ah ah this is d w news line from berman brittany griner is free on back in the united states after months. russian prison capitol the play and carrying the u. s. basketball star touch down after she was handed over in a prisoner swap, an exchange for a notorious russian dealer. also on the program, german lawmakers called for tougher security in parliament following one of the

country's biggest anti tara operations. for decades, the chancellor describes the alleged crew plot is very serious, international outrage and calls for more sanction seconds. iran follow the execution of $23.00 of a 23 year old man for taking part in antique government. protests rights groups will be more hangs on the way world cup in katara reaches the quarter final stages. lead massey takes the fields for argentina against the netherlands. what could be his final international favorites? brazil faced croatia. ah i'm from gail. welcome to the program. yes, basketball star, brittany griner is back on us soil after being released from

a russian penal colony whose pictures were taken as a u. s. government at plain touch. down in san antonio, texas a couple of hours ago. a deal done between the us and russian government. so her released in exchange for a russian arms. dana accused of supplying al qaeda and the taliban. amongst many others a prisoner swap on the tarmac of ab without the airport. it was here, but captivity ended for us basketball star, britney rhino seem here on the left, and the russian army 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 or she is relieved of 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 sharell,

tanked those involved and bringing brittany home so over the last 9 months, you 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 the u. s. jail since 2012. solving a 25 year sentence for arms trafficking. it greiner 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

a riddle. and with that, a long ordeal is finally over. well, i asked her correspondent mckayla krista in washington, how brittany griner was doing well, when we know what we heard from joe biden as she is in good spirits, she was also described to be very gracious. we saw a walking on the tarmac, but her 1st will actually be to a medical facility in san antonio to have authority checked after 10 months of detention in, in the end, in this penal colony. she's the top athlete after all, 2 times olympic champion. so either way, this will take toll a toll on her fitness, and there was talk also by joe biden of trauma that she may be facing. and everybody around her, including her team at which spoke for the 1st time this morning. want to give her

the space that she needs to recover. because chris in washington or douglas farah, is a journalist and author of a book about to victor booty told me more about the man and why in russia, so kate dabbing back if you're booted, come out of the cold war and build this amazing air fleet. and weapons transfer system, this business that turned along for almost a decade. but he was one of the russian soviet intel operatives. he had very good friendships with people who become very close to put in through the years. and i think that the ultimate explanation for why they were so interested is that they really didn't want to leave anyone. it felt very strongly that he was one of them. they also felt very strongly that this would be embarrassed. and i think for the united states, and i think it deprives the u. s. government and others are deprived is not maybe not the right word. it takes away the brittany reiner human rights elements that

have been used successfully. i think to tarnish image abroad the victim who is this is a really smart man. he speak 6 languages, start out very young. he started out in this twenty's, amassing this giant empire that provided weapons to charles taylor in liberia, multiple sized and go to the war, the congo war of the taliban. the northern alliance and the rest of british forces in iraq and afghanistan. so it was quite a, quite a polyglot, and what he was able to do, right? so, so we have a basketball, started for a man whose business activities have resulted in the deaths and a naming of thousands, tens of thousands of people. the strike. it was a fair deal. no, i don't think it's fair at all, but i think it was the right deal. i think the in fair and the fairness. i think there were if there were just as victor who would never leave prison. but i think that his ability to influence or carry out his arm straight is done. he's been in prison since he was arrested in thailand in 2008. he has no currency left in the

world that where he was once a king. and so i think he's not a threat on the international scene anymore. and i think that makes it in my mind possible or necessary to save brittany grant of the enormous suffering she was going to be going through in coming years because she was clearly done nothing, not remotely, anything like that. victor had done and to get her back and safe and sound and to ease her enormous suffering. i think that it was, it was a bad deal that need to be that needed to be made. right. and you mentioned that in, you know, your, your 2nd answer that mr. booth is a man whose business has that taken him into not only various wars across africa, but he also worked for the us and british governments and afghanistan. so how did a man who has worked for the u. s. government to come to be locked up in a u. s. federal prison for 25 years? well, in the circumstances of the worst afghans and iraq, you know,

everyone was desperate to be able to move a logistical support into their troops on the ground to save troops lives. and so even though they were, they knew who he was, he was the only one flying into war zones in the early days of those of those conflicts and was able to get the contracts to do that, even though people found him distasteful. he was very efficient. once that necessity was gone and other logistics were set up, he was cut off and then the final straw came when he began to negotiate with people . he thought were park gorillas in columbia to sell the mass amounts or weapons that they specifically said would be used to kill americans. and he said, yes, there are my enemies. this is my war 2. and that was sort of the impetus for really wanting to bring him down because he clearly had gone from being a weapon supplier to going to supplying terrorist groups that wanted to kill americans. thank you so much for joining us. a journalist douglas so far.

