ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin after months behind bars in a russian prison, brittany griner is finally going hope. the united states secures the release of the basketball star from russian custody to have freedom comes at a high cost. also on the show ever on execute a protest to participating in recent anti government demonstrations. morrison

shikari is hanged as iranian court sentence, 5 more men to death for allegedly killing a member of the revolutionary gods. but despite this video on social media shows, people are still taking to the streets and protest in central terran and authorities say they'll make more arrests a day off to one of germany's biggest anti terror operations. for decades, 25 people remain in custody. accused of being part of a conspiracy to launch a class getting up close and very personal with 2 retired royals. prince harry and meghan mall will launch their multi $1000000.00 documentary series with viewers expecting damaging claims about the british royal family. ah, i manuscripts, mccann, and welcome to the program. us basketball star brittany bryan has been released

from custody in russia as part of a prisoner swap with a usa, a to time melinda gold medalist growing. i was arrested in moscow back in february and sentence to 9 years in prison on drugs charges. she recently had an appeal rejected and was transferred to a remote penal colony in central russia. a release comes as part of a high stakes prisoner strange. sees the usa, handover notorious russian arms dealer. victor bolt us president joe biden says he spoken to brittany griner on the phone. his how he reacted to the news of her release. he said, he's on a plane, she's on her way home. after months being unjustly detained in russia, held on her on tolerable circumstances. britney 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 stop 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 her release by an announce the day alongside brittany, crying his wife sharelle is what she said over the last 9 months. your had been so privy to one of the darkest moments of my life. and so today i'm just standing here overwhelmed with emotions. but the most important emotion that i have right now is just sincere gratitude for president biden. and his entire administration. a u. s. correspondent, catalina troy, joins me now from washington. d. c. and d, w correspondent, uri rochette. so join us from rega d. w. that reporting from the since it's moscow bureau was shut down by the russian government current. and i'm going to start with you, how big was the pressure on the white house to make this still happen?

the white house was under big pressure because in president violence warrants, brittany griner was wrongfully detained. now this means of course, a huge success for his administration also regarding the public opinion. we know that the negotiations have been ongoing for months, but the last thing we heard from the russian side was that they would not be open for a deal. so this indeed comes a bit as a surprise. now, a couple of interesting things here. a, here in the u. s. government was actually trying to secure the release. not only of britain greiner, but also of poll wheel, and another u. s. american citizen who has been held in russian prison since 2018 charged with espionage. but according to a senior official from the state department, what he said this morning is that there was no other option for the u. s. government than to do a one on one exchange, meaning brittany griner in exchange for a victo, but all right, yury,

if we can look at the, the other side of things, the swath of course carried a heavy price didn't in exchange for growing of the usa 100 over russian arms de la vic to boat. can you tell us more about him? victor boot is a $55.00 for year old former soviet the officer who was apparently in the arms dealer. now he's a sold family that he has the nickname of the merchant of death. he was sentenced to 25 years behind boss in the u. s. a. reportedly a week to go to build up his business, sailing old soviet military plains, left on. so get our fields off to the soviet union collapsed, but he was arrested in 2010 and he was extra died from thailand to yes. he claims however, he isn't just and to national toper know in the travel business. ok, let's talk about timing. i mean, president biden said they'd been pushing for months to release griner. what made

russia agree? now? i think president putin seems to be under a lot of pressure it at the moment, internationally. she is complete, isolated, but he's also under pressure in russia itself, among ordinary people. as an initial eye for ephoria about the war seems to be fading. many people seem to be enthusiastic about the boy in the 1st few months. but now, according to polls, the mood is total indifference. people are tired of the war now that russia is losing. and now the trashes are concerned about being called to up to fight. as for the leads, it seems that many are totally unhappy with western sanctions against russia are, which are heading more and more often the impact of their lives. many have lost their privileges, including their freedom to travel. men have lost money and nobody knows how long the war will continue. war aims are becoming more and more diffused, and russia suffered a very bitter defeat when troops had to withdraw from ukraine. and jefferson supporting desperately needs good news now and the prisoner exchanged could be that

