of the i didn't know what has the best now i know the never ending story of asbestos starts june 21st on d w. the . this is dw and use live from by the former us president donald trump pleads not guilty to historic criminal charges. that was supposed to is the government insides of control off to being released from the miami. quote, charged for retaining classified documents. also on the show, ukraine claims new advances. it's kind of offensive against occupying russian

forces from moscow. hit spot with a deadly strike on below them is the landscape home time, the power welcome to the power program for the us president donald trump has pleaded not guilty in a criminal case that could have potentially the most serious legal implications for him. yet, from a paid out of miami court on choose day court room sketches captured the historic moment. the 1st time a former president has been prosecuted by the federal government. cameras were not allowed in the court. trans lawyer entered not guilty please to 37 charges related to retaining classified documents. the charges carry possible jail terms or

dw use jeanette. jeanette will do. mcgowan is in miami and told us more about funds quotes of periods. the moment we were all waiting for arrived earlier today when donald trump and his motorcade pulled up to that side of this court house here in miami. once inside he was then book. so that means his fingerprints were taken electronically. he was not in hand costs. there was no mugs thought of and of him taken because he is easily recognizable. that whole process took about 10 minutes and then he and his lawyers were brought before the court. the court magistrate is a lawyer, todd blanche told the court room what his key was. he said, we definitely plead not guilty for donald trump. i thought was up for you. that was widely expected. this day is just the beginning of a very long process. after this arrangement, the government has to present its evidence in what's called the discovery process. and then you will have a whole host of pre trial motions before this thing ever makes it to court. but

really what we knew into this going in was that all of donald trump's legal troubles will bleed in to the run up of the 2024. uh uh, you know, 2024 us elections. that really does seem all but inevitable. now. now after leaving the cool, highest, trump was immediately back in campaign mode, installed a cuban restaurant in miami to meet his supportive yeah, i think it's going great. i think it's a refill here. we have a rick to country. we have a country that is corrupt. we have a country this got to borders, countries, it's got nothing but problems where they lied. and then they do this for more. let's bringing ethan been and he's a commentator on us politics and nationally syndicated to radio host based in los angeles is, is, and thanks so much for joining us on dw, it was wonderful to join you and i'm sorry, it's out of daylight today. what we heard from from then not signed by that it just

doesn't seem that bothered to by defending himself on the actual details of the case does he know and, and with his core base of supporters, he doesn't have to. they live in an alternate reality with these alternate faxes is people coined at the beginning of his term. it is a very unpleasant reality for the rest of us, where we try at least historically to work from a shared set of facts, even if we have political differences and in different policy ideas. when you're dealing with somebody who doesn't live in reality, denies facts. who lives constantly remember the washington post documented over 30000 lives, he told while he was in office. and it appears that he and his course that people continue that track record, even in light of multiple legal issues he's facing. remember, today is just one of a multiple set of legal issues at the new york state attorney general is doing is

company. he is, you know, he was just found liable for sexually assaulting eugene carol in manhattan. there's the january 6th investigations. this is just one of many that the former president is facing. yeah, fighting on many fronts and his team is actually trying to sort of paint this as a weapon. i zation of the justice system by the government. i by the guys fighting governments, try and prevent him from getting re elected. and it seems that using this court date as a way of come painting in next year is race, doesn't that? yes, i mean, that's absolutely accurate it's, it's really specious. it actually to some degree quite reprehensible to see people coming out and claiming that it is some kind of a, a vendetta, which is ridiculous. even trump's own attorney general build. busy bar has come out and said the facts as lead forth in the indictments are quite damming,

and of donald trump's own doings that he's in this trouble. so it's a grand jury of average americans that came down with this indictment. it has nothing to do with the administration. the department of justice handed her off to a special prosecutor named jack smith, who was actually famous for prosecuting even at the hague, den holt and in an international courts pursuing peoples of crimes. worse than what donald trump is accused of here, that is even has been a series of major events in the wake of the hearing today. is he trying to raise campaign funds of the bulk of this? of course he can't. he tries raise campaign, campaign funds off of everything is kind of the ultimate grifter every step of the way, regardless of what has happened, of his own doing or others doing. he has tried to raise money. i understand that he's even claiming that, oh,

i might die in prison. i should raise funds off of that today as well it's, it's truly grotesque. it's antithetical to a functioning democracy to have somebody doing what he's doing. and you know, the justice system in the united states is going to function. and if he is guilty of these crimes, he will be held accountable and is potentially facing a quite a number of years in federal prison as a result. and i think his team of growth that do you think they understand the gravity of the situation that you could actually end up in prison? absolutely, and i think that's part of the reason that they're fighting as hard as they are. are they're lying as much as they are, they're deflecting and redirecting as much as they are by trying to blame. you know, the buying administration was absolutely nothing to do with this. that's not how our traditional system works here in the united states and, and that is just proof that the more you argue without arguing the law,

