inspiring us to expand our realities. why? because they most ah. award winning voices telling groundbreaking stories. witness on al jazeera. ah . the response get bull star brittany griner has been freed by wash up to release this part of a prisoner swap. ah, hello again. adrian finnegan in doha, this is al jazeera, also coming up for route, has a new president of the federal castillo, was impeached and detained for attempting to dissolve congress by jerry, as military as accused of wanting a secret pass abortion program,

forcefully ending at least 10000 pregnancies and a discovery of what is thought to be the oldest dna ever reveals what the arctic looked like 2000000 years ago. ah. so we start without breaking news on the release of the american basketball player, birthdate glide out from a russian prison. u. s. president joe biden says that she's safe and on our way home, griner was freed in the united arab emirates as part of a prisoner swap. the 2 time olympic gold medalist was convicted in august of smuggling and possessing cannabis. she was sentenced to 9 years jail. after months being unjustly detained in russia, held under on tolerable circumstances, pretty will soon be back in the arms of her loved ones and, and she should have been there all along. this is a day we've worked toward for

a long time. we never stopped pushing for her release. it took painstaking intense negotiations and i want to thank all the hard working public service across my ministration, who work tirelessly to secure a release. we have teams following the story from the us and russia in a moment will get reaction from moscow with ali hush. but 1st let's go live to white house correspondent, kimberly how because we saw kimberly president bites in there with his reaction just a short time ago. he said that brittany grant needs time to recover from what he described as needless trauma. yeah, that's because she has been in what is known as a russian penal colony, where she has been forced to do what we understand to be hard labor. her sentence, according to the united states, very extreme, and not proportionate with the crime that was alleged to have been committed. now the white house is always maintained that this was an unjust arrest. and brittany

griner, for her part, maintained that this was an accident. she always admitted that she was carrying cartridges through the airport when she was detained in russia. that did contain traces of marijuana oil. but that this was done inadvertently. she was aware that this was a prohibited substance of it, that she packed her luggage in haste and was not aware that this was in her luggage . given the fact that there was such a small amount of this prohibited substance, the united states always felt that she was being held more as a political prisoner then for the purposes of the crime she had been committed. so the feeling was of the united states that the sentence of 9 and a half years to a russian penal colony was particularly egregious. now, what we know is that this is a case that has been in the works in terms of negotiations for quite some time.

there had been a couple of fall starts to her release, and in fact, back in july, there was a proposal that had been put forward by the united states. the feeling was the response from russia that it was not substantial or insincere in its response. and as a result, there was no break through until recently, but as we heard the president speaking, as he confirmed not only this release but also the fact that there are still americans, at least one that has been left behind. that's paul wayland who has been detained for now for years that there still is much work to be done. the, the white house saying that paul whalen is, in fact, also being unjustly held by russia. they say that this is a case, but well, he has been detained longer than brittany griner. that the russians are treating this case differently because he is accused of espionage on white house correspondent, kimberly, how could they live in washington lisco life of moscow then? i'm 0 is ali hash. hm. is there what's moscow saying about this ali and what can

you tell us about that? about the man for whom victor brickley griner was swapped. yes, edwin, so what we know right now is that victoria has but victor booth. i lived in la, shy, and you're going to go by just like minutes ago. and that the russian government on the russian foreign ministry spokesman, treated sorry, wrote on telegram that the united states has been refusing categorically over the past months, including victor wooten, ne swap. and that i, after all the efforts that they've been exit exerting. and this succeeded and they were able to get back victim notes. as for victor, which is a very mysterious personality, as we know,

he was arrested in 2008 in thailand by joint force us and 5 force. and then he was expedited to the u. s, where he was sentenced to 25 years for planning espionage against us. citizens and officials, according to the, to what we know from what 3 gather. his name was linked to several deals from africa to asia, from cone go to library to sierra leone. reaching to amazon is star lab and on so there is a lot on on him. however, the folks woman for the ombudsman here for the russian federation, tatiana moss could go over and described him as a wonderful person and muddy. also as a for all, for the, the spokeswoman for the fun ministry said they are receiving

a lot of letters and congratulations. so this is what we know on this, on this swap that has taken bass a just a few hours ago. i was just curious alhashan that live in moscow and the thanks valley in peru, the form of vice president. dena blo artie has been sworn into office, was president as congress impeached federal castillo. he was arrested just hours after saying that he dissolved congress by presidential decreed. a moves of the constitutional court said was a could a top maria sanchez reports from lima a d of hold. while my middle with vice president, he never knew out of the been sworn in the country leader nissan. they look as the default congress by presidential decrease a move. the country's constitutional court said was a, could a tar figure, that as a result, he quickly lost the backing of his political allies, geography,

