ah ah ah, this is dw live from burly, free after months in a russian prison. brittany rhina is finally on her way home. the u. s. basketball player is handed over in a prison, a swap in exchange for a notorious russian de also coming off opening

a new era of china's relation with the arab world. chinese president, she didn't pain is in saudi arabia for the 1st time in 6 years. plus, international outrage and colds for iran to face mall sanctions off to the religious regime executes a 23 year old man just for taking part an anti government protest. ripe groups. war more hangings, imminent the well cop in cuts. our resumes with the quarter funds. could this be message final match with argentina? the south american rating champions take all the balance, it's while num on some great fixtures. ah and get those as well come to the program. us basketball player brick. ne greiner

is due to land back on us soil in the coming hours. she was released from a russian penal colony on thursday. the 2 time olympic gold medalist was arrested in moscow in february and sentenced to 9 years in prison on drug charges. her release as part of a high stakes prisoner swap, an exchange the u. s. is handed over a russian arms dealer, accused of supply and al qaeda and the taliban, among others. a prisoner swap on the tarmac of ab without the apple. it was hill, but captivity ended for us basketball star, brittany griner, seen her on the left and the russian arms dealer weak to boot on the right. you as president joe biden spoke to griner shortly after her release. i'm glad to be able to say the brittany is in good spirits. she, she's relieved to finally be heading home. and the fact remains that she's lost

months of her life. experienced the needless trauma. she deserves space privacy in time with their loved ones to recover and heal from her time being wrong through detained dryness. wife sherylin thanked those involved and bringing brittany home over the last 9 months. y'all have been, i'm so privy to one of the darkest moments of my life. and so today i'm just standing here. i'm overwhelmed with the emotions, but the most important emotion that i have right now is just sincere gratitude. while griner was still on her way to the u. s. boat was already being welcomed by his family in moscow. he had been in a u. s. jail since 2012. solving a 25 year sentence for arms trafficking. simon, i mean it greno was arrested at moscow airport in february and sentenced to 9 years for the possession of cannabis by a russian court. these emergence published by the russian government shall have

been released from the penal colony. she was held in and put on a plane to abu dhabi once inside. she was asked about her well being with i read it. why? and with that, how long ordeal is finally over. of war, this prisoner exchange. let's bring in our moscow bird. she uri rossetto is in riga because russia closed down the w's offices in moscow. yury the white house is claiming the release of brittany grant. as a victory house, the return of victor boots to russia being reported there while this prisoner exchange the report as a victory for russian diplomacy. and it said that the various security services and possibly president putin personally one volved in this affair. the focus is on the fact that the u. s. and russia are still talking to each other,

negotiating. and even though us russian relations are in the old time law, the russian people of course, americans could make concessions not only on the exchange of the prisoners, but also on other issues. russians hope now, 1st and foremost, when it comes to easing sanctions against moscow. that is, of course, a very big goal for the camera because the move in the country doesn't seem to be good in terms of russia's war in ukraine. now i was moscow so keen on securing the return of victor boot. who is this man? nick to boot seems to be someone who just to knows too many details and to many high officials personally. or he is reported to have delivered to weapons to various countries such as of gan is down and gall, and west and african countries for years. and someone who does that must have good, very good connections. the reactions in moscow to his arrest and above all,

his extradition to the use 8 and 2010. 10. show how important board is for the russians at that time, even the russian foreign minister and several russian politicians criticized his extradition harshly. if footed really tried to achieve the release, now of this alleged our dealer personally as there are really a lot of questions and for example, who benefited it benefited from both a deal both deal. i did the brought her work for the russian secret service is, did she work for other secret services? no doubt, you will now have good life in russia and a, because the russians are, who are a former a u. s. prisoners. and they all can, you can imagine they had to have good life, m a, but satcher, the case was with foremost by an chapman and with current duma, m. p. under luca boy who had suspected, suspected of involvement of the murder of the russian spy, illiterate in can london all this people, and are respected persons in russia. there are other western prisoners being held

in russia or sometimes on dubious charges. what are their chances of release? well, is the most prominent u. s. american prisoner in russia is certainly poll whelan, but he seems to be a different case because he is accused of as pan nash. and that is much worse for the russian judicial authorities, even though it makes him more interesting for possible for the present exchange. so far there is no sign that he will be expanded are exchanged, but the russians want not the states to lift the sanctions. that is the goal and who knows which concessions of what concessions washing may make if it really wants to get back at such permanent prison ally and poll we, when you receive that in reagan. thank you. let's have a look. not some of the other stories making headlines today. a fire that broke out

