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election. but donald trump. circus just rolled back into town. i'm fill gail in berlin and this is the day. ah doctor, i think it's the best thing that can happen in the world. what is god the world, a rich on the golf like dirty, they do all the games they can get rid of them. finally, play free all great american of buddha's legal in new york. but this is legal for them to see most public charges, trial and american history. i also coming up ukraine marks the 1st anniversary of the liberation of boucher town,

just outside kira. that's become a symbol of the brutality of the russian invasion. nobody a year has passed since the day when russian occupies, were expelled from our city of boot. just not for me. then a city that the world did not know about. then there's not a city that the world will never forget that more than welcome to the day, donald trump's lawyers say they will vigorously fight the charges against their client in the 1st ever criminal case. against a sitting or former u. s. president. mr. trump's been indicted by a grand jury in new york, and while the exact charges are part of the sealed indictment, it's known they are linked to the alleged payment of hushed money to an adult film . actor donald trump is the 1st u. s. president ever to face criminal charges,

a grand jury tasked by the manhattan district attorney's office, spent weeks looking into a $130000.00 payment made to porn actors. stormy daniels trump reportedly paid the sum during the 2016 presidential campaign to keep daniels quiet . about a sexual encounter, as she alleges they had years earlier, trump vehemently denies allegations of wrong doing. the exact charges he will face have not yet been made public. it's too early to speculate what type of sentence trial would get if he were convicted by a new york jury. the judge would likely based it on the evidence that was presented at trial, whether trump testified, whether he perjured himself, donald trump claims he is innocent. he called indictment a case of quote, political persecution and election interference at the highest level in history, his lawyer,

se they will vigorously fight any charges. the proceedings are bound to shake up to 2024 presidential race. u. s. constitution does not require a clean criminal record for someone to become president, but it would be extraordinary. for someone under indictment were convicted of a felony to become a presidential candidate. trumps lawyers have struck a deal with manhattan. prosecutors to not have trump in handcuffs when he surrenders to face criminal charges next week. but the former president who will appear in court on tuesday, we'll still have a mug shot and his fingerprints taken. let's get a republican view of this from megan malloy, who's a founder and executive director of republican women for progress. welcome to d. w. and despite being republic, as your groups never been great fans of the former president. what do you make of

this latest development and the trump saga? you know, we have not always been fans. as you point out. we started as republican women for hillary as so we kind of caught his bluff early on. i think this will saga will the got a couple things we should get straight before we kind of dive into too much of this 1st. this is just an indictment. you know, there's a saying here that a grand jury will and died a ham sandwich if they want to. so people may be getting a little over their skis here, but it's still early, you know, we, we don't even know the charges as you pointed out in the intro. second, i think there will be a difference in the decisions of the actual court and of the court of public opinion. you know, trump may get off scot free here, but i think the long run this will end up hurting him. probably not. among his most loyal based bab nationally and among the broader party. yes, i think what the real threat is at this point, like let's take a look back. he was able to use the 2020 election to really undermined our

electoral system. he's cast down, his continued to cast out lisa and among a pretty large swath of the american electorate, that we cannot trust the electoral system. there's fraud, these machines are rigged. and now he's using this indictment to cast out on our judicial system and trying to convince people that it can't be trusted. so i think what you're seeing here, what's really dangerous is donald trump piece by piece, trying to dismantle really what are the bedrock systems of our democracy? and i think that is more dangerous than hang off a porn star. okay, so you really, really don't like him. so if he, if he is charged and found guilty, that's something that, that would not cause you any. sleep was nice. you're a wreck, your, your, your parties of record vote winning republican candidates looking at jail time. that wouldn't be a problem for you. i think it would depend on exactly how it all played out if he is found guilty and everything works as normal as the justice system was designed

and intended by the founders. then i think that's exactly what happened. you know, this is going to be a trial, it is decided by a jury of donald trump's peers in his home town of new york. and that's kind of what distinguishes american democracy, is our adherence to the rule of law, which donald trump always talks about. and you know, no matter who you are or what you're being accused. in fact, i would say that that is what makes america great. so, you know, that wouldn't cause me lots of sleep if of in fact it comes out that there has been some sort of interference or meddling, or if it was politically charged. and we're skipping over some, you know, points in the course of a child. and that would cause me some sleep, not just because it's donald trump because you know, we are in fact undermining american democracy in the judicial system at that point . right. so let the system take, it's a take its course and let the cods full where they may. let's, let's look at the, the, why the aspect here, because these allegations i'm, of course,

