To defend themselves, citing the threat of Foreign Military intervention. They claim to have information a foreign power is preparing to attack. It comes after the expiry of a sunday deadline from west African Regional bloc ecowas, which demanded the coup be reversed. The group now plans to hold an Emergency Summit on thursday. Meanwhile, the United States is suspending more than 100 million in aid to niger. But officials insist theres still time to solve the crisis. I spoke to former state Department Official Bisa Williams earlier to get insights into the situation. We are now learning more about the Acting Deputy Secretary of states unsuccessful attempts to negotiate some kind of settlement to see a return to power of president Mohamed Bazoum. Why do you think she wasnt able to make any progress there . Im not sure i would characterise that as unsuccessful completely. My understanding was that the Acting Deputy Secretary left the door open for continued discussions and that basically
And made his way to The Court Room through back corridors. Trump was read his rights, before entering his not guily plea. The next hearing in the case is set for the morning of august 28th. According to the Magistrate Judge overseeing this today. Donald trump is facing four federal criminal charges in this case, including Conspiracy To Defraud the united states, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempting to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against the rights of citizens. We are seeing these images of the motorcade of the former president arriving here at Washington Reagan National airport. Receiver portals injure and was following him. We are not sure if the former president is going to deliver a statement. He did speak or read some System Orders greet some supporters so this is something we are waiting to see if he gets on the plane and delivers a statement. Journalists running up to the former president s plane hoping that he would spe
Described in the indictment that was fuelled by lies, lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a Bedrock Function of the Us Government, the nations process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the president ial election. Our North America correspondent nomia iqbal joins me from outside the court. What will we see on thursday . These charges as you outlined there, the Department Of Justice believes it is held a strong case to show the former president of the us tried to select the Election Results of 2020 and essentially tried to overturn the policy. We mention one of the charges, Conspiracy To Defraud the United States, obstruct official proceedings, and others. This is the most serious Indictment Set by the donald trump basis, one of the most serious indictments the Department Ofjustice has brought against a president in terms of what they have laid out in the indictment against him. Having said that, despite the seriousness of it, Department Ofjustice has a cha
The indictment was issued by a grand jury of citizens here in the District Of Columbia and it sets forth the crimes charged in detail. I encourage everyone to read it in full. The attack on our nations capitol onjanuary 6, 2021 was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. Its described in the indictment it was fuelled by lies, lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a Bedrock Function of the us government, the nations process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the president ial election. The men and women of Law Enforcement who defended the us capitol on january 6 are heroes. They are patriots and they are the very best of us. They did notjust defend a building or the people sheltering in it, they put their lives on the line to defend who we are as a country and a people. They defended the very institutions and principles that define the United States. Since the attack on our capitol, the Department Ofjustice Has remained committed to ensuri
That in court . That is what we will see but the evidence see but the evidence certainly appears overwhelming for what we saw in the january Six Committee and from what has been alleged in the indictment. There are tonnes of witnesses and they are all almost overwhelmingly republican, members of the trump administration, republican secretaries of state like Brad Reference Berger who of course donald trump famously told, just find me 11,780 votes. These are republicans, im sorry to even have to put it in those terms but this is what we have been reduced to, is not enough to see the Secretary Of State of georgia reported it. He is on tape saying, to this Secretary Of State who gave him money, even thought it was for close and say that there was no way he would violate his oath like that. So at some point we will be able to call ourselves out of the vicious partisanship that donald trump is injected into our country but in the meantime it is overwhelming republicans who are pointing the f