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president trump and going after his possible pending indictment as politically motivated. un-american, and another a partisan attempt to try to bring him down. a manhattan grand jury is hearing a case related to a hush money payment made to adult film star stormy daniels in the run-up to the 2016 election. today they will hear from one final witness robert costello, a one-time legal adviser to president trump s former attorney michael cohen. he is expected to rebut cohen who has been the key witness against donald trump, isn t he a known liar? just establishing that fact. the grand jury will then need to decide whether it will indict donald trump and that could happen as soon as tomorrow. several legal experts are questioning the strength of this case however, manhattan district attorney alvin bragg is looking to elevate the misdemeanor issue to a felony and make donald trump the first former president in history to face criminal charges. and house speaker kevin mccarth ....
a new agreement called the washington declaration aimed at deterring an attack on seoul. the bbc s seoul correspondent jean mackenzie explained what this agreement involves. so this deal is the us stepping up so this deal is the us stepping up its commitment to use nuclear weapons to defend south korea from north korea. you know, the us is responsible for south korea s event and are always up implied it would use nuclear weapons if necessary but recently people here in seoul have questioned that commitment and they needed part of this deal is the us is going to send one of its armed with nuclear weapons to the peninsular. it will be stationed here continually but it will come periodically. they will form the joint nuclear planning group and this allows south korea to be more involved in understanding how and when the us would use its nuclear weapons. politicians here essentially have been kept in the dark with little understanding of what would actually trigger the ....
the washington declaration aimed at deterring an attack on seoul. the bbc s seoul correspondent jean mackenzie explained what this agreement involves. so this deal is the us stepping up its commitment to use nuclear weapons to defend south korea from north korea. you know, the us is responsible for south korea s defence and are always up implied it would use nuclear weapons if necessary but recently people here in seoul have questioned that commitment and they needed part of its submarines, armed with nuclear weapons to the peninsular. it will be stationed here continually but it will come periodically. they will form the joint nuclear planning group and this allows south korea to be more involved in understanding how and when the us would use its nuclear weapons. politicians here essentially have been kept in the dark with little understanding of what would actually trigger the us president to trigger the nuclear button on its behalf, but in return for these us com ....
trouble. and the controversial american tv talk show host jerry springer has died at the age of 79. voice-over: live from our studio in singapore, - this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. we start with the latest in the crisis in sudan. the national army and rapid support forces have agreed to extend a three day ceasefire shortly before it was due to expire. almost two weeks of clashes between the factions have left hundreds of people dead and forced tens of thousands from their homes. thousands of people are still trying to flee the country. our diplomatic correspondent caroline hawley reports now from cyprus, where some evacuees are still arriving. at the airfield in khartoum, desperate crowds with just one hope to escape. everyone here has made a dangerous journey. a military operation described as even more complex than the evacuation from afghanistan, and no one knows when the last flight out will go. larnaca airport first stop to s ....
the paramilitary group the rapid support forces came to that agreementjust hours before a previous ceasefire was due to expire. despite these agreements, clashes have been reported with gunshots heard and fighterjets seen in parts of the country. our correspondent paul adams has more on the origins of the conflict. khartoum obviously was the focus of that popular revolt backin focus of that popular revolt back in 2019, which was, you know, the thing that brought to an end 30 years of alba ts s power. it was followed by a terrible massacre of demonstrators in the aftermath of president 0mar al bashir s alistair but it has not seen the kind of all out military conflict that it is witnessing. what happened in so many other parts of sudan and is now, has now come to the city. it is a real shock for the civilians of that city who did not think that city who did not think that it would come to this but feared that somehow, this rivalry between these two factions was going to ....