breaking news from a step towards bringing relations towards normal. human rights. phrases major prisoner swap between russia and ukraine. russian journalist. groups the 35. same number were returned to. the u.s. state department confirms it tried to bribe the captain. at the center of a diplomatic rock so they could see the. ongoing

riots in south africa as foreign owned businesses are looted in the country's largest city. make up one sunday night. and. i do hate speech. because the people. with all the latest news stories this saturday. this is art international i mean only good to be with you we begin with our breaking news on what's being called a historic step 70 prisoners are swapped in a major exchange between russia and ukraine following months of talks. ukrainian

president met the plane which brought 35 released prisoners back to kiev some of their relatives were also there to welcome them to the left of your screen while in moscow a plane carrying the other 35 newly freed prisoners touched down the capitals of the new airport igor said was there for us. to bus as part of a special motorcade have left this terminal for governmental flights carrying $35.00 people $35.00 people that ukraine swapped for need for an equal amount over their role now among those good people these 2 real machines he was head of the ukrainian branch of the news agency and he was accused by the old state cheese and without a guilty good to see he spent more than 400 days in ukrainian jail just awaiting his trial just during the trial and for all those mobile been for 100 days russia has been adamant that until the court is guilty and declares he's killed the man

should not be staying behind bars and in fact just weeks before this. he was released on bail that was seen as a very positive sign so this another very positive sign comes out on the heels of that one and in fact thrilled the sions he had a chance to talk to journalists to the to the russian journalists who were allowed behind these gates yes you know i know how all of you worried about me and thanks a lot for that i feel that i was not alone i feel that i have people who are member of me who try to do something for me now because of i am. because i'm a journalist who was unfairly arrested but you. know you know together with drilled the shin skew on the plane and on and on those 2 buses was legitimate so much he was one of the field commanders indeed and that's region one of the from what we understand one of. the defense battalions the dutch led investigation into

the make 72 tragedy believed to be one of the key witnesses that could shed light as to what happened back in 2014 and from what we know according to the lenski the president of ukraine the dutch led investigators had a chance to question and they did question. before he was released from prison and sent back here to russia this will pass been a very very long time coming out of being forced to pools false alarms finally has happened and the russian foreign ministry has already praised this saying that this show was key it's read in this for compromise and so a positive sign for the relations between the 2 countries also some experts saying that this is also a positive sign for the implementation of the minsk agreement which effectively the only viable option for you as viewed by russia and ukraine and the bloodshed and

the civil war in the east of ukraine. a lot of knock on ramifications well let's not look out the similar developments in ukraine are teased all quarter is across that auspex 1st don't like in moscow 35 prisoners arrived in kiev what kind of welcome was there for them while the council of europe statement that this was a huge step forward in normalization of relations is something that has been more or less ak owed by all parties involved in this ukraine's president vladimir selenski even came early to the reception to see the people the ukrainian detainees come off the plane and he even gave a short speech talking about the significance of the prisoner exchange in the future relations between ukraine and russia. ukrainian president valdemar selenski and russian president vladimir putin have done everything we have promised and did

not change our agreements they can make. things easy if you'll step down. i don't know how much is actually know in the identities of those board has much being known about those people at the beginning it was just a lot of speculation you know the detainees were being transported in buses with blacked out windows but now that this is all come to come out to play we have identified the detainees all of them so let's go over some of the major ones is number one ukrainian filmmaker a leg sense of who was he was he was sentenced to 20 years in prison by the russian government for he was being accused of being part of a terrorist organization that carried out bombings in east ukraine during the crimean referendum of 2014 now he served out 5 years of his 20 year sentence but was seen coming off the plane reuniting with his family and it was most likely

a very emotional experience for all of them and another group of people that we need to mention were the ukrainian sailors that were involved in the current strait incident that happened very recently actually just in november of last year now just to give our viewers a bit of background about that the current strait incident occurred when 3 you craney and vessels were trying to go through the current straight into the sea of as they were warned by russian vessels there that they were in danger of violating russian territorial waters and told to turn back but there was no response from the ukrainian vessels so they were fired on and captured so 24 of those sailors have been identified that they were returned to the ukrainian government so really this is a historic moment for both russia and ukraine and probably the 1st step in normalizing these relations between these 2 countries that have had a lot of tension lately in the question is it a pivotal one. double quarter or bring us up to date spect yet i also

