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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityAsiaChinaIndiaChun Ki-won: Hero pastor jailed for sexually abusing North Korea teenage escapeesPublished2 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Chun Ki-won, seen here in 2004, at a film festival promoting his mission’s rescuesBy Frances MaoBBC NewsA South Korean pastor once hailed as a hero for smuggling out hundreds of North Koreans has been jailed for sexually abusing teenage defectors.Chun Ki-won, 67, has been sentenced to five years for molesting minors at his boarding school in Seoul.The pastor had been viewed as a saviour figure for decades with people calling him an “Asian Schindler” and his operations an “Underground Railroad” for those fleeing the North’s regime.He was arrested in Seoul in September.Police accused him of molesting six North Korean teenagers, including defectors sleeping in the dormitories of the alternative school he had founded at his Durihana mission.Chun had denied the charges but a court on Wednesday ruled the victims’ evidence as irrefutable.”The victims are making consistent statements and it includes content that cannot be stated without first-hand experience of the circumstances”, Judge Seung-jeong Kim of the Seoul Central District Court said.The judge added that Chun had committed his crimes from “a position where he had absolute influence”.He was found guilty in five of six cases of abuse against the minors – some of whom had escaped alone and others with their families under the guidance of Chun’s mission.Chun founded Durihana, one of South Korean’s most prominent NGOs that helps North Koreans flee through routes in China. He claims to have helped more than 1,000 North Koreans escape the hardline regime of the Kim family over the past 25 years, and has personally been condemned by Pyongyang for his work.In 2002, he made headlines after being imprisoned in China for seven months during an escape mission.His work – which included the establishment of an alternative school for children of North Korean defectors – was widely covered, the subject of documentaries and news articles including by the BBC, CNN, The New York Times and National Geographic. Media reports often compared him to Oskar Schindler, a businessman who rescued more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust.His arrest and conviction has shocked South Korea – where his trial was widely reported this week.TV bulletins showed the grey-haired Chun in a white outfit being brought to court in handcuffs and flanked by guards.Read more about North Korean defectorsPreparing N Korea’s traumatised defectors for new livesA family’s escape from North Korea through a minefield and stormy seasSecret calls and code names: How money makes it to N KoreaRelated TopicsNorth Korean defectorsSouth KoreaNorth KoreaMore on this storySecret calls and code names: How money makes it to N KoreaPublished30 JanuaryA family’s escape from North Korea through a minefield and stormy seasPublished5 December 2023Rare N Korea footage shows teens sentenced over K-dramaPublished18 JanuaryPreparing N Korea’s traumatised defectors for new livesPublished10 July 2023Top StoriesLive. Labour overturn big Tory majorities in by-election winsJohn Curtice: Results leave Tories with mountain to climbPublished59 minutes agoLabour scores double by-election victory over ToriesPublishedJust nowFeaturesThe Papers: ‘Britain’s recession slide’ and caution on staff rights Will TikTok help take Saltburn from bathtubs to Baftas?Trump faces a $370m fine. 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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaJavier Milei: Argentines wait for ‘crazy’ president’s shock therapy to workPublished23 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Javier Milei wielded a chainsaw at one of his campaign rallies to symbolise his plans to slash public spendingBy Ione WellsSouth America correspondent, Buenos AiresThere is one thing that unites those who love and loathe Argentina’s new president – they both describe him as “crazy”.”Most people call him that. I think it’s good,” says 21-year-old Axel Uhrig of Javier Milei, who won the presidential election with 56% of the vote in November.Axel is part of Pibes Libertarios (libertarian lads) – a self-described “militant” group whose battleground is social media.They stick posters around Buenos Aires at night with QR codes linking to videos in support of President Milei’s policies.The new president is trying to get a package of reforms approved to shrink the state, but is struggling to get it through Congress, where he does not have a majority.Mr Milei may have won the election, but the Pibes Libertarios still feel they are fighting a battle for his sweeping reforms to privatise companies and cut regulations to be made into law.Image caption, The Pibes Libertarios support the president’s radical reforms and libertarian ideologyAfter a series of Argentine governments introduced widespread nationalisation, welfare benefits, subsidised prices, and powerful labour laws and unions, Axel feels Mr Milei gave those on the right an “identity” – a libertarian