the the donald trump once famously said that when you're a star, you can do anything on a hot, like he bragged about taking whatever he want kissing women without their consent and even grabbing them by their genitals journalist aging. carol accused this trunk of having done precisely that in the 1990s of cornering and raping her and the changing room of the department store closing statements or heard at the new york court today. and although trump denies the charges of battery and definitely the locker room talk from back in the day, could give the jury a hard time believing his claims of innocence on nichol fairly in berlin. and this is the day the

amazing page has killed events were supposedly abused by that when i have no idea who she is. so i checked, i think she said it was sexy. didn't. she was very sexy to be raped trial and testified. and that we all testified, i think that that is fine and you consider yourself to be a star. i think you can say that also on the day and a controversial movie era league lives, it's 11 years, suspension of syria, the decision these many people worried about the growing normalization of a regime accused of mass atrocities in the bathroom. it was a big, unfortunate shock for us syrians living in camps in the north instead of arab leaders helping us and getting us out of those comes where we suffer and live in pain. they whitewashed the criminal and killers hands of our blood. what questions

did they need to know? you know, welcome to the show. it's good to have you with us. close to 30 women have publicly accused donald trump of sexual misconduct, the allegations spend decades and include anything from harassment to assaults. now one of the women who have spoken out about their experiences is hoping he'll face the consequences. closing arguments were her today in the civil case of calling miss aging carol against the former president. she accuses him of raping her and the department store and of harming her reputation by calling her a liar when she came forward. over the 2 week trial, the plaintive presented evidence aimed at exposing a pattern of predatory behavior replicating an image, trump himself, as proudly cultivated over the years, and that my well got him into hot water. now. at the trial,

carol's lawyer contracted her clients testimony with drums deposition, she noted that trump, who had derided carol as not his type, was shown a photograph of carol from over 3 decades ago and repeatedly missed identified her as his 2nd wife. marla maples. let's listen. i don't even know who the woman, let's say, i don't know who it's marla. it's a marvelous and the photo that tomorrow. this is my wife. which one are you funny just enough here? or here. just play it. it was always carol who is yet thursday's point. and the parts of the woman on the right is your then why i don't know this was the picture . i assume that's john johnson is that can cause is very blurry to for more on trans trial and spring in our washington correspondent. i mean, as if, i mean, why is this a civil case and not a criminal case?

well essentially because you didn't, carol did not go to the police and 19 a late 19 ninety's or in the 199 is when the legit incident occurred. she instead waited until 2019 to go public with this. so that means the statute limitations had expired for a criminal case, she couldn't even have brought a civil case against trump, except for a law passed. and just recently in new york state that allows adults survivors of sexual assaults to file criminal suit, sorry, filed a civil suits against the perpetrators of that sexual assault. this past just last year, a took effect in november and with an hour's eating, carol had submitted this lawsuit against trump. and the burden of proof here is different doesn't that's right. for a criminal case, you have to prove that beyond any reasonable doubt that the sexual assault occurred, that's what the jury has to stay at the end with a civil trial like this one is just suing trump. the,

the jury just has to believe that it's the most likely scenario. so the burden of proof is a lot lower in this case, which could be bad news for trump. so what have we learnt during the past 2 weeks? well, you know, it's not so much that we didn't know before the trial. eugene carol's case, depends largely on her own testimony. she was the only witness of the legend sexual assault. what we did see though, was testimony from 2 of her friends, one of the friends described this phone call, that she actually called this friend right after the ledger. the solve occurred very emotional, she was distraught. her friend actually encouraged her to go to the leasing. you were raped, you need to report this criminally, but carol testified herself that she was worried that this would ruin her career ruin her life if she came out against this famous new york tycoon. so she decided not to go to report this to police back then that was the thinking behind it. and

this was backed up by 2 people who said they receive calls from her after the incident occurred. so that's what's the new information has come out of this trial so far on her side as far as trump, he did not testify in court himself. be called in the witnesses on his behalf. they're basically relying on argument that, as he said, she said, and the only thing that trump has contributed was this deposition that we heard clips from. this is a prerecorded cross examination from lawyer. so again, didn't appear in court. i was actually at the opening of that of this trial in new york city and everybody's waiting to see if he would make a sudden appearance. but i did not happen only carol arrived on the scene. i think it's worth mentioning that um 2 witnesses were also brought up by carol who testified to having had similar experiences with trump there in the past. now the plaintiff's lawyer argued that trump acted as a witness against himself. we heard a bit of that before we started the interview there,

