>> i am mark owen and these are the headlines. donald trump pleads not guilty to possession of illegal documents, facing 37 felony counts of willfully retaining classified documents. national security could have been jeopardized. conviction could mean a jail term and possibly the end of his . we will have more live from the courthouse in miami. good evening, kevin. and 11 people killed as russia

tax live mail zelensky -- attacks volodymyr zelenskyy's hometown. the inquiry into the u.k. mishandling of the covid meant helmick -- covid pandemic, 220 5000 people at least lost their lives. the inquiry opened this tuesday. this is live from paris. thank you very much for being with us. donald trump has appeared in court in miami. entering a plea of not guilty to 37 federal charges for the possession of classified documents at his home. there are additional charges

along with federal agents tasked with recovering the files. the case making history, the first time the former president of the u.s. is facing such charges. the judge has ruled that trump will not be allowed to communicate with potential witnesses in the case. he came to the court of his own will to answer the charges leveled against him. an aid of his has been charged as a co-conspirator and is believed to be a valet. they arrived at court together this tuesday. he has also entered a not guilty plea. the origins of the charges are at a trump golf club, he revealed plans of an attack on iran to his guests. top-secret information. august of 2020 one he revealed a top-secret map of the ongoing withdrawal from afghanistan that was completed later that month. again, the final pullout of the troops happened of course on august the 30th. may of 2000 22, obstruction of

federal agents trying to recover documents in mar-a-lago, eventually found in several locations, including a bathroom. many of those locations have been accessible to the public using the club. the 76-year-old trump did not enter the plea himself, his lawyer spoke on his behalf. the procedure was closed to cameras have live broadcasts. in april he also pled guilty to -- not guilty to state charges in new york from a hush money payment to a foreign star. trump the first former president to be charged with federal crimes. let's listen to his -- to the former president's lawyer. >> they hate donald trump. what we are witnessing today is the blatant and unapologetic weaponization of the criminal justice system. to bring 37 federal charges against president trump, the leading front runner.

less than a year and a half before an election. what is being done to president trump should terrify all citizens of this country. these are not the ideals that our democracy is founded upon. this is not our america. mark: speaking there very much on the trump side of matters, the lawyer for the u.s. president, the legal team with the case moving forward yet to be revealed. let's get more comment on the situation there. you were there when trump arrived. tell us about that. >> donald trump arrived a little bit before 2:00 here in miami. there was already big crowds waiting for him outside of the miami courthouse. a lot of donald trump supporters but also people protesting against the former president of the united states. donald trump entering that

building. he was booked and then he was in that courtroom where he was officially arraigned. read those 37 counts. that is when his lawyer entered that not guilty plea. the magistrate telling him not to be in contact about the facts of the case. with any witnesses or even his codefendant, except through their various lawyers. a little bit of a condition there from the magistrate as he was releasing trump. trump walking out of the courthouse a free man. as he was leaving the courthouse, he made a little stop in a cuban cafe where he met with some of his supporters, cheering him on and telling him that they were standing with him . he invited them, of course, to join and listen as he gave his speech, which will be taking

place later on this evening in bedminster, new jersey. that's in front of other supporters who were waiting for him back in new jersey. the day wrapping up pretty much as we had expected. also on the security side, no sitting to speak about. the crowds, relatively calm overall. words exchanged between the two sides but nothing of note, there were helicopters overhead and just a few police lines around the courthouse. no road closures, no barricades. everything so far going down in peace and calm as the miami police chief and mayor asked her testers to do, express your first amendment rights but do it calmly. mark: we will continue to get all of the course -- all of the events as they happen.

thank you there for making that journey from washington to miami for this case. thank you very much indeed. let's get more analysis on this case as we have a lawyer joining us from new york city. we appreciate your time, sir. your sense of what is happening here? with other guests i have mentioned the words unprecedented regarding trump many times and we are in that realm again, aren't we, history making was happening. >> its history making, but we have to recognize the reason that it is history making is because we have never had a president who has been willing to put his own interests against those of the responsibilities of his former office. this bizarre insistence on continuing to exercise the powers of the presidency after he has been defeated has led him to a completely self-inflicted wound, here.

