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last is election interference at a scale never seen before in our country. former president donald trump speaks for the 1st time since pleading not guilty to $34.00 felony criminal charges on falsifying business records. ah, are you watching al jazeera life from doha with me for the back table? also coming up is really forces don't be alex a mosque in occupied east jerusalem firing, sun grenades, and arresting worship. as during ramadan, prayers perused, president survives, and impeachment bade over the crackdown on protesters and finland deficient. he becomes of 31st member of nato military alliance in a major policy shifts prompted by russia's invasion of ukraine.

ah, thank you very much for joining us for me. us present. donald trump has defended himself against the string of criminal investigations in an address to his supporters at his my lago residence in florida. trump, he did not guilty to 34 felony counts in a manhattan court early on tuesday. the 1st sitting or former u. s. president, to do so, given elizondo reports from new york, their images that will go down and us history. donald trump, arriving at a court in manhattan. gone, was the traditional swagger that is defined trumps persona. to day, the former president was uncharacteristically somber. as he became the 1st current or former president to ever be charged with a crime. and this is what he's been charged with. the indictment being unsealed

before trump in the court room. $34.00 felony counts, including falsifying business records, and other charges stemming from a $131.00 hush money payment to a former adult film star. donald trump pleaded not guilty to all the charges. the case against trump laid out later by the manhattan district attorney alvin brag. 34 false statements made to cover up other crimes. these are felony crimes in new york state. no matter who you are. we cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct. however, the indictment did not impress trump's legal team is, is frustrated. he's upset, but i'll tell you what he's motivated and it's not going to stop him and it's not gonna slow down. earlier outside the courthouse, the anticipation had built to a fever pitch as both supporters and detractors of the former president gathered

outside phony case. everybody knows that political persecution today is the beginning of a long series of potential passengers. and finally, after hours of waiting trumps motorcade arrived right past our camera. donald trump's motorcade arriving here at the court house. he's in one of these vehicles a historic moment. it's a very scary times, a very fragile time for american democracy. and not only should americans be nervous, good people around the world should be as well. this is just the start of what likely will be a long legal battle. the next phase will be a trial. trump's lawyers argued to the judge that they don't want that trial to begin until the middle of next year, putting it right smack in the middle of a presidential campaign, one in which it's probable trump himself would be a top contender for the republican nomination. trump left court without comment

after more than 2 hours inside. later in the evening when trump returned to his mar lago, a state in florida, he broke his silence. this fate case was brought only to interfere with the upcoming 2024 election. and it should be dropped immediately from showing his defiance against a judicial process. that is very much in motion gabriel's hondo. i'll just eda new york. well, i saw speak to michelle burnett was a lawyer, political analysts, and the president of the burners center for women, politics and public policy. she's in washington, d. c. thank you very much. michelle for being with us president trump, when he was speaking at mar lago, a short while ago called the case against him, a persecution, and not an investigation. it looks like his team is going to try and undermine that, the case as a whole. what do you think is going to be their strategy 1st?

right now it appears that his strategy is not a new one. it will be up to called the investigation and the case fate. just like we became accustomed to hearing the former president use the terms, fake news, i expect and strongly suspect that we will continue to hear him say that this is a a fake investigation. it is a fake case. i believe that he will continue to say that it is politically motivated and go back to discuss a lot of the things that we used to hear him say about many, many things that were happening here in the united states, including cases of quote unquote election fraud which we know never happened. all right, now coming back to the case that was unveiled today. how serious the case is it, and is it a winnable one for the new prosecutor? you know, i have read for the indictment and analysis tells us right now at least that the case. what they presented us with were just the bare boned facts. there's not

a long preamble. there's not a long statement of facts to go along with each element of the offense that he has been been charged with. it feels like a strong case if i, if you asked me to rate at one out of 10 with 10 being the highest likelihood of him being found guilty, i would probably rate it at a 7 or an 8, which is a high probability. it's not as it's not, it's not as sexy case. it is a case of, you know, of falsifying documents with the intent to commit another crime. what will be more interesting is to see whether or not this is a one and only case. or if this is the beginning of an avalanche of cases that we're going to see coming after the former president on the state level and at the federal level. when you say michelle, it's not a sexy case. you think it's because it's not going to resonate with americans. it will be very difficult for americans to understand how you can be indicted of an

offense where, where they're saying that you, you conspired, or your intent. i should say was to commit another crime, but the prosecutor has not laid out in the dye indictment. what the other crime is . so if you know you have to wrap your arms around it, he falsified documents. 34 counts or 34 or 34 business documents were falsified according to the security office, right. with the intent to commit another crime. we don't know that he committed the other crime. we don't know what the other crime is alleged to be, and that is a difficult one to wrap your arms around. this is something that is a lot in new york, right. i do not know whether we're in other states in the united states, but it is a law in new york if you're told that they prosecute this case, this type of case all the time. ok. now for those of us who are maybe not familiar

