 Former US President Donald Trump has been asked to pay $454 million dollars his penalties in a fraud case. Trump and his associates including two of his sons were found guilty of manipulating his net worth so as to get better terms while taking loans and for insurance. Two of Trump's sons have also been hit with penalties in the millions. Trump can appeal this judgement but will have to find the money before doing so. Now what does this case mean for Trump and will it affect his presidential campaign at all? We go to Anish to find out. Well Anish thank you so much for joining us. So first of all maybe could you take us through what this case itself of course not the only case Donald Trump is facing. He's facing a wide variety of charges but this is a massive fine we're talking about over $450 million dollars here. So what is this case? What are the allegations against him and what has been the process so far? Yes Prashant. So the judgement right now what we have is on a civil fraud case for against the Trump organization and also Donald Trump himself and several of his associates who have made sure who have over the years we've found to have over evaluated their properties under the Trump organization to secure loans at very low interest rates. And also for other business practices they have actually over evaluated the wealth the rate or the pricing of the property. And in several cases it has you know more than doubled in some cases it has more it has you know it has been over evaluated by you know by 10 times more than the actual market prices and that clearly shows there was a significant fraud being done very intentionally so by the Trump organization and obviously people in the Trump organization. So in pretty much all of this what we are seeing right now is this massive fraud case which has been going on for quite a while. These are not new allegations. The allegations have been there since 2008 at the very least in some cases. So in most of these cases we are getting a judgment right now and this is going to have a significant impact on him. The penalties total to around four hundred and fifty four million dollars already. The actual penalties are about three hundred and fifty four on top of which the judge has imposed another hundred million dollars in pre-judgment interest. And on top of that Trump would have to pay a hundred thousand dollars per day interest if he continues to keep the penalties unpaid. He can obviously appeal the judgment and for that he would have to put up a bond that is going to also run in millions tens of millions of dollars and that for that he probably would have to you know mortgage one of his properties depending on how the bond company puts up conditions what kind of conditions it puts up for the bond and whether or not Trump has the capacity to actually pay the entire bond money in full. It could actually come to about fourteen million dollars at the very least or more than that. And it is quite doubtful if Trump has enough cash to actually make such a payment for a bond at the moment. So that is one of the one of these ways we can also say that this is this is going to be a significant financial strain for not just Trump but also his two sons and his associates all of whom have been banned from doing business and that is going to have a major impact on pretty much everything that Trump is going to do for the next year right now. Right Anish of course now every time there's a verdict of this kind every time a case of this kind comes up against Donald Trump the million dollar question is or this case of four hundred million dollar question is will this have any effect on his candidacy in any way either financially or in terms of in terms of popular support. So you know does this case play any role in the presidential campaign at all. Yes so the impact is always a very interesting question because in previous cases even where there have been decisions or rulings that have been against Trump in all of them it never really hit him in a manner that can actually prevent him from you know running or even impacted his campaign or his popularity for that matter. Currently what we're seeing is that this judgment by the New York State Supreme Court is going to have a significant financial impact on the Trump campaign. We are already looking at half a billion dollars in penalties. It could keep growing if Trump continues to keep the penalties unpaid. It could also attract seizures of his properties which includes trumped out his Mar-a-Lago residence and obviously his multiple properties across the United States including many of the golf courses that he actually owns very overpriced golf courses. In all of this definitely Trump is going to be put in a very difficult financial spot financially and even the Republican Party would be hard pressed to actually help him. Obviously the RNC the Republican National Committee has backed Trump in the civil frauds case even paying for the defense fees for the lawyers. But they do not have the money to even pay the bond for the appeals that is required for the appeals let alone the penalties itself. Trump could fund raise through his campaign which would but it would also be very difficult to fund his penalties through the campaign. And obviously the ban on them doing business is going to also impact how they're going to raise the money at the moment for the judgment. So depending the appeals process there is already a significant uncertainty over the Trump business and that in itself is going to impact his image as this very successful businessman that he has presented him. He has often used that as an attack as a weapon against his contenders and that has always been his kind of image because he has always funded his own campaign. He'd never really depended on fundraising or crowd sourcing his funding for his election campaign unlike many of his competitors. And so that is going to change obviously. So he might have to find other ways to at least fund his campaign at the moment because he would be very hard pressed to fund it financially himself at right now. So that is going to change a lot of what Trump will going to Trump will now stand for because he cannot. You know he has to change his entire style at the at that if you want to actually raise funds through corporations or from people or from his Republican Party supporters. All of this is going to have a very interesting set of development in the past couple of in the next couple of weeks. On top of that the looming danger of seizures of his properties of the Trump organizations properties are also going to have a significant strain on the campaign itself. And that will also have because of the responses that we are seeing right now is also kind of quite mixed. Obviously hardcore Trump supporters are completely backing him. But you have a large number of Republicans who are not very sure of how to what to make of this judgment and what to make of the findings of the judgment itself. Trump is trying to present himself as a martyr of a witch hunt. But nevertheless it is it's still it is not working in the manner or it is not rallying support in the manner that other judgments had attracted for him. And that is going that clearly shows how like that is one of because it is one of the you know the basis