a major prisoner swap between russia and ukraine is hailed as an important step by the international community moscow and here also heralded as a significant move forward. russian journalist. whose release with widely called reeves is among the 35 to arrive in moscow the same number were returned to clear. the news this saturday the u.s. state department confirms it tried to bribe the captain of the iranian all at the center of a diplomatic route so they could seize the vessel. and ongoing is then a phobic writes in south africa as foreign owned businesses in the country's largest city johannesburg. want to. be sure they didn't.

say anything and i do play just something for your schools. here in moscow and you watch not international live from our studio with me in a dealer team to welcome to the program 1st in what's being described as an historic step 70 prisoners have been exchanged between russia and ukraine following months of talks the 2 countries leaders spoke by phone saying the move will help to normalize relations and both agreed to further contact the ukrainian president the plane which brought 35 released prisoners back to kiev some of their relatives were also there to welcome them one of moscow a plane carrying the other 35 new leaf read a prisoner's touch down at the capitals of the airport because you donna was there

for us. 2 buses part of a special motorcade have left this terminal for governmental flights carrying $35.00 people $35.00 people that ukraine swapped for an equal amount over what their role now among those people is to real machines he was head of the ukrainian branch of the news agency and he was accused by key of state cheese and without taking a good day he spent more than 400 days in ukrainian jail just awaiting his trial just during the trial and for all those more than 400 days russia has been adamant that until the court is guilty and declares his guilt 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 the real visions 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 me to try to do something for me now because of. you because i'm a journalist who was unfairly arrested now together with drill the shins get on that plane and on and on those 2 buses was legitimate so much he was one of the field commanders in the dinette screech an old boat one of the from what we understand one of the defense but talley and the dutch led investigation into the mh $72.00 tragedy believed to be one of the key witness says that could shed light as to what happened back in 24 seeing this what has been a very very long time coming back out of being false reports 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 compromise we see the agreed mutual release of people detained in russia and ukraine as a positive signal which should see another important step to breaking the deadlock in the current russian ukrainian relations unlike its predecessors selenski new administration has shown a sensible approach and a readiness to compromise some experts say that this is so we have signed for the implementation of the minsk remains which effectively the only viable option you as viewed by russia and ukraine and the bloodshed in the civil war in the east of ukraine. and the same is played out in the ukrainian capital as $35.00 other freed prisoners arrived in kiev earlier union and nail discussed the developments with donald quarter. this prisoner exchange was a very significant moment for the young political administration of ukraine's president vladimir selenski and he actually went there early to the airport to

visit the prisoners as they were coming down from the from the airplane to greet them and he even gave a small speech talking about the significance of this exchange for the future relations between russia and ukraine. ukrainian president voted him are zelinsky and russian president vladimir putin have done everything we have promised and did not change over agreements that. he see if you'll ship them and we heard this kind of sentiment echoed pretty much all over the world actually we heard the council of europe say that this was a really important step in normalizing relations between russia and ukraine we also heard from russia's human rights commissioner who said this was a historic step she said and even donald trump commented on twitter he gave his congratulations to both parties involved give us a sense right while at the beginning it was all speculation you know there were it was unknown who the prisoners were there were blacked out windows on the buses but

now we have. identified them and let's go over the main one yes one of the primary prisoners that was there were exchanged was ukrainian filmmaker all legs sense of know he was sentenced to 20 years in prison in russia on terrorism charges during the crimean referendum of 2014 he was accused of being part of a terrorist organization that plotted bombings of civilian installations during that time now he already served 5 years of that sentence and we saw him and identified him as he was stepping out of the airplane in kiev today reuniting with his family and moving on to other people we saw were some sailors that were involved in the current strait incident that took place in november of last year and now those were $24.00 ukrainian sailors that were identified that were traded the current straight incident was when 3 ukrainian vessels were trying to enter the sea of odds of and they were met with the russian coast guard that warned them to turn back that they were perhaps and going to be in violation of russia's territory

on the high seas they gave no response and so the ukrainian vessels were fired on and see so now that they've been returned this is a really historical moment for both russia and ukraine and perhaps a great leap forward for their future relations that have been tense to say the least and brian mcdonald says the prisoner exchange should be viewed as a positive by anyone who wants to see peace between the 2 nations. this is the 1st time for about 5 more than 5 years close in 6 years that russian ukrainian basically agreed on anything that could be seen as a positive i mean obviously decision on has been made at the highest level between the 2. the new president there in ukraine the new president in russia so it seems that the 2 presidents side and it's a very high profile prisoner swap is really well received by france and germany in particular who were you know emanuel my corn and angela merkel have been talking about trying to get the peace talks restart this month i mean they basically they