spoke to russian affairs analyst martin mccauley he is over the view that the exchange is a vital move showing that negotiations yield results. it's a very very important 1st step and president linsky said it was one of his priorities and think the top priority was to get the prisoners back to jill indicate from the very beginning even before we can president that i'm good improve relations with russia and that's not that's a perfectly and in fact he's done it so therefore changing president in ukraine has improved environment and who he from old words they can start talking work to deliver you hans republics and make progress there russia going vilified in the west especially in the united states saying you can renegotiate with russia. because they have their position and they don't give it up and they don't really go this is a demonstration that russia can negotiate it wishes to improve relations with

ukraine and hopefully this will spread throughout europe this is the 1st step russia russia has made concessions. cringes made concessions and that's very important for the international management. team or were in use this saturday the u.s. state department has confirmed it attempted to bribe the captain of the arena oil tanker the dream daria one which is out the center of a diplomatic rock in order to attain it the a dream daria one previously known as grace one was held up by the u.k. in july and reporter it was released in august despite protests from the united states which is increasing pressure on iran it's been heading east since then and was pinpointed in the eastern mediterranean region but it's tracking device us now it being switched off here start daniel hawkins. if at 1st you don't succeed try and try again so keen with u.s. authorities to get their hands on

a rainy you know. they used everything at their disposal 1st came the stick accusing the tiger of moving the world to syria in breach of sanctions they went to the u.k. for help the british marines impounded the ship while it was passing through the strait of gibraltar the spanish foreign minister said the arrest came after a demand from the u.s. to the u.k. . but on 15th of august gibraltar released the vessel its sail into the mediterranean a few days later after being renamed from grace one to adrian daria one then came the carrot we've all had one of those emails i'm writing to you with good news what might you expect a surprise not true when perhaps a huge inheritance from a long lost royal family member in africa well that's exactly the email that the

ship's captain received but this wasn't the regular spam for the junk folder this came direct from the state department. this is bryan hook i work for secretary of state mike pompei oh and serve as the u.s. representative for iran the offer millions of dollars for captain kumar to dock his own tanker in a us friendly port that would allow it seizure by washington after the possibly confuse captain failed to reply a 2nd e-mail hit his inbox the tone now less friendly with this money you can have any life you wish and be well off in old age if you choose not to take this easy path life would be much harder for you what lay behind this thinly veiled threats was left to his imagination to ron was understandably roiled having failed at piracy the us resorts to outright blackmail deliver us iran's oil and receive

several $1000000.00 or be sanctioned yourself sounds very similar to the oval office invitation i received a few weeks back it is becoming a pattern incredibly the state department confirmed to this unusual strategy even adding this was no one off we have conducted extensive outreach to several ship captains as well shipping companies taps and kumar meanwhile is on the us naughty list how differently this story would have ended if only captain kumar had cashed in and just that good news email meanwhile u.s. national security advisor john bolton has tweeted that the tanker has not been seen entering a syrian port to run previously denied it had made any definitive statement about the ship's final destination anyone who said the a.g.m. daria one wasn't headed to syria is in denial terror and thinks it's more important to fund the murderous assad regime than provide for its own people we can talk

pretty runs not getting any sanctions relief until it stops lying and spreading terror. the fact that they try to bribe a captain of the tank her and then subsequently threaten them is extraordinary and it should be something that people in the united states. will be kept talking about day and night but there are also out there issues as well bolton wants to intimidate iran and the very fact that he has failed and the supertanker is alongside the syrian shore reveals that failure so he's outraged at another level he wants to make that syrian people suffer as much as possible because that's been u.s. policy for many years now and on the other hand he wants to. prevent iran from carrying out trade with other countries to bullying and threats and

illegal behavior so there are multiple reasons for the u.s. behavior towards iran towards syria and towards the all independent countries but i think it's only harming the united states in the long run because the united states is increasingly seen as a rogue regime. right let's turn attention now to south africa's biggest city journalist burke foreign owned businesses there are being looted and made a wave of the xenophobic tensions across the country on monday the country's police minister described the situation as a national emergency or leslie are now reports from a city where foreigners say they are increasingly living in fear. him in johannesburg which. has seen some of the worst violence against foreigners south africa as you can see here let's take kids what they can