good news if americans lift the sanctions against russia and k, carolina and president biden said that it took painstaking negotiations to make this happen. they can, i ask you, how do the american people feel about the u. s. government essentially striking deals with russia while it's waging a war and ukraine. well, this is us, you. we also mentioned this is, this is a good thing for the biden administration because they are showing a u. s. american citizen is coming back in december a couple of weeks before christmas. this is probably going to be a positive thing for them. a russian and ukranian war is still quite far away from the united states for isla, so people are not really noticing at the sanction, see, or the sanctions are being noticed in russia, in europe, but not really here. and this is, this is also what the senior agent from the safety department said this morning. this is not really going to change the negotiation and the position that the united

states has towards the war. he pointed out that this has been a difficult negotiation. yes. but very focused on this exchange of prisoners, and that it is completely separated from the war that is happening right now in ukraine and the brutal way that it's being unfolding. w's, carolina, troy in washington, and dw yuri raton. riga, thanks so much to both. now iran has executed the 1st of the protest is detained off to participating in recent anti government demonstrations. most and shikari was hand on thursday morning after being accused of wounding a security officer. during the protests in september, iranian courts have passed more death sentences just this week. 5 men have been sentenced to death, accused of killing a member of iran, revolutionary god, behind these walls and to ron's even prison,

a young man was reportedly executed. iran's judiciary claims he injured a police officer during the protests, but observers say this was a show trial. it was broadcast in installments on state television, the 23 year old at neither an independent legal defense nor the opportunity to challenge the verdict. regardless, protests against the iranian regime are still going on for 3 days across multiple cities. many businesses have been on strike. people on the streets report, a massive deployment of police and malicious store owners preferring to remain anonymous. say there have been targeted intimidation attempts. we were severely threatened if we left the store closed, they would shut down our cafe completely emerald. iran's president r e z continues to blame other countries influences for the ongoing protest. he reiterated that point when he addressed pro regime students at

a terran university. as i work out then, your west thinks will just hand the country over to the protest as you donna, but no on the reigning students would never let that happen. so i recorded applause from his supporters, but the majority of students are his fears. his critics cellphone footage shows them protesting against ra, easy, and the regime outside the university. you have no honor, they shout repeatedly, not only in the capital, but at universities all across the country. and the demonstration show no sign of dying down morale kareem. he is an alsa and research fellow at the university of toronto focusing on iran. and i asked her if she was surprised by the fact that the execution took place. well, in fact, many of us who work on iran and many human rights organizations have been warning from day one that this could happen. in fact, what are the 1st slogans that people the streets were chanting was that if we don't

fight them, being them being the regime on the street right now in a few weeks or months, we have to beg them for our lives. because as everybody knows, this is not the 1st time the iranian regime resorts to executions and physical elimination of protesters in order to deter further croton, however, i'm not certain that this is actually only we're not clear that this is the 1st protest of its kind. this is the 1st that we know up, but i do believe though, again, i'm not certain that there were executions of balloon taking place. but the details of that, as i mentioned, is unclear. and we need the international community is attention on this and we need to go far beyond just the same old same old. we're outraged or, you know,

we strongly condemn and statements and to kind of force the regime into iran to face the consequences of repression. especially when it comes to executing children under 18, many of whom are on death row right now. and their charges are participating in protests. or can i just ask you about the coverage of these protest? there has been a continued international coverage. i wanted to ask you, does that not have any impacts in your opinion, does that not given the wrong or support moral support for the protest isn't, does that not put pressure on the radian regime? it definitely does. i mean it's, it's heart warming and i've heard from many protesters that it's heart warming to know that the eyes of the international community is on them. however, it depends on the kind of coverage. for example, there are many,

there were reports in the new york times last week that the morality police was abolished. reports are quite huge. they're outright inaccurate, and they end up benefiting the regime and to her on. and as you know, your viewers might know yesterday a times magazine declared women of iran as heroes of the year, and they definitely deserved that designation. however, the article that went along with the author, that 10, that article was chosen by the time the it's kind of shows how tone depth some of these media are to what's going on on iran because it's, it's still argued that he job is almost a non issue, it has been cancelled, quote unquote, for the past 23 years by women of iran, which we all know that is inaccurate because let's remember how these protests

