ah, a with 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. basketball start dealing with an e book making milestone for the multi polar world. the saudi crown prince co sign is president for a key summit. mid waning us influence in the middle east. we report on we are close to time magazine named ukraine's president with previously warning that all right, as of movement as inspired a global ideology. this led to more terrorist attacks from the u. s. and let me

take stream with go to the world. this is all the international. i'm peter got the, the top stories are welcome to the program. moscow and washington have carried out a high profile prisoner swap russian business. one big 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 is what boots, 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 hanging there, i realized in a heartbeat that the exchange has been carried out. i immediately got the shakes and my heart was beating so with that new york shipper by me. right? not by didn't have his fighting for his put on he should think about all the kids locked up to me while washington is on international trade. and some of the things in america wasn't very grateful. tell president and is among the i sincerely thank foreign ministry or 2nd law for off that diplomats their employees visit him no matter what. even during a bizarre in new york, they make sure people do not lose hope and know that their muslim doesn't get them . and so both the boots and brittany grind i received a presidential pardons from bloody me. 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 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. 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 and us individuals operating in 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 sent 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 he 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. 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 relatives described being held in solitary confinement and conditions that the united nations have 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 held, describe out he was forced and not forced 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 narratives 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 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 alive 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 families in b o. b deciding that don 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 i'm healed off my nationality and i was denied to corporate side and i'm standing up. didn't do anything else and we'll fight for my innocence. i misstated bachman couple years ago, opened medicare, gonna keep him, as example, as a model was a boy for whipping father rations would be more likely corporate with us when to go

after there are up through z me. i asked him about deals that had been offered to him in the past and currently, well, they've been during pre trial on during the trial where they've been through the public defender and they approach and said, well, we're going to get through it all your primary green car and subtle you there, if you know, tell us some dirt about food turn and how car off this regime times all. and 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 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 his 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 showed her take on victor boots return, as well as these treatments in u. s. prison. i can see how difficult it was now in their geopolitical 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. ah, 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 big thing 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. i wish i would say that this course, both countries just are on the value of human life. but i do believe it's russian. that issue that the united states was the side west and said 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. and needless trauma, she deserves space privacy in time with love and recovery. he'll from her time being wrong. 3 detained crime 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 defend theme 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 or 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 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 because mister booth, fine, 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 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 her present 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 charge, where they drug offense. no. you are exchange for the merchant of death. it just 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 sol man, welcomed the chinese presidents and according to unconfirmed reports, 34 investments agreements were signed shortly before she is arrival. 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 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 correspondence, young shinji, who told us about the many areas where cooperation is improving between the 2 countries. now attorney present it in writing on wednesday. on his birthday here in to 1000 capital with the official building in cell montana and grounding mama mom and find important was ration documents with the kingdom. now president,

she is also said to attend our summit leaders of golf and why the, why the 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 find 30 for investment agreement covering a wide range of specter no green energy information technology, asportation health care, housing impact reconstruction. there is 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 is not abusive to international order. officials from both countries reiterated unprecedented opportunity. brought by a neat synergy between the 2 countries strategic initiative named the china belt and vote initiative. 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 company 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 go. it was way out of trying long time ago. jag by our economic partners. we know better than china to corporate or kitty's literature, corporation and wisdom especially that china is expanding worldwide. and the ambitious when they, when they, when confident i think the middle east would be huge. is there not what i mean is the best laid china 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, to was going 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 ukraine's president, vladimir de lensky has been named time magazines person of the year on another western outlet flip co has called him the most powerful person in europe for 2023. now this comes just a year after some of the same media warm,

the kids neo nazi of movement poses a huge threat to the western world, then 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. 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 it, he had to say about it. zalinski has no interest in freedom and democracy in facts 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 is not an overstatement. over the past year, zalinski has band 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 acknowledged 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 spoken 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 violence around the world. at the agency, he expressed a desire to travel to craig, to fight with military group with american. he also treated ukraine. he's 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 on the 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. well, still staying with the same topic, google's publishes list of most search for names, and searches in ukraine itself. knows as a zalinski has been named time person of yeah, it appears that within ukraine itself is not one of the most most 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 but he's done is point to buy oil from russia at the discount, according to practice dunn's petroleum minister. he's just been in moscow for talks versus also reportedly in the final stages of negotiating the construction of to

just pipelines, to the country. what's the mileage a way 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 is buying it, then why shouldn't pakistan bite to look at that. but according to the focused on a minister, a delegation from moscow's due to visit 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. was the big molig also said he's warned the us against trying to, thanks to pakistan for buying russian oil, international law firm and geopolitical analyst on a slum shod says 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 focused on intent to trade with russia and purchase,

or is because pakistan has been facing the severe energy prices, like many other countries in the was the person news that is coming out of pocket 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 for from russia, which hasn't happened. sparks done 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 isolation that something that the west has seen aggressively working on and in my view, has succeeded to quite an extent. however, one of the vertical on which russia has been banking is the fact that it gets filled. 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 god 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 and gaz at 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. i know 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, and i always say that disability is not the end of and a person can reach what he wants using their will, determination and persistence at mm ah, 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 with some players, participated in international clubs in france and iran. and they achieved results of all that, but we hope that they will be able to do the same here. they're gonna oh, those are the main stories this our do head oh, it's all websites r t dot com, all social media pages for more. i p just scott's and it's been great. have you with us. thanks for watching. ah ah, by joining washington's ukraine prophecy war against russia, europe is made an irreversible choice. it is consigned itself to being a minor regional power in a multi polar world cutting itself up from russia. europe has haul, but assured it will be overly dependent on the united states. that dependency will be costly. ah

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