that the with being a specific stroke. sure, we can find a good. i'm still shocked. i can't believe this is really happening. the main thing is that we finally returned home. thank god. an emotional with moscow and key of conduct another prisoner swap, each. exchanging a 107 captured soldiers, some of the russian troops described their experiences in captivity. with those 3 months were living hell. the forest disabled soldiers, no legs to do, sit ups. i saw some guys jailed in level, show their legs. they were swollen from beating hundreds of people gather outside a hospital in pockets done to show support for on the pm run khan,

who was wounded in an apparent estimation at them with washington excludes disturbing west african nation of bikini fossil from a trade deal because it says there's not enough democracy that, that's a local facing a devastating geologist, insurgency. they, they need to help me how to survive and he probably won't speak on the west. we're focusing on, but yeah, we're under the pressure of terrorist and we do have a right to choose who we want to work with this unit. the nato as member states oakia says that it won't allow sweden and finland into the block. and so they fulfill that in the month, the 5 pressure license leadership a is just on 1 pm on friday in moscow. my name is peter scotts, i'm wherever you're joining us from. welcome, 30 minutes of news. alice is still naughty. we begin this out with the latest in

ukraine, conflicts moscow and kia have conducted a prisoner swap on thursday with each side exchanging a $170.00 captured soldiers. the russian troops are now on home soiled by this with it shows the russian soldiers landing at the militia base in the moscow region, which is defense minister earlier warned that the lives of service personnel could be in danger, ukrainian captivity. all of the free thought is, will now undergo rehabilitation in the hospital. and as part of the deal, russia released the 170 ukranian soldiers, most of them send it back in may at the as of south feel, funds him or you pull in the done yes. republic. some of the russian peer w described what they went through for him, if you will eliminate those 3 months, we're living hell, i don't want any one else to go through. this one is worth a group of 30, but he said daily in my lead the be he forced disabled soldiers with no legs to do sid em. so there was a gym and key if used by the ukranian secured to service men, a russian soldiers were kept there,

but not every one managed to leave it alive. they were interrogated under torture. also they were lying there blindfolded. some were been beaten to death. i believe it was living as we were waiting for this moment for a long time. we didn't know what would happen to us while we were there. we were made to walk into cold for about 16 hours with only shirts like trousers and flip flops on. i saw some guys jailed and leave off show their legs. they were swollen from beatings. they could be beaten, for any move seen is wrong. we were told that we would be jailed once we get home. but the russia had forgotten us and wouldn't help us. that we were just scammed camella, we're forced to learn and sing their nationalist songs and anthem say their prayers . they wouldn't let us eat until we agree to sing. but anyway, you can get from nick when you are now. this was the 2nd such swap between russia and ukraine in the last 5 days. ortiz, a severe nunez sent as difficult as the freed russian soldiers arrived back on home soil. russia and ukraine carried out in neither prisoner exchange 107. the russian

military personnel, 65 of whom are from de logan's and donate peoples republics, have been released to day. and some of them just landed at an airport near moscow from where they will be transported to the capital and given all necessary psychological and medical help. ukrainian officials have already confirmed that they received the same number of soldiers in return. to be honest emotions, kara overwhelming. she'll go a good, good. i'm still shocked. i can't believe this is really happening. it's hard for me to talk about it now. you of those little brother, the more the main thing is that we finally returned home. thank god. with my nephew is still being held captive, he's wounded there. i've come to the airport to meet my son. i'm here with my daughter in law. we were very worried and scared for him. i still feel that fear today's feel w exchange is the latest in the series of prisoner swaps. the last one came at the end of october and involved the release of a thief to russian and $52.00 ukrainian soldiers, including regular soldiers,

