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00:00 Former US President Donald Trump has been found guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying

00:07 business records in a hush money scheme to influence the result of the 2016 election.

00:14 He's the first ever former president to be found guilty of felony crimes in America's

00:18 history.

00:20 He was accused of concealing a payment made by his lawyer to former adult film star Stormy

00:25 Daniels to buy her silence ahead of the presidential election.

00:30 Speaking outside the court after the verdicts had been read, Trump blasted the trial as

00:34 a disgrace.

00:35 "We didn't do a thing wrong.

00:36 I'm a very innocent man and it's okay.

00:37 I'm fighting for our country, I'm fighting for our constitution.

00:38 Our whole country is being rigged right now.

00:39 This was done by the Biden administration in order to wound or hurt people.

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01:36 This trial is just one of six cases, four criminal and two civil, that Trump is currently facing.

01:42 He'll be sentenced on July 11th and could face a prison sentence,

01:46 although legal experts say a fine is the more likely outcome.

01:50 Germany's Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has announced a 500 million euro military support package for Ukraine.

02:03 He made the announcement during a trip to the southern port city of Odessa.

02:25 Ukraine's frontline troops continue to face ammunition shortages in the face of a renewed Russian offensive

02:32 in the northern region of Kharkiv, which was launched earlier this month.

02:36 Russia has made some territorial gains,

02:39 but Ukraine's ability to hold back Moscow's forces has been hampered by a lengthy delay in US military aid

02:45 and Western Europe's inadequate military production, which has slowed crucial deliveries to the battlefield.

02:51 In his nightly address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that new agreements

02:56 with partners on air defenses and drone production are on the horizon.

03:16 Meanwhile, on Thursday, US President Joe Biden gave Kiev the go-ahead to use American weaponry

03:21 to strike inside Russia for the limited purpose of defending Kharkiv.

03:26 But two anonymous US officials said that Washington's policy calling on Ukraine

03:31 not to use American long-range missiles and other munitions to strike inside Russia has not changed.

03:42 Palestinians in Jabalia have been searching for their belongings in the rubble of the refugee camp

03:48 after the Israeli military withdrew from the area following a three-week operation.

03:53 Gaza's largest refugee camp, once home to more than 100,000 people,

03:58 has been all but destroyed in an IDF mission to eliminate Hamas positions.

04:04 The health ministry in Gaza says 53 Palestinians were killed

04:08 and 357 others wounded in fighting across the Strip in the past 24 hours.

04:14 Aid was airdropped into Gaza again on Thursday,

04:20 with people rushing to landing areas to try to access food and other supplies.

04:25 At a press conference in New York, the UN Secretary General's spokesperson

04:30 gave a grim assessment of the humanitarian situation in the Strip.

04:35 Intensifying hostilities and severe access constraints continue to impede aid operations in Gaza

04:42 at a time when hundreds of thousands of people need life-saving aid.

04:47 But the Biden administration insists that Israel's military action in Rafa

04:53 is not the major operation officials have been threatening for weeks.

04:57 We have been clear about what this isn't, which is not a major military operation.

05:03 I'm not going to categorize it into one box or another.

05:07 This is obviously a very dynamic and fluid situation.

05:10 We're going to continue to consult with our partners in Israel and engage on these issues.

05:15 Meanwhile, families continue to stream out of Rafa in search of safer areas elsewhere in the enclave.

05:24 This is the fourth or fifth time I've come to Gaza.

05:28 I've come from the streets of Dair El-Balah.

05:31 I've come from the streets of Dair El-Balah to Rafa, and now I'm back here in Dair El-Balah.

05:35 The UN estimates that around 900,000 people have fled the city

05:39 since the start of Israel's limited military operation.

05:49 A volcano in Iceland has continued to erupt for a second day,

05:53 but authorities say winds are expected to carry poisonous gas pollution away from the capital, Reykjavik.

