the, the, this is the, the, the news coming to live from berlin. donald trump do in court again today facing his most serious indictments. yet the court rooms just blocks away from the us capitol, which was supporters. storms before he left the office from faces charges of using his power and applause to overturn joe biden's window in the 2020 election. also

coming up the chairs, coo later about. he won't give it into threats or sanctions. this as regional leaders discuss how to reinstate the countries elected president had extensive war crimes committed into debt. that's the only cation from amnesty international, which says both sides are guilty of getting civilian targets and the ongoing path. once a heavy metal mud fenced boxes, germany's massive metals, music festival closes its gates to new arrivals while those inside try to enjoy the song events. the hello i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. we begin in the us square for present donald trump is due in court in washington. he's charged with plotting just

subvert the wheel of us motors and the 2020 election securities being wrapped up the head of the hearing where trump is expected to plead not guilty. he said the charges against him showed the corruption of the bite and administration. this prompts 3rd set of criminal charges is seen as the most serious as he campaigns for next year's election and radical left democrats or catherine cuba. ashbrook is a political analyst and executive vice president. the belt was bon foundation here in berlin. i asked, or if these new charges posed a genuine threat to trumps, efforts to regain the presidency? well, not on the basis of the american constitution, terry. oh, you have plenty of constitutional experts right now trying to figure out whether or not a president or someone who's running for the highest office in the nation could in fact, will the country from a prison. so the constitution does not meet that crystal clear. but these are very, very serious allegations. it's donald trump effectively against his own country.

that's effectively the summary of a jack smith presented to the public when he announced his indictment. um, so it's going to be difficult a year ahead. certainly for donald trump, but it's a highly polarized country and still 54 percent of the republican based believes this to be the man for the white house. so the legal aspect of this is still unclear, but trump does have rivals for the republican nomination. will they not be trying to exploit the former president's political troubles for their own advantage? when we saw something extraordinary yesterday, which is to say that the vice president for vice president mike pins on the campaign trail side, the donald trump had attempted to put himself above the constitution and that no man should be elected president, who sees his role in that way, and that was the 1st public pronouncement that we heard from my parents who was now running for the presidency. you remember that he had a hard time being, quote,

unquote dragged in front of these type of tribunals and the congressional committee that was looking into january 6th. so for the vice president to come out with those strong words, yes, he is trying to compare. he's trying to capitalize on this latest environment, but i don't think we'll see a ronda sanchez or anybody who's much closer to being in the running for that kind of candidacy and make those kind of comments so split feel there. now trope remains extremely popular with a large chunk of the electorate. despite what prosecutors say was an attempt by him, does a bird american democracy, culminating in the january 6th attack on the capital. how do you explain this continued support for trump? despite what happened? a local, we're now calling the big lie, which is to say the donald trump, and that's effectively the, you know, understand or the cornerstone of this indictment. i came up with this big lie that he had in fact one to 2020 election. that was incredibly persuasive. to his base,

if you recall the people who stormed the capital on january 6, thought that they were legitimately defending their vision in their version of their own democracy. and i think that makes this moment so dangerous. because if for whatever reason donald trump gets off with a lesser sentence doesn't go to prison. so much of the future of american democracy hinges on this indictment, hinges on what we're going to see play out over the next year. because we also know that donald trump has a now, as it was a big piece, and then your time is re elected to the highest office in the land. he will begin dismantling the bureaucracy and the systems of the state even further caused by attempting to turn the united states even more into an executive lead slash dictatorship of the country. this is a very dangerous moment, a very dangerous precipice for american democracy. so all eyes in the world should rightly be on what happens over the next couple of months precisely,

on this federal indictment. and just briefly, catherine, the prosecutors have called for a speedy trial. how could, how soon could that trial happen as well? they are trying to use every legal tool that they have to actually speed this procedure up. but we also heard john laura, the defense lawyer for uh, or one of the lawyers for the donald trump team saying that they in fact we try to slow this process down. they want a very close reading of the documentation and as a quote unquote evidence. so there will be a battle of those 2 camps in terms of how this actually ends up playing out on the the trunk team will play for time because there was a moment of immunity ahead of a presidential election wins or legal procedures cannot continue or cannot be brought in, that is what the trump team will be playing for. but all in all this will be a difficult process and procedure. i expect it to take, at least from start to finish at 66 months, 9 months. and whether or not that ends up pointing out fully over the election

