the the, this is the, the, the news coming to live from berlin. donald trump pleads not guilty in a washington court. the former us president is charged with plotting a criminal conspiracy to overturn jo biden's 2020 election victory. also coming up

the standoff between the shares qu, leader and the african alliance that wants him to give them equal wants is threatening military action if new shares president is not reinstated by this weekend. sweden, balancing freedom of speech with outrage over the burning of religious books. yup. facts. as we perceive and increased security threats as the results of the off the ground. buildings is enough for us to make these decisions. sweet and has come under sharp criticism from muslims who see the desecration of the qur'an as hate speech, the hello and terry martin. good to have you with us for us present. donald trump has pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election. it's the 3rd set of criminal charges he is facing and they are seen as

the most serious. it's not clear whether the case could be rail his efforts to return to the white house in next year's election. as from false one rose into washington delivering the form of president for once he's becoming a familiar site in america. a call to p runs by donald j trump. before heading for the motorcade, there was time for a brief pause for the cameras outside the called house trump's feast. these critics came heads ahead with his loyal supporters. in a visible demonstration of a divided country. i'm here to celebrate because by the end of the day today, trump's going to get another 5 points in the polls and it's very exciting. um, every time they do, one of these indictments trump goes up in the polls. i think that trump poses

a threat to our democracy and his supporters. i think that he should be held accountable for the crimes that he committed while he was president. and i think this is long overdue inside the called house in on a p, when it's less than just a few minutes. the fall, i'm a president and to the plea of not guilty arriving back at the airport. i typically belly coast trump took the opportunity to once again called the proceedings, a political which i want when you look at what's happening, this is a persecution of a political opponent. this was never supposed to happen in america. this is the persecution of the person that's leading by very, very substantial numbers in the republican primary as trim, collect washington. the days drama concluded for now

a book with a trial date likely to be sometime next year. and trump still the front run up for the republican nomination. 2020 fall could see trump fighting for the white house and his freedom. i asked the w, william, blue croft, whether republican voters shared trump's view, that he's the victim of political persecution. well, of course, there is serious substance to the evidence which many, many legal scholars have said. this is, these are serious cases, not just this one about the january 6 and the efforts over time this morning on the election, but also the 2 other cases against him. of course we heard that great sound by i thought it was very accurate. somebody would just heard in the report from, i suppose one of the trump supporters saying every time that trump faces these charges or, or he's in the news like this, his pull numbers go out. i mean,

we've seen that donald trump is really an expert at the idea of all news is good news and turning. what would be bad news into good news for him? he's even been using these charges using these legal problems for him as a tool to raise money. he's been sending out emails. his campaign has been sending out fundraising e mails, for example, talking about this, which hunt him, you know, really, you know, appealing to his hard core supporters to support him. and that's exactly we've been seeing in the polls. and as we know, that regardless of what his legal troubles may be, there's nothing legally stopping him from running and winning the presidency and 2024. so what happens next? well, yeah, well, where does this case go from here? or? well that's where things get very murky, basically, is that this was the arraignment. and then we have a pre trial date, which should happen at the end of august. and that's when the prosecution and the defense, or really going to have added over what on the surface are very boring, procedural details. but actually can have major impacts on the outcome of this case

. because the defense has many opportunities in many ways that it can delay this trial. and that seems to be where that shaping up to be, their number one strategy, which they can just delete this trial or maybe even get it through now. and this goes for the other charges, the other trials that he's facing as well. uh, they can throw this into or beyond the 2024 election is donald trump, wins or at ally of his wins? of course, the, at least the federal level, these cases can all be thrown out. these cases can all be ended because then it's, he's justice department that would, that would then take over these cases and he can have them stop. so that seems to be the big thing right now. we don't know, well that's what these kind of be sort of negotiating happens now between prosecution and defense. when will the trial date be said, jury selection even where will the case be? what will the case be tried all these things are still open to discussion and negotiation in the court. this story is getting massive attention in the us and

abroad. tell us more william about how this is playing out in the media or right. of course, this is the top story, of course, in the us and around the world. it's also of course, top headlines because this is unprecedented in the united states. of course, the interesting thing is, is that this is not on use one, many countries around the world where their leaders are accused of corruption and try either why with office or after office over after they're in office. so this really is unique, that it's unique, that this is happening in an unprecedented way in the united states were in many other countries. this is kind of part for the course. but nonetheless, it is happening in the united states, which is a major democracy. of course, and if you're looking at how things are kind of playing out in the media, you're seeing, you know, everything from looking at the charges to more of trumps or allied media or can serve as we do like in fox news for example. they are much more focused on the social media circus, their new picking,

