christian about life, the universe and the rest were series. 40 to the answer, almost every thing this week on t w ah, this is the that we use live from berlin. donald trump terms himself, interface criminal charges. former us president leaves trump tower ad is brought by motorcade to court in manhattan, is expected to plead not guilty to charges linked to the alleged payment of hush money. going adult film actor. also on the program a finland,

joins nato with a finished flag, is raised as the alliance welcomes it's 31st member at a ceremony in brussels. ah, i'm fill gail. welcome to the program. donald trump has arrived at court in new york to face criminal charges. the former u. s. president waved to support us before walking into the building, flanked by secret service agents, is facing charges linked to hush money payments and actually made to an adult film actor. he denies wrong doing and is expected to plead not guilty. also outside that court building in manhattan, they c w, a washington bureau chief in his po, welcome is what's happening there. well, phil ashby, i think because for minutes here,

this is really history in the making. donald trump, the former president of the united states, is arrested in the building right behind me right now. so he is processed right now . that means that all his worker paperwork is done that then you will, a fingerprints will be taken maybe photographs. we don't know that yet, and then the charges will be read to him before he probably can leave the building again. and what are people saying about this case? well, this is quite a scene here. helicopters were flying over a lower manhattan, hundreds, hundreds of protesters and supporters of his are gathering behind the court house. here in manhattan, i had the chance to talk of some, let's have a listen, but they say, want to make sure that president trump doesn't get run over by this attorney general brag. and, and it's a politically motivated which on against them. i think this is

a very serious moment right now, and it's wonderful that he is being held accountable for the crime that he's committed. this is the 1st i'm sure of many indictments that's going to come his way. it's just gonna make us even more of broader. lee see what's going on. if we don't have a job, we're next year next. i think the da did his job. he followed the facts and the fact led to an indictment. this wasn't a case where it was influenced, i don't think it's going to hurt him. i think we, the people stand for trump and that's why we're here today. i feel that some said pretty much up. so some really thing that is absolutely necessary. we see signs here saying no one is above the law other say no, this is absolutely not the right thing to do. it was just cash money paid to an adult actress and they do think they are convinced that this will help to donald trump rather than it will hurt. yeah, let's talk about that. i mean,

how are mister chums, legal problems likely to affect his chances in next year's presidential election? well, this is on the case here, only one case here at the courthouse in manhattan, there are 3 other cases they might have lager, deeper or higher wages. they are all connected to water fraud, or one is connected to the, to donald trump involvement and the storming of the capitol on january 6th. so we shall see what the other outcomes will be. but really, i think it is fair to say it's far too early to be sure that this makes it harder for donald trump to re enter the white house because he ended united states a person can run for president, even if he or she is convicted and as we just heard from his supporters, some rather feel kind of engaged to fight even more for their president. okay,

so this is a 1st, a city or former president being based facing criminal prosecution. but how significant is this moment in this? it is significant definitely for those who are followed following politics closely because as you just said, as we heard over and over during the last couple of days this friday since this indictment is and now and said, this is the 1st time in the long history of the united states, but feel, you know, there are many people here in this country. they really have other problems. do the installation is really high gas prices are really high. they don't really know how to pay for their food on their kitchen table. so those are following politics closely, it's a huge deal. the really die hard. trump supporters definitely will be kind of energized by that. but also many, many americans, honestly don't care so much about what is going on here today in manhattan. i go

about a in a say in his poll in new york a finland has become the 31st, a member of nato. the alliance is headquarters in brussels, has seen a day of sodomy and emotion. finance president described the occasion as historic and nato secretary general said. the expansion shows that russia's attempts to weaken the alliance of backfired. finland flag hoisted high over nato headquarters in brussels. and as anthem's ring out helsinki, waves good bye to its security policy of the past, and move prompted to direct what he, by moscow's aggression toward ukraine. the era of military non alignment in our history has come to an end, a new era big it's. it's contrary maximize, he has its own security. so does finland. nato membership per strengthens our

international position and a room for maneuver. nato allies take a collective defense pledge under which an attack on one is viewed as an attack on all that means finished troops are no bound to protect other members of the military alliance. and finland, which shares a long border with russia, can no count on back up from nato allies like the united states, france and germany. this is the day of joy because sir finland is se gaining more security and nato is getting stronger by the membership of finland. but we plan that finland and sweden could join together. they couldn't sweden and finland both applied for membership last year. but no stock home has been left standing on the sidelines. it's been held up by a political tiff after turkey accused sweden of offering safe haven to terrorists.

