the performances lasted about eight hours. my colleague tetyana vorozhko is monitoring the progress of the case. she will tell us what happened in the courtroom. congratulations tanya. congratulations. tanya, remind me what the essence of the case is and what the prosecutor's office and donald trump's lawyers said in their closing speeches. actually, the prosecutor's office brought 34 charges against donald trump, which relate to the falsification of business documents. in order to cover up another crime, in this case it's about election law, as you said, it's related to payments for the silence of porn star stormy daniels because she is said to have had a sexual relationship with donald trump, and was actually paid to do so by donald trump's spokesman michael cohen, and then, as the prosecution alleges, this money was compensated to him and recorded as legal fees.

the fee for his legal services, which is actually a falsification, well, actually yesterday the defense started with their speeches, they didn't have to prove anything, the burden is completely on the party , the responsibility is on the party the prosecution, and they're the lawyer, the lawyer that blanche painted such a very different picture from his opponent, he said that actually stormy daniels and the lawyer, they decided to make money, said that this alleged stormy daniels... this sexual relationship, michael coyne, acting on his own initiative without the knowledge of donald trump, paid this money, actually the money he received from donald trump's company, these are the usual payments for his legal work, and then he turned against trump, well, blanche actually spent a lot of time to dedicate to to accuse cohen of lying, he said coin liar or coin lied more than 30 times, calling him a champion of liars, and the party ... vision painted a completely different

picture, steinglass's attorney, joshua steinglass, he said that back in 2015, donald trump, coyne and david packer, this is the executive director of the national inquiry, they talked about catching and controlling negative stories about donald trump so they don't affect the election, and david packer was doing that, this stormy daniels story, that's one of several, michael cohen is aware at the behest of donald trump these... paid something and then he was falsely reimbursed by writing it off as legal fees, that was the prosecution's version when they talked about about michael cohen, they said that of course, and we didn't buy him from a witness shop, this is the man that donald trump hired, and every word he said, everything he said during the testimony, it was corroborated by other evidence or other testimony, donald trump himself, today, he with appeared in the courtroom, he must continue to be there today, he said... that such accusations that even

mother teresa could not defend herself, the day before he again accused biden that this is political persecution. let's listen. i am here because of the crook joe biden, the worst president in the history of our country. destroying our country. this country is being destroyed fast, slow, fast, borders, energy, inflation, everything you can name. exit from afghanistan. all he did is they should have brought this case seven years ago and didn't in the middle of my presidential election, where i 'm leading by a large margin over biden, by a large margin, they did it right in the middle of the election, i hope they don't pull it off. tanya, what's next, when can we expect the court's decision and what are the options for the development of the case? well, actually, this morning, judge juan mercan instructed the jury and said that they... can, let's say, deliberate

as much as they want, as long as they need to, so it could be a verdict, it could be today, or it could be weeks, but all this time they remain in court, or they have, well, they spend the night at home, but they return there, and they also have to make a decision on each of the 34 points, and these decisions have to be unanimous, that is, they all have to agree, and what exactly are the options, well, the first option , that they can recognize donald trump. guilty on all charges, that's 34 counts, then they can find him guilty on multiple charges, depending on how these payments were made, maybe they can conclude that in some cases donald trump knew about these payments, in others cases he didn't know about these payments and also they can plead him out and acquit him , say he's innocent in all these cases all these all these on all these charges, meaning they have to look at whether the...

the prosecution evidence that leaves no doubt that donald trump really knew about these payments, that he was involved in them, and also because these are allegations of business machinations. of the first degree, that it was also done with the purpose of committing another crime, in this case it is the electoral law and the judge read it to them these are elections from the election legislation and the third, even fourth option, which can happen if the jury does not reach a unanimous conclusion on all points, or even if it is only on one point of these accusations, in which case they go to the judge, they say , that we can't agree, the judge says again to... them that you have to do everything you can to reach this verdict, if you don't, it 's called a miscarriage of justice, in which case the prosecution can start a trial again, but in principle it would be such, you know, positive intelligence, in relation to

the campaign of donald trump, well, actually, the jury decides only whether donald trump is guilty or innocent, they do not decide what exactly, exactly what responsibility he will bear, yes and donald trump's lawyers will, if he is found guilty on at least one count of the indictment, file an appeal, at the same time the next hearing will be prepared for the sentencing, and the sentencing, or rather, this will then be the next hearing, as to what kind of responsibility donald trump will bear, again, the lawyers on both sides will present their evidence, will present their arguments, whether it should be... more severe or less severe punishment, and that will be decided already the judge alone, and when the lawyers made their presentations, they also addressed the judge, this may be, shall we say, the most severe punishment, it is four years for each charge, you can multiply by 34, that is

