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prosecuting donald trump, the former u. s. president arrives in new york ahead of his arrest and arraignment basil, his supporters of warned against staging violent protests. ah, until mccrae, this is al jazeera alive from doha. also coming up, russia tines. a woman in connection with the st. petersburg bombing that killed a prominent military blanca. thousands of public sector doctors on temporary contracts, a striking in malaysia, demanding the same benefits as permanent staff. and we take a look at how much val funds have evolved 50 years since the 1st and how device was in vincents. ah,
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donald trump has arrived to new york where he'll appear in court on tuesday. the coming the 1st formal or sitting us prison to face criminal charges. he's being charged in connection with a hush money payment to adult films style so me daniels. during his 2016 presidential election campaign, gabrielle elizondo reports it was o eyes and cameras on donald trump as he arrived in his home town, new york city on monday afternoon. but for the rest of the day, the former president spent it away from the public eye in his former residence, trump tower in midtown manhattan. trump will surrender to authorities on tuesday after being indicted by manhattan grand jury on charges stemming from an alleged hush money payment over a $130000.00 to a former adult film. star. law enforcement is on a heightened state of alert. ah, amid fears of
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a repeat of the january 6th scenes, when his supporters stormed congress in washington, d. c. while you in town b on your best behavior? as always, we will not allow violence or vandalism of any kind. and if one is court participating in any act of violence, they would be arrested and held accountable. no matter who you all trump is expected to arrive at the manhattan district attorney's office. around 11 am local time under heavy security escort inside trump will have his finger prints and photograph taken. the process can take a couple hours. around 2 pm. he will be walked down a hallway to a court room and come face to face with this man. judge won merchant who will oversee the arraignment at the arraignment is when the indictment will likely be unsealed. and trump and the rest of the world will hear the charges against the former president. for the 1st time, trump is expected to plead,
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not guilty after it's over, trump will immediately fly back to his morrow lago, a state in florida, where he is expected to speak about the day's events. for the 1st time. over the years, trump has been the target of numerous law suits and criminal investigations, dating back a decades well before he was ever president of the united states. he always found a way to attack his adversaries and delay any potential criminal prosecution to allege wrong doing. but this time is different. what trump will face on tuesday is unlike anything he has ever experienced before. and it's something america has never seen before. gabriel's gondo, i'll just eat in new york. the charges against trump have not yet been made public legal experts saying he could be charged with falsifying business records. now this
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may be considered a misdemeanor or felony under new york law. a misdemeanor would need investigators to prove trump signed chicks. the stormy daniels knowing they were hush money payments and falsely recorded as legal expenses, a felony would require prosecutors to prove a criminal case against trump, for falsifying business records in the 1st degree. that means he intended to conceal or further a 2nd crime. a trumps lawyers argue he can't be charged with that because his purpose was to protect his marriage and reputation. well, the case against donald trump in new york has just one of several investigations swirling around the former president. and as john hinton explains, it might not be the most damaging. the indictment of donald trump is historic, unprecedented in just the tip of illegal iceberg. the new york charges reportedly 30 of them are expected to be detailed on tuesday, focused on a $130000.00 hush money payment to
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a porn star. during the 2016 presidential campaign. we do know it's centered around a legal, very common confidentiality agreement that was signed years and years ago with stormy daniels and between her attorneys and michael cohen with the new york case is likely not the most dangerous for the former president compared to the other investigations which included efforts to over throw or overturn the 2020 election. the new york case seems to be the least serious of them all in georgia. a grand jury has recommended indictments for multiple people over interference in george's 2020 election. it's not clear. trump is among them, but legal experts say this conversation between trump and georgia secretary of state amounts to a smoking gun. i just want to find 11780 loads, which is one more that we have the jury for women offered this murky but tantalizing
