in a meeting with the headlines of this hour, a high level prison swap, russian businessman bits, a boot returns home off the more than a decade in us custody exchange for american coffee will play greiner, the us government, devised a plot, if you will, to create a crime of this retired russian citizen, big the lawyer gives all his exclusive insight on look kate thing. the main titles to overcome an unjust with narrative about his client survey consider sending a 1000 feet into the cost of, of the hundreds of resources in the break way. regency,

control it with want to good afternoon. good evening where ever you are in the world. welcome all see international just come 7 am or 8 am here in the russian campus. it's great to have you with us. i'm more of a mommy does take a look at these stories. a high level prison swap between moscow and washington, a russian businessman, bits a boot in u. s. custody for a decade has returned to his homeland. he shed some of his feelings off the landing about moscow apples. 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. boot was sentenced by u. s. 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. moscow has said his case was politically motivated. he was exchange for american bothwell player brittany greiner, who had been convicted of drug offenses in russia. the swap was conducted in the united arab emirates, after months of negotiations with his family, was elated at the news of his release mccracken. i just missing the of course, we always had ad hope that makes him was returned home all these years, especially in the last 6 month. and information began to surface that his release was possible level when maria brought in and called me and said, when you're hanging there, i realized in hard beat that the exchange has been carried out. so i mediately 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 ministry, let by say gay lover 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 knows that their motherland does not forget them. when you are victor. this lawyer, steve, this who gave us his room, viewed on views about the case and the long, difficult battle for his client's release. let's say it was quite a journey api to be here and just thrilled the director is back home with allah and their dollar. and the rest of their family and back in, in russia, 15 years ago, the u. s. government devised a plot, if you will, to create a crime of this retired russian citizens 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 at victor sentencing. and i know it's hard

to believe this talk crime that nothing ever happened with and no one was ever heard. and no one was ever done at the sentencing. the u. s. government prosecutors asked the victor be sent to life without rule, meaning he would never be released that's. that's the, that's the insanity. when i to go over the case couple years ago, the 1st challenge, of course, was to correct the narrative to get folks in the u. s. and around the world to appreciate the fact that this, this merchant of death label that they put on him, we really and the fair. and that the way this retired russian citizen living in moscow was targeted by the u. s. was really a terrible, a front to rush and sovereignty. and as a result of that, i'm jumping ahead a little bit. as a result of that, you can actually pinpoint the deterioration of relations between the us and russia to that moment when, when victor was target. and, and as,

as i've said many times the u. s. agencies involved decided to target victory route because because they could, without any giving any thought to whether or not they should and the repercussions that followed a lot of helpful things happened along the way. and it starts with all a boot. victor's wife, 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 victor booth was wrongfully taken from from, from his fellow citizens in his family. and that i should say, for mister roth, was, was insistently in victor's corner, as was ambassador. and ton 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. and we were fortunate that the judge and victor's trial, a judge genuine, made some very important findings at his sentence, saying that were that were really strong and supportive. and pointed out several of the things that, that undermined this merchant of death, the narrative that had taken hold in the us. and so when i 1st took over the case and i looked over the record and the transcript and sensing and material, i noticed how powerful her words were. and i noticed that they had never been brought to anyone's attention that i knew of anyway. and so the 1st thing i did was i gave her call, she had been retired at the time to migrate the surprise she, she not only spoke to me, but she stood by her words and was willing to go public

with her views. that the sentence that she was forced to impose. ready on on victor was way too high and she would have given him a much lower. ready sentence, if she had the ability to do so and then she went public, frankly speaking to anyone who would call her expressing those names, thoughts. i'm surprised the survivor 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 victor was getting up there in years as well to the fifty's now. and you just don't call 911 there. they don't have actual physicians. you know, they don't ship you off to a 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 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. so, you know, we, you know, you, you hear all over us news about for example, brittany greiner going to a penal colony. well, you know, there are penal cavities all over the united states. jack, you folks may know about the 13th amendment. that's the amendment that abolish slavery in the united states. but it abolished lever slavery for all but one category of person and that's prisoners in the us jumps. and so you have, you have folks who are forced to work in a lot of states and some federal prisons. they make their paid, you know, $0.35 an hour. they don't have any protections. they don't, you know, they get to choose where they work, work the conditions of their work. they don't get unemployment insurance, it doesn't contribute to social security or, or medicare. so, you know,