, it is still a long term, this is the probability of this extremely low, almost non-existent, and also the judge can choose various other preventive for... measures, for example, there is a suspended sentence, or he can be under house arrest, or pay a fine in general, that is , there are many different options for compliance with the and let's say, the judge has to take into account whether donald trump has repented, whether he can commit a similar crime again, and such arguments that will lead the lawyer, well , of course, this will be considered only if the jury finds donald trump guilty of although would be one article accusation. thank you. tanya for your work, thank you for following this case, the progress of the case against donald trump, in which he is accused of falsifying business documents for payments for silence about the alien stormi danil, was followed by my colleague tatyana voroshko.

ukraine lost at least 35% of its fresh water after the kakhovsky hydroelectric dam was blown up and attacked by the russians. on ukrainian hydropower facilities, calculated at ukrhydroenergo. in addition, significant power generation capacity and shipping lanes have been lost. the water situation in the zaporizhzhia region is getting worse tense some residents of the kushugum community suffer from the lack of technical and drinking water. eva meronova and oleksandr oliynyk talked with the inhabitants of the coastal villages. it is now on the site of the kakhovsky reservoir. trees grow as tall as humans, in nearby villages there is an urgent problem with technical drinking water. approaches for half the period already and the situation in our country is very problematic with the fact that the kakhov reservoir has disappeared, sprouts are already growing there for the second year in a row, trees of 2 m have already grown,

and the water pumps with half the water that we had, they have disappeared, so now there is a huge problem precisely with the supply of rainwater, so that people can water their gardens and do vegetable gardening. this is the kushogom community, where 18,000 people live, and another 10,000 summer residents come from zaporizhzhia to grow vegetables on their plots. since there is no technical water, people water the gardens with drinking water, this significantly reduces the pressure in the water pipes and half of the community's residents lack drinking water. people watered with this water, pressure was, but when this happened, now the pressure has become much lower, and on the upper streets, where my children also live. there are problems with drinking water, people can't use drinking water during the day, they collect some kind of barrels, cisterns, if we had technical water, even in the kushuga, but we don't take it, then there wouldn't

be this problem with the lack of drinking water. the head of the koshogom community, which includes three villages, says that last summer, when the kakhov dam was blown up, the water problems had not yet reached their full height, and then, when it was torn down, water suddenly came from... and everyone started talking about what will happen there, god forbid they destroy the energy gift, it is 40 km across from us, we are in a 50-kilometer zone. and people, well, almost no one planted anything, because a lot of people left, but during the period that has already passed, people returned, a lot of people returned, we still have 300 internally displaced people, the locals understand the problem, but they need water, we understand, we understand very well, that we cannot water with drinking water, but we have to, because now we will have planting seedlings, you understand that everyone has their own plot, see every resident, and we also have no other way out than watering with drinking

water. the inhabitants of the once coastal villages could not get used to the fact that the reservoir was left with a desert, which in a year was overgrown with trees. well, at first there was trouble. when it all dried up in front of your eyes, i grew up here, and i was brought to tears, then gradually, people came to terms with it and live. how they live, inna and her family are lucky to have a natural spring in their garden, from which she and her the neighbors nearby pump water to irrigate the gardens, so they don’t have to use drinking water for technical purposes, and i water my wells, it’s small, old, well, we have enough, so what, it’s impossible with tap water, people don’t have enough of their own water , now there are big interruptions with water, and we do not under any circumstances... water it with a tap, i just have such technical water, and it is so clean that my parents built a house near the well,

the well is very old, lucky for those residents of the koshohom community , who live near water pumps on the dnipro, well, we technically have fuel here, people connect from the dnipro, they laid pipes here, so there is irrigation and everything is fine, this is where the dnipro flows into the former kakhov reservoir, but if the kakhov dam used to be ... water, and the river filled the reservoir, now the water almost does not linger. after the explosion of the kakhovka dam , the dnipro in this area has become much thicker. that year, the water came in a lot, and it was closer here, pumping water, so people collected money, laid pipes further. everything was done. street dwellers suffer from a lack of drinking water, which is above the shallow reservoir. the locals are thinking of drilling wells on the banks of the dried up river. konky or dnipro, there is only one solution to the problem, today we already see that in