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tid bit. there are certainly names that you would recognize. yes, another legal threat, special council jack smith's prob, of trump's handling of classified documents. last summer, the f. b, i seized more than a 100 of them from trump's florida home after he refused requests to turn them over . smith is also investigating trump's actions during the january 6 2021 attack on the u. s. capital trump is dismissed. all the investigations is partisan, which runs, but until the new york indictment, the man known as teflon, dawn has faced real repercussions only at the ballot box. a northwestern university psychologist says trump's risk taking even a moral qualities, are key to his popularity. here's this beast out there doing it for me going out there fighting for me, saying what i feel deep down. and that's attractive. i mean like, you know, he may be, he may be a narcissist, he may be a sociopath, but he's minor system. i sociopath. whether that approach works in court might well
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be tested again. and again, john henderson, al jazeera, new york, but 2 other news and syrian state media. so 2 civilians have been killed and israeli, and strikes near damascus. several explosions were reported on monday night. is the latest in a series of attacks on government held territory in recent days. there's been no comment from israel. was staying in syria, the us central command says the senior isolator has been killed. colleen aid ahmed algebra. he was reportedly responsible for planning attacks on europe. the us is no civilians were killed or injured in the strike. the ukrainian news agency has reported russian drones have struck the port of odessa causing some damage. no further details have been given a disarray on the black sea and is being used to transport grain from ukraine to the rest of the world. russian investigators have detained
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a woman over the killing of a prominent military blogger in saint petersburg on sunday. moscow has accused you kind of orchestrating the bomb attack, which killed flatland tusky and injured 32 others. it also says supporters of child kremlin critic, lexi, nor vonny will were involved dosage of our re has more from russia capital. this is 26 year old daddy, a triple voc, being questioned by russian authorities in saint petersburg. i brought a statue there that blew up. she says, who gave you the statue? they ask, can i tell you later? she replies the bug was handed to prominent military blogger, lad lind, or char sky. it exploded, killing him and injuring dozens of people on sunday evening. her pover has yet to provide a name and says she's been framed. the attack happened at a cafe in the heart of saint petersburg. the national anti terror committee, which is part of the russian security service, says it was planned by the ukrainian special services. a charge authorities in kiev
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have denied. we expect that now. whereas also known the response, but evidently dusk, ah, how many people will be killed by keeping him here in moscow before russia? we'll the response. nobody knows exactly, but probably more time coming, more strong. we'll be response just he was speaking and events organized by the cyber from said movement and association of people with patriarch view. he was a supporter of russia's invasion and the social media channel. he longed to report on the so called special military operation, had more than half a 1000000 subscribers. that he was a well known figure among prevalent supporters. seen here with daria to keno, who was killed in a car bomb attack in the moscow region in august. her father,
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alexander, duke, and a far right political philosopher was believed to be the intended target. the crumbling says tarkey killing is an act of terror and that evidence implicates ukrainian special services without providing any further details. while these types of attacks are rare in russia, the planning and plotting behind them suggests that the battles on no longer confined to the dawn by 3 sources of ari al jazeera moscow. russia's ambassador to the you in the silly in the vin c a has held a briefing to discuss his country's presidency of the security council. russia holds the rotating seat for april, despite president putin being wanted by the international criminal court. a diplomatic, it is a james base reports from the un headquarters in new york vaseline the benzine russia's ambassador to the united nations. on the 1st working day of his country's presidency of the un security council. since 1946,
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the presidency is rotated. among the 15 members, april is russia's turn, but the council is the body in the international system that governs global peace and security. and there's been uproar, particularly in western countries, that russia, which invaded its neighbor and whose president faces an arrest warrant from the international criminal court. now holds the prominent role. we expect that they will behave professionally. but we also expect that they will use their seat or to spread this information and to promote their own agenda as it relates to ukraine. this was the russian ambassadors response sung. countries are pretending they can decide their own will, who, who they want or do not wants to be in the chair of the presidency of the security council. as long as the current world order or with the
