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

I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Wednesday, the 27th of September, these are our main stories.

A judge in New York has ruled that Donald Trump committed fraud for years by repeatedly exaggerating his wealth.

The Speaker of Canada's Parliament has stepped down after he unwittingly praised a Ukrainian man who fought for the Nazis during the Second World War.

And an Israeli minister has become the first member of Israel's Cabinet to make a public visit to Saudi Arabia.

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We begin in the United States, where a judge in New York has ruled that the former US president, Donald Trump, committed financial fraud

when he was building his property empire. The judge, Arthur Angeram, said Mr Trump exaggerated his wealth by over $2 billion.

I spoke to the BBC's Peter Bowes in the US and asked him what else the judge had said.

This is a very serious case for the president, just to give you a little bit of the background.

It's part of a long term investigation into the Trump Organization and Donald Trump's business affairs in New York.

A case brought by New York's Attorney General, Petitia James, it's a civil law suit that law suit continues, at least continues in a courtroom as of next week.

But what the judge has decided in this summary judgment, which simply means that the judge believes that there is indisputable evidence for him to make a ruling outside of the framework of a trial inside a courtroom.

So the judge has essentially agreed with the allegations brought by the Attorney General that Mr Trump, in his business world,

as part of his property empire had been committing fraud over a number of years, he found that Mr Trump and his company deceived banks, insurers, others by massively overvaluing his assets.

Exaggerating his network, this is on the paperwork that he used in various deals, and significant that the judge believes that this goes further than just bragging about his riches.

He said this company, the Trump Organization, repeatedly lied about the financial affairs, and the judge said that these were tactics that crossed a line and violated the law.

So Peter, what are the implications of this both now and when it comes to trial, presumably a jury will then decide?

Yeah, well interestingly, this is a non-jury trial, so this is going to be in the presence of a judge, but maybe that's a small detail, but the implications right now from the ruling that we've just heard,

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