with the us legal system, just explained to us the felony aspect of this 34 counts of felonies a felony case. what is that? exactly? does it come to attention? prison sentence. yes, absolutely. so in the united states, if you, there are 2, there are 2 types of offenses, a misdemeanor and a felony. if you are found guilty of committing a misdemeanor, it means that the amount of jail time that you could get that is under a year. if you are convicted of commit it in a felony, it means that the amount of jail time is in excess of one year. ok? now in this case, what makes it a felony charge and a federal makes it a felony charge is the fact that he allegedly committed a crime with the intent of committing another crime. so that absolutely carries the possibility of jail time. and 34 counts of an alleged crime isn't carries the possibility of a very long jail sentence. all right,

so michelle talked to this now about the next step of the process here, which doesn't happen. it would seem until december, that's when we're expecting the next hearing. right. so what, what happens then between now and december? so what happens now is in the united states, we enter into a process that we call the discovery process. and by discovery, all we mean is that the defendant gets to discover all of the evidence that the united states government has against the defendant. so that the united states government now has a legal and a moral obligation to turn over the evidence that they have against the president for allegedly committing these crimes. his, his lawyers, they will sift through all of the, all of the evidence, and they will then we can expect them to fight on motions. a motion in the united states is just the document. you file with the court asking the court to do something. in this case, i suspect that the former presidents attorneys will filed several motions to have

the case against him dismissed on various grounds. they might say, for example, on count number one, falsifying a document, you know, the 1st count against him for falsifying a document. they might say that in order for him to have done this, the government had to prove 3 elements of an offense. and the evidence only prove one element of an offense, therefore the case should be dismissed against the former president, and i suspect that they will be moving. i have all $34.00 charges against the former president, dismissed. michelle, and by the way, yeah, go ahead, finish off. he's not going to say if that were to happen, no trial, we're done. full stop. all right, let's see what happens to certainly be an interesting few months in the u. i. thank you so much for talking to us, michelle brenda, joining us from washington. d. c. my pleasure. best turn to other world news now on al jazeera and israeli forces, a storm the ox, a mosque in the,

in occupied east jerusalem, and fired rubber coated bullets. some grenades that palestinians, during ramadan prayers and video shows women and children crying for help as his re forces beat worship as with battens. ne, 7 palestinians have been injured is early forces are accusing worship as of barricading themselves after exceeding the greek prey. a timing. hundreds have been forcibly removed from the sight. natasha go. name has more from occupied these truths. and this is not a surprise. yesterday on social media, i saw the bombastic rhetoric circulating on social media with calls for palestinians to come to l ox, a mosque in anticipation of the passover holiday on wednesday morning in which jews will be expected from 7 o'clock in the morning until 1130 to visit the compound as part of non muslim visiting hours. so this,

these type of clashes again, were expected based on what i was seeing on social media. the police are saying that dozens of people barricaded themselves inside l. x a mosque. tuesday night into wednesday morning. they said the police that the people had a stock pile of stones sticks and fireworks. the police say that they attempted to coax the people to come outside of the mosque. there was an agreement with the compound authorities that no one would be spending the night. police say when they could not coax the people to come out peacefully. that is when they entered the mosque and began firing, stun guns and forcibly removing people. there been some injuries and there have been arrest when after the incursions, israel says at least 11 raw kits were fired from the gaza strip into southern east early the early hours of wednesday. a number of them have been intercepted

according to a state in peru, dena bal watty praise. the president has survived an impeachment made over her handling of anti government protest. congress has rejected a motion to remove bern warranty. the unrest broke out in december after the removal of her left, his predecessor pedro castillo, dozens of demonstrators calling for new elections, died in confrontations with security forces. marianna sanchez, reports from lima, with 64 legislators voted against and 34 in favor of allowing a hearing to impeach of precedent. the w out of the day for her handling of the protests that erupted in peru early in december, when former president bill castillo, was ousted from office, nearly 50 people have been killed since left wing parties, presented this motion in january to impeach president. the number of new out there

because of permanent moral incapacity before her handling of the, of the protests. ah, no human rights groups in peru have denounced rights violations. the united nations has called on bruce government to investigate the claims of the excessive use of force by security forces. now are the top prosecutor in the country club house in launched an investigation in january against the nevada, for genocide and murder of so far? no one, not one soldier or one police officer has been detained in the case now the lawyer of a lot of the house said that there were no orders to eliminate any one but to establish peace in the country. well, congress is controlled by right wing political parties. they have favored a strong use of force by security forces to quell the protest in the streets of the