hungary to has been holding out on ratification a source of frustration for the swedish foreign minister. we would like to see this happen as soon as possible. there is no reason for neither the turkish parliament over from gary and parliament to make any for further delays. russia used nato as a threat to its security. and once key of bard from ever joining, the alliance insists its door remains open. but there is no clarity on when ukraine may be invited to walk through it. for no nato nations said they'll keep arming t if. as this alliance grows from 30 to 31 or did i also saw amazing of nato foreign ministers at the nato ukraine commission in brussels, secretary general against dalton, berks, at the alliance. his door is open to keith and pledged a further assistance for ukraine's fight against the russian invasion. ukraine will the corner a member of the alliance to this has been stated again, again at night,

the summits. at the same time, we all realised that for to make any meaningful progress on this issue. or the 1st step is to ensure that ukraine prevails as a sovereign in the plantation. and that's the reason why a dollar's importance are providing unprecedented level of support and will continue to continue to do so. and why are we are also are in constant litrell's contact with the ukrainians. and also providing training. i will, i spoke to our correspondent at terry schultz in brussels at nato headquarters. she's been following at today's events. yes, that's necessary because of course, there's always worry about support flagging as countries deal with high inflation as their own stockpiles of weapons and especially ammunition run low. there's a lot of worry inside ukraine and also by nato, that the countries may start to decrease their contributions to ukraine. secretary

generals told hamburg made clear that he heard more such commitments at today's nato ukraine council, and he said, allies will continue to stand by ukraine as long as it takes and more talk about ukraine's or potential or membership of the alliance. well that's one way to put it a potential membership some day a day, which is not clear in anyone's mind yet that ukrainians continue to ask when they might be led into nato. this is something that said foreign minister qu labor said on his way into the meetings today, and of course they're using today's momentous accession by finland to say, hey, if the doors open, when do we get to walk through it? nobody at nato is, is willing or ready to answer that question. ukraine doesn't really have hopes in the near term future, because nato is not going to accept a member with an active war on its territory. even though you crane has been

assured that in the long term it will have a path into nato membership. right. so at night, so very much a sorry, you crave very much at the back of the queue of finland in today. interesting to hear the secretary in general saying that talks about sweden's accession, he said they are not deadlocks, which the rest, the world kind of looks about as well because of all, but he doesn't seem to figure out when i kind of smiled when i heard him say that to because they may not be deadlocked, but they also don't seem to be moving ahead because sweden has been in the same position now for quite some time. it, it made some agreements with turkey back at the madrid summit last july. about what it, it should do to reassure turkey that it does supported it on counterterrorism, measures on weapons exports and other things. and now every one says,

except turkey that sweden has done everything. it promised to do has done everything it needs to do to become a member id just remains to be seen. what on korea will do? although i did hear from france some swedish colleagues here that a swedish foreign minister toby, his bill strom, had received some, perhaps not quite as solid assurances, but some indications that turkey may feel that sweden is on its way after some new counter terrorism legislation gets passed in june, i see that the territory shells out to nato headquarters is look at some more stories that make you news around the world. russian suicide drones have struck ukrainian city of odessa and an overnight attack. defense forces either shot down 14 of the 17 iranian made shod drones that were targeting the block c port well hit the local business one hit a local business, but there are no reports of casualties. national authorities of chance to 26 year old woman with terrorism in connection with the bombing of

a cafe in saint petersburg, blast killed, influential pro wolf. laga flatland petoskey kremlin, says ukraine was behind. the incident, keith denies involved australia has become to life his country to bam, chinese owned tick tock from government devices. intelligence services recommended the ban on the app because of fears of beijing could be collecting user data. china has protested a cold on australia to treat chinese businesses. family. european commission, president to ursula on the line is traveling to china this week. if all leaving as she laid out a framework for resetting the use relations with beijing friend prime into the emanuel macro. little sort of joint talks focusing on trade and the war in ukraine . he went german chancellor, olaf sholtes, and he went shot michelle of the european council, and he went spanish prime minister pedro sanchez. all made the pilgrimage to

beijing shuttle diplomacy with a major player on the world stage, but not just diplomacy. they all went to talk trade. that trading relationship is huge. you countries exported $240000000000.00 worth of goods to china last year. much of that was in high margin items like heavy machinery, energy infrastructure, and cars. the european countries also don't want to be side light as china's international influence grows. beijing is asserting itself not just in asia, but in africa and the middle east. setting the stage for a superpower rivalry with the us. chinese communist parties. calia goal is a systemic change of the international order with china at its center. we have seen it with china's positions in multilateral bodies which show its

determination to promote an alternative vision of the world order closer to home. europeans want china to help rain in russian aggression against ukraine. china is russia's economic lifeline. and at the end of march chinese president, she's paying made a high profile visit to moscow. spain has pressed she to meet with his ukranian counterpart as well, so far to no avail. others want to prod beijing harder. oh, china continues to interact with proteins. war will be a determining factor for you. china relations going forward. as a permanent member of the security council, china has a responsibility to safeguard the principles and values.