the near future, of course, that the water will not return, yes, it is very problematic to move the irrigation water networks, because they are not 1 km away, and this, of course, is the situation , which need to make some kind of top-up, only one top-up is possible, most likely, it is the production of technical pcd, technical documentation for the creation of wells under. water supply for the population itself for irrigation water. pull the pipes from any lake on the shallow kahovsky reservoir is obstructed by a railway track, along which electric trains once headed towards the now occupied part of the zaporizhzhia region. eva myronova oleksandr oliynyk for voice of america from the zaporizhzhia region. great russian literature has done a lot of damage - the ukrainian poetess and translator is convinced. yulia musakovska. according to her, it was russian literature that brought up imperial thinking in the russian population and the rest of

the ideas, for example, about a small person who does not affect anything. sung in russian classic literature and war crimes. meanwhile, the world, instead of condemning it, formed an idea about the mysterious russian soul, says the poet. at the same time, in the last few years , ukrainian modern literature has been receiving more and more attention abroad. for example, a book. god of freedom was recently translated and published in the usa. my colleague iryna solomko met with the poet in new york, where she presented a translated collection. yulia, i congratulate you, you are now in new york, where today will take place the presentation of essentially the first book, a book of books, and which has been translated into english, because before that your poems were translated into 30 languages, this is probably such a huge achievement in principle for a ukrainian poetess. but today's presentation and this book are in english, what does it mean for you? this book, which was written between 2016 and

21, before the start of the full-scale russian invasion of ukraine, nevertheless tells a lot about the war, and it is also an opportunity to emphasize that this russian war continues since 2014, accordingly, these poems that i read have a lot of m... after all, war, even, if not in the very center, then as such a disturbing atmosphere, as the events that are woven into this poetry, which gives me the opportunity... to convey these emotions of our reality and with which we lived during all these years. there is an opinion that in principle prose is more popular than poetry in the modern world, not only in ukraine, but in general, i mean in the world, do you agree with this or not? this interest in poetry, has now become so great, because

poetry is born from strong emotions, even so often born from great upheavals, war that... it is also, if not a time of great upheavals, also through poetry there is an opportunity to convey an emotion, somehow to bring this experience closer to the reader, and that is why poetry works so well in wartime, of course, to understand what ukrainians are currently experiencing in wartime, people abroad cannot, but they can somehow get closer to this understanding, through emotion, which carries poetry. you said that... to finish your tour, yes, in the united states, and basically, you were in four cities, but it's very important that you were not just in four cities, in very important universities like this, where you talked to young people, students, do they have an understanding of what is happening in ukraine, i felt that there is interest, in particular , my last event was at the university

of california in san diego, there was a huge audience of about 200 students, and i saw. these included faces, these lively eyes, of course, that they do not understand what is happening, but they want, they want to understand, they are interested, probably one of those people who helped you become even more famous in america is timothy snyder. how did this acquaintance happen, could you tell us a little? this is a very interesting story, and it started with the presentation of my translated book, which... was published in poland in the summer of 2022. professor snyder was present at this event, he listened to the reading and the conversation, and among all the poems there was a text that i wrote in march 2022, so uncomfortable and so scary poems, it was very important to me the text, because he outlined this line,

where poetry began to move, from as if singing something... so beautiful to a story about terrible things, about the war crimes of the russians, about our losses, about the pain that we are experiencing, pain and fear and anxiety, but also the people who are also such a driving force, apparently this poem struck professor snyder, and he decided to translate it and quote it in ... in his course for yale university, the opportunity to express them, it is such an extreme necessity , even, many discussions it is about whether ukrainian writers should use platforms where they also have the opportunity to speak, for example, there are russian writers, it is obvious that there can be no question of any

joint activities with writers who support putin's terrorist... regime, which concerns yes the so-called good russians, well, i would not take part in the joint event either, i am first of all very outraged by the fact that the so-called good russians, as we call them, are focused on talking with abroad, they should be focused as much as possible in speaking with his own people, and in order to combat... the propaganda of the putin regime, to call on the people not to participate in this war. unfortunately, we see that they are primarily concerned about the loss of positions, the loss of opportunities, the loss of privileges that they have enjoyed for many years, because they are deeply rooted abroad. great russian literature, it did a

lot of damage, it brought up this kind of imperial thinking in russian. population, take only lermontov ulansha's poem - that's absolutely everything what the russians did in buch, it's a real paradox that all these stories about, terrible things, somehow formed abroad this idea of ​​a mysterious russian soul, in fact, these are things that need such frank condemnation. and what do you think, why the world does not condemn, but admires, where does such romanticism come from? probably such a complete misunderstanding of russian realities, well, not such knowledge either. it is the true version of history, in particular the history of russian-ukrainian relations, that we also say that this is a war that has actually been going on for centuries. on this

we will say goodbye, you watched the program of the ukrainian voice of america chas time. thank you for trusting voa. i'm nataliya leonova, all is well.

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