set term limits for judges and introduce a mandatory code of ethics for the court's nine judges. it also requires lawmakers to ratify a constitutional amendment limiting the president's immunity. about new legislative initiatives. we will talk with oleksiy kovalenko. he joins our studio from the supreme court annex. hello, oleksiy. congratulations. oleksiy, what exactly does president biden want to reform and why. right now, because previously, as a candidate, joe biden was cautious about calls to reform the supreme court. i am told that we have technical components. we, we'll try to get back to

alex later, for now we're moving on. at the olympics in paris, the usa has won the most so far. 21 medals . ukraine has one bronze medal, which was awarded to the facturer olga kharlan. she dedicated her victory to athletes who cannot compete for ukraine because, i quote, they were killed by russia. this year , the smallest number of ukrainian athletes will represent ukraine at the paris games for all the olympics 140 athletes. many ukrainian athletes are currently in the ranks of the armed forces. among them is the hero of our next story. at one time, he was the 13th tennis player of the planet, a four-time winner

of tennis tournaments in the atp series. oleksandr dovgopolov went to the front as a volunteer in the spring of 2022. at first he fought in intelligence, and later joined the ground forces of ukraine. he told anna kostyuchenko and pavel sukhodolskyi about his military days and the new, unique training program for recruits. 35-year-old kyyanin oleksandr dolgopolov has been fighting for the third year. in a row, there should not be any specific motivation, it is first of all a civic duty, the constitution, and then you can find 100 reasons or more, starting from relatives, just the topic of good and evil, to some material things, to the destruction of our places, torture and so on, well... that is, you can

list, rather it is difficult to find why you should not protect, because if they come to kill and torture you, on the eve of a full-scale russian invasion , alexander took his mother and sister to turkey and went back to ukraine. i crossed the border on foot, shot with my father, but what i said, i didn't say anything, i was glad to see. he was upset, of course, because no one knew how it would end, that is, at that time they were near kyiv, and i was going to kyiv. oleksandr dolgopolov started playing tennis at the age of three under the guidance of his father. during his tennis career, the ukrainian won three atp tournaments in singles and one in doubles. in january. in 2012, oleksandr dolgopolov reached

the 13th line in the world ranking and became the second ukrainian in history to be among the twenty best tennis players on the planet. he was called the messi of tennis for his creative style of play. since 2018, oleksandr has undergone several operations on his hand, and in the 21st year he announced the end of his career. in total, dolgopolov earned more than $7 million in prize money and started his own real estate design and rental business. but with the beginning of the russian invasion, i left my job and became an aerial scout, i played computer games, i love technology, already at the beginning of the war it was clear that everything would be used more and more, plus, well, as far as i was concerned, it was the fastest, somehow i wanted to get involved somehow, and it was the fastest ma... in

education, it was the most interesting for me personally. at first, oleksandr fought in reconnaissance, and then joined the ground forces of ukraine. he fought first in the kherson, and then in the zaporozhye directions. if you're just gathering information, it's about seven hours in positions. if there is an attack and you have to support the infantry guys, that's about 15 hours in a row that you have to work, because other people rely on you. during the defense bakhmut in the spring of 2023, oleksandr met there with another tennis champion of ukraine , serhii stakhovsky, who is also fighting at the beginning of a full-scale russian invasion. if ukraine loses, europe can see it at home. a long-term career in big

sports has taught me the resilience needed in war, - says oleksandr. after all , he watched many matches in front of thousands of spectators. playing with injuries, tennis is a fast sport, there are moments in sports when you think you are going to die now, you there is not enough oxygen, you begin to suffocate, your eyes dilate, that is , it is stress, both adrenaline and physical exertion, and when you are used to living in this, it will be much easier for you in the war, because there you will find yourself in exactly such a situation, your 15 - a year's experience in... which sport oleksandr plans to use to create a special training program for land forces recruits. there is a topic of recruiting. i think we have to work on it. in the ground forces, this is a force drone, a program to get people

