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anchor: the time is 10:00 p.m.. here are our latest headlines. donald trump flies from florida to new york to face criminal charges. the story day in u.s. politics area we will be speaking shortly to our correspondent. the campaign that killed a
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leading military blogger. building on the citizens convention, reflections and consultations. his lawyers say he wants proceedings to be as painless and classy as possible. donald trump has touched down in new york.
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in his latest social media activity, the former leader called the investigation a witchhunt with tensions running high. the white house is encouraging people will to remain peaceful. we can speak to our new york correspondent who is standing by. mr. trump has landed where you are. what is the mood like? >> the city is on high alert and eric adams had a press conference earlier with the chief of police in which he warned protesters to be on their best behavior. will ready now one protest and
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the mayor singled out marjorie taylor greene you announced she was coming to new york to join a protest. in addition, two areas of manhattan are seeing heightened police presence and security, at trump tower as well as the court where he will be appearing tomorrow. anchor: i want to remind our viewers of the pictures we are seeing from new york of the motorcade brain trump from the airport the courthouse. these are the pictures of trump traveling to central new york. the big day is tuesday when the president will --
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reporter: we are expecting him to go to the manhattan district attorney is also for the person to be handcuffed. in the afternoon is going to go to the court where he will appear in front of the judge, the judge will read the indictments. relating to falsification of business records and the violation of election laws. we will find out the details and after that, former president
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trump is expected to fly back to florida where he announced he will be giving a speech. anchor: a blustery new york. thank you very much. in other world news, she was known to police for having protested against president putin's invasion. they are accused of planting explosives which went off on sunday evening. it injured over 30 people. the kremlin says president putin has bestowed an award on the dead man. the visors have been quick to blame ukraine for the bloodshed. >> this woman is who russian
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authorities lame is responsible for killing a blogger. on a video, and to a war press the -- an antiwar protester is being asked why she is being detained. according to authorities, she has admitted to bring explosives. a military blogger was killed after being handed a statuette. this footage shows theoment of the blast which injured more than 30 others attending the event. she was originally from you rain and joined pro-russian forces and has been a vocal supporter of the war in ukraine. russia says she worked with special services.
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>> there is information that the ukrainian special services may be involved in the planning of this attack. naturally, this is a terrorist attack. >> ukraine has not had much to say but has landed on domestic terrorism. the suspect told a publication he thinks she was set up. anchor: commanders have been eager to clarify the situation on the ground. the army has stressed it has not been captured and putin's men are very far from achieving the goal. they announced the flag had been hoisted. an additional flag will soon be
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fluttering from the roof of nato. the secretary-general said finland will be joining this tuesday with the president flying into muscles for a special territory. the nato security chief said it will be good security. to a trial expected to be of considerable length with the prosecution saying they will need to lay out evidence. they faced 10 charges with persecution, murder, torture and forced disappearance of people. he has pleaded not guilty to charges.
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before the end of the summer, the french president says a draft bill will be tabled. he plans to build on the work of the citizens convention where three quarters have come out in favor of euthanasia or us to suit fish or assisted suicide. we look at how france currently compares with other european countries on the issue. reporter: the debate over the right to die is back in the spotlight as france considers legislation. currently, doctors can decide to end care with agreement and conssus. medical staff can administer continuous sedation for terminally ill patients, but deliberately ending the life is still illegal.
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when we talk about the right to die, several different terms are used. there is euthanasia. it can be active or passive for example, it can be administering if it dose of medication while passing could be switching off life support. there also assisted suicide which involves an individual taking action to end their own life. only a handful of countries allow it including spain, belgium, the netherlands and luxembourg. it's been legal in switzerland since 1942. nordic countries allow passive assistive dying when someone requests treatment be stopped. supporters say it allows patients to die with dignity
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while critics fear it could be abused with patients pressured into choosing death. with the debates that they continue, portugal and ireland are examining the hot button issue. anchor: a southern city has led to the deaths of three people and gang violence has left eight people wounded. nearly two years ago, the president of france announced government would spend money to tackle on and property. reporter: ginette of deadly violence, two men in their 20's were killed in a drive-by shooting in the 15th district. police found around 50 assault rifle casings. >> they try to flee but were followed. others tried to flee in a
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vehicle. >> must residence are upset by what happened and frightened. >> it is shocking. really shocking. >> i am scared because it seems we can't go out at night. reporter: it happened around 11:30 p.m., followed by a second shooting where four other people were injured. the final attack took place about an hour later. this time, a group of teenagers was targeted. a boy was killed while another teen was fighting for his life. police are blaming the violence on a turf war. >> now, it's a war of drug trafficking networks. it will require a massive
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investment to put the people who kill in prison. >> since the start of the year, 13 people have been told in gang-related violence. anchor: to the johnson space center. astronauts will be orbiting the moon next year if all goes to plan. the engineer becomes the first woman to be assigned to a lunar mission while a naval engineer will become the first african-american on the mission. >> she is an engineer who is no stranger to breaking records, logging the longest continuous
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spaceflight by a woman, your mission specialist. he is a naval aviator that has flown over 40 different airaft, most recently the first operational commercial crew mission. the artemis two pilot. anchor: the france culture minister was that the exhibition space to welcome a special delivery, the sarcophagus of a pharaoh is in paris. >> inside the shipping container
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lies the casket of the king. the coffin is on loan to france from egypt, a gesture of thanks for restoring the money 50 years ago. >> you already chose france to restore and treat mommy. today, with happiness, emotion and humility, we welcome back the casket of a ruler who has not gained a wrinkle. >> ramsey is the centerpiece. it is traveling around the world but only the powers show will include the kings coffin. it is the latest major display of artifacts after the 2019 show drew 11 5 million as it is. >> nowadays we are in a world that is always moving.
