This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Garas Barlow, and in the early hours of Wednesday 14th of June, these are our main stories.

After pleading not guilty to a slew of federal charges in connection with

misshandling secret documents, Donald Trump hits back at his opponents,

will have the latest from Miami. Meanwhile, our Kiev correspondent James Waterhouse

reports some of Ukraine's village liberated from Russian forces.

And...

Whoever watches this video, I was kidnapped yesterday.

They are demanding $4,000 for each one of us.

They beat us day and night non-stop.

A special BBC investigation into the horrific treatment of some Afghans

fleeing by Iran and Turkey.

Also in this podcast, inflation in the US falls to the lowest level in two years,

fueling speculation that interest rates may not have to increase.

And how the world's most famous early human ancestor, named Lucy, could walk fully upright and live in trees.

But first, we are certainly entering a plea of not guilty.

The words there of Todd Blanche, Donald Trump's attorney in court in Miami on Tuesday.

For the first time in American history, a former US president was

arraigned on federal criminal charges.

He's accused of taking top secret documents with him when he left the White House

and storing them at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

After the brief hearing, his motorcade then stopped off at a Cuban restaurant to meet supporters

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