how damaging could the remarks he made in his deposition become for him? the most observers say that his deposition certainly didn't help him. we saw him mistake, easy in carol for his ex wife. that's a problem to even have a photo of them together because he said he did not know her. now all of his, his argument rests on this idea that he doesn't know her that it's completely made up that the legit incident not only did not occur, but he never actually encountered this woman. that's certainly not true. if he, if she seems so familiar to him that it looks like his ex wife. he also made statements regarding the access hollywood tapes, which remember his record in 2005, but it came out 2016 right before he was elected president. it did not affect his election because he won that election, but what he said in those cases that he admitted to groping women. and he said this was kind of a privilege awarded to stars. and he considered himself a star. so it meeting that he groped women and that certainly does not help you

when you're making a deposition, saying that you're innocent of sexual assault me if found guilty by the jury. what could be the consequences for trump? well, this is really interesting. the consequences that he would be legally liable for sexual assault. we're looking at some of, in the millions of dollars that he would have to pay for retribution to aging carol . but trump is not a poor man. so this fact that does not contain any criminal charges probably puts his mind at ease because, you know, he's been accused of things like this. he's admitted to groping women himself. so i think for trump is reputation is the biggest thing at stake in this trial. yeah, um these are not the only legal troubles he faces. um we have the criminal case in new york and we also have an investigation in the state of georgia and there are assign this investigation in particular is gaining traction. what can you tell us about that? it's right, it's been a 2 year investigation into

a legend meddling in the election in georgia on drums on the part of trump and his team after 2 years. they're finally ready perhaps to file charges against certainly several republicans close to trump, but maybe even trump himself. and this goes back to the close election in georgia where several things happened. and this is what the investigation is looking into. they've alleged, in part that a team of people around trump had conspired not only to influence the election by a, put a setting up bogus electors to send the electoral votes for trump, even though biden won the state by an error majority. but they're also looking at a phone call. he made to a reference burger, his the secretary of state of georgia, and which trump asked him to find votes for him so that he could win the election there. um and the charges might be a racketeering. uh, we're also looking at the legal access to voter information. so these are all

things that are in the air right now. we have to see what the attorney general fulton county in georgia is going to actually bring against a trumpet that could be coming up in the next few days or weeks. i mean, is any of this likely to the rail has passed or the republican presidential nomination? so i think that's why so many people are watching this trial. it certainly would be the 1st time you see, or any former president or the yeah, would be legally liable. for the sexual assault, which is a serious charge here. but just judging from the fact that in 2016, the access hollywood tape came out just a month before the election. he won that this seems unlikely that his hard core voters are going to turn it against him, so i don't think it will de rail his chances. but what's interesting is that fewer and fewer women have been voting for trump in the last election. only 42 percent of women voted for trump, and this is really uh, this is really serious for him. if he doesn't get

a majority of women on board here, then he could be looking at if he runs for president, if he makes it that far, he could be looking at a loss here because of the all these trials put together. an asset, washington correspondents, thank you so much. i or the and the 12 years since it broke out, serious civil war has left more than 3 150000 people dead. and over 14000000 displaced. the german foreign ministry says that the sharla sides regime continues to commit egregious human rights violations on a daily basis. and still, a powerful era league has decided to welcome stereo back to the fold after over a decade of regional isolation. agents for administer announced that decision after meeting with his counterparts in cairo, they are league has suspended serious membership in 2011 following assad's crack down on the street protests and led to

a devastating civil war. the decision is widely seen as a push to normalize ties with assad, but the move was non welcome news and it left the last to be still held by serious opposition. some 2000000 syrians displaced by the find and now live in it live and it sprawling camps was really the. it was a big unfortunate shock for us. syrians living in comes in the north instead of arab leaders helping us and getting us out of those comes where we suffer. i live in pain. they white wash the criminal and killers hands of our blood lessons. yeah, they moved to know, you know, and the most of the benefits when the machine was an awesome, the arab league. so loss of assets back in, we were displaced and forced to leave our towns that they're just like him. this is why they took him back, they're all useless out of the, i know i typically i don't all the, unless you've had even though that ma'am. and any that i know you on file, i'm a southern that'd be we were shocked. but this wrong decision around it. yeah. and

