oh mm mm. oh ah ah, this is database news line from berlin. donald trump hit with criminal charges, a grand jury and manhattan votes to indict trump the 1st time this has ever happened to a former us president and threatens to up and the race for the white house next year. plus the ukrainian town of boucher

a year after its liberation from russian troops and the horror of alleged war crimes for your social. these are civilians. with this one was carrying potatoes and snipers shall come on the head out before them. wolf, who chests struggles to come to terms with an indiscriminate killings that shocked the world or crimes. prosecutors piece together evidence to name and trying the perpetrators ah, i'm nica furnish. welcome to the shell. it's the 1st criminal case in history against a former u. s. president donald trump has been indicted by a grand jury in new york. it's over an alleged hush money payment made to a porn star before the 2016 presidential election. it's understood trump could turn himself in early next week is running to regain the house and 2024.

donald trump effect to become the 1st u. s. president ever to face criminal charges. the grant judy das by the manhattan district attorney's office, spent weeks looking into $130000.00 payment meet to borne actor stormy daniels. trump reportedly beat the thumb during the 2016 presidential campaign, one to keep daniel's quite about a sexual encounter. they had years ago, has that trump, the monkey denies the valuation witnesses what the exact charge if he will face, have not yet been made public is too early to speculate what type of sentence trump would get if he were convicted by a new york jury. the judge would likely, based on the evidence that was presented at trial, whether trump testified, whether he perjured himself donald trump faced, he's innocent and has caused the indictment of political persecution. his lawyer,

c, devil vigorously fight any charges. the proceeding i bound to shake up at 2020 for presidential brief. the u. s. constitution does country quite a clean criminal record for someone to become president, but it would be extra ordinary for someone under indictment or convicted of a felony to become a presidential candidate prosecutor fee that in contact with john lawyer, doreen, to friends and his expected to turn himself in early next week on he did with the specific charge if be, meet public for more in this, let's bring and steven fish, he is a professor, philip michael signs at the university of california berkeley. welcome to the w. mr . fis. this is completely unprecedented. what happens next? it certainly is. nicole really matters what happens next is what the democrats do

with this. a lot of people will not regard. this is really being that big a deal. the guy paid hush money to a porn star. this is classic trump. and people are going to wonder what the big deal is on this. but the fact is, what really matters here is who's going to win the 2020 for presidential election. and it looks like trump may well be the republican nominee. if the republicans when democracy in america is in trouble, so an awful lot rides on this. now we'll see what the democrats do with it. i think what they need to do is point out that this isn't just a matter of trump being tromp paying a porn star for having sex with a born star. this actually is a violation of a court tenant of american democracy, which is the rule of law that needs that the rulers, as well as everybody else have to obey the law. what's also important here. so trump react recently, trump has gotten kind of one year and one year in his public messaging, what made him seem so great to so many people back in 2016 and then again in 2020 was his supposed strength. he had this kind of high dominance personality. if trump

place is in a way that makes him look weak and windy, that could really read down to the benefit of the democrats, the democrats would be wise to take advantage of that. and could he spend this in his favour though? he could, but the thing is, is the way he's doing it these days with all these indictments are threatened, threatened indictments is to portray himself as a victim. poor me. he's even using the phrase. i'm a victim lately. a lot that's completely countered an image. he tried to build for himself, going back to 2016, the strong guy, this alpha male who take on anybody and was no whiner. he was always accusing the liberals of being whiners back. this is that he's now kind of turning into what he used to criticize himself so that nick could make a big difference. what's important again is that the democrats point that out, and rather than just talking about what a media he is, or how he's broken, breaking the law frankly, to really double down on what a wineries become at. we don't yet know what exactly is being accused of what are

the charges he could face while he faces a bunch of charges. these are charges related to his pain harsh money. that is money not to say anything to a porn star who was clearly probably threatening with, with blackmail, going back to his 1st presidential campaign. and, but he's under a bunch of other, you know, suspicion for a bunch of other charges, including in some other states including election tampering and georgia. that's a really big chart said a host of legal problems right now. the thing is, is i think a lot of his supporters and a lot of independents to aren't going to think this is all that big a deal less the democrats point out to them how big a deal it actually is and how it impinges. not only on trumped character, which everybody always knows is rotten it, but on american democracy as well, even 1st professor at the university of california berkeley. thank you so much. my pleasure. take a look now in some other stories making headlines around the world to day. at least 35 hindu worshipers have died after plunging into a deep well within

a temple in the central indian city of indoor. over a dozen people were rescued and several others were injured. the incident happened during the hindu festival of rom, nevaeh, me. american journalist has been arrested and rush on spying charges. moscow court ordered evan curse novick of the wall street journal to be held in custody for 2 months. russia's f, a b security agency accuses him of trying to obtain classified information. mister garage of it has pleaded not guilty. it's been a year now since ukrainian forces liberated the town of boucher which had been under russian control for 5 weeks. what they found about 30 kilometers from central cave was a trail of devastation and evidence of possible war crimes. the images of civilian bodies strewn across the streets reverberated around the world. 12 months later, however, the move to hold those responsible to account is far from finished mid morning. you can see for yourself these are civilian this week and this woman was carrying