and i think that, you know, you showed a clip of his former lawyer talking about the demonization of the justice process. anybody who did what he did would have been prosecuted for it. and quickly. the fact that he is a former president and had this kind of conduct is the reason he's being prosecuted. i don't see where the problem lies in terms of weaponization. he has weaponized the system against himself by so blatantly violating the law and then, worse, trying to cover it up, causing other people to cover it up, causing other people to make this disrepute a to the authorities. now he is reaping the whirlwind. mark: weaponizing the system to shoot himself in the foot might be a way to put it, i suppose.

the idea of covering things up to recover those documents, that will in some people's opinions count very heavily against trump. what do you think? >> indeed. as lawyers one of the things we will say to a criminal defendant we are representing is you can't do anything about what has already happened. but you can make it worse. you can make it worse by trying to cover it up, by making misrepresentations, by tampering with witnesses or evidence. that seems to be, according to the allegation, precisely what he has done. even to the extent of tricking his own lawyers by removing documents before his own lawyers can even inspect the premises so that they could make a representation to the government that everything had been turned over to the government. these are the lengths that he has gone to. it's really quite inexplicable

but i think it has to do with the fact that he seems to be, as a lawyer, not a psychiatrist, to be a narcissistic individual who cares only about himself and about anybody else or the laws that govern the rest of us. mark: how long can this go on in your legal estimation and in terms of political analysis, the effect it could have on trump going forward politically? >> it may seem paradoxical but he will want this case to keep going for a long time, ideally through and after the election. trump runs on grievances. everything that he does politically is based on the premise that he is being victimized. that he is being singled out. he argues to his supporters i am, i am taking the weight of

this for you. it's you that they, whoever they is, really want. people want this to go as well as possible and his lawyers will be filing motions trying to make all sorts of arguments about improper prosecutorial conduct and the evidence that ought to be suppressed and not received in court with the goal of allowing him to run on his persecution in the campaign and if he gets the nomination and is reelected, allowing him to then as president dismiss all the charges so that he never has to face a trial. whether the judge permits that remains to be seen. mark: we have two quotes from trump. we have a corrupt country and he adds that we have a government out of control. any comment on that one, stephen? >> i would take country and government out of it and insert

trump and he would be accurate. we have an individual as a president who is out of control and does not seem any longer to know the difference between the truth and ally and is determined to perpetrate a fiction upon the american people. the judgment that we need to make about our country today is that we have come a very long way in a very short time, contrary to the values of our country, contraries of a belief in truth and proof into the realm of baseless allegations and mythology. that seems to be on the republican side today. i think we are beginning to see leaders of the republican party willing to stand up and say that this is not what our party ought to be. we can only watch and hope that

it doesn't continue. mark: thank you. we always appreciate your time. we appreciate you bringing this clarity into the situation we are seeing involve -- seeing evolved in front of us. thank you indeed, great to see you. if you just joined me, trump has entered a not ill deeply against 37 federal charges related to the espionage act regarding secret documents that were stashed at his home concealed in which he obstructed the search by federal agents to recover them. we just heard analysis from stephen dreyfus. in miami the case is taking place. donald trump's first public appearance after proceedings this tuesday was at the cuban bakery we were talking about earlier. let's take a listen to what trump was saying there. >> it's a rigged deal.