identity.He is keen to stress this is different from “liberals” in the West who are “progressive” and instead captures those who support “freedom from the state”.Axel is glad that the president was “crazy enough” to defy the status quo with a different approach to the economy.He adds he “saw no future in this place” before Mr Milei was elected and says his two best friends left Argentina seeking a better life in the US and Spain – a trend that is widely commented on here.Shock measuresMr Milei’s radically different approach to the economy is why a lot of people voted for him in a country where for many steep inflation feels like the norm. President Milei blames the country’s skyrocketing inflation on years of high government spending, high debt, and money-printing to service it.He argues “shock” measures are needed to tackle it.Image source, ReutersImage caption, The government argues inflation will get worse before it gets betterHe has already slashed the value of the currency, public spending and subsidies for transport, fuel and energy.These measures have in turn driven up prices.New figures published this week showed annual inflation in Argentina had hit more than 250%, making it the highest rate in the world.The monthly figure jumped to 25.5% in December after he came to power, though has since fallen to 20.6%.Mr Milei told the television station La Nación + the figure was “horrifying” but “you have to look at where we were.”Short-term pain, long-term gain?Many Argentines relish what they perceive as his honesty, saying they are willing to put up with more pain if it improves the economy in the long term.Adriana Ignaszewski, 33, runs a discount grocery store in the poorer suburb of El Jagüel.She says in the past “no-one gave us an answer” to inflation, but “today we have someone who tells it how it is.”Image caption, Adriana Ignaszewski is updating prices in her grocery store every dayArgentines will wait as long as they need to, she adds.”If it is the last thing we have to go through, let’s go through it.”Adriana likes the president’s focus on getting inflation down to help with the cost of living, instead of support from the government, because price rises affect her business and customers every day.But down the road her sister Silvia, 40, has relied on state support and fears she cannot afford to wait.She lives with their mother and three of her five children in a house comprised of a few small rooms where “the refrigerator is literally empty”.Silvia sews crates of hair accessories to sell at a market and says her sales have dropped by more than 50%.”People can’t buy food, fewer will be able to buy a hair accessory,” she says.Image caption, Silvia says sales of the hair accessories she sews have dropped because of rising pricesShe stresses that fruit and meat are luxuries and says she cannot even afford to buy basic items like milk, rice or bread. She believes the current price spikes Mr Milei’s plans have caused will lead to people going without anything.”The policies they are carrying out will kill the people, the workers,” she says.”He’s crazy.”Even some of those struggling, though, agree with Mr Milei’s recent argument to the World Economic Forum in Davos that “the state is not the solution, the state is the problem itself.”They don’t want support from the government, they think it is the cause of people’s woes.Cristina, a pensioner who sells old clothes for extra money at the barter market with Silvia, says she cannot afford her rent and living costs on her pension and blames former governments for making people accustomed to receive state support.”They got used to the benefits. Many prefer to steal or be at home and collect benefits without working. The government cannot be there for everything.”Lorena Giorgio, chief economist at the economic analysis centre, Equilibria, says Mr Milei has done good work in explaining to people why changes are needed.Image caption, Economist Lorena Giorgio thinks many Argentines are waiting to see if things improveBut, Ms Giorgio adds, “The problem is that Milei told them that the political sector and the richest were the ones who were going to pay.”This is not happening.”She predicts people may be willing to wait while things get tougher for six or seven months.But she argues that if inflation remains high, and salaries and pensions do not keep up, there could be “social problems” by Christmas.In the past, economic crises here have led to riots, protests and even the toppling of presidents.Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Riot police guard the Argentine Congress during protests in Buenos Aires in JanuaryWith people like Silvia, the woman selling hair accessories, wondering how long they can wait, I asked Mr Milei’s spokesman, Manuel Adorni, when people would be able to judge whether the president’s measures were working.He would not commit to a timeframe but said that in a “short period” the government would begin to “show results in this fight against inflation”.Argentina for many years “swept the garbage under the carpet,” he added, “and we have decided to remove the garbage and always tell the truth.”President Milei’s popularity in part stems from the intense anger, especially from the young, about the country’s economic crisis, and what they perceive as his honesty about that.He has hinged his reputation on curing that by cutting the state, though he is already blaming opposition politicians – whom he calls la casta, the caste – for not letting him cut as much as he wants to.Image source, ReutersImage caption, Prices in Argentina rose by more than 200% last yearHis public support is likely to be defined by how quickly he can show results, when state support is being reduced and some already feel at their limit.At a supermarket where the price of meat has gone up 30% in two months, a woman, Anabela Acuña, break down in tears when asked how life is for her right now.”It’s very, very difficult. I have three jobs and I can’t make ends meet,” she says.”Many people are on the street. That breaks my heart.”All very crazy, very crazy.”Related TopicsArgentinaArgentina economyMore on this story’We’re the country of beef, but we can only afford chicken’Published30 JanuaryMilei’s radical proposals face test of reality in ArgentinaPublished26 November 2023Record inflation: Five ways Argentines try to copePublished17 May 2023Top StoriesLive. Labour overturn big Tory majorities in by-election winsLabour scores double by-election victory over ToriesPublished23 minutes agoParents of Brianna and Molly join forces to combat online harmPublished8 hours agoFeaturesThe Papers: ‘Britain’s recession slide’ and caution on staff rights Will TikTok help take Saltburn from bathtubs to Baftas?Trump faces a $370m fine. 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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaUkraine Russia war: US warns Avdiivka could fallPublished3 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsWar in UkraineThis video can not be playedTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.Media caption, “I will die here”: Evacuation “angels” help front-line town’s last residents fleeBy Jaroslav LukivBBC NewsThe US has warned that Russia could seize Ukraine’s key eastern town of Avdiivka – the scene of some of the fiercest fighting in recent months. “Avdiivka is at risk of falling into Russian control,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said, citing Ukraine’s ammunition shortages. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to do everything to “save as many Ukrainian lives as possible”.Russian troops have made gains in Avdiivka, threatening to encircle it.The town – which has been almost completely destroyed – is seen as a gateway to nearby Donetsk, the regional Ukrainian capital seized by Russian-backed fighters in 2014 and later illegitimately annexed by Moscow.Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.Ukraine battles frostbite and shell shortage in ruined town Nothing but rubble: Ukraine’s shattered ghost town AvdiivkaAt Thursday’s briefing in Washington, Mr Kirby said Avdiivka could fall largely “because the Ukrainian forces on the ground are running out of artillery ammunition”.”Russia is sending wave after wave of conscript forces to attack Ukrainian positions,” he said. “And because Congress has yet to pass the supplemental bill, we have not been able to provide Ukraine with the artillery shells that they desperately need to disrupt these Russian assaults.”Russian forces are now reaching Ukrainian trenches in Avdiivka, and they’re beginning to overwhelm Ukrainian defences.”Earlier this week, the US Senate approved a $95bn (£75bn) foreign aid package – including $60bn for Ukraine – after months of political wrangling, but it faces an uphill battle in the House of Representatives.Ukraine is critically dependent on weapons supplies from the US and other Western allies to be able to continue fighting Russia – a much bigger military force with an abundance of artillery ammunition.Nato Secretary General Jen Stoltenberg warned on Thursday that the US failure to approve continued military assistance to Ukraine was already having an impact on the battlefield.Image source, ReutersImage caption, Smoke rises over an industrial site in Avdiivka on ThursdayIn his video address late on Thursday, President Zelensky said: “We are doing everything we can to ensure that our warriors have enough managerial and technological capabilities to save as many Ukrainian lives as possible.”On Friday, Mr Zelensky is visiting Berlin and Paris where is expected to sign security pacts with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron.A similar agreement on security co-operation was signed between Ukraine and the UK in January.Late on Thursday, Ukrainian General Oleksandr Tarnavsky admitted that “fierce battles” were taking place “within” Avdiivka.”We value every piece of Ukrainian land, but the highest value and priority for us is the preservation of the life of a Ukrainian soldier,” he said.Earlier in the day, Ukraine’s military spokesman Dmytro Lykhoviy acknowledged that Ukrainian troops in Avdiivka were being forced to “sometimes move to more advantageous positions… in some places leaving positions”.Some Ukrainian soldiers have privately admitted the town could fall at any moment.”We’re upset,” Ukrainian officer Oleksii, from