a prisoner swap between russia and ukraine is hailed by of the 2 countries leaders as a vital step in restoring relations. question journalistic to dealing with machines q. whose release was widely called for by liberty groups was among the 35 to arrive in moscow the same number were returned to the. us state department admits it tried to bribe the captain of the iranian oil tanker at the center of a diplomatic route so they could seize the vessel. and the foreign owned businesses alluded to in the south african city of johannesburg in a wave of anti immigrant. on sunday night. they did pick this up.

and say i'm so scared i just prayed speeds up the schools. are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our g. international times from last. night 70 prisoners have been exchanged between russia and ukraine after months of talks the swap took place on saturday morning and 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 a download from the airport or he could have gone off 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 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 good things 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 swap. 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 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 screeching over one of the from what we understand one of the defense battalions 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. 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 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. ard earlier you know neal my colleague discussed the developments with r.t. is 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. 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. of well 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 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 seized 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. he. 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 that 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 until indicate from the very beginning even before he became president said i'm going to improve 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 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 they don't really go this is a demonstration that russia can negotiate it wishes to improve relations with ukraine and hopefully this will spread throughout europe this is the 1st step russia russia has made concessions. cringes made concessions and that's very important for the international management. the u.s. state department has admitted it trying to bribe the captain of an iranian oil tanker which is at the center of a diplomatic round in order to detain it and the vessel named adrian it dial one was seized by the u.k. in july near gibraltar it was released in august despite protests from the united states it has been heading east since then and was

a last detected in the eastern mediterranean but it's tracking device and has now been switched off that is 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 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 it's a sail into the mediterranean a few days later after being renamed from grace one to adrian daria one then came

the carrot we've all had one of those emails i'm writing to you with good news what might you expect a surprise not true when perhaps a huge inheritance from a long lost royal family member in africa well that's exactly the email that the ship's captain received but this wasn't the regular spam for the junk folder this came direct from the state department. this is bryan hook i work for secretary of state mike 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 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 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 crew more 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 the tanker has now been seen entering a therion port in iran previously to deny that 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 other 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 to bullying and threats and illegal 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 amid a wave of anti migrant crime across the country on monday the country's police minister described the situation as a national emergency parties post here report. him in johannesburg which.

has seen some of the worst violence against foreign is south africa as you can see here let's take kids what they can to stop that was owed by non because where all of 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 if 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 led to complete calm i know it's hard to believe but this was a bottle store one of the questioners working there was who comes from zimbabwe what actually happens make up one son being made to be a cold cold wind 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 to stay. across the road here is alan who owns a hardware store and when did you ever think that you would see these kind of scenes happening so close to a business own for you on green fluid before the truth of them. that someone moved through the instant chemistry or become anything remotely. or most of last year under 12000000 what do we do with it in the large blue dog world for families 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 not go given that we're not doing enough on those lonely with the lonely government to go on a more global good will nobody wants both of whom would be little problem it's not just foreign owned stores that were targeted here you can. a 2nd hand car dealership that was broken into and the cars satellite 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 them a phobia of 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're 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 sunday and no good rules for every move of build the ones 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 will move this finish it is feeling like you can handle the cost of family all the look over 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 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've been there. and to take everything we've got. and where all the nigerian owners and the foreign owners are all out on the world are they thinking to leave the country they wrote your book or do you talk to other great britain 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 the what what will happen remains to be seen in our

team johannesburg the head of the province where joining us burg is located insist 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. 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 top provinces column a new us embassy in jerusalem is riling up the neighbors we find out why after a short break there were. when gold make its manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final.

one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. compared to centuries of chinese history 2 years is nothing unless budgets 2 years of donald trump with yet another round of terrorists being added to the us sign no trade war this last week is china's strategy of waiting out the enemy likely to work with the current american president.

welcome back this is our chief international now the us is securing its new embassy compound in jerusalem with a 6 metre high wall originally the embassy received a permit to build a barrier 3.2 meters 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 wall you know imodium it cooler i go to war morning and saw them doing demolition and construction work so i asked what was happening and they said they were making the wall why would they do that doesn't exist seymour high enough what was the problem the will now from his entire view from my house. were very upset we were part of a group of neighbors were trying to see what can be done to stop this. like

consulting with us it's going to block our view it's going to blow up i don't know if i am comfortable corey and we don't want to live with that the diplomatic mission was officially relocated to jerusalem from tel aviv in may of 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 it will in jerusalem according to the authorities is 3.2 nieces 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. we ask the authorities in jerusalem to comment on the story and we're waiting to hear back from. so the right are the

fight rather against distance from ation is at the core of an upcoming book by a former u.s. state department official in the obama administration richard stengel messages that america is losing the information war against russia and struggling to contain and counteract all sorts. it's not enough to bustle false would be the truth the truth does not always win the scale of this information was beyond what we were capable of responding to. governments have gone from fearing the flow of information to exploiting it they understand that the same tools that spread democracy can engineer isn't doing let's face it democracies are not very good information. richard stengel was managing editor at time magazine between 20062013 before moving on to government work he served as undersecretary of state and public diplomacy in 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. i would say there's a difference between propaganda and 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 journalist and author daniel thinks that washington has a selective approach to dealing with the truth. 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 sick 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 that does it for me i'll be back in let's say 35 minutes with another look at you news you're watching international stay with us. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

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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 well clearly 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 climate change habitat destruction pollution species extinction loss of biodiversity the collapse of ecosystems all of these things are accelerated

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and that is their whole life and that actually brings people closer together but then on the same instance there's people who have kids and it kind of drove drives a wedge between them because they wanted to have that quality time together and that's something which they valued before they had kids and they didn't get to have that now so this is tim tim is our 3rd child he was found by my husband in a parking lot he was about 2 pounds skin and bones covered in fleas with a big hole and an abscess in one of his rear legs and so he scooped him up and we took him to the vet and he had emergency surgery he had a really rough 1st 10 weeks on the planet but it's been pretty sweet ever since tom . currently were actually living through the 6 mass extinction of species so we're currently driving species to.