05:59 Iceland's Met Office says the eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula,

06:03 the fifth since December, is the most powerful since volcanoes in the area

06:07 became active again after lying dormant for more than 800 years.

06:11 The town of Grindavik is again subject to an evacuation order

06:15 for the handful of people who returned to their homes after an eruption earlier this year.

06:20 A series of scandals and spying allegations are jeopardizing the EU election campaign of Germany's AfD party.

06:32 They were expected to be the driving force of Europe's far right

06:36 and presented themselves as the only patriotic force in Germany.

06:40 We are a patriotic party for our country. We are a patriotic party for Germany.

06:50 The most serious allegation surrounds the party's top candidate and MEP Maximilian Krah.

06:57 At the end of April, his assistant was arrested on suspicion of passing information to China.

07:04 Police later searched Krah's office.

07:08 One week ago, AfD was finally expelled from the far right European group Identity and Democracy

07:15 after Krah gave an interview saying not all SS members were criminals.

07:21 Experts say recent scandals spoiled AfD's image in Germany.

07:26 This election campaign has been a central narrative of the AfD,

07:31 namely that it is the only patriotic force in Germany.

07:34 But if it propagates Russia, if it has spies from China in its ranks,

07:41 then it is nothing but patriotic.

07:44 It is actually a betrayal of its own fatherland.

07:48 So you have to let this accusation go,

07:51 whether it is a force that is actually for Germany or for interests from abroad.

07:56 The party's number two, Petr Bristron, also faces an investigation over allegations he may got money from a pro-Russian network.

08:06 We have seen far right politicians and lead candidates from AfD in Germany in the pockets of Russia.

08:14 They are selling their souls on Russian propaganda outlets and videos.

08:20 AfD's hardcore voters probably won't be put off by recent news.

08:26 However, the scandals could sway away those right-wing or conservative voters who haven't made up their mind yet.

08:34 Belgium is headed for a triple election with voters casting ballots to elect a new federal parliament,

08:41 regional parliaments and members of the European Parliament all on the same day.

08:46 Millions of paper election ballots are also already being boxed up and shipped out across the country.

08:51 The INI group is responsible for printing and preparing about 8 million ballots for the elections.

08:56 Yes, we hope that it will always be paper ballots or even more in the future.

09:03 We saw the example of the Netherlands where they came back to paper voting.

09:08 I think in Walloon they also came back to paper

09:11 because many of the people are quite afraid of the digital way,

09:17 that there might be some infractions in one or another way.

09:20 There's also the pricing issue, which the paper, working with the paper is cheaper than the digital way to do this.

09:29 Flemish nationalists are predicted to win what the country calls the mother of all elections.

09:33 In Wallonia, the French-speaking southern half, social democrats and the far left have dominated the campaign.

09:39 Elections will be held on June 9th.

09:41 Good morning, I'm Gloria Muñoz.

09:53 I've been in a small shop in the neighborhood of Salamanca, Madrid, for 35 years.

09:59 If I were a member of the European Parliament, I would change many things.

10:07 First of all, I would help a lot more than what is done to small businesses.

10:12 If a study is done, small businesses, at least in Madrid, are disappearing.

10:18 All the big companies, I'm not going to name them,

10:25 but they are making small businesses unable to defend themselves

10:31 and they have to close them down little by little and the shops are disappearing.

10:37 They have been there all their lives and there are very few of them left.

10:41 Hi, I'm Marta Barandi, candidate for European elections with ForU.

10:52 If I am elected as an MEP, I will stand for a stronger Europe,

10:57 for migration based on European values, but most and foremost, for entrepreneurs.

11:03 As an entrepreneur myself, I believe that individual entrepreneurship should be encouraged

11:10 and in terms of taxation and in terms of administration, the burden should be less.

11:17 And of course, the social justice for entrepreneurs should be the same as for employees.

11:23 They should receive the same rights as employees when they lose their business.

11:28 It is not fair for entrepreneurs who create working places and who add value to society

11:34 to be in worse conditions than those who work.

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