a prisoner swap between russia and ukraine is hailed by the 2 countries' leaders as a vital step in restoring relations. russian journalist. whose release was widely called for by liberty groups is among the 35 to arrive in moscow the same number were returned here. u.s. 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 it the vessel. and foreign owned businesses are looted in the south african city of johannesburg any wave of anti immigrant. on sunday i don't think the british stuff like that and so still under great

speeds at the ghouls. and broadcast one direct from our studios in moscow this is arch international thomas certainly glad to have you with us. all right 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 normalize relations president of. welcome to the 35 returning ukrainian prisoners as their plane landed in kiev some of their relatives were also on hand to welcome them while in moscow a plane carrying the other 35 newly freed prisoners touched down in front of the airport when he goes down off with their force. 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 but their

role now among those people is 2 real machines he was had over 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 the real visions he had a chance to talk to journalists to go 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 i am. 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. it's a read in this for compromise we see the agreed mutual release of people detained in russia and ukraine as a positive signal we should see another important step to breaking the deadlock in

the current russian ukrainian relations unlike his predecessors selenski administration has shown a sensible approach and a readiness for compromise some experts say that this is also a positive sign for the implementation of the minsk agreements 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 union o'neill discussed of the developments with our 2 doll 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 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 dimmers alinsky 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 one yes 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 in via 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 president 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 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 and silicate from the 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 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 it really goes 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. 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 route in order to detain it a vessel named adrian diarrheal one was seized by the u.k. in july near gibraltar and 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 it tracking device has now been switched off artie's daniel hearkens has more. if it 1st you don't succeed try and try again so keim were u.s. authorities to get their hands out on a rainy you know they used every thing at their disposal 1st came the stick accusing the tangere of move a world to syria in breach of sanctions they went to the u.k. for help british marines impound of the ship bought it was passing through the strait of gibraltar a spanish foreign minister said the arrest came after a demand from the us to the u.k. but on 15th of august gibraltar release the vast so it's at sail into the mediterranean a few days later after being rename from grace one to adrian daria one then came

the carrot we've all had at one of those e-mails i'm writing to you would good mews what might you expect a surprise not true we're in perhaps a huge inheritance from a long lost royle family member an africa well that's exactly the e-mail at the ships caps and receives but this wasn't go 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 as shipping companies taps and crew more meanwhile is only 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 huron 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. would be kept talking about day and night. but there are also other issues as well 010 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 that 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 that there have 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 us behavior towards iran towards syria and. 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. the british cabinet minister has quit in protest against the prime minister's bragg's it strategy and of the sacking of 21 colleagues in her resignation letter amber rudd accused of the government of political vandalism the short sighted cousin of my colleagues has tipped the party of broad minded and dedicate his conservative in peace i cannot support this act of political vans and

isn't this what 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 her resignation piles further pressure on prime minister boyce johnson after his recent a defeat in 3 crucial parliamentary vote a bill passed by both houses will legally require him to seek a braggart extension from the e.u. if he fails to secure a new withdrawal agreement johnson has vowed to defy that resolution and some of the u.k.'s leading lawyers have warned that failure to comply could. land him in jail and spark a full blown constitutional crisis as things stand as the u.k. is due to leave the e.u. less than 6 weeks from right now at the end of october. switching gears now in south africa's biggest city johannesburg 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 of his policy or 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 by non stop because that's where all of that it wouldn't be any moment now the entire building can come tumbling down because really hammering out the structure now the mood on the ground it's a 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 questioners working there was you know who comes from zimbabwe what actually happens make up one son being made to have an equal globe in the

great vision of the dead north up was that you said monday night the big on both linda 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 you on green fluid before the truth of them. that someone moved through the instant chemistry becoming anything remotely. or most of last you wonder of film and what you would do with it you know largely would all work for believe that we've moved from. do you think showing your south african identity protected she 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 to not go given that we're not doing enough on those glommed with the lonely government to go on

a more global good will move or do you want both of whom would you could probably 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 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 trade to be in south africa the flow you of course the go the people thought the good will last sunday and no good rules for every move of build the rounds 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 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've been there for the whole week and they take everything from them. and where all the nigerian owners and the foreign owners all got on their way i think into leave the country they wrote your book or to talk to other great britain we. 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. right the head of the province where johannesburg is located insists the situation is now under control. i am confident that deporting on top of this situation. i have said but if the police are not coping i would have asked the south african defense must rainfalls the parties but so far they are dealing with the situation in on in the provinces. 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 upset. very

upset i come out my house and i want to be able to see the view over the desert i don't want to the could it be stone world you know imodium it's going to go to one morning and saw them doing demolition and construction work so i asked what was happening and they said they were making the walls higher why would they do that it was an existing will high enough what was the problem the will now flows in top of you 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. like consulting with us it's going to block our view it's going to blow up and it's going on i think the way i'm comfortable cory door and we don't want to live with that. 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 for will 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 all. the authorities in jerusalem to comment on the story and we are waiting to hear back from. the fight against a descent from ation is at the core of an upcoming book by a former us 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 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 the spread democracy can engineers and doing let's face it democracies are not very good at this information richard stengel was managing editor at time magazine between 20062013 before moving on to government work he served as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and affairs for 2 years and 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 propagandist job or journalist and author daniel thinks 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 fall 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 propagandists like on the other hand when the us does it it's not propaganda it's simply the truth and anything to

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