[000:00:00;00] a business man, victor booth is handed over by washington after more than a decade in american cars. today. that's an exchange for us to prosecute both dark gerald in russia. and it making milestone for the multi polar world. the saudi crown prince co sign is president for keith summit, mid waiting us influence in the middle east. we report from react plus time magazine named ukraine's president with vice previously warning that you have all right, as of movement as inspired a global ideology. this led to more terrorist attacks from the u. s. and he's let me take stream

with moscow for the world. this is a national, i'm peter scott needs the top stories are welcome to the program. moscow and washington have carried out a high profile prisoner swap, russia business, one victor boots, convicted on arms, 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. his was brutes, wife and mother had to say about his release. he could cut and i just of course, we always held out hope that victor would return home all these years from him, especially in the last 6 months when information began to surface that his release was possible level up. or obviously i was following all the publications and statements of our top officials here saying that russia was negotiating the swap and that work was ongoing through special channels for real fish. and of course at this moment when we'll finally meet as constantly going through my head in my

business when maria bettina called me today and said, hang in there in your book, i realized in a heartbeat that the exchange has been carried out. e. i immediately got the shakes and my heart was beating so fast dived. they lonzey even yorkie or shook doyle, but i mean shampoo by miniature. right. nother said look at gerald bite and how his fighting for his son he should think about all the kids. he said he'd been locked up upon my white washing, his son in connection with law graham, and some other things in america who was and we're very grateful. tell the president. and as a mother, i sincerely thank our foreign ministry right by saying i love her off that there. diplomats, their employees visit him no matter what. even during a bizarre in new york, look they make sure people do not lose hope and knows that their motherland does not forget them. furnace al, both victor boots on brittany griner received a presidential pardons from vladimir putin and joe biden, respectively, before they were set free boots was initially rested in silent back in 2008 as a result of the u. s. sting,

operation of the years behind bars and illegal limbo breach 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 and 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. a e, the individuals were exchanged and victor boot has returned home to russia after being held since 20082008. he was in thailand. he was set up in some kind of sting 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 and federal prison 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 any points and remarks that gave brassy simply reference written greiner 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 swap. the 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 conditions that the united nation has described as torture. the 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 held describe out he was forced and not for us but, but pressured rather to try and say negative things about the russian government in 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 and 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 us federal facilities on trumped up charges that now victor boot is back home in russia. so this is from my interview with victor. bu, 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 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 my family is in b. okay. deciding that diamond 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, i deny to call a to the side and i'm standing. they didn't do anything else and we'll fight for my innocence. i misstated bossman couple years ago. i'm gonna keep him, as example, as a model was a boy for whipping. so the russians would be more polite. the corporate with us went to go off. so there are 3 g mm. i asked him about deals that had been offered

to him in the past and currently, well, they've been doing pre trial during the trial what they've been through the public defender, they approach and said, well, we're going to get through it all your primary green car and subtle you there, if you know that some dirt about food turn and how car of this regime saw and so i said, no, you can't do the person for all the deal. that's why i went to the trial. victor boot offered up a pretty strong and consistent critique of the us legal system and how he says it has been used against russian citizen, only political prisoner being held. and that the efforts of the russian embassy have definitely improved circumstances. caleb martin r t new york. i spoke with a russian lawmaker, maria boots, you know, who herself was released from american custody back in 2019. that's after spending time in prison, the on charges of working the russian agents. she should take on the boots return, as well as these treatments in us prison. i can see how difficult it was in the

situation. and there how the united states treat russia today in russian citizens was who had suffered through it's unbelievable for so many years. however, he is why i just talked to her. she has a wonderful wife all the years she has next to her husband. despite of his imprisonment, the course of the russian position that we never give up our people and we will always fight after russian. he is now kind of home. russia was pushing and pushing hard all these days and years. and finally, they negotiated the deal. and it's a great big things for rational 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, on a prison swap like this. i wish i would say that it's because both countries just, or they just value human lives. but i do believe it's russian positions that the united states was the rest in saying that we don't want that one them just to show as is which we have, if you will. russians and look at them is horrible. it's look wish. well, joe biden intern says greiner had been wrongfully detained in russia, but 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, experienced the needless trauma. she deserves space privacy in time with the lowest recovery he'll from her time being wrong through the tank. cronner was detained by moscow, airports, customs officials back in february this year after

a 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 theme said the grind. it made the admission to show her bravery and set a positive example for all this. she was sentenced to 9 years and later found an appeal that was rejected by a russian court legal, a media unlist. lionel says that the u. s. media would have reacted very differently if the deal had been made under former republican president trump. the 1st thing which i find interesting is a 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 bat. this is what story after story has called and considered mister booth fight. the merchant of death has been re, i guess, swapped for a woman

