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former us president donald trump is being questioned on the road in new york this hour. it's part of a long running investigation looking into his real estate business dealings. the case involves allegations, the trump organization misled banks and tax authorities about the value of its buildings and golf courses. it comes days after the f. b, i rated his florida home in an unrelated federal inquiry into how he handled classified documents. i'm gabrielle alexander, joins us now live from new york or another day, another twist in the investigations against donald trump. what can you tell us about today's questioning? while donald trump arrived at the new york state attorney general's office, here in lower manhattan in new york city, about 9 am this morning local time, he went immediately, his caravan of secure vehicles went right to the underground parking lot. he did

not make any comments. we do not actually even see him how long this questioning will be going on for is anybody's guess it could be an hour, it could be a couple hours. it could be all day. we simply do not know. and the attorney general office is saying no comment on anything related to this investigation right now or what's happening today. it's important to point out though exactly what this is and what it is and this has nothing to do with the f b i rayed of trumps home in florida. this is a totally separate investigation. that's number one. what is this? it is an investigation that's been going on since 2019 by leticia james, the new york attorney general, who says the trump organization, his business, his golf courses, his hotels that day fraudulently in her words inflated the value of their properties. and then you say, well, ok, well why does that really matter? it matters because of this reason because the value of your properties determines

what type of loans you get and how favorable those loans are by banks. so what the attorney general's investigating is did at trump fraudulently inflate the value of his company in order to get more favourable loans if he did. that's fraud. and that is what is being investigated already. all 3 of trumps kids or 3 of them, yvonne could trump don junior, and eric trump have all been interviewed already. and now this is the combination of this investigation. it's been going on since 2019 and it's not the only challenge legal challenge he faces talk us through some of the others. yeah, i mean this one he is is a civil case. so it's, he faces potential fines or

a settlement perhaps that could potentially ruin his company if the, if the fines or the civil a settlement is large enough. so he, this is a very treacherous period for donald trump, but also he's giving a deposition right now. and that means he's legally bound to tell the truth to the best of his knowledge. if he intentionally does not tell the truth in his deposition, he could be prosecuted for that. so he's facing all sorts of a landmine, if you will, of potential legal problems with just this case. not to mention of course the f b, i rating his home in florida within the last 36 hours or so that we've been hearing about not to mention. in another case, him having to turn over a judge saying yes to turn over his tax records to a house committee that's investigating tax issues related to donald trump. not to mention the manhattan district attorney who also has another investigation about

donald trump's businesses as well. so he's facing a whole plethora of legal challenges right now, and all of them potentially have all sorts of ramifications. trump, i should say, regarding this investigation that he's being interviewed in right now. he says, in his words, this is a witch hunt, and his lawyers claim that he has not intentionally inflated the value of his company. he accompanies his lawyer, simply say that it's very subjective on how you value companies and he's done nothing wrong or i thanks. so much for the update capital i was on the inflation in the u. s. could be cooling the consumer price index climbed 8.5 percent the year through july compared with 9 point one percent and june. wall street is up and the figures are welcome. are free for consumers, both gas prices and f as of come down and price winehouse cost on the kimberly. how can join us live now from washington d. c. so not

a scary is predicted. phil need to be a little bit cautious, right? that's so absolutely right, but this is certainly something that the white house is going to be welcoming because this is sort of what the white house has been saying all along is that stick with us and things will get better. and now there is some data to at least prove that the federal reserve and the efforts that it's dying in terms of raising interest rates to control these inflationary prices in this monetary policy is actually working. and so at least there's one month of data now to show that we're still a close to those 40 year record highs though. and that means that americans, ordinary americans, working class, middle class americans are still paying some record high numbers for gasoline for rent, for firm, also for food prices. but at the bottom line is,

is that when it comes to those energy prices as gasoline or petrol prices, those seem to be falling as of july. and that is some welcome news. that's what brought that figure down. and so this is certainly assigned the white house says that things are going in the right direction. the question is whether or not it's peak, there still needs to be more data, whether that can be determined. but this certainly is at least a welcome respite for working class americans right now. all right, and of course the, i guess $6000000.00 question is that the expression is in heavy good news for americans. how much of this is good news for those biden writings? i think we should mention he's actually speaking bear with me for a 2nd. he's speaking there at the veterans event in washington dc. so i'm not sure who's going to mention these numbers, but kimberly, i'm sure you're going to tell us that he is very happy down with these numbers.

