also, holly, or how he reveals the stories behind some of the arab welds songs and chance for the holy month. jodi, this song touched the hearts of all arrows for amazon songs on al jazeera. and when i hands on celeste's working in asian africa, that be day is where i'd be choosing and editing my own stories in a refugee camp with no electricity. and right now we're confronting some of the greatest challenges that humanity has ever faced. and i really believe that the only way we can do that is with compassion and generosity and compromise. because that's the only way we can try to solve any of these problem is together. that's why they are so important. we make those connections. ah, for me, you as president donald trump is indicted over how small the payment he made to an

adult films dawn just before the 2016 presidential election. john calls it political persecution on a witch hunt. his lawyers say they'll fight it out in court. ah, i'm on the inside, this is al jazeera life and joe hall also coming up. we condemned the detention of mr. griggs glitch in the strongest in the strongest terms. condemnation from the wise house off to you as a journalist is arrested in russia and charged with espionage. and malaysia's jailed former leader naji, but ra zak loses his last chance to challenge his corruption conviction in court. ah, for the 1st time in history, a former us president has been charged with

a crime. donald trump has been indicted by grand jury in new york, often investigation into a hush money payment made by his former lawyer to an adult film star. gabriel elizondo begins our coverage from new york. after more than a week of intense speculation and anticipation, manhattan district attorney ivan bragg leaves his office in new york. having just made history minutes later, a spokesperson confirmed that a grand jury brag convened had voted to indict former president donald trump over alleged hush money to a former adult film star. and that prosecutors were working out the arrangements with trumps lawyers for the former president to turn himself into authorities. it wasn't long before a typically combative trump responded through a post on social media, right? trump calling the indictment an attack on our country, the lakes of which has never been seen before. stormy daniels and her alleged

sexual encounter with donald trump is at the center of the criminal case against the former president. after she threatened to go public about the affair in the final days of trumps, 2016 presidential campaign trumps. then fixer michael cohen paid her a $130000.00 to keep quiet. cohen, who testified before the grand jury has said he made the payments at trump's direction, and in 2018 pleaded guilty to violating campaign finance was not revenge. right. what this is, is about accountability. i don't want to see any one, including donald trump indicted, prosecuted, convicted incarcerated, simply because i fundamentally disagree with them. this is all about accountability . he needs to be held accountable for his dirty deeds. trump has always denied the affair, and also initially denied any knowledge of the payment, but now says it took place as

a legitimate legal expense ah. under new york law, it is the falsification of business records, not the payment itself. that would be trumps cr time. a misdemeanor and only of prosecutors can prove he made the payment and falsified records. specifically to hide the affair right from voters or the i r s. would it be a felony or a more serious crime that could come with jail time. the source of occasion of records for the purpose of committing tax evasion would be the addition, specific crime to elevate falsification of business records from a misdemeanor to a felony. the exact charges against donald trump in the indictment are still under seal. if not made public, it's expected early. next week. trump will arrive here in new york to turn himself

into authorities. he'll then face a judge and then be released. trump is the 1st current or former president of the united states to ever face criminal charges. gabriel is on al jazeera new york. my canada is in washington dc and has been gorging reaction across the political divide. reaction to the indictment has largely been along a partisan lines. republicans generally criticizing the decision to bring an indictment against donald trump. many describe it as a, with an eye zation of the legal process. that is the words used by the speaker of the house. kevin mccarthy echoed as well by the governor of florida run dissenters . who importantly also said that he would not cooperate in any attempt to extradite trump from florida to face trial in manhattan. this an important point should trump decide not to surrender himself to face the charges in

