universe and the rest that were series. 42, the answer to almost everything. this week on d. w with this is the w news line from berlin and ukraine's lead offense, poland for its support in the war. the polish president welcomed flood of as an ascii to war, sold, and steps up, military support for the pledge to supply more. make fighter jets. also on the program, donald trump denies criminal charges in a new york courtroom. and i never thought anything like this could happen

in america. never thought it could happen. the only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it. for you as president lashes out after pleading not guilty to $34.00 counts of business fraud and violence in israel as police entered jerusalem's oxen mosque during the whole the month of ramadan. ah, ah, i feel gail, welcome to the program. ukrainian president vladimir as the landscape, has thanked poland for its support in the war with russia. he received an official welcome from polish at present, andre duda during a visit to warsaw. poland has been one of ukraine's closest and most vocal allies and provided extensive military support as it do now says he said,

country is now ready to send you crime all of its remaining. meg fighter jets on top of those already promised. missed his landscape to, to meet some of the 1600000 ukrainians who sought refuge in poland since the invasion. restored our correspondent christine montoya, who's in the polish capital. welcome, christie. let's start with that rather staggering promises from poland to give away all of its mig jets away will not leave the country's defense. that's a very good question. and phil and i spoke to a defense analyst. i who expressed concern over what she called the demilitarization that are off europe as a result to add the because of all the supports are in weaponry at being sent over to ukraine. as analysts was concerned that i'm, for example, the nato secretary general. last j october. already i had indicated that it would

take years to replenish nato stockpiles. and that in some cases, at certain weaponry, had to be sought elsewhere. because as at the different militaries of the member states went into their stockpiles, they realised that some equipment and armory just wasn't available or wasn't in shape to be sent over for, for use. so that is certainly a concern for, for defense in at watches. looking at, at, at all the support, especially from countries i pulled in, as you mentioned, this really is one of ukraine's biggest military donors. it has led the way in the supply of tanks. it is also been very vocal at a e u level it in nato. level in, in rallying as the member states to do the absolute same. and what has been present zalinski is a message to the polish people today. well, we're told that president zalinski wants to deliver a personal thank you to, to the, the, to the people are full in today for the support that have showed up for ukraine for

the solidarity as you were mentioning at the top of the show fil, more than a 1000000 ukrainian refugees are here in poland. they've stayed here at, in many cases, that the mercy of good samaritans, polish people who opened their doors to them. and that's something that president enhanced. he wants to extend a personal thank you to the polish public for i spoke to a young polish woman who said that she, she, for example, felt that that is something that people here do without even thinking because they know what it is like to be in a position of needing help, and there are no indications really here that, that public support for, for ukraine, for, for the pause, for even the refugees who are here is waning. right. and some controls zebo over our over ukrainian. the great import. that's right. and while i was just making the point that in terms of public support for ukrainian, a crucial ukraine's has not been waiting. there has been an issue around farmers

and protests around the fact that now that it's difficult for ukraine to export, it's great to it's other markets because of the blockades in the black sea. for example, the e u has effectively opened up its market at duty free at ukrainian brain, and that's meant that it's coming into countries like poland way. it's driving the price down to day. for example, the agriculture minister here resigned the day that president zalinski is here. in fact, they were threats that the, the farmers would actually be potentially, you know, sort of get in the way of this visit and overshadow what was meant to be happening here today. but that is really the issue, the concerns that farmers have and the agriculture minister said that the recent decision by the european union to continue or to extend ad this import for free or duty free import of ukrainian recent grain into the rest of the european union. is the reason that he was still down. so that's potentially going to be

a point of friction. yeah, a sort of like getting in the way of this and otherwise i'm very solid solidarity with your grade. we know that it is, it did come up in the discussions at that presidency. lensky had with the polish president today. thank you for that to christina. corresponding, christine wander in warsaw or military analysts or in ukraine or expecting a i spring, a counter offensive in the war against a russian occupation forces newly delivered tanks, a longer range that rocket supply by western allies may provide an edge government . and keith says it appreciates that assistance and stress if its goal is to regain control of all of his territory, the front line near back, moot, and she, trainee and soldiers or da. again, it's still unclear who's in control of the city, the u. s. and other bankers have advised ukraine to pull out and saying the cost is

