the, the, this is dw news live from berlin guilty on all counts. november donald trump is defiance after becoming the 1st former us president. to be convicted of a crime in new york, jerry finding he committed business fraud when he made payments to an adult film star to go to washington for more. also coming up. us officials say president biden gives the green light for ukraine to fire american weapons across the russian border. it's a policy reversal and puts new pressure on ukraine's european allies to take the

same stuff, the hello and welcome to our show. i'm so you can do the in berlin. a jury in new york has found a former us president donald trump guilty and his hush money case in manhattan. the decision makes trump the 1st former or sitting us president to be convicted of a crime. the jury concluded trump falsified documents to cover up a $130000.00 payment to silence and adult film actress the head of the 2016 election. trump was found guilty on of $34.00 counts. a trump last of the verdict insisting he did nothing wrong. let's have a listen. this is a great price. there really is going to be november and they know what happens here. everybody knows what happens here.

it's ok i'm finding, finding for our constitution and working with donald trump there after his conviction. let's get more on this from our dw correspondent, benjamin alvarez goober, in washington dc benyamin. this is a historic moment. trump is now the 1st former us president convicted of a crime. what more can you tell us about the verdict? that's right, this isn't a president moment that will go down in history of this country as donald j. trump is now the 1st form of us president to be found guilty of fed, how many crimes it was a late day verdict that came after the judge told the code from the jury would be dismissed. making many things that this vertical come on another day about shortly after that the announcement came in that the jurors who had been deliberating for nearly 12 hours over the past 2 days had reached

a verdict. and the next big data will now be july 11th. because that's when donald trump will be sentenced, and that is something that comes just days before officially becoming the g o. p presidential nominee that will begin on july 15th and then milwaukee. the former president loya tribes a to, to move this too late to july, to take place off to the convention about the request was the not there's been a lot of anticipation about this verdict and how the reaction would be, what, what else are we hearing right now there has been a lot of south reactions on both sides of the supporters, but also of the opponents of a donald trump. one of them, one of the support is eric good. trump, a, his son was sitting behind him is the go to you voted was a reading court and he said, and i quote, may 30th 2020 full might be remembered as the day donald j. trump won the 2020 full presidential election and quite similar to the message into the reaction that

speaker johnson behind the speaker of the house of representatives and a close ally of donald trump, is sad as he called it today. and i quote, a shameful day in american history, he said that this trail was an, a code purely political exercise, not a legal one. he also ended his statement saying that president trouble would rise fully appeal. is that what you called and upset verdict. and he said, we will when one of the key witnesses and the form a and a lawyer of donald trump. michael cohen said that it 2 days an important day for accountability and the rule of law. and only moments after donald trump was tongue guilty on $34.00 criminal records it president biden said, and i quote, there was only one way to keep going from out of the oval office at the belt. what will the charges on which trump was convicted or punishable by up to 4 years in prison? does this mean that the former president could actually be incarcerated? that seems likely because the charges against donald trump,

a so called non violent class a felony is the lowest level in your your each of these and $34.00 counts carries the possibility of, of several years in prison. but incarceration is not a given because many legal experts say that it's unlikely that trump will be incarcerated given he hasn't had previously been a convicted of a crime. but we'll, we'll have to see and to wait for july 11th to find it out when the sentencing of donald trump walk. then you mean the big question here and you've touched on this already. what does this verdict mean for the upcoming presidential election? it's clear that his campaign will try to financially capitalize a these, as they did also with his impeachment, we can expect it to do the same now just minutes after this, but it was announced that trump campaign send out a fundraising, emailing, which it trump said, and i quote, i am a political, a prison i the online portal that the trump campaign use us to accepted donation

was also down. i also tried to access that side and that was not working. so we can expect that the trump campaign will manage to financially capitalize from today's verdict, and also push it for his supporters and to also help not just by donating to his campaign, but also a to repeat his points, a pointing at the biden administration and saying that this is a scam and that he's a very innocent as we heard it at that level sound but before his life. right. that's been, you mean over as goober in washington. thank you. more big news out of the us officials. they're saying president joe biden has given ukraine the go ahead to use some american weapons to strike inside russia. the decision marxist significant reversal in policy by washington, which has restricted the use of its arms to avoid the risk of a direct confrontation with moscow. russia has intensive heart attacks against

ukraine in recent months, often from sites on its own territory. keys will now be allowed to use us weapons against those russian targets. the head of nato has urged other members to take the same step. george bowers joins us now from washington. d. c. he's a russia and ukraine analyst at the institute for the study of war. george, welcome us. officials are stressing this is something of a tactical decision intended to help you create in forces defending car key from correct. first of all, do we know what kind of attacks are on the table and what are off limits? i thank you very much for having me. yes. right now we know that the ukrainians are only allowed to use our artillery for counter battery fire. we know that the ukrainians are allowed to use gamers, the highmark, the rockets, to be able to strike russian forest concentrations, command control, logistics brokers, and that sort of thing off the table right now are, do you present ability to use attack comes longer range procedure and the fire missiles at the head,

