to the tire i can 30 for years. i was a metal. i didn't know. now i know the never ending story of asbestos starts june 21st on d w. the donald trump has made history yet again, and once more in a way he very much would have liked to avoid. he is now officially the 1st former president to be federally indicted, retaining classified records, false statements, conspiracy to obstruct justice. those are only some of the $37.00 charges. the 76

year old now faces the most serious legal threats trump has ever faced. but what makes this case, even more explosive, is that he will now be prosecuted by the very government he is seeking to on seats in 2024. the united states once again headed into uncharted legal and political territory and the confirmation berlin. and this is the day a, the so i just want to tell you, i am an innocent man. i did nothing wrong. i think in another country probably would have been in jail a long time ago. and i deeply trouble believing that we will look further divide our nation. this is arguably the most legal trouble the former president has faced. and now they're doing it again. it's just

a continuation 7 years. even have to find out that it's no one opposed to not even a president of the united states of america. i'm an innocent man. we will prove that again, 7 years approving it. and here we go again. very unfair. also on the day as russia continues to the 9 destroying the cost, got down, evidence mounts the structure was blown up using significant amounts of explosives . i grew up here, i built my own house, and now the russians come and tell me to leave and destroy everything. they say, sure, san will be wiped off the map. why? walk into the show? it's good to have you with us in the ball room, in the bedroom and even in the bathroom. that's where donald trump allegedly kept classified documents. now he's being charged on $37.00 criminal accounts for his mishandling of confidential papers. he took with them when he left the white house

. among other things, trump is accused of wilful retention of national defense information, including nuclear and weapons programs, and conspiracy to obstruct justice peers, special prosecutor jackson today, and then diagnose them, sealed, or charging donald j. trump. with selling the violations of our national security laws, as well as participating in a conspiracy to disrupt justice. this indictment was voted by a grand jury and citizens and the southern district of florida. 9, invite everyone to read it and full to understand the scope and the gravity of the crimes charged. the men and women of the united states intelligence community and our armed forces dedicate their lives to protecting our nation and its people. our laws that protect national defense information are critical. the safety and security of the united states. and they must be enforced violations of those

laws, put our country at risk. a smith went on to say that he will seek a speedy trial for donald trump. the f b i sees a cache of sensitive government documents during a search of trumps florida. residents back in august. trump is the front runner currently for the republican nomination for next year's presidential election. the charges against him will not prevent him from campaigning or from taking office if he wins from says the charges against him are politically motivated. and then come after me. because now we're leading in the polls again by a lot against, by analogous to republicans, by law. but we're leaning against by and buy a lot of tremendous amount. and we went up to a level that the way they didn't stop us is by using what's called warfare. and that's what it is. this is warfare from the law. and we can't let it happen from

war analysis. we cannot speak to vida johnson, she's an associated law professor at georgetown university in washington, dc. welcome to the de ms. johnson. at 49 pages. i know you meant 37 charges. what stands out to you as well? i think 1st off, it's just a sad day for the american people that a former president is a lead shoot, betrayed, are national security and our safety and the ways that are alleged in this indictment. and it's really just historic and then the cost of that. but it is a good day and a sense that once again the d o j is proving that nobody is above the law, isn't it? i think that's absolutely right. i think it a democracy, a real law is essential and that means that anyone who violates a law that in particular powerful people who violate the law need to be held civic account. and that seems to be what the department of justice is doing today. me out

of the, the $37.00 charges out which one struck you as, as to pricing or something that you maybe didn't expect to see as well. i think, you know, i don't know that anyone was expecting any of these charges, but you know, the, the 1st 31 churches relate to the retention of these incredibly serious and sensitive documents. these documents pertain to are military capabilities or nuclear capabilities or vulnerabilities as a country, the vulnerabilities of our allies. so i think what is alleged to have been kept by the former president trump? it's just all very serious. and so it's, i think the charges altogether are absolutely stunning. the, the amount of evidence that appears to be against him, including a lot, a lot of the evidence against them is, are his own words and the information that's from people very close to him. and so

