a social with a person businessman victor booth is handed over by washington after more than a decade in american cars. today. that's the next change. the u. s. the basketball thought gelding, russia, and e paul making milestone for the multi polar world as the saudi crown. prince co sign is president for keith summit, mid waiting us influence in the middle east. we report from react plus the time magazine named ukraine's president with previously warning that you have all right, as often movement as inspired a global ideology. this led to more terrorist attacks from the u. s, and he's only takes 3 with

moscow to the world. this is out in the national. i'm pizza, scott. the, the top stories are welcome to the program. moscow and washington have carried out a high profile prisoner swap russian business man. victor boots, convicted on alms dealing charges in the u. s. has been handed over to moscow and exchange for american basketball star. brittany griner was sentenced to 9 years in a russian prison for drug trafficking is, was brutes, wife and mother had to say about his release. you forgotten? i just of course, we always held out hope that victor would return home all these years, especially in the last 6 months when information began to surface that his release was possible. obviously i was following all the publications and statements of our top officials saying that russia was negotiating the slug and that work was ongoing through special channels. and of course, this is this moment when we'll finally meet as constantly going through my head. when maria bettina called me today and said, hang in there, i realized in

a heartbeat that the exchange has been carried out. i immediately got the shakes and my heart was beating so that the new york shipper. if i may not look at your advice and how he's fighting for his son, he should think about all the kid locked up. what was going on in connection with praying for some of the things that america wasn't very grateful. tell president and is among the i think foreign ministry a lot for off that to promote their employees, visit him no matter what. if during a bizarre in new york, they make sure people do not lose hope and know that their mother then get them both to boots and brittany grind, received presidential pardons form by the mere putin and joe biden, respectively before they were set free boots was initially rested in thailand, back in 2008. as a result of the u. s. sting operation of the years behind bars and illegal limbo

boots was expedited to america where he was convicted in 2011. moscow had been fighting for his release for more than a decade. washington categorically 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. well, we understand that the prisoner swap happened in our dobby. in the united arab emirates, the u. e. the individuals were exchanged and victor boot has returned home to russia after being held since 2008, 2008. he was in thailand, he was set up in some kind of sting. ready operation conducted by us officials, us individuals operating and thailand, he was then taken to the united states. he stood trial in 2011 and was found guilty on conspiracy charges. he described the interview. the trial is essentially

a sham trial where he wasn't really able to adequately defend himself. all the charges were conspiracy charges, no actual crime had been committed. it was all based on allegations that in some conversation, he hinted he might do something or something to that effect. and he'd been held in the united states in federal prison since that time. now, brittany griner was detained in russia in february and convicted of having a candidate based substance in her bag. and she was convicted of drug trafficking, drug charges. she's been, she'd been held in russia and we heard from biden, he spoke and he did not reference your data points and remarks that he gave, brassy simply reference brittany griner, had relatives of brittany greiner with him. while he spoke to the press, he refused to answer any questions from the media about what exchanges had been

made. but we understand at this point that victor booth is returned to russia and it was a prisoner's swap, this place in abu dhabi in the united arab emirates. now, i had the opportunity to interview victor booth from u. s. federal prison when he was being held and he described to me the conditions in which he was being held, how he wasn't able to visit his family until donald trump was elected president. and the trump administration made arrangements so he could even visit is relative describe being held in solitary confinement and traditions that the united nations has described as torture. he highlighted different cases of political prisoners in the united states. it was really a great opportunity to speak to victor booth when he was being held in the us prison on trumped up charges. basically being how the scribe out he was forced and not for us but, but pressured rather to try and say negative things about the russian government to

exchange for a better deal or exchange for release or the ability to see his family. all kinds of pressure was put on him to help feed into anti russian narrative, how he was held, but yet he refused to make any deals. and now we understand that after years and years of being held in u. s. federal facilities on trumped up charges that now victor boot is back home in russia. so this is from my interview with victor boot while he was being held in a u. s. federal prison based in colorado. this is the conversation that we had, 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 allies. 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 online is special or is group or whatever. i'm a general population, but on the, on their various drink supervision 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, we have met 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 will 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 through 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, the 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 as circumstances. hayward mauppin r t new york. i spoke with russian lawmaker, maria boots in her, who herself was released from american custody back in 2019. thus,