too high. both ukraine and russia have lost huge numbers of soldiers in the battle . but ukraine insist on defending the area as it prepares for a major spring counter offensive. who has done it will happen, i use, we are waiting. we do not know when it will happen. that's a good question. but we will be a part of it is i thought about it synchronous. there's been, we're all waiting for equipment from the west. ours is pretty old and worn out, thought it breaks down quickly, so we're waiting for some new equipment from our partners abroad. that equipment is arriving slowly, but surely. western tanks, including british challengers and german, made leopards have arrived in the country. they are also rumors that u. s. and swedish build g l s d be guided bombs. are already in use. these munitions fired from the back of a high morris truck, have a range of

a 150 kilometers. nearly doubled the range of the high mars rockets. ukraine now uses that when put many more russian targets, including ammunition depots in ukrainian sites. ukraine's foreign minister says foreign weaponry is critical. a lot is on the plate as usually we very much appreciate everything that the united states have done specifically in the last month to help me prepare itself for the for the, for the comfort. the by the ministration has fulfill this commitment to providing you with the loss of what, what we need and to set an example to give an example to other other allies. ukraine says its goal is deliberate, all of its territory, including the crimean peninsula in russian hands for nearly a decade. analysts say ukraine would likely mount

a major attack through the partially occupied chaper rees, a region aiming at the russian held city of molitor. paul, a successful push would cut through russia supply lines to its forces, further west. whatever form the counter offensive ends up taking much as at stake for ukraine. the countries western backers want to see russia defeated on the battlefield. not another bad mote. a ban. hodges, a former commanding general of us forces in europe outline some of the considerations the military command that military commanders. let's take into account in order to pull off a successful counter offensive. well, thank you. my sense is that ukrainian general staff has done a terrific job protecting information and conserving the forces that they're going to need when they do and narrowly launch this counter offensive. um,

i think the funding around buck moot, that was very costly, but it also was necessary that the general staff could see that they were able to stop russian forces there and back moot and to bleed them out and caused them to use a lot of resources without ukraine having to push its own armored forces into back mood, that's what they're going to need when they do launch their own counter offensive, which i would anticipate would be on a very narrow front to achieve it. a decisive effect, much like the urban previous journalist just reported to, to break the land bridge between crimea and the rest of russia. crimea, is the decisive terrain. you could kill every russian soldier within 200 kilometers or back mode. and that would not change the strategic setting, but if you liberate crimea, that changes everything. so the counter offensive will be aimed towards the

liberation of crimea. and then the rest of the don bass, i think that comes later. and so what will ukraine need to be wary of when this counter offensive happens? well, of course, no. i've been impressed with their discipline their understanding of what's required to conduct a operation of the scale. so they'll have nella been working hard to prepare the logistics to get the forces ready. so. so there's a lot of training this been going on in ukraine as well as back in germany and in, in, in poland and other places. they're practicing good to do this. busy we call combined arms tanks, artillery infant mechanized infantry engineers, and i would anticipate close air support as well. now the russians are not stupid, they, they know that this is coming somewhere. so they will attempt to preempted and somehow they, they obviously have been putting a lot of effort into their own trenches and obstacles and that sort of thing. but i

think the ukrainians will pick the right time in place when the weather, the traffic ability, the road, all the conditions are set so that they can bring up more long range precision weapons that will enable them to make the crimean peninsula untenable. going after headquarters going after ammunition storage sites. this is how you defeat mass is with precision against those specific targets. that's how you neutralize the advantage. the only advantage that the russians have. and so what then is the price of failure? how important is it that ti crane launches is counter offensive successfully? as a excellent question, i think there is a lot of, oh speculation perhaps that the west is getting weary or getting tired. i'm not so sure of that. i think most nations, including the united states in germany and u. k. and france,

recognize how important this is. and we need to see, we want to see ukraine be successful. we want ukraine to win. so i would not say this is, this is all or nothing, but what i would expect in i would, i'm sure is happening is that ukraine, the general staff, has done a very good job of preparation. they're continuing to do this. and i think this attack will have that will have the possibility, or maybe the potential to have a devastating effect on russian forces. i think the russians are really at the breaking point now themselves. they're logistic system. we see constant reports of arguing. and i mean that flat out hatred and rivalry between all the leaders on the russian side. and if this, if this, the tag begins to pick up momentum and penetrates dozens of kilometers through russian defenses. i think it's going to have a psychological effect on other russian forces as well as in the kremlin. and so i think the potential for

