on the this is dw, use live from berlin to leaders of the extremist proud voice militia in the us are sentenced to prison. prosecutors say they were key figures in the january 6th. the capital attack also coming up more than 70 people, die in a building fire and said, forget officials of the city of johannesburg site at least 12 children are among fit that the building was used as an informal settlement present from oppose at close with a great tragedy of powers finds a scooters from the streets,

ones heralded as part of an electron mobility revolution. 99, find them to be a nuisance, and to have voted to give them the facts, the unpopular phone any as welcome to the program in the us to former leaders of the right wing extremist group. proud boys have been sentenced to prison for their role in the january 6th capital attack. zachary rail was given 15 years in jail just hours after joseph bigs received a 17 year sentence. prosecutors said they were key figures in the violent attempt to overturn the 2020 election results. big the sentence is one of the longest time that i in the capital rise cases for private boys members were already convicted of seditious conspiracy. in may. well,

earlier i spoke with dw correspondent janelle do my loan in washington dc, and she told us more about the court's decision. indeed, the sentences handed down to joseph biggs and zachary rail are among the harshest. so handed down in these cases related to january 6th, a which by the way, they're over a 1000 now. and this really has to do with the gravity with which the judge saw the roles and instigating the attack on the capitol. so basically what the judge said, the judge in this case, timothy kelly said that this was a national disgrace. that january 6th, a harm the a, the a convent and american convention that supported the rule of law and the constitution that so an american tradition around the peaceful transfer of power had been broken and has been lost in the bigs case. he cited

a big's role in tearing down barriers that allowed right, or is the search forward. and for him, that was a meaningful and deliberate step to disrupt the electoral vote ongoing in the capital. at that time. in the rails case, he cited how rail sprayed police officers with chemical irritants. now both man cried in the court room. biggs said that his daughter needed them. real, said that he regretted his actions, but again, we're looking at 17 years for bigs. 15 years for rail, and that represents so the 2nd and 3rd harsh is sought punishments made it out for january 6, respectively with the harshest punishment still going to be oath keeper stewart rhodes, who got 18 years. no. janelle, this is a coming and made the legal troubles that were seeing the former president donald

trump at dealing with at the moment. could this verdict have an effect on him and his ambitions of returning to the white house some 2024. well, it's important to read lies that donald trump, of course, is facing his own case related to january 6. now, just to refresh our memories, he is charged among other things with conspiracy to defraud the united states and of attempting to overturn and official proceedings. so the vote counts in this case and of course in this trial for the proud boys, his name came up as well. a defense attorney for joseph big said that the proud boys had been sold on a lie, referring of course, to the lie that donald trump peddled about the 2020 election being stolen. and you can see how the prosecutor result working to build a case against donald trump might use that to augment the narrative that donald trump is at least partly responsible for january 6th. but there are also issues of

timing and public perception about ty, in together. the trial data for trumps january 6 cases on march for that is a day before super tuesday when several states have the republican primaries. so at the very least this case will keep trumps name in the public discussion in connection with january 6. and it's hard to imagine that being particularly helpful to him. thanks. janelle t w's. janelle do allow and in washington for us, you as president joe biden, is to travel to the state of florida this weekend to assess the damage caused by hurricane and dahlia. there. the storm inundated the states gulf coast region with rain and cost severe flooding. italia moved it ne, over the carolinas. and it has since been downgraded to a tropical storm. clean up efforts are underway, but they're being made difficult by lingering flooding of the store may have passed,

but the daily news still remains. categories, 3, advocating adalia was a pos of destruction, costs florida's launch the view of the northwest, causing an estimated more than $9000000000.00 in damage and leaving more than $140000.00 times without power. when the west is there is a residence across the region, returns to that homes, to assess the damage. what matters is what i'm holding this material here and we're going to rebuild. meanwhile florida governor of on desantis announced measures to help those have been affected by the storm. we have requested from the federal government, a major disaster declaration for all 25 counties that fell under the hurricane

warning. this will allow us to start debris removal and will provide funding for individual assistance which include shelter and temporary housing for impacted individuals. and well, florida began the clean up operation advocating the valley of barrels across georgia. i'm just a kind of a line is right, heavy down paused cause flooding and created short lived tornadoes, which left a trail of devastation as the stone made its way to the atlantic ocean. and now the west is past dripping wet and covered in debris. the people of the south eastern states face the unenviable task rebuilding the communities that call home. let's have a look at some of the other stories making use around the world. the former us president donald trump has pleaded not guilty in the georgia election fluid case. this means he is waved his right to appear in court next week. trump and 18 others

