jeremy — thank you, jeremy bowen, international editor.ness, and they say the keeper of donald trump's secrets. michael cohen, the ex—president�*s lawyer, has taken the stand and claimed mr trump had told him "tojust do it," and pay hush money to a porn star to keep her quiet over an alleged affair before the 2016 presidential election. the former president denies charges of falsifying business records to cover up reimbursing mr cohen. sarah smith is outside the courthouse in new york. sarah? michael cohen is crucial to this case. it is his testimony that could convicted donald trump and today he said everything the prosecuting wanted him to, that donald trump was really worried a story about him having sex with an adult film star could badly damage his first presidential campaign and that he, mr cohen, did pay $130,000 hush money to stormy daniels and donald trump arranged to pay him back over 12 months in payments disguised as legal expenses. the only problem, he is convicted... would he be a credible witness? the star witness for the pr

jeremy bowen, bbc news, kharkiv.d attempted murder after a 3a—year—old woman was stabbed to death on a beach in bournemouth. amie gray died on durley chine beach on friday. a second woman who sustained serious injuries remains in hospital. donald trump's lawyers have delivered their closing arguments in the hush money trial against him — telling the jury the case is based on "lies". the former president denies falsifying business records to cover up payments to a porn star during the campaign. mr trump has been accused by the prosecution of conspiring to corrupt the 2016 presidential election. 0ur senior north america correspondent, gary 0'donoghue is in new york now. tell us more about what has been going on in court today. bitter tell us more about what has been going on in court today.— going on in court today. after six weeks and _ going on in court today. after six weeks and more _ going on in court today. after six weeks and more than _ going on in court today. after six weeks and more than 20 - going on in cou

with me now are our international editor, jeremy bowen, and bbc arabic�*s reda el mawy.with us. we heard from frank the details of the cease—fire proposal. we see it on reuters as well forcing the cease—fire proposal that hamas agree to is a 3—phase agreement, each of 42 days long, that is what hamas are saying, but israel's reaction appears negative. it saying, but israel's reaction appears negative.— saying, but israel's reaction appears negative. it is because i think benjamin _ appears negative. it is because i think benjamin netanyahu - appears negative. it is because i think benjamin netanyahu was l think benjamin netanyahu was expecting hamas to say no to any cease—fire. the orders were given today to palestinians to vacate eastern part of rafah. the military operation started, a brief and in the last hour or so by the army in israel, talking about how many targets they hit, so in a sense, family or business. but this is not what people expected. most people are assessed, as well, that benjamin netanyahu is reluctant to go for a cease—fire, but in a sense was rely

jeremy bowen reports from the north—eastern city.urts my soul, but stay on the shelling might kill her. the couple next on the list preferred to risk it. you will be well looked after, she said, and it's all free. thank you, said emma, but we won't go. "thank you," said emma, "but we won't go." vika tried again. "we're evacuating people because there's a real crisis. "it's very dangerous. "there's going to be more shelling." emma stayed with her husband. ukrainian composure under fire is impressive, but that cannot obscure real challenges from a resurgent russia. vika had better luck at the next house. leaving home will only be temporary if ukraine weathers the dangerous summer ahead. all these personal tragedies like valentina leaving her home, it all adds up to ukraine's massive national trauma at a time, because of russian military pressure close to here and ukraine's own relative military weakness, that the people here are feeling under more pressure than at any time since the months after the full—scale invasion more than two ye

jeremy bowen is in kharkiv and said this update. i jeremy bowen is in kharkiv and said this update-—to the _ this update. i have just been talking to the mayor - this update. i have just been talking to the mayor and - this update. i have just been talking to the mayor and he | this update. i have just been - talking to the mayor and he said this happened about four o'clock in the afternoon, which as i speak to you now is a couple of hours ago. two people were killed, he says, here in the parking area. there are, i think, 11 employees of the business who are missing at the moment. it is a diy superstore, an obvious place you would think for civilians to go on a saturday afternoon. 0ne civilians to go on a saturday afternoon. one of the strange incongruities of the war is that in a way a modicum of normal life does go on while the war continues, so people were out doing what they have to do when this place was hit, they say, by two russian glide bombs. this will underline the anxiety that ukrainians feel about not having suitable air defences. president zelensky has said it so repeate

