the, the, this is the building use life from berlin, a head start prisoner swap between russia and western nations. american reporter evans, 1st of which is among those freed by the criminal russians, released by the west include a convicted murderer. freed from jail in germany is ready, ministry says it's ready to respond immediately to any threat. this after a run threatens retaliation for the suspect. it is rainy assassination. of how much leader is miles i need to run the

problem. funding the yes, welcome to the program. the largest prisoner swap between russia and the west since the cold war has been completed in turkey, the exchange took place at anchor airport and involved 24 hours on 2 children. many high profile prisoners held in russian jails have been released. include american journalist, evan garcia, which at former us marine poll wheeler and several russian disciplines. vladimir putin personally greeted the prisoners who returned to rush out among them. finding crossteck of he was serving a life sentence in germany for what churches called a russian state, ordered killing in 8 berlin ark. well, germany played a key role in the prisoner. it's strange transfer or life. shouts met some of the former, the chinese when they landed at cologne airport. shopping me say,

i'll surely shall die. i was able to talk in great detail with those will arrive to you and to be released from kind of save it to you and russia. probably get crumbs and that was very moving beings. how many didn't expect this to happen now? i'm just still very full of feelings associated with suddenly being free. no guns touch the head, fire design, so can be many fit for the health and the lice. this must be stated very clearly, and that's why it's also so important that we have now made it possible for them to be safe. short gifs? yeah, i'm a big top. well, as we've mentioned, the american journalist, evan grocery visual was among those released in the prisoner swap. jody ginsburg is the ceo of the committee to protect journalists. and i asked her for her reaction, and i was absolutely delighted. we've been kind of painting to evans release for more than a year. he's been in detention for 9500,

say as much as that. and so the confinement of to has been prevented from leaving russia since may of last year. so this is a fantastic moment to see those pictures to see those images of evan analysis you free and soon to be meeting the assignment is that of cause it's fits a suite. we know close to things. individuals are, in a sense, they committed no crimes, although the russians tried to accuse them of espionage, but the kinds for the fact that they were john, unless you would then use this political hostages and they've been exchanged, unfortunately for convicted criminals, as you say, such as the sauce and who was convicted in a german cools, let's talk a little bit more about what you just said there actually. um, which is the many observers of set declaration of its arrest is essentially a russian policy that amounts to hostage taking. so how much of a problem has this become the present gets becoming increasingly

a program. this is effectively state sponsored hostage taking. it was clear from the outset that the kremlin wanted a high level prisoner with whom they could swap uh for the individuals that they wanted out. of course, what you get with agent. and it says, you get a sort of double results because you get a political hostage that you can hope for the exchange. but you also send a powerful signal to other than this that perhaps they might be next or has a chilling effect on journalist and journalism in the country. and that was sent me to in russia, of, to evans arrest research on an, as needed in the country we saw in museums putting out the janice. and so that i think there was a real risk, especially now that we've seen this effective theme is be successful for the kremlin that we may see it repeated in future. toby reporting from hostile regions of the world, as we all know, comes with that with many dangers. let's say,

is there anything that can be done to strength and protections for journalists who are simply carrying out their work? absolutely, i think 1st of all, you have to raise the stakes so that it is not attractive to raise james, to take down this hostage in this way that they knowledge, for example, the governments and individuals who infringe on john this human rights and march report freely might fit, find themselves faces functions, for example. and we have to make sure that the countries like the us, like germany continued to advocate strongly for press freedom, not just internationally, but also on the home territories. leave it there, jody ginsburg from the committee to protect journalist joining us from new york tonight. thank you. ok. let's take a quick look now at some of the stories making headlines around the world. or at

least 3 protesters have been killed in northern nigeria after police open fire. protesters had taken to the streets to write the concrete planning the government for a cost of living prices that are seen food and fuel prices, sky rockers, southern unleashed by heavy rains as killed at least 3 people in lahore in eastern pakistan, homes and roads were inundated bringing daily life to ascends to large parts of pakistan. i've seen extreme rain full in recent months. authorities say the number of rain related deaths topped 100 in june, july alone. chinese media site july was the hottest month in the country since full records began. in 1961 authorities of issued a huge warning and the southern safety of shanghai. i'm surrounding regions. much of china is in the grip of each wave with forecasters protecting more extreme temperatures in the days to come. for people have been killed and 5 wounded in and

is ready air striking the size of 11 on the me listen group has paula says expired a number of me selves into northern israel in reprisals as paula and israel have been exchanging near daily fire in the area, since the guys are more of again last october, well, hundreds of israelis of march through tennessee to demand the return of hostages held in gaza. thursday's demonstration marked $300.00 days since the guys of war started with the large scale. how much terrorist attack on israel i seized $251.00 people during the attack on october 7th, last year. and 11 are still in are being held in gaza, including $39.00. is there any military says or that the one that goes creations to return the hostages are in doubt following the killing of hamas as a political leader is my media in to run on wednesday. funeral services for any of

were held in the rainy and capitol early on thursday. thousands turned out for the ceremony, which was also attended by rainy and supreme leader. i turn up so many around blaine's israel for the killing of him. yeah. and his threatened retribution. it's really ministry spokes person, daniel gary says the country's military is ready to respond to any attacks size mean. so because the i d f is on high alert and both in defense and in attack. what's on audio forces are deployed in the air, etc. that on land going to enter prepared for any scenario and especially for immediate offensive action. mommy, honey is death on wednesday came just hours after israel assassinated a top. his bullet come under. flood shakara was buried in they reach on thursday. he was killed in an as rainy air striking the city light on choose day. anger over

