the as. this is d. w. news live from violating a widely anticipated prisoner exchange is taking place between russia and ukraine there were emotional scenes as families were reunited at airports in moscow and kenya also coming up a blow to indian attempts to put a roof on the american engineers at mission control having all skinny location with belew not land the signal from the chandrayaan 2 spacecraft disappeared after it ended its final descent to the beams. and to move in

70000 people are in need of food and water in the bahamas opted out homes and communities were distorted by her again at orange dorothy say the final death toll will be staggering. i'm going to humphrey glad you could join me a lone awaited exchange of prisoners between russia and ukraine has taken place the swap could be a step towards easing relations between the countries and increase the chances of resolving the conflict in the east of ukraine now fighting there between troops and russian backed separatists has killed more than 13000 people since 201435 ukrainians including filmmaker on x. insolvent 24 sailors detained since last year in russia were transferred from moscow to key. with $35.00 russians heading in the opposite direction direction.

and one of the freed say has described the uncertainty in the run up to the actual prisoner exchange and i'm also the rebel as opposed to your status kept on changing we heard that the prisoner swap was going to fall through the balkans we end of august it was a difficult time i couldn't sleep for 5 days. only told us today at 4 in the mornings that we should pack and someone would pick us up all the time before the flight just crawled. under the snorkel and rolled it all so i'm very happy to be back i hope everything will be ok i want to thank everyone who supported us but different now for more on this story we're joined by our correspondent nick connolly in moscow and kiev post at a time matthew cote in the ukrainian capital welcome to you both maggie starting with you bring us up to date with the latest what is happening right now in kiev.

will the prisoner exchanges already happen here was a very emotional scene at you but he's full airport when the plane arrived the prisoner the former prisoners now exited the plane they embraced president bill of human is announced he met their relatives a brace their relatives a lot of emotions a very happy scene there now likely being taken to in a medical clinic for medical checks but on this and that the the exchanges happened some of the people returned include as mention film director led some sort of a very pop prominent political prisoner but also 24 ukrainian sailors were captured while crossing from the black sea into the as old city in november. journalist who was who is rearrested while visiting family in moscow also called a night a ukrainian was 19 in 2017 when he was basically kidnapped and illegally extradited to moscow from bella ruse so it's

a very big emotional day for ukraine and nick how is this exchange of prisoners being received on the russian side. well ahead of there's a bit of sort of asymmetrical saud to this because not many over the people heading veil the way cummings mosco ours well known in russia as is the case for those and now traveling old returns to keep their in you really household name here to deal the shin ski a journalist who worked and headed the key have office of a russian news agency apart from that it's not many people known to the wide to russian public and indeed most of them are x. and ukrainian citizens who were in ukrainian jails for fighting were or assisting the separatists i think this is less important for the russian domestic audience the for rushes image abroad and we saw present perch in meeting him and on mccall for all its in the last month and this is all part of steps to going to show that russia is acting good faith and willing to deescalate and try and find some kind of starts to a new of resolution of the pays versus we're talking about household names then

math here of course film director alecks in self was among the prisoners xchange what is his release mean today we'll it's a very significant moment for ukraine because he is of course highly publicly known it's a significant victory for presidents announce he but at the same time since overs a figure who is so dominant a narratives of political prisoners that sometimes it can actually saw the oxygen out of the room for other political prisoners there are still after this possibly up to somewhere around $200.00 ukrainian political prisoners a different types held in russia and as send soul of himself said to journalists after he arrived the you know the fight is not over they need to free the others so his return means at is a big moment for ukraine but it could also mean less attention to political prisoners actually part back to you then nick because you mentioned sound a symmetry aid now how they swap is being to see say what then is the significance

of us what plight taste between ukraine and russia well present selenski definitely very upbeat selling this as the start of big changes ahead and an apostate to peace let's have a listen to what you have to say. we did. 2 connections telephone connection between 2 presidents and we have done if your 3 steps we have to begin all the steps publicly all the steps in means brosius you know monday i have all that i have i have i just feel for what you say about it but what journalists we i hope will have the nearest meeting in normandy permanently and will speak about it and will speak all the steps during the not the future i during the nearest future we have to do all the steps to

finish these horrible war. so finishing this horrible was president says lecky says i think that is optimism that we haven't seen for a long time this is a peace process that has been stuck for years and hasn't been going anywhere but i think this is low hanging fruit as it were this was something that was relatively easy to do relatively small compromises having to be made on both sides the next steps will be much more painful this will be the bigger issues of providing some core kind of autonomy to these eastern ukrainian regions if their returns to its control and also what to do with all the people who say the separatist force is some kind of amnesty what is russia willing to give what is ukraine willing to give much less room for maneuver there and very tough negotiations ahead he says they have an economy in moscow and matthew cook in kiev thank you very. much now with an ambitious plan ambitious plan from the very start india wants to be the 1st