what is it gonna mean for his approval racing? so kimberly's the question, what we're talking, you know, what if he's not only if we got these new inflationary numbers, but we've gotten some new approval rating numbers for the president as well. and so the president had been hovering in the 30 the range of the thirty's, as we call it, which isn't really where you want to be as a president, terms of the percentage of americans that like the job you're doing well, it's going up to percentage points he's now at a 40 percent approval rating. 55 percent of americans still disapprove, so the majority are still not happy, but at least the, the trend is going in the right direction for the president. then the reason is is that he's have a string of legislative victories in recent weeks. i would dressing drug prices bringing those down, controlling those prices, also dressing climate change. and now add to that it looks like inflation could be

getting under control. so these are welcome figures for the president, given the fact that we're a 100, less than a 100 days now until the congressional mid term elections. why does that matter? the president wants to keep control of the house and the senate with his democratic party and the bad news headlines and recent months we're making that look less and less likely. so this boost in the terms of the news headline. some bit news for the president who is try to hang on that not only to his legislative agenda, but also i would like to run again for president, for a 2nd term in 2024. all right, thanks so much. kimberly hallett. get back. now g 7 foreign ministers are demanding russia hans back europe's largest nuclear power plant to ukraine to ensure its safety. bizarre parisha plants is near the city of an order in southern ukraine. it has 6 reactors,

but just to are currently operating before the war. it generated about 20 percent of the country's electricity, and russia has been shelling the town of nichol, paul, which is across the river. last week, ukraine's nuclear agency said shells hit the nitrogen oxygen unit. and the high voltage. busy power line at the plant, no radiation leaks were detected, but a reactor has been disconnected. ukraine's foreign ministry says a shell hitting an operational reactor could have the same impact as an atomic bomb . john hendern with more now from give prussia hasn't been commenting beyond saying it would allow the international atomic energy agency to come to the plant, but under russian auspices. and of course, that's not what those g. 7 foreign ministers are asking for. they want russia to step back and completely remove itself. as a matter of fact, they want it to remove itself from all of the internationally recognized ukrainian territory. that's also highly unlikely to happen. but i spoke to the head of the

company that runs that plan. and ergo, at tom, his name is petro cochin. and he told me that the russians have brought in military equipment including explosives. they're keeping it in the facility, not in the reactor, but next to it, they have vehicles explosive. they say they that their personnel are in the bunkers underneath the facility. those are the bunkers that the workers would go to if there were a nuclear emergency. and he says he is under the belief that what russia is trying to. ready do is use these strikes and of course russia says ukraine launch these strikes. but he says, he believes that russia has launched the strikes at the facility in order to sever it from the ukrainian grid and take the power with it and reconnect to a crimea nuclear facility. so that the energy and all of the connections would be fully in russian territory. i said i have an al jazeera searing,

our bob preparing for more south korea reales. the effects of flooding that's killed 9 people. and we look at which side will come off, worse is the you impose isn't embargo on russian co hello. we now have side to some drive by the pushing back into the korean peninsula . i'm pleased to say at least for the time being, see this long line of cloud that was responsible for the actor. unprecedented flooding rains that we have seen here. some of the wettest weather in over 100 years, some past seen around half a meter of rainfall. little wonder that we have seen those extensive floods in and around the sol area. but the wet weather is to set is now slipping further

southwards. some parts of south caressing the heavier bursts of rain and that she gradually clear through was we go on 3 friday bright zaki warms up sol around $31.00 celsius in the sunshine still warm in to where japan 35 celsius their photo go. at wet weather will make his way across much of japan as we go through friday. so expect to see some isolated cases of flash flooding coming through here. some very wet weather continue across southern parts of china at present said joining up with our system which is pushing up towards high nana tropical disturbance will bring some very heavy rain into northern parts of vietnam. it's northerners of laos over the next couple of days. and that cloud and rain will drift its way up towards me and mar, ahead of that lot of wet weather across a central parts of india, right into the southeast of pakistan. ah, life and robust debates, a lot of folks when they hear the word refugee think stranger,

they think other law latrice stuck in these camps. it's regardless of your ratings . the way you're coming from, you said, give everybody safety from global issues to those that need to be of human rights and land defenders and brazil. they live in a circumstance of permanent violence and intimidation. the street for a global audience becomes a global community on al jazeera lou . ah, welcome back. you're watching out to sara time to recap our headlines for me. u. s . president. donald trump is being questioned under oath in new york. the case involves allegations,

the trump organization misled banks and tax authorities about the value of its buildings and golf courses. and we are just getting reports from reuters news agency. the trump has issued a statement that is declining to answer questions in the investigation. inflation in the u. s. could be cooling, consumer price index climbed 8.5 percent of the year through july compared with a 9 point one percent in june. wall street is up and the figures are welcome reprieve for consumers. g 7 foreign ministers of demanded russia hands back was upward asia, a nuclear power plant to ukraine to ensure its safety. moscow and clever accusing each other of shelling the sites and the number of palestinians killed in garza during 3 days of fighting is resent of $47.00 children. i counted for one 3rd of them. 9 of the 16 children killed lived in the job valley,

