a russian prison since 2018 on charges of espionage, but according to the secretary of state antony lincoln, they had no other option than to do a one on one exchange. meaning, greiner for boot, he said the alternative would have been no release at all. we long will remain in prison. so this is a 2nd concession at the white house had to make. it's important to point out that the united arab emirates played a key role as a moderator in these along a difficult negotiations with russia at the exchange of prisoners to please in abu dhabi and president biden thanked the united arab emirates for their help. it's also crucial to mention that the u. s. administration has made clear that getting this done does not mean that the us government minimizes the brutal war in ukraine and the russia attacks in ukraine coding at more than now. let's bring in almost coverage if you refer to is in riga because russia has closed down the w's offices that you are. the white house is claiming the release of the grant as a victory house return to boot being reported in russia. well, victor booths return is reporte

you've got a secretary of state antony lincoln, though, saying publicly that of course they're going to be judging this government on its policies and not on its own personalities if you will, and that they will be holding benjamin netanyahu to account for the coalitions, actions. but whether or not benjamin netanyahu can keep these coalition members in check and, and, you know, keep and keep abreast of keep up to his allies and it, you know, concerns. and of course the concerns of israeli really remains to be seen terry. rebecca, thank you very much. that was her correspondent rebecca readers in jerusalem. covered 19 cases are surging across china right now until recently the country had so the toughest control measures in the world. but public anger and rare street protests lead to many rules being relaxed. now, with experts warning that hundreds of millions of people could soon be infected, chinese authorities have narrowed the criteria for identifying covered deaths. this means that despite the jump in cases and overwhelmed funeral homes, there have been no official recorded deat

s. secretary of state antony lincoln that says he's confident finland and sweden applications to join. nato will soon be approved. their foreign ministers are in washington dc for talks, rushes invasion of ukraine push them to apply for nato membership. the nigerian army has been accused of running a secret illegal abortion program among the victims of armed groups. the reuters news agency reports that at least 10000 pregnancies have been terminated since 2013 . the court says many of the women and girls had been kidnapped and raped by members of armed groups such as book a harem jr. in the military denies program existed in katara has held its 6 anti corruption towards events. it recognizes those who contributed to the global campaign to uphold the root of law. 7 organizations and individuals were recognizing that it is continues here after al jazeera well oh. ready i. ready ready ready ready ready ready oh i. ready i i t t i t t a and i am very interested in somebody that i bought yesterday to see, you know, my, him the a you show them we'll do. yeah. a michelle actually. yeah. i, y

the secretary of state antony lincoln says he's deeply concerned by the taliban decision, as that it will have a devastating impact on afghan people. joining me now from cobble is remy's alack, but off the un deputy special representative and humanitarian coordinator for afghanistan. deputy representative, thanks very much for joining us on the program. i just get your we got to get through, but contrast your initial reaction to what you're hearing from where you are. well, practice of limited humanity, inaction, the mental issue of the british dependence of action. so obviously in the population cannot be delivered in the situation. then the operating principles. let's take this now. what sort of complaints are they talking about? how they, the ministry explained in any way to you, or any other end jose in the country as to what the problem is with this. i think the letter was sent to us, mentions the use of the jobs as one of the reasons we right now. meeting the work is to understand better than what we see behind the session. so what answers will you be asking from then, consider

and chinese officials held meetings ahead of antony lincoln's visit to china early next week.teresting mood music going into that. what did we hear from those talks? stephen: i think it is more than mood music, this is rising to the top the list of china's concerns. obviously china is the big issue that will not be resolved with a number of meetings. just on the outskirts of beijing, these meetings paving the way fort secretary of state and tingling to head to china as was agreed to by xi jinping and joe biden when they met for the g20 last month. the highest level biden administration official since joe biden became president, and essentially the foreign minister you see here met with the south korean counterpart yesterday, telling him these recent u.s. moves are damaging the interests of countries including china and south korea. so we will have to see as this plays out, this would be a huge sticking point obviously as china gets cut off from the three largest chip equipment maker's in the country, japan, the netherlands, and the united states. haidi: stephen engle there wit

eastern, antillean lincoln -- antony blinken talks about accountability, transparency, and the rule of law around the world. here appears at the conference here in bc. you can see where the vents -- in d.c. you can see both events here and watch on our free mobile app, c-span now or watch online at c-span.org. ♪ announcer: c-span is your unfiltered view of government, co-funded by these companies and more. >> homework can be hard but squatting in a diner for internetwork is even harder, that is why we provide lower income students access to affordable internet so homework and just be homework. cox connect to compete. host: cox supports c-an as a public service along with other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. we will get your reaction to brittney griner being released for a russian arms dealer but we have other news this morning out of washington. politico reporting kyrsten sinema, the senator from arizona, has switched her party affiliation from democrat to independent. in a 45 minute interview with the publication, the first term senator told politico s

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were heard of the us secretary of state antony blank and says, washington remains opposed to israeli annexations and settlements in the occupied west bank. lincoln says, prime minister next 30 minutes now as incoming government will be judged by its policies, not personalities. as he has seen, the coalition deal with hard right and pro sattler parties after his right wing coalition, one elections on november 1st. now the british government may deploy the army to keep public services running this month as tens of thousands of workers go on strike. union for calling for pay rises and improved working conditions. as people struggle with rising inflation, security guards are set to begin. 48 hours stoppage was postal service, and health care workers are planning to walk off the job later in december. only a sob is the national lead officer at unites. that's the biggest union in the u. k . he says workers have no choice but to strike because of the rising cost of living . the people who are taking stronger, she's happy, but actually i'm very far as well. we have members who are sleeping in cars because they called the tech to go to work. we have memb