country to attempt to touch down a the south pole of the moon the chandra on 2 mission set out in july to explore the uncharted territory of the newness south pole but shortly before the scheduled touchdown the space center in bangalore lost contact with then and now mission control is trying to figure out whether the spacecraft crashed or landed while no one was watching the devastation at india's space agency as the scientists news contacted the chandrayaan to only seconds before its landing. the spacecraft was meant to become the 1st ever to touch down on the unexplored south pole of the moon indian prime minister and the random o.t. came to see the landing from the control room later he found consultative worse as he addressed the nation. on earth few of us. dying out of the nation by the way we read our way.

it is sold out or 3 inserted a d.v.d. we got a signed peace who had embarked. on one of the morse ambitious mission of our space program. victim very low voice but we need to cover more ground on. the landing of the spacecraft was also broadcast live on television across the country tensions were running high ahead of the event the chandrayaan 2 was successfully launched in july after a previous attempt was called off due to technical problems. chandrayaan which means moon craft an ancient sanskrit spent the last few weeks traveling to its the south side of the moon. on monday the landing robot vic from

separated from the craft ahead of its planned touchdown it was supposed to measure the surface and locate water deposits india would have been only the 4th country in the world to achieve a controlled soft landing its previous mission in 2008 and it with the spacecraft probe intentionally crashing into the moon for now india's invitations to become a global space superpower appear to have suffered a setback but scientists hope to get the communication to the spacecraft back up and find out what happened. time to update you know on some of the other stories making news around the world police in hong kong have try to disperse protesters who gathered at a train station in attempt to disrupt traffic to the airport pro-democracy activists who vowed to continue their protests despite home call me to carry around announcing withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill on wednesday. german chancellor i'm going to

merkel has called for the rights and freedoms of hong kong residents to be respected cheering a visit to china to read the comments off their meeting with chinese premier in the capital beijing michael also aims to strengthen business ties with china during her trip. iran says it seized a foreign tugboat and arrested 12 filipino crew members the head of the coast guard said that the vessel was part of an oil smuggling arms smuggling operation the seizure comes amid tensions in the gulf off the united states unilaterally withdrew from a nuclear deal with iran. around 60 pilot whales have stranded themselves on a beach in iceland and almost got trapped in the shallows of a rocky seaweed covered part of the coast they were spotted by hikers and a rescue group is trying to push the whales back out to sea. now hurricane

dorian is speeding toward canada after making landfall in the u.s. states of north and south carolina forecasters expect it to bring hurricane force winds to parts of nova scotia late on saturday so already left of course a trail of devastation in the bahamas and thousands of people have been fleeing the islands by boat plane and cruise ship to escape the catastrophic off tomorrow of the storm the death toll is now 43 but it is expected to grow significantly. up in shock and in pain people on the bahamas are desperately trying to leave the islands ravaged by hurricane dorian. for many the meager possessions they're carrying are all they have left. you know our no power over our own. mind it's by everything we have everything is made everyone trying their best but it seemed right they were going to going to

a good enough job to record the people it's the police and the people for no one any of them it's good if you. the people who once called this shanty town home are among the most desperate of dorian's victims. national and international aid organizations have begun moving in to airlift the injured to to hospitals and bring food water and other staples to those who have no means to leave. but the widespread destruction poses for medical logistical challenges to teams scrambling to distribute supplies. in the u.s. dorian made landfall as a category one storm hitting the coast of north carolina with battering waves storm surge and heavy rain caused extensive flooding powerful winds and a series of tornadoes ripped the roofs off houses and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people. dorian has lost a little steam as it barrels on toward eastern canada packing sustained winds of up to 145 kilometers an hour it's forecast to touch down in nova scotia later on

saturday. all right to football now and the netherlands have managed to embarrass germany at home by winning 42 in a euro 2020 qualifier sasha napoli gave germany and early lead scoring off to just 9 minutes bit to quick lied dutch goals turned the game on its head in the 2nd half and although toni kroos equalised from the penalty spot the germany the netherlands have the last laugh they scored twice in the last 10 minutes and made it a rather damning schooling for your him loves team. for barcelona forward samuel eto has called time on his footballing career the 38 year old is best remembered for his days at the new where he won 3 really good titles in 2 champions league crowns he's almost the most capped african play in the spanish league a 2 represented cameroon for world cups and was named african player of the year 4

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