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the alive from our headquarters here in moscow. you're watching our see international peter scotts and we start off with some breaking news. this our moscow and washington have carried out a high profile prisoner swap russian business, one big boots. he was a convicted on arms, dealing charges in the u. s. has been handed over to moscow. and that's an exchange for an american basketball star. brittany greiner, who was sentenced to 9 years in a russian prison for drug trafficking. both of them received a presidential pardons from like the med, putin on joe biden, respectively before they were set free. moscow had been pushing for boots, release the yes. washington category can rejected any cooperation with russia in the exchange came. nevertheless, we continued active efforts to rescue our citizen. as a result is became possible to organize the exchange. with the american side, victor boot has returned to his homeland of the lead cost live now to our new york

correspondence, kellen moore pin. good evening, katy, thanks for joining us. as such short notice. so this prisoner exchange has finally happened. after months of reports and negotiations. what else do we know about the details of the deal? well, from what we understand, the prisoner swap took place in abu dhabi. brittany greiner the us basketball player who was convicted of drug charges. she was exchanged for victor boot. victor boot was arrested in thailand. expedited to the united states in 2008. and he's been sitting in u. s. federal prison ever sent us officials have accused him of conspiring to kill us citizens, being involved in conspiracy to sell weapons and other charges that he maintained were clearly trumped up against him. and he was held in us federal prison ever since 2008. but now we understand that this deal has been reached out that both of

the former prisoners are now on their way home. we did hear from us president joe biden. you spoke about brittany griner, the us basketball player, and her detention, he did not make any references to victor boot did not respond to reporters who asked about what was given in exchange for brittany griner being released. he did however, have a relative of written greiner with them in speaking from the white house. and it was a very short statement from us president joe bide. he did talk about how islam that taken place in b. and he had relatives of britney bryan are with him. now at this point, we understand, essentially what happened was the, the legality was in the form of presidential pardons. the president of russia pardoned brittany greiner, the president of the state pardoned victor boot. and then both of them were

exchanged in the 3rd party country of the united arab emirates abd jobby. in the united arab emirates, the 2 prisoners were exchanged and they are now on their way home to their respective country. now i actually had the opportunity to enter interview victor booth from federal prison. now was being held in colorado in a u. s. federal facility. and i had the opportunity of actually interviewing him over the phone and hearing him describe his case. and let's keep in mind, you know brittany greiner, he was only detained since february. however, victor booth was in us custody and u. s. federal prison year after year after year. and for much of that time he wasn't even able to see his family. it was only after us president donald trump was elected that arrangements were even made for victor to even see his wife and daughter and that victor was held for a year after year after year in harsh conditions. he described to me what had

happened. he described to me how difficult us officials had made it for him to interact with the russian embassy. and it was, it was quite interesting to be able to speak to him from behind bars from u. s. federal prison. so this is kind of a review of my ability to interact with victor boots while he was being held on justly by us official a lord of war and a merchant of death. and that's how western media describes victor boot for moscow, he's a political prisoner rejecting his case as unfounded and biased from the start. at his trial, he pled not guilty, and he called the accusations against him, a bunch of wise the court decided otherwise and jailed him for 25 years. he's now served a 3rd of that sentence, and he's agreed to talk to me from prison. because your case is highly political, are you being treated differently? well, of course i've been treated differently because by some reason, be okay,

deciding that a timeline is special or is group or whatever. i'm a general population. but on the other very strict supervisor and control victor boot describes himself as a political prisoner. i asked him what that means. this is a 100 percent qualify as a political prisoner because if i'm off my nationality and i was denied to corporate side and i'm standing up. they didn't do anything else and we'll fight for my innocence. i'm a state department couple years ago. make a cab gonna keep him? as example, as a model was a boy for whipping, saw the russians would be more polite, the corporate with us when the go off. there are up 3. she me. i asked him about deals that had been offered to him in the past and currently, well, they've been during pre trial during the trial where they've been through a public defender and they approach and said, well, we're going to get to it all your primary green car conceptual you there,

