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There is another way to see this, where the IDF moves Palestinians into a smaller and smaller area until 1 bomb would kill them all.

Genocide is as genocide does.

A growing number of lawmakers are choosing to retire because they feel it’s impossible to get anything done.

Maybe that's not a bad thing.

How about Britains just gather Sunak and his cabinet together, send them to jail and leave Rwanda out of it altogether?

And ofc the cops won't say how fast they were going.

If you're gonna be a cop and engage in behavior that endangers others, you better be able to own up to it.

I wanna know when the hell LEOs are gonna learn that a high-speed chase is NEVER worth 8 lives.

ACAB

Gawd I abhor that shit. Family my ass.

Different cultures, different ways.

To those who were following this, my sincere apologies for missing the afternoon session.

The instance I'm on decided to mess up for quite a while leaving me unable to open this toot or post any updates.

I would suggest that it's you who's lost all credibility and switched over to full propaganda.

In Canada First Nations, Inuit and Metis people are the fastest growing demographic ... which is helping them a lot.

I've been curating the BBC feed, choosing not to add much of the "analysis" portions, but this one adds a bit to our understanding ...

Ivanka Trump, through her demeanour, is trying hard to look like a cooperative witness.

She’s smiling brightly, being courteous to the judge and court staff, and answering questions in an even tone.

At one point early in questioning, she joked that she couldn’t remember a call because it happened when she was nine months pregnant with her first child - more than 12 years ago.

But for such a high-ranking executive, her sudden amnesia on the stand is coming off as a calculated attempt to not give prosecutors any more ammunition.

Even when she’s presented with evidence, she says it doesn’t refresh her memory.

This is visibly frustrating prosecutors.

The court is taking a lunch break till 14:15 local time (19:15 GMT).

There's just been a bit of an awkward moment here in court, between Donald Trump's lawyer Chris Kise, prosecutor Lou Solomon, and Judge Engoron.

Solomon says he's getting agitated that Ivanka Trump can't seem to “recall” anything specific he asks about.

He says she can remember facts about Trump properties like his hotels, "but she has not answered one of my questions".

Kise steps in to defend his client's daughter, before the judge eventually says it might not be a good idea to have this conversation in front of the witness, Ivanka.

With that, Solomon continues with his questions.

Ivanka Trump has returned to court and taken the stand once more, after stepping away while the judge and lawyers argued about the relevance of some of the prosecution's questioning.

"Sorry to have kept you in the dark," the judge says to Ivanka as she returns.

The judge also briefly pokes fun at Kise - one of Donald Trump's lawyers .

Kise had spoken about the Trump Organization’s remodel of the Old Post Office in Washington, DC, claiming the company turned a “hulking relic” into a “world-class facility”.

“You’re starting to sound like your client,” Engoron said, a reference to the former president, who spent much of his testimony on Monday boasting about his real estate.

Questioning has now resumed.

Ivanka Trump has stepped out for a quick break.

In her absence, the lawyers are arguing with the judge about whether some of the evidence being shown is outside the statute of limitations.

Judge Engoron keeps overruling the Trump team's objections that they are. He's using the break to explain his reasoning - that deals done in the past carry significance for future financials.

Chris Kise, Donald Trump's lawyer, disagrees.

The prosecution also spells out their justifications for showing the documents leading up to the Deutsche Bank loans in this case.

Lou Solomon - of the prosecution - says they're showing them as part of their case that the Trumps "induced Deutsche Bank to make loans they should not make at those rates".

The prosecution are now showing an email between Rosemary Vrablic - a former Deutsche Bank managing director - and Ivanka Trump. It's about a Trump property in Chicago.

It reveals revised pricing for lower interest rates following a meeting. (It's not specified if the meeting was between Vrablic and Ivanka.)

The email shows Ivanka writing "you are the best", and later: "We all appreciate it".

When asked about the exchange, Ivanka says she does not recall - but acknowledges she can see on the email where this is said.

We're back from a short break and the prosecutors are turning to term sheets for refinancing for the Trump Hotel in Chicago, which had both a hotel and commercial component.

Lou Solomon of the attorney general's office has led Ivanka Trump through a series of questions aimed at determining whether she had involvement with her father's statements of financial conditions - the balance sheets at the heart of the case.

Ivanka once again refers to her earlier testimony to prosecutors rather than actual memories. She replied that she assumed he would have such documents but didn't recall working on them.

Eventually Judge Engoron prods the prosecutors to be more specific about which financial documents they're discussing.

Did you have any roles in preparing Donald J Trump's statements of financial condition? Solomon asks.

"Not that I'm aware of," she replies.

Did she ever rely on the valuations reflected on the statements of financial condition?

"Not that I'm aware of."

Did you ever review any of Donald J Trump's statements of financial condition before they were finalised? Solomon asks.

"I don’t recall," she says.

We're still going over the terms of the Deutsche Bank loan to the Trumps for their Doral golf course and the emails that went back and forth at the Trump Organization about it.

The bank had proposed a covenant that required Donald Trump to maintain a minimum net worth of $3bn (£2.4bn) to get the loan.

Prosecutors are showing emails from within the Trump Organization, that Ivanka Trump was involved in, discussing what net worth terms they could accept.

One Trump Organization lawyer voiced a concern that the $3bn number was a "problem".

The prosecution's Lou Solomon asks whether Ivanka was aware that Trump's 2011 statements of financial condition said he was worth $4bn.

She responds, no.

The Trump Organization ultimately proposed a $2bn net worth covenant; the final loan turned out to hold Donald Trump to $2.5bn.

Ivanka Trump has been shown multiple documents and emails.

She has used a few variations of answers - either she does not recall, or "it appears so".

Sometimes Ivanka mentions she recalls the state showing her these documents in previous meetings.

Judge Engoron at one point says: "That could have been a simple yes".

Ivanka has also been asking to read the documents more than other witnesses were.

The prosecution has asked her if she has any reason to doubt the accuracy of the presented documents and emails. For the most part, she has said no.