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un and the security council stance, there will be no change in the rules of procedure. those rules though, do give the president the option to recuse themselves during the discussion of items they're directly involved in. and to temporarily hand the presidency to the next country in alphabetical order. so if the issue of ukraine comes up this month, does the provision for you then to hand the presidency for that subject over to switzerland? no, that's no why not? if her, if her you put the question this way, then i think if you are the companies that them on the security council should also a withdraw from the discussion. the program that russia has prepared for the security council this month is relatively light, bought the controversies likely to grow towards the end of the month when the russian foreign minister survey leverage comes to new york to chair the council. james bays al jazeera at the united nations. at least one person has been killed
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and several others injured. after a train carrying about 50 passengers derailed in the netherlands, a fire broke out and at least one of the carriages, the train had had construction equipment on the track, near a village between the hague and lead and city. a fire has broken out at one of the biggest clothing markets and bang the dishes capital. no casualties have been reported, and firefighters still working to put out the flames and decor. bangladesh historically has a pool record with fire safety. in 2012, at least 117 people died in a garment factory. fire was day doctors on temporary contracts and malaysia, a striking for 3 days that threatened a mass resignation unless they are given permanent positions and better pay florence. louis has more from call and put on their demands, all the several, but the 1st one is this. they want to be absorbed into the civil service. they want to be placed on government contracts, and this would come with benefits like pension. this would also mean more job
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security because at the moment they are on contracts that are really subject to renewal. now they also want improvement in their working conditions. and this means better hours and also fewer on call hours. at the moment when they are on call them in to be available for 24 hours. and of course they want better pay and improvement . not just in that basic pay, but also in that on coal rates. their current on coal rate is 9 when get $0.16 an hour. you could make the same amount in working at a fast food joint. in malaysia, you could make more working as a retail shop assistant. and that's the equivalent of about to us dollars. malaysia isn't a low income country, it's a middle income country, but these doctors are not being paid commensurate with their skill with the education and with what they provide to the general public that frontline health care workers. so these doctors are basically saying they are overworked and underpaid. the organizers say they expect 8000 contract doctors to go on strike.
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but bear in mind that the strike is happening over 3 days from monday to wednesday of this week. we are now in tuesday, the 2nd day of the strike, and we don't yet have the numbers of how many people have actually gone on strike. the still ahead on al jazeera, the story of the earthquake survivor and to kia who's been reunited with her mother after nearly 2 months. am i excited? so lately, on the mission to the moon nessa unveils the crew for it's awesome a small ah. with here's your weather update for the middle east and africa and got to tell you the winds are still hanging around rate through to the goal. so it's going here for a closer look. we're talking about q 8,
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south bahrain and cats are specifically joined down a bit cooler air as well. so across cats are, we could see those winds at certain points in the day, wip up to 50 kilometers per hour, august on thunder downpours in the forecast here. for the capital territory pushing into punjab province, that we've got some showers through turkmenistan to chico stan was becca stand. and kroger's stand on tuesday or seen act of weather roll into that western side of turkey. i. i do think we'll squeeze out one more nice and warm day through cyprus and the levant, before those temperatures come crashing down. so what that act of whether pushing into turkey a, we're also seeing those winds pick up across the coast of libya. gus here of 60 kilometers per hour on tuesday, and then we've got what, whether stretching from a d sabbah right through to the gulf of guinea. as we slide toward the south, it's looking like maybe a few showers will clip. kazoo, luna? ta province in south africa, that white in windy weather, also pushing into southern mozambique. so we can expect some showers and motto with
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the high of 28 degrees on tuesday. and now you're in the know see later, ah ramadan, a time of spirituality reflection and gratitude raised the flag. old buffalo, every color with alger. is there a world? well, how leo, how he reveals the stories behind some of the arab world songs and chance for the holy month. jodi, this song touched the hearts of all arrows. for amazon songs on al jazeera lou ah,