a part small aspects that live unfair or critical to donald trump. and, you know, focusing more on the trump side of things. but trump this thing, wrapped, looking at what the prosecution is saying. so it's about, it's not about what's true, what's true not true. it's more about picking the facts that you want to focus on, and the framing stories around that, depending on, you know, your audience and, and story they want to get out. william, thank you very much. that was the w, william blue cross and the chairs detained. president mohammed buzzer has called on the us and the international community to restore constitutional order in his country and opinion piece. and the washington post newspaper buzzing says his country is under attack and that he is being held hostage by military officials who sees power last week. he warns of devastating consequences for the whole region, which he says could fall under russian influence. russia and western countries have long bye for influence in the south l. as the leader of the crew in nature has

threatened and immediate response to any military intervention by the west african regional loc equal us armed forces leaders from equal loss. countries today wrap up a meeting and nigeria, after warning the alliance could resort to military action. if the shares democracy is not restored, member states sent a goal has already said it's ready to send troops send the united states says it will back a good was if mediation efforts fail. meanwhile, hundreds of people have rallied in new jazz capital. the, i mean, in support of the crew independence tanisha. that's what supposes of the military one to say that defending on the anniversary of new jersey, independence from france. hundreds gathered in the capitals main square to protest . weston and regional sanctions in response to the recent to they also denounced the threats of military intervention from west africa's regional alliance. the

economic community of west african states. oh echo us. it just says you need more people are joining and, and we will protest against all these echo was countries and anyone that wants to impose new maine and on popular measures on the chair event on sunday at cost gave the hunter rule as one weight to transfer power back to the democratic pre elected president mohammed visited and asked it in last week's crew . the but the cruise lead, a general up to rough minus jani, has hinted at a possible compromise, supporting flowed limits, year on buses. once the tents and motions have gone, we can insure the conditions for a steady transition within a relatively short deadline and the general election and especially a better approach, you know, fight against terrorism, and saving a country from economic and social pain. the not the lead going through the

deputies, many in new share blame fonts for that's paying their new share and shaved independence . 63 years ago pro, when to demonstrate to say the full, mcdaniel power has continued to exploit and asia, a resource origination with one of the world's pores populations. the failure of sciences nutri presence image at the end is limited. insurgency has also left some dissolution. now, many supporters of acute hoping the country will turn towards russia in the hopes of finding a new allied sketchup on some other stores making headlines round the world today. devastating flooding across northern china has forced thousands to evacuate from their homes on the outskirts of beijing. hundreds of rescue workers are fighting to save people trapped by rising water levels. at least 20 people have been reported killed since a typo and struck the region over the weekend. police in south korea,

the rest of the suspect after high school teacher was stabbed in the city of day. john, the rare incident comes just a day after another attack or drove into pedestrians outside a subway before targeting passers by with the knife. within a dozen people were injured. columbia is government and the last remaining rebel group, the outlet and have begun a 6 month cease fire. president gustavo petro relaunched peace talks. he hopes to finally end of the 16 year conflict that has killed nearly half a 1000000 people of the sweden country. that takes pride in its tradition of free speech, but after a spade of protests that included the burning of koreans, he loves his lands. holly's book, the swedish government is walking a fine line between the laws that allow the desecration supposedly books and restricting such acts. because of a search and terror threats dw, as terry schultz has more sweden's external borders are getting extra scrutiny. as

the government approves, strengthened police powers to conduct controls. aiming to keep out. anyone who may seek revenge on sweden for the repeated torching of is loans wholly as text. so may affect, as we perceive in increased security threats as the results of the also carumba. and it's easy enough for us to make these decisions for administer bills from knows the law allowing such activities may become more restrictive due to the dangers the demonstrations create, one of which is a ripe propaganda opportunity for those who want to tarnish sweden's image with muslims but in this case, as we have seen this for the 1st time restaurant using the narratives, focusing on the false picture of sweden being hostile events as long as they repeat things. then there are things that we see in the stomach extreme in some uh, environment, and use that again,

