that they are focusing on. with that, there potentially could be the possibility that if they rule in that way, that this case then get struck down back to a lower court, which would snowball delaying another bigger case that is going on, this federal election interference case that former president trump is facing. that potentially could end them getting pushed beyond november's election. meanwhile, we do have this hush money case happening in new york city. this one in new york state. this is not related really to the supreme court case, which kind of makes this all a bit confusing, but this one continues to go on and the question around this is whetherformer president trump was involved in this illegal scheme back before the 2016 election. if he was involved in the scheme to hush money payments made to disclose hush money payments made to a woman claiming to have been in an affair with him.

he says none of this happened. he says he didn't do anything wrong here. today we are expecting for the former publisher of the national enquirer to be back on the stand, because he is someone who was integrally a part of all of these transactions that are said to have been made in order to sort of catch and kill stories that looked unfavourable to the former president or to the then candidate trump at the time. so he is going to be back on the stand. the defence, the former president's legal team is going to be questioning him as they continue to try and poke holes in some of these arguments that the former president, again, orchestrated this scheme illegally to disclose some of those payments. a primary school teacher who stabbed her boyfriend and buried his body in the garden of their terraced house in northampton has pleaded guilty to murder, during her second trial at the old bailey. fiona beal, who's 50, was arrested last year after police found a notebook containing her plans to kill nick billingham. the general manager of the new co—op live arena in manchester, which will be the uk's largest music

venue, has resigned. gary roden had criticised the way some smaller venues were run, before having to postpone the arena's opening shows twice, because the site wasn't ready. the 23,500 seat arena in manchester was set for a grand opening this week, with two performances by the comedian, peter kay. our arts and entertainment reporter ian youngs has more. well, it is a big embarrassment for the venue, which was meant to have opened earlier this week originally with peter kay playing two nights. those were then postponed until next week but now those have been postponed again until may. so this venue which is going to hold 23,500 people still hasn't opened and it is off to a very rocky start. as for what has gone wrong, the venue has said they need more time to test the emergency communications systems to ensure that the venue is safe and all the areas can be open to fans, but it is definitely having

some troubles getting fully open. a coroner at the old bailey has been giving his findings at the inquest into the deaths of three people who were stabbed to death in a park in reading, shortly after the end of the covid lockdown injune 2020. joe ritchie—bennett, james furlong and david wails were killed by khairi saadallah. he was jailed for life injanuary 2021 after pleading guilty to three murders and three attempted murders. our home affairs correspondentjune kelly has sent this update from the old bailey in central london. the judge coroner will be speaking well into the afternoon because he has got a lot to say, having heard the six weeks of evidence from more than 100 witnesses. the key question for the families of the three men who were murdered is, could this terror attack have been prevented?

during the inquest one of those to give evidence was an officer from the security service mi5. he was adamant that although khairi saadallah was on mi5�*s radar in the run—up to the attack and had come onto their radar on a number of occasions, he said there was no way anyone could have actually perceived he was going to be involved in attack planning. today thejudge coroner is going through all the evidence but in terms of his direction of travel, he has already spoken on khairi saadallah as a known extremist with a terrorist mindset and he has also talked about failures by one or more identified state agencies. we are going to get his full conclusions and recommendations sometime this afternoon but this is the path he is going down and clearly the famiy want lessons to be learned from what happened to their loved ones. british universities have been warned they are being targeted by foreign states in order to undermine uk national security.

senior figures from 2a institutions including 0xford, cambridge and imperial college london have been briefed by mi5 on the threat to some of their sensitive research. 0ur security correspondent gordon corera is following the story. the concern really comes down to mainly the challenge from china and the concern is that uk universities, notjust the uk, other countries as well, have seen attempts to get hold of sensitive research, sensitive material. not, if you like, what would be typically thought of as secret, not really talking about spying here, but often academic orjoint ventures in the academic world. in which sensitive technology and sensitive research might then pass which could be useful to another state, for instance, china. it is hard to understand, but if you think about it as perhaps if the university was carrying out some kind of research on movements

under water and the ability to detect those, that might be open research which could have some value commercially for a university but it could also have a national security implication for instance, in detecting submarines or detecting cables underground. and it is those kind of collaborations or those kind of ventures which the uk security services are worried about, that universities may not realise that sensitive research could be useful to a country and could have some kind of military or national security application, or for instance, research on surveillance or technology or cctv or some of those kind of areas, that this could then be used by another state, and we are mainly talking about china, even though that is not always made explicit, that it could be used in that way and the concern is universities haven't been aware enough about this and they need to be more aware. hence this briefing and the consultation to look at what measures might be needed, for instance, perhaps vetting some staff at universities or having

better frameworks so those universities and researchers can check whether the research they are doing does have some kind of national security implication. let's talk now about one of the things we all need — sleep — and specifically how to get more of it! the sleep charity is calling on the uk government to introduce a national strategy which would highlight the importance of getting the rest we need, and also to help those with insomnia and sleep apnoea. 0ur reporter tim muffett has spoken to one man who's been struggling with sleep for years. so this is the sound of you sleeping? yeah. john has a condition called sleep apnoea. heavy snoring. what does your wife think? she's not a fan. heavy snoring. sleep apnoea is a disorder in which breathing stops and starts during sleep. the airway becomes blocked, sufferers often wake up suddenly. heavy snoring. loud snoring is a classic symptom.

