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bring also coming up. detained in me an mar a court order is true order is journalist to be kept in custody for another fourteen days over allegations the breach the country's official secrets act and duck duck go go go go go go go go. and not mucking around conservationists in south africa getting to grips with the reader who find a new way to keep things under invited guest said they far away from humans. it's a pleasure to be with you. in a bloody conflict that has been grinding on for years a rare moment let up in tensions ukraine's forces and pro russian rebels in that country's rest of east are exchanging prisoners ukraine central government is

releasing three hundred six prisoners and expects the separatists to release seventy four of its captives in return while this after talks and moscow mediated by the head of the russian orthodox church. well some are calling it the largest prisoner exchange in the east ukraine conflict david stern is in kiev david what have you heard has the prisoner swap already taken place you know as we've heard it's now under way but this will be a a swap that goes in stages what we know at the moment is that sixteen ukrainian ukrainians have been returned to the ukrainian side as you've said before there's going to be quite a few more of them as well as three hundred four of the russian backed separatists that are going to be returning home now the ukrainians also say that some of the

separatists have refused to do not want to go back we have not confirmed that but there is a question of what the final number will be and as you said this is a major major exchanges also the first exchange of this size in more than a year so obviously this is something that people here in kiev as well as the rest of the country are watching very closely give us a lot about the backstory who made this prisoner swap possible. well difficult to say what exactly the mechanics of the the negotiations were these are negotiations that are ongoing and have been going on for quite some time in fact the prisoner exchange is one of the main points of talks that go on in minsk among the what's called the tri party contra contact group but one of the people that's involved in this is from the ukrainian side is a man by the name of viktor medved shoop very interesting person a bit ambiguous as well as i say he's ukrainian but he's also very close to russian

president vladimir putin in fact mr putin is the godfather of his daughter and he's been part of these negotiations he's been speaking in fact to mr putin directly so it will remain to be seen what exactly is role is but it seems that he did play some some role in these dismissed recent exchange rate and interestingly in a related development we're hearing that a potential other prison prisoner swap is in the making because earlier a spokesperson for the pro russian rebels had this to say and that's the last thing is that there are sixty more prisoners and key had who were not part of this exchange they weren't included in the first list we placed them in a second round of prisoner exchanges we haven't forgotten them we'll continue this discussion after the new year. but at you all right very encouraging words there from the spokes woman what do you make of this could we see a cease fire on the horizon possible resumption of the peace process.

well yes very encouraging words indeed and i guess we'll have to see what the momentum is the ukrainians say there are a number of their people that are still on the rebel side close to one hundred so if we see further prisoner exchanges that's all the asli a positive sign but ultimately what people are hoping for is a full ceasefire for a extended period of time we're not seeing that right now there's been heavy fighting in the last week in fact in the last twenty four hours one ukrainian soldier was killed and five wounded and we've also heard over the weekend angle america and emmanuel mccall calling for this immediate cease fire so far we haven't seen it david stern reporting from ukraine thank you next we had to there were a court in me and maher has extended the detention of two orders journalists for another two weeks authorities have charged the reporters with violating the

country's official secrets act that carries a maximum sentence of fourteen years the journalists were reporting on the crisis in the reeking state where a military crackdown forced more than six hundred thousand muslims to flee the country. the. lone in the blue jacket hadn't seen his family in two weeks. even so as he and fellow journalist chose so-o. arrive to a courthouse scrum he protested their innocence. we're just carrying out our jobs we would never violate journalistic ethics he told the crowd. in the frenzy no amount of police or press could stop his wife. the men are accused of breaking secrecy laws as they pursue the story of a military crackdown on range of muslims human rights groups and foreign

governments have condemned their arrests observers say it's an attack on press freedoms outside the hearing while loans wife called for him to be released. i want my husband to be free soon and i trust him that he would never violate the rules of law he has good morals so he should be free soon. but not for another two weeks at least as the judge extended their detention chose so all had his say. we try to tell the truth. with the men level range while don's wife made one final bid to hold him. a trial date has been set for january tenth. votes are being counted in the west african nation of liberia after a presidential runoff yesterday was also expected to be released over the next