though in fine thought a lot. a co attempt has been made an initiative laid by mr. pedro castillo. it was not echoed by any democratic institutions or the people following on from the constitutional order. this congress has made a decision, and it's my duty to act accordingly. it was congress's 3rd impeachment attempt to oust castillo. he tried to save himself with a bold move. darma maslow, this is young, will temporarily digital congress and establish an exceptional emergency governmentally. and while calling for elections for a new congress, him up and drafting a new constitutional, he then went even further ordering the military to patrol the streets with a night m curfew. but as lawmakers began voting for the impeachment castillo left. the presidential palace with his family. police say he was going to request political asylum in mexico, but instead, he was arrested. he supporters clashed with police outside the station where she

was held throughout his presidency. castillo had constant confrontations with the political opposition. he was even expelled from his own party. now lawmaker say they want to work with a new precedent. get wang, i go when i, when it should come with a cabinet that helps to deal with. not ministers who will only praise her. he never knew of that is the 1st female president of the 2. she has asked peruvians for unity and lawmakers for a truce. a man is with us now live from lima. so marianna, we have a new president in the country, that's in deep turmoil. the country's 1st female president. what's, what are going to be her 1st steps? well, her 1st step adrian are, will her 1st step will be to name a prime minister. that will be liking and that to help build bridges

with congress, it's very difficult to govern and through without congress. and that's the main task. that's it. you know, a lot that will have to, to, to, to do between today and tomorrow and also name her minister people who will not only be from the, from the capital, but also from the highlands and the amazon, the south outside of, of the center of the capital now, she has no alliance with congress. she was expelled from the same party that brought a feel to power. so she had to build those alliances now. but for now, what she has done, she, she met with prove archbishop, the capitalist church has a lot of power and, and that have been her 1st moved for unity and, and a truce that she has the,

the congress. but there are some filters around the country against her and against congressmen. ok, what about the former president castillo, who's now on the house around or under arrest, and what does the future look like for him? well in, in just about an hour from now there, he will be in the 1st hearing up the jail where he is the 2nd in may and the other one is a former president, and he will be facing charges for 6 criminal investigations that are pending. but now your charges against him is that the state particular house is how said yesterday, he will be a prosecuted for physician for rebel. the charges that will most positively bring him to 20 years in prison. i was serious mariana sanchez, that live in lima,

peru. mariana, many things nigeria has obvious been accused of running a secret illegal abortion program. the reuters news agency is reporting that at least $10000.00 pregnancies have been forcefully terminated in the northeast of the country. since 2013 many of the women had been raped many victim say, the bulk of her arm fighters were responsible. nigerian military leaders deny that the program ever existed. in the beginning, we were in our town, poco harass, came and attacked. they grabbed ethan, took us away to the bush. after that we were in the bush in their hands. soldiers came and took us. after that they took us to get our barracks and they boarded our pregnancies. went from out to zeros. probably the miller, who is in a boucher neil on thursday, the night julian government with the media as well as issued a written statement in response to the allegations made by the reuters news agency

that thousands of women rescued from book around by pose had been forced to undergo abortions, and that report by reuters agents had said that at least one of the women that spoken to describe how she had been taken to adopt them off to been rescued, forced to take tablets as well as given injections, which been resulted in abortion. and in her situation, there were at least 5 other women in that room. now being like 2 in military has, in that statement that they issued as youth a number of adjectives to respond to these allegations, saying that they alive it. these are concocted stories concocted allegations that they're wicked, and also calling it demonic journalism and a fictitious series of stories intended to insult nigerians and nigerian culture. now that statement issued by the military also went on to say that thousands of

bikers specifically had surrendered in at least the last 18 months. and many of them were part of a re integration program following their surrender from the book of fighters. and it also said that it had wanted to respond to this. reuters report as to the journalist from ways that agency had to be collecting their information. but it has now had the opportunity to respond. it said that the nigerian soldiers have, under no circumstances taken part in any systematic or illegal operation to conduct abortions that this hasn't happened and that my children show soldiers, they cherish life. and that despite the difficulties and the challenges the nigerian government is facing in terms of security in the country. the weather

is next. then on al jazeera, germany says that there will be more arrest se, attain $25.00 members of a fall right group, or accused of plotting to seize power and traits union. since ryan could get involved in nationwide protests against the rising cost of living and tell you more, [000:00:00;00] ah hello, we have some very hot weather across central parts of south america. you see this little area of clear skies here. temperatures have been running around 10 degrees above the average. so getting up around 40 celsius in parts of northern argentina and also into paraguay wanted to show us over to ward. so bolivia pushing up towards pre that western side of brazil, still seeing some live examples. wessy weather,