in that i think that's one of the reasons it took so long. per thanks, a boot and brittany grind. i received presidential pardons before they were set free of these correspond moping looks into the details of the boots high profile case. after almost 15 years in captivity and at the i sting, operation frame up a 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 990 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 bookkeeper. 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 grandstand 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 and columbia approached him and had a hypothetical conversation about a possible arms deal. no crime actually ever took place. that's what told me when i interviewed him back in 2019. this is a 100 percent qualify as a political prisoner because i'm off my nationality and i was denied to call there 85. and i'm standing off. they didn't do anything else, and we'll fight for my innocence. i misstated bottom, a couple years ago. i was going to keep him, as example, as a model boy for whipping. so other options would be more polite to go bridge 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 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 central you there. if you know some dirt about how car, off this regimes on. so i said they know you can't do the 1st and they don't for all the deal. that's why i went through the trial. russian authorities offered victor support throughout the lengthy legal proceedings. and they also describe how us officials abducting him and dragging him 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. which names to us there is no doubt that they have abducted a 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 fail to do so. this was the case in a number of instances with victor boot konstantin. yet i shall go. and a number of other people who are transferred to the u. s. with the 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 are anything but good. needless to say, a lot of hard work has gone in to making sure this russian citizen can finally return home and be with his family fail. marvin archie, new york, now looking at the other participant in the thought, grew i'mma. i've been detained by moscow. apple customs officers back in february after please don't found cannabis oil in her luggage. in july she pleaded guilty to drug smuggling charges, despite saying it was an honest mistake. she was sentenced to 9 years fee files,

an appeal which was rejected by a russian co. meanwhile, there has been mounting dissatisfaction among us politicians about the prison exchange republican congresswoman marjorie taylor green. even colds of joe biden to be impeached over the deal while form and national security advisor. john bolton said it essentially amounted to marika, surrendering to russia. the boot for griner 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 a former c i a m. as larry johnson who says the presence change revealed a degree of weakness in the current us 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, it's a 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, 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, you know, perceived political pushback, as opposed to miss grinders case. she was, she was carrying drugs that were prohibited prescribed purely the united states has lost some of its mojo when it comes to these kinds of things. some news, just in a massive blaze has a rope to the shopping mall in a suburb of moscow video for the shows and exclusion occurred. it may have started the fire, which has reported the spread owen areas 7000 square meters. a column of thick

smoke has been blowing into the sky and the roof has begun to collapse. no casualties have been reported. a movie are now, serbia has been considering sending a 1000 troops into casa off the 100 of police offices in a briefly region. seas part of the cert majority district sada you may, which you read. curtis has continued with the legal actions aimed at occupying the north of kosovo, a mentor here belgrade will consider the return of 1000 members of our security forces to the area of kosovo metal here, in accordance with resolution, $1244.00, not serving government us said cause of the police have committed crimes against majority areas in the braithwaite province, including steaming wind mo vineyards, local course for the nuclear yield, which sent us this report from belgrade. tonight, around 9 o'clock in the evening,

group of over 200 armed men came to the north, most was the sort of live we kept over the medical for that. also presence of indian army or regular military forces, vignette. we were present here in valley court in order for us which is a violation of resolution, 44 united nation and every other agreement signed by serbia. and this is the 2nd publication of the day, or even 3rd, because during the day we already had the one incident in which one of the 4 municipalities in the north are most terrible. if we had a situation where police forces are also in kindergarten when, where children were sleeping and they interrupted the work of this also invalid survey and club near article that they

took over 40000 fleet. there's a wind from local, turbulent producers, wind. and they also banned construction workers for, for, from putting on and bathing the road, leading to only serving left in the region, the prime minister of so called course of course he's provocation. and he's intention to violently solve the problem of believing this deuces of soap of possible a month ago and to try to impose his will on them due to the fact that he needs to organize your elections, which will boycott as things are for now. but i think it's african, our african languages have been receiving a renewed prominence in nigeria with a government setting out and educational policy to promote the study of local