national guardsman, a navy personnel, and border guards. and even though this prisoner swaps are sometimes very difficult to achieve its old worth, it in then beaten, insulted and humiliated. well, that's how the don bus soldiers have described 7 months of captivity in ukraine. as moscow give increased, the prisoner exchanges more and more hurrying. stories have come to light, was ortiz romco for that culture explains. some of the domestic republic, soldiers has spent at least 7 months in ukrainian captivity. there were tortured physically and mentally. finally, they have made their way back home to john esque. i've spoken to some of them and they told me, horrific stories of their contingency in ukraine will be in the article shown up of linear. we were near harker for in the village of alpha, and suddenly ukraine's forces fired

a massive artillery barrage than we saw that we were surrounded. but 1st they put us in the hanger. they stripped one of us naked when he was freezing outside willow . a chance thrash them, but it was very carried. we didn't know what would happen to us when we were in the hangar. near harkell were constantly beaten until their commander came. the relentless dom bullitt and insulted us. they beat me on the soles of my feet with combat boots, baton rouge, la, says she jane, but he then we were tied up and taken to kiev, ukraine's main intelligence directorate, where we spent a month and a half in the basement songs. the officers beat us during interrogations, and just because they felt like it, they really beat me up when the asked me who's didn't ask, is it? and i replied that it is, of course, russian tongue. then there was a briefing. they told us where we need to say as they wanted to use us for propaganda purposes. and they told us that we should say that we were young students taken to the front lines, but we were volunteers. we went to defend our mother landscape. then we were

transported to pull tava to a pre trial detention center. i'm like, ross, think it has to be good in that and i get we saw the red cross for the 1st time and pull tower. it was impossible to talk confidentially because ukrainians were sitting behind the wall. you could hear every single and before that the administration approached us and told us not to tell much, otherwise we would pay for it. so all of ukraine's defeats on the throne. clients from the political front affected us. they would threaten us in a heartbeat. they said wear garbage that the world doesn't need us. that they could just shoot all of us. they even intended to car was set in to us. one of our soldiers had his teeth knocked out, and on the one wanted them to simply kill him because there were tormenting him so much. authorities in the dentist republic say that one woman was killed and 10 civilians wounded in a 24 hour bombardment from ukrainian troops, allegedly using natal caliber shells, the regional capital under the major cities came under attack. and in the caps on region, a civilian was killed and 2 more wounded in ukrainian shelling of

a village that's according to local health authorities. and in the ukraine air raid warning sounded in central western and southern regions. overnight. explosions were reported in the city of nic alive ah, in the news, hundreds of supporters of pakistan's, former prime minister in ranken have gathered outside a hospital to show support for him after he survived an apparent assassination attempt. god was transferred to the facility in pakistan's, 2nd largest city law hall of to been shot twice during a protest in march. the for the piano, who was ousted earlier this year. and what he describes as a us back crew has been rallying supported throughout the country. as he tries to return to power, u. s. denies any involvement, cons of a to gunshot wounds in the leg during the attack in the north eastern city of was there about the following footage to show the exact moment. and a warning does contain some disturbing images. ah,

this despite says, gunman has reportedly confessed saying that he acted alone. however, it's unclear whether the statement was made on the dress con, had been leading a protest. march the capsule is lum about with a demand for new elections, local media, their local media footage. there has shown the 70 year old with bondage leg as he was new to a vehicle with help of his security team. only in the aftermath of the psych, thousands of con supporters had taken to the streets throughout the country. flames and smoke could be seen as protest is burn tires and other objects. while speaking out against the current government, supporters say they are fully behind con, or even ready to lay down their lives to support him or a le le fans up and we prefer him. ron cons healthy, john, we can sacrifice our lives for him. our blood is for iran. conley, or let me say that a tough time to this government has begun. we will overthrow them here. language user don't know, alanine,

we're not afraid of these cheat tactics. we are ready to die for our leader in run con, in our country, the hon. so i'm a look as a new, as a nation. so we all standing with him run, come. we appreciate the way him ran. con is leading the nation and giving awareness trays to him. we are standing in front of the ciocca promise memorial hospital. this is a cancer hospital. hey, mom can build this hospital for the poor people with donations. and now today, he's inside in the dorm taking the rest. he says dave are successful and we have seen tears. we have seen flowers. we have seen anger, and we have st paper, dip in deep from your heart and dead praying for him. and we hope the next morning ever lies again as a father of the nation. like by many people say, he's just like a fiber of these young generation of pakistan. not