have been charged with trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the southeastern state. to let the ukrainian president for autumn ears, the landscape says his country has developed a new long range weapon system and his evening address, zalinski said the undefined weapon had struck a target 700 kilometers away. the comment appears to be a reference to a strike on a russian airfield near the locked in border on wednesday. a day after military official seized power in the bond, the african union has suspended the countries membership. the military has named the chief of the republican guard as head of a transitional government. world leaders have condemned the crew, which ended more than 5 decades of the bungalow family rule in the bond. so the africans are coming to terms with a building fire in johannesburg that resulted in the death of at least 74 people.

so if african presidents here over, i'm opposed to has blamed what he described as criminal elements for conditions in the overcrowded building. he said, games had exploited families living there and demanded extortionate rents. authorities are investigating what caused the fire of the friends and relatives stand behind police tape down the street from the apartment complex, wondering, hoping, praying that their loved ones are not among the dead pulled from the building. and one of the deadliest residential fires in south africa's history, the scarcity of affordable housing and tremendous berg has led to several large squatter camps in the countries most populous city. like the one where this fire broke out. what i know, my familiar west, the sides when i come with, i tried my best to find a my 5 minute i never found one of them. the fire broke out in the middle of the night, leading to terrifying scenes with some jumping from windows to escape,

while others remained trapped inside. hours later, the flames were still smoldering and the human cost became more clear. during the visit to the site, south africa's president called the fire a great tragedy. we've got to go to the bottom of what caused this fire and also address from now on. it's a wake up call for us to begin to address that situation of housing. he says the city on building one's house a shelter for women, but when that lease expired, the building was hijacked by criminals, as he put it. criminals who then levy events on the uh, on founder of people and families who need and want accommodation invested in a city for people. yes. needs to live in the city. but that

needs to be older. that needs to be law and order in the, in a city where i'm opposed the promise of full investigation into the causes of fire . as well as the hundreds of derelict structures in johannesburg that are illegally occupied of the empire as a bond on rental electric scooter. is comes into effect today. the french capital was the 1st city here in europe to embrace a scooters hoping they'd help reduce emissions. but for many, they became a nuisance to many reckless riders and clogged sidewalks parisians voted to bid adieu to the east coast or to send another to east scooters. but they're getting harder to find. it's his job to collect the rental schools here in paris. in less than a day, they're all meant to be gone. i don't know, but it, it, it is a switch to another to. this app helps them locate them. although they've been

getting scarcer over the past days, never has a means of transport and so divisive as the talking it, as provisions call them. the sum of all this time is that it's such a pleasant way of getting around. is it you can swing left or right? it's not stressing like a car that you keep a budget. i wouldn't miss them. i can't tell you how often i nearly ran over school to ride is if i, you know, trio what i love them or hate them a referendum then the scooters in april, just 5 years ago. parents who was the 1st european city to embrace east peters, hoping to reduce carbon emissions. but too often they lay a band in the streets and accidents became more frequent. like inside google, near which successfully reduced the top speed of the scriptures, but they kept getting more and more dangerous helmets on compulsory. and it's impossible to prevent 2 people from riding on one screw to death done. so when i

put you next a, now let's add you to looking at benjamin gobeel has to get his company scooters off the streets by the deadline and electric field, the show on this could have been handled differently. we've drawn out conclusions and now concentrating on e bikes and power science supposed to be at that. so we can do the, you know, swim desa. 15000 e scooters are now headed for warehouses on the outskirts of paris, where they're getting a once over. the 5, i think, the brakes, the wheels see if the motor still works, as you'll see them look at these scooters are headed for other cities, some even to berlin. on the broad side, the batteries also fit the bikes that will now be replacing the scooters. the city of paris supports that shift as they desperately want to uphold their traffic emissions policy, body o, c k, and we blanket powers to become the biking and pedestrian capital. that's the plan

for the future. many people here hope the bankers will be more considered in traffic than a scooter writers were. for now, it's game over for the 20 minutes. they're just a souvenir of a paras past. now to the us, state of nebraska were police there, received a bizarre cole that sounded like a cock and bull story. it involves an actual bolt sitting in a car on a highway. the bulls name is howdy doody and his eye catching right. has been driven in parades across the area, police pulled over the driver and heavy duty. they said they, there were carried some traffic violations related to the car, but decided to let them off with a warrant. no, the.

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