Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen testifies at former president's criminal trial
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Mr Cohen told the court he conspired to bury stories harmful to Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign. Villagers close to Ukraine's north eastern border with Russia are moved away from their homes as Ukraine's military fights to contain recent Russian incursions. In Israel, fighting continues in parts of Gaza with clashes reported around Rafah. A big search and rescue operation is underway in Afghanistan after heavy rains cause flash flooding in the north. A former Kazakh economy minister is jailed for murdering his wife. A minute's silence is held in South Africa to mark one week since 30 people died when a building collapsed. A group of international politicians, named in the trial of the imprisoned democracy activist Jimmy Lai offer to testify as witnesses. A high court in Germany upholds a ruling that the intelligence services can investigate the far-right AfD party as a 'suspected extremist' organisation. One of Europe's most wanted people-smugglers -- nicknamed "The Scorpion" -- has been arrested in Iraq. And, Rome's Opera House stages a sleepover for 130 children. Top news and analysis from our correspondents around the world.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Andrew Peach and in the early hours of Tuesday the 14th of May, these are our main stories. |
| 0:10.0 | Donald Trump's former lawyer says he conspired to bury stories that would have harmed the |
| 0:14.2 | former president's 2016 election campaign. |
| 0:18.0 | People flee the Harkiv region in northeastern Ukraine as Russian forces advance. |
| 0:28.9 | Also in this podcast hundreds are killed by flash flooding in northern Afghanistan. After a few days there could be a lot of spread of disease because the sanitation is not there as you |
| 0:36.0 | said the infrastructure is not there. |
| 0:38.9 | And one of the world's most wanted people smugglers, Basam Mejid, has been arrested in northern Iraq. |
| 0:44.0 | Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York is now into its fifth week and on Monday the prosecution's main |
| 0:53.9 | witness Michael Cohen began giving his evidence. A confidant to the former US |
| 0:58.4 | president he once said that he would take a bullet for his former boss. |
| 1:01.8 | Mr Cohen paid off the pawn star Stormy Daniels |
| 1:05.3 | to buy her silence ahead of the 2016 election. This was to stop her claiming she'd had sex with |
| 1:11.0 | him ten years earlier, an allegation the former president denies. |
| 1:15.3 | He's on trial for falsifying business records when he reimbursed Mr Cohen, which Mr Trump also |
| 1:20.8 | denies. |
| 1:22.0 | The court heard a recording of a conversation the two men had about paying off another woman, |
| 1:26.6 | the former Playboy model Karen McDougal. |
| 1:29.5 | And I've spoken to Alan Weisilburg about how to set the whole thing up with funding. |
| 1:37.0 | Yes. When it comes time for the financing, which will be... |
| 1:41.0 | What financing? We'll have to pay you. financing which will be... What if I hate, sir? |
| 1:44.0 | Well, I have to pay you. |
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