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this feels like balance, immutability. i'm getting chills. >> the magic is not wornall for the public. 100,000 people have already bought their tickets. >> a quick update before we move on. we're expecting donald trump to arrive at trump tower after landing in new york from his estate in florida ahead of tomorrow's court appearance, we are expecting him to get out of a car in manhattan to enter trump tower where he will be spending the night ahead of the hearing. more bring youore. >> it's time for a look at the
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top business news. we're starting with crude oil prices in the wake of a surprise announcement from oil-producing countries. >> they are on track for the biggest gains in nearly a year. brent crude up more than 6%, the spikes come after opec was countries including saudi arabia, iraq said on sunday they will be cutting oil production by more than one million barrels per day, the largest reduction since october. >> crude oil supplies are set to tighten further in a surprise announcement. it follows the cut last year of
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2 million barrels per day. it amounts to around 3.7% of global demand. it led to a search in hell prices. goldman sachs raise the forecast to 95 and $100 per year. an official said the move was precautionary aimed at supporting the oil market. the biden administration said it was unwise. >> i think this is going to get highly politicized and be a bit of a mess going forward. the end result is higher prices, that is inflationary. >> could pressure central banks push interest rates higher.
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the opec plus move was coordinated with a russian decision to extend a cut until the end of the year. >> those prices are reflected in equity markets. in europe, indexes were mixed with oil and gas have inclined 4%. ubs lost ground. job cut rumors sent shares down 3%. wall street was down. test the shares were up 6%. analysts are looking at rising oil rises with mounting trepidation. we spoke about the effect on consumers and interest rates. >> we could see it at the pump,
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although we would need uzi a sustained price increase at this level for that to hit people at the pumps. if prices stay elevated, that seems to be what opec is trying to achieve. that will impact. transportation costs, petrochemicals, all of those feed into inflation and raise the pressure on central bankers to keep hiking interest rates to deal with that pressure. anchor: west germany has banned ey, punishment for their role in the wire card scandal, they collapsed in june of 2020.
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an audit regulator finding them one half a billion euros. they filed a criminal complaint accusing them of knowingly filing inaccurate statements. the investigation is ongoing. two giants of combat entertainment prepared to take team the competition. u of c and wwe have agreed to a merger. you have seen -- ufc is owned by endeavor group. they have expanded into a sports event juggernaut. vincent mcmahon will serve as
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executive chair. he returns in january after stepping down last june amid accusations of sexual misconduct area while the wrestling matches are scripted, ufc israel fights. there is expected to be increasing crossover. anchor: time for truth or fake. emerald maxwell is with us to talk about a video shared by russian media showing ukrainian soldiers harassing a russian-speaking woman. >> it was first posted on the 27th of march by a russian
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telegram channel which has more than 1.2 million subscribers. let's have a quick look. in it, we see what sounds like a child. the soldier starts shouting and we hear him calling her a pig. she gets distressed and he demands she speak ukrainian. then he walks in front of car before getting back to the other soldiers. it was shared by russian government accounts including
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the russian embassy in the u.k.. comments such as once a nazi, always a nazi. that was shared on russian accounts including a national newspaper. >> it did not take long for fact checkers to expose that the video had been staged. >> the same evening, online communities confirmed unpublished threads in which geo-located where the video was filmed using publicly available information and visual clues from the video such as the trees, intersection and the
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angle of the sun. both came to the same conclusion the video was filmed to the east of the city of donna. we see here, the location of the video apparently filmed, 30 kilometers into russian occupied territory. this is an immediate area occupied by russian forces. it means the soldiers could not possibly have been you radiant because they would not have been able to operate in this way. >> the story takes an unexpected turn. shortly after it went viral, the admission was that the video was
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staged. this was from a telegram channel with 300,000 subscribers which says the video is fake, we have a lot to learn in conducting such information operations. the russian foreign ministry remove the tweet without comments. twitter added a note beneath it confirming that saying thanks to the geolocation, we know it was filmed in a russian patient. -- location. >> thank you very much. it's time for a quick break, i am back in a manner of minutes with more world news and
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04/03/23 04/03/23 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy now! >> it is unusual for former president to be indicted but that is because it is unusual for a president to commit a crime. if donald trump did not want to be indicted, he should not have done the things. amy: donald trump is expected to be arrested in new york on tuesday. he will become the first former u.s. president to ever be charged with a crime. we will speak

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