the, the, this is dw news lie from berlin, a, his start prisoner swap between russia and western nations. american reporter, evan gosh, could, which is welcome back on american soil by the president and vice president. he's among 20 for prisoners, swapped in the biggest deal of its kind. since the cold war is ready, ministry says it's ready to respond immediately to any traffic this after rand threatening is retaliation. forwarding suspected is radius estimation of how much peter is my and i me yet in to run the

on top of all really as welcome to the program. us during this to evan version of it is a back on u. s. soil. and after being released from a russian jail in a historic prisoner exchange deal, president joe biden and vice president's pamela harris. welcome to various cubits and at the other american that detainees after they landed at andrews air base in maryland, just outside washington dc. just a short time ago, you're seeing those images there. just a few short minutes ago. they flew in from turkey, where the prisoner exchange took place and the kremlin released 16 people, journalist sat dissidents, and others caught up intentions between the west and latimer, prudence. russia,

western nations have reduced a to prisoners among the 8 russian agents convicted of murder in berlin. it's the biggest swap of its kind since the end of the cold war. 13 years ago. that's the news i've been waiting for in the wall street journal news rain for 491 days. that colleague the general list, evan guesstimates has been freed from prison in russia. and while guesstimates is the best known, believe he's run a 24 people entitled to live, at least on the negotiations of a complex and involved some difficult choices. german chances are laugh shots played a key role in the swap. that's because the key figure returning back to russia was this man that didn't classic off. he was sentenced to life in prison to the 2019 murder in berlin of a judge and age for too long side chechen minutes. and it was

a particularly complicated decision for gemini, not least because of the praise. and this of the matter. it took place in broad daylight invalid and central tech got to talk just minutes away from the parliament and the johnson. let me try to talk to him. i'm nothing makes this decision to the cloth in the sentence to life imprisonment. so i've thrown you a few years in jail, an easy on the states interest in enforcing the prison sentence had to be weighed up against the freedom and change it to life and then of innocent people imprisoned in russia. those i'm just in prison and for political reasons. us president joe biden acknowledge germany's pivot to lower than the jail are particularly on great sense of gratitude to the chest. the man is, are making a,

may required me to get some significant concessions from germany or state originally concluded they could not do because the person question it soon as something of a waiting for both sides. and it's clearly something the russian president intends to make political capital from time vladimir putin made a rap public, a parents meeting those, returning to rush at the airport, offering hugs flowers and will muds. and why the deal would bring pace to ukraine or mend broken ties between must go in the west. it's in rag good news for all sides. so jeremy played a key role in the prisoner a strange chance her own off shells met some of the former detainees when they landed at cologne. airport shopping me say i was truly 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 in russia. i get crumbs and that was very moving things. and there's many didn't expect this to happen now. i'm just still very full of feelings associated with suddenly being free, no guns type on fire design, so can feed many feed for the health and their lives. 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 size where he's being mentioning american journalist, even the evan hurst of it is back on us soil. now he's among those that released in the prisoners swap, and jody ginsburg is the ceo of the committee to protect journalists. i asked her for her reaction to his res. i was up to date the night since we've been campaigning. so evans released for more than a year. he's been in detention for 9500 days,

much of 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 that families. but of course it's such a sweet, me know, close to things individuals are in a sense, they committed no crimes. although at the russians tried to accuse them of espionage, but the claims for the fact that they were journalists who were then uses political hostages, and they've been exchanged, unfortunately for convicted criminals. as you say, such as an assassin who was convicted in a german cools, let's talk a little bit more about what you just said there actually. um, which is that many observers have set declaration of its arrest is essentially a russian policy data mines to hostage taking. so how much of a problem has this become? it isn't good. it's 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 for the individuals that they wanted out. of course, what you get with a journalist as you get a sort of double results because you get a political hostage that you can hopefully exchange. but you also send a powerful signal to other than this that perhaps they might be next. or it 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 john and this. 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 the 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 done as hostage in this way that they knowledge, for example, the governments and individuals who infringe on john this human rights and watch report. freedom 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, here's a quick look now at some other stories making headlines around the world. at least 3 protesters have been killed in northern nigeria after police open fire.

demonstrators have taken to the streets throughout the country, planning the government for a cost of living prices that are seen food fuel prices skyrocket. for people have been killed and 5 wounded in the most ready air, striking the science of 11 on the municipal group. as paula says, a fart, a number of missiles into northern israel in reprisals is paula. and israel has been exchanging near daily fire in the area since the cause of war began last october. and 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 of last year. 111 are still held in gaza. 39 at these ready ministry says are debt

negotiations to return the hostages aren't and don't following beginning of how much this political leader is. male hadn't yet in tehran on wednesday. funeral services for one year were held. india rainy and capitol. early on thursday, 5 thousands turned. i've for the ceremony, which was also attended by rainy and supreme meter, by a tele coming around blames israel for the killing of honey and has threatened retribution is ready military spokesperson. daniel had got re, says the country's military is ready to respond to any attacks size mean. so because the idea is on high alert and both in defense and in attack, looks on audio forces aren't deployed in the air, etc. and on land it's going to enter prepared for any scenario, and especially for immediate offensive action model of the, of the slimy as death on wednesday came just hours after israel assassinated a top has bought. a commander, fletcher cor, was buried in

a root of thursday. is killed in and is rainy air striking the city like on choose day anger over the killing. so spread throughout the region. 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 the monkey didn't move it's mail, honey 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 energy in the atlantic weld. a revival will begin with the mazda dom of honey. this revival will bring an end to the israeli terrorist instruction fully intended. 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 on israel is attacking syria, living on iraq and iran because of the support of the us. we are protesting against the american government and the occupying scientist forces diplomats around the world reacted as well, emerging israel and the wrong to avoid escalations diplomatic negotiations. i don't know malaysia's prime minister on mar abraham, the condemned honey is assassination on facebook. only to find that his post was taken down. this, he has accused facebook's parent company metal of cowardice deep the leading nowhere. what's funny is death felt as strongly as in the palestinian territories. janine in the israeli occupied westbank was filled with palestinian protesters and

the militants. 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, he is dead. the palestinian armed resistance would continue. so around his threatened retaliation for the killing of him in or near. i asked, depend on ben, tell a view of the foundation for defense of democracies. what he expects will happen, you uh, in short, these public remains called does it have the thresholds and in balances in 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 use the same language to talk about punishing israel here as he did with respect to the us and january 2020 after the killing of

costumes, to lay money, the by the trump administration in iraq, by a drill and strike. so fast 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 act of 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 to from places like hezbollah 11 on, or that would be some yemen, or even some of the she and militias in iraq. so it's been on band tele, blue of the foundation for the defense of democracies. all right, here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you. president joe biden and vice president kind of harris have welcomed a group of americans freed from russian prisons in an exchange deal. journalist, evan gaskets, and others were freed in exchange for russians held in jails in the west, in the biggest deal of its kind since the cold war drove

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