so some people might think the sound of snoring is the sound of a good night's sleep. no, absolutely not. when you have a snoring sound, your airways are blocking, you're not getting enough oxygen, increasing the chance of stroke, heart attack, all sorts of things. heavy snoring. it's pretty loud. no, absolutely not. heavy snoring. it's pretty loud. yeah. but you can hear the... snoring stops. that's where the blocks occur. and forjohn, getting to sleep in the first place has been a problem since he was a teenager. i'd always put it down to the fact that i have a stammer, and it was the anxieties around speaking to people the following day. but about six years ago, i learned to control my speech.

but still, those sleepless nights, the waking up — they kept happening. so it's about 12:30, 12:45—ish. no signs of sleep, and starting to get a bit worried. if i have a really bad run, i have to take time off work because ijust can't physically function enough. john was disappointed by the support offered by his local health authority. all they offer is recommendation to lose weight — i don't think i fall into that category — or cpap. a cpap machine blows air through a mask. it helps some people with sleep apnoea, but notjohn. he's now travelling from the west midlands to a hospital in london for treatment there. it's very frustrating. it's a real postcode lottery. a manifesto for sleep has now been published by health experts. it calls for a national sleep strategy. the report says sleep is underappreciated and misunderstood. poor sleep, it says, has become normalised, with almost 70% of people with sleep issues yet to seek support. there's huge risks to people's physical and mental health, so we know that those that are sleeping poorly are taking more high—risk behaviours. so driving while sleepy, making poor choices around nutrition, around physical activity.

dr sarah gilchrist has advised top athletes on sleep. she backs a national sleep strategy. the uk loses about 40 billion a year due to sleep—related issues — whether that's people having accidents at work, or they're just getting bugs more often — their immune system's compromised because they're sleeping poorly. so where have things got to now, then? its backers say the sleep strategy should mean sleep advice becomes a key part of all health campaigns in england, with more training for gps, and treatment available in every nhs trust. there's potentially millions of people at risk of accidents at work, or car accidents and things. and if it's not diagnosed quickly, obviously those chances of something happening increases. tim muffett, bbc news. a quick reminder of the breaking

news, scotland's first minister humza yousaf as he has no intention of resigning and intends to fight the vote of no confidence tabled against him after he pulled out of the power—sharing agreement with the greens yesterday and is now in a minority government. he said he would not stand down, fight the vote of no confidence he would write to all the other leaders to make an attempt to make a minority government work. he asked —— was askedif government work. he asked —— was asked if he would work with the alba party and he said he would write to everyone and trying to get them to work with him. more details coming in, humza yousaf says he is not resigning. he was visiting a housing development in dundee after cancelling a speech today. time to have a look at the weather. hello. it was a really cold start to the day. a widespread frost.

lowest temperatures down to —6 in the coldest spots in both northern england and scotland. but many of us have seen sunny skies like these already. it is a day, though, where clouds will bubble up to bring showers. and we've seen lots of showers in northern ireland. there have been quite a few for the north and east of scotland, and down the eastern side of england. meanwhile, this thicker cloud affecting southern wales and southern—most areas of england. well, that's a weather front bringing more general outbreaks of rain. now, the rain from that's going to be light and patchy into southern wales. just a few spots really. some heavier rain getting into south—west england. those showers become a bit more widespread across northern england, probably popping across the pennines into the north west of england. we'll continue to see quite widespread showers for northern ireland, northern and eastern scotland down the eastern side of england. but it will be northern and central wales, the midlands, east anglia that stay largely dry today. 0vernight, a band of rain moves up from the south, that will keep temperatures up around six or seven degrees. but away from that, with the clear skies, again, we're looking at a cold night with a widespread and sharp frost. the weekend will be dominated by this area of low pressure moving up from the south.

now, we are looking at some rain developing on saturday across southern counties of england, wales, midlands and east anglia. and as well as the rain, there will be a chilly northeasterly wind developing through the day. maybe as the rain clears, we could see some heavy showers following to southern areas of england. elsewhere for scotland, northern ireland, the far north of england, it's another day of sunny spells and passing showers. after that cold start, wherever you are, temperatures not doing great for the time of year. for sunday, low pressure still with us. outbreaks of rain extensively across england, reaching eastern scotland through the day. it's western areas that will have the best of the day's weather. sunshine, and again, a few sharp showers. it is another cold day, but the last of the cold days we'll see for a while because the weather is set to turn a bit milder. we'll start to see that change on monday as the winds come up from more of a southerly direction. there will be some rain across western areas. the driest, brightest weather will be across eastern areas of the uk. but those temperatures will be climbing much closer to average for this time of the year.

and that warming trend is set to continue deeper into next week. could see temperatures reach the high teens, the low 20s in the warmest spots. however, there will be some rain to come as well.

live from london. this is bbc news. america's top diplomat tells the bbc he's prepared to take steps against china if it continues to support russia's war effort — but offers a way to improve relations with beijing. one is making sure that we are communicating clearly, particularly in places where we have differences to avoid misunderstandings, to avoid miscalculations. the other is seeing if we can build greater cooperation in areas where we have mutual interest in doing that. a palestinian baby girl who was rescued from her dying mother's womb after an israeli airstrike in gaza has died. and a study says it has found the strongest evidence yet that global conservation efforts are having a positive effect. the world's first personalised vaccine for melanoma skin cancer, hailed as a potential "gamechanger" for treatment, is being tested on british patients.

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