a manhattan court. but on the other side, we heard from representative adam shift, who was typical of the democratic reaction, basically saying that trump's criminal acts as he put his have caught up with him and saying that no matter how rich and powerful nobody is above the law. but the interesting point from hearing from republicans that the electro system has been undermined by the district attorneys decision to bring charges against donald trump . this in itself ironic, given that under binding the electro system or attempting to subvert the electro system is a charge that donald trump may well be facing in georgia in the months ahead. well, david bolger is the national security consultant who worked for joe biden, when he was a senator. all just says the indictment is unprecedented, but it's not political members of a grand jury. are there 12 or 15 individuals who are citizens of the state of new

york decided that we're convinced that there is a possibility that someone has broken the law. this is not joe biden. this is not any republican out there. in fact, they're doing just the opposite. this is a just citizens hoover found a beyond the reasonable doubt that there's possibly a violation of the law. so there's no politicization here. and i think it's a little disingenuous for the former president to be saying this. he is raising funds off of this, and this is the, the whole point about donald trump, which i think many in this country do not understand is that he hasn't. he is not interested in the common man. he is not interested in benefiting society. he's only interested in one thing,

and that's donald trump. he adores this tomorrow morning in newspapers around the world. he will be on the front page and that is donald trump's main purpose. we also spied say, adults, i franca, has a low, an, a republican strategist. he says, trump may be seen as a political monta. this is entering new territory for the united states. and it is depending on your point of view. and i certainly have one political persecution when you have that sense in america. it's 1st so extraordinary. i actually thought it might not happen, considering some of the late developments in terms of the grand jury deliberations of last week, and mr. collins, testimony, and so forth. it seemed to have a pause but was otherwise. we haven't seen the details of the indictment, but certainly in the short term, it has already been paid dividends since the president trump announced a couple of weeks ago that he was on the verge of being indicted. so it's very

clear that this will further help him in the primary. you might have some appeal with other candidates saying don't pursue trump policies, but there's a fear. there's only one genuine, donald trump, and therefore i think he will garner support among republicans and possibly among independents and democrats, if this indictment and eventually whatever trial or whatever, and soon next, if it falls apart, it will then be perceived. ready as local persecution and can really put them in a position to win the white house in 2024. ah, malaysia high school has dismissed down attempts by former prime minister the g browse act to have as corruption, conviction reviewed. he's serving a 12 year sentence case relates, the loosing of the states investment in one of the biggest money laundering

scandals in history is the country's best former leader to be jailed currently has mall from kuala lumpur. this was not your browser's final chance to have his corruption conviction handed down in 2020 reversed. now that he has failed, he will be going back to prison. now the guilty verdict was handed down by a high court in 2020, and subsequently affirmed by 2 different appellate courts. in 20212022. and on friday, 4 out of 5 judges from the federal court agreed. they would not grant a review of the earlier decisions. there was one dissenting judgement from a federal court judge. now not yet faces. still several of the trials in relation to the one m d, b corruption scandal. he was recently acquitted of audit tampering, a report related to one and d b. now it has to be remembered that the scale of this corruption scandal not only

shocked the world, but it angered people in malaysia so much that they voted for political change. not jabrisa was the prime minister and the finance minister of malaysia when the scandal happened. and it wasn't just the scale of the corruption. it was how attempts to have the corruption investigated will constantly shut down by those in power at the time that really led to people in 2018. casting their vote for the opposition leading to a change in political power for the 1st time in malaysia's history. since it gained independence from british colonial rule in 1957 for sales, former president geral bosner has returned home where he is facing investigations for crimes including inciting riots. i'll say officials are hoping he will lead opposition against president lewis in us. your leader da silva, monica yankee reports from the capital priscilla. oh, hundreds of supporters gathered from the early hours at the capital 0 port hoping

to greet the former president on his return to brazil. when federal police had other plans for symbol, so not to leave by a side war and shattering his hopes of an open corporate through the streets of brazilian dania. so as i had travelled 1500 kilometers, just to greet her political hero, she says bull. so moto supporters have been vilified since his election loss and was disappointed that she could not see. so that they might change a keeper gonna we have been called terrorists when most of us are peaceful. brazilians who are committed to a cause, work hard to get both and are backing power. tensions in brazil have been high since bosom out of failed to formerly acknowledged defeat in october's divisive election. i've only been right and then refused to pass the sasha, his successor, president, reason as to lula thus your vote. instead, he flew to florida last december, 2 days before leaving office. one week later,