Ukraine’s 110th Mechanised Brigade in the Avdiivka area, told the BBC earlier this week, standing beside a huge mobile artillery piece as Russian guns boomed in the distance.”Currently we have two shells, but we have no [explosive] charges for them… so we can’t fire them. As of now, we have run out of shells,” said Oleksii. He suggested that the shortages were widespread and having a dramatic impact on the fighting in Avdiivka.”We feel a very strong responsibility for our guys fighting right now in the town, armed only with assault rifles.”Ukraine’s newly appointed commander-in-chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, visited the frontline in the Avdiivka area this week, acknowledging that the situation there was “difficult”.He said the Russian military did not “count losses”, using its troops as cannon fodder.Kyiv says an elite Ukrainian brigade has now been sent to Avdiivka and reserve artillery has been deployed.In unverified reports, Russian military bloggers said on Thursday that a key Ukrainian defence position in southern Avdiivka – known as Zenit – was now under Moscow’s control.Related TopicsWar in UkraineRussiaUkraineMore on this storyUkraine battles frostbite and shell shortage in ruined townPublished15 hours agoNothing but rubble: Ukraine’s shattered ghost town AvdiivkaPublished30 JanuaryFull cemeteries and empty homes: Ukrainians struggle to endurePublished1 day agoThe Ukrainians ‘disappearing’ in Russia’s prisonsPublished6 days agoTop StoriesLive. Labour overturn big Tory majorities in thumping by-election winsParents of Brianna and Molly join forces to combat online harmPublished7 hours agoGaza hospital in ‘catastrophic’ state as Israeli troops raidPublished8 hours agoFeaturesWhat we can see in video from Nasser hospital raid. 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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaRobert Hur: Biden special counsel to testify before House RepublicansPublished43 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, In his report, Robert Hur said president Joe Biden’s recall of certain events is “extremely limited”By Nadine YousifBBC NewsSpecial Counsel Robert Hur, who was tasked with probing president Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, is set to testify before Congress in March. US media reported that Mr Hur will testify before the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee on March 12.The news follows Mr Hur’s report in which he raised questions about the president’s memory and mental fitness.The 345-page report provoked a strong reaction from Mr Biden.”I know what the hell I’m doing. I’ve been president and I put this country back on its feet. I don’t need his recommendation,” the president said last week. House Republicans have indicated that they intend to ask Mr Hur about his comments on the president’s memory.They have also asked him to turn over recordings and transcripts of his interviews with Mr Biden, which he made during his year-long investigation. The report, which was published by the US Justice Department last week, said that Mr Biden would not face any criminal charges over “willfully” retaining and disclosing classified materials as a private citizen. The bombshell aspect of the report centred on one of the reasons Mr Hur gave for not prosecuting the 81-year-old president: Mr Biden’s memory. The special counsel wrote that Mr Biden would likely be viewed as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” by a jury, not as an individual who had committed a crime.That characterisation – one of the biggest issues facing his re-election campaign – did not sit well with Mr Biden, his allies, or his attorneys.A letter sent by White House Counsel Ed Siskel to Attorney General Merrick Garland prior to the release of Mr Hur’s report accused the special counsel of “openly, obviously, and blatantly” violating the Justice Department’s own policies by making comments about Mr Biden’s mental capacity, according to reports by Politico and the New York Times. “The Special Counsel can certainly and properly note that the President lacked memory of a specific fact or series of events,” wrote Mr Siskel in the letter, which was penned on 7 February but first reported on Thursday. “But his report goes further to include allegations that the President has a failing memory in a general sense, an allegation that has no law enforcement purpose.”The White House did not respond to a request for comment.Mr Hur’s report was penned after a year-long inquiry into Mr Biden’s handling of classified documents from his time as vice-president, which included interviews with the president. In it, the special counsel concluded that Mr Biden, 81, had “wilfully” retained classified files after leaving the vice-presidency in 2017. He then emphasised he would struggle to secure a conviction because of Mr Biden’s age, mental fitness, and demeanour.At times, he used specific moments that Mr Biden and his allies said were deeply personal.In one passage, he provided a pointed example of the president’s memory, writing that Mr Biden did not remember “even within several years when his son Beau died”.The report has buoyed