. the killings has spread through the region. the anger boiled in the muslim world. after you smell honey, you was killed along with his body guard in an air strike on his residence in tehran. iran quickly blamed israel, which is out to kill him and other from us leaders after the october 7th attacks in eastern bulls sunset. it was a wake up call and in the month of the move is melania is an important milestone on the road to palestine becoming an independent state. i say this with full belief. you will see there was less a g n e is remich welled, a revival will begin with the mazda dom of honey. this revival will bring an end to the is really terrorist structure that formerly attended. there were more protests from tunisia to iraq. to park is done new year was seen as a moderate voice within him. us many protesters,

so he's killing is another sign that is real believes that can act with impunity. which song israel is attacking syria, living on iraq and iran because of the support of the us. we are protesting against the american government and to the occupying scientist for all the diplomats around the world, reacted as well purging israel and the wrong to avoid escalation diplomatic negotiations. i don't know malaysia's prime minister armoire abraham, the condemned honey is assassination on facebook. only to find that his post was taken down. these he has accused facebook's parent company metal of cowardice deep going nowhere was honey as death felt as strongly as in the palestinian territories . janine in these really occupied westbank, was filled with palestinian protesters and the militants, of some were brandishing weapons and waving the flags of him, us and islamic jihad,

both themes, terrorist organizations, by many countries, the message was clear. nia is dead. the palestinian armed resistance would continue as we sat around has threatening of retaliation for the killing of any yeah, i ask to have been a been tell a blue of the foundation for defense of democracies. what he expects will happen. well, thank you for the invitation. great. to be back with you in short, these womic with public remains, causes it of thresholds and imbalances and the military relationship fees of the israel. but nonetheless, the april 13, april 14, direct, overt, and kinetic military operation by the islamic republic against israel essentially means that an overt shooting war is essentially a non 0 chance. how many has used the same language to talk about punishing israel here as he did start with respect to the us and january 2020 after the killing. those customers still a money the by the trump administration in iraq. my i drones,

right? as of past, as pro longer likely is going to be an element of the running response, there was an i r g c, a press release that actually mentioned that would be a specific iranian response, as well as something from the actual some resistance. so if one has to be a bedding person, perhaps april 13, april 14 operation might be a baseline. but a more integrated access response be it from places like, has the law in lebanon, or that would be some human or even some of the she and militias. any rock. alright, so we're talking about a reference there at the different attack, of course, the drone and missile attack that we saw against israel. and you mentioned there as well. a coordinated attack of sorts is that where we could be seeing the proxies in the region 4, in the region, forming part of, of some type of response that it's highly likely. i mean, when we're looking at the proxy operations in the region, we're all dealing with a question of volume because these are already 567,

depending on how you account fronts that are active against the us, against the user, against these relatives and against international community. for example, in october, november the season, the admin 1st began to target southern israel. then they began to target the most of the maritime routes and the red sea and the call. so they didn't. and then as you know much more recently, they had a drones, right. that killed one person in tennessee and one of the longest reaching around him, provided ground strikes on record over 2600 kilometers. so it's really a question of volume at which one of these militias may provide what kind of fire power and how it might be integrated as part of a larger iranian response. do you expect much of a shift in how around deals with the current situation in the region onto the new or rainy and present to my sewage assess? can i think position was promoted relate to the position of presidents abuse, nomic republic. and just recently he was sworn into for parliament. he's now the 9th president obama can public. but he was promoted essentially to buy time,

i think on the big picture security issues from the west. and that's largely the nuclear issue. that's when forget october 2025 is this big political deadline in the un resolution. kind of find the nuclear deal for snap back. that's the last time the p 5 can actually legally restore a baseline for international pressure after you. when i see against the run on its nuclear file. and so in essence, i think because actually on will attempt to west into some kind of d confliction talks or the potential for an even smaller limited nuclear agreement . that caps rather than rules back some of the new 3 games the regime is made with respect to the region. that's essentially a portfolio for out of his control. as mama joe, it's a reef who was his radio campaign manager learned when he was foreign minister was good, we're gonna have to leave it there. oh, it was interesting talking to ben. i'm ben. tell i blew in washington dc. the foundation for the defense of democracies take care i the prize you're up to date

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