after spending time in prison, there on charges of working as a russian agents. she should take on victor boots return, as well as these treatments in u. s. prison. i can see how difficult it was now, and they achieve financial situation and their how the united states treats russia today in russian citizens. what i would have suffered through is unbelievable. for so many years, however, he is why i just talk to her. she has the in, at the wonderful wine all these years. she has stayed next to her husband despite of his imprisonment, be corey's ortho, the russian position that we never give up our people. and we will all this i for every russian here is now kind of home brushing was pushing and pushing hard all these days and years. and finally, they negotiated the deal and it's a great victory for a russian diplomacy,

despite relations between russia and the u. s. been at the lowest, they've been for decades that the 2 countries can still agree even, you know, in a prison swap like this. oh, i wish i would say that it's because both countries just are they just value human lives. but i do believe that the issue that the united states was the rest in saying that we don't want it and want them just to show everybody that we have the russians and look at them is horrible. it's look wish. well, joe biden, intern says grind, had been wrongfully detained in russia. thus, despite the fact she actually admitted bringing drugs into the country, albeit mistakenly which landed her 9 year prison term is relieved to finally be heading home. and the fact remains that she's lost months of her life experience. needless trauma,

she deserves space privacy in time with love was recovered. he'll from her time being wrongfully detained. greiner was detained by moscow. airport customs officials back in february this year after police dog found cannabis oil in her luggage. in july, she pleaded guilty in court to smuggling charges, despite saying it was an honest mistake, a defense team said the grind it made the mission to show her bravery and set a positive example for this. she was sentenced to 9 years and later found an appeal that was rejected by a russian court legal, immediate list line all says that the u. s. media would have reacted very differently if the deal had been made under former republican president from the 1st thing, which i find interesting is the notion of parity. you are having somebody here who cnn has described as being called the merchant of death. the merchant of death right off the back. this is what story after story has called and considered

mister booth find. the merchant of death has been re, i guess, swapped for a woman, a basketball player who was caught with cannabis vate, being devices, allegedly, or what have you. no, the 1st question people have is, is that any sense of parity? they have to add this, and this is what i think is most interesting as well. if we took exactly the same situation as we have right and changed it instead of president biden, we had president trump same fax, same everything, merging of death, basketball star swamp. what do you thing cnn would then have said about, and i, you see in an, as an example, not that they're the target of us, but what would they have said to this swap? they would have said, this is proof positive of some kind of collusion or some type of something, illegal, same facts. but depending upon who the actors are,

the media will skew with differently. liberal media will now elevate her to some type of a hero status, which nobody will question. so again, looking at this, if, if you had you go to miss greiner and say, you were exchange who for somebody else who was charged with a drug offense, no, you are exchange for the merchant of death. it just, it, it, it, it, it begs analysis at best moving on. now, chinese president, seizing ping is in riyadh, 1st summits aimed at forging stronger ties between beijing and gulf countries. saudi crown prince, mom had been solomon welcomed the chinese president. and according to on confirmed reports, 34 investments agreements were signed shortly before she's a rival. this continues an upturn in china. 30 trade, which has amounts to more than $300000000000.00 in 2017 unceasing things visit has

already been compared to the u. s. presence trip to react earlier this year, despite joe biden trying to it's friendly and even doing a 5th bump with the saudi crown prince. they did fail to reach any significance agreements. just months later, the opec plus group of oil exports is including saudi arabia, agreed to flush the oil outputs with the move sparking criticism from washington. earlier we spoke to c g t n correspondent, young shinji, who told us about the many areas where cooperation is improving between the 2 countries. no tiny present in writing the yacht on wednesday. on his birthday here in to 1000 capital with the officials including selma 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 the world after the bilateral meeting with sally leader,

let's look at some of the results so far. you said 1000 and chinese companies. i'm 30 for investment agreement. recovery a wide range of specter look green energy information technology, patient health care, housing and factory construction. there's yet to be solid evidence to support the claimed that a middle eastern country operating with its largest trading partner on economic and tech development. it's not abusive to international order. officials from both countries. the iterative, 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, the radio is on track to become, you know, technology and innovation up and chinese peters have made it very clear that the country is looking forward to working with them on the golf reaction from dr. mohammed al sabah. and who's a former senior adviser to saudi arabia as energy minister. and he says that the middle east and china are benefiting greatly from their mutual ties go and we were