enough democracy. well, that's how washington explained why it's excluded. the struggling west africa nation of burkina faso from an extensive economic development plan for the continent. i have made this decision because i have determined that the government of burkina faso has not established or made continued progress toward establishing respect for the rule of law and political pluralism. again, also has been rocked by a devastating hottest insurgency in recent years. with the country's defense ministry, even calling on civilians to help the national security forces, bustle, extremist forces, and estimated 2000000 people have been displaced by the continuous fighting and local se they need a helping hand to survive and most likely won't be from the west. one way and if you love this one, but now yeah, see for a long time we have been partnering with western countries, especially the u. s. and france. but terrorism has been growing. so i think it will be smarter to look for other partners. not because we hate americans,

they might also not blame us for our choices. we are under the pressure of terrorists, and we do have a right to choose who we want to work with as volcano bandwidth africa upset of. went curious to know if they knew general leaders, it would follow the steps of us to be going to molly the us, secretary of state for political, for fed that will cannot be made the decision not to deal with the wash and private secret group that she completed her mind by saying that the choice of a michael was a bad was in terms of security. if you'll wait, that will cannot be not hold your fleet, shedding on the ground. every thing is that it made a j. c and cup to you by him. saudi has called population to drive it all. we all we, international military assistance population have eyes up all watch and through,

up to say 2 years of military phase of frame to help countries and up to 6 to 4 year old chronicle for nasty said to all program for comfort. the situation is i'm getting better now. issue of need issues. so you need anybody's, we had was neither. that's how the issue. so now i can see this is not yet in addition to to find a solution for otherwise i can see who's yet can come here. thank you. i think personally, i think russia is welcome. yes. the united states. they that it can head. let's russia easy. i think there will be more efficient and where are who help us defeat their reason in atlas.

high sees humanitarian crisis shows little sign of abating with millions, still threatened with hunger disease, poverty, and violence. the worst thing situation has forced the un high commissioner for refugees to implore countries to stop throwing away a sodom seek was from the region the forced removal of people to a place where they may face risk of persecution, torture, or other serious or irreparable harm would amount to we found which is explicitly prohibited under international refugee and human rights law. international law also prohibits collective expulsions, an arbitrary detention associated with it. the statement comes as us agents on the border with mexico continued to carry out. must deportations of haitians, many of whom have travelled thousands of miles in search of asylum. the biden administration is reportedly considering holding the refugees in guantanamo bay,

which is surprisingly, has drawn outrage from human rights organizations such as amnesty international washington, canada and the united nations security council are calling for the deployments of foreign troops to haiti. as despite haitians continued to protest against such an intervention, following the assassination of the country president back in june 2021 protest this have not been well received by western leaders and my weakness better now, gladly if only we understand that the haitian people do not want for an intervention that is the reality. but at the same time we look at the crisis, the rapes, the violence, the poverty, the cholera, the sanitary crisis. we must intervene one way or another over the u. s. coast. busy for intervention all be met with criticism campaigners sightseeing washington's complicated past with the country. we spoke to canadian author on political activist eaves angler who says that ottawa on the u. s. should not be

decided. it's his fate. having historically worked against the caribbean nation sovereignty. what i wonder is, what would a canadian solution b, because when it's the came government running around the world organizing a foreign intervention, brady, that seems to me like that is a canadian solution. so no, just into those are comments are all over the place on this he, he speaks a certain kind of rhetorical support for your haitian sovereignty, but in fact, the king government does not care about haitian sovereignty whatsoever. and it all comes from the, the, the premise that canadian and american governments don't respect haitian sovereignty and don't respect haitian democracy. they don't want to let haitians, the majority of impoverished cation specifically determine their own fate. and so they continuously try to figure out some method of controlling the population. and