potatoes and slippers shocked them on the head, out of boredom, wolf, we seem to be having some technical difficulties there. i apologize for that, but we can now speak to d, w. special correspondent, i abraham. she's here in the studio with me. i a, you were in boucher last month. what did you see? what did you hear? what did people tell you about the trauma that they've lived there? i mean, it's, it, i really got the impression that the people there were still very much so dealing with the scars of what happened to them under russian occupation. i mean, just to give you an idea of what kind of place butcher was before started. i mean,

the before the war started, this is a residential suburb about 30 minute drive outside of kia. it's a place where people moved to start families. you know, young professionals are really kind of lovely place before the war. and you know, it just so happened that geography dictated that it was exactly on the trail of russian soldiers who were invading from belarus on their way to cave. and that, you know, changed the, the town, the suburb a completely, i mean i met a man there who had actually escaped the war in eastern ukraine. the fighting that started there in 2014, moved with his family to butcher and chose it, particularly for that reason for being a place that he could settle, that he could come with his family. and unfortunately, as they were trying to escape russian occupation a couple of days after russian troops arrived there, he lost his entire, his entire family. and when i went to see him there, i mean he, you know, he's,

he's, he's still very much living with that memory the home that he had bought for them for his family in boucher, untouched. but like a lot of people in butcher who, you know, a lot of the civilians who had this horrible thing happened to them. their hope now is that with the investigations these a legit war crime accusations they can get some justice and they can perhaps see yes, some kind of justice for what, what happened to them and that's really the hope that they're holding onto boucher has become a symbol of russian atrocities near this war we've seen many politicians from abroad also come and tour the town, see what was done there. know what is being done to help the people rebuild and recover from this unbelievable thing that they had to live through. we have to also say that, you know, in addition to having to do with these atrocities, you know what i saw was also a lot of rebuilding in boucher. there's a lot of construction work, a lot of attempts to bring back, you know,

life there. i met with the deputy mayor of butcher when i was there and she said, you know, nobody really wants to live in a town known for tragedy. that's that's, that's how she put it. and that's why she said, we need the help. they're getting a lot of help from a charities compared to compared to other parts of ukraine that have also been destroyed to rebuild these, these houses and to bring back life. and you know what? i saw him and i visited. there should have been late february and the town was really sort of on the men and you did feel that life was slowly trying to come back . but as also one, a volunteer that i met there said, you know, we want to bounce back, but we, we don't want to forget what happened here. and it's important that we find a way to remember this tragedy together and, and for the world to not never forget really what happened in boucher. yeah. you talk about rebuilding, but the war is still raging on. we talk a lot about the eastern front, but there's air strikes in and around here almost every day. how present is,

is that reality that the acute war happening right now in boucher? i mean, that's kind of the tricky thing about about being in the capital, right? because the, you know, the air defense systems, you know, the capital key of and it's rounding, which would include butcher, the air defense system work to a very, very large extent. i mean you have sirens, air retirements, pretty much every day, but the likelihood that a building gets struck or a civilian, you know, entity gets struck is quite low compared to what we're seeing in the east or even other parts of the country. but at the same time happens sometimes rate. and so it's a reminder that no where really is safe. but my impression, you know, having spent a couple of weeks in ukraine is that people there have have found a way to deal with it. and pretty much, you know, they're just going on with their lives and that's just one risk that they have to calculate into it. the w special correspondent, i abraham, thank you so much for alpha and turkey. as approved finland's application to join nato,

ending months of delays during which turkey had blocked finland and sweden from joining the military alliance. parliament voted unanimously in favor of 2 weeks after president rid of type ardon made his support clear turkey's vote was the last hurdle preventing finland from accession. finland set to become the 31st member of nato, a feat made possible by turkey finally clearing the way the noose was welcomed by many, hugh, i think it's about time, so some of us have be waiting for it for some time already. so. yeah, it's good that it turned out this way. it gives us security about all b and then v v v, and finally belong to davis to divest that and hit him is fair. finland had been trying to join the alliance for more than 10 months. helsinki wants to bolster its military capacities, as russia's invasion of ukraine,

left neighboring countries feeling vulnerable. but turkey kept blocking their session complaining that finland was providing safe haven to groups on corner seas . asterisks. dog off belatoya were condemned lashonda. the breakthrough came after, finished president, loudly minister, visited his counterpart in tokyo room. shortly afterwards, rach upkeep, i'd go on a greet to support finland's bid. but despite the hurdles this approval is considered to have come quickly this is a world record speed of 4 in a new member state, the choice maple. so fremont managed to pull it off and that's what so ah, it took quite a lot of diplomacy. behind the scenes work, nato chief un stalson berg said finland, we'll make the whole nato families stronger and safer. but for now,

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