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oh, this fake jayce was brought only to interfere with the upcoming 2024 election and it should be dropped immediately. fighting words from you as president turned criminal defendant. donald trump pleads not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records, and i historic appearance and corpse. ah, hello, i'm tom mccrae. this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up, garza on the fire is where our lunches is. strikes on the besieged lithonian enclave after it insisted rocket 5 attacks on a garza follow israeli forces beating and arresting hundreds of palestinian worshippers inside the alex and mosque during ramadan. prayers and peruse.

presidents survives and impeachment vote for. failing to stop the bloodshed during last year's anti government protests. ah, former you as president donald trump's day in court, an extraordinary moment in the nation's history and appearance that could also have far reaching political consequences. for the 2024 presidential front runner and new york trump pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records. linked to payments to an adult film actress ahead of the 2016 election. but back in florida, he declared himself the victim of election interference without evidence. both the president and his supporters seemed defiant. trump lashed out of the prosecutor and called the case against him. quote, fake. they attacked me with an on florida,

fraudulent investigations, russia, russia, russia, ukraine, ukraine, ukraine, impeachment hoax, number one, impeachment hoax number to the illegal and unconstitutional raid on moral argo right here. but now they have really stepped up their efforts by indicting the 45th president of the united states who received 075000000 votes, which is more than any sitting president in the history of our cochran. leverage is era's gabriel ellison die followed an unprecedented dying course in new york. there images that will go down in u. s. history. donald trump arriving at a court in manhattan. gone was a 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 the 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 $130000.00 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 court house, the anticipation had billed 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 at the 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 ocean who is a former u. s. federal prosecutor. he explains the extent of trumps legal troubles. the legal aspect of that might of be more complicated because in order for this

falsification to be elevated, to a more serious felony charge, they have to show that the falsification was intended to cover up some other crime . and the question is, which are the crime? the indictments, pretty minimalist. it references election crimes which could be new york state and they could be federal. but a lot of the controversy and speculation has been questioning whether a state prosecutor in the us could rest this on federal election law. and that might be an argument which a court would have to think about, but if it's based on the new york state election laws, that's pretty strong and a no brainer is not going to be much room there. none of them are federal charges. these are all state new york state charges, and all 34 of them are based on the idea that they falsified business records. they pretended that these hush money payments were for legal and retainers or legal fees

when they weren't. the federal aspect might come in. if they're saying that these falsifications were intended to cover up a federal crime such as an illegal campaign contribution or violation of the campaign, finance was but new york state itself also has campaign election was and it remains to be seen if that's the crime that it will be paired with and under this particular war, they don't have to separately prove that, that crime happened. they really the show that this crime happened with the intent to cover opt out. but to other news, hand is really forces have arrested hundreds of palestinians after storming the alex and mosque and occupied east jerusalem. they entered during ramadan prius in the early hours of winds, day firing, stun grenades. a video of the ride shows is rarely offices beating, palestinian worship is with battens. police say they were forced to into after so cold agitators barricaded themselves and sides. and later israel carried out is

strikes on garza. israel says, 11 rockets were fired from garza into southern israel. a number of them were intercepted. natasha can name is an occupied east jerusalem forest. first. let's hit to gaza where you are now. so you, this standing by knew the, the loss of the strikes were launched only a few hours ago. have we got any idea of what sort of damage they caused? yes, actually on the air strikes. so we're mainly on the military sites belonging to hammers in different areas of the gaza strip. and in garza city. oh, we usually see a light of material damage in these military sites, but they are empty military sites, so no casualties have been reported her there. the past hour, the skies in garza are 3 called and no air strikes have been taken place of as we

know through our sources, that strong egyptian and international mediations have been taking place in the past few hours to de escalate the situation. and they seem to have called, ah, the situation as there was a response in a retaliation by the israeli military and through the, our policy infections here who responded to the is the air strikes by launching a more marriages of rockets towards the sal. then as cities of israel, and now we also have a statement issued by a had mass political leader who are said that to what is has what has been happening in alex said was the inclusion and the aggression of the israeli occupation. in his words, against the worshippers is a major crime in which the people and their resistance will respond to. and he also

called the palestinian people everywhere to respond with old tools against this. aggression also is lavish, had a leader z. as in the silent issued a statement saying that the palestine people must be present for their inevitable confrontation in the coming days. okay, thank you so much room that that seemed to l side for us and garza. we're going to go now to natasha name, who is an occupied east. jerusalem and tensions were already clearly very high before this. can you just talk us through what happened at alex and how it got to this point? there are international efforts to tamp down on the tension. according to israeli media reports, the national security minister has met with the police to assess the security situation. what we know is that 350 people were arrested. according to the israeli