cycle will depend on how quickly the prosecution can begin their actual testimony, proceedings, jury selection and everything that goes with such a process. catherine, thank you so much. that was catherine clear ashbrook from the purchased one foundation. my pleasure. thanks. sorry. the shares, new self declared leaders has said he would have been to outside pressure to reinstate civilian rule in his country. in a televised address would be rough on town. it also condemned sanctions in pro is by the west african regional group equal was the block has threatened to intervene militarily to restore president mohammed, but soon to offers neighboring nigeria has also pushed up the pressure by cutting off power supplies. western countries have evacuated embassy stuff, and other citizens due to the turmoil with protests expected today. as new share marks, it's independence day. we only share is just the latest country in africa is unstable

. so hell region to see us government overthrown a user status as one of the few democracies in this i have appears to be going up in smoke the west african nation as its name to a list of countries in the region that have witness cruise in recent years new share joins neighboring molly, which saw the military states a mutiny in 20202021. a 2nd crew took place there. that same year guinea, chad and sudan also witnessed their leaders being overthrown. and burkina faso. there were 2 crews in 2022. the instability cost in large part by militant islam as groups has cause particular concern to democracies across the region. and especially to those in the block of countries that form part

of the economic community of west african states. or equal was anchored by africa's most populated country. nigeria. equal was also serves as a peacekeeping force. during times of political instability and unrest, member states send joint military forces to intervene. but the most potent tool in the eco was arsenal is its ability to suspend member states from it's economic grouping. molly guinea, burkina, faso, a know new share have all been suspended following cruise. these, there's one to, has been given an ultimatum or by ego, lots to it has threatens the possible use of force. and there are steers that any military intervention in these are by equal losses. could descend into a full scale war in the region. with molly and burkina faso,

both warning those they would defend their fellow crew leaders. and the effectiveness of an equal boss force has been questioned by experts who say adequate funding is required if it were to have a chance of succeeding. plus it could be to a worsening of an already dire humanitarian crisis in the region as well as we saw on that report. military strong man are now in charge and new share. molly burkina, faso and other countries in the region. i asked our west african correspondent, elisa chick wilma in lagos. why this a hill? it's a vulnerable to cruise. well, terry, you have to go back and you know, to the history books for this one, especially since the 9th and sixty's when uh, many of these countries that gave your independence, i'm going to know power as uh, the lives of the french i know say for the british nigeria is of us have is a series of successive crews up on the 60 seventy's eighty's on. so uh,

99 seems like following the went into the brand. you know, somebody early 1999 with us that situation us, we have it. so it's more like a dish out bu, situation saturday because uh you have, since they've had demi go sort of the reverse of up in trend where democratic governance, i'm beginning to get thrown in money, but cannot process the analyses yet. and with the reasons be not that corruption, instability, and also aspects of uh, you know, do you, how does it is i, how do we, that governments being unable to tackle this is such as in the region. and that's why these names in general, so to speak as just talk them in governments, you know, left pregnant sense. uh, especially if they turn in the west africa look into coming to the west. africa is regional bulk eco laws has impose sanctions on the chair. it's threatening to intervene. perhaps militarily, nigeria has cadillac, tricity supplies with the country, et cetera, et cetera. can the qu leaders withstand this kind of pressure as

well? do that, right? you have to look at the latest. so yes, and your wednesday speech up on monday. uh, you know, the subject of the day himself who is in charge of the j, a general out the rami gianni, who came out of state broadcast yesterday and to come to the, i'm going to say he's basically not the way any way of defiance. i did reject those sanctions from echo, as i think there was any dimension from any. but anybody be echo as the western powers of his cold on the people of the j to, to defend as a whole under units into different countries. that is defiance coming from the general who said it means you could read uh, which means this spend the terry is really on between echo, as i may say, because they forget the one because it's amazing. given by app was on sunday. it's a rated content. you know, we've gone over a couple of days the 1st sunday that deadline is off. we know that that immediately

