Loses its conflict with russia. G7 Foreign Ministers are meeting now on the italian island of capri to discuss ukraines urgent appeal for more air defence support and how to use frozen russian assets to assist kyiv. Earlier, i spoke to our security correspondent gordon corera. Potentially, a significant series of arrests by German Authorities yesterday. Theyre certainly suggesting that today, with prosecutors arresting two men, one of those, it appears, had been spending some time carrying out reconnaissance of a Military Facilities. The second man is thought to have assisted him and then, in turn, they are thought to have been in contact with another person linked with russian intelligence services. Some details are emerging about what they may have been looking at. These are Military Facilities inside germany but the suggestion is this wasnt just spying, collecting intelligence that is something that happens normally but they were considering, particularly that one individual sabotag
coming up on cnn, the four-time indicted twice impeached one term president donald trump takes the stand as a defendant in the new york civil trial accusing him, his son s, and other trump organization executives of business fraud. and it s now been one month since the horrific hospitality on israel as war rages on. even official says the death toll in gaza from israeli airstrikes defies humanity. live from cnn center this is cnn newsroom with john vause. wherever you are around the world, thank you for joining us this hour. we begin with a historic day in a new york courtroom. for the first time in more than a century, a former u.s. president has taken the stand as a defendant and donald trump stayed true to form. during four hours of testimony insulting the court, insulting the judge, and insulting the prosecution. while repeating his favorite and in collect claim from the campaign trail calling is criminal charges part of a criminal witch hunt and election interferen
ridiculing the effort by the special counsel to have a gag order in play put in place on the former president. they re calling it an unconstitutional overreach by the special counsel. and their say this is actually a ploy to help joe biden in the election. i ll read you some of what this filing said tonight. it says like manhattan district attorney alvin bragg jack smith is seeking to restrict president trump s camp campaign speed as the first presidential debate approaches at the end of the month, that s of course the debate that s going to be here on cnn then later this month, they go on to say the following. they say that the motion is a naked effort to impose totalitarian censorship of core political speech under threat of incarceration in a clear attempt to silent president s silence, president trump s arguments to the american people about the outrageous nature of this investment and prosecution. and look, what the former president s lawyers are really homing in on. and
now tonight author 60 breaking news. it s now in the judge s hands. lawyers for the former president just file their answer to special counsel jack smith s call for a gag order in the class by documents, case also tonight, what we re learning about how trump and biden teams are preparing for the cnn presidential debate. let s in two weeks from tonight. and later, new details so on the princess of wales is first public appearance since revealing her cancer diagnosis it s gonna be tomorrow. and what it could say about the state of her treatment. good evening. thanks for joining as we begin tonight with a breaking news on a gag order that jack smith says is designed to prevent the former president from making statements that quote, poses significant imminent and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents participating the investigation and prosecution of this case now, statements such as the former president s false claim that he narrowly escaped death during the search of mar