a significant outcome is very real that the sanctions are having an effect. russian people do not want. they do not support this fight. they, they can't say that publicly, obviously, but there's nobody rushing to join the russian army to join the fight. they absolutely don't want to be a part of it. and so these, these new longer range missiles, these g, l, s, d, b, and missiles. what sort of difference are you making? so you remember the excuse me, you remember when the high mars 1st arrived on the scene back last summer and immediately began to have effect a hitting russians, ammunition storage russian headquarters. and so the russians then moved outside the range of the 90 kilometers that those rockets were able to reach. so by now, if in fact ukraine has received the ground launch small diameter bombs with that 150 kilometer reach. that means more of the russian headquarters,

artillery storage and transportation networks. those are now going to be in range. and so, you know, with that sort of precision, you really undermine the brush, the russian advantage in mass infantry and mass artillery by taking out the headquarters, taking out the ammunition and making it difficult for them to move in. this is the kind of operation that they'll be doing, i think for the next couple of months, what we would call shaping the battlefield. i sort of plan. thank you so much for spending the time i was high general ban hodges, former commander of us forces in your thank you. thank you. a former u. s. president donald trump has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges in court in new york. he faces 34 counts of falsifying business records, linked to hush money payments that prosecutor say, he orchestrated. mister trump says the charges are baseless and part of a political campaign against him. just hours after facing an unprecedented criminal

hearing, donald trump was back on the attack. this is a hershey and this gauge. she stood our family for her. it was hundreds of millions of dollars. but our head, hillary trump, is facing 34 criminal charges in a new york court. among other things, state prosecutors alleged the former president falsified business records in order to conceal damaging information before his election. inside. he entered not guilty, pleased to all the charges which relate to hush money payments to adore men, and to women. he's alleged to have had affairs with why he donald trump repeatedly make these false statements. the evidence will show that he did so to cover up crimes relating to the 2016 election

at back at his marrow log. a home in florida. trump told supporters in a campaign style speech that the charges against him were politically motivated and baseless. i never thought anything like this could happen in america. never thought it could happen. the only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it. the case will be back before a judge in december, but it's not the only legal drama trump is facing. there are several other investigations underway which could result in further and more serious charges, which could force trump to make more court appearances between now and election day . as can or i'll miss my correspondence, stephan. i simons a know wanting to welcome a stephan to how serious avi current charges while

this is where our experts are different and offer array of different opinions, there are some we say like, well this is actually the weakest case out of in total for against donald trump, it was now the 1st one which ra, to an indictment, which is as an arraignment, as we said, historic bodies, legally speaking, the weakest case. now i'm not to judge, but of course, as mentioned in the piece, there are other cases which might see an indictment, possibly arraignment of donald trump. in those cases, this is georgia, the infamous, called off donald trump, then president in search of 10000 something votes to the secretary of state of the state. then there's to generate 6 investigation where donald trump is of interest and which could be probably bad for him as well. there is the mar, largo ordeal. that is, refers to the illegal removal of documents,

white house documents, government documents from the white house to mar lago. so by no means is the president out of the woods or the former president out of the woods here. and what we said yesterday was typical classic donald trump, and he aired his grievances, all of them pretty much, and he was portraying himself as the victim, as well as at the same time, the savior of the united states. right at a bed. but this in diamond does seem to have galvanized sections of his republican party behind him. if more charges are brought, are they likely to have the same galvanizing effect? i think so, but there is a caveat. you see a poll suggesting that actually more than half of the americans are 60 percent of americans are actually okay with the indictment of donald trump. now that is a totally different number of course, in a totally different case when it comes to the base to the republican base there,

it's trump 100 percent trump, and that is also of course a problem for her potential competitors. rhonda centers, florida governor, who is way behind in the polls right now, and maybe others who want to get a step on the presidential election. 2004 for the g p. fuller, we have a good party. mike pens, former vice president, for example, or nikki haley, former ambassador to the end of the united states. so that is a problem for the republican party right now, but yes, you're absolutely right. donald trump is in full control and the front runner and put everything on hold. republicans hardcore republicans are galvanized and standing behind. thanks word, stephan stephens, assignments in washington are to israel, where the prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he's working to calm the situation following violent clashes at the out acts of mosque in jerusalem. tension between

