the major prisoner swap between russia and ukraine is heralded as an important step by the international community. also heralded as a significant move forward russian journalists can reel and. release was widely called for by the group is among the 35 to arrive in moscow the same number were returned here. in other news this saturday the u.s. state department confirmed it trying to bribe the captain of the iranian all tank at the center of a diplomatic so they could seize the best. and ongoing xenophobia rides in south africa as foreign owned businesses are looted in the country's largest city johannesburg. and got one standing. tall building big big deal.

if they don't do raids to begin something for your schools. it's 1 o'clock here in moscow and you're watching out international live from last you can you will be 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 met the plane which brought the 35 released prisoners back to care some of their relatives were also there to welcome them while in moscow a plane carrying the other 35 new freed prisoners touched down at the capital's vnukovo airport. 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 their role now among those people is 2 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 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 in the end

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 because of. you because i'm a journalist who was unfairly arrested now together with drill the shins get on the 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 back have been false reports false alarms finally has happened and the russian foreign ministry has already praised this saying that this show was key. its 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 actually false if sign for the implementation of the minsk remains 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 i think that played out in the ukrainian capital as 35 other freed printed prisoners arrived in kiev earlier union and we'll discuss 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 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 voted him are zelinsky and russian president vladimir putin have done everything we have promised and did not change over agreements that. will 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 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 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. i spoke with holland representative of the organization for security and cooperation in europe he says a prisoner swap as a political prankster. doesn't see any representative on freedom of the media are closely followed this story and sighed with relief when the exchange was completed this prisoner exchange is an exceptional case of its kind it's a political move which can hardly be underestimated now when the 2 presidents their own skin putin 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 silicates move very beginning even before the current president's that i'm given prove relations with russia and

that's not that's a perfectly islands like he's done it so therefore changing president in ukraine has actually improved the environment and who know all the words they can start talking world to deliver you hunch republics and make progress there russia going. 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 literally 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. has made concessions and that's very important for the international bond and. you know state department has confirmed it attempted to bribe the captain of the of rain the ancient area one which is at the center of a diplomatic route in order to detain it the vessel previously known as grace one

that was held by the u.k. in july nejib alter 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 has not been 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 tanker of moving the world to syria in breach of sanctions they went to the u.k. for help the british marines impounded the ship but 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 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 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 confused captain failed to reply

a 2nd the 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 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 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 now been seen entering a syrian port iran previously denied it made any statement and ships final destination . anyone who said the adrian daria one wasn't headed to syria is in denial terror on 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 in spreading terror. the 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. would 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 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 owned are being looted and that a wave of tensions across the country on monday the country's police describe the

situation as a national emergency paula slip reports from a city where foreigners say they have increasingly living in fear. you mean shifty in johannesburg which they have seen some of the worst violence against foreigners south africa as you can see here losers just take kids what they can to stop that was only by non stop because not where are you that it wouldn't be any moment now if the entire building can come tumbling down because really hammering out the structure now the mood on the ground is little 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 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 family need to have only a cold november great vision of the day north up was that it was a monday night the big gone by then the been. implementing a lot from a global moment the big dig between the dems to stand. across the road here is ellen 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 and do some of them. and some will move through the instant chemistry can become anything remotely. or most of last year wonderful the room what do we do with it you know large we would all work for families would we viewed from the floor do you think showing your south african identity pretext or 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 given that we're not doing enough or the notion of going we

would be lonely government would go on a more global good morning once we both would learn the rules would be legal problem it's not just foreign owned stores that were targeted here you can. a 2nd hand car to the ship 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 is to most adjacent 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 have to close the deal the people thought the good will last until no good for every move of middle demands you're given to be given the list and how many years or even some of the

years to say you south africa you know of course. and now you have no business will move this finish it is feeling like you can handle the cost of family 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 they mean there. and do they take everything. and where all the nigerian owners in the foreign owners always on the world are they thinking to be for a 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 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 way meet what what will happen remains to be seen in. johannesburg ahead of the province where johannesburg is located and says the situation is now under control but i am confident that the police are on top of this situation. i have said but if the police are 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 off with that new neighbors and the incoming u.s. embassy will tell you what the spots about after this break.

