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advances and it's counter offensive against occupying russian forces. while moscow hits bath with a deadly striking invalid. and here's the lens. he's hometown the hello. i'm clear, richardson, thank you so much for joining us. former us president donald trump is shortly to make his 1st court appearance in a case that could have the most potentially serious legal implications for him. yet . trump has just arrived at the miami court house where the agreement is scheduled to take place. you were looking at live pictures from there outside the courthouse . both supporters and opponents of the former president have been demonstrating. trump is accused of illegally taking top secret government documents to his florida home, then, obstructing investigators, trying to recover them. if convicted,

he could face years in prison. the former president has been trying to downplay the seriousness of the charges insisting he is being targeted unfairly. or you're watching joe biden try to jail his leading political opponent. think of it, i will never yield. i will never be deterred in the end. they're not coming after me. they're coming after you. and i'm just standing in their way in his classic style. donald trump not only denies the charges against him, as soon as they run notes last week, he went straight on the attack, a full, a president in full time pain mode. election big. and we're going to train up the mess. so we're going to clean up the cancer because the way up until the time between those donald trump, the us as a who. this is a fluid, as a former president, face federal charges on the applications,

the trump of serious faces, 37 totes, most for alleged by nations, of the espionage act for removing government documents from the white house and storing them. it is more of a logo. hi, i'm off the left office. crucially hundreds of the documents stored in a boss room on board and related to issues of national defense, including the us nuclear program, wida weapons capabilities, under areas where the us is vulnerable to attack. the miami court house, but also consider charges the trump so to obstruct the f. b. i prove into the case right now the front is to clear the runners to the republican presidential nomination, unlikely to face joe biden in next year's election. so it's highly charged, politically so far, trans federal republicans, including room desantis, is placed his rival for the presidential nomination of siding with him and condemning the indictments. polls suggest the general public is even the split on

whether he should have been charged or not. a conviction wouldn't automatically still came running for president next year, although he's convicted he to, to get jail time. still many of service believe trumps. many legal lows. put even home is closed, as he's supposed to have a home the message that this is only political. his cool base is not you to support him, no matter what, not the serious arctic ations could put off of the potential supporters. earlier we spoke to our us correspondent, janelle do milan. she has been reporting from outside the court house and she told us more about the federal criminal charges that trump is facing. we are talking about a $37.00 a legit fellow new charges. 31 of which saw fall under the espionage act. so it's not just that he is a legit to have held on to hundreds of classified documents held onto them and securely sold them to an authorized parties and hindered investigators attempts to

locate them. it's a that he allegedly did so in such a way that may have endangered national security. now if you read the text, so the indictments, i'm sorry, you can hear some of the protesters. uh, in the, in the background clara, there are, they're all shouting from. but back to the indictment, they are talking about national security concern. so on the tax, it says the, the documents, detailed military and nuclear capabilities that the united states have. so this is no small st. clair. the president had so much access and these allegations basically means that he may have abused that access as president in terms of how the prosecutor, since the case is it's worth noting that jack smith at the special council would not have brought these charges forward. if he did not feel that the case was especially strong, he had a difficult job to do here,

getting those sorties to prosecute. donald trump, the former president could have brought up allegations of political bias of interference in the political process. but the way he up your stuff done, it's all for all, for all records of, for all of metrics he appears have laid out his argument very well. his margin of error was very low, but he appears to have succeeded so far and at least laying out that argument and that bring us, that brings us here to today in front of this federal court house in miami. yeah, these are serious charges with highest stays. can you tell us a little bit more about what we're expecting to see there in miami? well, as we said, donald trump is expected to appear here later he will be entering a side entrance of this federal courthouse. so not the front entrance, he will be frank, fingerprinted. he will probably not behind cost or there are no there will be no

model shot taken of him. this is also the opportunity for him to say how he's going to plead. that plea is widely expected to be not guilty. he will be, uh, he will be up hearing alongside 2 of his lawyers as well as, as long time a lot. well know to who himself is also facing charges. now i had to of a today he had been calling on his supporters to descend upon miami. you heard a few of them earlier. i don't know how clearly they were shouting trump, but it's nowhere near the thousands, not the authorities were bracing themselves for. although of course, that situation can yet still develop, the closer it gets the time that trump is expected to appear. yeah, we did hear some of those voices. and the reason the whole world is watching this is trump, is currently the leading republican candidate for president. how could this affect his bid for the presidency as well? just as trump does, you know that he's very good at encouraging

a persecution narrative. so he's clearly decided to see this crisis as an opportunity. he's use this trial. he's use this impending trial to say that taught he is the subject of a which, hans, and that the funds should be raised for him. he's use it to rally support along his face. but really, what this means is that the republican party has a decision. i heard of it. will the distractions of these legal troubles be worth the be worth keeping on? seeing that it's still worth keeping on trump as the standard bearer of the party. we don't know that yet. we can't do that yet, but this is definitely unprecedented territory for the country as a whole. thank you so much for your reporting. that's due now. come on for us in miami, florida. let's move on now to some other world news headlines. scores of people are fear debt after a river boat capsized. near peggy, enquire