the documented behavior of the man himself. all surely, i mean, an indication of character. what does it tell us about the state of your party that it has allowed itself to be so dominated by a man like this? i think that that's the 1000000 trillion dollar question and if i had the answer in a solution, i probably wouldn't be talking to all right. now i think it's really twofold one. and really both parties are kind of guilty of this is we have made politics in the u. s. a team sport like we're no longer having the real matter of fact of aids on policy and the direction of the country and the concerns of the constituents. instead, we've gotten ourselves into this never ending, yelling match with each other team red versus team blue, which is fostered this level of hate that really lends itself to the creation of these divisive leaders. like donald trump. i think the other problem is that, you know, especially for the republicans, maybe less so for the democrats, is that,

you know, any focus on policy has shifted away from things like economic policy and foreign policy. and more on to things like social policy and identity politics that really have a tendency to turn people into the single issue voters. so you end up with the republican party being dominated by trauma, at least in part because a significant portion of the electorate sees him as the solution to their single issue and, and they're willing to look past everything else. right? so given this latest, this set of travails that he's going through, do you see, i mean champs with donald trump, will not be the republican kansas the next presidential election. and if i had a dime for how many times i've been asked whether or not he is going to be the nominee, i think this is kind of a tale of 2 people right now. i know donald trump is using the indictment to, to try to swindle people out of a few dollars to help his campaign. well, joe biden is in my home state of mississippi, which was devastated by

a tornado. not commenting on the diamond at all, but it's a tricky question. you know, i know i never thought that donald trump will be the candidate in 2016. i certainly didn't think he'll be president and i was wrong. i think if the election were held today, there is a non 0, he wins the republican nomination. what, what you have at least right now is a pretty steady 30 or so percent of republicans that are still trump supporters. and at least at this point the other candidates are just splitting the remaining 70 percent. and a lot of the candidates were pulling fairly well like run to scientists. they haven't even analysis or can yet, which whenever they do would presumably boost their numbers. so i think, you know, it's a political attorney between now and primary. i think that this indictment and arraignment and whatever decision comes down will have an impact on, you know, potentially nothing happened was i? yes. so i did a dye then then with a quick last question,

see if we can see all right, who is, what do you see as the best outcome of a trump criminal trial for your party? well, i think that depends on which part of the party you asking if you ask alice cheney or maybe new romney are proud of me. okay. so, you know, i think in the very least in the best outcome, as i said earlier, is one which trump is thoroughly investigated and deposed. and if there is, in fact, sufficient evidence that he's found guilty and charged and sentence, just as anyone else would be that were in the same situation. and if that means that he drops from 30 percent to 20 percent, and we end up having someone that's going to focus more on actual issues facing the country. great. and if that just kind of reveals a little more about donald trump and who he is and that changes the narrative of his candidacy, great for the party as a whole. and i think the best outcome is really just to let the law do with the law

was made to do, don't have any your meter signed, and by all means, don't let it inside another angry mob in new york or in washington dc. i think we can all do without another one of those for a good long while. thank you so much for talking to us meghan malloy from republican women of progress. thank you. ah. has been a year since ukrainian forces liberated boucher from 5 weeks of russian control. what they found in the town about 30 kilometers from central cave was a trade of destruction and evidence of possible war crimes. the images of civilian bodies strewn across the streets reverberated around the world. 12 months on the move to hold those responsible to account is far from over. the next report contains graphic images that you might find disturbing. this is birch,

as jablonsky street, a peaceful, unassuming place. and this is how it looked after the russians fled. one year ago. the bodies of civilians less to wrought on the road, surrounded by shopping, that was never delivered. some with the hands. boned. what's good for them in the room? you can see it for yourself. these are civilians. as written, this one was carrying potatoes. when you and snipers shot them all on the head out of boredom. wall. how could this happen? how could this happen? to understand how this quiet residential street turned into hell. you 1st have to meet the people who lived, died and survived. here. currently were men like me kilo roman jak seen here trying to keep warm in the early days of the rush in occupation. not long after this video,

