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ah, sake case was brought only to interfere with the upcoming 2024 election and it should be dropped immediately. fighting words from a u. s. president turned criminal defendant. donald trump pleads not guilty to 34 counts falsifying business records in a historic appearance and quote, ah, hello until mccrae. this is al jazeera alive from dar ha. also coming up, garza under 5 israel carries out it strikes on the besieged palestinian on clive after rockets launched those rocket attacks came off, the israeli forces beat and arrested hundreds of palestinians and the isle oxen, moss could during ramadan on chris and french president menu on the corner rise in

beijing. the high level talks with chinese leadership ping focused on the war and new crime. ah. former u. s. president donald trump's day in court and an extraordinary moment in the nation's history in new york, trump pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records, linked to payments to a porn film actress ahead of the 2016 election. but back in florida, he claimed he was the victim of election interference. both the president and his supporters appeared, defiant. tromp criticized the prosecutor and called the case against him. fake. they attacked me with an onslaught of fraudulent investigations. russia, russia, russia, ukraine, ukraine, ukraine. impeachment ok, number one,

impeachment hoax number 2, 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 character. oh jeez, here is gabriel ellis under followed the unprecedented di and course in new york, their images that will go down in u. s. 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 $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 york state. no matter who you are. we cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct. however, the indictment did not impress trumps legal team. he sees frustrated, he's upset, but i'll tell you what he's motivated and it's not going to stop him as 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 courthouse is 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 estate 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. trump showing his defiance against a judicial process that is very much in motion. gabriel's hondo al jazeera new york nessa sunny has more on trump speech from palm beach, florida. the strategy that comes out of the speech is he's talking right now not to the rest of the world country too many. oh my think so he's talking to his base and only his base. he knows the countries divide it. he knows that 60 percent of americans are for a good trial just like any citizen in the united states,

it doesn't mean anything if you're president or no. so in this speech, what we've seen is the victim role, but also defending himself. he with talked already about atlanta, georgia, and that's the next serious a complaint of the authority. this, against him was another serious case, much, much more serious, apparently than the saga to day in new york. so he's already denying any wrong doing in the atlanta talking today directly to the district attorney to the da in georgia atlanta that those phone calls. because the authorities have 3 phone calls, the police. what is inciting officials to change the results of those elections in georgia? what he says tonight, he's not guilty. he's not guilty. those phone conversations are not what they, what the government thinks. they are. also he attacks the da in new york, the one who got him today in court. and he just plainly says this. he is of is motivated by politics only da new york campaigned during his election to get tromp

to get to him. israeli forces have arrested hundreds of palestinians after storming the alex and mosque and occupied east jerusalem into during ramadan prison. the early hours of wednesday firing stung grenades. video of the ride shows israeli offices beating palestinian worshippers with battens. police say they were forced to enter after what they called agitators barricaded themselves inside. the arab league has condemned. the israeli right, natasha game has more from occupied east jerusalem. these really police say they have arrested 350 people. the palestinian prisoners society says that number is between 4 and 500 police say early wednesday morning, a group israeli police described as a math, juveniles barricaded themselves inside l. ox. i'm off with clubs, fireworks and stones. due to a prior agreement, before ramadan began,

no one was supposed to be spending the night inside the mosque. the israeli police says they attempted to coax the people out of the mosque. and when that failed, they forcibly entered the reports as they fired stun grenade rubber bullets and used baton to beat people. and that there is quite extensive damage to the ox, a mosque ramadan, and passover for a 2nd year in a row are overlapping. this in some respects was anticipated. on tuesday, the recalls urging palestinians to go to ox mosque, to quote, defend it from the occupiers. there are visiting hours that are going to be ending shortly for non muslims. and it was expected that there would be a large number of jews entering the compound as part of passover. they are not permitted to pray, but this is a sensitive issue for palestinians. the people who typically enter our nationalists

and have very conservative ideology and in the past, despite a ban on praying inside the compound, people have been caught praying well after the ride on l. ok. so several rockets were fired from garza into southern israel. israeli forces, say somewhere intercepted truly afterwards. israel carried out is strikes on multiple sites, and garza, the army, said it struck several military posts. run by mos, let us speak to you now l. so you to joins us live from gaza and these is strikes. i, we're only launched a few hours ago, have we got more of an idea of what sort of damage they caused and in a retaliation there might have been since then. yes tom, so as you mentioned, a v is a airstrikes, half targeted military post, some military sites belonging to hammers, but these military sites are empty and they are usually emptied. in terms of any

