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ah donald trump, due to a pair in cold over payments made to uphold film stall. it'll be the 1st time a former u. s. president has faced criminal charges. these are live pictures from outside that cold house in manhattan. trump is expected to arrive to ah, i'm sammy's a band. this is al jazeera alive from dell hall, so coming up next, finland joins nato in the historic shift from decades of neutrality spurred by russia's invasion of your crime. i'm tempted to say, this may be the one thing we can thank mister fulton for because he once again here

is precipitate, something he claims to want to prevent livelihood go up in smoke. fire destroys a popular clothing market in the bangladesh. she capital. ah, donald from is about to make history by becoming the 1st for me, us president to face criminal charges. he's expected to leave his new york residence shortly for the court building and the office of manhattan's district attorney. the charges are unclear, but linked to hush, money paid to a porn star claim. she had an affair with trump. he says the case is politically motivated and his cold on supporters to protest. kristin salome joins us now on the phone. she's outside that court house in york,

so christ of us will take us through what we're expecting to happen in court today . well, we are expecting to hear for the 1st time the specific char. a that are being leveled against the former president who we are expecting to arrive here at the court. 9 at any moment, while we have no indication that he's left trump tower just yet, which is about 6 kilometers away from here. it's possible because of security concerns that they're trying to keep his movements under route. and he, as i say, is expected to be arriving here at any time. once he's here, he will be processed in the district attorney's office. this is a fairly standard procedure for people who are being charged with a crime, help be fingerprinted and do some paperwork before then being taken down the hallway into the court room to appear before judge won merchant the judge has

said that there won't be any videotaping in the court house. busy the court room, we may get some stills of the former president appearing before the judge, but no video reporters will be in the court. the document what happened there? so we will be getting information out of the court just not why pictures. once he's in there, the defendant will be confronted with the charges and enter a please. president trump and his attorneys have made it very clear that they'll plead not guilty. and that's the start of this legal proceeding, this historic legal proceeding that no president has or no former president has ever been through before. the whole process will. 9 take less than 3 hours, maybe 2 hours. the district attorney after the whole process is done and dusted, alvin bragg is expected to address the media and answer questions. this will be the

1st time that we hear from the ban overseeing process said, i did, then the indictment has come down. he has not spoken publicly about the charges that are facing the former president, the initial proceeding to bring those charges when it's done in secret, under us law. so a lot of anticipation here outside the court house as to what we'll see, what we'll hear from the, the prosecutor and whether or not we'll see donald trump himself. right now we think you might get a glimpse of him in the hallways at the court house and we know this is a president in the bugs, the cameras. so maybe he will try to speak to his supporters to. # outside but nothing has been announced officially, so we're all anxiously waiting for this to play out and just to put everything

in perspective in terms of expectations, this is likely to be the start of a very long legal process. right. kristin? well that's right. even in state court, this is a state court, not a federal court. the process of being charged and tried for a crime takes time probably up to a year. and. a because of the trump will have some very high powered attorneys working on his behalf. there will be a by the attorneys ahead of any trial they'll. 6 ever ventured hearing, so this could take months to play out already, the legal team is asked if the venue change. president trump and the press release pointing out that only one percent of the. a there's voted republican is talking about the city, the district court, then making the argument that it can't get

a fair trial here in the courts. the case should be moved to another trial that could slow things down here in that aspect of the case. all sorts of legal numbers that could happen. and of course this brings us right into next year 2024 when the presidential election is supposed to happen or donald trump is that now that he's planning to run a gap. so complicated situation that we're only just being the beginning out. all right, thanks so much. kristen salumi there. let's stay with some of the live pictures. so give you an idea of the feel of what's going on. those are life pictures right now from manhattan. that's the area near where the court is located, where don't from pull up here, kicking off this indictment process. and as you can see, it pro testers have begun to gather. we do know that donald trump form us present

and cold on protest is to come out. he says, this is a politically motivated trial. this is a politically motivated process. let's bring in adolfo franco, either publican strike just and trump supporter. he joins us now from washington. d . c. good to have you with us. so it's justice being served, the old diverted. how do you see it? well, very much diverted. i wouldn't say this is politically motivated. this is political persecution. that's a big difference. might have motivation, but this is a persecution. i think it's important for your viewers to understand why would you say chart has a q sion explained to us that well with for this reason, this case was examined 7 years ago, vice by federal authorities and state authorities, including mister brags, office,

and there were no charges to be found or had and they were all discarded ever brought. this is nothing new this it scandal actually broke before the stormy daniels are sure before the election and the american people to elect donald trump . subsequently. people who looked at this from a legal standpoint, i found there was no basis. now this individual, why are saying political persecution is just to be clear. this prosecutor is an elected official, runs for office use partisan iran as a democrat against a republican. in his theme was i'm going to get donald trump and his campaign and radio shows. i'm going to prosecute donald trump without any evidence. that's not evidence of prosecution. you know that i don't a persecution. i don't know what is all right, well how would you respond to those and say, the exact same could be said of many republican candidates who run for office last not least of them, of which of course is donald trump with his famous locker up slogans. regardless of of evidence that is really an issue. i don't think the political system isn't it.