what it does is it leads to immigration further instability. ah, and the crisis we're seeing today, i think the solution is to respect haitian sovereignty. that's the macro solution to the crisis in haiti. ah, to kia has doubled down on his demands that sweden and finland must extradite, suspected terrorists if they want to join nato. what else? the message from the top turkish diplomats in ankara, despite attempts by the alliance is chief to secure the nordic countries as session to the block. it is clear that finland and sweden have delivered on the memorandum and are committed to the long term partnership with sir kia, who memorandum dollar to move. it cannot be said that all points of the memorandum were fully implemented by these 2 countries. our goal is not to prevent nato expansion, and our goal is for these 2 countries to take important steps in the fight against terrorism. because one of the biggest threats nato faces today is precisely

terrorism. on cra, once finland and sweden to comply with the turkish extradition requests, as well as just the legal definitions of terrorism, and reverse a bond on exporting certain military equipments. now if sweet and unfeeling do join nate, so it would comprise the $32.00 countries. moscow has long spoken out against the expansion of the lines as a direct threat the rushes national security claiming that the block has broken his promises not to expand the east. the alliance as chief insults because of insist, is all about sending a clear message to russia these dangerous times. it is even more important to finalize their accession to prevent any misunderstanding or miscalculation in moscow. and to send a clear message or to show that need to door remains open. well, sarah flounders, code, our rights of the international auction center says that nato, she's among show that the alliance is not democratic. stalson berg is making

demands on turkey eye, which are it's inappropriate in every way. every country must agree to the expansion of who is a member of nato now must agree to its expansion and turkey and hungry. neither one, this expansion. and they realize that it is a danger that the, that the alliance becomes ever more aggressive. and ever more, it expands the pressure, put on every member of nato, of to follow through on plans that they have no part in making. this is a u. s. commanded military alliance, it's not a democratic association by any means at all. the u. s. has shown that whether you're an official member or not,

you can be entirely ensnared within nato. and this is ukraine is the best example of that. and finally, chinese video sharing platform to talk cause underlined. it's right to access european uses, personal data leading to complaints from american and european authorities. the us even going to sponsor cold for the up to be bund, not the flight us. corporations often violate things such privacy policies themselves, ortiz, donal quarter, things is more details. talked back in the headline says it's accused of letting chinese staff access western user data. and once again, washington's on a, which hands to ban the social media platform. the council on foreign investment in the us should take action to ban tick tock. i don't believe there is a path forward for anything other than a ban, although tech talks owned by a chinese company, it denies having any ties to beijing. the company is however upfront about the fact

that a limited number of its chinese staff are working with european data. we allow certain employees within our corporate group located in brazil, canada, china, israel, japan, malaysia, philippines, singapore, south korea, and the united states, remote access to tick tock, european use a data our efforts, asencion, limiting the number of employees with access to european use, a data minimizing data flows outside of the region and storing european use a data locally. few people likely enjoy having their private data viewed by complete strangers. but in terms of how that data is used, the west is the last party that should be pointing the finger. take twitter and recently came to light that its top lawyer at the time apparently met with the department of homeland security regularly to discuss plans to censor users. just trying to get this into place where the fed can work with platforms to better understand the misinformation or disinformation trends. so relevant agencies can try to pre bunco debunk is useful platforms have got to get more comfortable with

government. it's really interesting how hesitant they remain. just to remind you what kind of government is collaborating with these platforms of mass information. a 2014 statement from the national security agencies chief sums it up pretty well. we kill people based on their data. while companies like twitter clearly dot their eyes and cross their keys and collaborating with the state, there are others like facebook whose irresponsibility has led to a whole other type of nightmare in the past. remember the scandal with cambridge analytical for years it gathered facebook users data to influence elections. and mark zuckerberg feet were held to the fire for that. are you willing to change your business model in the interest of protecting individual privacy congresswoman? i'm not sure what that means, mr. saca berg. would you be comfortable sharing with us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night?

