a major prisoner swap between russia and ukraine is hailed as an important step by the international community. also heralded as a significant move forward russian journalist kirill whose release was widely. is among the 35 to arrive in moscow the same number were returned here. in other news this saturday the u.s. state department confirms it tried to bribe the captain of the iranian tank at the center of a diplomatic route so they could seize the vessel. and ongoing xenophobia riots in south africa as foreign owned businesses polluted in the country's largest city. in kabul on sunday.

you say to st michael's great to be in something for your schools. it's midnight here in moscow and you're watching r.t. international live from austin q with me in india or to india 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 contact the ukrainian president met the plane which brought 35 released prisoners back to kiev some of their relatives were also there to welcome them while in moscow a plane carrying the other 35 newly freed prisoners touched down at the capital's airport eco should 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 spoke 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 a guilty verdict 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 he's killed the man should not be staying behind bars and in fact just weeks before this. he was released on 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 shinseki 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 drilled 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 screeching over one of the from what we understand one of the defense but tally 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 2014 this what has been a very very long time coming valve 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 a readiness for 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 for compromise some experts say that this is so we have signed up for the implementation of the minsk remans which are effectively the only viable option for you as viewed by russia and ukraine 2 and the bloodshed to the civil war in the east of ukraine and the scenes played out in the ukrainian capital is 35 other freed prisoners arrived in a cab earlier you know and discussed the development with donald court. 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 air 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 voting resilin ski and russian president vladimir putin have done everything we have promised and did not change over agreements. that you'll ship 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. while at the beginning it was all speculation you know there were it was unknown who the prisoners were that were blacked out windows on the buses but now we have identified them and let's go over the main ones one of the primary prisoners that was there were exchanged was ukrainian filmmaker all legs sense of

now 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 and we have 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 ukrainian sailors that were identified that were traded the current straight incident was when 3 ukrainian. vessels were trying to enter the sea of oz of and they were met with the russian coastguard that warned them to turn back that they were perhaps in 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 have 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 we spoke with hala representative of the organization for security and cooperation in europe he sees the present assault as a political break 3. represents the one freedom of the media are closely followed this story and sighed with relief when the exchange was completely his prisoner exchange is an exceptional case of his car and it's a political move which can hardly be overestimated now when the 2 presidents putin can improve their relations between them we should support further steps on a larger scale. it's a very very important 1st step president. said it was one of his priorities in fact the top priority was to get the prisoners back to jail and kate's move very beginning even before he became president said i'm going to prove relations with russia and that's not that's a perfectly now and in fact he's done it so therefore changing president in ukraine

has actually improved environment and who he from old words they can start talking work to deliver you hans republics and make progress there russia's been 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 literally 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. printers made concessions and that's very important for the international management. here state department has confirmed it attempted to bribe the captain of the iranian oil tank at the age and area one which is at the center of a diplomatic rally in order to detain it the vessel previously known as grace one was held by the u.k. in july now 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 it's pinpointed in the eastern mediterranean region but it's tracking device as nabbing switched off his artie's 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 and. 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 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 pump a 0 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 confused captain failed to reply a 2nd email 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 threat 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 to this unusual strategy even adding this was no one off we have conducted extensive outreach to several ship captains as well shipping companies that some kumar meanwhile is on the us naughty list how differently this story would have ended if only captain kumar had cashed in and just aren't that good news email meanwhile u.s.

national security advisor john bolton has tweeted that the tanker has now been seen entering a syrian port iran previously denied that it made any definitive statement about the ship's i know 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 iran's not getting any sanctions relief until it stops lying and spreading terror. fact that they try to bribe a captain of the tanker 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 that their 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 toward 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 foreign and businesses are being looted and a wave of santa fe pretensions across the country on monday the country's police minister described the situation as a national emergency call this they have reports from

a city where foreigners say that increasingly living in. killing shifty in johannesburg which. has seen some of the worst violence against foreigners south africa as you can see yet i'll take kids what they can to stop that was ok i'm not some chickens where are you that you didn't see any moment now the entire building can come tumbling down because really hammering out the structure of the mood on the ground is better but if we don't feel 100 percent comfortable filming we were 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 missed is that b. situation has not returned to complete calm i know it's hard to believe but this was a bottle store one of the questionnaires working there was who comes from zimbabwe what actually happens make up one sound being made to add on to its old world when

