find itself to being a minor regional power in a multi polar world. cutting itself up from russia. europe has all but assured it will be overly dependent on the united states. that dependency, we cost with the headlines this our a high level prisoner for russian business, and it says home off the wall, the little decade in us custody exchange for american boss group plan. britney greiner, the u. s. government devised a plot, if you will, to create a crime of this retired russian citizens living in moscow. i think those lawyers is exclusive. take all the journey he made to see his type 3 often more than a decade. imprison survey consider selling a 1000 feet into the course of

a made an escalation of tennyson over with great gray, with wandering going good evening, where ever you are the world. welcome to all the international is just going to 7 am here in the russian capital, and it's great to have you with us. i'm. we're awesome on me. let's take a look at today's top stories. a high level prison for between moscow and washington as a russian business, one, victor, boot us custody for a decade has returned to his homeland. he says some of his feelings off the landing . i must go airport. hey, i was awoken in the middle of the night and told to get ready. no additional information was provided. the most important thing is that i got there, bird to the centers value as authorities back in 2012 to a quarter century in prison on allegations of arming terrorists and conspiring to

kill american citizens. he denies all the accusations. both girls said his case was politically motivated. he is exchanged for american buffalo player, brittany greiner, who had been convicted of drug offenses in russia. the swap was conducted in the ninety's arab emirates, after months of negotiations. here's what boots family said about his release. mccracken, i just the st. golf course, we always had ad hope that makes him would return home all these years, especially in the last 6 months. and information began to selfish that his release was possible level when maria button and called me and said any point hanging there, i realized a hug beating that the exchange has been carried out of the door. i immediately got the shakes in my heart was beating so fast. look at that in a new ski. we're very grateful. tell president and as a mother i sincerely thank our foreign minister. i mean it by sag a love rosalyn that diplomats their employees visit him. no matter what it is during a bizarre in new york, they make sure people do not lose hope and know that their motherland does not

forget them when you are. can you? yes, we heard from victor. this lawyer, steve, is this is he says the us government framed his wire in order to thank him into custody on julius charges and the politically charged case. 15 years ago, the u. s. government devised a plot, if you will, to create a crime of this retired russian citizen living in moscow. committing no crime against anyone. they target him simply because they didn't like what they thought he had been doing in previous years. and as you know, and your and your audience knows in the us and in other parts of the world he was, he was named or dubbed the the merchant of death. and so when i took over the case couple years ago, the 1st challenge, of course, was to correct the narrative. you know, some people say create the narrative,

changed the narrative. it wasn't, it wasn't that it was more accurately destroy, described and erecting the narrative. that was, that was the main challenge to get folks in the u. s. and around the world to appreciate the fact that this, this merchant of death, the label that they put on him was really unfair. and that the way he was, he was this, this, this retired russian citizen living in moscow was targeted by the us was, was, it was really a terrible affront to, to russian russian sovereignty. and as a result of that, i'm jumping ahead a little bit. as a result of that you, you can actually in point the deterioration of relations between the us and russia to that moment when one victor was target. and, and as, as i've said many times the u. s. agencies involved decided to target victim. ready

because because they could, without any giving any thought to whether or not they should and the repercussions that follow. so, you know, step number one is when take over a case that, you know, when i took it over is 13 years old. but, but by that time it's a struggle to change the narrative, but a lot of a lot of helpful things happened along the way. and it starts with all a boot victors wise who never gave up and never hired of trying to ensure that he would be freed president pollutant, who never gave up the notion that and victor boot was wrongfully taken from from, from his fellow citizens in his family and i should say, for mister ralph was, was insistently in victor's corner, as was ambassador,

and taught off who even recently went to visit victor in, in the prison. that is, that is referred to as in america as the the guantanamo of the north. that's how bad the conditions are there. i'm surprised to survive because you know, you don't, it's not like, you know, the older you get, the more, the more likely you are to suffer some sort of catastrophic illness a suddenly and, you know, you just don't get interest, don't you just don't call 911, there they don't have actual physicians, you know, they don't ship you off to the hospital unless you're in a coma. so he had several serious elements. but victor is exceedingly strong. man. he knows how to take care of himself to protect himself. he made sure to, to, to the extent that he can eat properly. so there were times when i was concerned that he would, he would even survive to make it to the swap. those things,

