant release security we cant release further details of the suspected cyber activity behind this incident. However, i can confirm to the house that we do have indications that this was the suspected work of a malign actor, and we cannot rule out state involvement. This incident is further proof that the uk is facing rising and evolving threats, and as i said in my speech in lancaster house injanuary, the world is, im afraid, becoming somewhat more dangerous. 0ur security correspondent, gordon corera, explains why grant shapps stopped short of naming china. We havent had an official accusation against china, i think we should be clear about that. There is a process which is called attribution which the government does where it says, weve looked at this incident and we think it was china. Now, that can often take time. So, for instance, there was a breach of the uks electoral commission, which happened about three years ago, and theres onlyjust been attributed to china. So thats how long it sometimes takes to publicly blame another country for Something Like that, because they want to be absolutely sure. So we have not had that public attribution of blame and we may not get it for some time. So there is an assumption, a suspicion from officials that this was indeed china, partly because of chinese behaviour in the past, because there had been these incidents where theyve been going off on this kind of data set. Brian lord is a former operation that gc hq, brian lord is a former operation that gc h0, and the Protection Group international, Thanks Forjoining us here on The World Today. What do you make of what is happening . Some have blamed china, what do you think . I think the point he hasjust made is exactly right, attribution is a very very difficult thing and responsible governments do tend to be wanting to be absolutely sure of their facts before pointing fingers in that way. That said, the some of the nature of this type of attack is consistent with the historical activities of the chinese government, but is consistent with other adversarial governments as well. So while its a fairly sound assumption to point the finger in that direction, i think the uk government, as it should be, needs to be absolutely sure that if it was china, china should be named. At the moment, i think simply because of the nature of these things, it does take time to have that level of assurance. find things, it does take time to have that level of assurance. Things, it does take time to have that level of assurance. And this is re that level of assurance. And this is pretty embarrassing, that level of assurance. And this is pretty embarrassing, isnt that level of assurance. And this is pretty embarrassing, isnt it that level of assurance. And this is pretty embarrassing, isnt it not, l pretty embarrassing, isnt it not, for the Industry Defence . It is embarrassing, for the Industry Defence . It is embarrassing, for for the Industry Defence . It is embarrassing, for a forthe Industry Defence . It 3 embarrassing, fora number of embarrassing, for a number of reasons. The first point the Ministry Of Defence has made is that core Operational Data in other words the real deep deep secrets, the hope that the Ministry Of Defence is not been compromised, but i think the embarrassment is one of two things. We shouldnt undermine the significance of an adversarial state or a malign actor as its been called, having access to the names of potential addresses in the bank details of all of our armed forces. That creates a huge amount of Un Settlement in the armed forces and theirfamilies. And the nature of the risk that they have, but more significantly as well, it is an embarrassment primarily because i think the issue is, how was this system breached . Was a breach through the mod, or were re led to understand through a universal contractors external contractor. And their supply chain, for a ministry which is in the cross hairs of other states in terms of cyber activity and indeed any other activity, particularly at this time of geopolitical tension, i think it is a great embarrassment that one of the most secure ministries of states has been breached whether directly or indirectly through a subcontractor. Or indirectly through a subcontractor. , ~ ,. , or indirectly through a subcontractor. , ~ ,. Subcontractor. Thank you very much, brian, for talking subcontractor. Thank you very much, brian, for talking to subcontractor. Thank you very much, brian, for talking to us subcontractor. Thank you very much, brian, for