those and all of the churches stand out. but i, i, i'd say that the obstruction to conspiracy to obstruct justice charges probably one of the most serious, it shows the real corrupt motive. if the allegations are true and it carries 20 years in prison, not just that one count alone. yeah. now trump and his supporters say these charges are more of the same, which fund against him. they've been doing that for years now. let's hear what one of his defenders things completely and money and resources, there's a lot going on in the world and then they took the time to do all that to one which i don't think he meant anymore. he's ridiculous and it's unfortunate. what do you say to that much awesome as well? i think it's pretty telling that this entire indictment is from florida,

florida grand jurors were the ones who indicted him. that's his current home state . it's a red state of republican state and so between that fact and the fact that these charges were, are being prostituted by a special prosecutors, if not someone appointed by president biden. i think that, um, that shows the, the, the fact that these charges are not politically motivated. yeah. and how could a case, does the prosecution have now that we've been able to actually look at the and i will be so just the review of the indictment, which is all it is any of us have seen. it seems to be a strong case. as i said earlier, it's clear that a lot of the evidence against donald trump are his own words, including the knowledge that he knew that the documents were still

secret and classified. so unlike what he's been saying for months that he declassified the documents previously, that's certainly not true based on his own reported statements of the fact that, that some of the evidence against him comes from his own lawyers is, is, you know, people, he's hired people very close to him, or are the source of mentioned the evidence. so i think the case against them appears to be very strong, but of course this is just such an early stage. donald trump is of course not just the former president. he's also running for another term, especially counsel and jack smith has pledged a speedy trial probably also looking at the campaign that is already underway, the what kind of timeline to think we're looking at here. so that's a really difficult question. i'm sure that she, she and his the current attorneys will want as much time as possible to prepare. but of course, that is gonna run right into the election season. i mean,

he's already on the campaign trail as are some of his republican rivals. so i do think this complicates some of that quite a bit, but at the time that the conduct he's alleged have committed to place, he was not a political candidate. and i think that's important to us as a law professor avita johnson from georgetown university. thank you so much for your analysis. thanks so much for having me. after years of wrangling, european union, interior minister as have agreed on radical reforms on migration and asylum laws. the new rules include fines for countries are refused to take an asylum seekers. they also speed up the process for rejecting and returning people to country is considered safe. the deal has been hailed by a you leaders but sharply criticized by human rights groups and 8 organizations.

after many years of back and forth, even the sweetest presidency of the council of the you expressed surprise that the long held divisions had been overcome. i am extremely pleased and also very proud to announce that the ministers today have adopted general approaches on the asylum . and migration management regulation and the asylum procedure regulation. the german interior minister was not able to implement her ideas on all points. for example, she wanted better protection for families with children. but over all she was satisfied with the result. he, i'm off that i invited is on the one hand we've achieved solidarity by distributing resources more fairly right. and on the other hand, we've decided that we also need account ability within the interview, and that's fine. the refugees will be registered directly at the border. they can, i guess, hear people with little chance of being granted asylum. for example, from turkey or albania, will be housed and tightly controlled camp near the border. within 3 months,

the decision will be made whether they will be allowed to enter or be deported. refugees from syria or afghanistan, however, still have a right to a normal asylum procedure. but there is one main sticking point. how will refugees are already here? be distributed among e u. countries hungry and poland refused to accept that they will have to pay a penalty of $20000.00 euros for every refugee. they do not accept time to go yeah, to zone for advice, privilege or street. but as long as the government is responsible for migration policy to be assessed book, i'm confident about the outcome of the push team. and yet the federal, the, we'll certainly not to allow the resettlement or mandatory distribution of migrants for law. we allow a month to 3 legs, even people we do not want to accept in poland. so when you actually move on, you can get on to ensure some conferences, human rights organizations, migration experts, and many politicians are critical of the compromise. how the final law will look is

