the arctic, if you see something that looked like james bond, it has to do with the military. it starts december 23rd on d, w. ah ah, this is dw news, my from berlin, brittany griner is free and back in the united states. after months in a russian prison camp playing, carrying the u. s. basketball star touched out after she was handed over and a prisoner swore an exchange for a notorious russian army fema also on the program around it with more international

sanctions. following the execution of a 23 year old man for taking part in anti government protest rights groups are outraged on war, but more hirings are on the way and rehab highlights from a sensational 1st quarter. finally, we could talk world cup where 2018. find this correlation to con, perennial title favorites prison. ah, i'm show gail. welcome to the program, us basketball star, brittany griner is back on us soil after being released from a russian penal colony. she touched out in san antonio, texas at 10 months after being detained in moscow, a deal between the u. s. and russian governments. so her beliefs in exchange for russian arms dealer accused of supplying al qaeda and the tale about, amongst many others, a prisoner swap on the tarmac of abu dhabi airport. it was here that captivity

ended for us basketball star, brittany griner scene here on the left. and the russian army dealer, victor boot on the right, us president joe biden spoke to granite shortly after her release. i'm glad to be able to say the brittany's in good spirits. she, she's relieved to finally be heading home. and the fact remains that she's lost months of her life experience. the needless trauma. she deserves space privacy in time of their loved ones to recover and heal from her time being wrong through detained greiner was arrested at a moscow airport in february after she was caught with less than a gram of cannabis oil in her luggage. she was sentenced to 9 years in prison. the man she was exchanged for victor boot was in a u. s. jail serving a 25 years sentence for arms trafficking. his role in selling weapons to rogue

states, rebel groups and warlords around the world. and him, the nickname, the merchants of death. the exchange is no doubt a victory for both the prisoners and their families. but some in the us, including republican lawmakers, have slammed it as a gift to putin, anemia. you believe me amused through a 3rd one even though i got a medical can you have they've also taken aim at biden's failure to negotiate the release of former us marine paul whalen, who is currently serving a 16 year sentence for espionage falling on. that's a charge. the u. s. has continually denied, however, you can see how they are. but in a sign of hope, putin said more prisoner exchanges were on the cards look muzzle with the pro law contact. the put of the contact is ongoing on the level of special services, it never stopped. our other exchange as possible. yes,

everything is possible. this is the result of negotiation. susan, in the search for compromise, the boys could complain. in this case, the compromise was found. we aren't ruling out a continuation of this work in the future, so you said that his patient continues to wage his war of aggression in ukraine and washington to raise its full support behind cave types of more cooperation. may be premature douglas, far as a journalist who has written extensively about victim boot to asked him if trading a basketball stuff for a man whose business activities that resulted in the deaths of thousands, if tens of thousands was a fair deal. you know, i think the fairness, i think there were, if there were just as victims, we 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 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 done nothing, not remotely anything like what victor boot 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. take a look now. so source making news around the world. all started in russia were caught in moscow, has found opposition. politicians ellia yasha guilty of spreading false information about the russian military and ukraine. was the ashes. describe the killing of civilians in boucher by russian forces as a massacre. it faces up to 9 years in prison. free condoms are being made available to young people in france from january. the 1st annual between 18

and 25 years old will be able to receive the free condoms from pharmacist, french, helpful forties. estimate the incidence of sexually transmitted disease is increased by around 30 percent in each of the last 2 years. britain has imposed new sanctions on iran, including numerous government officials for their part in the crackdown on anti government protest of his comes as a european union and i said it to is planning further sanctions. international condemnation has followed trans execution of a protest. wilson shikari was hanged on thursday and activists a warning, but at least a dozen more iranian protesters faced the same fate. behind the walls of the notorious evian prison most in shaker, re 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 a rhymes judiciary,

a que shakera of injuring and 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 by hammer or on thursday morning broadcast. as close to the iranian regime, shared this video on social media. it was supposed to prove shikari is guilt, accompanied by dramatic music and the use of computer generated scenes of violence . the regime staged a dubious admission of guilt for observers believe that the confession was extracted under torture and duress, iranian turkish political scientists, the reef gaskin says that systematic in iran, europe, minucci additional since the foundation of the islamic republic in 1979, the regime is repeatedly imprisoned, opponents tortured them and put them in front of cameras, tra, and now they're doing that with the demonstrators. if we,

if they want to show them as fearful and weak people guiding them alone. 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 its delay, he apologizes for inciting people to protest on, on john as 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 groups, good people see these stage confessions law really as 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 like are responded jack,

paris in brussels, told me about the likely form of a use latest sanctions package against iraq. we're expecting potentially that on monday, next week, when you foreign ministers meet here in brussels, they will impose fresh sanctions, potentially against 20 new people. also one entity, there is already been a raft of sanctions against a number of senior iranian figures, including the head of the revolutionary guard. and a number of companies and organizations are accused of crack, dines, etc, that 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, 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. v a u 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. so 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 is 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 where the you can actually do something about that. i think really it's about symbolism, the you and other international partners, canada and britain as well to put on sanctions today. ready against iran is about symbolism is by saying, listen, we're doing everything that we can in is in

a staged process to try and show that we're on the side of the protesters and we would not please them. we're trying to do what we can to force the hand of to run in the and the government in iran as well. a chuck barrack in brussels, started woke up in the cattle and cry shall have to come 1st came to book a place in the semi finals following a gutsy victory over brazil and a penalty shoot out after golden. 19 minutes of brazil broke the deadlock and extra time. naima took the direct route through the probation defense before poking ho. his 2nd goal of the tournament creation substitute, bruno petrovich converted his team's 1st shot on target in the dying minutes of extra time to take b. a tie to penalties, to brazilian players failed to convert mean croatia will face either argentina or the netherlands in the semi final corresponded

to robert basil is in the chrysler capital tsar crab. where things have got a bit lively. barbara, our speaker for you that perhaps you could describe atmosphere forest ah a. c 7 grab so all the public viewing say the inside inside the menu bar is up,

is media. people with megan points. i don't need to tell you what the mode is like you just got a little taste. i absolutely over the mood, it was not clear. i mean, brazil was there was still one side, they were really afraid of that. what do you have? what is great the trainer has, like i said before, if we look at the players, we know we have to be afraid of them. like they really thought it out and that they showed this tremendous result in that seems to be the strength of the creation of the phrase, the team. and so people are absolutely over joy. this is going to be one hell of a party tonight. i can't imagine how far do those financing that team can go. barbara, how far is i asked everybody,

how far will you go all the way, of course, because they thought that the team they really had to fear mo, is, was brazil after name or had thought that had taught their goal. and there was sort of a feeling of the seeking feeling in the room like everyone said, oh, hold your breath. it might be all over. but then they really came back fighting. and now they are so overwhelmed by the victory on their team that they think this time they can do it. they are aware of the residing values. so well champion and this time of course now they hope they're going to make it. all right, bob and thank you for about barbara basil in zagreb links. i'm not very happy. it's not set you up to date me co foolish will have more world news play at the top of the hour. coming up next here on b. w documentary about the russian occupation. the training of the city of castle

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