translation: if the territorial integrity of our country is - threatened, then to defend russia and our people, we shall of course use all means at our disposal. i am not bluffing. in the past hour, russia has released 10 prisoners of war captured in ukraine in a deal brokered by saudi arabia. half are britons. also in the programme, new york s attorney general files a civil suit against donald trump and three of his children, accusing them of fraud. donald trump has condemned the lawsuit as a witch hunt . also this hour, the us federal reserve is expected to announce in the next few minutes another hike in interest rates, in a bid to bring down high inflation. we begin with the conflict in ukraine. russia s president, vladimir putin, has announced a partial military mobilisation, making an additional 300,000 personnel available to fight in ukraine from today. he said the call up was necessary to protect russian territory, including occupied areas that moscow is preparing
it s 7am in singapore and 7pm in new york, where we begin. donald trump s defence lawyers have delivered their closing arguments in the hush money trial against him, telling the jury there was little evidence provided by prosecutors. mr trump faces 3a charges of falsifying business records in connection with payments to the adult film star, stormy daniels. if found guilty, his would be the first ever criminal conviction of a former us president. there s beenjust as much action outside the courthouse. oscar winning film actor robert de nirojoined the joe biden campaign. he spoke to our correspondent nada tawfik about the possibility of donald trunk winning this year s presidential election and this week s trial. i m very concerned. i m very concerned because they don t play by fair rules. they re not. the republicans, they all came up here before and they were talking. it s crazy. we re in a crazy zone, and that s because of trump, because he s crazy. sir, what if trump is f
forward to being on your programme. 50 is that forward to being on your programme. so is that happen? people will follow paddle boards in an election? there is a lot of sewage in our waterways. 14 years of a tory government. it looked pretty staged to me and one person said that is the biggest splash they will make! he is one person said that is the biggest splash they will make! splash they will make! he is the only person splash they will make! he is the only person to splash they will make! he is the only person to get splash they will make! he is the only person to get away - splash they will make! he is the only person to get away with - splash they will make! he is the | only person to get away with this because only person to get away with this because he embraces his centrist dad~ because he embraces his centrist dad~ they because he embraces his centrist dad. they do all these stunts. there was the dad. they do all these stunts. there was the jungle. a
were trying to make it so they get the munitions they need to be able to continue to fight against russians aggression into ukraine p. it s a fight between authoritarianism and democracy. russia and russia president vladimir putin have made it clear they have sides well beyond ukraine and need to stop them. they are in ukraine and the department of defence is ready as soon as we can get this package complete. we ve got to get the aid into ukraine so they can continue this fight. the fight is actually happened within your own party. it s a little lopsided grant you but there are mixed signals coming from president trump right now. he s putting more pressure on mike johnson about what he can concede and not. even though he was with him and it seemed to indicate support. he is also saying europe has to do more as you pointed out, sir, but his son donald junior has already turned against the speaker signalling is made zoning mistakes maybe now is the
conversations. absolutely. it was incredibly smart. congressman kennedy, another text. the president s son donald junior writes to meadows, he s got to condemn this shit asap. the capitol police tweet is not enough? meadows writes back. i m pushing it hard. i agree. we need an oval office address. he has to lead now. it s gone too far and gotten out of hand. how does this fit in with the investigation, do you think? well, look, jake, the idea that you have, as congresswoman love has said, you have a public cover-up at the highest degree here while private acknowledgment of how dangerous this was, including from president trump s own son. there is no way to get around the fact that people at the highest levels of the white house knew had some inkling how severe and how dangerous this moment was. so then to say nothing to see here? or what happened was just a