meeting seats defense to some echo as well, meeting yesterday and have to be downloaded we take in today. and they say, we need to intervention might be a last result. you know, you many people that we do so much that you got statements coming from the beach, that the echo, as would be teaching blogs. or a cost has sent a delegation to new share to negotiate with the coo leaders. how much hope is there for a diplomatic solution? so yes, so, so why are they going to choose that godfrey in of whose aspect was lovely sense, uh, delegation 11. i for my, my gerry and i'm going to let himself up, is that i'm able to add to the, i mean see that goes to say it was a case of fingers crossed all the options on the table. open 9. echo as a and i also for the judge and how many people might take solutions when he looked at that statement again. yesterday on wednesday, i put the cost on my general it see i need to need to disclaim a we'll head into

a stand up and i think of from a night dream perspective is almost fingers crossed. that is because i do not know about this thing. mind me to gather upon because my network cannot, paso have many carriers and they will back the j should echo as instead of being. so is it last me saw fingers crossed into the region? i said thank you very much. that was our west africa correspondent, elisa tacoma in lagos, the human rights group, amnesty international says war crimes had become widespread into done in the mid violent classes between the army and the countries main parent military group. a new report found thousands of civilians have been killed or injured in since fighting broke out an april. the report says there been deliberate attacks on neighborhoods, hospitals, and churches, and that scores of women have been subjected to sexual violence. amnesty says it is documented evidence of war crimes and it's calling for soldiers and commanders to

be held criminally. responsible for what's crossover to london. one of the authors of the reports and on a tele robera joins us now. the tell that your report suggests that both sides incident and conflict, or deliberately targeting civilians and are involved in looting and raping. tell us more about what you found. yes, the situation for the civilians in sudan in different parts of sit down both in and around the capital ending at that for region into a western part of the country. i've been uh, living through an absolute the atrocious situation since the 15th of april. when the conflict broke out between the cities, army interrupted support forces to power. military groups and civilians are very often finding themselves in the middle of the fighting us. both for seas are

fighting within densely populating civilian areas and launching attacks from densely populated fidelity and areas. civilians are being killed and injured in their own homes, in the very place where they take refuge, trying to, to be safe from the conflict. that's why they're trying to run away. and as well as worse civilians being deliberately targeted, specifically at man uh and boys and, and women and girls are being abducted. they're being sexually assaulted as they go out to try and find food in their own homes. and so it, it's, it's an absolutely terrible situation that civilians are finding themselves in. and of course, because of that, that's for a 1000000 civilian from been forcibly displaced from their homes because of the

conflict. much attention is focused right now on the rapid support forces that are military group, many of the horrors documented in dar 4, and the capital cartoon are attributed to them. so is this armed militia, the main perpetrators of war crimes incident and is the certainly the party that as committed most of the abuses and the crimes that have been committed against civilians. and insofar of, we've been able to document both in the copy tell where they are, the ones who are more pressed in terms of ground in various neighborhood, as well as in the dark for region where it's both the rocket support forces and our militias that are a lie to, to this part of military groups to commit to a very large percentage of the abuse. they are not the only perpetrator,

but according to what we've been able to document until now they are the main path to try to your report documents, cases of sexual violence against women. how wide spread is that in the student in conflict. and it is difficult to know exactly how wide spread it is because of the stigma and because of the difficulty of reaching at survivors. however, from what we've been able to document a, i've spoken to a 2 based advisors, timely of survivors and medical personnel as well provided to cared, put for the survivors, eating around the capitol and in the dark floor region and details of widespread phenomenon. uh, but as, as i said, we, we, we have every reason to fear that it is actually more widespread than what we've been able to document. but even what we've been able to document is extremely

serious concerns. but women and girls, us youngest wells, repeated international attempts, said ending the fighting and sit down, have failed. what can be done to protect the population? got 1st and foremost, the international community must put pressure on the parties at the moment. the perpetrators of these atrocities know that they can operate with absolute impunity and decent community stealing start to reduce the state. they don't think they have to um, to be held accountable for what they're doing on the, on a daily basis. and that must change. the un security council is a very important role to play. it should expand the arms embargo, which at the moment only come sense the saddam be good. and it should the why didn't the mandate to the international criminal court, which again only concerns the dot for region. and these should be extended to,