thousands of his supporters stormed the presidential palace congress in the supreme court, claiming the election was rigged. for the question. also, nato is at risk of being charged and imprisoned or made ineligible for future offices won't double. he is the target of 20 investigations. he has been accused of spreading dis, information about the election result and of allegedly stirring up the insurrection . but his supporters believed to lead them to victory in 2026 hoskins. there were so small too narrow, has already laid out his mission. he has said he will travel over brazil to rally support for his liberal party from now until them when his people elections next year. he hopes to help elect at least 1000 ms, and strengthen the grip of the brazilian conservatives. it's a global sonata told his party he will pursue oh, we're practically holding 20 percent of the benches in congress. in addition,

having the support of parliamentarians, mother parties, we have majority within congress. we want the best for our country today, the boards in your court. i'm sure that you will leave brazil to a safe haven is with great pride that i return. also, nato himself has said that he will not lead the opposition and brazil, but the return of the former president from his self imposed exile has raised hopes among his supporters. they say he's the only one capable of uniting the brazilian right. again. monica inactive, al jazeera, brazilian, brazil, 5 people have been arrested in mexico in connection with the death of 39 people during a fire at a migrant detention center. attorney general's office says, warrants were issued against immigration officers, private security staff, and the person who allegedly started the place in said that horace video mondays, incident appears to show guards failing to open lock doors in the detention center

as the fire spread still ahead on al jazeera, a shortage of eggs, hits sher lanka, the local produces are opposing imports from neighboring india. last. i'm rob mcbride and jen, hey, south career, where the early shore side of spring is an even show or a side of climate change. ah, ah. hell i received some rather nasty weather recently across a central and eastern parts of decay and northern areas of syria just pushing across the north, albany rocks. and when she was still in place here, quite a brisk wind as well. just blowing in from out east side of them at its right in the system will make its way through. as we go on through the next couple of days.

lie be when's to just around that is the side of saudi arabia. and this pushes way towards assuming cato as a go on through sunday, got a brisk shamal setting in. at that stage, you can see how it does brighten up towards the caucasus as we go on through satch day to care, generally dry and quiet by this day, somewhat warmers. well, if theme celsius there, in acro, and we will see that to dry and settle weather coming back into the eastern side of the meadow trying to so an improving situation going on here for driving while across northern parts of africa, the brisk compton when continuing across the sahara and then we got the usual showers, just hugging the coast of west africa as we go through the next couple days, joining up the showers all the way across. central africa towards the ethiopian highlands. big sway, the wet or weather, coming through here. as per usual, some heavy down pulls the over towards the other side of the continent with some showers. the south africa ah

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indicted by ground. jerry new york. reverend alleged hush, money. payment made eyes formula to an adult film. some incentive happened just before the 2016 presidential election, and a statement. trump call the indictment, political persecution on election interference of the highest level of history lamed and on what he called radical left democrats. malaysia's high school. what has dismissed am attempts by former prime minister and the g browse act to have his corruption conviction revealed. you're serving a 12 year sentence. the case relates the loosing of the states investment fund. oh journalist from the wall street journal has been arrested in russia on spying charges. us citizen, evan gosh, while vish was reports lead detained while working near the city of? yes, it's a rim bag. fenton monahan has more the journalist appeared briefly in