a basketball player who was caught with cannabis vein 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 in? this is what i think is most interesting as well. if we took exactly the same situation as we have right and changed it, is that our president biden, we had president trump same fax, same everything, merging of death, basketball star, swamp. what do you think cnn would then have said about, and i, you see in an, as an example, not that they're the target of this, 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 ski 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 event, no, you are exchange for the merchant of death. it just, it, it, it, it, it, it begs analysis at best, ah, and moving on now, chinese president, seizing ping is in reality 1st summer. it's aimed at forging stronger ties between beijing and gulf countries. saudi crown prince mom had been saw man welcomed the chinese presidents and according to unconfirmed reports, 34 investments agreements were signed shortly before she is the rival. this continues an absurd in china saudi trade, which has amounted to more than $300000000000.00 since 2017 unceasing ping's visits has already been compared to us presidents trip to react earlier this year, despite joe biden trying to it's friendly. and even during the 5th bump with the

saudi crown prince, they did fail to reach any significance agreements just month 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. now tony present it in writing the yacht on wednesday. on his birthday here in the 1000 capital, she was popped out the official building thing monday and grounding mama and tom on and find important was ration document with the kingdom. now president, she is also said to attend our summit with leaders of golf and why to the wider world after the by that meeting with either let's look at some of the results so far as you said, 1000 and chinese companies have time 30 for investment agreement covering

a wide range of specter, green energy information technology, transportation and health care. the housing impact the construction. there's going to be solid evidence to support the claimed that a middle eastern country cooperating with the largest trading partner on economic and tech development. it's not to use them to international order. officials from both countries reiterated unprecedented opportunity, brought by the synergy between the 2 countries strategic initiative named the china belt and wrote in asia. and the valuation on the 30, the radio is on track to become you know, technology and innovation and chinese theaters 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's energy minister. and he says that the middle east and china are benefiting greatly from their mutual ties. i think we're, we're trying long time and good jag by our economic

partners. we know better than china. so corporate could hear the little cooperation wisdom, especially that china is expanding worldwide in the vicious when they, when they, when different confidence. however, i think the middle east would be huge. is there not sure. resources is the best laid china of the national economy. so i don't think that this is a expense of anybody. we get off quickly that we cannot make lee our economy.

we please 2 or 3 was who is going to be our what does it mean that would not be would be nice, but we cannot limit our one when, when i lie and leave on the execute that we are in the united states, ukraine's president vladimir 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 early enough today with our correspondent rachel blevins. all time has made it official there, 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. zelinski 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 acknowledged the ways in which he is 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, wanting about the apparent threat that's posed by the far i assault, but selling to, to european security. and that was under zelinski, so 10 years president, i 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. a for a group that is increasingly been linked to violence around the world at the agency . he, for us, a desire to travel to craig, to fight with military group. i'm an american, he also trained in ukraine is off to tell you now that article was especially notable because it brought up the ways in which there were some figures at the time calling on the rest government to be aware of who it was funding within 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 they were warning of appears to be no more well sustained with the same topic. google's publishes list of most search full names and searches in ukraine itself and wasn't

zelinski is been named time person of the year. it appears that within ukraine itself, he's not one of the most bob 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, he's just been in moscow for talks versus also reportedly in the final stages on negotiating the construction of to just pipelines to the country. what's the mileage we? many countries are trading by following a legal framework. they 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? if europe as buying it, then why shouldn't pakistan bite to look at that? but according to the pakistani administer, a delegation from moscow is due to islam about next month to discuss the terms of an oil deal, rushes report, they said it can supply up to $100000.00 barrels per day to the country. with the big molig also said he's warned the u. s. against trying to sanction pakistan for buying russian oil international law firm and geopolitical unless tough on a slum shod says, washington has no leverage to talk about from dealer with moscow. so this is something that has been in the news for quite some time box, funding tends to trade with russia and purchased oil because pakistan has been facing that via energy prices. 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 us was just the to impose sanctions than india would

have been sanctioned for purchasing one from russia, which hasn't happened. sparks done would be under political pressure, unlike india, which is taken from standard 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 isolation that 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 can fill the energy needs countries all over the world. and it is playing cards quite smartly. very good bills of expanding your footprints in the, in the region. and over to go the now where a group of palestinian seas have put the disability 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 in gaza, 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. ah, when on the command on my honor 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. let me know that i always say that disability is not the end of and a person can reach what he wants using their will, determination and persistence that mm ah, new with a little so i want to tell how we aspire to participate internationally. for example, to travel to the arab republic of egypt and jordan, and to any country where football for disabled as president went on to participate and enhance the players steadfastness in matches that some players participated in international clubs in france and iran. and they achieved results for them, but we hope that they will be able to do the same here. oh,

those are the main stories this our do head. oh, it's all websites, all t dot com, all social media pages for more. i just got and it's been great. have you with us. thanks for watching. ah so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy confrontation, let it be an arms race is on, often very dramatic development. only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successfully, very critical time. time to sit down and talk

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