that allows people who run that they can run for a position like the prosecutor's office who are also heavily politicized. well, i would like al jazeera to run a clip were donald trump says lock her up, that people say that and then not use the process is very different. at the fact that donald trump was elected, and hillary clinton was never prosecuted. bill clinton committed perjury. he was not prosecuted bill clinton paid $850000.00 in hushed money to paula jones. he was not prosecuted mister, call me the f. b i, director in 2016 said hillary clinton. it violated the law, but no prosecutor in his right mind would bring charges against a prominent national figure running for president. mr. trump is running for president is a former president. this is unprecedented. the statute that mr. bragg, who's a state prosecutor and only has jurisdiction over state law has expired. the statute

of limitations has expired. he has a novel theory here that has never been tested. if not, is not pushing the envelope or political agenda. this is absolutely clear, and that's why mr. trump. busy support has searched among republicans, searched in the last 4 or 5 days on raising and numbers, who now dwarfs any potential by triple digits. so the american people of the left has a point of view. there are 2 americas but the half of the american people are more see this as political persecution and the fact speak for themselves a to cheer justice system. do you think is quite clear that you feel that this is helping him politically? it will probably help him clench, do you think the nomination of the republican parking for president? i really do 1st. he was the leading candidate and all the polls before this happened. and every major republican was not an anti trump,

or who are very few in the republican party rally behind in all declared candidates for president. and the republican nomination up supported him and called it a little political, which shot from vice president. and to nikki haley. jo, governor de santis, 87 percent of republicans. that's a huge number support, but is it going to help much actually, though it might help them within the republican party? well, but, but you have to remember something. you have to win the nomination to be the candidate for president. so the 1st thing you have to do is when you're parties nomination, that was your question. and i absolutely believe he's going to quench the nomination for president. what will determine the election will be what happ results in this case, which is an unknown. if donald trump is where did i think donald trump will be the next president of the united states, donald trump is found guilty. i think you'll be very polarizing very difficult for

him to win the election because i will galvanized the democrats and certainly not appeal to many independent voters. so the question will be how the trial proceeds and ultimately it's outcome. all right, thanks so much for your perspective. on that, thank you. now finland as formerly joined nathan, the world's biggest security alliance. it's a major policy shift for helsinki that's maintain neutrality. for years, the conflict in ukraine changed that prompting fiddle and to apply for membership 10 months ago was welcomed as the 31st member of the alliance. at the ceremony in brussels. from today, $31.00 flags will fly together a symbol or a unity and our sort of that it. joining nato is so good for villain. it is good for nordic security and it's good for nato as

a whole. finland brings substantial and highly capable forces. expertise on national resilience and years of experience working side by side with naples. it is sir a great day for finland and to i want to see that it is sir an important day for nato to security and stability are those elements which we feel very strongly with jonah, how has the perspective from k of now ukrainian officials present in brussels to see in the membership of finland. welcome to move. they said they hoped finland would now add its weight to ukraine's bid to join nato in the lines of course is said repeatedly that you will eventually become a member of nato. in time when i move this accepting finland,

that comes off the back of course of russia's invasion of ukraine, a moment at which an urgent rethink took place among countries close to russia, countries on russia's border about their own security and about the extent to which russia might become a threat to them at some point in the future. you may recall the small of baltic states were particularly nervous in the early months of last year. but they of course, were already members of nato and benefited from the guarantee of collective security that came from article 5. the notion that an attack on one would be an attack on or not. so finland, of course, with its enormous border with russia, 1300 kilometers or more. also sweden, just across the baltic, sea and boast of both of those countries applied for nato membership in may, they required the unanimous approval of all nato parliament's finland got that sweden's bid is being held up only by turkey. and bear in mind that among the goals

of vladimir putin in his invasion of ukraine is presumed to have been the intent to disrupt any further nato eastwood expansion well. plan as in brussels will tell you that he has achieved exactly the opposite of that. in fact, the rapid expansion of nato to include the vin and i didn't need in future perhaps to include sweden as well. joe hall al jazeera keith. those jabbar is following developments from moscow. the russian officials who have spoken on tuesday after this announcements they have made it very clear that this is not a positive news for the russian state as a whole. the spokesperson for the criminal pest golf said that this move threatened russia security in national interest. we also heard from the russian foreign minister service lab, rob said that the security of northern europe is not going to be strengthened or rather weakened by the 2. and that russia will respond officially, in due time, in