police, the palestinian prisoners club puts that number at 4 to 500 people. the red crescent says a dozen people were injured, 3 hospitalized. they say their paramedics were attacked by the israeli police and their ambulance damaged early wednesday morning. the israeli police says that a group of, quote, masked juveniles barricaded themselves inside alex, a mosque with clubs of fireworks and stones as part of a prior agreement with the compound authorities. no one was supposed to be spending the night inside the mosque during ramadan to avoid just this type of scenario ahead of visits by jewish people during the pass over holiday to day. the police say when their attempts at trying to coax people outside of the mosque failed, they forcibly entered the reports of them firing rubber, bullets, stun grenades, and using buttons to disperse people. this was anticipated because on tuesday there

were calls from among hamas on social media urging palestinians to go to alex, a mosque to quote, defend it from occupiers. now this is pass over and if there was a large number of jews expected to enter the compound, this is called the temple mount for jews. it is their holiest sight. so far the visiting hours have progressed without incident, but this is a perennial issue. these classes clashes during ramadan and now we have ramadan, passover and easter overlapping the tough of juice. visiting l oxide compound is a sensitive one for palestinians. this is the 3rd holiest sight in islam. and on top of it, there is always the issue around this time of restrictions that palestinians face entering the compound. if you're 55 years or younger and you're a man and you have

a palestinian id and you live in the occupied territories, you have to have a permit to enter the compound. in response to what happened this morning, the jordanian foreign ministry has condemned the attacks and said condemned the quote storming of the mosque and said that israel bears responsibility for the dangerous consequences. the palestinian president's office has also weighed in when, with its condemnation, warning israel against crossing quote red lines in reaction to the incident this morning also there were protests in nablus. okay, thank you very much natasha. that sir natasha? good night for us. unoccupied. east jerusalem. of finland has formerly joined the night home military alliance. russia has warns it will take counter measures to address for it sees as security threats created by finland's membership. harry faucet reports, ah, 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 doesn't need to fill out to her. so today become the 31st, a member of nato. the era of military non alignment. you know, a history has gone to an end, a new era. big is finland is safer, and nato is stronger with finland as an ally. we stand together, we protect and defend each other, all for $1.00 and $1.00 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, the through ania, 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 helsinki permission. but russia has already vowed to increase its military presence near the border, the kremlin promising countermeasures 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, the russia, a gamer, 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 of europe 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 ensure in europe like security as a whole. then membership of great eventual membership of agree. there's still no

agreement within nato, on a timeline for something that would be seen in moscow as the ultimate provocation loo. nato secretary general is though promising swift progress on sweden's membership by getting to kia to overcome its objections and allowing the swedish flag to become the 32nd to fly. here, harry force it al jazeera, was still ahead on al jazeera, with eyes on north korea. the us, japan and south korea hold the largest joint naval trails and seeking spirituality, spirituality in the face of violence. mima tries to revive tourism in the middle of a civil war. ah frank assessments. this tricky provides us with this hopeful moment where countries could come together and stop putting in place the rules allow us to treat with

global cummins. with the attention it to the inside story on al jazeera, a muslim community in diana, living in a vibrant harvey in cal chat. pest control, we are blessed. we live in harmony to call you. i'll give an agenda. i'll just have a well to travel to south america, right guy, and he's around my dad is long ago the of late and they enjoyed it. we have a rich country and thought of diversity dot is something that we can celebrate.

grandma dad, in guyana on al jazeera lou . ah, you're watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories the south for me. you as president donald trump has pleaded not guilty to charges of falsifying business records. the 2024 presidential hopeful, told supporters he believes the case is fake and he's a victim of election into ferris is ready. forces carried out is trying on garza after rockets were fired from the strip. israel says 11 rockets were fought from gaza into southern israel. and somewhat intercepted that came off to israeli forces

from the along some next can occupied east jerusalem by incident during ramadan. pre is firing. stung grenades is palestinians. true fireworks hundreds have been arrested. a peruse president in ballasa has survived and impeachment motion of a handling of anti government protests. a majority of in peace, rejected the motion looms by left of parties, nearly 50 people were killed and anti government protests in december after boulevard a previous is pedro castillo was removed from power. marianna sanchez has more from lima. 64 legislators voted against them. 34 in favor of allowing a hearing to impeach president d, w r k for her handling of the protest that erupt it in peru. early in december, when former president fizzle garcia was ousted from office, nearly 50 people has been killed since the left wing parties presented this motion

in january to impeach president the novel who are because of permanent moral incapacity before her handling of the protest. no human rights groups in peru have denounced rights violations. the united nations have called on through the government to investigate the claims of the excessive use of force by security forces. now, the top prosecutor in the country house in launched an investigation in january against the law for genocide and murder. so far, no one, not one soldier or one police officer has been detained in the case. now the lawyer of the house said that there were no orders to eliminate any one but to establish peace in the country. or congress is controlled by right wing

