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shawn, the slicing social moons seeking their self determined life go from drudgery and abuse stuff oldest on the w, the . this is the, the news coming to line from berlin. donald trump charged with conspiring against the us government. the latest indictment against the former president, details of leverage themes painted over turning the 2020 election. the last also coming up, the 1st of occupation slides following last week's qu,
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in the shared land in france and italy, some west african countries opposing the crew have threatened new share as military hunter, with the use of force if they don't relinquish power. the hello and terry martin, thanks for joining us. donald trump has been indicted with 4 felony counts over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 elections. the charges focus on the ledge conspiracy by the former us president and his allies, to subvert the transfer of power and keep him in office despite losing the election to joe biden. this may not be the 1st time trump has been criminally indicted, but it is the most serious legal threat he has faced so far. he has been charged with conspiracy to defraud the united states and of the attempt to obstruct an official proceeding. a joint session of congress to certify president jo biden's
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2020 election victory at the heart of this investigation did the january 6th attack when thousands of people storms the us capitalized trying to bridge the capital. the special council jack smith, who filed the indictment, has blamed to trump for the violence the attack on our nation's capital. on january 6th, 2021 was an unprecedented assault. the seat of american democracy is described in the indictment. it was fueled by lies lies by the defended, targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the us government and nations process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the presidential election. prosecutor said
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trump pushed fraud claims. he knew to be untrue. we had an election that was stolen from us and pressured state and federal officials to alter the results of the 2020 election. well, i want to do is i just want to find the $11780.00 loads, which is one more that we have. they also alleged that he also inside at the january 6th riots on the us capital in a desperate attempt to clean power the we're going to walk down anyone you want, but i think right here we're going to walk down to the capital and we're going to do on our bruise, senators and congressmen and women, trump is due to appear before federal court on thursday. despite his legal blows.
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he remains the most popular republican running for president w as william glue croft is following this story. i asked him, what's different about this latest indictment against the former president? us or staff to me is kind of 2 things. first of all, when we think about fraud, we often think about money stealing money or like a bank heist, for example. but this is also a kind of for, of essentially what the us justice department is saying is that donald trump tried to defraud every american vote or the entire united states the democracy of the united states. and that no staff dive money happens here. but the test of power or attempted to power theft of democracy, that's essentially what these charges are saying that donald trump try the deep, broad united states of its democratic nature essentially. and one of these charges the, the charge of conspiracy to violate rights to violate civil rights of american voters
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. it goes all the way back to the reconstruction era, just after the us civil war, which is a law put in place to protect a newly freed black slaves from ku klux klan and other white supremacists violence in stopping their ability to vote. and when you think about more than a width of white supremacy sentiment, that kind of hung over the january 6 riots, that's a very interesting law to be trying to use. so we're looking at as opposed to other indictments, which are very serious. we're really talking about the very foundation of a bedrock of the democracy. if it's united states likes to do itself as hell. is the former president reacting to this william as well as expected? he and his lawyers and his, his presidential campaign are all basically saying the same thing that this is politically motivated, that this is a weapon is ation or instrument, instrumental ization of justice. it's
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a distraction from joe biden and crimes that the republicans alleged a certainly his son hunter biden, of course, hunter biden's case is proceeding through the legal system. so it's hard to make a case against some kind of unfairness there. and of course, the same is timed with trumps political campaign with his political aspirations. donald trump, uh we uh that tweeted, but i guess the truth social, i guess we would say that this, you know why that takes so long 2 and a half years. this was clearly timed to interrupt or to distract from his own political ambitions. however, of course, we know that prosecutions especially of this magnitude and unprecedented that they are take a very, very long time to come to charges and certainly to come to trial. so all the little comments coming from donald trump and his g of the allies, mike pen see needs to be the only lonely voice criticising trump. of course pens himself is running for video p ticket in 2024. you mentioned donald trump's
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political ambitions, william, what could this mean? this latest indictment mean for next year's presidential election and trump's campaign? in particular, as well as passive pro log the previous indictments only made him stronger among core republican voters. so i'm sure it's likely that this indictment will also see a boost if anything in the polling data for him among his republican voters. because remember, many of them, like i just said, are the kind of people that might also believe that this is an instrumentation. instrumental ization of, of the political system and that there's some kind of, uh, you know, a hunt out for donald trump. but of course, this only represent a small amount of the electorate. the bigger issue is that many people are dissatisfied with the idea of joe biden. running again, rather than revel, republican or democrat, which is also refueling, a donald trump's support. but we are unprecedented times up and running. i indictment and investigation of trial against donald trump while he's ready for