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watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories, the solid, donald trump, has arrived in new york, where he'll appear in court on tuesday. is being charged in connection with hash money payment to adult film star stormy daniels. during the 2016 presidential election campaign, russian investigators have detained a woman of the killing of prominent military blogger flatland to tusky and blast the st. petersburg cafe on sunday. moscow has accused ukraine of orchestrating the bomb attack. and at least one person has been killed and several others injured up to a train carrying about 50 passengers. d, riled in the netherlands. a fire broke out and at least one of the carriages, the train had construction equipment on the track. a baby rescued from the rubble of february's earthquake sent to kiya has been re united with her mother nearly 2 months after she was saved. that's giving hope to many families. still looking for
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missing relatives, russell said a reports from a stand bow. a moment of joy. 54 days after being rescued from under the rubble of the creeks. this struck sorta took here. maybe the tin is now united with her mother. 3 and a half month old within was trapped beneath deborah for 128 hours. she was taken to hospital in uncut out for treatment. her father and brother died under the robin, but her mother was also rescued. authorities checked her daughter to her dna. she's now back her mother who has been treated in the city of atlanta, the minister of family and social services. the ministry will continue to support the baby lush mother. this baby is truly and miracle. the fact that she survived and has no health problems tugged at our heart strings. our ministry will always remember her. the earthquakes that he,
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salt and turkey in early february have claimed more than 50000 lives, an injured many more, but nearly 2 months on some families or says searching for their relatives. according to official figures or on 1300 bodies have not been identified. and more than 200 people had been declared missing. now that baby within has been reunited with her mother. it gives hope to the families still suffering from the agonizing wait list and said that o j 0 is stumble. the lease has reaffirmed its diplomatic ties with taiwan. taiwan president is welcomed, the move after honduras civic relations with the country last week in favor of aligning itself with china. sy, in winds, visit to police comes after a 3 day trip to neighboring. was marla. she is expected to meet with us officials in california on wednesday. laundry of soldiers have been deployed across honduras as part of a government crackdown on gangs official say. armed forces will be stationed in
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areas with drug cartels and known to operate. president castro declared a partial state of emergency in december. they had to sit and on april, the 20th, castro had criticized the role of the military and previous administrations during her presidential campaign. in mexico activists are urging the government to toughen laws against s at attacks. legislation was recently approved that would re classify attacks in both chemicals. and while rappel has more from mexico city, ah garmen sanchez is an acid attack survivor. the assault she suffered 9 years ago at the hands of a former partner, left scores on 70 percent of her body. if they're going to feel this attack left me in the hospital for 8 months, it affected half of my face, my neck, my chest, my arms and legs were completely damaged. after some 64 reconstructive surgeries,
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garmen says the trauma never fully goes away. and part of that has to do with the fact her attacker was never arrested, act of his say that in many cases, attacks like these go unpunished, was eventful as that out. is that problem? i think as us yell as i meet at the woman who is survive is of this type of violence. i realized the scale of this, so she'll probably in the face thing i did was change from being a victim to an activist. protest calling on the mexican government to do more to cur, violence against women have intensified in recent years. while attacks on women using acid have also been documented in other parts of latin america. activist, see the problem here in mexico is especially bad april. lemme know solomon cetera. the problem is not any which is to attacks with asset and corrosive substances. violence is becoming much more cruel and extreme. and this includes other types of toxic, flammable,
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reactive and caustic substances. women's rights advocates argue that this form of extreme violence is partly rooted in bad policy, given that authorities in mexico treat acid attacks the same way as any other form of assault. one, the activists are pushing for is passage of a bill. currently in the mexican congress would 6 to re class by acid attack as a distinct crime equivalent to attempted murder is passed, the new law would increase the punishment for attacks using acid or other corrosive chemicals. with up to 12 years in prison, it's only a lot of this is one of many steps necessary towards creating an integrated policy that will restore some of the rights that have been taken away from survivors of this type of violence. so mexico is government does not keep an official count of acid attacks. women's rights activists have documented at least 34 over the last 20 years, but many leave the number of victims to be far higher. manuel up a little al jazeera mexico city,