criticism by some Republicans, who questioned Mr Biden’s mental capabilities and his old age as he vies for a second term in the White House.Meanwhile, Democrats have accused Mr Hur, a Republican who was previously tapped by former president Donald Trump for the role of US attorney for the District of Maryland, of political bias.Following the release of the report, Mr Biden held a surprise news conference in which he forcefully declared: “My memory is fine.””How the hell dare he raise that?” the president added, referring to the claim that he could not remember when his son died.Related TopicsUnited StatesJoe BidenMore on this storyProsecutor faces political glare after Biden reportPublished6 days ago’My memory is fine’ – Biden hits back at special counselPublished6 days agoFive things in the Biden classified documents reportPublished7 days agoTop StoriesLive. Labour secure thumping double by-election winParents of Brianna and Molly join forces to combat online harmPublished6 hours agoGaza hospital in ‘catastrophic’ state as Israeli troops raidPublished7 hours agoFeaturesWhat we can see in video from Nasser hospital raid. 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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaAnders Breivik: Mass murderer loses lawsuit over prison isolationPublished9 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, ReutersImage caption, Anders Breivik appeared at a court hearing convened in Ringerike prison on MondayBy James GregoryBBC NewsNeo-Nazi Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, has lost his case against the state in a bid to end his years of isolation in prison. Breivik had sued the Norwegian authorities, claiming his conditions were “inhumane” and he was suicidal.But a court ruled on Thursday that Breivik’s sentencing terms were “not a violation of human rights”. Breivik’s lawyer said his client was disappointed with the outcome and would appeal against the latest judgment.He has been held in isolation ever since he killed eight people with a car bomb and shot dead another 69, most of them teenagers, at a summer youth camp on the island of Utoeya on 22 July 2011. He is currently serving a 21-year sentence, the maximum a court in Norway can impose, though it can be extended for as long as he is deemed a threat.His lawyers claimed he had been living in a “completely locked world” and did “not wish to be alive any more”. They had asked the court to lift restrictions on his correspondence with the outside world.But judges at the Oslo District Court on Thursday said the restrictions placed on Breivik’s communications were justified because he remained a danger to society. They ruled that he enjoyed “relatively great freedom” at the facility and had access to many services in his everyday life. “He studies and works on his political projects,” the verdict said.Norway attacks: The victimsNorway mass killer Breivik sues over jail isolationMass murderer Breivik loses rights caseOeystein Storrvi, Breivik’s lawyer, told Reuters: “He has been in isolation for 12 years and easing of his conditions is vital for his wellbeing in the prison.”Breivik cried during his testimony in January, claiming he was sorry for the attack and that his life had become a nightmare that had left him suicidal. But the following day, a psychologist told the court that she did not consider him to be depressed and there was a “low risk” of suicide. Now aged 45, Breivik currently spends his time in a dedicated section of Ringerike prison – located on the shores of the lake that surrounds Utoeya. At the prison, Breivik has access to a training room, kitchen, TV room and a bathroom.Many of those killed on the island were teenagers involved with the Norwegian Labour Party’s youth wing, the AUF. The attacks remain Norway’s worst peacetime atrocity.Breivik has challenged the terms of his sentence before, winning part of his human rights case against the Norwegian state in 2016 before it was overturned the following year.He unsuccessfully applied for parole in 2022, with the court ruling he had not changed and remained a risk to society.Related TopicsNorwayAnders Behring BreivikMore on this storyNorway mass killer Breivik sues over jail isolationPublished8 JanuaryMass murderer Breivik loses rights casePublished1 March 2017Top StoriesLive. Labour wins Kingswood, as count continues in WellingboroughParents of Brianna and Molly join forces to combat online harmPublished5 hours agoGaza hospital in ‘catastrophic’ state as Israeli troops raidPublished6 hours agoFeaturesWhat we can see in video from Nasser hospital raid. VideoWhat we can see in video from Nasser hospital raidWill TikTok help take Saltburn from bathtubs to Baftas?Trump faces a $370m fine. 