eh. eh eh. eh eh. eh eh eh . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only really.

i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. welcome back to the program the british cabinet minister has quit in protest against the prime minister's bragg's its strategy on the sacking of 21 colleagues in her resignation letter and the rudd accuse the government of political vandalism . the short sighted cousin of my colleagues has stripped the party of broad minded and dedicated conservative m.p.'s i cannot support this act of political vandalism this war it is with regret the time also surrender in the conservative with. a former home secretary has repeatedly warned that crashing out of the european union with no deal in place would be disastrous for the u.k. and a resignation piles for the pressure on prime minister barak johnson after his recent

defeat in 3 crucial parliamentary votes a bill passed by both houses will legally require him to seek a break that extension from the e.u. if he fails to secure only withdrawing it remarked johnson has vowed to defy that resolution and some of the u.k.'s leading voices warned that failure to comply could land him in jail and spark a full blown constitutional crisis as things stand the u.k. is due to leave the less than 6 weeks from now at the end of october. and they really splattered over a wall residents of a jerusalem neighborhood are enraged by an almost 6 metre tall barrier 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. 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 why would they do that doesn't exist seymour high enough what was the problem the wall now froze entire view from what. 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 blow. 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 relocated to jerusalem after the trumpet ministration back in 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 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 and ask the authorities in jerusalem to comment and we'll let you know what they say as soon as we get ever spots. 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 the message is that america is losing the information war against russia and is struggling to control and counteract false. it's not enough to bustle falsehood because truth the truth does not always win the scale of vision disinfo nation was beyond what we were capable of responding to the authorities are in governments have gone from

fearing the flow of information to exploiting its they understand that the same tools that spread democracy can engineers and doing 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 single views on propaganda have changed last year he openly packed 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. genista militant daniel it's all things that washington has a selective approach to dealing with the. americans never 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 have 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. showing thomas will be back with more updates in around 30 minutes time so stay with us. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line and they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to press. you to the right to be press that's why the 43 a boy can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters about how. i sit. 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 you

know much worse objective listen today but there was an expectation 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 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy at tax so low down engineer elections manufacture consent and other principles according to no i'm chomsky one set of rules for the rich opposite set of rules for . that's what happens when you put her into the hands of a narrow sector of will switch will is dedicated to increasing power for itself just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america.

they're. from courage to act. this is a comedy show where americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents. of the world it should operate all right a certain country or an area tries something and if it works other places do it if it doesn't work you don't do it it's like when you were a kid and you know you saw your brother slide down the banister and rock him self on the newel post. and you thought to yourself maybe that's not for me. that's how our government should work but it's not for profit health care corporate person or the drug war etc etc we keep rocking ourselves on the new york post and. try it again. but the reverse should be true also if

a city anywhere in the world tries something and it works great we should do it this brings me to the idea of universal basic income. everybody receiving money from our government simply for being a citizen no questions asked i think it's about time we try it and see that works oh wait it's been tried a 1000000 times and worked a 1000000 times and how do i know that reading. has rudd bregman details in his book utopia for realists u.b.i. has been tried many times in canada and alaska and africa and europe there was a study in britain where 13 men who had lived in the streets for years were given $3000.00 pounds each about $4500.00 at the time did they use it for burger hundreds of all men milk lattes or giant bags of cracker or dreams wadded up and white

themselves. no it turns out not 18 months after getting the money over half were no longer holist and all of them had improved their lives significantly in the mid b a . figures for malnutrition took a nosedive from 42 percent to 10 percent as did those for truancy from 40 percent to nothing and crime down by 42 percent so you're telling your story. c you tell me there's practically a silver bullet for ending poverty and decreasing crime well we better avoid that like the plague. me let's go back to giving homeless people can a soup and a pair of socks if they collect enough cans they can build a house. basic income is not untested by 2010 there were income transfer programs for 110000000 families in 45.