jeremy bowen is here with me. turn—up for the books, literally any elastomer, the mood music getting into that was not good. it music getting into that was not aood. . , , music getting into that was not mad. .,, , , .," good. it was very bleak. the israelis gave _ good. it was very bleak. the israelis gave those - good. it was very bleak. the israelis gave those warningsi good. it was very bleak. the - israelis gave those warnings this morning, two people in rafah to move, the offensive was about to happen, or rather a smaller scale version of it. i have been talking to people close to the talks, normally reliable diplomatic sources, and what i have been told is that they have agreed to release 33 israeli hostages, a a0 day ceasefire, there will be freedom of movement for people in gaza to return to the north, which has not been allowed until now. and then there would be a second phase, which is known as restoring sustainable karma. my information is that was language proposed by the americans backin language pro

i deferred to jeremy bowen to commentate on the middle east. no. i’m yes, was probably in the short term amounted to a no.— amounted to a no. i'm so sorry, i have to cough! — amounted to a no. i'm so sorry, i have to cough! james _ amounted to a no. i'm so sorry, i have to cough! james is - amounted to a no. i'm so sorry, i have to cough! james is having . have to cough! james is having on air coughing _ have to cough! james is having on air coughing moment. _ have to cough! james is having on air coughing moment. get - have to cough! james is having on air coughing moment. get that. have to cough! james is having on i air coughing moment. get that man have to cough! james is having on - air coughing moment. get that man a glass of water. don't worry. this is how the sausage is made! it's interesting you mention his interview. i thought maybe that was keir starmer being slightly too thoughtful and honest, because he was trying to answer his questions which led you down some sort of cul—de—sac. i thought normally at this point, if listen to the

christian: with me in the studio is jeremy bowen.tty clear that there is an awful lot we don't know at the moment. convoluted messages all around. but we know that bill burns was the cia chief. so how do you reflect on this idea that israel did not see this coming? jeremy: well, i think that israel -- this is guesswork of course, but based on the kinds of things that have been said, i think israel's assumption was that the head of hamas in gaza was not interested in doing any kind of a deal, that he wanted to continue with this. and in a sense, that made life a lot simpler for netanyahu who has been under a lot of pressure from his own right to do this operation in gaza. don't forget, these are the right-wings who sustain his government. without them, is government falls, and for him that is a very, very big deal, clearly. the phrase i keep hearing from people, people i speak to, other reports as well, is that now the ball is very much in netanyahu's court. that the bluff has been called. you can take it one stage further and say the

i asked jeremy bowen, the bbc�*s international editor, who has had years of experience reporting froml, to explain how the decision by hamas to accept some form of ceasefire has changed things. you can argue that their decision to sign up to a version of a peace deal was a good piece of politics. it has put the pressure on netanyahu and the pressure is coming at him now from all sides. first of all, from inside his own cabinet. the two ultranationalists, highly religious, messianic figures who are in there, they are people who have said very clearly, that hamas offensive needs to be complete, as complete as anything else in gaza, and israel needs to occupy the city, and any kind of deal with hamas that they don't like would be a surrender. and if he doesn't do as they want, they will bring down the government, which they could do. but on the other side of things in israel, there are the hostage families who say just bring our people back, don't do a deal. i have spoken to lots of the families who say, if we have to release every palestinian prisoner, release them and then do what you