if you know some dirt about food, you know how car off this regime times old. i said they know you came to the person for all the deal. that's why i went to the trial. pick your boot offered up a pretty strong and consistent critique of the us legal system and how he says it has been used against russian citizens boot points to what he calls conspiracy laws as a method of imprisoning people. not for actually committing crimes, but for offhand comments made 2 undercover officers boot says he's not the only political prisoner being held and that the efforts of the russian embassy have definitely improved circumstances. caleb martin r t new york in the news chinese president seizing ping has arrived in reality for a summit aimed at 14 stronger ties between beijing and gulf countries. saudi from principal had been some unwelcomed, the chinese presidents and according to on confirmed reports,

she's visits is already bearing fruits as 34 investments agreements that already been fine. if something use an upturn in trying to solve the trade which has amounts, it's a more than $300000000.00 since 2017. as using things, the visits has already been compared to the u. s. presence trip to riyadh earlier this year, just like joe biden trying to find me and even doing the fist bond with the saudi crown prince. they failed to reach any significance agreements. and just months later, the opec plus group of oil exports, which does include saudi arabia agreed to slash the oil outputs with the move, sparking criticism from washington. she's doing things visit best, almost no resemblance to jo biden's that's happened during the u. s. presence, middle east trip over the u. s. has been a long time ally. we thought maybe a current president did not receive any visible success during the visit. no one got this. saudi arabia, being one of the main opec plus members took part in cutting down or production a decision on which provoked a negative reaction from washington. that we spoke to c g

t n correspondent, young cheng. she who told us about the wide ranging areas of improving corporation . tony present it in writing on wednesday. on his birthday here in the 1000 capital, with the officials, including the sal monday and grounding mama since i'm on an important operation document with the kingdom. now president, she is also said to attend our summit with leaders of golf and why don't you, why don't the world after the bilateral meeting with sal the leader? let's look at some of the results so far. you said 1000 and chinese companies, 530 for investment agreement. we covering a wide range of specter look green energy information technology, transportation and health care, housing, and factory construction. there's yet to be solid evidence to support the claimed that a middle eastern country cooperating with its largest trading partner on economic and tech development. it's not abusive to international order officials from both

countries that reiterated the unprecedented opportunity brought by the synergy between the 2 countries. strategic initiative named the china belt and wrote initiative and the, the valuation on the 30 w radio is on track to become you know, technology and innovation up and chinese theaters have made it very clear that the company is looking forward to working with them. now we got reaction from dr. mohammed sub on a former senior adviser to saudi arabia's energy minister. he says, the middle east and china all benefiting greatly from mutual ties saying go way out of trying a long time ago. good jag by our economic partners. we know better than china. so corporate kitty's, the little corporation wisdom, especially that china and it's brand new worldwide or the vicious

what they went through. they were different confidence. however, i think visually with the huge is there not resources is the best laid we'll try and so i don't think that this is a expense of anybody we geographically we cannot make lee our economy. we please to train was going to be our what does it mean that would not be you know, that would be nice,

but we cannot limit our one when, when i lie and leave on the execute that we are in the united ukraine's president vladimir zalinski has been named time magazines person of the year, while another western outlet politico has called him the most powerful person in europe for 2023. this comes just a year after some of the same media won the far right as a movement poses a huge threat to the western world and has even inspired more terrorist attacks in the u. s. and he's lumnick extremism. i discussed the story earlier in our studio with our correspondent rachel blevins. all time has made it official. they're calling him knowing that the person of the year, but also the most influential person in europe. and it's notable because there have been a number of people who have been quick to rush to social media, calling out this decision saying that they don't agree with it. and also referring to the hypocrisy surrounding it. and that includes fox news host,

tucker carlson. take a listen to what he had to say about it. zalinski has no interest in freedom and democracy. in fact, zalinski is far closer to lenin than to george washington. he is a dictator. he is a dangerous authoritarian who has used a $100000000000.00 in us tax dollars to erect a one party police state in ukraine. and that's not an overstatement. over the past year, zalinski has banned opposition parties. he shut down critical media by force. he's arrested his political opponents. he has sent soldiers into churches. zalinski secret police have rated monasteries across ukraine. even a convent full of nuns. and in the face of this, the bite administration has said nothing, not one word. so time magazine's glowing praise of zelinski in his article is really trying to overshadow the fact that the western media has openly acknowledge the ways in which he has targeted anyone. he views as a threat and not includes everyone from officials within his own government to