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president is something the united states, of course, has never seen before. the w is william blue cross. thank you very much. let's catch up on a few other stories making headlines today. at least one person has been killed in more than a dozen injured on okinawa is type in kind of june passes near the japanese island . the slow moving storm is already battering the shore with rain and winds dropping a 180 kilometers per hour. authorities are purging hundreds of thousands people to seek shelter. may or t of says in the middle straight of building has been damaged and an overnight rushing drone strike on the the capital. no one was hurt, ukraine's military says it shot down several drones. the attacks targeted the capital and the port city of odessa authorities, se, grain exporting facilities near the border with romania were also dam. the foliage
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is sending more troops to his border with bell roofs. after saying to the origin, military helicopters violated his aerospace, near the yellow via shop. warsaw has sent more soldiers to its eastern border in recent weeks after bach, the mercenaries moved into batteries from russia. a to a member of poland says and informed the lions about the incursion. and france has banned the automatic printing of receipts for customers at the checkout counter. the government says over 13000000000 receipts are printed every year there. that equates to 2500000 trains with consumer advocates say, receipts, help prevent shoppers from being ripped off. the 1st of occupation slides from the chair have landed in europe after last week's to military transport. planes touch down in italy and france carrying mostly european citizens. more evacuations are still underway. the tax on the french embassy over
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the weekend of res spears and possible violence. france coordinator the evacuations with the regime that ousted president mohammed by zoom and closed new shares. borders west africa's regional block, known as equal loss, has warned that the coo leaders that they have one week to reinstate new shares, elected leader. the block is preparing to meet a nice area for crisis talks. well to have new shares, neighbors about to back. it's military junta in the back q. we bought the plane in the shed capital, the political craigslist following last week's crew deepens, french nationals. i know some of the countries are being encouraged to leave on flags organized by powers. they do the home we were asked to take just a small bag with the essentials because we can't take a suitcase that's on the lower level. as evacuations continue,
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defense chief from echo was the group of west african states, a meeting for 2 days to meet on wednesday. some member states have set they are willing to use falls to restore new shed government. but the united nations has called for calm give one week to. ready the, well, it's difficult because the situation is very fluid website. no is that's it. it had a different to remember states preparing themselves to use force if necessary. but if i've had a description, has a fluid by that, this the ad for all of a find this for a solution for the program. as a citizen, scramble home the, you come down the 2, calling you to threaten each as democracy, level stability. the authorities in molly knew was a little bit therapy on union has decided to offer you personal in the may,
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the possibility to leave the city on a voluntary basis after the cool new year. at the moment, we haven't issued a formal evacuation order, the you will keep its presence in the country. no less than a summit manager, governments can be keen a fast. so a molly have want any attempt to restore the asked the president would be seen as a declaration of law, the leading to fees of the violence, the both nisha and the why the region. the w west africa correspondent, elisa chic wilma, is following this story from nigeria, which borders new share. i asked him about the ongoing tensions in the chair and the a back you ration before nationals world saturday. the same situation. uh, and especially the carpets of the army off i need a, as really, uh, forced to have the following uh, nationals, especially for the french. you might say the students by 3. but if you fancy,
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so i think we can, we did bernie and not net sites on the french embassy at a 500 plains. and all the finance we saw was a back which has already begun. a plains have landed in price as it is money. we have about 2 hundreds of people on board, most win friends and nationals, and also in the any other flights arrived early this morning in right. i would have couple of nations the day. so we'll see more evacuations on the french. and also it's on the outside of the gym as well as the take off by the off or for you to get it back later. this would eventually a medium that i know is a bunch of like space also taken off this one thing. forget, since every today wednesday makes the week as soon as the house, though for our president, i presume a nice day by the assembly, treat you into sports for you now. and at the women's soccer world, comp, england put in a dominant performance and there are $61.00 went over china on tuesday night. the hi, this is one. all 3 group stage matches and cemented their claim is one of the tournament
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papers daemon dominated right from the start. just 4 minutes in. let's see. a russo opened this car in 26 minutes in lauren and co sign us defense. nothing to make it to nail. then this cleverly taken free kick was put in the back of the net by lauren james to make it 3 know for the loan. this is showing one converted a penalty of to 57 minutes to get signed a some hope that hope wouldn't last long. lauren james with another stunner. the 3rd goal of this world count, contain, and england were done there. slowly, kelly would be easy to happen after time as goalkeeper is just the bowl. and finally, rachel daily scoring have 1st goal of the match to cielo 61 wind, and let the celebrations begin. here in germany,
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fans heading to buck in the world's biggest heavy music. heavy metal music festival have been told to return home after days of rain turn the grounds into a giant mud pit organizers a band more vehicles from entering the venue. the mode is only adding to the.

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