a calm manner. that is the political discussion in the political reaction that we've had in terms of actual tangible ones that we've seen is from the russian defense ministry. they have taken counter measures to try and bolster their defenses. we heard from the defense minister george a chicago, who said that at this move really increases the tensions and the conflicts that has been ongoing in ukraine. and also he announced that the russians have delivered the scanned or missile system to the neighboring villa roof. this is a missile system capable of launching nuclear warheads, so there seems to be definitely an increase in tensions. and this, they just moved by nato will only exasperate the situation. a woman accused of bombing a cafe in st. petersburg on sundays being charged with terrorism offenses. 26 year old w to pover could face

a prison sentence of 20 years if convicted. a prominent pro kremlin military blogger was killed in the block that wounded, at least 30 people. russia blamed ukrainian intelligence agencies for the bombing k, if denies involvement. russia's commissioner for children's rights is rejected. allegations of war crimes made by the international criminal court, says maria level over is responsible for unlawfully the porting children from ukraine. last month, the hague base court issued arrest warrants for the commissioner and president vladimir putin. it says hundreds of children had been taken from orphanages in areas of ukraine claimed by moscow, body of the country. in january we took control of returning children home who had been sent for rest and we have a location in crimea in october last year. cream equals not african crimean craft and dog legit. but you might, by the way,

i'd like to draw your attention to the fact that all the children had been sent there. but hadn't, we did not find that. so when investigations are published, claiming that the children are being transferred on mom for re education to certain secret dams full from the satellite. colleagues, i regard these allegations as a sort of conspiracy theory and i will you will feel i had an al jazeera. am i excited? oh, absolutely. nasa vials a trail blazing team for its 1st crude mission to the moon in 50 years. ah. hello, there was out in south asia. we've seen some flash flooding effect north western parts of pakistan, and it's a heavy rain that's rolled its way for the east,

but there is more of that to come on wednesday, some heavy damp was effecting more central areas that will clear. however, as we go into, does a more in the way of clear skies, not just the large areas of pakistan, but also northwestern. india, cloudy across more central air is still some showers here and there in the showers, pick up for corolla. and tom will not be with some thunderstorms for sri lanka. much clearer east of this for the northeast corner of india and for bangladesh. and report that as we move east, well it's not a very settled story across much of east asia. we've got a slow moving where the front, it's already bought very heavy rain to the likes of china. we've still got those thunderstorms in hong kong on wednesday, wet weather, sweeping through taiwan into southern areas of japan. but it's really the korean peninsula that will deal with those flooding rains, the temperature, dipping down in sol as that system skirts its way further east. we are likely to see that rain touch into parts of japan. tokyo will see the rain start to roll in

on saturday, the temperature dipping down only 19 degrees celsius. so on the average on saturday, ah, many of us living with the effects of ecological breakdown. so what would the stories in which technology helps the promise of salvation billionaires big tech and an unwavering faith in innovation? alleyway investigates where the tech no optimism is helping or hindering the fight against climate change. it's a distraction to self delusion. it is t, i just masking over it all hail the planet episode to on al jazeera lou.

oh, what i'll just do a time to recap. i'll headlines now. donald trump is about to make history about becoming the 1st for me, u. s. president to face criminal charges, they're linked to hush money paid to a porn star claims. she had an affair with trump. he says the case is politically motivated. finland has formerly joined they tow helsinki applied to join the military alliance. off to russia, invaded ukraine. moscow says it will strengthen its military positions on the border with finland in response. fire fights is an army personnel have extinguished a fire in the bangladesh capital that ripped through one of its biggest clothing markets. over 4000 shops were destroyed. tre does say they've lost their livelihoods. some fire fighters were injured. it took 6 hours to bring the plays under control. chandry is that the bang bizarre market indica.