country, the former congressional a leader, a mighty government. alba has said that if the hearings, the impeachment were to be because of the death that they are, that it did not married to now most of the victims were young. were poor and many of them were children. marianna sanchez as a seat. i. lima, still head on al jazeera will tell you why the united nations has told it. afghan staff to stay home for 48 hours. did queued up people, nasty killing up people. and 13000 villages in nigeria, niger delta, are bringing a case against oil giant show all the way to london's high court. ah,

you're here, we're here. let's go with your weather update for asia will begin in pakistan just the other day and pakistan and minister kashmir. we had some snow there. a still seen some rain for upper sim province into k p k. and there has been some flooding in k p. k. province, it has destroyed more than a 100 homes. his energy also shuffling in to the northwest of india. also likely to see some outbreaks of rain or thunderstorms, as we head toward careless state in southern india on wednesday of to southeast asia right now. and in southern borneo flooding. there has destroyed thousands of homes. things are drawing off a bit through java island, but i think for east jabber province still some heavy falls of rain in the forecast on wednesday. all of the flood advisors have been dropped for the philippines minda now islands seen a few showers, though, for palawan and still high temperature is across indo china, bangkok at 36 degrees. seen downpours for china. these bands of rain have generated

about a 100 millimeters of rain. this energy now moving into the korean peninsula. this is much needed rain for south korea. we're, we've got some, a wild fires burning there, and almost all of japan is under a heavy rainfall advisory, as this weather maker creeps closer, that's your weather, updates you soon. ah! in the 19 fifties and sixties african countries gained independence from their colonizers and increased efforts to reclaim that cultural heritage and 6000 body. this story, yes, it's very hard. a documentary series reveals how european countries refused their request and even exhibited human remains in their museums, restitution africa stolen on episode to return on our jazeera ah

o. clock back a recap of our top stories on al jazeera, donald trump has addresses supporters in florida after being charged with $34.00 felonies of falsifying business records. the former us president says the case against them is election interference. israeli forces us on the alex a mosque in occupied east jerusalem during ramadan. prayers they're accusing worship is a very caving themselves after exceeding the agreed prayer. timing's palestinian prisoners affairs commission is 400 people have been arrested and perused. president, dealing with warranty, has survived an impeachment bait over handling of anti government protests. the

unrest broke out in december after the removal of her predecessor federal castillo . now, finland has formerly joined nato in a ceremony at its headquarters in brussels. it comes less than a year after helsinki agreed to join the military alliance following russia's invasion of ukraine. moscow has warned of countermeasures to address what it sees as security threats created by finland membership. harry faucet reports. this was one thing. vladimir putin said he was fighting to reverse when he ordered the invasion of ukraine last year. the expansion towards russia of nato, fill out her so today become the 31st to member of nato. the era of military non alignment in our history has gone to an end. a new era big is finland is safer, anita is stronger with fin long, awesome alloy. we stand together,

we protect and defend each other, all for one on one for all. a year ago, finland and sweden join nato exercises in norway. russia's invasion of ukraine fronting both to seek the guaranteed protection of nato membership. until now nato's eastern border with russia included poland, lithuania, latvia, estonia and norway. in total, a frontier running more than 1200 kilometers, finland joining nato more than doubles russia's land border with the alliance. later says no non finish troops will be stationed in finland without housing his permission. but russia has already vowed to increase its military presence near the border. the kremlin promising counter measures to what it calls a threat to its security and national interests. crushes defense minister said it added to a patent of nato activity near russian territory. since the crane invasion, this is irma, of course, all these crates, risks of a significant escalation of the conflict,

but it will not affect the outcome of the special military operation address senior bali, the war and ukraine also under discussion at night to on tuesday with talks on increasing member countries, contributions and long term integration between nato and ukrainian forces. still short of the full membership ukraine is seeking. there is no better solution to insure in europe like security as of all of them. membership of great eventual members agree. there's still no agreement within nato, on a timeline for something that would be seen in moscow as the ultimate provocation. ah, nato secretary general is though promising swift progress on sweden's membership by getting to kia to overcome it's objections and allowing the swedish flag to become the 32nd to fly. here, harry force it al jazeera, the united nations, as sold. all staffs in itself can offices in afghanistan,

not to come to work for 48 hours because of security concerns. the body seeking additional information from local taliban authorities, about a ban on afghan women working that after members of the female staff of the u. n. in lanka, har where prevented from carrying out their duties. afghan women have already been banned from secondary and high education, as well as working for n g o z and most public sector jobs. aid workers say this has made it difficult to reach female beneficiaries. james faith has more from the united nations. this is something that the united nations had greatly feared already. most women in afghanistan are banned from work, including those who are supposed to work for humanitarian organizations. now it seems that ban has been extended to the united nations and its agencies, the spokesperson for the un secretary general says if this is not reversed, it will have a devastating impact on their work. for the secretary journal. any such band would be unacceptable. and frankly, inconceivable. this is the latest in