couple of days librarians hope the election will mark the country's first peaceful transfer of power in over seven decades and servers say the election has gone off smoothly with only minor irregularities. former nigerian president goodluck jonathan who was there to observe the vote count called on the candidates to respect the result and the will of the people. so what was in the story that this is. because it was a source. so the issue is no we need all of those and if you will you celebrate this a bit and was sure that it was you go to the president of everybody if you lose yourself except the local. it's a runoff vote between former international footballer george weah and vice president joseph bach both of whom join voters in casting their ballots. that are good beer because it's a test of democracy that we went in one try that would work their work and i would

reduce that pool. we have got critical process there's a process that we're through we're willing to live with. born in a slum in the capital monrovia george weah star performances for europe's biggest football teams in the ninety's won the hearts of young liberians this is his second run for president. to do this. they said i am going to win. georgia. outgoing president ellen johnson sirleaf several cemented peace in the west african country after civil war ended in two thousand and three but the majority of liberians still live in dire poverty whoever wins this election will face that challenge and will have to prove that he can govern in a way that will benefit the country and its citizens. fifteen thousand computer

hackers are gathering in light safe today that's right yours largest association of hackers is holding its annual congress this week in the chaos computer club has focused on surveillance piracy and data security issues for more than thirty years its annual gatherings have gotten ever larger and topics at this week's event will include the latest cyber threats and data privacy issues members will also participate in so-called activism sessions that's kind of ethical to expose security risks the controversial former cia employee and whistleblower edward snowden will deliver the keynote address. by the organizers have revealed that they have discovered flaws in the payment system of public charging stations for electric cars are reported she pondered bellow is there in lights and i asked him earlier just how vulnerable owners of electric cars are two hundred. well the main issue with electric cars is actually the loading stations have like loading

stations that is people normally have a car that they use to pay for the energy the electricity that they put on their cars and they have a card that is apparently not secure enough so the data on that card can be copied and when that happens anyone can basically use the same card at other charging stations to you know pay for their energy and that's the main problem and that's been the big story you know leading up to the chaos communication congress and of course it's the big story here at the chaos communication congress today. whether congress in light sic there where you are as well the most important online security conferences in the world what else is on the agenda the next three days. well there's a lot of things you know from data protection of course it's always a topic here it's been a topic for years and there's social credit system that china is currently testing so basically points are awarded to people for you know trustworthiness online their

behavior with friends or within their families and that's something that china wants to put in place by the year two thousand and twenty another topic is net neutrality the big topic though is the keynote by edward snowden tomorrow so everybody will be looking at that tomorrow you know what he's going to say and that's a big story this communication congress to point out a bit of that in a lot to for us thank you very much. and from the technologies that will shape our future we step backwards a thousand years into the past in a weekly series about the silk road it used to be an ancient trade route from china it's traversed all of asia bringing fine porcelain expensive spices and the upon a silk to europe the chinese government now wants to research that trade route on land on water for years china has invested hundreds of billions in infrastructure projects along the route. and bridges this week we're looking at some of these

waypoints and today we're stopping in africa since two thousand and five the chinese have invested sixty six billion u.s. dollars all over the continent that makes them the largest investors that pumping money into the construction of transport infrastructure to boost their own supply lines and trading routes and may this year a new railway line opened in kenya linking the port of mombasa with the capital nairobi it's finance and operated by chinese firms soon the line will extend all the way to move on lake victoria the total price tag eight billion us dollars even though kenya needs massive investment in infrastructure the railway agreement with china raises many questions. there is no effort spared to keep trains on the new nairobi mombasa link looking spick and span they're not just an infrastructure project they are important to the image of progress that kenya wants to project and that includes the polish presentation of the train stuff at morning roll call the

four hundred seventy two kilometers of railway line cost around three and a half billion euros the chinese state stumped up most of the capital chinese companies laid the tracks and delivered around sixty diesel locomotives and seventeen hundred carriages through the opening of this artery of communications in eastern africa is a great achievement of the friendship between china and kenya in the new era it is also the chrysalis zation of the win win and mutually beneficial cooperation between china and kenya. this stretch is just the beginning they are a big plans afoot for expanding kenya's rail network this line links the capital with east africa's most important port to transport of goods a lot of them chinese of course should become much cheaper the new link should more than half the travel time from around ten hours to just four passenger tickets cost around eight euros but contracts for the massive projects have also raised

