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minister -- the far right lease minister is jeered by protesters during a pride march. -- police minister is jeered by protesters during a pride march. a summit of european leaders to discuss the war in ukraine has been held in moldova, the country which neighbors you need to the west. moldova has become increasingly important strategically following the russian invasion. it is a former soviet republic and it has remained economically dependent on moscow, struggling for years with pro-russian rebels, the president saying that hosting this summit just 20 kilometers from the border was a show of solidarity. president zelenskyy has been at the gathering where he reiterated that ukraine should be urgently allowed to join both nato and the eu. >> every european country that borders russia and that does not
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want russia to tear them apart should be a full member of the eu and nato. and there are only two alternatives to these, either open more or creeping russian occupation. >> correspondent jenny hale has more on the senate -- summit. >> today was largely about symbolism, as is often the case with this kind of summit. it is no accident that those european leaders chose to meet here in moldova. all of ukraine's neighbors, -- of all of ukraine's neighbors, it has the most reasons to feel the most vulnerable after the invasion of ukraine. it is wedged between ukraine and the eu and for many years it has been heavily dependent on moscow for fuel and finance. whilst its government leans heavily to the west, it is desperate to join the eu, there is a region which is in the hand
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of pro-russian separatists. there are still russian troops there as the hangover from the soviet era and the way from which it ended in this part of the world. for those european leaders who gathered in that rural castle today was about sending a message to the kremlin saying that not only are we continuing to support ukraine, but we are also supporting moldova. what do they want? to be in the eu. and we had the mobility president saying that accession talks can begin this year. they already have candidate status. ukraine wants that kind of security guarantee as well. it wants to be in the you and wants to be in nato. and we heard today that despite the warm words of support from various leaders what neither moldova nor ukraine are giving right now i was scared to use without the security guarantees that the ukrainian president said there can be no lasting
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peace. >> russian foreign minister is in south africa ahead of a summit of major economies, -- in august. south africa is coming under increasing pressure for the to decide president putin will be allowed to attend that meeting to the international credit -- criminal court issued a warrant for arrests -- his rest over war crimes. five key member states, brazil, russia, india and china and south africa. due to the presence of china and india they represent 43% of the world population with more than 3.20 5 billion people. they now account for a slightly larger share of the world's economy then the g7 which includes the u.k. and the united states, which is set to be more than half of the gdp by 2030. africa correspondent andrew harding has this report from cape town. >> at the southern tip of africa
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today, russia is hard at work. the allies. the russian foreign minister, sergei lavrov, joining his indian and south african counterparts, growing an alliance seeking to challenge the west on many issues, including the war in ukraine. he lashed out at a selfish west, accusing it of exploiting and it's -- imposing its will. >> on the seashore outside, a small group of ukrainians protesting against russia's invasion of their country. >> we want the minister to stop this unjust and brutal war to stop killing civilians and our children. >> russian officials walk from their balcony. for them, the point of all this is to show that it is not isolated. the west may be united against
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it because of ukraine, what huge countries like india, like china, are still supporting moscow. and large parts of africa are at least trying to sit on the fence. south africa is officially neutral but just down the road from today's gathering, a naval base from where it is claimed weapons were recently shipped to russia. and at allegedly caught on this amateur video. -- an act allegedly, on this amateur video. >> i would bet my life on the accuracy of the assertion that weapons were loaded onto this video -- vehicle. >> they insist it is not true but they have a bigger headache now. vladimir putin, wanted by the international criminal court, is due to come here in august for a summit meeting. >> if putin comes here, what will it achieve for him? >> it will be a propaganda coup. i am strong, i'm not alone, and
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the west is helpless to stop me going where i want. >> minister andrew harding from bbc, if putin comes, will you arrest him? >> we are looking at what the various legal options are. >> itself like the fudge. your obligations are to arrest him. >> the allegations are clear, but the answer is not fudged. the president will indicate what the final position of south africa is. >> privately officials are hoping for a deal which avoids a putin visit and spares south africa from a furious western backlash. andrew harding, bbc news, cape town. >> u.s. prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of donald trump in which he acknowledges keeping a classified document after leaving the white house, the former president has repeatedly claimed that all the material he kept after leaving office had
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been declassified. gary o'donoghue joins me. what more are you learning about this material? >> it seems to be a recording of a sort of meeting which took place in 2021 after donald trump left the white house at his golf course in new jersey. it appears and bear in mind no one was there has said anything on record, these are sources speaking to media outlets, that he was waving this document around which dealt with potential options for an attack on iran and indicating what he was doing that he should not be, because not everyone should be allowed to look at it. it's crucial because one of the investigators -- investigations was into whether or not the documents he took were classified and should have been in his possession. they have recovered hundreds of classified documents, some of them from us -- and fbi search warrant. >> and this coming against the
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backdrop of various investigations into donald trump's conduct in a way -- time when he is trying to stage a presidential run. how likely do think it is that could potentially have an impact? >> in some ways these investigations fuel his run, they feel his supporters, it feels their anger in many ways. in some ways there is an upside to this. there are also serious downsides because the doj is looking at things like whether or not donald trump obstructed justice or country feed the espionage act. that special counsel inquiry is going wider than that and looking at the run-up to the attemp to overturn the election and to the generous sixth attack on the capital. all of these could take some potential sort of japanese for donald trump in terms of prosecution in the future. >> on a separate note we are also hearing that a vote on the debt ceiling bill could