at a shopping mall near moscow have claimed at least one life in gulf the entire building, initial reports say the fire broke out at 6 am local time. the cause of the place is being investigated the borders of peruse, ousted president pedro casteel, have class with police backers of the left wing populist are demanding his release and the suspension of parliament. peruvian court ordered his detention on 1st after congress voted to impeach him. it, china's president, she didn't ping has met with saudi crown. prince mohammed been summoned in re out on a quote pioneering trip to open a new era of china's relations with the arab world. that's in she's own words. the visit is she's 1st to the kingdom in 6 years. the 2 countries affirm that ties and signed a series of strategic deals,

including one with the tech giant. wow way. the chinese leader is expected to meet more golf oil producers. later with more this we're now joined by andrew small in asia. i spoke with german marshall funds here in berlin. now the partnership between saudi arabia and china. what makes it so important? well, festival, it's unavoidable. the, the energy piece of the relationship is, is that a cool? this is, this is critical to, to china at a time in which the energy situation and in the world energy pricing is, is in a more difficult at spot. but saudi arabia occupies an important role across the whole series of different dimensions of, of chinese foreign policy at the moment, which i not always pursues a kind of balanced approach to. and it's diplomacy in the middle east. it does have to balance its relationship with iran, with israel, with he and with,

with each it just the kind of traditional mainstay. so it's policy that the saudi arabia is by far it's making good energy. i am, it's been a security partner missile and technology and, and sales going back along the way. so there is a security dimension to the relationship as well. and, but they don't give us an important role in the muslim world. they were trying to navigating issues and with seen young and what's been playing out with the week of minority at that at so in that respect, as saudi arabia mattress a lot. but in this wider context of the struggle with the united states, kind of keating away a little bit traditionally close us, as i think is still understood to be important to china is positioning across the whole of the developing world and on the line. well, right now, and even in the financial times, which is mother i relationship, sorry, right. the immaculately much on her to relate building i know vivian, resilient to sanctions, international financial obligation. so sorry, right. be reason, send her

a number of plannings franklin c objectives right now. a saudi arabia is one thing, but during his visit to the saudi capital, she is not just meeting saudi officials, but also all the arab leaders like egyptian president opto thought, sissy all palestinian president mahmoud abbas wife of doing that. well, i mean festival, of course adam, he couldn't just go to saudi arabia for some of the reasons political balance that i mentioned before. and, but this is a context in which certainly there is a kind of re balancing going on in the middle east. at the u. s. pivot to asia rebalancing away from the security role. and the importance of the energy relationships in, in, in the region means that china, although it doesn't want to step into that kind of role with united states occupied from the ro states in the region that are looking to upgrade their relation was just, this was on the way already, of course, book for commercial reasons and,

but there is a sense in which china is positioning itself w fighting a more comprehensive role in the region in the long time. so all of these relationships, gulf states, egypt and the other cases as well matter very much for that chinese, interested in, in, in the white a strategic context as well through fusion and was more left from the german martial found. thank you, andrew. thank you. germany's foreign ministry, he summoned the iranian ambassador after news that iran carried out its 1st known execution of a protest assistance and to government demonstrations began in september, most on shikari was hanged on thursday at the act of his sworn that at least a dozen of iranians faced the same fate for their involvement and demonstrations. ah, behind the walls of the notorious evian prison most in shakera was hanged on thursday . the death sentence against the 23 rolled was only handed down in november and has

now been very quickly carried out. waterloo has a ryan's judiciary acute shake harry of injuring a militia member during the protests. human rights groups condemned the proceedings as a fast track show trial. lacking an independent defense intended to scare off other processes. bambrow hit on thursday morning broadcast, as close to the iranian regime, shed this video on social media. it was supposed to prove she carries guilt, accompanied by dramatic music from and the use of computer generated scenes of violence. the regime staged a dubious admission of guilt will observe as believed that the confession was extracted under torture. and you're s iranian turkish political scientists. the reef gaskin says that systematic in iran, you know, minucci excell since the foundation of the islamic republic in 1979. the regime is