still unclear to legislation still has to pass a divided european parliament the voting rights act is the law of the land and it is illegal to engage in race based gerrymandering. it's clear that the alabama legislature engage in race based gerrymandering. we can at least draw some comfort from the fact that the 1965 voting rights act remains a live that was akeem jeffreys, the top democrat in the us as a representative. speaking about a major supreme court ruling on thursday in surprise, 54 decision, the court ruled that the state of alabama had in fact, violated the 1965 voting rights act with the way that it's republican lawmakers of drew, the current map for federal elections. l alabama has 7 congressional districts currently

only one of them has a majority of black population. that's the one in the dark blue in the center left of the map. you can see there. now that is even though black people make up 27 percent. so over a quarter of alabama total population, the supreme court ruling requires alabama to now draw a 2nd district with a black majority of this decision reaffirms the landmark voting rights act, signed by president. lyndon johnson in 1965, which was designed to prevent racial discrimination in voting. the law came in response to black people being denied their rights to vote. and alabama and other southern states precisely, that discrimination triggered peaceful protests that were often broken up through really fine police, gloria jane brown. marshall is a professor of constitutional law at john jay college in new york city. and she's also the author of the book, the voting rights war, the in double a c p,

and the ongoing struggle for justice, ms. brown, martial, welcome back to d. w. good to see you. give us a sense of how important the supreme court ruling is. i think it's important not just because the us supreme court has stood up to support the voting rights act and continue the protections for people of color, not just african americans with native americans. latino is asian americans, but also because this was a chest i think that the conservatives were taking, hoping that the, the super majority of the 6 conservatives um, at what then decide to undermine or find unconstitutional the voting rights act altogether. so people were holding their breath, thinking that the conservatives were going to come together and, and try to read this country, all these voting rights protections with this case,

the case was weak, but there been other we cases that have come before the court. and the conservatives on the courts and bound together and when they find bind together in this way, it doesn't matter that what they're doing is not what the laws should say that they do. they're doing it for political reasons. and it was thought that this was going to be one of those situations. yeah. how surprised? where are you by the decision, especially with the chief justice roberts role, he's long works towards weakening the voting rights act. and he has that was his specialty. and it was his doing with the shelby county versus older case. in the 2013 that got it a vital part of the voting rights act. and i watch what i understand is this is a victory in a way only because they didn't do what they were not supposed to do. and they were going thought, well, they actually use this opportunity to get the body right. exact, again cripple it to the point that is really just worthless. and so they didn't do that. and so that's how twisted things are in this country when it comes to our

democracy. they're not doing something that they should not be doing in the 1st place. that's considered a victory. and so, um, just as chief justice robert sided with the black community in this case, and he, i think because that i just have to tell you that you have supreme court is take a hit, has taken a hit and in many ways is writing among the people it's trust among the people has dropped considerably since these donald trump appointees have gained access to the courts and undermines the rights of women and in other people. and so i think chief justice roberts understood that it says legacy, it's been now is just not a single case. he's going to be know for a court that is seen to be one that is not for justice is just for political expedients. many of our viewers around the world might not be all too familiar with the term. gerrymandering is not illegal per se, but, and can you explain how alabama's gerrymandering violated the voting rights act as

well? if you think about the word gerrymandering, it was named after a politician from hundreds of years ago with the last name of jerry. and the idea was that the districts that were drawn even back that were still couldn't towards it and confuse they look like salamanders. and that's why they came up with a phrase, jerry manager. and so we have a jerry manager, these particular districts, they do one in a way in which they drop off certain communities. they come around another one, they go behind and they school up certain communities in order to make a voting block that's going to have political power. and so what they do with black communities and now the communities of color is that they'll scoop around, they'll go around, they'll direct derrick, g or jerry or a mirror under around those particular communities can. and they would create these comported voting districts in order to maintain political power,

undermine the political power of people of color, in particular, african americans. and this has been going on since the 1800s when the black vote became so powerful. and so the idea that gerrymandering by itself, politically, is not against the law, gerald man terrain in order to undermine the political and constitutional rights of particular groups of color that is against the law. that was constitutional law professor gloria j brown. marshall from john jay college in new york. thank you so much for all this. thank you. or the vacuum ation efforts are picking up across parts of ukraine affected by flooding. following the destruction of the massive kirchhoff got them, russian officials now say more than 5000 people have been relocated from areas under its control. russian emergency service crews have released videos of what