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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaDonald Trump’s hush-money trial set to begin in MarchPublished7 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsIndictments of Donald TrumpThis video can not be playedTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.Media caption, Watch: Why Trump will face his first criminal trial in MarchBy Chloe Kim & Kayla EpsteinBBC News, in courtThe first-ever criminal trial of a former US president is set to start next month, with Donald Trump defending himself against allegations of conducting a hush-money cover-up.The 77-year-old appeared in court in New York on Thursday, seeking to have the trial dismissed or delayed.But Judge Juan Merchan was not swayed by arguments that the trial’s timetable would hurt his presidential campaign.Mr Trump called the decision to start the trial on 25 March a “disgrace”.”Obviously I’m running for election again. How can you run for election and be sitting in a courthouse in Manhattan all day long?” he said outside the courtroom after the hearing.Mr Trump’s lawyers had made similar arguments during the pre-trial hearing, but the New York state judge said they were not rooted in law and that he would only delay for legal reasons.Mr Trump is widely expected to become the Republican nominee for president and face President Joe Biden, a Democrat, in an election rematch in November. He must still go through state primaries to secure the nomination.Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has charged the former president with 34 counts of fraud, alleging Mr Trump falsified business records to disguise payments he made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels as legal fees.Ms Daniels said she was paid $130,000 (£103,000) in 2016 to stay quiet about having sex with the then-presidential candidate. Mr Trump denies they ever had an affair. This is one of four criminal cases against the former president.The first step of the New York trial will be putting together a jury of 12 people.Lawyers and the judge discussed on Thursday how to select jurors for the unprecedented case, given Mr Trump’s global fame and the deep political divisions around him. EXPLAINED: What Trump’s first criminal trial could look likeLawyers from both sides will be able to dismiss people from sitting on the jury. Justice Merchan told them that if they plan to strike possible jurors because they are Democrats or Republicans, then they are going to run out of people very quickly.Prosecutors said they want to ask about some of the most controversial parts of the 2020 presidential election in a screening questionnaire for potential jurors, such as if they believe the election was stolen, if they believe in the QAnon conspiracy theory and if they have belonged to far-right militia groups or far-left groups like Antifa.Prosecutors also want to expand a question about which news media a potential juror consumes to include right-wing commentators such as Sean Hannity, Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson.The defence brought up asking jurors if they ever put a political bumper sticker on their car or candidate sign on their lawn.There are also potential questions about whether a juror has read or listened to anything from the prosecution’s expected star witness, Mr Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, or if they have read Mr Trump’s book The Art of the Deal.The hearing on Thursday coincided with a separate hearing in Georgia, where a judge is weighing up misconduct allegations against prosecutor Fani Willis, Ms Willis is leading an election fraud case against Mr Trump in the state.Related TopicsNew York CityIndictments of Donald TrumpDonald TrumpUS politicsUnited StatesMore on this storyA guide to Trump’s four criminal casesPublished11 hours agoWhat happened between Stormy Daniels and Trump?Published10 hours ago’It is a lie’: Trump prosecutor defends relationshipPublished1 hour agoTop StoriesLive. Labour win in Kingswood, as count continues in WellingboroughParents of Brianna and Molly join forces to combat online harmPublished4 hours agoGaza hospital in ‘catastrophic’ state as Israeli troops raidPublished5 hours agoFeaturesWhat we can see in video from Nasser hospital raid. 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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaPutin challenger Boris Nadezhdin barred from Russia’s electionPublished36 minutes agocommentsCommentsShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, MAXIM SHIPENKOV/EPA-EFE/REX/ShutterstockImage caption, Boris Nadezhdin has vowed to challenge the election commission’s rejection in Russia’s Supreme CourtBy Paul KirbyBBC NewsRussia’s election commission has rejected anti-war challenger Boris Nadezhdin as a candidate in next month’s presidential vote.Mr Nadezhdin has been relatively critical of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale war in Ukraine when few dissenting voices have been tolerated in Russia.Election authorities claimed more than 15% of the signatures he submitted with his candidate application were flawed.He had tried to challenge this, but the commission rejected his bid.Refusing to give up, Mr Nadezhdin, 60, said on social media that he would challenge the decision in Russia’s Supreme Court.The Central Election Commission said that of the 105,000 signatures submitted by Mr Nadezhdin, more than 9,000 were invalid and they cited a variety of violations.That left 95,587 names, meaning he was just short of the 100,000 required signatures to register as a candidate, commission member Andrei Shutov