in this article bbc columnist jeremy bowen: why netanyahu risks being in the same company as putin and gaddafi. subscribe to our pages on social networks so as not to miss the most important news and analysis, we are on facebook, instagram and tiktok. and that's all we have time to tell today, look for more stories on our website, and we're back on the air. tomorrow at 21, take care! congratulations, friends, live on the tv channel. the second part of the verdict program, my name is serhii rudenko, and in this issue we will talk about the following. 5 years zele'. as the head of state, a difficult political path in the most difficult times of the state, the main achievements and failures of the first five-year period of the president. undeniable legitimacy. the kremlin is trying to fan the topic of public recognition of the ukrainian government. why has the issue of zelenskyi's legitimacy not yet been resolved in the constitutional court. civilized divorce. social in fact. from the telethon under the pretext of expanding its own broadcasting, why other information channels have not yet

jeremy bowen, bbc news, kharkiv.ssed a series of controversial laws that increase its oversight of the government. thousands of people gathered to protest outside parliament as the bills were passed. critics fear it will weaken the self—ruled island defences against chinese influence. the legislation requires the president to answer questions from mps, and expands their ability to carry out investigations. the laws were proposed by the kuomintang party, seen as friendlier towards beijing than president william lai's democratic progressive party. police in hong kong have arrested six people for writing messages the authorities say advocated rebellion against the state. the arrests — of five women and one man — are the first of their kind under the chinese territory's own security law. they include the noted political activist chow hang tung who's already behind bars. speaking at a bowls club in leicestershire earlier, rishi sunak said pensioners would be better off to the sum of nearly £100 in the next financial year.

our international editor there jeremy bowen reporting from kharkiv in ukraine. hile, across the border in russia's belgorod region, officials said two people were killed by a ukrainian rocket attack. to the war in gaza now and some developing news — a spokesperson for hamas' armed wing has said the group captured israeli soldiers during fighting injabalia in northern gaza on saturday. the israeli military has denied that any of its soldiers have been taken. the bbc is working to verify the claim. it comes as israeli police dispersed protesters in tel aviv on saturday night. thousands of demonstrators had gathered demanding the release of hostages taken by hamas on october seventh, and for fresh elections. meanwhile, hopes are rising for a restart of ceasefire talks between the two sides. according to our partner cbs news, us—led efforts to broker a deal are expected to continue in the coming week. a fire at an amusement park in western india has killed at least 2a people, some of them children, local officials say. the fire broke out in rajkot, a city in gujarat

intensifying its attacks against ukraine's second biggest city in recent weeks. 0ur international editor, jeremy bowen and the local authorities say three people have been killed in strikes overnight. we will get more updates from jeremy, of course. discussions on whether kyiv should be allowed to use western weapons against targets in russia has dominated debate in recent weeks. ukraine and some of its allies say it needs to hit troop concentrations and missile launch sites across the border. here's the nato chief, jens stoltenberg, speaking on thursday. i believe the time has come to consider some of these restrictions to enable the ukrainians to really defend themselves. we need to remember this is a war of aggression launched by choice bite moscow against ukraine. russia invaded another country, invaded ukraine and ukraine has, according to international law, the right to defend themselves. it's enshrined in the un charter, and the right to self—defence includes also striking unitary targets, legitimate military targets, outside ukraine. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. to the

international columnist jeremy bowen states: ukraine is experiencing the most difficult crisis since the beginning of the war. the coming summer will bring a sense of anxiety, crazy queues for military service, like two years ago, it is long gone, the exhausted ukrainian army needs new forces. russia is taking advantage of the shortage of ukrainian air defense and mercilessly hitting the civilian infrastructure. russian factories produce more weapons and ammunition. than western allies of ukraine. the initiative is long-lasting wars passes between the participants. russia is now making every effort because it feels it has a window of opportunity before ukraine gets new weapons. one of the main questions of this dangerous summer is whether russia, with its size, weight and tenacity, is capable of inflicting a battlefield defeat on ukraine that will change the strategic equation of this war. ukraine and its allies believe that... russia does not have sufficient combat power to do more than seize limited territory at the cost of great human and material losses. but, remember, a year ago