a refugee camp in sasha. what name went to the camp to speak with witnesses and families? we should warn view, as you may find some of the images in this report to be distressing. ah, at just 4 years old, jameel had already experienced war. his 16 year old cousin had lived through 4 of them. they didn't survive a visit to their grandfather's grave. 5 children were killed in the cemetery in job bally a refugee camp on sunday. all but one of them from the same family had been marked boulevard, but on with his symmetry, these relish hit is like a park for our children in our religion. we consider it as our final resting place . there is no security for our children. i asked the international community to pressure israel to stop killing our children. this witness says he saw the explosion as the boys sat around the grave site. hello, hello. hello. just

a few seconds after they passed me, i heard the sound of an arm drone hit, the children. it was quiet. there was nothing going on in the cemetery. it was safe, then i looked up and found the children dead along the previous day. 4 children in the camp were killed som, as they went to bye treats from a market, barely an adult. and an only child. colleen abu commodity was hoping to marry sue and give his parents, grandchildren, shout, no boucher, he, we could all be motors almost every year we have war a massacres. when helene was born, i had the feeling he would and live long, but i never expected. he would die this way. witnesses a, the damage to these cars and the force of the explosion are consistent with israeli air strikes over the years. the israeli military says 200 of the rockets fired by palestinian islamic. he had misfired, and some civilians were killed. it says the is that a valley

a cemetery is still being investigated. but the 1st incident which killed 4 children, was the result of an errant rocket fired by the armed group. no one here believes that messiah. it's not true, i saw with my own eyes the israel rocket from the roof of my home. the israelis must. i cut my son. there's no doubt that palestinian groups are not responsible for the java lay a refugee camp last 9. boys in this latest round of violence with israel during their short lives, they experienced the terror and loss of war after war. with no chance of a peaceful childhood. natasha named el jazeera, gaza. the chassis, save the children, says nanny one years and the time on seize power again, enough chemistry, young girls have been left hungry, isolated, and in many cases depressed. it says the root causes are a continuing economic crisis. a devastating drought and tale bomb imposed

restrictions on women and girls. the report says they've all had a devastating impact on children's health and wellbeing sound. bon jovi has more now from july about this classroom may be an exception because the girls here have been telling us that they've had breakfast for breakfast. all they had was some red and green tea. according to the latest report by the charity save the children. high number of the respondents just do not have enough to feed their children. many of the children have been going hungry or have been reduced to one meal a day. most of the children have been speaking to tell us that it is very basic items in terms of food that they're able to get voting to aid workers. twice as many girls are likely to go hungry. as boys and girls are also been the brunt of the psychological and societal pressures as well. since last year, when the taliban took over. according to aid workers we've been speaking to in the

united nations, the agencies as well who tell us that the number of children facing severe acute malnutrition has almost doubled since last year. they do not attribute all of it to the change of government, but see that there is a perfect crisis that has gripped this country. it faces it's worst drought in 3 decades. after the pandemic, the taliban took over and billions of dollars worth of weight which used to be poured into this country has dried up. the banking sector faces crippling sanctions and the economy has tanked so of land. the sun was already poor and was facing a number of humanitarian issues since last year. those have compounded and it workers have been telling us that unless urgent and important steps are taken to ensure that the children in this country are taken care of, they are looking at a much bigger and prolong prices that this country or the region has ever faced charlie's military says it's finished, it's live fire drills in the taiwan straits,

but beijing's troops remain ready for battle. the navy and air exercises began last week after u. s. how speaker nancy pelosi visited taiwan, taipei as responded with drills of its own thousands of people in bangladesh have been injured in protest against the rise and the cost of fuel. it follows a price increase of up to 50 percent last week. the government is blaming global energy market. the concern it'll lead to spike in food and transport. com. students are vowing to protest indefinitely. as of wednesday, european union member states can no longer import coal from russia. it's part of a 5th sanctions package in moscow. that embargo is already causing problems for europe's biggest economy. germany dominant came into the power plant just outside berlin. the interesting thing is, the place behind me this. this cuffed high, cuts fac,

half stuck in the middle of berlin. will they go out over dependence on russian coal? earlier this year? they saw metaphorically the right thing on the wall as far as they were concerned, and they divest themselves of a dependency on russian coal. that just had a consignment of coal sent to them. it's being unloaded right now. crucially, it's not russian coal, and the same applies right across the you now know you country should be bringing in coal from russia sauce from russia, but to a certain extent, both here in germany and across the u. that's the easiest of the fossil fuel supported from russia to do away with the ones that are much hard to do away with oil and of course gas. we know that the declares ambition from the e u and from city from the germans, is to get rid of dependency on oil by the end of the year. but getting rid of that dependency on gas is much more difficult. and we've already heard here in berlin on wednesday that several different large main gas providers in germany has said

they're going to be hiking their prices for residential uses of gas in the coming autumn, full season by a very considerable amount. so while there's no question that you leaders will be saying, how important is to get out of these fossil fuels? sorry, gas is concerned, it's very hard. the u. k is also swiping over possible energy, short falls this winter. the government says it's prepared to knock them heads together during crisis talks with energy company bosses on thursday full brennan has more from london a real summer of energy crisis for the utilities, the water, the gas and electricity here in the united kingdom. and in response to that has been a lot of criticism of the governments lack of response. we are effectively leaderless here in the united kingdom with forest johnson still of number 10 downing street, but not making any policy decisions while we wait for his successor to be named.