he joined his nieces boyfriend who wanted to check up on his own father. mckayla never came home last year when the family found his body weeks later you who lives in. we were citing, and then the shooting started. we didn't see from where lucky policy you are. then there's all are abram off once a welder who loved football. the middle carol guilty, his wife irina describe how russian soldiers turned up there now destroyed home and then ordered allah away. earlier. you know, what is the i thought, where is ali? i went outside and i saw he was lying there when they took him around the corner and put him on his knees and shot him in the head a little ill call on you. i stood next to him, luckily, and then fell to my knees. luasa,

leisure and the russians were sitting across the street number we'll use closer. neighbor vladimir abrupt jenko was returning a borrowed bike when he was killed. a relative says that russian marksman fired their guns with impunity. was the bride, his neighbor wanted to take him away and marry him in the yard like so. his clothes wouldn't be left lying on the street with a sniper. where did the neighbor in the shoulder. hopefully the bullet went straight through him and asked and he fled. even in the days after the liberation bodies were discovered in sailors and mass graves to an estimated 10 percent of the remaining population killed. in a month long reign of terror, president followed him here to lensky, visited the town to his face, edged with anguish. what more of these are war crimes risk on this will be recognized as genocide by the world in order to prosecute war crimes, ukrainian,

and international investigators must fashion identify the culprit. never mind arrest them a painstaking task that may never succeed. who for nadia whose daughter was killed, justice will be served one way or another. her brother don't. she used to be nice and clean woodyard and there was order every one left. well then these animals came and in one month they turned it into i don't know what may god punish them for the rest of their lives. people's guys are the people of butcher may have begun to recover, but they, nor the world will ever forget when let's get more on this from yvonne mcdermott's rece as she specializes in international law and is professor of law.

it's once a university in the u. k. a welcome to t w. festa will prosecutions in cases like this will they need to be as specific as this man from this russian military unit killed this man and this madame, this woman on this date? so it depends on tries really. so i mean, we could have trials of the individual perpetrator in which case, yes, it would need to be as specific as this person who's in the jock committed the doctor on this case. but we have had tries as a lot of people higher up the chain of command. and there again, you need to prove that specific crimes were committed and that the perpetrators were under the control of those who are in the delkin, those in those cases. so yeah, i mean, we do need to have specifics and those materials that need to be proven to the

beyond reasonable doubt standard for criminal trials. right. so we know that the international criminal court has issued warrens for vladimir putin arrest, but not for these sorts. for the sorts of killings that we saw in our report in boucher but for his suspected involvement in and taking children from occupied ukraine to russia. why this distinction? yeah. well, i would say, 1st of all, as far as we know, and not for these crimes bucetti at the, the international criminal court when this issue, it's arrests warrant against those mer payton. and maria live over below that i couple of weeks ago said we're making this, we had the option to issue this warrant of arrest under theory. and in fact, keep it. see chris, but we're making this one public because we want to be, you know, stop these. couldn't the continuation of these crimes. so we wanted to be known that this arrest warrants has been issued. so who knows, there could be other warren's breast that have already been issued that we don't

know of ice. and there's also the possibility that there are others coming further down the line. so just because they're an orange of breast has been issued for a particular crime, it doesn't by the court later on from auditing further crimes, to the jackass. it's hard to envisage. so mom like vladimir putin ever actually standing trial in a cold for everything. it's hi, tim, this is perhaps, but it's not beyond the rings of possibility. you know, we have had historic examples off i had to stace who, you know, people like stop a, don't manasseh bitch for example, who never imagines that they would ones one day find themselves in the dark and standing trial. so, you know, there is, i don't think it's beyond the rims of possibility. there is also an important and function rady off these restaurants and that it sends

