physical everyone works as lawyers, physical therapists, finance, security engineer, sales and a recent college graduate. one noted that even read the bbc. donald trump looked on as they were sworn in and said they could be fair and impartial but this is what he said outside of court. the whole world is watching. you have a da out of control, a judge thatis have a da out of control, a judge that is highly conflicted. the whole thing is a mess and you have the leading candidate, he is a crook, you have a crooked president. bath you have a crooked president. both sides ran out _ you have a crooked president. both sides ran out of _ you have a crooked president. both sides ran out of what are called strikes, they are able to get rid of the juror strikes, they are able to get rid of thejurorfor any reason. one strikes, they are able to get rid of the juror for any reason. one woman said she didn't quite like donald trump's persona and while donald trump's persona and while donald trump's lawyers objected to her being on the jury for cause, the judge said it wasn't about how she felt about him as a person but whether she could be impartial.

another issue that will be taking care of in a hearing next week is where the donald trump broke a limited gag order when he posted jurors were liberals trying peter murrell arriving home tonight after more than nine hours in custody at falkirk police station. mr murrell, any reaction? he was arrested shortly after nine o'clock this morning and charged at 6:35pm. any comment, mr murrell? in a statement, police scotland said a 59—year—old man had been charged

in connection with the embezzlement of funds from the scottish national party. it added, a report will be sent to the crown office and procurator fiscal service in due course. it's the second time mr murrell has been arrested in connection with operation branchform. he was first questioned last april, weeks after resigning as chief executive of the snp, when officers searched the home he shares with nicola sturgeon on the outskirts of glasgow. as part of their inquiry, police also searched the snp's headquarters in edinburgh and seized this luxury motorhome from outside the house of mr murrell�*s mother, in fife. is your party imploding? two weeks later, officers arrested the scottish national party treasurer, colin beattie, and then, last summer, ms sturgeon herself. after questioning, both were released without charge. at the heart of this inquiry is nearly £667,000 raised by the snp between 2017 and 2020, to campaign for independence. questions first arose at the end of 2019, when it emerged that the party had just under £97,000 in the bank. and tonight, one more development

in an inquiry that has sent shock waves through scottish politics — peter murrell has resigned his membership of the snp. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines.... kenya's president, william ruto, has confirmed that the defence chief, general francis ogolla, has been killed in a helicopter crash. nine other people died in the crash, in the rift valley in the west of the country. yemen has become the latest gulf country to be hit by a torrential rain storm that's swept across the region. one person was killed when roads, farms and businesses were flooded in an area around the port city of mukalla. the same storm has killed at least 19 people in the gulf. a polish man has been arrested and charged with planning to co—operate with russian intelligence services to aid a possible assassination of volodymyr zelensky, authorities said.

polish prosecutors said the man, named as pawel k, was allegedly tasked with collecting information about an airport in poland used by ukraine's president. the arrest was made on the basis of ukrainian intelligence. germany has warned russia it won't tolerate moscow's attempts to recruit agents and carry out attacks on german soil. two men were arrested in bavaria on suspicion of spying for russia and planning sabotage attacks on military sites which assist ukraine. russia says there's no evidence for the allegations. meanwhile, ukraine's prime minister has told the bbc there will be a "third world war" if ukraine loses its conflict with russia — as he urged the us congress to pass a long—stalled foreign aid bill. the house of representatives is set to vote on the package this saturday. he was speaking to my colleague, sumi somas—kanda. the global system of security will be destroyed at all, and all the world will need to find and will need to look in for a new system of security.

or there will be many conflicts, many such kinds of wars. and in the end of the day, it could lead to the third world war. so our mutual task is to protect democratic values, to protect existing after the second world war, global system, secure global security system. and bring long term and sustainable peace on european continent. so russia must lose this war and aggressors should be punished, and putin's regime should be destroyed at all. and putin's regime should be destroyed et al. and only this factors will lead us to the sustainable and long—term peace. aid to ukraine dominated discussion at a g7 meeting of foreign ministers on the italian island of capri. our correspondent, jessica parker, is there. the majorfocus here is ukraine's calls for more air defence systems. the nato secretary—general, jens stoltenberg is here in capri. he said earlier there