repeatedly imprisoned. opponents tortured them and put them in front of cameras. and now they're doing that with the demonstrators a week. they want to show them as fearful and weak people like normal as people who break when they're put under enough pressure. on little core cock. only a few days ago, a regime propaganda channels published a video with the famous rappa too much to lay. he was who also faces the death penalty in the video, extracts from one of his music videos were cut together with an interrogation in it to lay he apologizes for inciting people to protest. when on you are, if gaskin believes the regime propaganda strategy is having the opposite of its intended effect to lay he and others. now heroes to many rebushka fearful people see the stage confessions law really is a sign of the weakness of this regime that's trying to prevent it's downfall. a regime that is increasingly under pressure because the resistance in

a rollin shows no signs of going away. now that speak to a good, a crane sees a member of parliament for the conservative opposition party cd you, mr. cranes. germany has reacted by summoning the iranian ambassador, foreign minister. babcock has also condemned the execution. by a twitter said enough, i think was the least she could do and the government could have done. but i think that our reaction to the, the government actions here, he's incredibly cruel ways to go against these protests were quite late and not strong enough in the last months. i hope it will get better. i think the government's beginning to wake up to the very size of these protests but also to the cruelty of the reactions. and i would like to see more in the last month when you say you would like to see more, what would that be? what, what will the concrete steps that the german government should take?

i mean, if you compare germans and also your pin and sanctions, for example, to sentence in sanctions and other countries like canada, i think we could do much more. a foreign affairs minister, a started to her agenda by saying she wants to have a 10 minutes from policy and it's not deliberate on that. of course, it's not clear what it is, a foreign policy means, but so far what i've seen from her reactions to iran, it probably means nothing. so i don't see that germany is reacting stronger than, for example, other european partners. and if you have such an agenda, you would expect a foreign minister to we are stronger than other countries that don't claim to have such an agenda. now iran said recently that germany, particularly as a show, it was being too provocative and criticizing iran,

risking long term damage to the relationship between the 2 countries. just think the government is trying to strike the right balance here. i think in general, you have to be careful in which countries would you say want so you can make the argument or can i ask the question whether it's it's, it's a good idea to criticize a press conference in turkey. but here we have a different dimension of aggression of country, almost like say, tara, what we see here, and here from, from iran. so this is just a very different dimension from problems that we also have severe problems in other countries. if you look at ta, for example, at the moment is another dimension. so you have to react in different way. and this was not done properly. germany is germany is the biggest trading pop we around. so the suspicion in other countries is we have probably a little bit to lenient and we should work against this suspicion and also to something to strengthen our reputation and also the western world. now one reaction

is that germany will now band the deportation of iranian asylum seekers here, back to iran on the bronze are facing unacceptable. dangers if they will turn. this is something that you will party objects to. why not generally? i mean, of course you have to distinguish that there might be even asylum seekers here that come here because you're more radical religiously than i thought everything in iran . and that doesn't make sense to stop these people from being to court. but that's probably not the biggest number or the biggest phenomenon. and if you look at the number of people, the court to around is very small in the, in the last month, last years. so i think it's more theoretical debate here. it's pretty clear that nobody that has any chance to be involved in these protest movements will be deported by the german government, by the john lender were responsible for this. and i think the john state to john lender are very responsible in dealing with this. no matter which political color they're part of. and so it's, it's,

i think quite it academic theoretical debate going to think staff and the opposition cd you party here in germany. thank you very much. what ah, i'm looking at cut are the football world cup where action resumes today with 8 teams buying to make their nations proud in the quarter finals. some interesting match ups including argentina, meeting the netherlands. it'll be a repeat of the classics. 1978 world cup final which argentina one south american side are considered favorites over the ruffians. and with the possibility of it being messes, final game, anticipation as been building and are dw sports respond. mac meadows is in cut out for us. and he has what he told me earlier about the netherlands, argentina match the locals love line on messy. and this match means