now in the meantime, what happens, what's happening is the energy costs to consumers are going up extraordinarily high . i mean, a typical bill from a year ago was around $2000.00 from january. the annual bill will be more than $5000.00. you can see the enormous acceleration and costs and that's worrying people. now, government treasury officials say that they're working of options, but the next lead a crude, an act. but that's not enough for consumer groups who are demanding that they should be some kind of joint proposals comfortable with. now, even before the next prime minister is named, there will be a couple of government ministers who will jointly meet energy bosses on 1st day. the minister say they will be knocking heads together. the fact is the energy bosses will give as good as they get, i mean, energy bosses being interviewed on the media this morning saying things like, you know, the situation is dia, i'm astonished. we don't see the 2 political contenders, declare unity of purpose. so both sides blaming each other. 2 people have been

killed and dozens injured during heavy rain and flash flooding and so then at least 2000 homes have been destroyed in the river nile state. rain also cut off the main highway, connecting the state to cartoon. thousands of homes have been destroyed at least a 1000 people killed since the start of the rainy season. i clean up is underway in south korea's capital, sol after record breaking rain and flash floods that killed at least 9 people. the heaviest downpours and more than a 100 years turned roads into rivers. from mcbride as more from sol, across the city of sole and in the surrounding province. the clean up continues from these unprecedented reigns at streets and roads turned into rivers. vehicles washed away and sadly lives lost. some people caught in their apartments by rapidly rising waters. other people simply swept away. there were predictions that sol

would get up to around $300.00 millimeters of rainfall at the start of this week. up until wednesday morning. some parts of the city have recorded well over 500 millimeters. and as the reins continue, fir, the south, some provinces, south of soul can expect to further 300 millimeters of rain as this week continued . here on the han river, this double deck of bridge is a good indicator of the amount of flooding. here, the lower carriage way is designed that it becomes a bird when the hon. blood. now, while the waters have receded some water, it's still well under water, as indeed are many parts of the banks of the river on both sides. the authorities here had been putting in special measures to deal with the summer reigns, in particular in the low lying gangnam district as south of the han river, special drainage has been installed, able to handle up to 80 millimeters of water per hour. now the authorities,

i believe that that was going to be enough for these some arranged, but clearly they will have to think again, sol as many other cities around the world really having to face the challenge of dealing with a changing climate. 5 days after it began a huge fire in cuba, main oil dep hope is to be contained, but with millions already living through chronic power carts. b and g. crisis on the island is frightening to get worse. and oh, gaston reports from mountains us on sunday, an exploding fable, so great could be seen a 100 kilometers away in havana. but by tuesday evening, the smoke had turned from sit black to light gray evidence that much of the large fire at cooper's main oil depot was out. but with a thick toxic smoke over the city of met and says, people are still worried. you're on the feeder,

i'm covered up because i see the clouds. i smell the cellphone up and i don't want this to affect me in the future. i'm okay. good. after the fiance audit, we're expecting the situation to worse and the oil. everything that was lost or damaged, like oil reserves, everything will be harder. now. the cuban air force used helicopters, manufactured in the soviet era to douse the flames. but more modern technology was needed. mexico and venezuela sending more than $100.00 specialists, technology and tons of extinguishing foam. but material supports did not come from the united states upsetting many l. i follow the u. s. offered technical assistance, but in the end we haven't seen anything concrete or have an effect. i think it's a lack of humanity above. oh, because we're not talking about a political issue. we're talking about a humanitarian issue. in the 2020 u. s. presidential campaign trail. joe biden had promised to reverse the sanctions

former president donald trump, imposed on the island. but in office, the bulk of them have remained in place, including sanctions on oil tankers, which aggravates the islands energy crisis. legal experts say u. s. law does not prevent the united states from providing material assistance. 4 days after lightning strike kit, schubert biggest oil storage facility. the blaze finally seems to be under control . but analysts say the loss of 4 supertankers will only aggravate tubers already critical energy crisis. with most claims extinguished rescue workers have now entered the disaster zone for the 1st time to search for missing firefighters. and while the lights is still on for some, he was energy crisis is set to become critical. ed augustin, al jazeera met answers cuba. ah.