churches to entire media organizations. so there's a lot that is going on, sad with that title that he is now getting when talking about time magazine last year they published an article warning about the apparent threat that's posed by the far as old battalion to, to european security. and that was under zelinski, so 10 years president was changed since then re and you know, it's interesting, that's another one of those things that they kind of quietly leave out, which is the ways in which those white nationalist extremists have really gain even more power under zalinski watch. now speaking of that article, that time magazine did publish back in 2021. let's take a look at what they had to say about the threat that was posed there. afore recruit is increasingly been linked to women's, around the world. at the agency, he's for us, a desire to travel to craig might, with military,

with american he also trained in ukraine is off with now that article was especially notable because it brought up the ways in which there were some figures at the time calling on the last government to be aware of who it was funding with in the as of italian. and also to pay attention to the fact that this militia has brought in around $17000.00 foreign fighters in 6 years from 50 countries. so that threat that they were warning of appears to be no more was so staying with the same topic, google's published is list of most search for names and searches in ukraine itself . and it was as a zalinski has been named time person of the year. it appears that within ukraine itself, he's not one of the most most search for people on google. can we read anything to that? well, it certainly is a reminder of the ways in which time is basing this offer, right? they're not going off of the most popular person necessarily, and they're also clearly not going on the streets of ukraine and asking them who

they believe is their person of the year. instead, they are saying this is the person of the year based on how the western media views it. and this is very much an indicator as we see that title handed down a step towards complete dystopian. well, that's how some critics have described a plan calling for residence of a british city to require a permit to use private vehicles in the center during rush hour. we think that this is one small step toward just complete, disappear using climate to net 0 as an excuse, as per usual when rules and regulations are brought in to restrict people, they never actually use the real reason to start off. it's always public health or in this case saving the planet orchard has chosen itself to be the subject of a suicidal experiment. every one i speak to hates, it will fill the scheme is set to begin in the city of oxford in 2024. and that's in an effort to reduce traffic on stop pollution and one driving through

the areas without permits will be fine 70 pounds, local authorities, the claim the measures will make the city a better place to live with. so much of is expressing support for the move the official analysis of the scheme found that it will mean a 35 percent decrease in traffic. a 9 percent reduction in road casualties. rush hour buses will run 15 percent quicker and air pollution will improve in 91 percent of locations. this will save lives in make our city more pleasant now and for future generations. or we discussed the controversial traffic filter system with radio host to carry harrison and steve gil, who's also a political commentator. we used to always get the excuse for every public policy argument that it's for the children's now, it's always for the environment. and unfortunately, bureaucratic governments all over the world tell a truth, but don't really tell the truth of what the purpose of this agenda really is. i

think that's why people are skeptical of that is the most dramatic thing. i have heard and probably 2 and a half weeks when i moved to los angeles 20 years ago, the air was on breathable. the traffic congestion is still absolutely impossible, making the city on livable. so what has happened is people have gotten vespers and bicycles. it seems like a radical idea, but if you like, clean air, if you like to be an upright being that is able to get from a to be comfortably without being smacked by a car. sometimes you might have to limit it. first of all, i don't think people are just giving in their cars and driving and random. most of them are going somewhere that's not a workable system. any more than oxford, when you have a town that was built hundreds of years ago with narrow streets, it was not anticipating vehicles. you're gonna have to deal with the reality of an old town with small confines and with people wanting to get in and out of those areas for work and business and take their kids to school. he got to deal with the reality, not the idea that we can put trolleys in or some sort of

a monorail system like disney world and move people around rapidly on a, on a relatively easy schedule. i would agree with steve. except let's, he mentioned walt disney who created disney world, which is still a modern for excellent transportation, if an effort is being made to improve things in let's assume that the city council of oxford is some sort of democracy. and that a vote was taken in the public, was involved to some degree, then we either like democracy or we don't if in fact this is where they want to go and create a quality of life that surpasses everyone. then that's a good thing for the upright mammals that live there. so let's put the rule in place and then let the public boat, if they're not getting to vote in advance. and when they throw the city council members, and he put it in, was the public really thinks about. and i also point out that in beijing you have millions of people on bicycles. it's one of the most polluted cities in the world because it's not just transportation that fuel your pollution. if they want cleaner

