the, the, this is the news live from berlin. guilty on all counts is gonna be november. donald trump is defiant after becoming the 1st former us president to be convicted of a crime. new york jury funding. he committed business fraud when he made payments to an adult film star for the washington for more. also coming up us officials, the president biden has given 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 seeing due to the end berlin. a jury in new york has found the former us president donald trump guilty on all 34 counts in his harsh money case in manhattan. trump was convicted of falsifying business documents to cover up and a legit affair with an adult film star. the decision makers, trump the 1st former or sitting us president to be convicted of a crime guilty? no. so would any former president wants to hear? and perhaps on surprisingly, not one that trump except this is

a great price. the is going to be november by the people and they know what happens here. everybody knows what happens here. new york jury disagreed. they convicted him on also he for charges of falsifying business records. we did our job. many voices out there. the only voice that matters is the voice of the jury, and the jury has spoken. prosecute has successfully argued a trump tried to cover up and a legit affair with adult film style. stormy daniel's before the 2016 elections. the eighty's later, the us as well into another election deal with the risk between democrats and republicans, is depot than ever. outside the courtroom reactions reflected that raised

some jubilant. i've been here the last girl, the take me back are those insisting the judgment would only make the faith and trump grow strong. go deal gets out or gets bell or whatever. we're going to go over to him. so how's it gonna change my mind that you just got in trouble? you have a big deal. the deal for trump, it might be the former president could spend up to 4 years behind bars in years gone by criminal convictions. would stow the end of a politician's career, but in 2024. nothing is guaranteed. toby's benjamin alvarez goober in washington, told me more about trump adding a criminal conviction to the long list of 1st for the former president. that's right, another 1st, that is definitely a moment that will go down in us history because this vedic punches the 2020 full

presidential rates into uncharted territory. donald j trump is now the 1st and full my us president to be found guilty of felony crimes, was quite surprising. he is that this verdict was reached off. the george deliberated for nearly 12 hours over the last 2 days and ultimately found donald trump guilty on the $34.00 accounts. we know that the next step is sentencing. what exactly can we expect from that procedure? that's right, so this charges against donald trump are all a classified as non violent class e felonies at the lowest level in new york in each of those accounts carry the possibility of a several. he is in the prison by the incarceration is not a given because as some a legal experts say that is unlikely that donald trump will be incarcerated, given he hasn't previously been convicted of a crime, we will find out on july 11th. when donald trump percent is sentenced and the

sentencing will happen just days before is officially it will become the presidential nominee of the republican party in the events he is sentenced to prison. and then when's the election? could he actually serve from prison? a short answer. yes. but 1st, let's look at the requirements for a candidate. if full federal officer, trump is restricted only by requirements in the us constitution, and those requirements are quite as straightforward. my, you must be as nice or he sheet. it's 35 years old. must be a natural born us citizen, a must have lived in the us for at least 14 years. so there's nothing on criminal a conviction. so is a convicted felon. donald trump can still continue running for office, but if he's sentenced to prison and wins the presidency of clothes, would oppose as several practical complications. and some legal experts say that the resulting constitutional crisis would require that his sentence,

it'd be suspended, so that he could actually fulfill his duty as a nation's chief executive. when we heard the response from trump, as well as the response from his prosecutor alvin brag what other reactions have been out there. so that's been several reactions. one of them may have from and his son who was also there, he was sitting behind him. eric trump, and he said that may 30 as 2024 might be remembered as the day donald j trump won the 2020 full presidential election quite similar to what we also heard from mike johnson, the speaker of the house of representative, a close ally of donald trump and he said, and i quote that it was a shameful day in american history, he said that the trial was purely a political exercise, not a legal one. and he ended his statement saying, the president trump little rightfully appeal. what he called and upset verdict, he also said that we will win another one. and michael calling

a key witness. and trump's former lawyer seth a 2 days an important day for accountability and the role of law. and only moments after donald trump was found guilty on this $34.00, a criminal court, a court present by the set. and i quote, there's only one way to keep donald trump out of the oval office and that's at the butler box. w correspondent, benjamin alvarez gruber, there in washington. more big news out of the us officials, there's a president joe biden has given ukraine the go ahead to use some american weapons to strike inside russia. the decision marks a 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 intensified attacks against ukraine in recent months, often from sites and its own territory. cable now be allowed to use us weapons against those russian targets. have nato has urged other members to take the same

step. george barrows is a russia and ukraine analyst at the institute for the study of war in washington. he told me how keith is now permitted to use american weapons and what remains off limits are yes right now. we know that the ukrainians are only allowed to use our artillery for counter battery fire. we know that the premiums 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, or do you present ability to use attack comes longer range procedure and the buyer missiles at the head other targets. we also know that this is specifically only for the border areas adjacent to 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 pilot 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,

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 re evaluating the russians to have this and 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 will 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 or

power into ukraine. any commander, 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 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 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 for many european states. they've been the ones that are 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. and we go now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world to sweden's intelligence services accuse i ran of using criminal gangs in the scandinavian country as proxies to carry out acts of violence targeting jewish and is really interesting that of the agencies that around was even using what he called very young individuals, even children, to carry out their brand new and activities. you have this all civilians. prime minister robert gold says is government is set to recognize palestinian statehood.

it 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. early election results from south africa showed that the african national congress is on course to lose as parliamentary majority for the 1st time since the democratic rule began in the country. some 3 decades ago. a partial result showed the agencies once overwhelming support his bond to 43 percent of boats. while the democratic alliance party, as around 25 percent, many young south africans said they're helpful for political 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. it was for the political system as it is not. okay. not a key. and this is that 11 savage people, but then it says those 2 already in power. and that's my perspective on that. 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 else go was, it was do here, then we had all defendants, each said to 40 and don't quite set that to go in and do the beauties irrespective of what is happening now we either need except for what we do not 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 let others govern because everything has its time that the others government but they did not just be one positive, not another allowed for the 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 that had the independent electoral commission says the final results would be delivered by this

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