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additionally be nearing the senate. what are you hearing? >> it looks likely. both sets of leadership want this to happen before monday. they really have today and tomorrow. once they agree things tend to happen. and even those senators who want to argue about this or that have acknowledged it has to get through. there will be some talk tonight but there could be a vote. with this legislation you need 60 votes to pass it, and we think that is likely to happen. the default on the cards is not likely to happen. >> are north america correspondent breaking it down first there. thank you. and one other note today from the u.s. political scene, president joe biden tripped and fell while handing out diplomas at a graduation ceremony at the u.s. air force academy on thursday. the 80-year-old was helped back
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on his feet and carried on with his duties, the white house has said that president biden is fine and he tripped over a sandbank on stage. his critics use such gaps to highlight his age, especially with the campaign on the verge of heating up. the explosion in digital media has thrown up some highly influential and controveial voices, you have a major impact particular on young people. how to manage that impact is of great concern to teachers and society. one of those characters is andrew tate, who has millions of online followers, many of whom are young, and there fears that he has been driving a rise in extreme sexism and misogyny which has led to several children's charities to speak up. he is currently detained in romania along with his brother tristen as part of an investigation into allegations of rape and human trafficking which they both deny. lucy williamson has been following his case for some time, and put to him some of the claims about his views, public statements and alleged oenses.
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>> andrew tate has built his image it -- image around cars, cigars and controversy. his followers to swallow his success -- sexism along with his success. he said little in public since his arrest and the remaining five months ago for rape and human trafficking. today, the bbc was the first major -- major media outlet to challenge him on those allegations. and on concerns from police, schools and rights organizations that he is spreading misogynistic attitudesmong boys and men. >> entertain. >> have you rape anybody? >> absolutely not. >> trafficked? >> pointed? >> absolutely not. >> but you have used emotional exploitation to get women to work in the webcam industry free. someone has set exactly those things, there is always an ulterior motive.
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>> no name, no face. >> i wanted to place him and i wanted him to be happy, but i was just kind of yeah ok, do whatever you want. >> who accused me of a crime, and imaginary sophie? >> i'm asking you a question. >> you're not the boss. i allowed you into my house. >> you get to decide the answers. >> we are equal here. i allowed you into my house. you don't come here for a position of authority. i am doing you the favor of giving irrelevance by speaking to. i'm telling you now this sophie, who has no face and only knows who she is. >> we did not invent this. >> right, you never invent everything. >> we have the chief executive officer of freight crisis of -- accusing you a spreading rape culture. comments you make are leading
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people to say things like this. >> garbage. >> schools are saying that they are having increased incidence of girls being attacked, female teachers being harassed. by -- because of you and your teaching. >> that is garbage. i have never ever encouraged a student to attack a teacher, male or female, ever. i preach hard work, discipline, i preach antidrug, religion, i preach no alcohol. i preach no knife crime. every single problem in modern society him ainst. >> i presented you with quote after quote after quote, case after case after case of people being concerned. >> you have come here with an agenda, with loaded questions, things out of context, takes that you don't understand are satirical. >> sarcastic and jokes. that's how you expend the comments you make. would you like to apologize for any of that? >> for you to sit down and say that one woman said that her
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boyfriend watched an entertaining video and now he will do the dishes or whatever you are arguing -- that i am somehow the worst men in the world for driving a car is disingenuous. >>'s arrest and -- his arrest and detention has not dimmed his influence, and is still followed by millions on twitter. an indictment in this case is expected within weeks and will mark a new phase in his fight with romania's legal system as teachers across the u.k. continue to battle his message. lucy williamson, bbc. progress. >> for the full interview you can head to the bbc news youtube channel. in other news, and canada, fire fighters and nova scotia are battling the largest wildfire in the province's history. the fire has burned more than 70,000 hectares. meanwhile, another fire has forced the evacuation of
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thousands near halifax, the largest city continues to burn. smoke from the fires traveled south with air quality warnings in the united states. celebrations have been taking ple in jordan after the wedding between the countries crown prince, and his saudi arabia bride. dignitars from around the world attended the event and that included photos from britain, belgium and the netherlands as well as the u.s. first lady, joe biden. -- jill biden. not to israel where tensions are high with lgbtq pride week which begins with the jerusalem pride march. the event which takes place every year is the first event of its kind t pkeo lamostceardle ay conservative government in israel's history took power five months ago. israel's far right police minister was jeered by mergers who accused him of trying to push them back in the closet. israel's far right police minister has been jeered at by
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those marchers with thousands turning out to the event despite security fears over online threats and counter protests. tom bateman reports from the event. >> the theme of this year's gay pride in jerusalem is tolerance. there is a very specific reason for that and that is because this is the first pride since israel elected its ultranationalist government, a government which includes the openly homophobic senior ministers from far righ parties. the police minister is actually responsible for the safety of all these people, in overseeing police operation. he has a homophobic track history, in the past he attended protests to gay-rights.
