Countries in asia. Well hear how the money will help in a moment. Voiceover live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. Its newsday. Hello and welcome to the programme. We begin in the United States where a key witness at the Hush Money Trial of donald trump has told the court in new york how he suppressed negative stories about the former president to help him win the 2016 election. The court heard today how the then candidate picked up the phone and called this man, david pecker, former publisher of a tabloid, the national enquirer, to discuss whether to pay off a Playboy Model who was shopping around a story of having a year long affair with trump. Before the trial resumed though, thejudge held a fiery hearing to determine if mr trump violated a gag order, which bans the former president from verbally attacking the jury and witnesses. This was Donald Trumps response. Well, i think the gag order is totally unconstitutional. Cant even allow articles to be put in. For example,
Coast in the early hours leading to the deaths of five of those attempting the crossing, including a child. It happened just hours after mps passed the governments Rwanda Bill Which is designed to deter people from attempting crossings like this. 0ur correspondent Andrew Harding was on that beach in the early hours of this morning just north of Wimereux Filming as police ran towards the people smugglers and those who had paid them to cross. Theyd only been at sea a short time when they got into difficulty. Well, we can join andrew now. Good evening. The smugglers in this area have accessed almost 150 miles of coastline from which to launch their small boats which makes it very rare and very difficult to actually witness one of those launches as it happens but that is what happened to us in the early hours of this morning, on a Big Beautiful Beach close to a french golf resort. Shouting a skirmish early this morning on a french beach. 0k, werejust running to catch up with some migrants
Hello, and welcome to the programme. We begin in the United States where a key witness at the Hush Money Trial of donald trump has told the court in new york how he suppressed negative stories about the former president to help him win the 2016 election. The court heard today how the then candidate picked up the phone and called this man, david pecker, former publisher of a tabloid, the national enquier, to discuss whether to pay off a Playboy Model who was shopping around a story of having a year long affair with trump. Before the trial resumed, though, thejudge held a fiery hearing to determine if mr trump violated a gag order, which bans the former president from verbally attacking the jury and witnesses. This was Donald Trumps response. Well, i think the gag order is totally unconstitutional. Cant even allow articles to be put in. For example, these were articles over the last day and a half. Theyre very good articles. They tell you the case the sham, it shouldnt even have been tri