we ask arab leaders describe this and well, i'll let her go. i'm not, i'm not the people like us. sure. with all of who are unable to do anything that's in a but where are we headed? no, i to lose also thing reactions from sarah's opposition bothers or moos is the head of the opposition is negotiating team at the united nations and its weights. he said the decision to allow the assad regimes returned to the arab league, represents quote, for getting the regimes crimes against human rights and to shock for the syrian people struggling for freedom, democracy, and justice, and continued. we haven't been consulted about this decision, and it appears to be a clear disregard for the syrian people's demands and aspirations. let's look at the background and wider implications of this move and bring in journalists and middle east. expert christian help are from his help. i get to see you. why do you think the league decided to bring a sign back in from the cold? how do we get here to i think the arab leaders realized that the assad would stay

in power for the time being and the isolating him really hadn't brought the region anywhere. so i think there are basically 3 reasons for this step. because however, we get destroyed syria, maybe at present, it is very important because of its due political position in the middle east. it lies between turkey and the results between israel and iran. so it's at across thoughts. ultimately, the 2nd reason would be that they don't want to leave syria until the influence of others, especially to the influence of russia, of iran, or possibly even turkey, where president avalon is willing to reconcile with us hot. so they wanted to bring back a soft and see we got to the era sphere influence. and then the, the reason the reason is that the tangible interest because the few in crisis has very negative effects, especially on the neighboring country. when we talk about refugees, when we talk to but want to issues, border security, deluxe smuggling,

i mean the sooners in controls and promotes the trade off cap to go into a stimulant that is margaret into saudi arabia via jordan. so all these issues as opposed to be solved now with a thought, and this is the main reason why the arab states no fee, they have to re engage with them. i suppose to handle all these issues. how is unified? was there a link in reaching this decision, a well 1st of all, for use of a different positions at fonts c, i especially saudi arabia and cut off with strong opponents of assad because they were supporting the serial position. and the surgeons, especially the, the islamist forces among them. so these people obviously not feel betrayed and let down by this rehabilitation. but then we have since 2018 basically we have some countries we had begun to draw closer to the mosque was especially the united arab emirates, which last you became the 1st country to officially welcome also in the countries. then we had other countries and followed pass, oman, iraq live and on

a jerry. yeah. so we had embassies that the open ministers were received. we had working meetings, so it was slow, but the continuous process that finally that to this find the move of the it's mentioned into the early let's look at it from the syrian signs and how big a wind is. this for brush are all a side. well, it is a big success for us out. it's mainly on the diplomatic and the political level. but at the same time, i think we shouldn't over estimate it because syria has been isolated regionally and internationally. it is still being sanctioned by the west, but it had always had all the allies, russia, yvonne, his ballade china avenue suite. so i think the biggest win for us on really is that you didn't have to give anything in exchange. contrary to what the u. s. kept on saying that if you want to engage with a stop, make sure that you get something concrete in return. so it seems that this re admittance into the arabic really comes somehow unconditional. and this is a big win for us. talk to where does this decision a while until now the you as

a may changes isolation, isolation, visa v, a side, it disapproves the reproach. most of its partners in the book, but it doesn't really do anything concrete against it. in europe to the contrary, there are calls for a more pragmatic approach to the most, cuz especially in eastern europe, countries, we have a poland. we have hungry romania, but even all throughout the signaling, the willingness to reach an understanding was serious somehow, especially in view of sending su in rescue cheese backs of germany. we is one of the very clear critics of the regime whose crimes of being twice here in front of germany ports. because we have crimes against humanity in the form of systematic state torture. we have leading that intelligence officials from syria who a warranted by international arrest warrants, so they cannot be made putting those by a government like the german one. so the moved within the e. u is no longer as clear as a few years ago. there is a yes,

there's kind of 2 different positions even within europe. i know. yeah. that shift doesn't mean that via stock regime is here to stay. i think for the time being behind a site, it will stay where he is and on the long run and he might even be able to regain even more control within the country. he control street thoughts of the country, but i think for the time being now it's me at the blue medic steps. it does not change too much on the ground because it is an international conflict that cannot be resolved regionally. and a site is hoping for money for reconstruction. he needs investment from the gulf countries. but even that, i think the companies will be hesitant in the face of massive corruption in the phase of mismanagement from the side of the machine. so i think it's of a high symbolic importance, but it will not change much, especially about the miserable situation of the syrians on the ground within the country. pressing have, i mean, thanks for those insights. thanks to you to the,