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he arrived here a few minutes ago, walked down the street, with the security detail, there were cries of shame from the crowd. i asked him if this was provocation, and he denied that. it gives you a sense of why there was so much tension. yet the reason is that because there has been a lot of activity on telegram and social media in the run-up to this from far right ultranationalist groups, who are trying to prevent relationships between jews and arabs, and openly homophobic organization as well. some of their dumpsters have a counter protests over here, out this way. the police have completely separated these two events. i say there are only a couple of dozen people over there, we were just overfilling them, i asked them why they were there and they were talking in biblical terms about why they agree with all of this. but jerusalem always has extreme high tensions that comes to this event.
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this is a holy city with the worlds three monotheistic religions, fundamentalists over here protesting as ll about this alongside jews. since 2015, when an ultranationalist step to death a 60-year-old marcher, there has been very high-security and everyone is screened before they can get in. it is in that context of conflict between secular and national religious israelis. the organizers said they wanted a huge turnout and they recorded record numbers of people here. >> australia's most dedicated -- decorated living soldier has lost a defamation case which -- against newspapers that accused him of war crimes. they alleged he was involved in
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the murder of 600 prisoners. for out of the six murder allegations, all of which he denies, were substantially true, a judge found. >> he was an icon in his own country, a war hero honored by the head of state. the victoria cross on his chest, testament to ben roberts fits his bravery. the highest military honor was given to him in 2011 for overpowering taliban machine guns. but a court has now ruled that newspaper reports of four claims of murder ding his time in afghanistan were substantially true. >> the applicants connection has found maine's that the respondents had established the substantial truth. >> the try was a first of its
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kind in australia. it centered on events during 2009 and 2012, as australia's military continued its role in the allied effort to try to defeat the taliban. it herded claims that he had pushed a handcuffed farmer off of a cliff, details of a captured taliban fighter who was shot in the back 10o killings as an initiation for new recruits. >>oday is a day of justice, a day of justice for those brave men of the sas who stood up and told the truth about a war criminal, a bully, and a liar. >> there was a crowd outside, but robert smith was not in court to hear the ruling. he denied all six murder claims against him saying that ber lawful and the other did not happen. this was a civil trial, it is not criminal, the burden of proof is lower. the man seen by many australians as the embodiment of heroism now has a much tarnished reputation.
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the newspapers who exposed him vindicated. >> a car rental company supplying remotely driven cars has launched in milton keynes and the first of its kind in europe. we have been finding out more. >> after 18 months, and a thousand miles of testing, these new higher cars are ready for the road. the company has taken electric vehicles and retrofitted them with driver technology. theompany is using safety drivers for now, as you can see, they don't actually drive the car, that is done back at the company adquarters. >> we still have a safety driver who sits in our vehicles while they are being driven. he does not touch the wheel, and they are there because we are building our safety features and we want to make sure you are absolutely safe.
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safety is the number one thing we care about before we remove the driver. and we want to build perception about a car with no one in it that no one has seen before. that will take us another 18 months. >> if all goes to plan, the safety drivers will be removed and the scarp will be delivered to me as an empty vehicle. i then use it as normal sitting in the driving seat and using the steering wheel. when it is finished it is taken away by remote control. these cars are not autonomous, they are piloted back in the company's base. this looks a a souped-up computer game but the operator here is a 360 degrees view of the routes using cameras built into the vehicle. as well as anti-crash safety systems in the operating software. at the moment, these cars can only be hired in and around milton keynes. some are skeptical of this developing technology but others leave it is here to stay and will revolutionize the way we travel.
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>> every plant is beginning to flower in the u.k. for the first time. this is the florida coast or cake, there are less than 2000 in existence, mostly in the swamps of southwestern foredeck, it was flown to the u.k. from chicago to weeks ago and is now on display at kew gardens in london. unexpected news for sex in the city fans, kim comfortable air will his -- reprise herole in the second season of the spinoff. she agreed to revive her iconic character samantha jones for just one scene of the its po season finale. she saw -- shot and without any of the other cast members and was notably absent from the first season of the reboot after a public falling out with her costars. this may be the closest fans get
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see the fab four back on screen. you can find all the days news on our website and make sure to check us out on twitter. i am, humphrey in washington, thank you for watching world news america. -- helena humphrey in washington, thank you for watching world news america. ♪ narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... narrator: financial services firm, raymond james. man: bdo. accountants and advisors. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. and by contributio to this pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ ♪
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