political parties. they have favored, strong use of force by security forces to swell the protest in the streets of the country. the former congressional leader, a mighty government, said that if the hearing the impeachment were to be because of the depths 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 seed i. lima o u. s. south korean, and japanese warships have wrapped up a 2 day exercise in the east china sea. it was aimed at increasing their readiness in the face of threads. and miss launches from north korea. rob mcbride's isn't soul. this exercise was led by the us aircraft carrier limits and its escorts, which have been in the waters of the korean peninsula, conducting large scale exercises with the south korean counterparts. exercises that have also involved drills between air force jets and land forces and the largest

scale drills to take place here in 6 years, much to the anger of north korea, which has responded characteristically with multiple missile launches. this trilateral exercise. now, with japanese war ships, we are told involved anti submarine drills and also search and rescue the intention being to increase the preparedness of the 3 navies in the face of increasing threats from north korea, but also sending a message further afield as a counter to china and its growing influence in the region, much to the displeasure of paging itself to ship and are you sure we hope that all parties will move in the same direction, resolved a legitimate concerns in a rational manner and maintain peace of stability on the peninsula. the united states actively pursues a policy of freedom of navigation, sailing through the contested waters of the south and east china seas. seas that

china regards as its own backyard. and this exercise is ended with a joint statement from the us, japan and south korea, saying that all 3 very much share a vision of an indo pacific, which is open and free. robert pride al jazeera sol or tie one's president will meet with the us house speaker during a stop over in los angeles in the coming alice sy, in when sit down with kevin mccarthy, will be the latest in a series of talks with senior american officials, china has warned mc county that he was playing with fire by meeting sy, levy, ryans and flooding have had hard to mucho's that peruse northern regions, streets, or underwater and homes have been destroyed. local authorities say at least 65000 people have been affected. last month, president in boulevard a declared a state of emergency after a powerful cyclone caused severe damage in the region. more rains are expected in

the coming weeks. this summer. lucky comment there. i'm glad practically abandon will need help and the poor. because look, the galler ravine has overflowed and that is what had that affected all of us. imagine we have children. the children have to put up with all this. the mosquitoes, diseases, diarrhea, and vomiting or me said man, what of them send me my, my animals have died there floating all around, everything, my sandals, my water, my food, my wardrobe, my mattress. everything has filled with water for me. a series of tornadoes has rolled through midwestern and southern states in the united states. the storms are expected to rip through some of the areas worst hit by tornadoes just days ago, killing. at least 32 people and a large wildfires burning in the us state of oklahoma. more than $600.00 hector's of land are on fire. evacuation orders have been issued around the town of weatherford o. me and mars military government is trying to encourage visitors to

return despite fighting and bloodshed. but as tony chang discovered in the ancient city of bergen in central men, muh, the fighting isn't far away. the sleepy stupors have begun. ancient pagoda is some more than a 1000 years old. this was once the capital of 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, unit. gotcha, even though began as he anesco 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 myanmar considered sacred,

but they don't spend like the foreign tourists. things have gone from bad to worse for tour guides. first, the coven, 19 pandemic. then the qu, 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 gas is different and also their demands. the area is also home to some of mere mas, ancient crafts. in a nearby village. they make lac aware the old way twisting finely cut bamboo before applying the dark resin. once hardened 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 they're tourist no, come to bargain. so we're, we're loose. we're loose. ah, generation like always in russian and your businesses were yes,

yes. 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. the reward he 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 the river. the day before, there were reports that 50000 people had fled the fighting in nearby meal, some of whom are now seeking shelter in the historic temples and monasteries of this ancient town. tony chang al jazeera, began central miramar with taking you live now to beijing. we are french president, a menu i'm a crohn has just arrived on a 3 day visit. he will be joined by the you president ursula on july and later the visit designed as resetting alliances between europe and china,

and bolstering bilateral trade ties. we will have much more on this and the rest of the days news after inside story, which is coming up next. your hair worse yourself. let's go with your weather update for europe and africa. nice to see you and we've got a weather maker dumping quite a bit of snow over the balkan. so from sarajevo to scope gauge a sophia ball, gary about 5 to 10 centimeters over the next little bit. maybe even some more, but it's not unusual to have one or 2 snow days for the month of april in this part of the world. some bursts of rain for turkey as north that black sea coast here also round that sea of mar mariah as well. then this breeze off the mediterranean, his kick back temperatures on cyprus and the levant, other side of the mediterranean, full on sunshine, here and look at this lisbon, 25 degrees. it's a temperature you would expect to see in june to the northwest. we go in our next

batch of what weather moves into the islands of ireland and britain. but if snow is a comfort, stockholm couple centimeters here, nothing major. and off to africa, we go. that wind off the mediterranean has lower temperatures and elders in tune. as few showers as wall and we got something trying to spin up in the southwest morocco will keep tabs on that. no weather alerts to speak of for south africa and those showers push away from southern mozambique, but still is southerly wind. so we've got a top temperature of $28.00 degrees and ma put so on wednesday. that's it. that's all we'll see again soon. take care. ah. it's a $1000000000.00, money laundering operation for coal mafia is bigger than the company with financial institutions, regulators and governments complicit with right now in a 4 part series al jazeera is investigative unit because i'm.