the, the, this is the, the, the news my from the tuck a 9 says, a historic prisoner swap between russia and weston countries. the largest such exchange with moscow since a cold war, anchored assessed american before to evan good school, which is one of 26 detainees. being freed alongside form with us, maureen and security executive, coal wayland, the feel good. you're welcome to the program. we begin with the breaking news that took

a has confirmed, a major present, a swap between russia and a number of western countries. 26 have been exchanged on career airport. include american, just as an cosca, which former us marine corps, we with several russian dissidents. run the prisoners bring returns to russia. is bobby and crossly call. or he was convicted in germany if killing the former chechen rebels in a binding talk. apparently. oh me. oh, it is moscow security services. this one is the biggest between moscow and the west since the end of the cold war will have some correspondence in kentucky which has mediated the steel united states and germany. so let's start with that corresponded dorian jones in to see why this exchange took place. welcome dorothy at talk us through to his role in o. s. it was, it's been a lengthy statement released by texas intelligence agency, 9 once acronym mit. now it says a turkey play multi tape described as

a key role in not only the organizing all this major present exchange, but also the facilitating the tools that allow that to happen. now what we understand by the types, intelligent agencies such a lovely describe is an extremely complex operation involving 7 countries and 7 planes. now, those plans arrived on crap all during the day, carrying the prisoners that would be exchanged when the pains arrived. the prisoners would then remove, according to meet taking the separate locations around the apple, then the for ratification of the process, making sure that every policy was happy. the full, the exchange was made the health check to make sure the, all those exchange were include healthy older and then the exchange was made. and then we, what we see now is planes of leaving the country, taking those prisoners back home and life full also. and chris also insisting the full that they also, in the weeks leading up to the deal, they are allowed to send

a taishan of tops to be carried out in turkey. they broke the policies together and they said about the life a very critical role. that's like it's like allowing to see what happened, but it's still a taking place, a good party, a 3rd party role to break both parties together to make this feel possible. so they all clinic looked at, brought to kudos from workspace count as a major, successful present exchange and watch testing during this as well. taking many ways presents itself is so easy in a unique position because while it is a native pop, not as close ties with west the same time tuckers president bridget type of one has the developing very close ties with like to me a booting. now that has drawn a great deal of controversy from types by some partners, but turkey says that that puts itself in the unique position to be right of facilitate the role when you need to bring the policies together and not have to allow that this prison exchange really took, he said, oh he thought you could possibly play that role because it has good relations with

all those involved, obviously. and these trusted and they said that is an important role. and so he has played this role before in the ukraine conflict. turkey has helped to organize prison exchanges and they say that they are continuing those efforts to serve exchanges. and all of these, uh, these processes does require a 3rd party, a person on each side, queen trucks. and the other one is always insisted that he's a maintaining a car door communication with putin wellbeing also. and they took on has an outside key to play that role. and that role they played in the prison exchange. and they said that it's personally strict was really only made possible by the fact that you have a policy that each so i can trust that they cannot organize meetings together. when the dealer struck the truck again can play a role. so make sure that that deal is carried out to all parties satisfaction. and so he says, this is a vindication of what they've said. is these role to make any good ties, not only with the western allies, but also maintaining ties with leaders in, in, ongoing conflicts around the world. because that allows you to play a potential to,

to take the crucial role and what is known of the prison. i think 26 people who have been on all of these planes in tech. i totally understand is that slowly now that this, this process really said to be coming to an end, things are worthy of, of possibly leading the country, taking these prisoners back o, we understand all of them from lead me to prison news. hope we are receiving our kindly, old and good tell, and i think all parties do appear at least for now, at least with already from the tucker stuff, to be happy with the else the outcome of this person's well on. chris, very much claiming they say this is a major success. what does this be? one of the biggest present swap since the end of the cold war. and on chris saying that they already in the future to play that such roles again and the very much i think turkey will be looking to read that question. i like the ones that say you, you may not be happy with me having these roles with washer and maintaining comstock, but it's certain crucial moments. it is necessary to have someone who has that

communication as well as being tied to the west as well. okay, sorry for that darn and don't. and jones in a to okay from to get to the united states. we can join that correspondence. janelle do malone in washington. welcome to know what can you tell us about the us i, since that has been passed this exchange. so these names have become a quiet, taught well known publicly and most beside their loved ones. their employers really did do quite a lot to keep these names in the public spotlight as such shock coverage of their detention. that was quite substantial. starting, of course, with evan gris. conventional. evan gross coverage, of course, is the wall street journal reporter who was detained in russia last year uh, on assignment. uh um, for his newspaper. we also have another during the list on the list uh, um, from radio free europe, of course, on a. um, and we have