questions there was no transparent tender process and there's talk of corruption critics say kenya is being sold obsolete technology at an exorbitant price on credit which has to be paid back at high interest rates. you know african leaders think china is santa claus they're not santa claus they want returns on the investment we've already had a levy on each liter of fuel sold in kenya there is a libby going towards the repayment of that loan now this is more sophisticated banking than china has been known for they have got a fantastic return and they've got security they own and run and manage the whole thing but. there have been plenty of protests against the project the route passes directly through the nairobi national park and threatens the nature reserves existence but the protests have had little effect in kenya the

chinese are pressing ahead and in uganda they are building another rail connection china's grand plan is to link the two countries with rwanda burundi and south sudan carving out a new trade network and new markets for chinese goods. and that's all your business next stop the sports update with layla thing here the art dogged by allegations of involvement in doping russian deputy prime minister of italy let's go has stepped down as head of the twenty eighteen world cup organizing committee fifo welcomed the move by coke calling it a quote responsible step ahead of the tournament last months of preparation earlier this week with call a link wished his role as president of russia's football association he also has a lifetime ban from the international olympic committee after being implicated in a state sponsored doping program at the twenty fourteen winter olympics denies the existence of any systematic doping and class to fight that bad at the court of

arbitration for sport. now the english tradition of playing soccer on boxing day has allowed tottenham striker harry came to break a record in his teens last game of twenty sixteen twenty seventeen i should say cain netted his thirty seven thirty eight and thirty ninth premier league goals of the calendar year in a five to win against southampton the england striker therefore breaks allan sharers record of thirty six goals set in one thousand nine hundred five while he's also the highest scoring striker for club and country in europe this year with fifty six goals to his name. all right well we can talk a lot more about harry cain he seems to be unstoppable with my colleague nick mckenna klein thank you so much for what he is looking great is he do you case and certainly you know messi. and ronaldo maybe it's new i would

fully say i'd say he's a very different kind of player he's of his now strike messier analogy they started off as midfielders yes they play is forwards now but they were far more creative they drop back and will actually set up play which is sung as hurricane doesn't do easily got three assists so far this year he has an instinct in the box so that's why schools so many goals are just in the right place at the right time four years ago when he broke onto the scene he was considered a one season wonder and here we are four years late so he's cool fifty six goals in the calendar da he is the best striker in europe this season but the thing is he doesn't quite dazzle the same way that we're now that messi do that's why it's hard to compare the three but also it's just not fair to hurricanes to complete my eyes that he scores that's what matters and are always who is doesn't exactly as long as he does now does that put him on the radar on some of europe's top clubs i mean dust is she or bar star ryall want him to join their clubs and would it change his game they would think i think players you could lose these clubs because there's

just so many good players at the clubs to improve they evolve they learn new things we've seen that happen with gareth bale as well who moved from tottenham the club's hurricane is at the moment to real madrid for a lot of us money but he's become a very very good player in the meantime but he just players don't travel well they haven't travelled well since the mid ninety's and i still see how he came moving to a big club being a good thing for his career i actually think it will his career take a no nosedive hurricane needs just as much as tottenham need him the whole you know the whole team the way they get the ball up front revolves around him it revolves around his style of play and if you move to a big club madrid a boss or p.s.g. he'd have to play second fiddle to say we're not a mess you neymar and that's not something which he's cut out to do right so it's a symbiotic relationship since the. teamwork after all they were going to klein thank you so very much. we're going to talk cricket because the australian may have won the ashes to arch rivals england impressed on day two of the fourth test in melbourne australia were all out for three hundred twenty seven following