a disturbing trend undermining the ability of aid organizations to reach those most in need. it goes without saying, but unfortunately it does need saying that female staff members are essential for the united nations to deliver life saving assistance. such orders as we saw today, normally violate the fundamental rights of women and infringe upon the principles of non discrimination. if the taliban do not reverse their ban on women operating in the country, can the un continue to operate? what is clear is that we cannot do it without women, right? the women are the other, the, the backbone of our humanitarian o, of our humanitarian oper, operations. the secretary general is urging the security council to meet to discuss this issue. i understand that senior, you and officials planned to meet with officials from the taliban in the coming

hours. it's not clear who will represent the united nations at that meeting. because the top you and official in afghanistan is a woman. special representative rosa autumn by eva is the former president of kingston james bay's hours era at the united nations. iron giant shell is due in court in london next week to face charges it polluted water and soil in nigeria is nyja delta. more than 13000 villages are bringing the landmark case. there is a company subsidiaries have destroying their land, and their way of life. i made each is free for several galli. the oceans just buried the firmly metric. rosalyn was 87 years old when she died. but the claim, her death was hastened by high exposure to all pollution in mecca. before thick on you there got the clinic. you do these before soon they will be as many moly. oh, else because of the water mercy is covered in skin rushes. she says it's from

ingesting and breathing in contaminated water. royal dutch shell has been producing all in going to land since 1958. the organic community is now suing it for environmental damages. i'm gonna go to, you know barbie is a man leading the charge against the all giant. he says his community feels betrayed by show. i am devastated that that opt you. now, shell, who had the shell is trying to see how they can hide away from this. what royal dutch shell deed, in all galley, dick queued up people. they asked the killing our people. so those who are making profit or those who have made profit at all these need to know that it is blood money. they say the devastation caused by almost 70 years of oil exploration in

nigeria, niger delta is massive. thousands of hector's of mangroves land and war to sources have been damaged. it's estimated it could take between 30 to 50 years to restore the polluted sites to what they were before. more than 50 all schools have been recorded in all galli and build communities, polluting palms, and rivers contaminating fish, stocks and drinking water. the communities want shell to pay compensation unclean of the area. the company says their case has no legal standing environmental. he said the situation in the 2 communities is dire or by in every boy. if you go by that panel, they say that a gun with a impact, there is no horn. red players are wolf, w hitcho's time that for his killer. now or you have a spike robbins in, we know hardly them how killer bends in 8th, lawyers from the community claim shall wants to delay cheese dis,

hearing for another 2 years to wear down the villages. and eventually have the case thrown out. and that could have why the implications their case is seen as a test, as to whether multi nationals can be held accountable for the actions of their overseas subsidiaries. i'm a decrease al jazeera or golly. now when democracy came to myanmar, so did the tourists more than 4000000 in 2019, then covey, 19 head, shortly followed by a military corps last year. fewer than a $150000.00 foreigners visited. now the military government is trying to encourage juris to return, but as tony chang discovered in the ancient city of agony in central myanmar, the fighting is and far away. the sleepy stupors have begun. ancient pagoda has some more than a 1000 years old. this was once the capital, what would become a unified myanmar even here,

people protested against the military coup in 2021. and even here the military showed no mercy in the crackdown as one resident told us, anonymously. or gar, you must go. she even though began, is he unesco heritage site, the military shot massively. during the protests, i saw 2 people die right in front of me. 2 years on some locals are coming back. keen to soak up the spirituality of a place. many people from miramar considered sacred, but they don't spend like the foreign tourists. things have gone from bad to worse for tor guides. first the coven 19 pandemic, than the coo when business really dried up. doris guerrero, dami dot, the economy of began, relies entirely on tourism. the rate of the said between international tourists and local guess is different and also their demands. the area is also home to some of mir mas, ancient crafts. in

a nearby village. they make lacquer where the old way twisting finally cut bamboo. before applying the dark reson once harden the finished product, carved and colored a skill that takes years to master. but this workshop has already lost 85 percent of its customers. and 2 thirds of its craftsman, if their tourist no come to began. so we wear loose, were loose ah, generation luckowitz generation and your businesses were yes yes. oh. and while life has returned to normal here, the fighting isn't far away. the military has told us we can go no further than this year or what a river has become a dividing line and central myanmar on this side. the tranquillity of began on the other what appears to be a full blown civil war. and they say at night if you listen carefully you can hear the shooting on the other side of.