corrupt with no borders and nothing but problems. a nation in decline and then they do this stuff. you see where the people are. we love the people. >> his first public pronouncement since his not guilty plea. charges were put against him under the espionage act. reaction coming from the other side of the atlantic this evening. next, russian missiles raining down on 11 people were killed. at least more than two dozen were wounded as a warehouse and an apartment building were struck. the attack fell on a city that is the hometown of volodymyr zelenskyy as ukrainian verses are in the early stages of a counteroffensive to try to drive the russian occupiers through 1/5 of the territory they now occupy after 50 months of launching their invasion since

february of last year. >> carting away the bodies of the dead, russian airstrikes carried out overnight destroyed apartment buildings in the center ukrainian city that is the hometown of volodymyr zelenskyy. survivors recount the horror of the attack. >> we woke up to the sound of a missile flying above us. then we heard the first explosion. i ran to the other room and a terrifying wave knocked down everything. the windows, wardrobe, and front door. >> my sister was sleeping in the other room. i ran to her and screamed natosha, quick, strikes. i just carry her out and the window frame fell. everything was on fire. cars and everything. everything fell down in my home.

>> firefighters were dealing with in aftermath of the missile strike and also targeted a soda warehouse and a transport is this. dozens were hurt in the attack, suffering from burns and injuries. meanwhile, ukrainian soldiers are pressing ahead with their counteroffensive to liberate russian held areas in the south and east. as officials say, they have retaken several settlements. >> the russians are attacking in the south and east of our country, they are scared of our offensive and resistance that we have carried on for 16 months already. they are trying to make our people scared. >> speaking at a meeting with russian war bloggers in moscow, president boudin disputed that version of the counteroffensive, claiming instead that ukraine was suffering catastrophic

losses in its fight against russian forces. mark: we are of course watching out for all development on the situation ukraine. the public inquiry into the mishandling of the covid pandemic opened tuesday, 225 thousand people died of covid. many more still have the effects. the inquiry quickly heard that the government obsession with the prevented adequate thought on health alerts. questions asked included could some suffering and death have been avoided with better planning and were authorities distracted from preparing for potential threats? the inquiry is expected to last for three years and of course many people want their cases and voices to be heard. we will bring you developments from that as they happen. do stay with us here. ♪

>> hello and welcome to middle east matters. here's what's coming up this week. as football superstars had to saudi arabia and the kingdom announces a bombshell golfing merger, we ask what role does sports play and soft power and is it sportsmanship? also coming up, a wave of crime within israel from the palestinian minority. community members saying that they suffer from institutional discrimination and neglect by police. and yemen's beekeepers feel the sting as the conflict impacts hives and abilities to export their precious honey. but first, our question on the show this week. what role does sports play in

soft power in the middle east? it's a question we are asking after the bombshell announcement that the pga tour is to merge with archrivalliv golf. they also have their eye on global stars and perhaps even the nba. so,f whatu is the strategy out oftbo riyadh andl -- what is the strategy out of riyadh? should we see it as sportsmanship? we have our resident scholar on. >> thank you for having me. >> when the news broke of the golf merger, it appeared to take many people even within the industry by surprise. what was your reaction? >> it was definitely a surprise. the legal rivalry between the two was no secret, since the liv golf tour started.

this was a big surprise for many of us following the sports news. in other news related to the kingdom of saudi arabia. >> indeed. it's not just golf, the same time the deal was announced it was reported that a french futboller was headed to riata. they are already invested heavily in formula one, racing, boxing, even speculation that a megan -- american legacy sports organizations like the nfl or nba might be next. geopolitically, what do you think the saudi arabian strategy is here? >> the strategy has many forms. one of it is to break the sport -- break into the sports sector, very lucrative, to get revenue for the kingdom. it's not just about, you know, buying the stars just for visibility.

it's definitely for visibility and it helps with their image abroad but sports is also one economic sector in which the kingdom is trying to develop. it is also part of their strategy to change the society. they have many faults, not just facing the outside world but internally, they have a series of measures in various sectors like the sports sector, opening sports to women, opening stadiums to women. there are health elements sascha zverev using visibility -- there are health elements such as reducing visibility. it comes within a larger policy that is directed as much to the outside as the inside of the kingdom. >> what do you make of the argument that what riyadh is trying to do internationally is sports wash their human rights record. investing in sports to try to improve their image on the world stage. would you agree with that?