a shop that was owned by non because that's where all of that it wouldn't be any moment now could the entire building can come tumbling down because really hammering out the structure now the mood on the ground is better but we don't feel 100 percent comfortable filming we've been told the photo is nowhere to be seen and no doubt he is trying to stay as far away from these kind of scenes as possible because one still gets to stay in that b. situation that's not going to keep calm please calm i know it's hard to believe but this was a bottle store one of the questioners working there was who comes from zimbabwe what actually happens make up one sign being made to add on to its old growth in the great vision of the day 4th up was that you said monday night the big gone by when the been. implementing a lot from a global moment the big dig between the dems to stay. across the road here is alan who owns

a hardware store and when did you ever think that you would see these kind of scenes happening so close to a business own for she will bring some of the fords and crews of them going through a similar experience to kemi secret company already going through. for most of last year under $12000000.00 what do we do with it in the large blue dog world for families with kids from. do you think showing your south african identity protects you is going to give you this week or the why what happened are you going to go look close the emotional gun law deal little are the police and the government doing enough more good given that we're not doing enough or the notion of going would be lonely government will go more global good will remove all the ones we both would lose all due to the problem it's not just foreign owned stores that were targeted here you can. a 2nd hand car dealership that was broken into and the cars say to light now the result has been an offer by the nigerian foreign ministry for any nigerians living in this country who feel unsafe to be able to fly

back home for free this is the worst spate of the violence that south africa has witnessed since 2008 police ista mr jay said some 8 people have been killed and more than 300 have been detained as we say the violence a sad reflection on what where he is and and tenable situation. where you from the world your plate to be in south africa the flow your schools the girls the people thought the good will last until no good news of middle of the rounds you're given to be given the blows and how many years or even something good idea is to say you south africa your school. and now you have no business no move this finish it is strange how you can air the cost of families all the more over how this shop which has been completely boarded up was owned by nigerians and there is no way here to be seen of course they are very afraid the shop is completely

solid but this shop too has been looted also owned by nigerians lock on the door completely sealed up so people hear differently afraid that the violence will continue you welded up the shops why played me there. and did i take everything through the roof. and where all the nigerian owners and the foreign owners all got on their word are they thinking to leave the country they wrote your book or distort your great good. ever quest went out today for nigerians in the country who want to be free of charge i'm able to do so and there is at least one flight today leaving at this stage the situation is extremely untenable and stable and i continue being on the streets there's a lot of uncertainty. so rainy what will happen remains to be seen in. johannesburg . so bring luck there from the hearts of the aftermath all of those riots the heads

of the province by the way words on this burg is located insists the situation is not under control we can take a listen. i am confident that the police on top of this situation. i have said but if the police is. not coping i would have. closed the police but so far they are dealing with the situation in. provence it's calm still a calm at residence in jerusalem are furious with their new neighbors the incoming u.s. embassy we'll tell you what the spots all about after the break. you know world of big. lot and conspiracy it's time. to

dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. gemini that steve globalization and this came in the company 2016 that he the idea of monitor ization the global central banks cooperating to put out a currency unit of accounts that was better than gold is a 6070 year experiment that is now collapsing which is leading to dollars a synaesthete countries like russia move aggressively away from the dollar and buy gold and did globalization simultaneously.

let's start back with a neighborly spot over a wall residents of a jerusalem neighborhood are enraged by an almost 6 metre tall barrier that's being built around the new u.s. embassy there they say it will block their view of the area originally the american embassy received a permit to build a wall 3.2 meters however they were also recently authorized to nearly doubled locals are urging that construction be halted. i'm upset i ferried upset i come now mike house and i want to be able to see the view well but the desert i don't want to look at it big stone whirl the roy him or do you the emit cooler i go to it while morning and saw them doing demolition i construction work so asked what was happening on they said there were make in the war hya why would they do that wasn't

a exist seymour high enough what was the problem the wool now fus entire a view from why how it were very upset we were heart of a group of neighbors were trying to see what and be done to stop this i minimal like was consulted with for us it's going to block card you it's going to block my age and it's going than i think i may know i'm comfortable corey door and we don't want to live with that or if we go back to may last year that was when the united states embassy was relocated to jerusalem after they trumpet ministration recognize the city as the capital of israel the owner of a jerusalem base construction company ses the new wall is a blight on the sick i understand that the american embassy is requested to build a wall 5.8 meters high but the maximum height of a wool in jerusalem in accordance the authorities is $3.00 nita's of $5.00 meets is

