ahead of his scheduled court appearance on tuesday. trump s legal team is preparing for the first ever arrangement of a former president, the u. s and russia s top officials, speaking by phone about two detained americans. but russia has to say about the fate of the arrested wall street journal reporter and a violent explosion rips through a saint petersburg cafe, leaving a popular pro war russian blogger dead. what? we re learning ahead in a live report. from cnn center. this is cnn newsroom with leila harrack. we begin here in the united states and the coming hours. former u. s. president donald trump will head to new york for a moment we ve never seen before. sources tell cnn. he is expected to appear in court tuesday afternoon. his legal team says trump will voluntarily surrender but plans to file substantial legal challenges. we will take the indictment. we will dissect it. um the team will look at every every, um, potential issue that we will be able to challenge him. w
in an explosion. dozens more injured. what investigators in saint pierre zberg think happened and huge tornado outbreak across the south and midwest over the weekend. the devastation and the death toll rising. we re live on the ground in arkansas. good morning, everyone. i m omar jimenez. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we ve got a lot to get to this morning. so let s dive right in just hours from now. donald trump boards a plane to new york, the first step of what many americans are hoping will be a journey to accountability. you re looking at live pictures right now and according to trumps, truth, social posts he ll leave mar-a-lago at noon and make his way to trump tower . his appearance in a manhattan courtroom tomorrow will be the first time in american history of former president is arraigned on criminal charges trump, his lawyers and many supporters claim the district attorney is pursuing a nakedly political prosecution. begin the batt
investigation and, of course, as you, say, the foreign ministry spokeswoman in russia has immediately pointed the finger at ukraine, saying that russian journalists, she said, are increasingly facing reprisals from the cave regime. that, of course, without evidence at this stage. yeah and you know, as you mentioned that suspect is in custody this morning, i want to you mentioned journalism and russia. i want to turn to secretary of state antony blinken, who s calling now for the immediate release of wall street, journalist of journalist for the wall street journal, evan herskovits during a rare phone call with his russian counterpart, sergei lavrov. but what can you tell us about about that phone call and what we know there? what there was no discernible progress armada. but of course, at least the communication lines are open. and they have not, as you said, been speaking often since the start of russia s war and ukraine s actually blinking, according to the u. s readout, expresses gr
state media, focusing on a woman who, according to eyewitnesses, handed vlad renta, tatar ski figurine of sorts shortly before the explosion. so that s what state media is saying that they are looking at in terms of political reaction. nothing from the kremlin as of yet, but we have had, as you say, from the foreign ministry spokeswoman maria zahara over who immediately pointed the finger at ukraine, saying that russian journalists are constantly experiencing threats of reprisal from the cave regime and its inspirer. which are increasingly being implemented interesting that she is sort of linking him with russian jan with russian journalist since he was a military blogger, really with a telegram following of around half a million, she praises his service to the motherland as well, even though of course he was known at times to be critical of the way that russia was conducting this war. so as of now, as i say. mostly this is being focused on how law enforcement of dealing with this we w