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florida is republican lid senate has passed the bill to outlaw most abortions. after 6 weeks of pregnancy, the move brings the state a step closer to joining others across the us south. and bending almost all abortions, florida currently prohibits abortions after 15 weeks, the bill makes exceptions. determinations, in cases of rape and incest. will florida's governor rhonda santas has signed a bill which will allow anyone in the state to carry concealed guns without permits? the new law means training and background checks will not be required to carry concealed guns and public republican se law abiding citizens have a right to carry guns and protect themselves. the democrats say the new law will only make the state more dangerous. meanwhile, students from the city of nashville have walked out of the classroom to march to the tennessee state capital that amanda gun reform. it follows last week, school shooting with 3 children and 3 adults were killed. police say the shooter
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owned 7 firearms, all of which were purchased legally. one of the people, speaking of that much with many oliver, whose 17 year old son watkins was killed in the 2018 parkland school shooting and florida. he's the co founder of changed the riff and organisation which advocates for war, the eradication of gun violence. he says us citizens will keep fighting to bring about change while i'm in nashville right now. the margin with thousands of kids, the governor of florida, which is already a very dangerous state, is promoting more gong without any training without any perm it. how is that going to help us to have last names? i've no idea what we need to keep on fighting against guys. i run this and these are anyone that gets in our way what we are experiencing here. you can abuse the power from a gun industry that has our politicians like puppets. they can do whatever they want. so because of the momentum that we're creating here, sadly momentum,
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because there was another shooting, we decided not to stop. we're going to bring this into a national strike if we need to. but things will change because we want them to change and we will force them to be change. the president agrees a 100 percent with our intentions, however, the president has yet been able to find that support. but that's the political thing. that's a political debate. what i'm talking about and civilians like us here, we don't have the big. let me tell you the majority of americans, we understand the killing kids in schools is not good is not normal. now they have the normal life to do age. so the person in the fall were support that the president is our disrupted actions out there. so things hop nessa has named a team of full astronauts for his voyage around the moon. the 1st crude mission there and more than 50 years. well, for the 1st time and a luna mission, the crew will include an astronaut of color. victor glover, and
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a woman christina cook. the astronauts won't land on the moon but will fly a cap shall around at light next year. the autumn is to mission will test the spacecraft life support systems for touched down by a subsequent crew. but it will be a 4 day journey going a quarter of a 1000000 miles continuing to test out every bit of a ryan going around the far side of the moon. heading home. going through the earth atmosphere at over 25000 miles per hour and splashing down in the pacific. so am i excited at so lately? human spaceflight is like really race in that baton has been past generation to generation and from crew member to crew member from the gemini, mercury, gemini, apollo, apollo. so use sky lab mere the shuttle international space station,
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commercial crew and, and now the arm is missions and we understand our role in that. and when we have the privilege of having that baton, we're going to do our best to run a good race to make you proud. it's been half a century since the 1st public coal was made from a hand held a portable phone in new york. the man credited with inventing the mobile fun says he had no way of knowing it was a historic moment. barbara and gulf, a reports to many. martin cooper is the father of the mobile phone. 50 years ago, he led a team that created a prototype to my bow fan and made the fast call from a handheld device. since then, cellphones have come a long way. these were proved times. there was no internet electric, 73, believe her. there were no digital cameras, there were no or large scale integrated circuits. and so the unit that we built was put together with massive number of individual parts. it weighed over kilo
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almost 2 and a half pounds and a very low. 045 minutes of talking. these days may about fence can stream films and capture professional quality photographs. cooper predicts the gadgets will play a role in transforming other sectors. the cellular industry is just learning how to do things like a revolution identification, revolutionize health care trades, the whole concept of collaboration. so this is just the beginning, but the evolution of the mobile phone industry is provide, can controversy. regulators are concerned about how tech companies use clients data that's gathered by tracking the activity that somehow or governments through have to decide what is there about us. they have to protect as a.

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