escalation. i know a casualties have been reported in any of the air strikes apart from a material damage in these sites. of course, while the air strikes are taking place, there was also a response by the policy. you factions in garza where barrages of a missiles, where are of rockets were fired towards the israel lea, a southern israeli towns in retaliation to the air strikes. but as a strong egyptian and international medications have been taken place since the starting of the air strikes, it seems that they were successful in restoring the call where we have not witnessed any further air strikes or launching of rockets in the past a few hours. okay, thank you very much. that's una l, so you'd, for us and gaza. a french president menu m a crone says europe must not dis

associate with china or chron isn't beijing for a 3 day state visit. he will be joined by e u commission president emsella von de lion at meetings with chinese prison, choosing ping on thursday. european leaders want to reset relations with china and bolster trade, beijing's position on russia's invasion of ukraine as high on their agenda. well, on day 2 of their meeting in brussels, nato foreign ministers are discussing china's ties with russia that concerned beijing is considering supplying arms to moscow. secretary general chin stolen berg said ministers. we'll also talk about how to increase defense spending. he said he expects nato members to commit to investing 2 percent of their countries income when leaders made for a summit later this year. oh, well it's the 1st meeting of an expanded night are up to finland, formerly joined the military alliance. russia has warned, it will take a counter measures to address what it sees as security threats created by the move

. 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. philip has said today become the 31st a member of nato. the era of a military non alignment in our history has gone to an end, a new era big it's. cinnamon 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 joined 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 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 this creates risks of a significant escalation of the conflict, but it will not affect the outcome of the special military operation. 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 eventually membership free. there's still no agreement within nato, on a timeline to something that will 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 us south korean, and japanese warships have wrapped up a 2 day exercise in the east china c. u. s. official say it was aimed at increasing readiness following threads. and method launches by north korea. from mcbride is in sol with more. 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 the legitimate concerns in a rational manner, and maintain peace and stability on the peninsula. the united states actively pursues a policy of freedom of navigation,

failing 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 bride al jazeera soul tie one's president is to meet with the us house speaker during a stopover in los angeles, in the coming hours sighing. when talks with kevin mccarthy will be the latest in the series with senior american officials. china has warned mccarthy he's playing with fire by meeting side. a still head on al jazeera will tell you why the united nations has told us female african staff to start harm for 48 hours. ah.

hello, there was thought in southeast asia from the satellite image. you can see there's more heavy rains to come for southern regions where we have already seen flooding. places like southern borneo as well as parts of indonesia, particularly eastern areas sets these very heavy rain in the days the head for the north of this much finer. whether to be found across the philippines. it continues to be rather warm across the north west of indo china, some heavy rain coming in to southern parts of thailand as well as cambodia and central vietnam in the days ahead. but that heavy rain picking up on friday across eastern areas of indonesia, pulling into the top and over strayer, we're likely to see some pretty intense storms for places like darwin in the days ahead. a shower to across more western areas pulling into central areas of australia. but the rain picks up, of course, southern parts of western australia. we still got some cool wind blowing across the bite that's going to knock temperatures down. not just for adelaide,

but also from melbourne. we have a look at the 3 day for adelaide. you can see 19 degrees celsius below average on saturday, but those showers will be easing. the rain will also be easing across the southern parts of new zealand. it'll be picking up. however, in the very north, particularly on friday, but some warms coming back into the very south with a little bit more sunshine that to weather update. ah and ah, ah mm.

ah ah, he watching al jazeera reminder of our top stories, the salad, former us president, donald trump has pleaded not guilty to charges of falsifying business records. the 2024 presidential hopeful, told, supposes he believes the cases fight, and he's a victim of election interference. is ready, forces have carried out is strikes on gaza after rockets were fired from the street . israel says 11 rockets for 5 from dancer into southern israel. and someone just shipped it that came after is righty. forces storm the alex, a mosque unoccupied, east jerusalem. that he entered during ramadan pre is firing some grenades as

