This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Janet Jalil and in the early hours of Tuesday the 4th of June,

these are our main stories.

The jury for the trial of President Biden's son Hunter has been sworn in.

He denies several gun charges.

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It's a historic first for the US, the prosecution of a sitting President's son or daughter.

Hunter Biden has gone on trial on gun charges which he denies. It follows his purchase of a handgun

in 2018 when by his own admission he was addicted to drugs. The jury has now been sworn in

for the trial which comes just days after Donald Trump became the first president, former or sitting, to be handed a criminal conviction.

Democrats fear that Republicans will try to use Hunter Biden's court case to shift

attention away from Mr. Trump and to attack President Biden as a race for the White House

huts up. I heard more from our correspondent Tom Bateman who spent

the day at the courthouse in Wilmington in Delaware. Well what we've had is the

opening of the trial. Hunter Biden showed up and other members of the Biden family including his

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