moscow court house and afterwards was briefly seen being taken away in a car to be held elsewhere in custody. but i really don't always fit on the silky example that they held a quick trial. i don't know, it took 3, maybe 15 minutes, lena, a spokesperson for the russian foreign ministry, admitted girl, kevin had a press pizza and official accreditation, but claim to use arrested for what she described as a different kind of activity. been journalism. his employer says, the wall street journal vehemently denies the allegations from the f s. b and seeks the immediate release of our trusted and dedicated reporter. we stand in solidarity with evan and his family, a fluid, russian speaker. the 31 year old has been reporting from the region for more than 6 years. through action from the white house was angry. this espionage charges are ridiculous. the targeting of american citizens by russian government is unacceptable. we condemn the detention of mister girl college in the strongest in

the strongest terms. we also condemn the russian governments, continued targeting and repression of journalists. the us state department has been in close contact with the detained journalist employer. first, the u. s. embassy in moscow has requested official notification of the arrest and russia is required to provide that under our bilateral consular convention. second, whenever us citizens are arrested abroad, we pursue consular access as soon as possible. however, due to russia's administrative procedures and security requirements, it will likely be several days before that happens. the ongoing russian military campaign and ukraine has brought relations with the u. s. to its lowest point in decades, dating back to the height of the cold war. between the last time russia arrested the u. s. journalist on the charge of spying. since martin al jazeera said he gets back as the president, i see committee to protect journalist. she says,

how organisation is concerned about all the reporters working in russia. russia is an extremely difficult place to operate as a journalist. effectively since russians invasion of ukraine, russia has criminalized independent reporting so many independent russian journalists are no longer able to operate at all from russia. we've seen hundreds go into exile and have to set up outside of russia. this is the 1st arrest we've seen of a, an american journalist, but i think it shows the level of pressure that janessa under, across russia itself. espionage cases are often held as effectively with very little transparency. so it's extremely concerning that russia should be using these kinds of challenges that makes it extremely difficult to ensure that the child and investigation is being held transparently and fairly. and we would hope

that evan is able to get access to his own legal council, which we understand hasn't happened yet. so these are extremely serious charges using effectively national security laws. it's something russia has done consistently to do it with accused independent reporter than others of terrorism and being involved in terrorism groups using these kinds of lords and our espionage laws is a real escalation in my view. it unbelievably difficult to operate as an independent journalist and mushy. you face lengthy prison sentences and the prison conditions are extremely paul. 9 us soldiers have been killed after their black hawk helicopters collided in the state of kentucky. happened during received nighttime training, exercise, particle hang reports rushing to the scene of the crash on wednesday night, but finding only wreckage and no survivors. 9 service members killed during what was supposed to be a routine training mission. this is a training progression,

and specifically they were flying and multi ship formation to ships under night vision goggles at night. the 2 black hawks crushed after witnesses say they were flying unusually low to the trees. 2 helicopters disappeared out of the sky. the log flashed and we ran outside and we started seeing another helicopter that circled the area where i thought the impact was for probably 30 minutes. and then we saw ambulances and sar use military. so these helicopters are equipped with a kind of black box to their hopeful that they will soon know what led to the crash . according to pentagon statistics, the army loses an average of 5 soldiers every year to ation accidents. the pentagon says it is too early to tell if this signals a bigger problem with the black hawk. we need to allow time for this investigation . but for example, any time there is the potential for

a fleet of aircraft to have some type of systemic issue, then certainly again, those fleets can be stood down. you've seen us do that with other types of aircraft in the past. again, i'm not aware of anything like that right now for the black hawk. we need to allow time for the investigation to run its course. the army now trying to figure out how a routine training flight turn deadly for none of their own paddle haine al jazeera washington. thousands of people have gathered in tel aviv to support israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his plans to overhaul the judiciary. demonstrate is marched across a major city highway. rally led by far right organizations follows mom anti government protest, opposing netanyahu's proposals. uganda's become the 3rd country to deploy troops to the east in democratic republic of congo to take on the m 23 rebel group. they will join troops from burgundy and kenya,