still affecting that east inside or brazil to now it's just ease up to the north of rio time just picking up to $31.00 celsius there in re i still up into the 30s across so central, there's plenty of showers, as you can see up toward sir, ecuador, and northwood swee have got lodged dry weather across the caribbean. lots of lovely tropical sunshine. of course there i wanted to showers around, i think heaviest, most widespread will be across the western side of the region. honduras belief sang some lively shouts from time to time while to shout to into the far south of mexico, but across the islands. yeah, it looks pretty good here. now we have still got some water pushing up into southern parts of the u. s. cold air coming right out of canada and where those 2 meet still have some live the storms just rumbling away just around the place, moving further eastward, still some snow in the forecast around the pacific northwest all the way down into northern california. ah

ah ah, with lou ah. busy again, this is a 0 the made years the seller american basketball style, brittany grider, soon be back in the us out to being released from the russian prison. the 2 time

olympic gold medalist was freed as possible. prisoner swap who has sworn in dina, but it was a, as president of the federal casteel was impeached by congress and detained. he was arrested just as up to saying that he would dissolve congress by presidential decree. and my jury, as army has been accused of running a secret illegal abortion program awaits us news agency is reporting that at least $210000.00 pregnancies have been forcefully terminated in the northeast of the country since 2013. the military denies the program ever existed. germany says that it expects more arrests and raids in connection with the far right plot to overthrow its government. police raided 130 sites across the country. on wednesday, the prosecutor general says that 25 people were detained for planning to violently seize control of parliament. a soldier, a judge at a russian, national or among those arrested is this issue a dish puffs,

but it's not really comprehensible. you hear about such plans in other countries, but to this to happen outside my front door. the government we have is not ideal, but probably better than what they had planned as it is i 9 sure. it's a shock that our neighbor organized to put you at the far right. radicals with those, let me call them fascists. quite honestly, i'm shocked that this prince things. he has the right to do something like this, against a democratic rule of law, which was it, to be honest. i have no words it so far away from what i personally believe. so i find it hard to grasp when i hire phone cra, is a professor of political science at the free university of berlin. he says that not enough attention has been paid to far right. movements in germany or europe. the perception is we have to be aware and to fear about the stability of democracies and, and again, this, german democracy is stable,

although they have to be more attention and get attention on these groupings. they didn't do it up to the last 2 or 4 years. think about the acw, the national socialist underground. they didn't perceive it, they didn't see it. they didn't come to terms with it for a long period of time. only since the last 2 to 4 years, the leading, the leading persons in the security institutions are aware and taking extra like yesterday. so that's a good time put to, to defend democracy with respect to the far right. all in nearly all the best and europe in states. we have this growing tendency, but the democratic majorities fight them back except the situation in italy. iran has reportedly executed a demonstrator who took part in anti government protests that began in september

lawson, chicago. he was convicted of wounding a member of the para military forces with a weapon and blocking a st. nationwide, protests broke out off the death of 22 year old nasa many in police custody nearly 3 months ago. on sunday, ron's public prosecutor said that the so called morality police have been disbanded at least 3 palestinians had been killed by his really forces. during a raid in the jeanie and refugee camp, a large group of his worthy forces was seen entering the area and occupied westbank . in the early hours of thursday. the united nation says the 2022 has been the deadliest year for palestinians. in the last 16 years, they are abraham has more from the occupied westbank. we're hearing from locals of that one of the 3 palestinians who were killed this morning in jeanine was not involved in any fighting activities against these really forces that re did you

need. but he was getting ready to get to work 2 of those who had killed, according to locals with what the palestinians here called the fighting resistance . and the lawyer den nablus. and janine, these palestinians have been taking up arms and fighting these really pauses. and according to analysts, we've been speaking to the say that israel is concerned are this growing phenomena of palestinian young men carrying up arms and trying to fight these really forces that are in the occupied with bank. but as far as these analysts tell us, they say that the response by the israeli forces is disproportionate. these israeli forces and soldiers how are armed to their teeth, they are highly weaponized with the most technological weapons. there are a fighting young men who have limited weapons and supplies. so we're seeing a lot of attention here in the occupied with bank this year. we're talking about