where they want to go, not everyone is taken there, so they know they're going to be well-coached, er, they're going to get where they want to go. oleksandr also helps to develop a program of physical activity for people on the front lines, because after returning to kyiv for the first rotation after more than a year and a half at the front, even he, a professional athlete, lost his former physical shape. well, when i came back the first days, it seemed to me that i had never exercised at all. it is necessary to give them something so that they can actually support it in combat conditions. this will be very relevant because i watched some major... there exams, for example, nativ, well, it's very basic training, it's not functional enough, uh, it's firstly, secondly, well, they probably fought in wars, when they have wonderful rotations there, he has

a gym there , first of all, we do not have such a thing, and secondly, they are so busy that they will not do it, they need to be given something there that in 20 minutes he will be able to... keep his studies after there, when he is released to the war currently, dolgopolov is developing a 20-minute program of functional training to strengthen the spine, knee joints and increasing the general endurance of fighters. the former tennis player does not regret his decision to join the armed forces. i think it was the right decision for me.

for the voice of america from central ukraine. we managed to reconnect with oleksiy. so, oleksiy, what exactly does he want to reform. president biden and why now? congratulations once again natalia. he laid out the essence of president biden's reform yesterday in an article, as well as in a statement on the white house website, as well as during an evening address in the fall of the state of texas, where celebrated the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the law on civil rights, and this reform itself, it consists of three parts. the first part is a term limit, how much. judges of the supreme court can serve in this position, and actually the president of the united states, joe biden, proposes to limit this term to 18 years, it is very important here that until the 70th year, this term was an average of 17 years, how many supreme court judges served, after that he is

an average of 30 years, so now he is the longest-serving judge at the supreme court has been working there for 33 years, and experts actually note that america should be represented as it is now, not as it was 30 years ago. the next element is a code of ethics, actually there is already a code of ethics, but joe biden is proposing that it be... so much deeper and that the supreme court justices have more accountability, and the third part of this reform is a constitutional amendment, which is related to the fact that there should not be such a wide and such wide immunity in the president from everything he could do during the presidency, this amendment is related, of course, to the affairs of donald trump and the recent decision of the supreme court regarding him, and we have the opportunity now to hear exactly what joe biden had to say about all these points. right now,

first of all, i am calling for a constitutional amendment called no one is above the law. and i mean frankly that it would mean no immunity for the former president's crimes that were committed during his presidency. and i share the faith of our founding fathers in what the president has answer to the law. the second thing i'm asking is that we have a term limit for the presidency in the united states that was put in place about 75 years ago, after the truman administration, and i think we should put a limit on the supreme court justices, actually. the united states is the only constitutional democracy that grants lifetime seats on the supreme court. third, i

call for the approval of a code of ethics for the supreme court. the supreme court's current code of ethics is weak and, more frighteningly, arbitrary. oleksiy, currently supreme the court has a conservative majority. six judges hold conservative views, three liberal. how are republicans responding to the presidential initiative and what is the position of republican presidential candidate donald trump, who, it's worth noting, has appointed three of these conservative judges. it's very important here to separate the population, the views of the population that support the republican party from republican lawmakers and supporters of donald trump. yes, sir... the population, among the supporting population the republican party, more than half of the population supports some points of this

reform, but republican lawmakers and supporters of donald trump have sharply criticized it, so the speaker of the house of representatives , mike johnson, said that the bill would be dead at the time of his vote. of course, we have heard criticism many times, and republican presidential candidate donald trump offers to listen. she will appoint staunch marxists. to the supreme court to violate our constitution and all of our religious freedom. she will definitely do it. she will make every effort to add as many justices as possible to the us supreme court. in other words, she wants to pack the court, which is number one on their agenda. and we cannot allow that. we will not allow this. we are not going to add anyone. we will do it as we have done for many, many years. and it should stop there. this is a stop in the matter of the supreme court. and one more, of course,