air, they want a better way to get around from a to b, to have less collision, less people knock down more people on bicycles and let them try the experiment. if it fails, it fails, and it fails in front of all of us. we now know never do that again. the u has unveiled another package of sanctions against moscow, including restrictions on 3 russian banks on jo purpose tech such as drones. the commission is chief called the new package, the 9th one, a biting one. the 8 packages of sanctions that we have issues so far are ready biting hard. but today we are stepping up the pressure on russia with a 9th package of sanctions. both the country with rachel marston joins is now from paris. thanks for joining us this evening. rachel, now, do you see this latest sanction package? haven't any more effect than the previous ones?

look, ursula van der line says that the european anti russian sanctions are quote, already biting hard. yeah. here in europe for sure. but since the e u economy still has a paul's, i guess they aren't done with their sanctions yet it would be nice if she actually qualified, the actual damage that she thinks the sanctions are doing to russia because europeans can't quite see it from behind the mountain of energy bills piling up as a result of russell's actions. but russell says that it's forging ahead anyway with yet another rounds, even as some new countries like france, germany and the netherlands are telling the blocks executives that you sanctions on russian food exports are back firing, causing food destined for africa to get stuck in european ports. have listen, the current legal situation contributes to criticism that sanctions actually hinder trade in food and fertilizers. the african union has complained since may that the

e u, as blocking shipments, leading some countries in the continent to warm to rushes diplomatic advances yeah, the e u effectively starving africa might be a bit of problems since europe is running out of places to get resources which africa has, having cut itself off from russia now, begging with the u. s. to please, please not have to the couple from china, french president, him under. michael routinely evokes frances military being kicked out of molly and blames russia for that rather than the ramp and insecurity that festered under frances ah, security mission in this a hell leading to, to cruise in molly, in as many years. so there are some bad juju there. between france in africa over all of that. so cutting off africa as food supply probably wouldn't help europe. europe's cause too much at this point. so these you, nations want to tweak those sanctions, which is a kind of a quaint way of saying,

oops, my bad eyes screwed up, which we never hear from you ever. the sanctions announcements are always done with such massive fanfare. while the many rollbacks tend to go unnoticed on everything from russian, food and grain, it exports to oil, the 3rd countries to maritime insurance, coal exports, and the oil price cap, which by the way, is so watered down as a result of rollbacks during the negotiating process. for the sake of achieving block wide unity that alice are now saying that it's virtually useless. and now international air transportation officials are describing the headache that the tit for tat caused by the use air space closer to russia has generated we should be looking to reopen russian airspace to have it accessible to all airlines to transit through the traditional siberian overflights. so that europe can access asia in the most efficient way possible. the amount of traffic that's

flowing through europe has increased over certain routes and that's not sustainable . so yeah, maybe that is the next for all back. and here we go again. nonetheless, with another glorious round of sanctions being announced that those of us here in europe are supposed to cheer, i guess, as we sit in front of the t. v. watching our queen vander, line, keeping warm with lap animals and 3 turtlenecks as our over. busy are advising us to do. sounds like another big win for europe, and no doubt this night's round of anti russian sanctions will be as well. or rachel, thanks for breaking down the consequences of those unsee russian sanctions, as archie contributor rachel marston. thank you. before we go, a recap of our breaking news this. our moscow and washington have carried out a high profile prisoner swap. russian businessman victor boots,

are convicted on arms, dealing charges in the u. s. has been handed over to moscow and exchange for american basketball star, brittany greiner, who was sentenced to 9 years in a russian prison for drug trafficking. both of them received presidential pardons from levine, if routine, until by them effectively before they were set free. moscow had been pushing for boots, released for years of a more details on updates on that prisoner soc do head over to our websites r t dot com. i'm peter scott. i'll be back again in just over 30 minutes time. hope to see them. ah. when i was sure thing wrong when i just don't hold any world to shave out because the advocate and engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds

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