their state controlled media channels like the rest of today. and i'm to put that towards the arabic speaking people on thursday, a relief for the swedish government, a man whose previous career and burning ignited a massive reaction in a rock cancelled his request for a permit. and only a lone woman staged a tiny anti islam protest but even those small flames can be found for propaganda in social media. is this political activists who some of the muddy, who showed up to try to convince the woman to stop such provocative acts i'm, i'm feeling cold. what, what are you doing now is, is a, is a hate speech is not a free speech. i, i think it's my job here to come. if i swear people who's angry from this to, to speak to try to come down commodities, real job as an investor, he's no longer a practicing muslim. that feels is crucial to speak to crowds on both sides of the issue at korean burnings. to try to attempt down societal tensions. he confirms the

kremlin is cashing in on this strife. in the arabic speaking world and the elements of flesh and the feeling is quite a show. for example, here are 14 kissing the for on one of many profiles like congress will finds you say, like in the pictures is showing everything. this is why we muslims with moscow and this kind of message have a like equity. so it is effective and it's a dangerous and, and we need to, to, to, to, to make a stop with this. a recent pool shows most leads, believe burning. any holy book should be made illegal of one hour joined by the w. terry shell to file that report. she joins us from stockholm. terry swedish authorities were bracing for another major cran burning incident yesterday, but the permit request was apparently withdrawn. what happened? that's right. we don't know why this man withdrew his request. you see him burning

a crown on previous occasions. there in my report, and that doesn't solve everything, terry. because even the last time he withdrew a request, which was due to take place in front of the embassy of a rock in baghdad, people burned the swedish embassy, and it was, it was a very violent situation. and after that, the rocky government expelled this weed or some basset or so that just goes to show how high tensions are even around discussion of burning the career. and none the less, of course, authorities were very relieved that this was ended up being just a lone woman on a beach burning a crown basically by herself. and we didn't see any implications of, of that very small protest here in stock on a swedish authorities have a serious security concerns. now in connection with the current burnings, they've announced that they're tightening border controls. what does that mean in practice, terry? that's right,

that's what the government did. yesterday it approved the suggested measures to tighten controls on their board, and that gives police more powers to check vehicles to ask more questions and individuals coming into sweden. now, as we all know, with this young enrolls, it's quite easy to travel between countries. but when, when a government feels that there is a threat to their national security, they do have the right to make exemptions. and that is what this we just police are going to be doing now with what does the national authority say is an increased terrorist threat to the country directly related to these korean burnings? you mentioned the report, terry, the swedes believe the burning of any holy book should be made illegal is, is sweden considering such a law? it is that in fact another of the measures, the government is hoping to take it's now being discussed among the other government parties. because it requires parliamentary approval, but in a recent poll, 53 percent of sweep said not just burning. the crown should be illegal, but desecrating any holy book. and we spoke to many people in the streets here

yesterday and to a person every one of them said this is just disrespectful and there's no reason anybody should be allowed to do that. and that is going against sweden's very liberal tradition of allowing basically everything under freedom of expression. tell us more, terry, about how the qur'an desecration is, have impacted sweden's reputation in the muslim world to yes, this, this man that you saw speaking with us as we saw kemati went through a lot of the, the techs on social media. and he read to us from the arabic, how um, basically russia and is, mom is, are using these incidents to, to uh, ramp up a opposition to sweden and making all kinds of false claims about swedish behavior . so this is really an opportunity for the kremlin that it didn't even have to create itself to make sweet and look bad. and of course for sweden, who is still trying to get into nato, still needs turkish support for this. it's very, it's

a very nerve wracking time for this. we just government terry. thank you very much for your reporting. that was the w, as terry schultz reporting from stucco german politics now and the latest political opinion poll from and protest. the map shows the far right alternative for deutschland party b, a f d building on his recent search and support. when people were asked how they would vote if a national election were held this week, the main opposition, conservative center, right? see to use the su comes out as the most popular party with 27 percent support. but the a, f, d is now up to 21 percent, which one percentage point more than a month ago. the 3 parties in government and the s p d. greens and free democrats are all pulling under 20 percent as well. yeah. if the is not just performing strongly in the polls, it has also been clocking up its 1st successes on