the boot i brittany griner was seen presidential pardons before they were set free on thing correspondent kind of moping looks into the details of this high profile case. after almost 15 years in captivity. and at the i sting operation frame of the sham trial. and in addition to that solitary confinement and difficulty even being able to visit his family. victor boot is now free and back home in russia. the negotiations were kept secret and even victory. why it had no idea what was coming . so let's review the details of this high profile case. well, back in the 19 ninety's, western leaders started psyching up the public against the british home office labeled him the merchant of death and hollywood movie demonizing. him called lord of war, was even released in reality. victor is the son of a book keeper. he served in the soviet military before starting his own cargo company. u. s. officials alleged that he ran guns for al qaeda and that he was

involved in supplying weapons to various sides of african conflicts and across eastern europe. these are allegations he has repeatedly denied. while us leaders seem to have no problem supplying weapons to some radical groups, it seems like after this, hollywood movie was released. and after victor's name had been dropped by various officials, they felt it was time to grand stand against him. victor had his assets frozen, but there was no law at that point under which they could prosecute him for his international business dealings. so u. s. officials decided to go to the f b i. a sting operation was set up and eventually he was entrapped in thailand.

so under cover f b i, agents pretending that they were members of the fark rebel group in columbia approached him and had a hypothetical conversation about a possible arms deal. no crime actually ever took place. that's what they're told me. when i interviewed him back in 2019. 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 misstated bossman couple years ago. i'm going to keep him, as example, as a model was a boy for whipping. father russians would be more polite, the corporate with us when to go off. so there are up 3 us leaders clearly had a motive for grabbing him after he was dragged to the united states from thailand due to an extradition agreement. he was then allegedly offered a deal to bring forward dirty laundry about the russian government and president.

well, they've been during pre trial during the trial where they've been through the public defender, they approach and said, well, we're going to get through it all your primary green cards and several you there. if you know that some dirt about how car off this regime saw, and so i said, you know, you can to the person for over the deal. that's why i went through the trial. russian authorities offered victor support throughout the lengthy legal proceedings, and they also described how us officials abducting him and dragging them to the united states from thailand was an example of how they felt they have license to do whatever they want in the international arena times to us there is no doubt that they have the doctor, the russian citizen in the 3rd country. we have a consular convention with the us, and we have a treaty on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters. under these agreements, the u. s. should inform us of any suspicions they may have about a russian citizen. yet they failed to do so. this was the case in number of

instances with victor boot konstantin. yet i shall go for them and a number of other people who are transferred to the us with a tacit approval of 3rd countries. now, victor is journey home did not come easily. the negotiations took place at a time when relations between the usa and russia or anything but good. needless to say, a lot of hard work has gone in to making sure this russian citizen could finally return home and be with his family, fail, mopping archie new york. now let's take a look at the other participant in the swap grew, i now had been detained by moscow, apple customs officers back in february after appeased on found cannabis oil in her luggage. in july, she pleaded guilty to drug smuggling charges. despite st. was an honest mistake, the defense teams and groin and made the admission to show her bravery and set a positive example for others. she was sentenced to 9 is she filed an appeal which

was rejected by a russian for. meanwhile, there has been a mounting dis, satisfaction among us politicians about the prison exchange. republican congresswoman marjorie taylor green even cooled for joe biden to be impeached over the deal. while former national security adviser, john bolden said it essentially amounted to america, surrendering to russia the boot for greiner prisoner swap as not a trade. it's an american surrender. this is not what american strength looks like . terrorists and rogue states are smiling. we heard from fullness. c. i a alice, larry johnson, who says the prison exchange revealed a degree of weakness in the current u. s. administration. i think from russia standpoint, this was laughable. it's just it, it underscores the weakness of the. ready foreign policy team that surrounds joe biden. as far as the families are concerned, is the 1st swap. i would know the difference. now what's interesting is there is

a lot of blow back in the united states, complaints that he left behind. i think it's phil whalen, a former marine, there was arrested on espionage charges in russia that many say that he would have been a more appropriate exchange because he was actually there for some, no perceived political pushback, as opposed to miss grinders case. she was, she was carrying drugs that were prohibited, prescribe. clearly the united states has lost some of its a mo, gel when it comes to these kinds of things. there was no demand that both be released. and i think frankly, the united states could have made a credible case that a boot was of such importance that it merited swapping greiner and whalen for mister boot. so there has been considering sending a 1000 troops into close to the after hundreds of police officers in the