fell apart in the poorest single use many poroshenko simply didn't want to couldn't or it didn't have the mandation internally in ukraine and wasn't strong enough but he definitely was unable to move the peace talks a lot of anybody that wants to see peace between in eastern ukraine and normalization of relations between russia and ukraine after this you know 5 and a half years of bio and i still if he understood long interregnum period where there's been no progress whatsoever well below should of course. the u.s. state department has confirmed it attempted to bribe the captain of the iranian alltime daria one which is at the center of a diplomatic row in order to detain it the vessel previously known as grace one that was held by the u.k. in july more to polter it was released in august despite protests from the united states which is increasing the pressure on iran it's been heading then and was pinpointed in the eastern mediterranean region but it's tracking device is now

being switched off here's our teens daniel hall calls. if at 1st you don't succeed try and try again so keen with u.s. authorities to get their hands on a radio. they used everything at their disposal 1st came the stick accusing the tanker of movie world to syria in breach of sanctions they went to the u.k. for help the british marines are pound of the ship but it was passing through the strait of gibraltar. as foreign minister said the arrest came after a demand from the u.s. to the u.k. . but on 15th of august gibraltar released of us so it's 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 brian hook i work for secretary of state mike pump a o. and serve as the u.s. representative for iran the offer millions of dollars for captain kumar to dock his own tanker in a u.s. friendly port that would allow it seizure by washington after the possibly confused 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 resource 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 of 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 hold differently the story would have ended if only captain kumar had cashed in and just aren't that good news email. me mine us national security adviser john bolton has tweeted that the tanker has now been through an entering a syrian port there on previously denied it had made any definitive statement about the ship's final destination anyone who said the adrian 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 iran's 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. in south africa's biggest city johannesburg foreigner and a business is are being looted and made a break of santa phobic tensions across the country on monday the country's police minister described the situation as a national emergency call it reports from a city where foreigners increasingly hear. thank you to peek into hand as.

they have seen some of the worst violence against foreigners south africa as you can see here. taking what they can supplement and not make it what they're not aware of that it wouldn't be any moment now for the entire baltic can. come tumbling down because really hammering out the structure now the mood on the ground is better but e.g. 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 state that b. situation has not been to 2 countries cotton i know it's hard to believe but this was a bottle store one of the questionnaires working there was you know who comes from zimbabwe what actually happened make up one family and made to have found a cold world when the great vision of the day north up was that you said monday night the big gone by then the bin. if you meant being aloof from a global moment the big dig between the dems who stood. 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 through it before in groups of them. with similar experience to chemistry become anything remotely. or most of last through under 12000000 what do we do with teaching the livelihood of work for families with we've read from. do you think showing your south african identity protects your kid is going to give me who was really good and why what happened are you going to go look close the emotional gun law deal my little are the police and the government doing enough more good given that we're not doing enough or the nose and blaming would be lonely government we're going to blow virtually nobody wants to go blow the whistle and we'll get a little problem it's not just foreign owned stores that were targeted here you can see a 2nd hand car dealership that was broken into and the cause sitter life's not the

result has been offered 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 them a phobia of violence that south africa has witnessed since 2008 police. istomin suggests that 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 tenable situation. where you from the world on your plates to be in south africa the flow your schools the girls the people thought the good will last sunday and no good news of middle neurons you're given to be given the blows and how many years even some of the deal is to say you stop after your school. and now you have no business no move this thing you should move it is feeling like you can handle the cost of family all the you know that now this shop here 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 to 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 with the hollywood and did they take everything that goes with them. and where all the nigerian owners of the foreign owners always on the world are they thinking to be the country they wrote your book or to stop the other great group would. ever quest went out today for nigerians in the country who want to be free of charge i able to do so and there is at least one flight today leaving at this stage the situation is extremely untenable and stevo and i continue being on the streets there's a lot of uncertainty so when we what what will happen remains to be seen our team

johannesburg the head of the province where johannesburg is located insists the situation is now under control. i am closer than that the police on top of this situation. i have said but if the police. not hoping i would have asked that the south african defense must rainfalls the police but so far they are dealing with the situation in all in the entire provinces calm. presence in jerusalem a few areas to with the new neighbors the incoming u.s. embassy will tell you what the spots about after this break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for them to you shouldn't let it be an arms race. and spearing dramatic development only

personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. what holds as. he put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and should. want to be rich. if you're going to be close this is what the $43.00 of the more people. interested always in the water. there should. be.