began. and in september by the death of mass. so i mean, eat up or not, dunning, this job properly. so it all depends on how the coverage goes on and how and who gets to speak, and what voices are silence and what voices are privileged, which often times ends up being you know, those voices that are already in the media and some of them are even outright affiliated with iran lobby and the benefits, the regime and chevron alright, morale occurring, the thank you so much for your time and for speaking to us here on the w. let's take a look now some of the other stories making news around the world. israeli troops have killed 3 palestinians and adorn, rayed on suspected terrorists. palestinian authorities described clashes in the city of janine and the occupied west bank of fis. there's been an increase in violence in the reed in the region following several attacks on israelis. south

korea has ordered, striking cargo truck drivers to return to work. those who refuse could face up to 3 years in jail, or a maximum fine of 30000000. 1. that's around $22000.00 euros. south korea's governments as a prolonged strike could begin to hurt major export industries. vladimir putin has acknowledged that his war on ukraine could turn into a long term process. the russian president was defending the conflict after the ukrainian military allegedly carried out a series of drone attacks. deep inside russia. putin added that he would not mobilize additional troops for now. and croatia will join europe's passport, free travel area in january. this clears the way for an end to land border controls between croatia and other shannon members. an end to air for checks will follow later. romania and bulgaria were unable to overcome opposition to their membership

in the shannon's zone. now more arrests are expected in germany, after dozens were detained in raids across the country. the targets are suspected supporters of a far right movement that rejects the legitimacy of the german states. the countries federal prosecutor said the conspirators had fantasized about forming a new german army and installing a minor aristocrat as the country's new leader. it's the biggest anti terrorism rate in germany in many years on wednesday morning, some 3000 police raided around 150 properties in several german states and arrested 25 people. all of them suspected members or supporters of the so called the high school got movement, their goal occluded, time germany. they wanted to overthrow democracy. abraham decent or booking the olympics from t from us. now we have these groups in our science prison several months now this

year about how much darker house, because of the mounting evidence allowed creek. why on this were a violent overthrow. it from an that to me with the use reference of turning it up was time to bring in the police. angel fed a prosecutor since i poked the good hoffman mouse, none german authorities said the network was made up of both political and military wing. they had planned to invade the german parliament and use violence with sir da, the exec lightning of calling the epistle to stedman perspective david association . we saw here scott, liberty, who plans has gone to put us at hideously. yet we're not harmless. elysa because in addition among these associations, there was an armed wing and among right spirit, good affinity to weapons. if a given suzette, this gap has indies a fine even of mine. but often at an om if they had succeeded, this man was to become the new head of state highly voice, a descendant of an aristocratic family from eastern germany,

who still uses the symbolic title of prince hind. rick 13th. the entrepreneur, based in frankfort, was named as the ringleader. the group plan to install this woman as justice minister, bergen, my isaac brinkman was a member of the german parliament for the far right alternative for germany party until last year. she then resumed working as a judge to berlin court earlier this year, efforts to remove her from her position because of her involvement with far right extremists failed. but the court confirmed that she was released from her duties on wednesday the high school got a fall right extremist, deeply anti democratic movement. its members reject the german state and its democratic system and a prone to violence. german authorities estimate that the scene consists of some 20000 people chance let will have, shall, it's on his government was sworn in exactly a year ago ending 16 years of conservative rule hair and germany. the coalition. he

leads of social democrat screens and free democrats came to power on a platform of change. the rushes, large scale invasion of ukraine in february meant they had to abandon some of their core principles, not least regarding power generation, t w's politics team has. this looked back at the chancellors challenging 1st 12 months. for 16 years, she was the face of germany, anglo mackerel felt solid, dependable, safe, until 2021. when this guy took over, all of so it's brought in a coalition government of left wing, as liberals and greens. they promised big changes. but with the government, just 77 days old. russia launched its full scale invasion of ukraine. they've changed everything you were experiencing at turning point. the new chancellor laid

out a series of major promises to deal with a new political and economic global reality. for decades, the mighty german economy had relied on cheap oil and gas from russia that had to change and fast. so gave renewables a big boost, hunted down oil and gas deals abroad. and built l. n. g terminals at home. he even extended nuclear and coal power generation, although the government's green element prevented them from going as far as the opposition wanted. our business when it comes to nuclear and renewable energy, he stayed way behind germany's capabilities. the government also spent $200000000000.00 euros to protect german customers and companies from price rises. the ukraine war also meant germany had to decide what to do to help that we will deliver 5000 how mr. ukraine. and even though he later dramatically expanded this, many remained critical of sorts. his efforts just kind,