a state and central nigeria. the passengers had attended a wedding and a local official side about 50 people were rescued, but at least a 100 others died. the boat was reportedly overloaded. are you a nuclear chief, raphael gross? he says he's very concerned. ukraine's operating a nuclear power plant could get caught up and keeps counter offensive. speaking in the ukrainian capital before visiting the plant warrants that are breaking the gates that hold back the water in the nuclear facilities reservoir could lead to a loss of cooling capacity. and ukrainian officials say russian missile attacks and central ukraine have killed at least 10 people and wounded dozens more . the original governors of the dead were recovered from a 5 story residential building and a private warehouse in the city of creevy over night. air attacks were also reported in the heart, you've area and the capital t, where authorities say they were stopped by air defenses. the assault follows claims by ukraine of successes and it's counter offensive against russian forces. the

smoldering aftermath of yet another attack on ukrainian homes. missiles hit these apartments in the early hours of tuesday, engulfing the building and surroundings and flames. dozens of residents were injured, others killed. meaning we're trapped in the wreckage. when we got out from under the rubble, the 1st thing i saw for people who came out and make it with children from neighboring houses where there was also destruction. people were bringing slippers, bathrobes, water blankets for the children, asking how can we help him to come to us? that's the kind of people we have. several other buildings increa very. we also had, well, sorry she's described as a massive miss style attack on president, followed him easily and skis,

home city. as resident survey, the damage elsewhere ukrainian troops claimed to be pushing back rushes, occupying forces. the keys says it's counter offensive, has re cap, should villages in the den. it ends up a range of regions which russia illegally antics last year. troops say this 1st, which was filmed in the town of storage event in donates, rushes, millet tree claims to have repelled ukraine's attempts to advance in the area. we just the bottom is our fears, but our movement is under way and that is crush as of what the enemies losses are exactly what we need and also the whether these phases of february boat and that's the res complicates are tasks never the less the strength of our soldiers here, so we saw on the i'm grateful to each and everyone who is currently encumbered to everyone who supports over at the time by brigades,

in the respective ways improve. i mean, maybe for me, this doctor keeps claims have yet to be independently verified. that his russian attacks on their homes continue reports of ukrainian progress on the battlefield. a welcome signs of a lease violent future. mike martin is a war studies senior fellow at kings college london and i asked him how substantial the gains you credit claims to have made actually our so i, i think the ukranian progress over the last week has been pretty impressive. i'm. ready well, the guy, not the games as some the russian defensive lines, the been 6 months in the making. and so my area is, uh, you know, 5 or 6 layers, deep of tanks and dragon's teeth. and then the mind fails and changes with the russian soldiers and, and so as well as the fact that you claims to be quite capital with its soldiers. by some accounts they liberated more territory in the last 10 days. then the

russians took a uh, the hold of 2023, which is is a so i $22.00. yeah, 2023 items on your site, which is fairly impressive. another interesting because that seems to be that they appear to be focusing on different parts of ukraine on the do not see, and not for region of regions by moot, that doesn't seem to be a single point of focus. do you see that as part of the strategy? oh, absolutely. so you kind of pushing forward on 3 front sides, se operations towards top mac documents, which she mentioned, and then also in, in the se, uh, just to the west of a town called linda. and the reason is doing that too, is because it can yvonne's on, on these 3 axis and it causes restrictions the russians. and it means that at some point the russians have to make a decision about which is the king you creating an offensive. once they've decided that is this particular one, the cranes would obviously reinforce another one. we haven't seen one of the

ukrainian forces or west and equipment deployed yet, so that's the next stage really. okay, so an attempt to extract russian efforts. how strong is the russian position at this point in the war? i mean, they've had months to dig in for this ukranian counter offensive. and on tuesday, the russian defense ministry published a video showing what it said was a leopard, 2 tank that had been captured from ukraine in forces. so i think we would expect to see you kind in losses and you know, that was a catchy you were talking about. there been all the videos on social media, all of some of the lessons that i did equipment 8 destroyed with this is what we'd expect. you know, these russian defensive lines have been 6 months in the making. and some of them are really quite deep and have several layers of them that says they're all the areas of the front, where the defensive lines are not as complex. maybe there are any 2 lines deep and that's possible you clayton is doing bible. is it going these 3 funds,

some of the size of a less well defended or not than others? and so it just gives you kind options for the future. because my martin atkins college london before we go is get a reminder of our top story. former us president donald trump has arrived at the miami court house where he's making his 1st appearance in historic criminal case. you're looking at live pictures there. trump is due to be formally charged over the miss handling of top secret documents that she was up to thank you so much for watching the process hearing instead of response of the global business of asbestos. this is not a legitimate business. the people that are in don't deserve to be treated with any .