background information, false, false, false figures. so everything you need about the 2022 world cousin on d. w. blue . ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, opt a month behind bars and russian prison. brittany griner is finally going home to the united states, secured the release of the basketball staff from russian custody. but her freedom comes at a high cost. also coming up a ron executes a protester for participating in recent anti government demonstrations. most and

shikari is hanged as a radiant court, sent 5 more men to death for allegedly killing a member of the revolutionary good god. despite this video on social media shows, people are still taking to the streets in protest in central terran and authority say they'll make more arrest the 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 ah . i manuscripts mckinnon. welcome to the program everyone. the u. s. basketball star brittany griner has been released from custody in russia as part of the prisoner swap with the usa. at 2 time olympic gold medalist griner was arrested in moscow back in february sentence to 9 years in

prison on drugs charges. she recently had the pale, rejected, and was transferred to a remote penal colony. her release comes as part of the high stakes prisoner exchange, that sees the usa handover notorious russian on the la picked about us president joe biden says that he has 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 once been 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 a release. president biden announced the deal alongside brittany bryan,

his wife sharelle. here's what she had to say. so over the last 9 months, he had been so privy to one of the darkest moments of my life. and so today i'm just standing here. overwhelmed with the emotions, but the most important emotion that i have right now is just sincere gratitude for president biden and his entire administration or us correspondent carolina to more joins me now from washington. d. c. and d. w correspondent, you're russia, so joined me from rega. that's where the w has been reporting from since it's moscow bureau was shut down. carolyn, i'll start with you. can you tell us how big the pressure was on the white house to make this deal happen? yes. well, there has been a lot of public pressure on the u. s. government to get griner a back home. however, despite the big success that this means now for the white house and for buttons

administration, we know that to negotiations have not been easy and that there is a heavy price that the united states government has paid. they have released victor boot a huge figure for the united states and for russia, an arm stealer for okay. ada for the taliban. and for rebels in wanda booth has been sentenced for or had been sentenced to prison for 18 years. that means he would have been released in 2029. also the u. s. government was actually trying to secure the release not only of britney griner, but also of poll whelan, another u. s. american citizen who has been held in russian prisons since a 2018 charged with espionage. so a 2nd concession, the white house and violence administration had to make, in this case you re, president biden said that they've been pushing for months to release, growing a. well, was it that made russia agree to the deal now?

well, this prisoner exchange is the 2nd since the beginning of the war in ukraine and reaches invited states became curious, main ally in april russian constant in euro shenker, who was sentenced to the in the united states to 20 years in prison, was exchanged for an american student who was sentenced in to 9 years in prison in russia. so, and now the exchange of brittany griner, i think president putin seems to need more and more good news internationally. he seems to be under a lot of pressure at the moment, internationally. he is completely isolated in the west, but he's also under pressure in russia itself, among audrey, people as well as among the leads people in russia are tired of the war now that russia is losing. and now that russians are concerned about being mobilized, many are totally unhappy with western sanctions, which i having more and more of an impact on their lives. so let me put him needs good news now, and the prisoner exchange could be that good news. if americans lift the sanctions against russia,

d. w theory rochette in riga and caroline at chim roy in washington, d. c. thanks so much the base of the iran has executed the 1st of the protesters detained after participating in recent anti government demonstrations. no, st. shikari was hanged on thursday morning, also being accused of wounding a security officer during the protest. 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 her arms. revolutionary guard. 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 of him. what 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. that 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, attendance and, and with. we were severely threatened if we left the store closed, they would shut down our cafe completely and rose, iran's president r e z continues to blame other countries influences for the ongoing protest that's getting done. he reiterated that point when he addressed to pro regime students at a terran university. as i work out then you rest thinks we'll just hand the country over to the protest. does yonah, but not alone was the reigning students would never let 1000 mm. serrato 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. more arrests are expected in germany, after dozens were detained in raids across the country yesterday. the targets are suspected sport supporters of a far right movement that rejects the legitimacy of the german states. the countries federal prosecutors said the conspirators had fantasized about forming a new german army and installing a minor aristocrats as the country's 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 spook of movement. their goal occluded, time germany. they wanted to overthrow democracy of young diesel or perking new

york to exclude t from us. now we have these groups in our sites for several months now this year about how much darker house, because of the mounting evidence to laquita. why on this were a violent overthrow. it from an that to me with the use reference shortening. and i was time to bring in the police angel 30 prosecutors since i booked the good hoffman. mussman. german authorities say that the network was made up of both political and a military wing. they had planned to invade the german parliament and use violence as sir dr. essex lightning up the abyss of de sterren perspective. david association, we saw here gap. they were being planned for transmitter cities knew he that were not harmless. elysa because in addition among these associations, there was an armed wing and among right spirit, the affinity to weapons is a given. suzette, this gap has andes, a fine eagle of mine, but roughness and am. 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 planned to install this woman as justice minister, bergen my exact vancammeron 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 at a berlin court. earlier this year, efforts to remove her from her position because of her involvement with far right extremists fe. but the court confirmed that she was released from her duties on wednesday the high school got a far 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. the more i'm joined now by to be as ginsburg an author, an investigative journalist who spent 8 months under cover, among right wing extremists and wrote a book about his experiences, could see it to be us. can you tell me, were you surprised by these raids and the number of people are arrested? i was, to some extent surprised by the race because what the junk government did there was some kind of a signal. right. but that we have these groups that we have these people that you have this extremely dangerous movement through or of course, reams of a, could it todd dreams of becoming more and more a huge network. and a real danger this slapping you in these groups. what we're always held up at police justin, smaller steps, not with such a big scoot at once. can you?

you said that the government was sending a signal by what happened? can you elaborate on that? what do you mean by sending a signal? well, 1st of all, the press was involved and 2nd of all, it was this one big scoop, getting all those people at once. and after a huge wave of pirate violence we experienced in germany, this is some sort of signal we actually needed. we had so many cases of power, right? terrorism, tarver at violence involved me off the involvement off of state agencies, which for extremely frightening, of course. so we'll say mentally involved in of the police, you're talking about the fact that they were members of the police force that were involved actually in these and right when groups of course, of course, there's a chris, especially with these kinds of a fall ride movements. you know, those conspiracy theorists with an ideology rich creeps esl into the mainstream

creeds into the bourgeoisie without people noticing that people forget that they becoming more and more right ring until they end up and naziism and went cases like that. and as you 2 point, oh, a group of writing extremists will threaten much less people with their lives named after this terrorist group. and the police and the state of hassey and in the state of berlin and hamburg actually helped them getting the addresses of people they wanted to threaten. so yeah, we have a history, a rich and extremely threatening history of state agencies being involved in these acts and off and socialist racism, naziism conspiracy ideology. that the idea of installing a new army making a minor aristocrat, the new german liter. i mean, it all seems incredibly far fetched. but can you tell us how close were these extremist sir, to executing their plan?

tad said, trying to overthrow the government. do not hurry. i don't believe that i stronger. you know, the american equivalent would be like southern citizens, like a conspiracy theories who believe there's a deep states and the government has actually zionist occupied. it's more or less the same thing just with a longer tradition. stemming from 1945. so these people don't have the structure and they don't have the numbers to overthrow the government. so no voice on this front. on the other hand, you do not need an army. you just need a few. so just you just need a little network of a few policeman and some a trigger. happy fall rides for rights activists. or you just need 3, like the original national socialist underground or thought to be us again. but thank you again so much for speaking to us here at d. w. fascinating. last. thank you so much.

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