is an urgent critical need, that russia is pushing on the whole front line whilst carrying out raids of air strikes. this is a g7 foreign ministers meeting. ukraine's foreign minister is here, but it's not a formal weapons pledging session. that being said, they can discuss, they can coordinate but speaking to officials today the mood on this issue overall is somewhat downbeat. causing a bit more optimism, though, is the prospect of a vote in congress on the long stalled us aid package to ukraine of $60 billion. that's certainly being talked up here. they are looking at other ways to raise money for ukraine and one idea that has been kicking about for quite some time now, seen as potentially legally quite tricky is using frozen russian assets. specifically, according to people i have been speaking to, whether they can use the interest from those assets to effectively

channel money to ukraine. but we don't expect any final decisions on that here, it's something that's been indicated that you could see may be being proposed at the g7 leader's meeting later this year. around the world and across the uk this is bbc news.

nearly a billion people are eligible to vote in the indian election this year. polling will run across the country in seven phases over six weeks — begining on friday. meghan owen takes a look at the scale of it. around 1 billion people are eligible to vote in this year's indian election. it is equivalent to one in eight people around the world. it is a mammoth election which requires a huge effort. this year we will see 15 million polling officials and

security staff, 400,000 vehicles and 5.5 million electronic voting machines. let's take a closer look at the voters. they make up the equivalent of the populations of the us, russia, the uk, belgium, france, japan and brazil. let's take a closer look at the make—up of those voters. in red we can see a small percentage of first—time voters, the majority in green are aged 30 to 84. a small percentage are elderly. and they, for the first time will be able to vote at home via postal vote. india is keen that everybody gets a chance to have their say this year. in fact, according to the chief election commissioner, he said all teams will walk the extra mile to reach every voter, whether they are injungels or snowy mountains. we will go on horseback, elephants, mules or helicopters. we will reach everywhere. he's not wrong. let's look at this photo here. this is a

group of reporters taking some voting stations up to a remote area in west bengal. because of the sheer volume of people, they are having to stagger the voting this year. there will be seven polling dates and the counting of the votes will happen on the 4th ofjune. china's economy is facing its biggest economic challenge in two decades. the so—called factory of the world is struggling to recover from years of covid lockdowns and a global economic downturn. many western firms are worried that low—cost chinese—made goods will force them out of business. laura bicker, has been to the country's manufacturing hub. this man is a lifelong factory worker who's helped forge china's rise. this is your home?. everything he owns is behind this door. but as china's economy falters, the last firm he worked for closed without warning, leaving him without his

redundancy pay, which will take years to earn back. translation: it's hard to find newjobs. - we are old and we don't have many skills. most companies only hire younger people. he spent 16 years of his life in what is now a concrete shell. even in the wreckage, he can remember the furniture assembly line. this factory was his family's future, a paycheque sent to his village home for children he couldn't afford to travel to see. i feel reluctant to part with this place. i feel heartbroken. i've spent so many years here and now this place has become like this. all the workers feel astonished and are disappointed and we grieve. prolonged covid lockdowns and bitter trade wars have

chipped away at the pillars of china's economy. so the country has changed course. new technology and a new robotic workforce is taking over. and the made in china brand is at the heart of the world's drive towards renewables. you're about to get a clear view of china's capacity to build. china dominates the world solar panel market. 80% of the world's solar panels are made here. in fact, they've installed more in one year than the us have in a decade. but that has both brussels and washington worried. many in the west say china is making too much of the world's green tech. they accuse beijing of giving firms state hand—outs. that means china's goods are so cheap, it's driving western brands out of business. and what do you think

of the capacity in china to produce this kind of green energy? right now, i think 80% to 90% of the energy storage equipment are designed and manufactured in china, so we are leading the market in the whole world. china is helping the world capture the sun, but at a cost. this feat cannot save its workforce and the west wants its dependence on china to end. so now, once again, trade tensions threaten to cast a shadow over east/west relations. laura bicker, bbc news, dongguan. taylor swift releases her latest album on friday, and it's hotly anticipated by her legions of fans. so much so that it seems to have already leaked online. mark savage reports.