very one more very important point, of course, is that there are only 98 days to go presidential election in november, and experts say it is highly unlikely that even part of this supreme court reform bill will pass a vote in a deeply divided congress. thank you oleksiy for your work, oleksiy kovalen was in direct contact with us. democrats say former president donald trump will destroy democratic institutions if re-elected to the nation's highest office in november, but trump insists democracy will end if he is not re-elected in 2024. mary pruss was trying to figure out whether the president even has the power to destroy democracy in the united states. the constitution is the foundation. america's document, it outlines the three branches of government, the executive, including the president, the legislature, the house

of representatives, the senate, the judiciary, the supreme court , and other courts. the task of each branch is also to prevent abuse by the other. this separation of powers is at the heart of american democracy. we're moving into somewhat uncharted waters because of president trump's supposed willingness, if re-elected, to explore. for which others did not go before presidents i only want to be a dictator for one day. and i will be the dictator of shawne for a day. former president. donald trump says he won't be a dictator for more than the first day of his presidency if elected, but what if the next president ever tries to overstep his authority? if the charge is that one branch of government is simply going to flout the limits on the separation of powers, frankly, i don't know if our system

is strong enough to withstand that. he openly said that from day one. and not a dictator. one of the main messages of the campaign of the presumptive democratic presidential candidate kamela harris is that trump is a threat to democracy. democrats point to trump's unwillingness to accept the results of the 2020 election and then the attack on the capitol on january 6, 2021. this is our fight for freedom. across our country, we are witnessing an all-out assault on hard -won freedoms and rights. they keep saying he's a threat to democracy, i say what the hell i did to democracy last week i took a bullet for democracy. voters themselves , for the most part, do not believe that american democracy is under threat. i was talking to somebody a few weeks ago who said, you know, you hear all these things about donald trump

trying to overthrow democracy, but he hasn't. there is some sentiment among some independent voters. that it worked, the system worked, that's right, the transfer of power happened, so we're fine. some experts say that it is not easy for a populist leader to destroy democracy. it's happening only in the presence of genuine institutional weakness and special conjunctural opportunity, and so my argument is that in the united states these conditions are not really met. weiland says that a number of factors prevent the president from gaining full power, and he points to the example of breder fensperger. georgia's secretary of state, who, as a republican, refused to help swing the 2020 election when trump asked him to find more votes for him. american democracy is strong and strong, and the american people are committed to it, and american officials are committed to their institutional responsibilities. weiland says

leaders have a better chance of destroying democracy when they have massive popular support. with an approval rating exceeding 70%. trump's highest approval rating as president was 49%. biden has 57%. maria prus, dora mequar, voice of america. wartime posters, a book of wartime works by ukrainian artists were presented in new york the other day. the authors of the posters graphically document russian war crimes and show russian propaganda against ukraine. the book is printed in ukrainian and english. it is based on 19 street exhibitions, which, starting from may 2023-22 , began to be held first in zaporizhzhia, and then with the world. posters have already been displayed in poland and germany. details in the plot of iryna solomko. the book consists of 453 posters created by 18 ukrainian artists and

illustrators, says olena spiranska, curator of the publication. many of these posters could be seen at protests in different parts of the world. and the favorite poster, says olena, best reflects the spirit of the project and the time. he is called "neusremos" this is purely our ukrainian word, which reflects our struggle in principle that we can do it. it is very ironic, it is written in english letters, but it is a ukrainian word that only we understand. the project was born in elena's hometown of zaporozhye. local authorities and artists decided to make street art. exhibition of posters to support the spirit of the citizens of a practically front-line city, all these works were created by artists during the hostilities, they were all in ukraine, even natasha lobach was in zaporizhzhia at that time, that is, it was a very long work that resulted in a book, because it was extremely important