israelis and palestinians have have, has escalated over police clashes with people inside the mosque. authority say they were forced to enter the building. one of is lambs, holiest sites. to remove people. they describe as risers. incidence a sparked anger across the middle east. allies of the palestinians accused israel of using excessive force against worshippers. an eruption of violence in the heart of one of jerusalem's, holiest sites. israeli police say the crashes broke out when they were forced to enter the alex and mosque where mosquito had barricaded themselves in sight. i'm with fireworks sticks and stones. this footage provided by the israeli police appears to show people setting off firecrackers. the palestinian red crescent says at least 12 worshippers were injured in what one eye witness described as a brutal assault by israeli forces.

them in the yard, the eastern part of the mosque. the police were firing tier gus and stung grenades . hopefully it was a scene that i can't describe. then the police stormed in and started beating every one, and they detained people and they put the young men on their faces to the ground. they also beat them with a bell boulevard hon. glen bullis, glue. the violin soon reverberated beyond jerusalem when palestinian militants fired rockets from the gaza strip towards israeli territory. hours later, israel shot back launching airstrikes in gaza. for now, neither side appears willing to stand dang. israelis far right. national security minister is mar, bank vere. praised the police, his actions for saying they did

a good job. meanwhile palestinian militant grip hamas called on palestinians to go on mass to the al acts a mosque to defend it, leaving millions to fear, there will be no peace this holy season. let's get more from our correspondent, rebecca, written in jerusalem. welcome. rebecca will start with the events. uh the last talk us through what happened? well, as we saw in that report found some pretty felt we saw some pretty violence scenes last night at the acts and mosque at the compound. as a israeli police stormed the mosque, they say, after attempts to peacefully clear out the mosque failed, they said that some agitators, as we saw in that report, had barricaded themselves in the site, refusing to leave. they said they were trying to disrupt public order and just desecrate the mosque that the direct quote from the israeli police. there are no dozens of palestinians had tried to stay in the mosque. it isn't uncommon for

worshippers to stay in the mosque during this ramadan period. those usually only allowed towards the end of the period in the last 10 days or so. and it hasn't been allowed so far as they were clearing out the mosque. as i said that these last men saying some saying that they were trying to protect the mosque from from what would be ultra nationalists, jewish threats and promises to try and sacrifice an animal during the passover holiday, the jewish pass over holiday. many people saying that we're trying to protect the mosque from that. now we saw the police video. they're showing armed police in riot gear, storming the mosque, and being met with fireworks and stones and sticks from the palestinians inside other videos circulating on social media. they show police quite violently beating the people inside the mosque with batons. they reportedly used on grenade and rubber bullets as well as the palestinian red crescent saying that 7 palestinians were wounded and around about 350 people would attain. now by morning,

things had come down and people were once again allowed into the compound. but of course, many people worried what might happen tonight. indeed, and in the coming days as the pass over period begins. so that, that was the sort of local, difficult leave and put it that way. and then the violence seems to have spread and escalated to garza in the west bank. and dave, on what happens in jerusalem as many will know, sale and particularly what happens in the out alex and pasco compound, excuse me, quickly, or can quickly spark violence elsewhere or problems elsewhere. we heard a little bit in that report following no say that our axa, we saw the fire coming from the bombs being thrown from the, from the gaza strip idea striking back hitting ham mass targets in that area. and then more rocket fired from the gaza strip, as most of those bombs were actually met by the israeli. i and don't, they didn't falls. others fell into an empty field. and then some one in fact,

falling on a factory causing some minor damage. now the palestinian militant groups, hamas and islamic jihad have been calling, as we heard in that report for people to be coming out in jerusalem from the west bank and of course across israel to try and protect them off during this period with even the leader of the islamic jihad, st. palestinian should be prepared for inevitable confrontations in the coming days . many worried here that things could potentially flare its already been a very tense year in this conflict. and people of course, worried as the pass over period and the, the ramadan islamic holiday converge this weekend, just about the tensions and what might happen. thanks for that. rebecca rebecca richards insurance is reminder of our top story at this hour. ukrainian later vladimir zalinski has done poland for support in the war during a visit to warsaw. the polish president, andre duda has a pledge to supply you with more make fighter jet and donald trump is told sponsors he's facing persecution,

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