a local level. germany now has its 1st a up, the mayor in a small town in eastern germany. meanwhile, other parties are debating how to deal with a rising a f d the far right a if d is looking to gain more power sofa, germany's established parties have refused any cooperation with them. the party is deemed extreme is an anti democratic. but a, c, d takes up most space in german politics, semi colon for a shift, especially at the local level, the leader of the conservative cd, you potty free pick, math cost us the when he said we have to look for ways to ensure that we can continue to work together to activity and mass late to back track that across germany's towns in districts. many are echoing his woods in back, none a small town himself with germany, the local a if the claims it is already working without the parties. and even then we are working together at all levels for the benefit of the population out of quotes. and

we kinda intensify this even more. we're not the toilet bows to this. we will be pleased if this also happened on state national level. instead of just doing parts of products, we will put time put a ticket between the parties like the sense of less social democrats reject the notion that the corporate and with the if the but they call for a present medic approach. and it's always real day, of course, we have to think an act pragmatically on the ground here in the local communities and not just hearing back, not in, but everywhere. we have not cooperated with the i of the sofa, but we don't have to v o 10, cynthia. we exclude the the from our decisions. but we do not talk pito, who, by own motions add in positions, when course its own. in this higher condition, the tone of haga know, is located across the country and former east germany. despite the distance, both geographical and political message is similar. there is no direct cooperation, but the, the can't be ignored either. activity is i'm not. but if cooperation means,

for example, supporting their motions in the city council, we don't do that. but the next big there will always be resolutions that we put forward, which the asked, the representative also supports. that does not mean we will automatically withdraw that motion. it's about the budget decisions, audit reports, and other decisions that are important for the town under the inside on getting back home or not. all right, especially since for others like the socialist left party, any kind of understanding with the a if these unacceptable and risks further legitimizing the fall, right. to party disadvantage for the unless i see these completed differently. i believe that cooperation with an extreme right wing party, which is a racist at its coal and which in its entire political orientation, wants something that is not good for the majority of its own citizens. corporation we touch of poverty must never take place like it is unacceptable as gaping nephew

for now, if the valley has enough power to tip the scales in local politics. but if it continues its rise in gaines yet more support germany's established parties will have to think long in hot weather. they want to work on not work with the d. of our political correspond, julia salability is following the storage unit. we've seen different messages coming from the conservative christian democrats about cooperating with the a f d. do the conservatives have a coherent policy on this? well, technically they do. the party approved an internal resolution which says that it rejects co operation or any kind of coalition with the a sd. and in fact, the words that we heard coming from the party leader of cubic met caused an outrage within the party at all levels. but this also shows on the one hand that mat seems to be steering the party more towards the rights compared to the previous

party leader and get america then under her times. but it also shows that there is a conflict and a difference between what happens at the national level where politicians can easily say, no, we don't work with the f b and at the smaller level where in maybe a small town across germany, it is hard for politicians for other parties to completely shut the if the out. what about the other party is not the can service, but the other parties in germany's political landscape, julia, how are they dealing with the app to as well. they also all say that they are not in favor and they will not work together with the a, if the but if we look at practical examples, there are examples of all of these parties in some way cooperating with the the indifferent measure and under different circumstances. but it also comes down to a pragmatic approach and we've heard from politicians in different parts of germany that we spoke to. that sometimes it's a matter of avoiding a standstill and getting through motions that are important for the local

governments. and in that case, they say they cannot completely ostracize the asp. there are important regional elections coming up in germany is cooperation with the a f d likely to be an issue in those electrons. while a lot of this depends on how the f b keeps pulling in the coming months, because we have to remember, these are not official results. the a if the hasn't one these big majorities and then the election. so if the poles remain, as they are, it will definitely be an issue for the other parties. we have a regional state, a state elections coming up this year in the 2 states and southern and western germany. and there the if the is not expected to make the waves, but next year and 2024 state elections are going to happen in various states in eastern germany, where the f d is traditionally already strong. and they're the f d could come in 1st place and there they would have 1st dibs on the signing

a how to form a coalition. and they would need the cooperation of other parties to form such a government coalition. and that's where the other parties are really going to have to consider how they counter the a if the gaining so many votes and how they are going to deal with the a if the, if it does come in 1st place. julia, thank you very much. that was our correspond to julia, so deli in other news, at least 18 people have been killed in a bus crash in mexico. the vehicle came off the road and plunged into a ravine. official site. most of those killed were migrants heading for the us border. the bus driver was arrested managers of the panama canal, say they expect a dropping income after they were forced to reduce traffic. only 32 ships a day will be able to pass through. that's down from the normal 38. panama is facing one of its longest lasting droughts that you are watching

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