i. i know if you messaged anybody this week, would you share with us the names of the people you've messaged? a senator, no, i would probably not choose to do that publicly here across the board though all these companies have at least one thing in common. that's the colossal amount of meta data. they sell to advertisers just to make a quick buck do you, or do you not collect identifiers like name, age, and address? yes or no. if you're creating an account, yes and using an account. yes. specific search history, one person type something into a search bar. if you have search history turned on the s device identifiers like op address or i am e, ah, depending on the situation we could be collecting at. yes. all things considered if washington really believes tick, tock has done something that warrants a complete ban of the platform. perhaps i should think about what kind of punishment silicon valley deserves. it's very interesting that the u. s. would want

to ban tick tock for doing the very thing that the us does anomaly and not only its own citizens, but all citizens across the planet. are you look at the national security ministration. you look at homeland security, started after $911.00 and we have advanced monitoring systems in fact. so why would the chinese problem be so different? well, the chinese are not our ally. so really it's about carolling and keeping, or even if you like, recreating ail well, a historical reference america online when the internet was once just that an app. and you did all your shopping, you bought flowers, you had your chat rooms within that ecosystem. then of course, mark sucker, burke creates facebook with the same idea. your friends even only exist in facebook and they don't even need to be live humans. they just need to like you. and in this way we can control all of commerce. we can control all of the conversation. we can control people's politics. we can control everything to want the chinese to be able

to exert some of that control. no, you don't. that's how the world is looking as $125.00 p m. moscow time i'd be discussing back again with another look at today's biggest stories in just over half an hour's time. ah . oh, everything has changed. and one of the elements of this picture is the desperate, the attack of the west or counter attack to stop the duration of their positions. they decided to concentrate on russia. they're real aim is of course, saving the 500 years of their domination and the emitter intermediate,

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i just won't go crazy. no reason that i am a fan of guaranteed income because it is this idea that everybody is deserve it. and just by virtue of your being here, ah, with yourself with business. and you will clean a, b, e l w that was chosen. yeah, americans. great you. when you wrote it, you just got to it is just such an article and i see it on the web. you was just such a short, it was nice talking to different student info which helped with you throwing the width of the protein. you're still there with her. as you talk to you as we are both in the study, she was the new point of choice. so it was coming to the one of all things sort of thought it was huge in the longer bushes just didn't use tuition. i pushed 2 to 3

to become mon because or lose new or your portal or do school cold? i don't know who to i know for the don't know if i should just to do with ease for stupidity and finances. come on both with with hello and welcome to cross talk. we're all things considered. i'm peter lavelle with only daisy for america's mid term elections. everything seems to be breaking

in the direction of the republicans. this would seem to confirm this will truly be a change election and a solid defeat for joe biden. and the democrats, the country is deeply divided. while these elections make things worse, the cross sucking the upcoming mid terms. i'm joined by my guess, jennifer reed in milwaukee. she's an attorney in cleveland. we have dennis goosenich. he is a former presidential candidate and former congressman and in las vegas. re cross to greg policy. jar duleigh, he is an election integrity expert and co host of a wakeup and the convo couch or a cross talk roles in effect. that means you can jump in anytime you want. and i always appreciate dennis. let me go to you and cleveland, you're an old hand, this is not your 1st rodeo, obviously here. how do you see this? i mean, you can look at this as a realignment or just a reaction election or a lot of other people like to call it

a change election. how do you read the tea leaves? i think, you know, if i were to be asked to give some numbers, i think the republicans will probably end up with 229 seats in the house. so the democrats jordan 6, i think the senate will also go to the republicans, could be as much as $50.00 to $48.00. there is a, there's been a move towards republicans in their selection, principally because of inflation. their cost of basic foods, goods, and good to going up and people are finding that hard to reconcile with the party in power. and of course, crime in the cities another tractor. so i think you're going to see initial election from the, from the federal level to the state and even a county level, a move towards republic. and it's pretty, it's the state and i don't see anything. it's going to change that in the next few days. jennifer.