a great deal. yes, it does. they're absolutely messy. mad here in qatar, let's be honest, there aren't that many dutch fans here. there are a few argentinians were playing beach football with them yesterday, but the vast majority of fans in the loo sales stadium tonight will be category. although be migrant workers who live there. although be from the wider gulf region, and they all love nessie and the all of superstars. i was at the portugal switzerland game a few days ago. all they wanted to see was christiana rinaldo. but he was on the bench. they even started brewing the pope to go coach because he wasn't bringing him on his side as winning for one. so they, there will be such a focus on messy tonight, and that might be a big advantage to argentina. but let's not forget the dutch are a big side. they are probably the biggest football team never to win the world cup . having been runners off 3 times, including 1978 final and football fans will also remember

a classic between the sides in the quarter finals in 1998. when denny spoke, come one it for the dutch, one of the great. well, cook goals will be hoping for similar drama later on to night. well, the other game today, the favorites, brazil's a play croatia. how do you see that going? well, yes. priscilla the obvious favorites, but they've not won this competition for 20 years at a record 5 times champions that desperate to get through, but cry shall will be no pushover. let's not forget that croatia are the runners up from 2018. they're still got lucas moderate. they're pulling the strings in midfield, i think create his best chance is to keep it tight. you have to wonder whether brazil 2nd string is empty. that good. if anything happens to name are again, if rec, alison is out of form. have brazil got that strengthened debt from the bench we saw when they played their 2nd sing against. cameroon, they lost. so maybe that's crazy, it's best chance. keep it site and try nick it at the end of the mark despite there

being some rather good football on shore. late lou fee far and the woke up organizers can't seem to escape criticism camber no, there's been a series of p r on goals from fever. and the world cup organizers, and we had the will cup ceo yesterday talking about the death of a migrant worker at a hotel. he said, death is a natural part of life that hasn't gone down very well in the world's media. people have been very critical saying that that was callous. there's been so many p r disasters in this will cook. i don't think we're going to hear much from fee for all the organizers. for the rest of the tournament. they just keep putting their foot in our mouth as hope there's going to be some more excellent football on a display. thank you very much, mark meadows that to w sports. so we've just heard about the passion and the excitement of woke up fever in the host country and will not see plenty more while

scenes in the netherlands and argentina later today. but as the hours count on to kick off in caught up, we are so colleague audio bought in the eastern indian state of bengal. what does football mania look like in a city like calcutta ha, inculcate the city. walter fever is i did speak with flags, billboards, and cut outs of your favorite beans. fans are trying desperately to outdo each other in their displeases enthusiasm. this street named fee for afterward walls international gardening body is one site where fans regularly gather to take a look at woke up team gravity of their favorite players, grammar develop saggy of a r k of as a football fan. when i see all this beautiful graffiti around me, it awakes. my passion and love for football is well,

and i take inspiration from it. if we add it over, juggled that india is racked $154.00 in the world by fee far and is not the 1st choice for international footballs. but you wouldn't know that here in calcutta. india may be cricket crazy. but in calcutta, football is followed up with the religious fervor and ty, neighborhood conversations are dominated by the 2 favorites. in tournament brazilian, argentina messy, rinaldo neimark, a larger than life pier. even though in days not playing, they feel, woke up at home on this freezing night. fans are leaving their houses for a spatial screening of one of the big matches. so noah chucker but he has come to watch his physically. argentina. striker, luna messy. believe his 1000 madge. any worship almost worshipping we do offer our

favorite teams. be ready for this world up for 4 years. and then this word comes and we are so much excited for this world, especially the match what is happening today. that is our dba. o and when mrs. scores the 1st goal of the match, the crowd goes crazy. but we'll get those fans do not just shoot the allow for the b team by cheering in front of logs, feeds hot every morning. thousands of football players assemble playground and play for hours. browsing supporter in font, she dreams that one day india was playing up was tub. the false coach also cleans young lives. i mean, yet that they have, i encourage young kids to join for poor and play this game so that they can make a bright career. and future out of it. so this game also keeps them healthy. i'm also surprised how the thief i will compass it positively impacting children these

days like up, oh, i got it all, most really would you look in the city. someone is doing something football related here for the many unable to crowd to cut the to watch the matches lie. got cut off. what is a pretty good alternative to it soccer and to the yes that would it you are watching w news. he has a reminder off the top story that we are following for you today. b, u. s. basketball, player brittany grind is due to land back on us soil. the coming hours united states has secured her release as part of a prisoner swap. the united states handed over russian arms dealer, victo boots in ex chips. and a quick reminder, don't forget, you can always get d w news on the go. just download our app from the play or from the apple app

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