they say are their rescue operations. flood water is still spreading as the costs are rather more continues to empty. the hydro electric power company says it has last 5 meters since tuesday, and it's now at 11 meters. and the damn wall has also not yet completely collapse. reports addressed every finding is going on at various points along the front line . a speculation mounts that keith has indeed launched its counter offensive the authorities and the printing capital. i've promised to say as little as possible about ongoing operations in order not to compromise them. and they are saying nothing in detail, although president will let him resilience he has held what he called, the heroism of soldiers finding tough battles. russia on its part has released footage. it says shows some of the finding. moscow has made a number of claims about destroying ukrainian weaponry which are, of course,

impossible to confirm, and in some cases have been ridiculed. find the head of the wagner mercenary group . you have given you precaution, and i can now speak to stephen blank. he is a senior feller at the f p r. i 's your res, have program mr. blank. welcome back to the day that you brain seems to be on the off ends across the board. now, with modern western equipment being deployed, what would be the most effective strategy for ukraine to put russia on the back foot as well? they are undertaking that strategy right now. and using those western weapons, a parent plays a counter offensive began sometime earlier this week. and they are trying to break through the rest of the lines. now, if they can break through russian lines that would put less than, uh, forces on the back foot, so to speak. and it would open up the possibility of a larger breakthrough. and it's not happened yet,

but it's entirely possible that it might happen in the next few days. let's talk about the russian lines because in preparation for this much talked about much intense and painted defensive. russia has reported the built, the most extensive defensive network in europe since world war 2. will that be enough to keep the attacking ukrainians at bay? well, you know, the only the, the only answers that we can give you now is that it might or might not be, we really don't know. and that's what they're fighting over. and they built those defensive lines precisely to present a you credit encounter offensive from getting too much ground and effectuated a breakthrough into open territory. that's the whole purpose of defensive lines is to contain offensive directed against the russian forces. but there is a, i talked about the lack of morale along the russian troops. and even though they've had plenty of time to prepare for this counter offensive,

i'm wondering if it has been enough time to sort out the many problems and shortcomings that we were talking about in the winter as well. i think they only sorted out some of those problems and they wasted time in the winter by uh, these terrible offences against baltimore, which seemed to have accomplished nothing but to kill thousands of russian ukrainian soldiers. however, uh, you know, it's too early to tell that the counter offensive is succeeded. we're getting the reports that you decided of heavy fighting. so even if russian morale is low, and by every indication it has been that does not mean that the grains are simply going to walk over the. and that's not happening. as of yet. it looks like more and more russian private armies are getting sent to the front line with some of the country's biggest companies sending troops to ukraine. what do you make of that?

what does that tell us about the state of the russian military? well, that tells you that there's, there's something very seriously wrong if they have to rage res, private troops. but the private troops are there because they, they can take or deflect the blame away from the government for casualties or 4 or 4 people being killed. and the government doesn't have to pay for them, the private forces are equipped, trained, and supplied and paid for by those private companies. so it, it relieves stress on the state budget as well. but again, they yeah, there because of the problems that we've seen in the last year and a half with the regular army law. morales decided previously as an example. me. but i want to talk about the flooded areas around for song, because russia has continued to show that the,

the zone. what's the thinking behind that? is it sewing tear in area? the russians have given up on why would they do that? as you do that in order to shorten the amount of distance of territory that you have to defend russia's now defending uh, a 900 mile wide front and can't defend that whole front entirely. and as a result, if you flood a large segments of that area, which is what they've done, you reduce the areas that you have to defend. and you also chattel ukrainian forces into areas that you can defend more adequately. is that where you can send forces because of ukrainians and that restricted in what they can do stand blank. thank you so much for your time. thank you. the finally french conservationists have released 15 turtles back into the wild after saving them this winter. the animals were set free

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