the great vision of the day forth up was that you said monday night the big gone by then the been. implementing a lot from a global moment the big dig between the dems 2 straight. 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. that someone moves through the instant chemistry can become anything remotely. or most of last year wonderful the room what do we do with it in the large ludo world for believe that we've read from. do you think showing your south african identity projects to 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 norwegian glommed would be lonely government would go on a more global good morning once we both would lose all the little problem it's not

just foreign owned stores that were targeted here you. see 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 plates to be in south africa the flow you of course the go the people thought the good will last until no good for every move of build the roads you're given to be given the list and how many years even something good idea is to say you south africa you know of course. and now you have no business no move

this thing you should move it is true if you compare the cost of families all the more over now that's 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 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 with all the wood and did they take everything we've got. and where all the nigerian owners and the foreign owners all got underway are they thinking to leave the country they wrote your book or do you talk to a great group. 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 tenable unstable and

i continue being on the streets there's a lot of uncertainty so when we what what will happen remains to be seen in our team johannesburg the head of the province where johannesburg is located insists the situation is now under control. i am confident that the police are on top of this situation. i have said but if the police is. not coping i would have asked that the south african defense force must rainfalls the police but so far they are dealing with the situation in all in the entire provinces calm residence in jerusalem a few areas with a new neighbors at the incoming us embassy i'll tell you what the spots about after the break.

when normally gets manufactured and sentenced to public will. when the ruling closest to protect themselves. when the crime. nor middle of the room signals. loss of western germany that steve globalization and this came in with trump in 2016 that he the idea of monitor ization the global central banks cooperating to put out a currency unit of account that was better than gold is a 6070 year experiment that is now collapsing which is leading to d. dollars a synaesthete countries like russia move aggressively away from the dollar and buy

gold antiglobalization simultaneously. welcome back to the program and they've been spat over a wall residents of a jerusalem neighborhood iron range by an almost 6 me to told by area that's being built around the new us 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 nearly double the height locals are urging that construction be halted. i'm. 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 look at the big stone bureau imodium it i got up 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 what would they do that doesn't

exist seymour high enough what was the problem the wall now froze entire view from my house. were very upset part of a group of neighbors were trying to see what can be done to stop this i. consulted with us it's going to block our view it's going to block. it's going i know i'm comfortable and we don't want to live with that in may last year the united states embassy was that relocated to jerusalem after the trumpet ministration back by the city is the capital of israel the owner of a jerusalem based construction company says the new war 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 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 and we've asked the authorities in jerusalem to comment and we'll let you know what they say as soon as we get a response. now 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 the information war against russia and it struggling to control and counteract that. it's not enough to bus or falsehood because truth the truth does not always win the scale of vision disinfo mation was beyond what we were capable of responding to or thora tarion governments have gone from fearing the flow of information to exploiting its they understand that the same tools that spread democracy can engineer isn't doing let's face it democracies are not very good at combating this information which is was managing editor of time magazine between 262013 before moving on to government work he served as under secretary of

state for public diplomacy in the 1st 2 years strangles 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 it was propaganda. you know my old job at the state department was what people used to joke as the chief propaganda is job list and author daniel is all things that washington has a selective approach to dealing with the truth. americans never a law and even when they lie it's not a lie because somehow it's a it's in pursuit of

a higher truth and so are 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 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. now i'll be back with more updates in around 30 minutes time so stay with us.

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at all costs to the survival of planet earth we ask further than star and environmental activist jerome plus how we. see those who already lost reus late namesake david. nothing like those mono to my good things that don't hunky dorey in westminster is britain because as for the new prime minister all the smoke coming up in today's going on the ground but 1st days before the 40th anniversary of ah give me 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 for which . along with he was banned but i've got to stop i wish to express my savagery toward t. and but in. make for being banned from the freedom of expression conference as strange as it might it may sound. and 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 we had to go up to the 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 is what to say when a coup d'état took place on the 28th of june 2009. democratic stability with the election. and this could 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 there was 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 ice at all 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 minority 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.