$164.00 palestinians who were killed by israeli forces fired, including our colleague, city of walker. who was in jeanine on an assignment when she was target and shocked by israeli forces, china's president, she's been paying as meeting saudi arabia's crown prince. bob had been sold on, on the 2nd of his 3 day visit to the kingdom, the 2 leaders are expected to sign off on about 20 agreements. oil is what the top of their agenda. saudi arabia is china's biggest supplier and exported maybe $44000000000.00 worth of crude. that last year. trades unions, its roland cup, a leading several protests against the spiral and cost of living. it follows president radi with chrome, a single decision to privatize from state institutions. true anchor has been going through its worst economic crisis in decades. at least $22000000.00 people are struggling to pay for essential goods. fernandez reports from colombo and another day of protest here in chicago, colombo,

what you see is telecom and state insurance workers belonging to print unions who are taken to the street in broadway. they said the government is on a centrally project to reach a divers state institutions to sober profit making institution were not that shouldn't be held by the state. now the government says that there is no other option given the economic crunch, but all of these people and that sort of why did the cross section they represented . this is not the case. go for the congress on burke for the new job. it was on august the name of fargo and my job to organ wonder, and obviously what role people out on the street, the number of the monta privatizing the distribution. it's about the mismanagement of the economy that has created this crisis into lanka, about the cost of living, which is soaring,

and the fact that the government just cannot seem to get it right now. what they see is, instead of addressing the relations and taking people on board, this government has only mourned a massive campaign of repression of suppressing public resend. and that it is very much in evidence. if you look at all the protests that have been unfolding in recent weeks, the government has no, i missed a single opportunity. i could try and romer goes on there. we know lots of these are protests that are planned for today. they've had a mission revoke. they've had places book telling them at the last moment that their bookings have been cancelled. i did my even, i'm not a court order as being sort against a number of union leaders preventing them from having demonstration. but the level of broadening your operational and gauge such that they are not going to be silent . that's what we're hearing from the day. you know, people in portugal capital,

lisbon have been urged not to leave her homes after heavy rain caused flooding. at least one person has died, cause were submerged some road tunnels and metro lions were shut down. the severe weather is forecast to last until friday. scientists are found what could be the oldest dna ever discovered? the 2000000 year old material was on earth from ice age sediments in northern greenland. it means that researchers will be in a better position to understand what the region was like at the time. it's actually a quite special type of deposit because 2000000 years ago we had this forest alignment with mastered on some rain dears, and has running around in the landscape a together with a lot of different a plant species was a we actually found that the in a can survive for a 2000000 years,

which is twice as old as the previously found. dni. and day this the in it comes from a part of the of greenland, the northernmost part and comes from an environment that we don't do not see anywhere on earth. today ah, there's been another big casualty from football's world cup spain's head coach louis sunny k has left the job after the sides last 16 defeat to morocco on penalties. the 52 year old says he was to blame on re k had been in the jobs since 2018 and had a contract until the end of the year or morocco wont be lacking support when they take on portugal in the quarter finals on saturday. thousands more fans at the senate upon dough half. but there's already a hard core base here in qatar. he'll be backing them during breaks between

delivering meals for me and guy, and caught up with them. ah, motorcycle drivers, zigzag across the city in doe hobb, delivering fast food groceries and even medicine. but when african teams are playing, they can often be found. one of the pre screening with brought to be or not because because they came, they came and did a good job which is trained in the name of africa in discipline. daniel brenda came to catch our from ghana a little less than a year ago. oh, catching some world cup action is a welcome break. comes 12 hour shift in the week. i do, i do very well in this thing. i've seen africans before me. so just a moment. i few suicides that i feel presented with it doesn't matter that their countries aren't playing at cut are 2022. my human goes from the gambia. he says he's followed the games feature

african sides closely. i'm very much out beyond and grateful to watch in the football here in cut the and, and i know every operate on here with those little hockey. there was you don't know where now you want to watch it again. this year was the 1st time all african teams, one, at least one match in the group. stage. sub saharan africans make up roughly 6 percent of the population and cut our footfall is by far the most popular sport back home. and for many of these migrant workers, the, this post to a fee for world cup is a once in a lifetime experience with gerald. i kinda as is a former professional athlete and coach these days. he's the professor at northwestern university, working in sports management in africa, africa here, large minority i blue collar jobs, or sylvia luther of his job for them got to her present something exceptional. they woke up, and moreover, african themes doing well. a death is very exceptional and even more milk tried for

almost people normally not socially. i the high level for 30 of here then got to have you present on report. unity area presentable speech that give them value a 90 minute passes quickly and it's time to get back on the road again to customers. they may be faceless nameless service providers, but behind the uniforms and helmet are passionate supporters of african football. booking we in algebra i it is good to be with us. hello adrian. sitting here in the headlines when i was 0, american basketball stop. brittney grind will soon be back in the us to being released from the russian prison. the 2 time olympic gold medalist was freed, as part of a prisoner swap. after months been unjustly detained russia held on or on tolerable

circumstances. britney will soon be back in the arms of her loved ones and,