braithwaite region sees ports. the sub majority districts sada, you may, which you lee curtis has continued with. the legal actions aimed at occupy a north of kosovo and mental health. a little belgrade will consider the return of 1000 members of our security forces to the area of kosovo. ma tokyo, in accordance with resolution $1244.00, not part of the serve in gala, has said cough up at ease of committed crimes against serve majority areas in the breakaway province, including steaming wine, vo vineyards, local correspondent nicholas yield. they've sent us this report from belgrade night around 9 o'clock in the evening. group of over 200 armed men came to the north me 3 other most was to serve live and they are now as we speak all around the town to as they say, secure stability and peace in this part of the one that we can say they are

policemen of so called the public for thought, because among them there are special forces from a sofa and other members of i'm and then if i unit, so we cannot speak about the complete military or of police formation. we are not certain. what are we talking about exactly what kind of unit or police force there is? this is the 2nd provocation of the day, or even 3rd. because during the day, we already had one incident in a lapse of each one of the 4 municipalities in the north where most of the serve live. and we had a situation where police forces of so called, also into kindergarten when, where children were all sleeping and they interrupted the work or the facility also invalid for tra burton and club near to order for what they

took over $40000.00 police. there's a vine from local serbian producers. why? and they also banned construction workers for, for, from putting gone up and bathing the road, leading to only serving school left in the region. so we had several bro, pearson's to these day, and this game as the last, unfortunately, also bad news for the as the speaker lead these police forces and other forces armed men in general are present in pos for me through this and or disturbing locals there. as we gather information from 3 and as people call us every minute to see what's your situation like, there we go over day, you know, medical force are also present albanian army or regular military forces of, of been year were present here in america. fortunate. and oracle, which is

a violation of resolution $124.00 to $4.00 of united nations and every other agreement signed by serbia and coastal. so that the prime minister of so called coastal code is continuing his publications. and his intentions to violently solve the problem. all serbs leaving this deuces of so called possible a month ago and to try to impose his will on them due to the fact that he needs to organize new elections which serves will boycott as things are for now with the new locations in, in future this is all for tonight and hopefully the last of the bad news for these already really bad day. we are live from belgrade. my name is nicole. you down to the nice is from the dumbass where local authority, secret, new forces have been been less the shining civilian areas in the city of the next

once to vienna has been reported killed in this latest round of attacks. this house was hit by the shooting. you can see the extent of the damage or the roof, partially collapse, and the windows shut it. meanwhile, there have been battles in a forest of the la garza public with the russian army fanny off a training artillery offensive ortiz ego. he's done all reports from the ground forests on the outskirts of the town of crimson night. here ha, swarming with military vehicles of both russia and ukraine right now, behind me, a russian tank has been already loaded and it is ready to move out on yet another mission, basically compared to what we've seen here. just about 90 days ago, when our crew visited this place for the 1st time, well, a gut, much, much louder artillery the sounds of artillery. there are banks. they are constant without any delays,

without any breaks. they are always battering the ukrainian positions which are just a few kilometers behind me here basically the ukrainians. they have managed to gain a foothold along the river of sever sky. the nets and their artillery positions are right now established that the majority of that fire is coming from the directions of the small villages of bill or gore of god. and she reb, renee, basically this is what the russians here are trying to do to contain their movement and to stop them from and to basically hamper all their efforts to well dug, dig themselves into the ground, and so that the ukrainians can't establish a proper foothold in that pot and so yes, this is what they're doing artillery doors, they aren't stopping railey. and according to what i've heard from while people hear from the soldiers, the about 70 percent of the ukranian garrison here is made up of mercenaries, mostly poles, and the germans. this are basically,

this information comes from those who have been captured from the fresh prisoners of war coming from the ukranian side and from the interceptions of their radio tool . basically they are hearing foreign speech which is well polish. oh, german and even mercenaries from one to negro have been reported to have been spotted in this pause at this part of the front makers done of reporting from the dumbass. our tape your federal lawmakers have overwhelmingly approved of bill stores in record high military spending. it includes $800000000.00 those of support for ukraine's war effort. and for the anti russian sanctions requirement says the legislation is essentially directed against russia. with you as defense, budget is confrontational towards russia and is totally unprecedented. it's aimed at long term destabilization of the european continent. the usaa decision seems to

provide $850000000000.00 for increased spending on troops, weaponry, ships, and aircraft, as well as security assistance. the crane and i one include $6000000000.00 for efforts to deter russian influence in europe. former pentagon, pentagon, alice, michael maloof, says washington's unprecedented military spending is a price they have to pay for their previous failed policies. it's unbelievable that we were spending that the united states is spending this much or wants to spend this much. are china is half that. and yet, and, and russia's budget is half of what china spends. so, i mean, it's, it's, it makes it, the question is, why are we spending so much? i think the anticipation is that we have to be the guardians of, of, of everything and, and, and go around creating instability. and that's, and that's, that has become extremely expensive. you're approaching