to create now which issued a nation wide air alert hours after russia launched a wave of air strikes. ukrainian officials say the attacks injured at least 5 people in the capital, and at least 4 other cities keys, mayor called the biggest strong attack on the capital in the entire war. this zillow added, mary of keys inspects the ruins of this apartment after a terrifying night in the capital that today was one of the message press x 2 off on top of 6. going to get to draw on the flights of direction hotel. and the thanks store at the nissan system, everyone was shipped out. but not before the attack, drones entered this built up residential neighborhood. several people were hurt by falling drone debris, sleepless locals. no,

it could have been much worse. for him was little way there was nothing i could do . i sheltered in the corridor behind the 2 walls with us to the bank. then there was a flash on the sound of the we wasn't as if you can, that a, across the room is all was powering it back to you without your so this is we can see when we will land. the worst thing is that we have learned to live with it. we got up in the morning, slips took the child to school. it's frightening in the port city of odessa, official said, russian air strikes, head of food warehouse firefighters battled through the night to contain the damage . by daybreak, ukraine had accused russia of breaking the terms of a green export. do. officials said moscow was refusing to register vessels entering

the black sea, effectively blocking ukraine from supplying grain to the world. dr. jayden glanced with the department of worst studies at kings college london, and i asked for whether this unprecedented wave of russian drone strikes against civilian targets is a distraction from the lack of meaningful progress before russia's victory day or the kremlin. returning to his old tactics and i think this advice, i think, is also a response to a widely perceived law. cri um within a russian to social media and online about the gap between the rhetoric from the states and the outcomes of the ministry's. and that to me, to, to show, oh no, we all serious about this. well, let's talk about the rhetoric because tomorrow marks victory day and russia, the data country celebrate the winning one. they called the green patriotic war.

and the kremlin is going to great lengths and has been for, since this war started to draw parallels between world war 2. and it's so called special military operation. why is that? this is actually something this easiest is a central teen and which was when the rotation dignity or your light on premises happened. preston, you indicated she was something to pieces favor david's previous composite flat and knew any king power and ways to taste it as this is a fascist to you by the premium nazis. and we all unexplained crimea in order to defend premiums from a sort of genocide and the time consuming. and don't last. and this is a point that the russian government, the she media presentation. so every, it's rates, if the years. so it probably is should be a surprise that it's,

it's still there now, and i suppose it's a reminder of the importance of updating this for about 2014. i would just out there as well. that in terms of why, that's what we need more domestic, the russian and the memory of the great visuals across town. so the 1941 science includes 5, say the organs, nazi germany, as opposed to the broader world will to that is probably one of the ways, definitely the mistakes memory. and one of them is unifying elements of russian coach. i know a few of these, it's one of the very few unifying elements. so to such an extent version per se, the items t 3 found it around this price in the memory of world war $2.00. well, the great page multiple victory, but also in the need to defend that legacy which is against i mean, state propaganda uses the idea that the west and ukraine trying to destroy the legacy of memory as the right picture of the call. but the anniversary may, 9th,

is very likely to come and go without the russian leadership having any significant progress to boast about in this war. so how are they planning on continuing to sell this ongoing grinding, costly, bloody war effort to russian society the, i'm not entirely sure that they completely need to send it. so in the sense that the russian society is, is quite pathetic and quite a glitch school and just tries to kind of it and all of which the able to do to some extent in the major european cities as the government's been very careful not to sort of talk is my relations all over areas i the rule and under pool um, but in terms of how they justifying it, justifying it as yes this, especially that your impression ukraine. but it's possible wind to war against the west. and reflective of the fact that the russian government does not afford any agency premiums the entire, the entire, their entire war on,

on ukraine is depicted as really just a war against the last ukraine is not seen as having a sort of a mind to that. so our independence is just seen as being a boss will state that, you know, nazis came to power and then they chose to align with the west. and now the west is funding out seasonal to take the russian. that was dr. jay from glen in oxford. always great to get your take on things. thank you so much. thank you. the announcer time, but make sure to stay informed. stay engaged and stay in touch spell r t on twitter asked me that we knew that myself nicole underscore fully for now from the entire team on the day. thank you so much for spending part of your day. the

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