a prisoner swap between russia and ukraine is hailed by the 2 countries that leaders as a vital step in restoring relations. journalistic you feel who is that release was widely called for by liberty groups is among the 35 to arrive in moscow the same number were returned to you. u.s. state department admits it tried to bribe the captain of the iranian oil tanker at the center of a diplomatic round so they could seize the vessel. and foreign owned businesses are looted in the south african city of johannesburg and a wave of anti immigrant he cried. one sunday night that i'm getting close to the

brink they said they didn't fill it up like that and so still under great speed some of the schools. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team international incheon thomas certainly glad to have you with us right 70 prisoners have been exchanged between russia and ukraine after months of talks the swap took place on saturday morning and of the 2 countries' leaders spoke by phone saying the move will help to normalize relations president. welcomed the 35 returning ukrainian prisoners as their plane landed in 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 airport it was donna was there for. 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 these 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 a 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 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 who are trying 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 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 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. 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 still a force that if signed 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 earlier my colleague you know neil discussed the developments with r.t. is donald quote. 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. 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 there 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 strait 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 we spoke by phone with harlem desir a representative of the organization for security and cooperation in europe he sees the prisoner swap as a political breakthrough. doesn't see any representative on freedom of the media i 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 linsky said it was one of his birthdays in fact the top priority was to get the prisoners back to zealand kid from the very beginning even before he became president said i'm going to have proved 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 improved environment and who he from old words they can start talking work to do you hans 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 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. printers made concessions and that's very important for the international moment. the u.s. state department has admitted it to trying to bribe the captain of an iranian oil tanker which is at the center of a diplomatic round in order to detain it the vessel named adrian diarrheal one was

seized by the u.k. in july near a trip brought or it was released in august despite protests from the united states it has been heading east since then and was last detected in the eastern mediterranean but its tracking device has now been switched off artie's daniel hawkins has more on the story. 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 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 brian 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 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 will be much harder for you what lay behind this thinly veiled threats was left to his imagination to run. 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 as shipping companies taps and kumar meanwhile is only us lists how differently this story would have ended if only captain kumar had cashed in and just altered that good news e-mail meanwhile us in national security advisor john

bolton has tweeted that the tanker has now been seen entering a syrian port iran 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 tanker and then subsequently threaten him 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 the 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 through bullying and threats and in the eagle behavior so there are multiple reasons for the u.s. behavior towards iran towards syria and towards 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 a foreign owned businesses are being looted made a wave of anti migrant crime across the country on monday the country's a police

minister describe the situation as a national emergency response there are reports. 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 to stop that was over 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 now the mood on the ground is better but agee we don't feel under the same 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 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 sign being made to add on to its old mold when

the great vision of the dead north up was that you said monday night the big gone by then the been. a remembering a lot from a global moment the big dig the big thing the dems to stand. 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 you on green fluid before the truth of them. that someone moved through the instant chemistry can become anything remotely. for most of last year wonderful the moon what do we do with it you know live we would all work for believe that we've read from. you think showing your south african identity pretext to you is going to give you this week or the why what happened are you going to go look close though most of them are the only little other police in the government doing enough not to give them that they're not doing enough or the nose glomming would be lonely government the government won't work the nobody wants both of whom

would feel it would be legal problem it's not just foreign owned stores that were targeted here you can. a 2nd hand card to the ship 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 the violence that south africa has witnessed since 2008 police estimate 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 and tenable situation. where you from the world on your plate to be in south africa for you of course the girls the people thought the good will last sunday and no good mood of middle demands you're given to be given the list and how many years and even some of the years to say you south africa you know of course. and now you have no business no

move this finish of it is finished how 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 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 me there. and did they take everything we've got. and where all the nigerian owners and the foreign owners all got underway i think and to be the country they wrote your book or to talk of the great britain would. 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 stevo and i continue

being on the streets there's a lot of uncertainty. so rainy what what will happen remains to be seen in. johannesburg the head of the province where johannesburg is located insists 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 rainfalls the police but so far they are dealing with the situation in all the top provinces. of the budget crisis has taken a new downturn with the resignation of a cabinet minister and that story is right after a short break is our 2 international.

the gemini that steve globalization and this came in with thompson 2016 said he the idea of monitor as 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 dig globalization simultaneously. compared to centuries of chinese history to use is nothing unless budgets 2 years of donald trump with us another round of terrorists being added to the us trade war this last week china's strategy of waiting out the enemy likely to work with the current american president.