a trillion dollars one year for military spending. and for what, what, what's the threat? the one except the threat that we helped create by went viral ass policy decision blinking wake in victoria new in the state department, wendy sherman. these are neocons and their, their purpose in life is to contain both china and russia. ah, green energy news. now the international energy agency says wind solar will become the world's top sources of electricity within the next 3 years. it says that because western sanctions against russian fuel supply as a drive in the development of alternative power sources. the agent, he says that 4th, 5th of the new renewable capacity will come from solar panels and winter barnes

with renewables expensive to account for 90 percent of investments leading to a decline in the ease of coal, oil and natural gas. renewables are full cost impact on the world's biggest source of electricity by 2025. but meanwhile, the check republics energy security envoy has asserted that vast amount of co. busy will held the europe survive the winter without the russian gas we will be able to survive without gas from russia. it will be incredibly difficult and very expensive . we will need to provide citizens with large supplies of coal to be able to survive the next few winters. we will burn everything to survive. the 1st new coal mine co plan in the u. k. in 3 decades has been granted the go ahead by senior officials. the mine will be used to supply coal for steel production rather than power generation. that's after the u. k. tried to persuade other nations to and co production last year during the un climate summit. over the phone to general,

who headed loss is climate summit has described the approval for the mine as a quote backward step for both the u. k. domestic climate efforts, as well as its international credibility. this is climate summit, british pharmacy, ruthie sooner declared. his aim to turn the u. k, into a superpower of clean energy. we need to move further and faster to transition to renewable energy, and i will ensure the u. k is at the forefront of this global movement as a clean energy, super power refers to international relations, empirical science, expert to bias miguel, who says e, you pull a vicious, a populace who lack a true understanding of how to tackle environmental issues, additional space. so what is the, i just the lease and then tomorrow they say

welcome back and they do a walk there and you have a got a climate change. if you in the position, you cannot allow that people a down some rules. some of those done with this country to devote and to reach the label with states that get taken. don't get a lot of that. and then in africa, they know that we've been, i think we've developed and a, i believe the statement i know for losing which you not to get in the window. or somebody is just in

a massive blaze as a run to the shopping mall in the moscow region in the city of him, ki media. but it shows an explosion occurred. it may have started the fire, which is reported the spread oven area of 7000 square meters. column of smoke has been built into the sky and the roof has begun to collapse. no casualties have been reported now over to europe, not everyone in italy will enjoy christmas this year. as a major agricultural was asian says, increasingly more times i've been descending to poverty. oh, i

mean not, but you are going to be. there are thousands of requests for help from families who will be suffering greatly over the christmas period, due to the increase in energy prices. they find it difficult to eat at lunch and dinner, which is why we're giving them all free groceries at christmas. it's an economic disaster. ringback ah, but i'm interested if you can stop having great difficulties. we make a contribution, but people need much more help. families with children are finding themselves in difficulty. they don't even have some money to pay for milk and diapers. ah, i need a sense of decision. i have a rather difficult life. we also lived on the street my own little and therefore i had to ensure the survival of my family in one way or another. i couldn't pay for the house. and so i was reduced to living in

a call with my wife for several months. ah, i cannot get up here and we are starving him and you want your money is nothing good for us. more people actually destroying. we can't even pay the bills. we're desperate and everything is increased and there's very little money. ah, my next be you the latest now from sudan as the country has taken another step towards sustainable peace as military and civilian leaders have signed a deal for the all me to remove it. so from politics, with a senior official saying, the state must hold itself accountable for pass violence. oh, i'd have did,

i would if we indicate the necessity of acknowledgement and apologies from all of us for the states, violence and mistakes toward society throughout the various historical errors. at this juncture, it is necessary to stress the importance of endorsing justice and transitional justice processes, so as to redress grievances you wounds and build a healthy intolerance aside and rubbing clothes. her son has a capital st. so demand the immediate removal, military leaders from power. they voice, they concerns over the slow transition to cynthia rule. the transitional government has pulled on politically active youth to support the future civilian administration by taking part in democratic decision making at a local level. while they're out of this news, our technology dot com for more natural and international need. we back at the top layout. ah

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