absolute devastation, as you can see at 3 started building with pin roof all under the ground just within a matter of few hours. everything lost. there were about 4000 garments and clothing stores that was in this building. gone in 6 hours stood up for a week and he had to smell the stench all over here. was on lopez. i'm can all that has been a major problem. yeah. the police, the military that been trying to disclose the crowd on, on local fire because real difficulty getting in. yeah. because uh huh. huge a member of the founding, a challenging the military has been using helicopter to water drop since morning. go fires pretty much under control. at least $3000.00 subs estimated to be hadn't gone down the ground. millions of dollars are good to go. we

spoke to some of the owner of the shop. i had 2 shops and one has burned down. it's all gone now with nothing left. i am simply lift abandoned on the street. many of these fires could have been prevented if there was fire fighting a 2 men inside the shopping area, talking to some of the shop owner there for better not any fire extinguisher or anything to prevent such quiet. now that there is no hybrid, there is no other equipment to take or when there is a file started in any of this cases. much preventable federation, probably because of negligence from part of the business owners. and partly because of the lack of resource and enforcement from the government side too. so i'm still sharing a fire incident some previous occasions, but still no one bothered to take any precautions. despite this, there was no fire fighting equipment available to deal with such occurrences. that

devastated before the month of ramadan there waiting for the biggest sale of the year. the holy aid and not and i have nothing, no family, an extended family. they will have a very, very sad id for sure. at least 6 people have been killed in an avalanche in india's ne, a search operation is underway in the king state. all of those who died were tourists rescue as a searching for at least 70 people felt trapped in the snow. at least one person has died and dozens of been injured after a train derailed. isn't evelyn's collided with a crane near a village between the hague and lived in city? the maintenance work was planned for rail authority. say they have no idea how the crime ended up on the track. about 50 people were on board. the route is one of the busiest in the netherlands services been suspended for the coming days. stay doctors on temporary contracts and malaysia have gone on strike for 3 days,

the threatening mass resignation unless they've given permanent positions. and that's a pe florence louis reports from calling them for contract. doctors working in the government health system are walking off the job. they're taking unplanned leave between monday and wednesday this week as part of a strike part of an anonymous group calling itself. ma, got dr. malaysia, which means strike, say they expect at least $8000.00 doctors to take part. their demands include better pay more reasonable working hours and to join the civil service as permanent staff that would give the better career prospects and job security. what is happening today is thought defiance by doctors. it is a call for help for the entire health care. so it's not just for doctors, but the entire house, guess of his militia is facing multiple crisis, and we need to recognize the organizers say the strike has been successful. the

government says health care services have not experienced any disruption so far outside the hospital. patients had mixed views, awaited a long time to get treatment. and i have travel a long way to be here. and i understand why some doctors are going on strike. and i wish them to best because it is their fight. contact doctors have declined to be interviewed on camera, but some have told us, while they want better working conditions and pay, they aren't taking part in the strike because they want to put that patient 1st. and they don't want to overburden that colleagues. in 2021, hundreds of junior dr. staged a brief walk out in a similar dispute over pay and working conditions. the malaysian medical association says they don't can don't strike action, but understand the difficulties. contract doctor's faith has been brought up to many health ministers too many ones about you know,

what the contract doctors are going through. so you want to know that this guy, when he's new and they're inhabited this problem, but still they are gone. one of the day and so they must take the responsibility. on tuesday, the prime minister at the health ministry will offer permanent positions to more than 12000 contract doctors over the next 3 years. but analysts say this is a short term solution. a malaysia's public health system may need an overhaul. florence louis algebra, quite a looper. when you came down to watch, 12 is fine. take talk nearly $16000000.00 for breaching data protection laws. the information commission is office, says the social media company use the personal dancer of children without their parent's consent, says tick tock allowed more than a 1000000 children on the 13 to use the platform. despite that being the minimum age to have an account. a spoke 1st and to tick tock says it disagrees with the decision and is considering its next steps. u. s. space agency nasa has named the

crew for its 1st mission to fly past the moon in more than 50 years for astronauts saw 3 americans and one canadian fluting christina coke. she's the 1st woman to take part in the luna mission and as rob rails reports the eventful aim eventually rather is to return humans to the surface of the moon. ladies and gentlemen, your artemus to crew with a pep rally style event at nasa's johnson space center in houston. before astronauts took a bow on stage mission commander. read wiseman is a former test pilot with 14 years at nasa. often we're with you guys, mission specialist, christina coke will be the engineer on board. am i excited? absolutely. physicist jeremy hanson is

a canadian space agency. astronaut or canadian is going to the moon with our international partnership, and it is glorious and former u. s. navy air man, victor glover will be the spacecraft pilot, because optimist. who is more than a mission to the moon and back it's more than a mission that has to happen before we send people to the surface of the moon. it is the next step on the journey that gets humanity to mars. the artemus program named after the ancient greek goddess of the moon, sent its 1st and crude spacecraft into lunar orbit last year. a talk the powerful orion roggette. that successful flight paved the way for next year's human crude mission, if all goes well, artemus 2 will put humans near earth's cosmic companion for the 1st time since apollo 17 in 1972.