is too much and they'd disregarding the neighbors is there are many beautiful houses here in the century jerusalem and the wool like that would be an ice all or we heard of sought contact with the authorities interest them an will let you know what they say a soon as we get a response all right a reminder of our top story this day targeted as a historic step for months in both russia and ukraine the 2 nations finally went ahead with a major prisoner exchange earlier today it is the 1st of its kind since $27.00 to the result of lengthy negotiations it involves 70 prisoners $35.00 from each side the ukrainian president described it as the 1st chapter in improving ties while moscow say's it will continue to promote constructive steps there has been reaction from further afield as well the council of europe welcomed

a vital step in the normalize ation of relations. all the latest updates on throughout the day here on r.t.e. international but next on the program we're going underground once more in moments and i indeed will be back with all your latest global news headlines in just a were 30 that close. during the great depression which i'm old enough to remember there was most of my family were employed. there wasn't it was bed much worse subject of lives than today but there was an expectation of the things were going to get better. there was a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america was shaped by the turn principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack solo doubt engineer elections manufacture consent and other principle holds

according to no on. one set of rules for the rich opposite. that's what happens when you put her into the hands of. sector of will which will is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is often very dramatic development only i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful betty to kill time to sit down and talk.

see and you're watching going on the ground while we're away we're going to be showing something a favorite episodes of this season coming up in this show for she is since the revolution that inspired the world and brought the wroth of us back death squads we speak to nicaragua as minister to president daniel ortega whole family and from politicians to schoolteachers how damaging is the neo liberal obsession with growth have all costs to the survival of planet earth we ask for the star and environmental activist jerome plus how we. know you see

those you already did austria's late namesake david bowie but. nothing like those mono to my good things that don't hunky dorey in westminster is britain but bez for a new prime minister all the small coming up in today's going on the ground but 1st days before the 40th anniversary of aga billy one of the most important revolutions in world history we're with dr poole acquisti private secretary national policy to the nicaraguan president daniel ortega paul welcome to going on the ground i know you're here for the defend the media freedom conference from which. along with he was banned but i've got to stop i wish to express my savagery toward t. and to sputnik for being banned from their freedom of expression and friends and strange it may sound. i'm going to ask you about that in a 2nd but you know there have been terrible events in the one doris it's the 10 year anniversary of the obama clinton backed coup d'etat there and of course on

doris was the place where helicopters were flying over your country back in the 1980 s. to kill your people tell me about what your understanding is of the situation on doris what it's like to say when a coup d'état took place on the 28th of june 2009. had achieved a democratic stability with the election. and this coup d'etat broke that constitution oh a continuity you were there and i was there i was there as an observer for the united nations general assembly president father may go to scotto we were with. the night before and he said yes there was a coup attempt on thursday but it had been overcome so everything was fine and the next day there was supposed to be this consultation like a plebiscite a vote on an informational basis it wasn't binding legally binding or anything like

that and it was you know i was suppose they were supposed to wake me up at 6 o'clock and it was 8 o'clock at that something's wrong here and then all of a sudden i put the television on there was no television i said oh and then i heard it swoosh jets flying low over the city i reached the conclusion of what supersonic jets are good for and latin america is to announce the coups but why is it then that president obama hillary clinton the seen as the great peacemaker is in the normally when you are all you have you only have to read hillary clinton's biography that. her admitting the u.s. implication in the coup in honduras she was the author of the libya war she's admitted to the under in cool in her own biography jeremy corbin here is leader of the labor party he's in some opinion polls in the past few days he's been leading he was a lifelong supporter he's

a lifelong supporter of the sandinista revolution i think given that the vote he then of us are coming up i know that is you probably want to talk about tourism and make people visit the garage go for the beaches what is the relevance of nicaragua to a country like britain that our leader of the opposition should have cared so much about your policy. and the crowd and the people who continue to maintain that what happened last year in nicaragua were peaceful demonstrations and it was all the result of government reparation a peaceful demonstration and deny it was a coup d'etat attempt backed by the united states who ignore that 24 police were killed 400 in one police wounded by gun shy they also ignore statements by the president vice president secretary of state and national security advisor of the united states of america as to the u.s. aggression again.