trying long time ago. jag by our economic partners we have no greater than china. so corporate cities, corporation, wisdom, especially that china and expand the board wide or the one that went through they were confident. however, i think visually would be huge. is there not resources as the best laid will try and the national economy? so i don't think that this is a expense of anybody we jacked up quickly that

we cannot make lee our economy. we are pleased to, to was going be our, what does it mean? that would not be, you know, that would be nice, but we cannot limit our one when ally, when i lie and leave on the execute that we are ukraine's president, the automated de lensky has been named time magazines, person of the year on another western outlet, politico has called him the most powerful person in europe for 2023. now this comes just a year after some of the same media warned, the kids neo nazi of movement poses a huge threat to the western world. as even helps inspire more terrorist attacks in

the u. s. than islamic extremism. i discussed the story earlier and asked you do it with our correspondent rachel blevins. all time has made it official there, calling him now in 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 it, 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 is 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 violence around the world. at the agency, he suppressed a desire to travel to craig, to fight with the phone right here, a military group with american. he also treated 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 all battalion. 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 list of most search full names and searches in ukraine itself. and it was as a zalinski has been named time person of yeah, it appears that within ukraine itself, he's not one of the most of search for people on google. can we read anything for that? well, it certainly is a reminder of the ways in which time is basing this off, 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, or based on how the western media views it. and this is very much an indicator as we see, that title handed down back is done is poise to buy oil from russia at the discount, according to pakistan's petroleum minister, you've just been in moscow for talks versus also reportedly in the final stages of negotiating the construction of to just pipeline. so the country, what's the mileage a way many countries are trading by following

a legal framework. the mutually worked out. so we should also adopt innovative methods and legal measures which must be above board, russian, oil and gas is being export in through pipelines to europe. so why would this be an issue for pakistan then? if europe is buying it, then why shouldn't pakistan bite to look at that. but according to the fact is, don't administer a delegation from moscow's due to visit islam about next month to discuss the terms of oil deal, rushes report, they said it can supply up to $100000.00 barrels per day to the country. was the big molig also said he's warned the us against trying to thanks of pakistan for buying rational, international law firm and geopolitical analysts, on slum shod. there's washington has no leverage to stop it's about from dealing with moscow. so this is something that has been in the news for quite some time that box on intends to trade with russia and purchase, or because pakistan has been facing a severe energy crisis,

like many other countries in the was the present news that is coming out that pockets on is not going to be sanctioned by the us appears to be correct, but the u. s. was just the to impose sanctions than india would have been sanctioned for producing one from russia, which hasn't happened, boxed on would be under political pressure. unlike india, which is taken from standard this and some european countries which have come out in the open and said that we have energy needs and these needs have to be met. and russia is the only country. russia, as our solution is something that the west has aggressively working on, and in my view, it has succeeded to quite an extent. however, one of the verticals on very show russia has been banking is the fact that it didn't fill. the energy needs countries all over the world and it is playing cards quite smartly, very good bills of expanding your footprint in the, in the region and over it to go the now where a group of palestinian sees,

have put their disabilities behind them to form a football team, another aiming even higher, hoping to join in our oblique and compete internationally. ah massage, pollock i said i was injured in the 2014 war before the injury. i was a soccer player and gaza them. but because of the israeli occupation in its brutality, i lost all my dreams at once, especially since i lost my left foot after the 2014 war, i completely despaired of life. just because i started thinking about how i will die and how i will get out of this life with

ally on that i've got i have been playing football since childhood with normal people. but as soon as i heard about the idea of establishing a football team for the disabled in 2019, and i decided to join al jazeera sports club and i am currently playing the alley. my message is clear. and i mean, i always say that disability is not the end of and a person can reach what he wants using their will, determination and persistence in ah, with those i want to tell him we aspire to participate internationally. and for example, to travel to the arab republic of egypt and jordan, and to any country where football for disabled as president went out to participate and enhance the players steadfastness in matches that some players participated in

international clubs in france and iran. and they achieved results possible, but what we hope that they will be able to do the same here that will oh, those are the main stories this. how do you head over to all websites r t dot com, all social media pages from all? i just got and it's been great, happy with us. thanks for watching a so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy foundation, let it be an arms race. he's on a very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical of time to sit down and talk with

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