said.”There are tens of millions of people here who were going to vote for me, ” Mr Nadezhdin complained to the commission. “According to all polls, I am in second place after Putin.””The decision has been made,” declared commission chairwoman Ella Pamfilova. “If Nadezhdin wants, he can go to court,” Tass news agency quoted her as saying.Russia’s presidential election is due to take place from 15-17 March, although the result is not in doubt as only candidates viewed as acceptable to the Kremlin are running. A final decision on who can take part in the election will come on Saturday, but the election commission chairwoman said it was already clear there would be four candidates on the ballot.Other than Vladimir Putin, they include nationalist leader Leonid Slutsky, parliament deputy speaker Vladislav Davankov and Communist Nikolai Kharitonov. All their parties have broadly backed Kremlin policies and none of the trio is seen as a genuine challenger.Image source, REUTERS/Maxim ShemetovImage caption, Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central Election Commission, said it was now clear Mr Putin would face three other candidates”Running for president in 2024 is the most important political decision of my life. I am not retreating from my intentions,” Mr Nadezhdin wrote on Telegram. “I collected more than 200,000 signatures across Russia. We conducted the collection openly and honestly.”Boris Nadezhdin is one of the few government critics whose voices have been heard on the ubiquitous talk shows on state-run TV since the invasion on 24 February 2022. He has appeared as a type of anti-war “whipping boy” that other guests would target for criticism.In the 1990s he worked as an adviser for Putin critic Boris Nemtsov who was assassinated a stone’s thrown from the Kremlin in 2015. But he also has ties to Sergei Kiriyenko, a key Putin political overseer.Read Steve Rosenberg: How Russians view looming electionsAlthough Mr Nadezhdin’s run for the presidency was viewed initially with suspicion by some opposition figures, Russia’s main opposition leader Alexei Navalny gave his backing to the Nadezhdin campaign from his jail cell inside the Arctic Circle, as did exiled former business magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky.Mr Nadezhdin appeared on the BBC last month promising to end the war in Ukraine on his first day as president, although he was realistic about his chances of success.”My first task will be to stop the conflict with Ukraine, and then to restore normal relations between Russia and the Western community.”He is not the first presidential hopeful to have run on an anti-war platform. In December, former TV journalist and independent politician Yekaterina Duntsova was barred from running because the election commission said there were mistakes on her application form.Mr Nadezhdin said he had tapped into a wave of anti-war sentiment in Russia, meeting the wives of reservists who want their husbands to return from the war. His campaign started slowly and it was only in recent weeks that Russians began registering their support in large numbers.His increasing success also attracted condemnation from pro-Kremlin propagandists such as Vladimir Solovyov, who suggested he might be a stooge for “Ukrainian Nazis”.This video can not be playedTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.Media caption, Watch: ‘Putin has made mistakes’, Kremlin challenger says in BBC exclusiveMore on this story’Send back our husbands’ – Russian women in rare protestPublished23 JanuaryView commentsTop StoriesLive. Labour criticised for ditching £28bn green pledgePM attacks Starmer for linking trans jibe to Ghey casePublished14 minutes agoVeteran to be charged with murdering man in 1972Published16 minutes agoFeatures’We are surrounded’ – Guarding the Middle East’s most dangerous borderWhat happened to Labour’s £28bn for green projects?Kane on his chase for ‘team trophies’ as well as recordsAttributionSportNorth Koreans working in China ‘exploited like slaves’I rarely saw people like me in lead roles, says One Day starDisney boss betting big on Taylor Swift and Fortnite to boost streaming serviceIndian player sparks conversation on sexism in chessWe don’t watch from the sidelines like Taylor SwiftImmersive screenings can weaken films – ScorseseElsewhere on the BBC’No one was treating me seriously’The woman who went for viral for claiming to be Madeleine McCann explains her motivesAttributionSoundsA shining performance in Radio 2’s Piano Room!British soul legend Beverley Knight performs at Maida Vale with the BBC Concert OrchestraAttributionSoundsThe cities hidden beneath the waterDive deep and discover real underwater locations all across the worldAttributionBitesizeThe surprising health benefits of doing the plankMichael Mosley explores whether it outshines crunches or sit-ups…AttributionSoundsMost Read1Veteran to be charged with murdering man in 19722Scotland’s health secretary quits over iPad row3Nestlé axes classic Breakaway bar after 54 years4Putin challenger barred from Russia’s election5North Tyneside raids over Clapham suspect search6Climbing Everest? 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