there is no german lead european coordinated support for ukraine, for example, with battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles. on a major problem, the german armed forces didn't have much to give away. in that same speech, swords authorized a $100000000000.00 euro special budget for the armed forces. none of those things were on the agenda. when salts was elected, he and his partners came to office with a raft of progressive policy. they abolished an article in the criminal code banding doctors from advertising abortion services. they introduced the 1st ever l g b t q plus rights commissioner. and they said to make immigration to germany easier and even legalize recreational cannabis use. it was a baptism of fire full of swords and his new government, all that came from the war and ukraine. the ongoing pandemic, and the economic forelock from both. but some of the lessons learned already being

applied to the next major challenges, such as how to deal with germany's dependency on china. they're still a lot to do. persons. royal family is bracing itself for a netflix documentary series on a prince, harry and his wife megan. the couple known as the duke and duchess of sussex are no longer serving members of the royal family. the 1st episodes debuted a few hours ago with expectations of damaging claims about british royal life. it's really hard to look back on it now and go. one of the netflix docu series harry and meghan promises an unprecedented look at the life of the duke and duchess of sussex, a suitably dramatic trailer in which prince harry draws comparisons between megan and his late mother. princess diana sparked mixed reactions ahead of its world wide release. many royal fans were eager to hear their story. others annoyed at more

complaints from such a privileged pair. i was some called out discrepancies in the trailer footage. the royal family was reportedly bracing itself for further revelations. megan marshall's marriage to prince harry in 2018 was dubbed a modern fairy tale and hailed as the trans to modernize the monarchy by welcoming a multi racial woman. but already during their courtship, the couple complained the american former actress was frequently the target of criticism in the british press. in early 2020, they stepped down from their role as senior royals and moved to north america. an explosive interview with talk show host oprah winfrey in march 2021 stirred controversy even further. the couples claims of miss treatment and racism sent shock waves through the british royal's leaving harry further estranged from his family. the last time they were united was for the funeral of their grandmother,

queen elizabeth the 2nd last september. shortly thereafter, harry and megan announced the release of the netflix documentary part of a deal with the streaming platform worth over $100000000.00 us dollars. no knows the full truth. we know the features ah, d, w london correspondent get mass has that watched the 1st episodes. and i asked her if she seen anything that might make members of the royal family tremble. there are definitely some bits that will get the royal blood boiling. i mean, william and kate are not for a trade in a very, very warm manner. you know, harry and mac and are really talking about their own relationship and how they're surviving against the odds and how it's such a strong loving relationship and, and, and william and kate, they come across it from, from this narrative as

a bit formal as a bit stiff so you can really feel the rift between those 2 couples and that will not go down. well, what for me stands out though is, is really the tragic story of prince harry. he speaks very warmly about his mother and the grief that he still experiencing from having lost her as such an early age that really still shines through. he speaks about her compassion, her warmth, and her embassy empathy. she's a praise quite a prominent part in the 1st a series of this documentary and he compares megan with his own mom suit. so really it's her is pretty much a love letter to his mom. but also it is about the modern monarchy and it is quite a big or historical sweep against modern britain and monarchies wrong. it sounds like some mer, pretty roar, emotions. the 1st episodes were obviously just released this morning and the

interest around the world is huge, isn't it? was yes. i mean the people are watching. it was beer. it was released this morning at 8 o'clock i. i certainly started watching at a to one. and i know others have been to it's generated a lot of media interests of british media. i'm particularly these are some of those tabloids that are criticized quite a lot in this documentary. they generate article after article, some of them quite critical of what's already been mentioned there seemingly privileged coupled being unhappy about that treatment. but then there are others also on social media who are admiring. ah, harry and megan for being so open about their own life and about the obstacles that they've had to overcome. he w correspondent berg at math in london. thank you so much for those insights. when his a quick reminder of the top story will follow employee the united states to secure the release of basketball style brittany greiner from russian custody. as part of

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