a poll real and um, the ex marine who has been there the long as he has been detained out for more than 5 years. he was detained in russia after attending a wedding, and then he found himself arrested and detained on espionage charges. there is a 4th name on the list. he is not a us citizen, but he is our british, russian national with a green card, the logged into your car. and where is a 42 years old. he was arrested for a, apparently speaking out against russia's invasion of you print. okay, tell us more about evan gasket image of the, like i said there fil a. evan brokovich shot was a, is a reporter for the wall street journal. he's 32 years old. he was arrested last

year while on assignment for his newspaper. and last month he was and he was sentenced to 16 years on espionage charges. now we've done a lot of coverage of evan jurors coverage. also warner channel. our viewers aren't, might be familiar of the, might be familiar with those images of him not watching the courtroom proceedings unfold around them, watching a from a glass cage and watching from behind a glass cage. and it has to be said that oven brokovich and his case has really become a major source of mobilization for the international journalism community. and since he was arrested for, for simply doing his job and he was used as a sort of pon, as the kremlin, those sought to get russian prisoners detained elsewhere back. so on,

on the wall street on the front page of the wall street journal, for example, you could see the headline wall street journal, evan burst of it. shaw is free and you can really feel the joy, a meeting from that page. but obviously for everybody involved, everybody who gets to go back home, there is so much relief there is there is so much of joy to their home coming at the release from russian prisons. and how is this the nearest being received back in the us? be on the wall street journal as well. president joe biden is actually expected to speak in a few minutes. he's been meeting the families of the hostages of, of the prisoners, excuse me, and he got to break the news to them personally. if i can read a bit. so from his statement, he called the deal that secured the freedom of feet of diplomacy. he said,

all told, we've negotiated the release of 16 people from russia, including 5 germans and 7 russian citizens were political prisoners in their own country. some of these women and men have been unjustly held for years. all have endured unimaginable suffering and uncertainty. today their agony is over. so this is a big historical moment. it is a big political moment because of course, it is also unfolding at a time where there is an election ongoing in the u. s. and this saw the detainment of americans in russia has the, has also become an election topic. now if you recall in the last debate between biden and trump trump, but sort of put himself forward as the one would be able to secure encourage, cuz this is a release because because pretend fault would do it for him. no bite and has been able to achieve this when, and this is something where the democrats,

this is location where the democrats are going to say this was made possible because we are the kind of government that is able to leverage alliances around the world. leverage our relationships with other countries. it was a, it was apparently the us, so that managed to convince germany to release the jim krauss, because over germany's own a hesitation. and that is something that they will be able to contrast themselves with a guns. trump, then trump some more sort of bilateral $9.00 to $9.00 single deal approach. so it's, it's a big day for the us. so there is no question about it extra now to the amount in washington. and i will go now to germany for more on the buildings roll a vax up and that he will corresponded to alex gast. welcome alex. now i'm the russian president was especially keen to getting funding. caustic costs free and

the german government was reluctant to hand him over. want to made them change their mind while the german government has just to raise a re release the statement. and they talked about that it was a very difficult situation, but they made that goal in favor of the imprisoned german citizens that were held. and by ruth and russia, let's not forget volume cost because the russian that now has been released from a german prison. he was a kid that he was a criminal, that he killed the georgian citizen. he involved in 2019, and he was sentenced to life long sentence in prison. and, and that's quotes that has decided the test sentence to is he in germany. so in the states given by the rule of law, so it was a lawful decision by the court. while the german citizens and prisons in better use and russia, how they were treated. and it's, it's very hard to imagine that we can describe the conditions that the process is

as a, as law for. nonetheless, the decision was made to swap a criminal for prison us. and one of shorts will welcome those, those freed german citizen slate that today at the airport. the truck is present, the ac is saying that 15 of those 26 released former prisoners will arrive here in germany. what do we know about as well? we know that not all of them are german citizens among them. for example, the opposition figure are kind of most uh, but what we do know is that to the he cool k, a german citizen, is also among them. he was imprisoned in bed. our roost for terrorist and mercenary activities. we should take this with caution because and we cannot independently verify. we just rely on what better. russo said, what better was states media has reported about a week. ok. he was sentenced to death in the ruse and that death sentences just

lift, been lifted and 2 days ago. and spinner was obviously used rico k as, as the, as at the pressure germany that was released to a propaganda video where he confessed to the negation. but it is very likely that this has been that this has been enforced confession and a brief what about any other gym is that they may be in russian prisons being used potentially as bob kitchen bargaining chips. yeah, we know that somewhere around 20 or 30 german citizens are still held in in russian prison. so at least this is the figure that the german government has released a couple of months back. in the case of, of rico k has, has made the headlines off. it's also the case of patrick as, who is also among the free germans. this, the latest development just came in as we speak. right. so patrick s is also now

among the fridge. people here and he will arrive in germany shortly. okay, thank you so much for that to alex i guess the date of the political correspond we'll have more on a vis a vis amazing story of the swap between russia and the west at the top of the next out. this is the w, have good the the the is, it is someplace power and key, more people than ever on the move world wide and such a base in life. i suggested in cardboard. that's what i find out about baby story info, migraines. the

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