to the whole country because as different parts of the country have come, send by the conflict. so it's very, very important that and strong and in independent and robust mechanisms are subjective. i are set task for i put in place by the un human rights council, as well as to investigate the abuses and to make sure that the provisions are they are to hold the perpetrators accountable beef, send a very strong message to all parties involved in the conflict that they cannot count on enjoying the impunity that they're enjoying today as well. it is vital to the international community at significantly increase issue many terry and 8 both to those who are inc. sites sedan and to the refugees that across the board during 2 neighboring countries where the situation is absolutely

dire. it is equally important for the international community to open the safe and legal passed away so that those who are escaping the conflict can get to safety. that is not the case at the moment. donna taylor, thank you very much for speaking with us today. that was donna tell rivera from amnesty international. thank you. let's take a look at a couple of other stories making headlines around the world today. the gunman who stormed a synagogue in pittsburgh and killed 11 worshippers, will be sentenced to death. the 50 year old perpetrators spread his hatred for jews and whites premises police online before the shootings. the 2018 matters failed twice, getting its leader installed as prime minister. due to opposition from conservative law at the women's world comp, south africa had made it into the knockout stages. for the 1st time. after bidding

it slowly, both sides knew when would be enough to secure a progression to the last 16. a thrilling 5 golden pipe going counter saw south africa come out until early on it when it leaves way after just 11 minutes they were award. is it penalty and adiana cut also stepped up to put her side to head. but then her teammate lit the side down then a dead to oh, see school a spec to own goal to put the schools level before have time. at this point it's really was still through, but it proved a costly era. as after the break, hilda and my guy, yeah. then gave south africa really the minutes continued to swing back and forth as easily restored permanency in the 74 minutes. meaning south africa would knocked out if the school stayed at 2 o. that's in the 90 seconds minute. hilda magnolia setup tim

b peg atlanta for the historic winning go south africa. go through to the knockout stages for the 1st time, as it's really and knocked out and a huge, surprising group f as brazil is knocked out after a droll against jamaica. the caribbean side is now through to the round of 16 for the 1st time ever. neither team was able to score, but jamaica sent better chances of a single point was enough for them to move into the next room. resumed legend, marta had previously announced this would be her final world come after 6 turn. the w sports corresponded tom to know it was the game in melbourne to witness martha's final world cup game in brazil, colors and speaks to jamaica's star striker melbourne is proving a tricky patch for powerhouse nations. hey i, this was top with 1st canada, and now brazil. seeing that time at the tournament,

caught sure in the stadium behind me, we've presented this departure to titan of the sport heads. how old time was cop top gold school tomato had confirmed before this was comp that this addition to the competition would be her last and she saw it and with a wind power tonight, as jamaica held firm to grind out a drawer in her home country. martha is a true icon and the face of women's football off the decades at the top of the game . though, the world cup trophy will forever remain out of her reach, her legacy will be defined by have many other achievements. so me, i look up tomorrow. um, as a, as a child growing up on that just, you know, wanted her to know that, you know, she's not just an inspiration to me, but for a lot of people around the world and, you know, i just congratulate her for it. a wonderful courier that she had for jamaica progression to the round of 16 is an outstanding achievement in and of itself, and best bus ever welcome no count, much takes place back here in melbourne on tuesday. having already exceeded

expectations, they will have nothing to lose. and melvin may yet have another surprise in store stare in germany. there's disappointment for thousands of pounds heading to one of the world's biggest heavy metal festivals. botkin organizers had to limit the numbers at the event after days of rain turn the grounds into a giant month. it organizers say take a told her is refused entry will receive refunds as one of the biggest, heavy metal festivals in the world. germany's legendary back and festival is still on over 50000 fans brief the muddy roads and got in before the festival organizers kept the number of attendees and asked the rest of ticket holders to turn away. also about just as we arrived, we got the news that no more cars will be allowed in. we thought, oh my gosh,

how lucky we are to still be here. and those who made it in are determined not to let germany's infamous weather prevent them from enjoying the show deal b o a about these this much in. so 56 of them because out the morning will be safe . and the rest will see when we get that it is able to the festival is planned to last for days and will feature top acts like iron maiden and mega does. organizers and emergency services are monitoring the security situation. or blame isn't that there are problems everywhere. but all in all people are working together to find solution. the numbers of seconds, right? plus, the important thing is, is that we put it all down and make sure everyone has homepage and stuff with us. i was, i was interested in, like let me see. so the camping site is only half full. many fans won't let the

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