languages in schools. the recently approved national language policy is aim to shift the focus from english to local languages in the west african country. students are to focus on developing their skills and their mother tongue during elementary school, and then combine it with english only later on. however, the initiative has been complicated by the huge number of local languages which will require the government to adapt schoolbooks and other educational materials. we heard from an nigerian school director who expressed an overall positive view of the new measures. when i heard that instruction from the gulf may true, the official gazette i was. so blood anesthesia that the family as wills. no, this is the primary gentle socialization. that is the 1st school that is shide is born into that it shide is introduced into. so starting

our quality model model luggage, starting the 1st stitch of the education of a child with the use of the model language that his own bud evil. also as the case may be is the best that should happen in the education sector. we spoke with the head of a nigerian teachers union, a leg also also expressed appreciation for the reform wayne. you treat or teach? we do sophomore, tacked on. it is so natural that eats as understanding on the side of the student is in. we are killing the potentia in our younger generation by foresee

another language, i see medium of communication. no doubt. they must learn it so that you come favorably compete in time off. you know, 2nd job internationally. that way you understand english or you understand french or you understand emma didn't outperform your local language that were, has your chess, you know, to secure job across the globe what you cannot give what you don't ah, ah, employees all the european central bank have been less fuming, also, authorities rejected their demands for a pay rise to keep up with inflation. we're not happy with inflation in germany and the euro area likely around 8.5 percent this year. a lack of a pay rise means

a substantial loss in purchase and power. this is damaging workers morale and also their trust towards the institution. though we're good wanted a pay rise of just of a full percent, but the current inflation rate in the ease largest economy, germany zoom reported at about twice that amount earlier. my colleague peters thought, spoke with financial technology. entrepreneur chris ems. mr. m's noted that the same institutions that created the inflation in the 1st place. and now the ones that are suffering so well. the funny thing is, although not for the stuff is that you know, the c, b, a missed its own inflation target on its employees. now seem to be paying for it. do you think it as a duty of care or the certain geopolitical factors are just out of control? absolutely, i think that definitely is the duty of care. but there is a great irony that you've just mentioned, the very people that have caused this massive inflation and now paying for it. right. and i think when we're looking at,

when we're looking at these institutions in the way they operate and run, it's really, really morally bankrupt to say, look, pay for something that we ask you to do. and that goes across everything from transport to any kind of public service. right. why should the public service worker have to pay for the mistakes made by that employer? that just happens to be a state institution? there is research as we do. absolutely. now the c, b a said that he doesn't want to increase the wages of it stuff because he's worried, as it says that it would fuel a damaging wage. price spiral. define the argument convincing. not at all. i think anyone with half a brain cannot believe that argument. if you've got to a business, an organization, a company, and your employees are struggling to, to inflation it. you know, in my opinion, it's a moral responsibility to make sure that they can feed themselves and close their children if people can't eat and they can't feed their children. and really, i mean, they're saying that inflation is up. this percentage reality is real times inflation

for people is a lot higher. you only just have to ask anyone living in europe right now, as we know a lot of people living in europe coming from there originally and, and the price, the real times price of everything from energy to food, to transport the everything is way higher. it's, you know, some people even saying it's up, you know, 20 percent more in real time. so if the c b were to raise the wages of his employees as they are demanding. do you think that was so set some sort of precedence for the national banks and do you think there will be a full offense where employees, employers, excuse me, would raise the the way just absolutely. that would what we would hope that would be the effect that surely that's a good thing, right? we're seeing across, across europe, we're seeing, you know, well on the u. k. let's u. k. right now we've got nurse who's about to go on strike. we've got railway is going on strike, they're not really asking for much pizza, what they're asking. it's, it's to be paid enough so that they can not be out of pocket to the bad necessities that become way more expensive because of institutions and the decisions that have been made by,

by western governments. there's no doubt about that. they will say that they were saying, look, we, we've made decisions over the last year that of course, these problems and you are going to pay for it. well, that's not fair, is it? but we've got a very interesting documentary next pull device station, your initial set out and will be back in a couple the out. ah, oh, is your media a reflection of reality? in a world transformed what will make you feel safe? isolation, community? are you going the right way, or are you being led to somewhere? direct?

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