be active in a clever way. with d w a y y a this is the w my from band brittany griner is free and back in the united states after months in a russian prison cap. play and carrying the basketball stock touch down after she was a 100 over a prisoner swap in exchange notorious russian mom stephen, also on the program. iran was shared with more international sanctions following

the execution of 2023 year old man. taking part in anti government, protests rights groups are outraged and all that more hanging on the way and world cup and guitar reaches the core to final stages. leonor massey takes a feel for argentina against the netherlands. what could be his final international favorite brazil face approach? ah, i'm so gale. welcome to the program. usaa basketball star brittany griner is back on us soil after being released from a russian penal colony. these pictures were taken little while ago as the u. s. government of plain touch down in san antonio, texas, a deal between the u. s. and russian government saw her with least in exchange for russian arms diva,

accused of supplying al qaeda and the taliban. among many others, a prisoner swap on the tarmac of ab without the effort. it was hill, but captivity ended for us basket bold 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 sharell, tanked those involved and bringing brittany home. so for 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 me because 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 and with that her long ordeal is finally overall. i

corresponded mikaela excuse me, in washington, how brittany granny was doing well, we know is what we heard from joe biden. she's in good spirits. she was also described to be very gracious. we saw a walking on the tarmac, but her 1st trip 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. douglas farah is a john. this is written a book about victor boots. i asked him if trading a basketball, stoffer amount, whose business activities resulted in the death and naming of thousands,

if tens of thousands was a fed. do you know, i think in fair fairness, i think there were, if there were just as victor would never leave present. 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 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 incoming years. because she was clearly at that nothing that 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 needed to be made. douglas, what i got out some, all sorts of making news around the world. because in moscow has found the opposition. politicians, india. yeah, she's guilty of spreading false information about the russian military and new

crime with the action to describe the killings of civilians in boucher by. russian forces as a massacre could face up to 9 years in prison. 5, it broke out of the shopping mode. the moscow has claimed at least one life of the gulf, the entire building, initial reports, a fire broke out at 6 am local time. it's cause is being investigated. free condoms are to be made available to young people in france from january 1st. anyone between 18 and 25 years old will be able to receive condoms from pharmacists, french, helpful parties. estimate the incidence of sexually transmitted disease is increased by 30 percent needs of the past 2 years. i mean president, as usual, is met with arab leaders in the saudi capital re added during the arab china arab summit, the president, she in saudi crown. prince mohammed been selma,

stressed the importance of the stable global oil market. it was a hell toss with palestinian president mahmoud abbas. the said china supports on the feelings of policy. the peoples demand for nashville nice. a britain is placed a new sanctions on iraq, including numerous government officials for their part and a crackdown on anti government protest. this is comes as european union city. it too, is putting further sanctions international condemnation. as follow to hans execution of a protester was, an shikari was hanged on thursday. the activists are wanting that at least a dozen more iranian protesters 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 year old was only handed down in november and has now been very quickly carried out as iran's judiciary, a que shake, hurry of injuring a militia member during the protest. human rights groups condemned the proceedings

as a fast track show trial. lacking an independent defense intended to scare off other protesters. bahama roy on thursday morning broadcast, as close to the rain regime, shared this video on social media. it was supposed to prove shikari is guilt, accompanied by dramatic music, some 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 duress, iranian turkish political scientists. the reef gaskin says that systematic in iran minucci extra 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 we, 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 in lieu days ago, a regime propaganda channeled 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 its delay, he apologizes for inciting people to protest. when on you irish gaskin believes the regime propaganda strategy is having the opposite of his intended effect to lay he and others. now heroes to many we bruce, good people see these stage confessions, god really is a sign of the weakness of this regime that's trying to prevent its downfall. a regime that is increasingly under pressure because the resistance in a rollin shows no signs of going away. so i'm in melbourne as a middle east analyst and professor of international politics at lancaster

university. in the u. k. i asked him, what more sanctions against iran meant to achieve? well, i think what i meant to achieve, and it will actually chief of 2 very different thing that meant to put pressure on the, on the regime on the, the system of government valley. i think to say this is not acceptable. the international community will not accept this repression of peaceful protests, and that's a sign. it's a statement from the international community to say, this is not acceptable. the reality, of course, is that functions hit the poorest hottest, they hit people ordinary people. they typically do not hit the wealthiest, so there's a clear response here from the international community. but i feel like with other forms of function regimes, it actually can have a, a devastating impact on ordinary people. right. and these, as the ordinary people suffer the way of sanctions and take to the streets. we find

the rain, you know, authority is now under pressure from the usual international players, but also from within the country as well. do you anticipate them making even token changes to try and a piece that domestic critics? well, we've seen prominent forma officials from a former iranian officials calling on the regime to do just that. and i think ultimately dies. what will have to happen because the protests have got such a strong social base across the country. this is not just a sort of liberal and elite such as what we've seen previously and radiant protests . this is a math popular movement that cuts across social, political, and geographic divisions. and as a consequence, the only way to really take the stand out of this, or any regime, is to bring about some form token change and former president. to me there's been

calling for that as well. so i think ultimately that's where we're going to go. but the question is, to what extent? well, the regime continue to crack down forcefully on the protest. us who are incredibly brave, incredibly, or heroic colon for this change and how, how devastating will be until they finally decided to give it. thank you for that, professor simon maven, middle east and list and lancaster, england. thank. thank the woke up in katara, one of the highlights of the quarter finals is due to kick off shortly argentina against him evidence as a repeat of the 1978 world cup final which argentina one and with this evening's match, potentially a little massey's final game for his country, anticipation as high as both corresponded. mark meadows is in doha, where he says, guitars lover of leonor massey really shows 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 leaf 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 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 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 both come,

when it for the dutch we've one of the great will cook goals will be hoping for similar drama later on tonight. oh, so in qatar our japanese really now you soccer, missouri has announced that he'll take the k pop star top on the trip around the moon on a space x spaceship next year. where the finder on the top is a member of one of the world's most famous boy bands and one of 8 people. miss alba selected for his dea moon project. japanese that tycoon launched his lunar voyage plant and 2018 bought all of the seats on the spaceship. last year he and his producer became the 1st paying tourist to visit the international space station since 2009 is a reminder of our top story. this our american basketball star, brittany grimes is back on us soil. the united states secured her release from russian. people call me as part of a prisoner swell that russian victim boot was accused of helping to ahmed taliban

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