a message to the international community that this is something that the international criminal court is investigating. and is willing to take action on am and there's also a, as a function of these restaurants in terms of, you know, it's that, well, the impact of this arrest oriented that vladimir piece in effectively can't travel to any of the state parties of the international criminal court statues, there are a 123 of them. and you know, that's, that's quite difficult for a head of state to conduct their functions if they're not able to travel to other states that mice at work that are under an obligation to transfer them to the hague was so, and, you know, i mean, possible, he could he could fight it, but ultimately that, that would be a political decision. wondered if, if there was a piece feel that it would be likely to include some sort of get out of jail deal folder russian leader. wouldn't it? it's really interesting because, and we have quite

a lot of case law on this issue of whether you can have amnesty for international crimes. and charles taylor, the former president of iberia, for example, argued that, and he shouldn't be prosecuted before its 1st quarter fairly long because there is this piece agreement in place. and almost universally, international criminal courts have held that there can be no amnesty for international crimes. so there's the tension there, i guess, between the in scholar simply called the piece versus just to debase. and, but the league of physician seems to be pretty clear that, that you can't sign away and accountability french in atlanta crimes. i could, we just have a very, a brief word on, on the, the notion of crime, scene war. what is for thinking that underpins v i v v i v of what is and isn't acceptable in a war when it's against blizzard purpose is to kill as many people as you can to achieve your political go. well, i can,

i can you contest the idea that that's the purpose of war to kill many people as you can. i mean, the laws of war are hundreds of years old. and the idea is that, and they, the actions of the parties to non conflict should be limited to those actions that offer a concrete and definite military advantage. and so, yeah, so war crimes essentially are serious breaches of the laws of our contact. we have, for example, the geneva conventions of 1949 before that be at the hey conventions. and their serious breaches of these war is that more or less all its data have signed up to saying if there is certain functions, certain things that are beyond and what's permissible in the context of war. and that includes things like attacking civilians and disproportionate attacks. and you type so athens and so forth. thank you so much for providing enrollment. mr. mr. reese from swansea university. thank you. thanks for having me.

ah. transfer him to people in argentina facing unemployment, a lower incomes caused by the natural economic crisis, but the off sides of hope. on international bay of transgender visibility, we visit the argentinean capital. when a ferris where up cycle boots are helping to form a path to change unique shoes that come in inclusive sizes. mm hm. but more importantly, i'm taking at this group of trans women. want to stay with me. they found a safe haven making and recycling shoes, cloves and backs in a workshop in when are scientists make i miller? yeah. does change my life. it's something different. why is it, how can i explain it to you? i'm just happy to be her. i think and then that either it's because she has finally found something close to a normal job. i'm originally from peru, vivian,

sorry. i moved to argentina 2 decades ago. seeking that little bit of extra freedom and better opportunities. but as a trans woman, a normal job was always out of reach, forcing her to do whatever it takes to make ends meet. am we're the 15 for you or you are very difficult and gone well. i was hoping to get a job for years, but no one would hire me. a few of it and now even less so because of my age, where you now the sales from what she makes help again for the month. 90 percent of trans women in argentina are forced into prostitution because they're being excluded from the job market. according to the hugh and development program that they show up at was workshop was originally thought to provide shoes in the right size with a trans community. they simply desired the right fit for themselves, but soon it became clear that the co operative is much more than that of other knows if i said it runs but, but you don't need to be trans to have

a bad life here in argentina, they either can be known if the women, the local gay neglect, the country, is in a deep economic crisis. local local, this land lies here. are worth little e window in isic isic on fixed door a in a trance. communities, particularly vulnerable. they are either so one of the things we try to do is to provide manufacturing skills, us bah, but up at o. c. also a recent law in argentina reserves one percent of public sector jobs for transgender people. it's progressive but may not be what's needed to say the women of the archive of trans memory. here more than 10000 photos capture the lives of their community lives hidden behind closed doors, marked by discrimination, ill treatment and persecution. oh no more. it, they don't know any other woman dominique. hello to have a she certainly had

a job in a room that allowed, well, he did our legal but for us, if they needed to make a law the name of it so that we can actually have a job laid by that boy. then they net own that i lack of normal. see is what many trans women here long for most with the progress made in recent years here. and one aside is very confident that one step at a time therapy shoes will be filled by trans people in high ranking jobs. maybe even leading the country or the day's almost done. the conversation continues online at t d. w news on twitter act fil gail gregg rica. ah, [000:00:00;00]

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