the world. just ahead on cnn newsroom, drummer unfolds on two cases as the case against president trump and his allies enter a new phase. plus an emotional vigil in jacksonville florida after a hate motivated mass shooting that took the lives of three people. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rose marie church. thanks for joining us. in just a few hours from now the first courtroom hearing on the charges against donald trump and 18 others will get under way. a federal judge will hear arguments from mark meadows a codefendant and trump s former white house f of staff. he s pushing to get s case moved to federal court or everyone thrown out. willis is expected to lay out the legal arguments in his racketeering case against trump. meadows and 17 other codefendants. georgia s secretary of state who trump pressured to find enough votes to win the state has been subpoenaed to testify. separately we ll also likely learn the trial date for the federal election int
Russia confirms that pergozian is dead. what is next for the war in ukraine. i will speak to a retired general just ahead. then three marines dead, many others injured in australia and so far the u.s. military is staying silent about what may have caused the air craft to crash. we ll go to sidney for a live update. wherever you go. wherever you stay. all you need is one key. earn and use rewards across expedia, hotels.com, and vrbo.
finally ukraine is claiming further victories. what is your opinion of how they re progressing. we re seeing ukraine make progress. we re now seeing more on the south. it s clear that ukrainians have an offensive position. what we don t know is just how well the russians can defend the second line of defenses. and whether they are tháebg do it as well as they have the first. they might well have spent a large proportion already and are under a lotover. so the coming days will be very interesting. retired general thank you for joining us. thank you. u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin offered his condolences sunday to the families of three marines killed in an aircraft accident in australia. u.s. and australian military crews work together to transport the injured from a remote island to a hospital in the northern city of da
Many more injured. there s 20 other survivors of the crash were brought back to darwin to the australian mainland to be checked over. at least five of those people were hospitalized. now, australian authorities have issued their condolences. so has u.s. president joe biden who issued his condolences on a tweet of himself and the first lady jill there: so what authorities have been very careful to say is these incidents, this was a routine training run. but they re just as deadly. they can be just as dangerous as front line combat of course. and we ve seen that in this case now. what we don t know is why the crash occurred. once the recovery efforts of the mission there ll be an investigation on both sides.
Rwin. 23 u.s. marines will fly in an auspry. many of them were injured quite sill veerly. quite reverely. angus watson is standing bill. what else are we learning? well, to give our viewers a sense of just how remote the area is where this tragedy occurred, it s on melville island. some 80-kilometers off the north coast of australia: some 50 miles. the aircraft crashed into a hillside of dense vegetation in this vastly populated area of this island. and that just made the initial rescue efforts and other recovery efforts all the more difficult. it may take until tomorrow to recover those marines.