and welcome back this is our team international now a british cabinet minister has quit in protest against the prime minister's bragg's its strategy and the sacking of 21 colleagues in her resignation busy letter amber rudd accused of the government of political vandalism. the short sighted cousin of my colleagues has tipped the podium broadminded and dedicate his conservative m.p.'s i cannot support this act of political vans and isn't this what it is with regret the time also surrender in the conservative whip. or ride 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 her resignation piles up further pressure on prime minister boris johnson after

his recent defeat in 3 crucial parliamentary votes a bill passed by both houses will legally require him to seek a brags that extension from the e.u. if he fails to secure any withdrawal agreement johnson has vowed to defy that resolution and some of the u.k.'s leading lawyers have warned about failure to comply could land him in jail and spark a full blown constitutional crisis as things stand in the u.k. is due to leave even less than 6 weeks from now at the end of october. switching gears now the us is securing its new embassy compound in jerusalem with 6 metre high wall originally the embassy received a permit to build a barrier 3.2 metres high but recently permission was given to almost double that height and people living in the neighborhood are outraged. 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

a big stone you know imodium it i got it 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 flows 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 i. like consulting with us it's going to block our view it's going to grow i don't know if i am comfortable corey and we don't want to live with that. in the diplomatic mission was officially relocated to jerusalem from tel aviv in may last year after the trumpet ministration recognized the holy city as the capital of israel the owner of a jerusalem based construction company says the new compound is ruining the skyline . 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 in accordance to the authorities is 3.2 nieces 5.8 meters is too much and it disregarding the neighbors there are many beautiful houses here in the center of jerusalem and a wall like that would be an eyesore. we ask the authorities in jerusalem to comment on the story and we are waiting to hear back from them. the fight against edition from ation 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 struggling to contain and counteract falsehoods. it's not enough to bustle falshood because truth the truth does not always win the scale of russian disinfo mation was beyond what we were capable of responding to the authorities 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 richard stengel was managing editor at time magazine between 20062013 before moving on the government work he served as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and affairs for 2 years his views on propaganda have evolved last year he openly supported 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 it's. 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 journalist and author daniel is are things that washington has a selective approach to dealing with the truth 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 are so stengel would never admit to admit to deceit to to painting a false portrait remember though the worse the u.s. does terms of follow 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 sound how 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 and that does it for me i'll be back with more news in about 34 minutes in 10 seconds stay with us.

you know world big part of. a lot of things and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door of the bath 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 for watching closely watching the hawks. during the great depression which i'm old enough to remember there was most of my family were unemployed working. there wasn't it was bed you know much worse subjectively than today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. there was

a real sense of hopefulness there isn't today today's america where shape by the 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduced democracy attack solidarity engineer elections manufacture consent and other principles according to no i'm chomsky one set of rules for the rich opposite. that's what happens when you put her into the hands of a narrow sector of wilf which 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.

oh. max kaiser this is the kaiser report and we're going to get into some really important things here in paris france where we are now so let's bring stacey i'm going to quickly read the 3 have i and i have here because it's all about politics geopolitics and geo economics here the 1st one because we're in france i'll start with the french headline because this was from macro and after trump leaves france mccrone warns world is living the end of western hedging mony but we also have a headline from the u.s. that matches this to my mind and it's from bill dudley former head of the new york fed started in 2009 after tim geithner left until 2016 and before that he was with goldman sachs for about 2025 years the fed shouldn't enable donald trump you know trump isn't

a trade war and that's why bill dudley responded to this it's like this trade war with china is crazy we shouldn't cut rates in fact we should raise rates if anything he's almost suggesting anything to get rid of trump like we should overthrow the guy well trump's new trade work tool might just be antique china debt collectors of pre communist debt are lobbying the white house to force beijing to pay up president donald trump's next move in an increasingly fraught trade war with china could be one for the history books literally the trumpet ministration has been studying the unlikely prospect of reviving centuries old claims and chinese bonds sold before the founding of the communist people's republic this was a 1911 and it was used to fund the construction of a rail line between hunk who and shows you won and once the communist revolution happened and the people overthrew the. imperial power in china they said forget the

stats but now the u.s. might revive that's because people have bought them buying them like e bay is a collector's item to address micron's comments and bill buckley's comments right this plays into the dual theme we've been talking about for a few months the globalization the dollar as asian rights the loss of western hegemony that steve globalization this came in with trump in 2016 that he the idea of monitor is ation 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 ation as b. countries like russia move aggressively away from the dollar and buy gold and big globalization simultaneously as far as these chinese debts that were issue 19 a leaven or $99911.00 and are now being sought after for for.