What the world makes of Trump going on trial

Pictures of Donald Trump sat successful a New York courtroom person accompanied countless front-page stories astir the first-ever transgression proceedings of a serving oregon erstwhile US president.

That sum has not been constricted to the US. The world's media person carried the communicative - remarking connected the antheral who wants to instrumentality to the White House and the lawsuit against him.

Mr Trump denies 34 counts of falsifying concern records successful narration to a $130,000 outgo made by his lawyer to bargain the soundlessness of an big movie prima conscionable earlier the 2016 election. She alleges they had an affair; helium denies the story.

So however is the historical proceedings being covered, from Beijing to Rome? We asked our colleagues astatine BBC Monitoring, which tracks and analyses media astir the world.

By Tom Lam, BBC Monitoring China specialist

Chinese media person covered Mr Trump's proceedings but it hasn't featured arsenic prominently connected the quality docket arsenic 1 mightiness expect. Still, it offered the media different accidental to amusement what's seen arsenic the chaos and polarisation of US politics.

English-language reporting focused connected facts of the case. State quality bureau Xinhua's English-language variation highlighted that Donald Trump was the archetypal erstwhile president to basal a transgression trial. It besides quoted the accused arsenic describing the proceedings arsenic "political persecution" and saying the state was "failing". China Daily, the state-run English-language newspaper, focused connected assemblage selection, during which much than 50 of the 96 archetypal imaginable jurors were excused aft saying that they could not beryllium fair.

Domestic-facing state-affiliated outlet The Paper provided infographics and timelines of the trial, and cited US surveys arsenic showing polarised views connected it among US voters. It besides zoomed successful connected conflicting reports astir the imaginable interaction connected the wide predetermination successful November.

State-owned China News Service (CNS) talked astir "unprecedented problems" facing the US judicial strategy if Mr Trump were to triumph successful November but besides beryllium convicted.

Nationalist regular Global Times cited precocious involvement rates, ostentation and the situation successful the Middle East arsenic showcasing Mr Trump's conception that the satellite had spun retired of power nether the Biden administration.

But the state-run tabloid did not spare the Republican either. It provided a colourful study connected 16 April focusing connected reports that helium had fallen dormant successful court, posting a meme ridiculing him arsenic "#SleepyDon".

By Pascal Fletcher, BBC Monitoring Latin America specialist, Miami

From Mexico and Cuba to Argentina, media sum reflected the keen involvement with which governmental events successful the US are followed southbound of the border. Multiple stories connected the Trump proceedings emphasised its "historical" nature.

Most of the reports made a constituent of publishing striking photos of a stern-looking Trump seated successful what outlets highlighted was the "accused's bench" - this was apt to beryllium viewed arsenic righteous justness by galore of his critics successful Latin America.

The specified anticipation of different Trump presidency is some mesmerising and perchance alarming for galore Latin American leaders, governments and societies that vividly callback his scathing anti-migrant comments and what they saw arsenic barely-concealed scorn for struggling processing countries during his erstwhile word successful the White House.

Argentina-based Latin American quality website Infobae published an extended communicative connected the "Colombian justice that volition person the past connection successful the proceedings against Donald Trump", noting that Judge Juan Merchan had "not flinched successful decreeing a gag bid against Trump".

Some of the Latin American reports did gaffe into commentary, specified arsenic Mexican left-wing regular La Jornada which said that Mr Trump was "accused not of being a saviour and defender of his state arsenic helium says, but of trying to screen up payments to a porn prima which sought to soundlessness an illicit intersexual encounter".

Top Brazilian regular Folha de S. Paulo adopted a intelligibly anti-Trump presumption successful a 16 April editorial entitled "Trump and the unthinkable" which posed questions astir a script successful which helium was jailed and past pardoned himself arsenic president. It urged American voters to avert that script astatine the ballot box.

By Andrey Vladov, BBC Monitoring Russia specialist, London

A pro-Trump bias was successful grounds successful overmuch of the coverage. On authorities TV Rossiya 1's main evening news, the presenter utilized the Russian slang connection "bespredel", which astir translates to utter lawlessness and maltreatment of power, successful notation to the proceedings and different transgression charges faced by Trump.

Court proceedings were consistently linked to the contention for the White House by respective outlets. Olga Skabeyeva, big of Rossiya 1's 60 Minut (60 Minutes) governmental speech show, said the lone accidental Trump's enemies had to decision him successful the predetermination was to imprison him. "In this regard, a lawsuit was fabricated astir a bribe for the soundlessness of porn histrion Stormy Daniels," Skabeyeva concluded.

In the government-owned regular Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Igor Dunayevsky wrote: "Democratic politicians bash not fell their hopes that the hunt for Donald Trump volition forestall him from participating successful the 2024 elections."

Russian authorities media person consistently mocked the existent US president arsenic "senile" and a idiosyncratic not truly successful power of events. Donald Trump connected the different manus has had a overmuch easier thrust connected pro-Kremlin outlets.

Laura Gozzi, Europe integer reporter, London

Across the Atlantic, an editorial successful Le Temps successful Switzerland described the indictment arsenic far-fetched, questioning whether the revelation of an alleged matter with Stormy Daniels would truly person influenced voters successful the 2016 predetermination fixed what they already knew astir Mr Trump.

"As helium erstwhile again solicits the ballot of Americans, it would beryllium distressing if Donald Trump responded lone for the falsification of accounting documents successful New York and not for the onslaught connected the Capitol and against American democracy," it said.

The New York newsman for Italy's left-wing Il Manifesto paper described the spectacle extracurricular the courthouse and concluded with a pointed remark that it each added up to a "hypnotic reiteration of the normalisation, oregon simplification to a freak, of the Trump threat".

Opinion writer Jędrzej Bielecki took a wider presumption successful the Polish regular paper Rzeczpospolita. He said the proceedings would beryllium a "spectacular illustration of the spot of the regularisation of instrumentality successful America, to which, astatine slightest theoretically, everyone, some the almighty and the weakest, indispensable answer".