taylor swift is the biggest selling musician in the world, and she's in the middle of a record—breaking tour that's made her into a billionaire. so fans were surprised when she used the grammy awards this february to announce an album of new material called the tortured poets department. for the last couple of weeks, she's been dropping hints about the lyrics online. then, this happened. why am i seeing people posting leaks to taylor swift's new album on tiktok, just publicly?! what?! the leak, which hasn't been officially confirmed, sent fans into a frenzy, with many pledging to wait for the official release. and that's not cool. just wait 36 more hours. like, we've waited this long. i think most people will want to wait, because part of the fun of being a fan of something is everyone at the same time listening to it and reacting to it at the same time, and sort of getting those first—hand reactions. but i'm sure people will secretly be listening and not telling anyone! # it's me, hi, i'm

the problem, it's me...# the leak is undoubtedly an inconvenience for taylor swift, but she won't be losing too much sleep. the same thing happened with her last album midnight, and it went on to sell more than six million copies in just eight weeks. mark savage, bbc news. that's all for now. stay with bbc news. hello, there. some beautiful rainbows spotted again on thursday, particularly across parts of scotland, such as here in aberdeenshire. and there will be more rainbows on friday with sunshine and showers still very much the theme of the day, but lots more dry weather to come in the forecast as we head through the weekend and into the start of next week now with high pressure starting to edge in from the west, killing off some of those showers by the time we get to the end of the afternoon. it's a cloudy, mild start to the day across england and wales, it's a little brighter further north

across scotland and northern ireland, the focus of the showers gradually shifting further southwards as we head through the afternoon across the midlands, down through central southern england. now, there will be quite a brisk and a chilly northerly to northwesterly wind blowing, lightening again by the time we get to the end of the day. quite a range of temperatures, too, just eight celsius in aberdeenshire with that northerly wind but 15 celsius across the south—west of england. now, as we head through friday night, the skies will clear, and away from north sea facing coasts, which stay rather cloudy and breezy, then we could again see a touch of frost with temperatures dropping back to low single figures, so another chilly start to the weekend. now, the weekend — a lot of dry weather. in fact, it is looking mostly dry, we'll see some rain across scotland, and there will be quite a bit of cloud around at times, especially towards the east, and a bit of east west split in terms of temperature. with that high pressure over us, we're drawing in quite a chilly north—easterly wind, so those north sea facing coasts

so here it is always going to feel cooler and there will be quite a lot of cloud around as well, the north sea really quite cold at this time of year, so west is best in terms of sunshine amounts and temperature, certainly. now, as we head through saturday, there's a warm front gradually easing its way across the far north of scotland, this will bring some cloud, some outbreaks of rain. further south, it is largely dry but cloudy, drizzly perhaps towards north sea facing coasts. best of the sunshine out towards the west, we'll get to 14 or 15 celsius perhaps here. some of the cloud could break up a little further eastwards, too, and that is also true on sunday, but temperatures towards these eastern coastal areas will really struggle to get much past eight or nine celsius. compare that to further west where in parts of northern ireland we could get to 17 degrees perhaps, feeling warmer here.

i think we're getting a bit off the subject, which is the conduct of mps. but you make an important point. the woman in the denim shirt? hi. it's great that we're i having an investigation regarding angela rayner. that's fantastic. let's also have an investigation into the billionaire _ status—claiming, tax—dodging - conservatives who are stealing money from the working class. it's no surprise to me that— a working—class woman is the biggest threat to the conservative party

that they're attacking her, - the same as they did with diane abbott — it's no surprise. so the guy who apologised for his new trainers, - can he apologise for the 4.2 million families in poverty today? - you're talking about the prime minister? i'm talking about the prime minister, who can stand up| and apologise like he's the boy next door for his new trainers, _ but he cannot apologise for the 4.2 million families in poverty. - he can't apologise for the workers who aren't getting paid. _ he can't apologise for the nhs and the waiting lists _ with people dying on them. if you have a problem with rishi's trainers, fine, but if you have a problem with the nhs, you should see what's happening in wales, where bridget's party have been in power for 25 years and given us the longest waiting lists this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. israel, backed by the us and other allies, showed just how effective air defences can be when faced with a missile barrage from iran.

imagine, then, how ukraine is feeling right now. day after day, russia is targeting ukrainian cities and infrastructure with missiles and drones. kyiv�*s air defences are too few, too depleted to neutralise the threat. my guest is former ukrainian prime minister arseniy yatsenyuk. is air defence a symptom of a wider malaise, that ukraine lacks the backing it needs to defy russia's war machine?