a lower order batting collapse in one meanwhile and at the day on one hundred ninety two for two with alastair cook powering his way to his thirty second test century australia have a three new lead in the best of five series and one of the longest running competitions in sports history passion and connected are the official themes for the pianka shang winter olympics one way fans felt were connected to the event was joining in on the torch relay which is now in south korea on the latest step for a stop for the nationwide a relay is the how who full of village in and dong the flame pass through roads through a five hundred year old family clan house where some one hundred could confucian confusion scholars welcomed the olympic torch the games kick off on february ninth and on february twenty fifth and sailing australian entry wild oats eleven one the

traditional sydney to hobart race smashing the events record in the process while those held by mark richards crossed the finish line in hobart after completing the eleven thousand one hundred seventy kilometer course in one day eight hours and forty eight minutes there by beating the previous record by over four hours but the epic contest may not be over which team comanche set to lodge a protest against wild oats following a near collision more leaving sydney on choose day. former u.s. president barack obama has given his first major interview since leaving office to britain's prince harry while the two sat down together first special edition of b.b.c. radio four s flagship today programme guest hosted by none other than the prince while they discussed a range of topics including obama's feelings about handing over the presidential baton to donald trump and although obama shied away from mentioning trump by name

he delivered a clear message about people in leadership roles needing to be more cautious in their use of social media while the interview was recorded three months ago when it was aired earlier today the prince was asked about his friendship with obama here's what he had to say we the same kind of months on the outlook on the charitable. foundations and mainly on the youth of the youth of today well enough to invite him to wedding well i don't know about. the the in points or the guest list to get the so who knows where he was where you could be going to know we're going to ruin the surprise. it's a everyone loves a white christmas but people in the city area in the northeastern u.s. got a lot more than they bargained for a record amount of snow has fallen since christmas day and it just keeps on coming the only thing people can do now is try and dig their way out. without them this

city would be in much deeper trouble snowplow drivers in erie pennsylvania are currently in high demand. today will be probably pad fifteen hours easily. we've been out since two in the morning. but that will hardly be enough police of closed a number of roads already this city declared a snow emergency after a record breaking one point five meters of snow fell in just forty eight hours. many locals spent christmas shoveling their way out. i'm used to snow i've been born and raised here so but not this much in one day that thirty hours fifty three inches and here it comes again so and they said the storm isn't over till tomorrow afternoon so i can only imagine what we'll get again tonight like it wasn't last. you know it's a little ridiculous but i keep economically at it we'll get it clear. however the dogs of erie seem to be enjoying the white outs. and they will

have plenty of time to do so more snow is forecast for today. now imagine coming home from work to find a huge her broom trashing your kitchen that nightmare is real for many people on south africa where booze often break into homes and rummage for food but now a new method of deterring the furry primates so could put an end to this monkey business once and for all. a boon by glory in south africa's keep peninsula people dashes primate is an almost daily occurrence thanks to brazen but boone's inception of their next meal. part riley has seen her fair share of the monkey business there are a lot of them in cape town and coming to your house and they make an awful mess.

with it but not too bad they've been in my house quite often. they're not aggressive they're for them aggressive and they're not really interested in you they're looking for food that's what they're looking for to drive the monkeys out of our brain areas conservationists from the human wildlife solutions organization have been testing a new strategy g.p.s. callers are used to track the baboons movements once the pesky primates get close to town come the boom boxes. of pertaining to or predators the long course on the prison sounds of being killed they're scared to go. a few bangs. reinforces the scariest and the void. with the help of predators such as lions leopards

and hyenas the aim is to create what they call a landscape of fear an imaginary birendra that the monkeys do not dare to cross for villagers in nearby her minus its music to their ears we've heard just in the last two weeks since the team arrived with what they call the virtual fence we've had large literally for the last two weeks they were saying is there are magination are these certainly but there are. at stake is the region's famed been population until recently the cheeky monkeys would have been shot following positive results the plan is now to roll out the system in other cape town suburbs hopefully ensuring that fewer and fewer light fingered friends are killed unnecessarily. and i want to remind you of our main headline this hour. a major prisoner swap a crane and progress revels is underway after this very hour in total three hundred

eighty prisoners are being exchanged and will soon be returning home. all right that serial world news update for now we'll have more for you at the top of the alfred on behalf of all of us here thank you for spending this part of your day with us.

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