but first, let's hearfrom jeremy bowen, who's here with me.estinians woke up this morning with a sense of dread, the usual sense of dread. peace talks seemed to have hit the buffers. and all of a sudden in the last three or four hours everything changed. what happened? hours everything changed. what ha--ened? hours everything changed. what ha - ened? ., , hours everything changed. what ha ened? . , ., happened? there was the extra feature, happened? there was the extra feature. the — happened? there was the extra feature, the israelis _ happened? there was the extra feature, the israelis told - happened? there was the extra feature, the israelis told them l happened? there was the extra l feature, the israelis told them to get out of rafah, the eastern side of it anyway, because of an impending military operation. i think what hamas has done by accepting this rather unexpectedly as end all of the israeli expectations about the way this would go. there was plenty of evidence that mr netanyahu actually wanted to extend the war for own political

and another boy as well as a shopper and his girlfriend made it out. 0ur international editor jeremy bowen the scene of the attack in kharkiv. i've just been talking to the mayor. he said this happened about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, which as i speak to you now, is a couple of hours ago. two people were killed, he says, here in the parking area. there are, ithink, 11 people, employees of the business who are missing at the moment. it's a diy superstore, an obvious place, you'd think, for civilians to go on a saturday afternoon. one of the strange incongruities of the war is that in a way, a modicum of normal life does go on while the war continues. so, people were out doing what they had to do when this place was hit, they say, by two russian glide bombs. now, this will underline the anxiety that ukrainians feel about not having suitable air defenses. president zelensky has said so repeatedly and he's said so again now after this, that ukraine needs to be able to defend itself, and of course it relies upon its western allies for doing all of that. from the russian point of view, this is

reports from our own bbc international editor, jeremy bowen early this week — suggested that those stillecent weeks. ukraine and some of its allies says it needs to hit troop concentrations and missile launch sites across the border. here's nato chiefjens stoltenberg speaking earlier today. i believe the time has come to consider some of these restrictions to enable the ukrainians to really defend themselves. we need to remember this is a war of aggression launched by choice bite moscow against ukraine. russia invaded another country, invaded ukraine and ukraine has, according to international law, the right to defend themselves. it's enshrined in the un charter, and the right to self—defense includes also striking unitary targets, legitimate military targets, outside ukraine. russia has warned nato against allowing their weapons to be used on targets inside russia. on tuesday, vladimir putin warned of �*serious consequences' if western countries allowed ukraine to use their weapons on russian soil. well, we can talk to the panel about those latest developments. mary—anne marsh, i will s

our international editor, jeremy bowen, was at a diy centre in kharkiv over the weekend, which was hitces in a bordertown. i ukrainian and russian forces in a border town. i was in the area just a few days ago, i didn't go into the city, it is way too gleeful for that to be there, but you can see massive plumes of smoke coming from big fires, clearly it's an inferno. as well as start, here in the city, the second—biggest city in ukraine, it does feel pretty defenceless it comes to various kinds of russian missile attacks because they are so short of missile defences and what they have to do is make some difficult choices about what it is they protect. just a latest from vladimir putin, reports that he said the west provoked russia's latest offensive, ignoring them not to allow ukraine to hit the russian region. he says an interesting thing because he says strikes on russian territory by weapons supplied by the west to ukraine are only possible with the help of specialist from western countries, and he adds it could lead to serious consequences. you will be aware of that growing debate

reportedly targeting a military aviation school and a repair plant. 0ur international editor, jeremy bowenetres from here. there�*s quite a major battle going on between ukrainian and russian forces in a border town, where i was in the area just a few days ago, i didn�*t go into the city. it�*s way too lethal for that, to be there. but you could see massive plumes of smoke coming from big fires. clearly, it�*s an inferno. and as well as that here in the city, this is the second biggest city in ukraine, it does feel pretty defenceless when it comes to various kinds of russian missile attacks because they�*re so short of missile defences. and they what they have to do is make some difficult choices about what it is they protect. and you can read more from jeremy on our website — he�*s written an article on why he believes that ukraine is facing it�*s worst crisis since the war with russia began. you can find that on the bbc news website and app. travel businesses are spending tens of millions of pounds preparing for the european union�*s much—delayed new border control it system, the entry e