palestinians, true fireworks hundreds had been arrested. the united nations has told staff and its afghanistan officers not to come to work for 48 hours because of security concerns. the you in says that seeking additional information from local taliban authorities, about a ban on afghan women working for us. that's up to members of it's female staff and manga were prevented from carrying out their duties. afghan women are banned from secondary and high education, as well as in g o. s. and most public sector jobs. james base has more. this is something that the united nations had greatly feared already. most women in afghanistan a band from work, including those who were supposed to work for humanitarian organizations. now it seems that band has been extended to the united nations and its agencies. the spokes person 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 an acceptable and frankly inconceivable. this is the latest in a disturbing trend undermining the ability of 8 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, donnelly 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. the women are the, the backbone of our humanitarian of our humanitarian opera operations. the secretary general is urging the security council to meet to discuss this issue. i understand

that senior un officials planned to meet with officials from the taliban in the coming hours. it's not clear who will represent the united nations of that meeting because the top you an official enough kind of stone is a woman special representative rosa. autumn by eva is the former president of kingston. james bays al jazeera at the united nations, iraq and kurdistan have agreed to restart. oil exports through to key and a formal request has been sent to ankara. mahmud up to why he'd reports from baghdad, iraq's her prime minister mohammed, she. yes sir. danny has a now and said that his government has his truck had deal with the government of the semi tuna mas kurdish region to resume oil exporting. that follows a hold of operation. since the rule that was passed by the international court of arbitration late last month, according to iraqi officials,

this move has come after the rule that was in favor of the federal government of a debt. we understand that the federal government that had to wait to hear over allowing the similar to name is could this region to export its oil for all turkish lands and turkish port of jihad on the mid flynn and without the consent of the federal government. about a debt, according to the prime minister of the federal government of iraq, and how much he sued any this deal is meant to diffuse the tension between the 2 regions and also to evade any deficit in the budget. we understand that this whole deal according to she. yeah. so danny is awaiting legislation by the parliament to regulate that whole process. this also is meant to

save about $400000.00 barrels per day. the oil exporting capacity of the similar to numerous kurdish region. this is also part of a decayed long of dispute between the federal government about that and that of the similar to intimate could this region over oil and gas sectors that has resulted in 2 different policies of gas and oil sectors. oil giant shell is due in court and london next week to face charges of polluted water and soil and nigeria nyja delta. more than 13000 villages of bringing the landmark case managers reports from kelley. the orchard just buried the family metric. rosalyn was 87 years old when she died, but the claim her death was hastened by high exposure to all pollution in make up the for sick on you there got the clinic you do these me was when they were yes. when you, molly, i else because of the what the mercy is covered in skin rushes,

she says it's from ingesting and bathing in contaminated water. royal dutch shell has been producing all in a go new land since 1958. the organic community is now selling it for environmental damages. i'm gonna go to, you know, barbie is the 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, hurry, i know shell is trying to see how we can hide away from this. what roy dos, shell deed, in all galli did queued up people, dashti, killing our people. so those who are making profit or those who have made profit at of these need to know that it is blog money. they say the devastation caused by

almost 70 years of oil exploration in nigeria, niger delta is massive. thousands of hector's of man grows, 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 space have been recorded in organic and bill communities polluting palms and rivers contaminating free stocks and drinking water. the communities want shell to pay compensation and clean up the area. the company says that case has no legal standing. environmentally say the situation in the 2 communities is dire or by numbered by if you go by the time that they say that again, what the impact is. $900.00 players are both the will. you have was time that so now you have a spiker been saying, we know hardly that. how keep being in

a lawyer from the community claim shall wants to delay tuesdays. hearing for another 2. we asked where down the villages and eventually have the case thrown out . and that could have wide implications. that case is seen as a test, as to where the multi nationals can be held accountable for. the actions will be overseeing subsidiaries, army decrease al jazeera or godly. perused president dubois i has survived and impeachment motion over her handling of anti government protests. majority of impeach rejected. the motion launched by leftist parties, nearly 50 people were killed, an anti government protests in december after boulevard. his predecessor pitcher castillo was removed from power. marianna sanchez has more from lima. with 64 legislators voted against them. 34 in favor of allowing a hearing to impeach a precedent the w out of bay for her handling of the protest 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 novel who are there because of permanent moral in capacity for her handling of the of the protests. 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. a 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 lot 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 party. they have favored a strong use of force by security forces to quell the protest. in the streets of the country, the former congressional leader and mighty government alba has said that if the hearings, the impeachment were to be because of the debts, 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, i just seen a lima. heavy rains and floods have scripts, northern peru, streets, her aunt, water and harms have been destroyed. local authorities say at least 65000 people have been affected. last month, president annabella declared a state of emergency after a powerful cyclone called severe damage in the region. more grains are expected in the coming weeks. but while.