welcome back to the program. for a war residents of a jerusalem neighborhood have been raised by an almost 6 me to talk by area 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 high but it was recently authorized for the barrier to be needing double the height locals urging that construction be halted. i'm upset. very upset i come out my house and i want to be able to see the view over the desert i don't want to. did it big stone your item or did the image i got one morning and saw them doing demolition and construction work so i asked what was happening and they said they were making the wall higher why would they do that doesn't exist seymour high enough what was the problem the wall now froze entire view from my house. we're very upset we are part of

a group of neighbors we're trying to see what can be done to stop this. minimal like consulted with us it's going to block our view it's going to block and it's going to turn our. uncomfortable quarry door and we don't want to live with that. in may last year the united states embassy was relocated to chile so after the trumpet was fresh and recognize the city as the capital of israel the owner of a jerusalem based construction company says the new wall is a blight on the city. i understand that the american embassy has requested to build a wall 5.8 meters high but the maximum height of a wall in jerusalem according to the authorities is 3.2 meters 5.8 meters is too much and they disregarding the neighbors there are many beautiful houses here in the center of jerusalem and the wall like that would be an eyesore. of ours the authorities in jerusalem to comment and we'll let you know what they say as soon as

we get a response from. the fight against this information is at the core of an upcoming book by a former u.s. state department official in the obama administration richard stengel is message is that america is losing information war against russia and its struggling to control and counteract all threats. it's not enough to bust or falsehood was truth the truth does not always win the scale of russian disinfo mation was beyond what we were capable of responding to or thora terry and governments have gone from fearing the flow of information to exploiting its they understand that the same tools that spread democracy can engineer its undoing let's face it democracies are not very good at combating this information richard stengel was managing editor at time magazine between 262013 before moving on to government work he served as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and affairs for 2 years saying those

views on propaganda have changed last year he openly backed it describing himself as chief propagandist. basically every country creates their own narrative story i'm not against propaganda every country does it and they have to do it to their own population and. i don't necessarily think it's that awful. i would say there's a difference between propaganda and us telling people what our policy is so i don't think i've job is propaganda. you know my old job at the state department was what people used to joke as the chief propaganda is job and this north and daniel is all things that washington has a selective approach to dealing with the. americans never a law and even when they law. it's not a lie because somehow it's a it's in pursuit of a higher truth and so on so stengel would never admit to admit to deceit to to

painting a false portrait remember though the worse the us does terms of foreign policy the greater the distance from ation that that emanates out of washington the u.s. never changes the u.s. is always consistent always honest always forthright and that anybody who says anything to the contrary must be it must be spreading disinformation in behalf of russia on one hand yes the us is being more openly propagandist thick on the other hand when the us does it it's not propaganda it's simply the truth and anything to the contrary is fake information from us now i'll be back with more updates in around 30 minutes time so stay with us. this is a sticker from the water bottle phone in the stomach of the fish the brand is part

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emotional issue instead personal you know subject. and people are scared so people just don't talk about it and that's sad but. in our species survival is truly dependent on us addressing this issue and if we can even talk about it if we can even have a conversation about it then. we're in trouble. when i was studying biology at the university of california in san diego i had a. bio chemistry professor that one day came into class and told all the students to close their books and said we're not going to talk about biochemistry today we're going to watch a film about population and i was probably about 20 years old and i remember just

being completely devastated by what i learned in that film and i walked across the entire campus talking to my professor about human population and i really decided on that day that i didn't want to contribute to our rapidly growing population really every environmental issue that we face ocean acidification and climate change habitat destruction pollution species extinction loss of biodiversity the collapse of ecosystems all of these things are accelerated by our rapidly growing population growing up i never really was planning towards having kids but i think somewhere in my mind i always thought i was going to have kids that i was going to find a wife get married and up having kids when i 1st met lonnie she kind of told me that having kids wasn't something that she was really that interested in you know i

thought that's fine i'm good not having kids and 10 years later 14 years later you know to me it was one of the best decisions that we've made no regrets really really happy to be childfree by choice raising a child can be stressful so from from our standpoint i think another one of the possible adds in our relationship we get to spend more time connecting with each other and i think that that's you know for us it's really important a relationship i don't know necessarily that one relationship or one style relationship is going to be good or the other because i think there's you know some people that have kids and that is their whole life and that actually brings people closer together but they have the same instance there's people who have kids and it kind of drove drives a wedge between them because they don't get to have that quality time together and that's something which they valued before they had kids and maybe they don't get to have that now so this is tim tim is our 3rd.