without arguing the facts, the more you point fingers, but previously at others, points to the fact that they know how bad this really is for him and they're going to do everything they can to blame others for what he allegedly has done. isn't that and then find you so much for joining us on this. so thanks for having me. appreciate it. now in ukraine, at least 11 people were killed in a russian missile strike on the central city of crazy re, which is the home kind of president brought him is a landscape ivan. i advertise, russo reported in the car key battery, and the capital keys were real. sorry to say they was stopped by ad defenses. this so follows. claims by ukraine of success is in, is kind of offensive against the russian forces. gooden via i mean the claims of victory as you cranes counter offensive gets under way

all that well the problem, kyle: we representatives of the 130 similar problem. kyle: we the representatives of the 100 and 37th battalion of marine infantry and the 35th brigade of the marine infantry, which is that the courts have liberated the village of montgomery. you've got embedded in the region from russian troops to they won't be able to retake this village. verified rina's, you're going to hear with artillery motors and tags. but we will hold on glory to crane. the key says it's counter offensive, has read captured villages, middle net schemes, upper region regions. but the russian defense ministry released these pitches claiming that they had repelled counter offensive attacks by ukrainian false. as president putin described opposition law says as close to catastrophic here in shelves. if you all the bumps of the control rumbles on

the city was one's home to 12000 people. for the few who remain for her little information is guess for you or you please get the means didn't that that we don't have electricity. your internet is, you have, you came here and told us that the counter offensive had already begun with a political to the fact that we were here walking around and wondering if it started. this doesn't really seem right. because the new teaching of ukraine saves it, has liberated as many as 7 villages on its front lines. 3 of them was the 3 days ago. the russian forces were still here. we change them out from this coach. mia with laurie to crane. this village was under russian occupation for one and a half years, but things are ukrainian, lance, to them though, they may be optimism over parts of games. but beneath the blue and yellow of

ukraine's flag light, the bodies of those killed in the fight succumb ukraine's. claims of re taking some villages be verified. i'm high, significant with those games be earlier. we spoke to defense analysts, john spencer, who's with the madison policy for him to. yeah, i think we can verify there's, there's plenty of jo, locating open source intelligence sources that have validated the videos of ukrainian glass going over recently. liberated villages are in fact true. so it's pretty undeniable, and that's probably frustrating to russia who likes to control information. how significant is in the counter offensive. it is significant to break through the lines of russian defences. but it's to be frank, we're only seeing probably 10 percent of what actually been allocated for the

counter. but the so there's a lot of fighting in a lot of new territory to be liberated to come. that was done. spencer from the madison policy for him. here's a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. you and you can achieve rough uh, growth. see says he's very concerned. ukraine's is that for reason you could have power plant could get cool top in keys come for offensive. speaking in the ukrainian capital before visiting the plans, he will in the any leakage from the nation or facilities reservoir could lead to a less loss of cooling capacity reservoir. more than 100 people, the fed dead officer, a river boat accident and central nigeria, at least 300 people were on board. when the boat capsized on the niger river, many passengers were returning from the wedding accidents from overcrowding. all common in nigeria, costa vice prime minister, albin county, has presented

a plan to the fuse tensions in the sub majority. normal, including new elections that many questions broke high last month of the ethnic albanian mask to office following local elections, which would fully cost to buy sucks. dozens of pizza peacekeepers on ethnic subs was injured in the rest. to live in a bizarre case of discordant destruction. 200 swans have been grazing on a 5, a cub poppy field in slovakia for the past 4 months is left. many of the animals addicted, many of also died, disclosed, hummed tens of thousands of yours with of losses. first to the vacuum pharmacist, take a look. an intervention to rescue these swans from themselves. after the beds got a taste for poppies, connie said the heat,

the thing will be they are dehydrated and this one's lives, muscle mass, and then they just crawl on the ground. hundreds of swans 1st arrived in february when heavy rain formed a lake in the field of since returned over and over again. droned the addictive puppies. some of the swans became so high, they couldn't fly or even walk swans or protected species in slovakia. and it took full months to gain permission to remove the boat, but we assume they would just fly away, but they didn't let you know. it's a rear case in slovakia, so we didn't have any experience as you hopefully will be smarter in the future. conservationists have taken this ones to a channel far away from the poppy field where they going cold turkey as they so brock. what a story. now here's a reminder of our top story, former us president donald trump,

the theme released from port off the pleading not guilty to charges that he missed handled the top secret government documents. trump later told support is that the government resides, have controlled lang. the legal process is not expected to stay tuned for dw business use with kate ferguson. that's officer a short break and stay with the team will be keeping you up to date. it's right in the coming hours, i'm part, i'm from pulled and use team have invalid. thank you for the people in trucks inject when trying to free the city center. more and more refugees are being turned away. the families these trades.