thank you. a lawmakers here in germany, a calling for ties a security in parliament after dozens of people were arrested suspects in a large plot to overthrow german democracy. one of the people detained as a former member of parliament for the far right alternative for germany party, which currently has 79 seats in the bundles talk german chancellor. all our shots describe united involvement of a former law makers. very serious. the long arm of german law reaches as far as italy, italian police arrest a former german army officer who was suspected of being involved in an attempted clue. in germany. his one of 25 suspects arrested in the biggest anti extremism operation in modern germany. most of them belong to the so called rice burger movement, whose members reject the authority of the german state and believe the german empire never collapsed. the attempted crew may have been planned at

a hunting lodge in eastern germany, sir india. it belongs to henry royce, a descendant of an aristocratic family, who still calls himself prince heinrich, the 13th. he was the groups ringleader and planned to make himself head of state. if the crew was successful, local residence here, disturbed by the discovery within laden, i am the boss or a jury of blue ball. absolutely nothing in the college eyes blazed. i mother, i'm good comics. i don't care what he called himself ish. ned, the 13th or the 18th. i really don't care. a girl. we don't want anything to do with the i english nic city. the police are also looking for a weapons depot on the property. the fact that the group apparently obtained a large number of weapons has alarmed investigators and ultimately triggered the raid disciplinary proceedings are also underway against berlin. judge, be

a gets mouse 2nd in command. he was rice's choice for justice minister. she's a former member of parliament for the far right alternative germany party or 30 say they're not ruling out that more suspects may be out there, and more rates may be on the horizon. well, what i'll do vile is, and i have to remember the german parliament. welcome to dw. i'd like to start with your reaction to some of what chancellor shops has been saying about these raids. he said the fact that one of the accused years to sit in the bonus tag as a representative for the i half day is of course, very shocking. and very serious. i wonder harold val, how are you as shocked as the chancellor? that one of your former parliamentary colleagues has been arrested in connection with this alleged plot. yes, we are talking about allegations and don't let so let's not forget the presumption

of innocence. and so it's allegation and ongoing investigation. we will see what it will bring to light, but it seems already now largely exaggerated when $3000.00 policeman rate a $150.00 sites and what comes to life is wall are one pistol or so probably registered. and it's so it's not convincing evidence. so up to now, and it fits into a broader picture that hysteria and actually doesn't, is displayed in fields where the least for the least danger lies. right. what is it about? what is it about alleged involvement? and this plot, but shocks you your find the best if it is true that this would be completely out of character for this judge. i don't know what's the base of all this. i don't know

the personal environment and, and for ideas of my former colleague. and so as i said, presumption of innocence and this look, this is what happens at the time. and $3000.00 the podium courses are engaged to catch 25 pension years more or less pension. yes, mostly, and person probably was mentally unfit, aristocrats, right. is portrayed as slowly as long as the previous for family. so you talk about this theory and you talk about that a pension is being involved in this plot. clearly downplaying, it is the head of germany's domestic intelligence agency. wrong when he describes this alleged plot as part of a nationwide network with very concrete plans to overthrow the government you see being hysterical. well,

there are lots of mentally disturbed and sales endangering not only 7 different people out there. a domestic intelligence also being hysterical as you describe why you mentioned, let me say there was a one side deal with what we're dealing with, which is it's a large plot of german democracy. so is thomas alden van, the head of germany domestic intelligence. wrong to describe this a plot as very concrete plans to overthrow the government. you say it's hysteria, so it's the wrong. it's blocked, it's blocked. what, what obviously never was to happen anywhere. not even in batch in the best movie from hollywood, or whatsoever. and when you have the evidence, crime and violence, the statistics of the federal over the states year by year that the most terrorist

attacks really not a legend or planned or lesson plan the decks really techs are on the account of islamic violence. next comes to the left wing violence and least what comes with a given the right wing terrorism in germany has been described again by germany. is it domestic intelligence service as being the biggest threat facing the country? so clearly you have a really odd switch to the events. let's switch to the effects to the real official statistics of the federal hold it. you're a digital system there. yes. the thousands of attacks of really bland text from islamic and with a big difference. county the left ways, or at least one ok, what we're going over the playground. i thank you for joining us, harold. vile german like from the far right after

a britain has placed new sanctions on iraq, including numerous government officials for that part and cranked out on anti government. protested this comes as the european unit announced that it's, it's also planning for the sanctions. international condemnation has followed terhern's execution of a protester. those own shikari was hanged on thursday and activists a warning, but at least a dozen other iranian protestors faced the same fate. behind the walls of the notorious evian prison most in shaker, he 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. war to live up as a ryan's judiciary accused shaker re of injuring a militia member. during the protests, i saw human rights groups condemned the proceedings as a fast track show trial lacking, and independent defense intended to scare off other processes by hamburrow here

on thursday morning broadcast. as close to the iranian regime, shared this video on social media. it was supposed to prove she carries guilt, accompanied by dramatic music, and the use of computer generated scenes of violence. the regime staged a dubious admission of guilt or observers believe that the confession was extracted under torture and duress, iranian turkish political scientists. the reef gaskin says that systematic in iran minutia 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, if 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 corker. only a few days ago, a regime propaganda channels published

a video with the famous repre too much so les, 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 its delay. he apologizes for inciting people to protest one on john 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 good people. see the stage confessions law really is a sign of the weakness of this regime as trying to prevent its downfall. a regime that is increasingly under pressure because the resistance in a rollin shows no signs of going away. well, i correspond jack perkin brussels told me about the likely form of the use. the latest sanctions package were expecting potentially that on monday, next week when