of his image right that he's a massively successful businessman. And the fact that he is now being convicted of fraud clearly shows that it is going to have a significant dent in his image and his popularity as well. How that is going to translate into votes in obviously the Republican parties and Republican supporters might still continue to support him. But the larger voting population might be divided on how they want to or what they want to make of this judgment. Thank you so much Anish but do stay back we'll come back to you for the next story as well. French farmers are once again staging protests weeks after they took to the streets in large numbers. The protests in France are part of a larger trend of similar agitations among farmers across Europe. Now many of these agitators are unhappy with policies by the European Union which has failed to communicate with them or address their concerns while taking such decisions. We go to Anish once again to understand more about this issue. Welcome back Anish. So a protest of course taking place in France is another round a few weeks ago that it's quite huge. This time also you know protesters I believe entering into Paris on Saturday. So what really are the issues around which farmers French farmers specifically are protesting. How is the government sort of responded. How do we see this you know this round of protests. Yes Prashant let's begin with why there is this new round of protests in previously with multiple protests which included blocking of highways by tractors. The the protests were actually called off or put on hold actually by the farmers groups after Prime Minister promised a four hundred billion dollar package. It was one of sorry a four hundred million euro package. And it was it was something that that held some level of you know a relief for the farming groups. But later right now the farmers groups have decided that since the elections are quite close it would be best for them to put pressure on the government to expand more help more support and deliver on promises that these the macro government had previously given to farmers farmers groups. You know and that is something that they think is right now the time is ripe. Since during the elections it would actually put immense pressures on the government right now. But aside from that we have to remember that these protests are part of a continent wide agitation by farmers farmers which is something that is that clearly shows the weaknesses and exposes the weaknesses within the European Union's agricultural policy or its free trade policy as well. Because some of the basic issues if you look at it the farmers are agitating because they are dealing with you know rising cost of production but also you know plummeting prices with the cost of production are increasing primarily because there is higher energy costs now for the farmers because of the war in Ukraine and also because there is a significant you know significant damage has been done very very recently by multiple natural calamities and so the French farmers were some were particularly affected with these natural disasters and the losses that they incurred really put up the brought up the cost of production but it wasn't coupled with you know any rising prices because you know the free trade the European Union dictated free trade policies have actually impacted prices in a manner that has actually impacted the farmers the worst at this point in time and you know coupled with the cost of living crisis that is that is still there it has not gone away because you know most because the French government hasn't really paid attention to that and it has affected across classes not just farmers is something that is going to also that has impacted how farmers are whether or not they're making gains they're pretty much making losses at this point in time. On top of that obviously there is the issue of obviously the free trade agreement but also there is the issue of the Ukraine war and its fallouts because the European Union especially France has actually taken measures to support the Ukrainian war by actually by actually subsuming or even completely side stepping national interest in this case by bringing in cheap Ukrainian grains that has actually caused the plummeting of prices back home and has impacted the profit margins or even any kind of hope for French farmers to cut the cost that they have that they were expecting or to cover the cost that they were expecting from their sales. So these factors have all you know come together to actually create a crisis for farmers in general and this is something that is not unique to Europe sorry France right now it is something that is happening across Europe right now and this there is a significant impact or a looming threat actually by the macro government who you know because of the rising cost of the Ukrainian war have actually because they are also funding it quite significantly have also decided that they will be or announced cutting of agricultural subsidies in the coming months and that in itself is a massive threat to the farming sector especially for small and small and middle farmers in France especially and this is definitely something that farmers are trying to bring attention to and also trying to put pressure on the government not just to roll back some of the existing policies that are dictated by the European Union's free trade regime and also this entire that is also fall out of the entire war in Ukraine but also to you know to support farmers in a much better manner by bringing in you know mechanisms that can actually support them from the vagaries of the market actually. Right and of course this is not just in France alone but part of a larger trajectory of protests taking place across the continent so could you tell us a bit about that as well why are farmers across the Europe in different countries protesting some demand seem to be aligned but some are also unique in their own ways. Yes so it isn't obviously as I said it is nothing it is not unique to France in fact the farmers protests began in Germany in Europe and actually spread to France Belgium and now across Eastern Europe in all of these cases the issue is primarily how the Ukrainian war has impacted the entire you know the working classes in across Europe earlier it was trade unions and working class movements who raise the problems and issues that are coming out of the fall out of the Ukrainian war that has significantly impacted a by bringing up energy costs for everybody. Not just farmers but everybody including household expenses you know that actually contributed to the rising cost of living crisis. And on top of that right now farmers are also having to deal with a flood of cheaper Ukrainian produce which is something that the European governments did by side stepping their own national interest in an bid to support the Ukraine's war against Russia and so in all of this the farmers are paying the price in some cases governments are you know announcing cutting down on subsidies. There is a Europe wide consideration to actually cut down on farming subsidies and also to you know to continue funding the war in Ukraine at the cost of you know welfare policies and social services back home. And that is something that has hurt everybody.