to record all these works. olena herself now lives in new york, she came with her son. she is a refugee, because her home in arpina near the gostomil airport was vandalized by the russians. we were left with everything material , everything we had. russian soldiers, they were in our apartment, they even wrote zetna on one of our walls, they stole all my clothes and our personal things, but the art objects that were at home, they did not took because i think they just don't understand the value of what was there. the curator uses her temporary stay in the usa. this is a voice, this is our ukrainian voice in the world, and this is the preservation of our cultural heritage, because what is happening right here and now is the history... which is happening here, and we must use art to record what is happening now in ukraine, these are all crimes that we

see every day. it's a universal language that resonates around the world and everyone can understand, so we think it's very important record and display in a book so that generations later people in different countries can read it. the history of the book was made bilingual, growing up and printed in ukraine, due to constant shelling and lack of light , instead of a month, the book was printed in four, olena says. the book is free, the grant for its creation and printing was allocated by the ukrainian cultural fund. looking at this book, looking at these wartime posters, this is of course, this is our history, and we have to poster it already today, and we have to talk about ukraine as much as possible, spread information to convey, especially to the american audience, which is very difficult to reach. today , we are trying to do everything possible to reach out and convey information about ukraine. the circulation of the book is one thousand copies, according to spiranska, the book has already been distributed

by ukrainian libraries, and now the goal is to do the same abroad, so she is looking for sponsors to increase the circulation. american writer, journalist and business woman mitsi peredu came to the presentation in new york. symbols reach the heart faster than words - it's identity, it's history, it's who they are, and it's shown through art. i like that ukraine preserves its identity through art. i hope many, many people see this book. people should see it, because it is creativity, it is art, and it belongs to the heart. this is an important book. christopher miller, correspondent of the financial times newspaper, joined the presentation. he has been working in ukraine for many years and wrote a book about the war. what always struck me as a correspondent, which highlighted ukraine, this is the defiance and resilience of ukrainians, as can be seen in this art, in this

book. i think this is a really special book because it talks about what happened in a way that journalists or writers cannot explain, these are really emotional images, no matter what language you speak, ukrainian, english or any other, because of these images you you will understand what is happening in ukraine and how ukrainians feel about the war. ukrainian diplomats present at the presentation promised to work to distribute the book in american libraries and educational institutions, and olena spiranska is already preparing for a new poster exhibition in new york and dreams of returning home as soon as her destroyed home in bir is rebuilt. from new york iryna solomko, pavlo terikhov, voice of america. you watched the program of the ukrainian voice of america chas time. thank you for trusting us, i'm natalya leonova, all the best.

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today in the verdict program. with serhii rudenko. the creeping offensive of the russians. ukrainian defenders destroy the occupiers by the thousands and burn their equipment by the hundreds every day. how long can the advance of the enemy in donetsk region last? for which settlements there is the greatest threat. ukrainian legions abroad. following poland, the czech republic plans to attract ukrainian conscript refugees.

in volunteer military formations, what benefit can the armed forces have from the initiative of partners? political murders in ukraine. law enforcement officers are investigating the involvement of russian special services and neo-nazi movements in the shooting of iryna farion. why are the perpetrators of such crimes so rarely on the dock. glory to ukraine, this is the verdict program, my name is serhii rudenko, congratulations everyone and i wish everyone good health. for the next two hours, we will talk about ukraine, the world, the war, and our victory. let's talk today about how and why the promised f-16 fighter jets are flying to ukraine for so long, about the case of iryna farion, as well as about peace talks, as the president

of finland announced today. about the fact that ukraine and russia have already reached the point where negotiations need to be held. during the entire broadcast, we will have, will be visiting, a veteran of the russian-ukrainian war, yevhen dykiy, the former prosecutor general of ukraine, captain of the armed forces of ukraine, yuriy lutsenko, as well as people's deputies of ukraine, andriy osatchuk, rostyslav pavlenko, and yevgenia kravchuk. however, before starting our big conversation. offers to watch a video of how ukrainian paratroopers of the 79th separate assault tauri brigade repelled another large-scale assault of the occupiers in the kurakhiv direction. the occupiers involved 57 units of equipment. the defenders destroyed more than half of them. let's see how it all turned out.