>> sports helps with the engine -- image of the kingdom but i do believe that the money, the amount of money that are being spent in addition to as i said other elements of this policy makes it really go beyond sports washing. as i indicated, it is targeted at the sector to generate revenue for the kingdom within its larger strategy, diversifying their economy, linked to changing the economy from the inside. it helps with changing the image of the kingdom abroad, from being a state that is only known for oil and islam to a sports hub. and then the kingdom is actually competing and is following the same strategy as their neighbors, like qatar, who recently hosted the world cup.

>> i was going to ask you about the world cup. saudi arabia has an official bid but insiders say it's probably only a matter of time before it does. is that, is that about the rivalry in the last world cup? >> they are in competition. given the similar structure, huge differences in size. they are of course competing. they have sports as most all of them, well not all of them, sports sectors to develop to drawl revenue. as you said in the introduction, it is not just about futbol. futbol is probably the most popular in that region when it comes to sports.

as you said in your introduction it's really about part of their vision 2030 strategy. >> thank you very much, we appreciate it. now in other news, saudi arabia has signed a $5.6 billion deal with a chinese electric carmaker, one of several major investments at a conference in riyadh this week. totaling over $10 billion in investment deals. it comes amid growing commercial and diplomatic ties between beijing and the gulf, including the landmark resumption of relations between iran and saudi arabia brokered by the chinese government. in other news, thousands of palestinian citizens of israel

have taken part in protests recently. in the latest attack, five people including a 15-year-old were shot dead near nazareth last week. experts say the stroke -- the spike in crime is because of drugs, arms trafficking, and prostitution. many within israel say the problem is made worse by discrimination and government impact. surely has the story. >> paying respects for murder victims. for these two men, everything ended here at a car wash near nazareth. they with the three other victims were palestinian israelis and the assailants have yet to be arrested. for police, the shooting is a part of a feud between two families implicated in organized crime.

>> dozens of police personnel took art in searches hoping to catch the perpetrators as soon as possible and referring them to justice. >> organized crime has gained power and influence in recent years in the arab communities of israel. officially 102 people have been murdered since the beginning of the year, compared with 106 for all of last year. criticized for his government's lack of action, benjamin netanyahu said interior security forces should be integrated into the fight against gangs. >> we will target the head of the snake of this criminal organization. i will convene a special government meeting with our legal advisors with a plan on how to integrate. >> arab israelis are the descendants of palestinians who remained in the country after

israel's creation in 1948. many of them say authorities are letting crime grow deliberately by not fighting criminal organizations properly, accused of neglecting the problem the far right national security minister says the problem was already there when he took office. >> ending the program this weekend yemen, a country -- this week in yemen, a country that produces honey, but beekeepers are impacted this year as they struggle to find safe areas for the hives. >> this sound is the buzz of business and music to the ears of one beekeeper. >> may peace upon you. these are the yemeni bees, producers of the world's finest honey.

>> honey is a source of pride for many in yemen and for good reason. the high quality means that he can sell one jar directly to consumers abroad for the equivalent of 62 euros. >> our honey does not crystallize, even after seven years, preserving its characteristics of color, taste, aroma and density. that is because of the purity of the floral source as the beads -- b's fee directly on the trees. >> the ongoing violence has made it hard for him and other beekeepers defined secure places for their hives and shipping the product out of the country is difficult and expensive. >> exporting our honey has been extremely hard as there are no longer shipments through airports or maritime shipping companies. all of this affected exports compared to the past, when we use to ship to any country

anywhere in the world. >> figures show yemen produced about 1500 tons of money into thousand 22, down considerably from 5000 tons in 2012 before the war began. despite the challenges to the industry, he has taken to social

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