other targets. we also know that this is specifically only for the border areas adjacent, the heart here, and not the rest of the other regions of russia. does this potentially open the door to other permissions to use some of those weapons that are currently off limits? i think so, you know, the part of it we've seen with all kinds of aid from america going to ukraine is that it's always sort of a small amount of quantity, a small policy change. but this is the 1st tiny step that becomes necessary for larger changes and larger directions. for a long time, not striking russian territory has been a sacred cow, and the russians have been able to leverage a defacto sanctuary zone to optimize its rear area for economic efficiency to project force and to ukraine. and now with us reevaluating the russians to have this, an exploit this sanctuary. i think we're actually going to start seeing that we actually can indeed push back on the russians. the russians are entitled to a safe space and that we are able to strike legitimate russian military targets

without any sort of catastrophic escalation. you believe in this will have both tactical ramifications for khaki, but also strategic ramifications for the entire war. that would be my hope in my intent right now. there's a tremendously large area around ukraine where the russians have set up their logistics there for sustainment of everything that they're using to project through a power into ukraine, any command or when they're conducting operations. they have to make a choice between efficiency and sustainment and protection by opening up more of your brain. i hope as we, i hope that the policy makers will continue to go down this path. we will enable the ukrainians to threaten more. the russian rear force the russians to actually invest resources and protection, forced the russians to turn their limited air defense and electronic warfare athens to the interior shop and therefore degrade, rush, the ability to get material to the front end ukraine. there's been a lot of debate on this issue,

especially here in europe. what kind of dangers does it bring with it's briefly if you can? sure. i think there's, there's actually very, very small risk. we can never completely out rule the risk of any kind of nuclear escalation, but you know, if you're going to be intellectually robust about it, it's very small because even if we can work to use a weapon, the same logic that kept us safe during the cold war with nutrition for destruction . the logic still holds true today. final question, real quick, does this put more pressure on european allies or less pressure on them? you know, i think it actually, uh, it puts a little bit of both. i mean, up from many european states, they've been the ones that been leading the charge, united kingdom and france and sweden and poland. i think the pressure will increase on germany for certain, but on some other european states. they've been the ones pressure in washington. all right, george balls and washington. thank you very much. thanks for having me. let's have a look now. some of the other stories making headlines around the world. the

thousands turned out in jerusalem for the annual l g b t q. pride march event is usually a mix of both politics and partying. but this year it's taken on a more somber aspect. considering the conflict between israel and homos and gaza. belgy beach and 2 community community dedicated the march to calling for the release of hostages. still being held by almost sylvania as prime minister robert go log says his government is set to recognize palestinian statehood. you will become the latest european country to recognize the palestinian state. following ireland, norway in spain, most un members recognize palestinian statehood. but few western countries have taken a step nomine placed in place in germany, say they've arrested for people and shut down dozens of computer servers and what they're calling the largest ever operation against malware based cyber crime. europe whole coordinated the sting which involved local police in multiple countries. malware allows cyber criminals to secretly connect to people's computers for malicious purposes. early election results from south africa showed that the

african national congress is on course to lose its parliamentary majority. for the 1st time since democratic will began in the country some 3 decades ago, partial results show the agencies once overwhelming support has fallen to 43 percent of votes. while the democratic alliance party has around 25 percent. many young south africans said there, hopeful for change, tracking the early results of a vote that could bring the biggest political shift in south africa's young democracy. the african national congress or in the party has ruled south africa unchallenged since the 1994 elections. which ended apartheid we spoke with hall verde remained a reality for many we now, 30 years later, south africans are waiting to see if their country will take a new significant political step for

a while for the police because it seems as it is not. okay. not a key, and this is that 11 savage people, but then it saves those 2 already in power. and that's my perspective on it. so i'm expecting a new project. so far results show the n c is facing a stirring test to hold onto its majority. everybody to us go, what we'll do here. then i'll just send that to 40 and we'll go ahead set that to go in and do the beauties it is, but i do both. what's happening now. we either need except for what we'll do that task and we've quite comfortable with it. while the party is still in the lead, if it fails to win at least 50 percent of the national vote may be forced into coalition for the 1st time since the end of apartheid. and what the potential to

and the parties political dominance. many hope to see a new era of co governance that was up with the amc has been in power for too long now, but they need to learn about this government because everything has it's time that the of his girlfriend, but they didn't know it just be one party to another photo kitchen, young voters hope to see and, and to corruption scandals rolling power cuts and high unemployment the people. but we want to see an end to poverty as the use in south africa. there's still some way to head the independent electoral commission says the final result would be delivered by this on the deadline. you're watching dw news. here's a reminder of our top story. new york court has found the former us president donald trump guilty on all counts and his harsh money case. it said he falsified

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