e. u. foreign ministers meet here in brussels that they will impose fresh sanctions, potentially against 20 new people. also one entity. there is already been a raft of sanctions against the number of senior iranian figures, including the head of the revolutionary guard. and a number of companies and organizations are accused of crackdowns, etc. the. the sanctions, the fresh sanctions will only be detailed when we see those meetings at foreign ministers next week. but we do know very likely that they will come in ireland has been saying that they will and indeed the french foreign minister as well. that has been saying that she expects that there will now be a, these additional sanctions that will come in against, against iran, over the protest. but also again over the supply of iranian drones to russia's war effort against ukraine. up to you is one of a number of countries and organizations that have already imposed sanctions against iran. what more does brussels hope to achieve this time?

yeah, that's the big question. phil. i mean, you know, a lot of sanctions have been put on iran, the economy, you know, the economic ties. it's a pretty much, pretty much severed broadly. there's not really too much effect that the sanctions can have. and the, and the european union is really seeing that with the sanctions against russia as well, no matter any sort of senior official that under a travel band or an asset freeze probably has already had, you know, try to square off their assets and certainly is unlikely to have them staying in the european union, whether you can actually do something about that. i think really it's about symbolism that you and other international partners, canada, and britain as well. that on sanctions today, ready against iran, is about symbolism. is by saying, listen, we're doing everything that we can in a stage process to try and show that we're on the side of the protesters. i'm with not please them. we're trying to do what we can to force the hand of to run and, and the government in iran as well. ok,

so you mentioned that the protestors and we've also talked about iran's role and they ukraine war. now we have a, you see that the using itself as a mediator and trying to bring the usa and iran back to the table over talks about iran's nuclear program at our fresh sanctions likely to affect that process this. this is the big question. it's a really complex situation, actually. we've had senior iranian european diplomat sorry today saying that it's becoming actually increasingly difficult to sort of separate the sanctions on human rights issues in iran, from the ones with russia, and also the decision over what's known as the j. c. p o, which is around you can deal the form a u. s. president. donald trump pulled the united states out of that. there was a sort of hope that it would prevent around from gaining access to nuclear weapons . and there's been negotiations with the new president joe biden in united states

to try and bring the u. s. back into the deal to prevent iran's nuclear program. they in turn want an opening up of economic ties for the rest of the world. but the sanctions and these issues are really, really complicated. this process which the european union to be fair, has put a lot of effort into those, those mediation attempts. it's really, you know, it's a pretty complex mess at the moment and hard to see how additional sanctions will make it any easier. ok, thanks. roger. w corresponded jack park in brussels. not woke up in catch har has reached a quarter final stage is one of the highlights of the confrontations facing the 8 teams is argentina against netherlands. repeat of a 1978 woke up final which argentina one and with this year's match likely to be leonor massey's final game for his country. anticipation is high sport correspondent to mark meadows is in doha,

where he says katara love leon messy really shows. yes it does. they're absolutely messy. mad here in catoosa. 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 loose sales stadium tonight will be category all they'll be migrant workers who live there. although be from the wider gulf region and they all love messy. and the all of superstars. i was in 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 up 3 times, including that 1978 final and football fans will also remember

a classic between the sides in the quarter finals in 1998 when dennis spoke. come one it for the dutch, we've one of the great wilcock goals will be hoping for similar drama later on tonight. won't meadows and cut off. i will. smith's new movie is out. she start in more than 50 fills, but this role carries particular significance and emancipation miasca when a portrays a slave whose heretic, physical scars would aid the push towards abolition. movies release comes as well. smith tries to rebuild his reputation after assaulting comedian chris rock on live tv. ah, hollywood star will smith in the lead role of his new civil war drama, emancipation? it's the 1st major release for smith's since his assault on comedian chris rock during this year's oscars in march as punishment for the slab,

smith has been banned from attending the ceremony. for 10 years, something the crew hopes, more cloud reception of the film. they're going to be people who have come with preconceived notions and, and that's why what i do with people who are open minded to, to seeing a film that deals with the subject of such magnitude. will smith starz as a slave who makes a daring escape through the swamps of louisiana, with his sadistic master in hot pursuit. it's based on the true story of a former slave known as whipped, peter, and the shocking photograph of his scarred back published in 18. 63, it gave american abolitionists hard proof of the atrocities of slavery. it was just the picture that i see when i was young. and now from me, all of those scars have stories to, you know, not just one beating. that's

a lifetime. work of been the movie is already generating plenty of oscar buzz, and many reviews have focused on whether it could be a path to smith's redemption in hollywood and wills. apologize 20 times and he feels horrible and there's nothing more he can do. he has apologize. he is learning his ways, he is owned it fully. it is what it is. so you know, we're hoping to film and all the people that made the film or recognize that slap is of the thing that leads and i will be report for the emancipation. stark and brutal imagery may be too much for some viewers. but it story of defiance and resilience is a reminder of the lessons of history. is remind of our top story at this hour. american basketball star, brittany griner is back on us soil. the united states secured her release from the

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