fighting between the congolese army and rebels is force more than 800000 people from their homes. weld is facing a shortage of eggs driving up the cost and leading to shortages in the us. prices have jumped more than 70 percent in the last year alone. the average price across the e u has sort 75 percent in the u. k. customers are facing empty shells and limits on how many eggs they can buy. now one of the main factors is a global outbreak of avian influenza. these 57000000 buds in the u. s. have been affected. so wes outbreak the u. s. europe and the u. k. have ever seen. and the war and ukraine is also contributing. ukraine provide 14100000000 eggs in 2021, making it europe's main supplier. now more than half of its egg, farms have suspended operations and the rest are coping with repeated power outages

and ensure lanka. the government has begun the imposing eggs from neighboring india in order to e shortages and check the soaring prices. vocal, poultry and egg produces though, have criticized move, saying it will kill an already struggling industry. now fernandez, reports from cos, gama. as to weeks of delays, the promised eggs from india, or finally here on thursday, the shipment was distributed among bakers and confectioners, where demand is highest with daily consumption up to 7000000 eggs, the consignment won't last long. the government hopes it will at least ease the situation. our plan is just to cater to the bigger industry and the hoteliers. so when we fulfill their it grammar, automatically, the other eggs, the local producer, re come to the market. so then the consumers would be able to get there at a competitive price. i mean, reasonable price. the poultry industry has supplied local demand in recent years

with eggs last imported in 2012. but they have been shortages in recent months and a tripling of egg prices in just a year. for marcia surgeon, the price of chicken feed is to blame the result of fertilizer restrictions and a lack of foreign currency, whatever. on an agreement, importing corn was a problem because of a dollar issue. there was no locally growing corn because of the ban on agro chemicals. but many farms had to close. if they had got raw materials as they needed, this wouldn't have happened. many farms survived the crisis by selling some of their near birds for meat, as they couldn't afford to feed them. she longed has poultry association says the government approaches, self contradictory on one hand, encouraging local farmers to increase production, while on the other, undermining the very same farmers by importing cheap eggs. the government says, importing eggs is the best way to provide consumers some relief from skyrocketing

price, earth. farmers don't agree, and scientists are also warning of the dangers of such a move. so if in any case, if being part eggs from a country where the influence are a been influence, i've already there die for possibility that this virus can come to alert pi 3 other a backyard boy, 2 other birds. and when it should be selected, that means in the severe cases, the general public can be affected. india reported infections as recently as last month in 2 different locations, which lanchen authorities say they've imported safety certified eggs from a disease free area. over 1000000 people depend directly and indirectly on the poultry industry. the association says the government must enjoy its long term survival rather than chase short term solutions. minette fernandez al jazeera course gamma sri lanka. in south korea,

crowns have been enjoying the peak of the cherry blossom season festivals were scale down or cancelled during the corona virus panoramic. but a changing climate means the blossoms are blooming earlier every year. rob mcbride reports from chin. hey. so normally it's the sure sign of springs arrival that is eagerly anticipated in south korea. more so through the pandemic, when from the 1st year in 2020, the cherry blossom season coincided with the end of the 1st surge of the virus. the delicate beauty of the bloom coming to symbolize the hope of new life. i have. it's great to come back with friends and even better with my baby. i wouldn't mind. it's nice coming much to see the flowers after such a long time from now. the one blessed with a 3rd of a 1000000 cherry trees or long gold railway lines and streams. the town of gin hay

has the longest established blossom festival in south korea. and in this 1st full year of welcoming back the kraus, it's hoping for nearly 5000000 visitors with warming temperatures. this southeast corner of south korea traditionally sees the cherry blossom 1st before it rolls north up the peninsula in a wave of color. but it's already bloomed in soul. the 2nd earliest date on record, the earliest being set just 2 years ago. in this district in soul, the annual celebration of the forsythia bloom has been brought forward a week because the flowers have bloomed early. neighboring japan is also experiencing earlier cherry blossom tokyo this year, equalling the record for the 1st bloom and back in the southeast of south korea as the city of young ju prepares for its festival. the blossoms are already falling with several days.