but according to the secretary of state antony blinkin, 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 will and 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 that difficult negotiations with russia, the exchange of prisoners to place 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. but almost kabir cheese. uri rossetto is in reagan since our offices in moscow were closed. our austin earlier hall, the return of victor boots b is being reported in russia. well, victor booths, return is reported as a victory for russian diplomacy, of course. but the focus is on us concessions on other issues now, being possible for rus

on president jo biden's, raise him, talks with chinese leadership in ping, secretary of state antony blinkin is also expected to visit badging early next year . announcement follows comments by a senior white house official that china wants to stabilize relations with the us. human arrived, defenders have received the nobel peace prize, add a ceremony in oslo. they include alice filiette ski, a gerald bell, russian human rights advocate, as well as 2 organizations from russia and ukraine. sonya gaga report. oh, the ceremony in oslo city hall, a far cry from the warn ukraine and repression and bella roost. but a poignant reminder, none the less of the ongoing conflict in the region and those fighting against it. first to receive the accolade natalia pinching his husband, alice. yet sky is currently imprisoned, both laureate to win the prize whilst behind bars. the founder of the human rights group, the asner yard sky, lead attempts to document abuses committed by the government of belarus. him president alexander lucas shanker. warden who was arrested nearly a year and a half ago during mass

the us secretary of state antony blinkin says washington remains opposed to israeli annexations and settlements in the occupied west bank. lincoln says prime minister benjamin netanyahu, incoming government will be judged by its policies, not personalities. and the family of brazilian football style pelley, say that he is not in palliative care. he was admitted to hospital on saturday for respiratory infection. it will be released as soon as his condition improves. the 2 year olds has also been receiving chemotherapy and battles, colon cancer, england to reach the finals of the people world soccer for one of the goals. and it's 3 little bit 3 for contempt. instead he go to the table says his goal of the told him in england will not play friends in the last date on today. those are the headlines that with more news in half the next it's all hail the planet here. and i'll just there there's a story being fantasy with being sold. the notion that we can accept all the carbon we generate that i can even get them to fly $25.00 to take the right box and paid a few extra dollars when touching my ticket

and you think those arguments will be persuasive to antony blinkin. samantha power, that whole edifice of the military industrial complex are when they have $400.00 basis circling china. they have proxies, arguably, in terms of south korea, japan new zealand, australia, around china. they have warships, routinely britain fans, warships routinely around there. meanwhile, those intellectual arguments are being made that all joiner is interested is mutual prosperity and progress. i do not see that there will be people in washington who say no, there has to be a red lime here and they won't be able to buy oil in the occurrences other than the dollar from saudi arabia. oh and now it, it is a pity that people in washington dc. it will not make a final quiet thing. so this is a thursday so, so so's chinese decision made by china. so this is the 2 countries decided they want to have a study exchange and nobody really kind of in and awful, or this is in the national community that everybody has a park in it. it is not a kind of a wants to listen to the united

s. secretary of state, as warning, winter in ukraine will be tough. antony blinkin was giving an end of the year address in washington d. c. he says it's crucial the u. s. maintained support for ukrainians. we know that his huff winner lies ahead for ukrainians. as president putin pursues his new strategy of trying to freeze ukrainian men, women, and children. the elderly to death were working with the g 7 and other allies and partners to repair, to replace and defend ukraine's energy infrastructure, including bolstering its advanced air defense through precision systems like patriot missile battery that president biden announced yesterday. we are with ukraine for as long as it takes the head of a private russian military company, known as the wagner group has dismissed. the u. s. claim that it's received an armed shipment from north korea, pyongyang to has denied sending any weapons. rosalyn. jordan has more from washington. the white house did confirm on thursday that tom, north korea did sell weapons to the a wall near group of which is essentially a private russian military opera

the 2 time olympic gold medalist was freed as part of a prisoner swap. us secretary of state antony blinkin says he's confident finland and sweden's application to join nato will be approved soon. their foreign ministers are in washington, d. c. for talks, brushes, invasion of ukraine, pushed them to apply for nicer membership, and peru has sworn and dinner for loyalty as president of the petro castillo, was impeached by congress and detained. he was arrested just hours out to saying he would dissolve congress by presidential decree, lafitte. lithuania has turned away nearly 20000 refugees and migrants in the past year. there, despite having an official policy to medically assist them 1st al jazeera midsummer asylum seekers who said they had serious injuries. when they were rejected. step vos and spoke with 2 of them. a 530 kilometer long 4 meters height, barbed wire fence to keep out refugees and migrants. but video footage given to us by the live to wally and border police shows people are still crossing the border. some have accused the bell russian forces of copying defense to let peopl

week, the government band, women 2 from attending universities, are you a secretary of state antony blinkin says he's deeply concerned by the taliban decision and said it will have a don't a devastating impact on afghan people. schoolers are drawn is a former afghan youth representative to the u. n. she says the international community must maintain pressure on the taliban. a gender upper height is happening and then it's done. it begun when the tyler bonded and allow women to show up in their work. this is last year and it continued when the thought of on shut down the female country school. and then following those degrees, dollar bonded and allowed, they didn't allow the women to show up in public places parks or other places. and unfortunately to yesterday and to the, to more it is coming, which is very, very disheartening. it means that dollar bond totally erasing a woman from society, from public eye info from human life. and there is a hardening because it doesn't affect us in long term. and short term struction orleans is happening in dennison and strips avoidance usually you decide

andrew simmons, as mona, from bucharest, antony blinkin assured ukraine. it will get all of the repairs and the equipment that needs to get its energy infrastructure back working properly. again, what's more, he said there will be air defense to protect that infrastructure. then he moved on on to the issue of china, making the case that the systemic challenge houses. he said he didn't want to see conflict. he didn't want to see a new cold war, but china must change. nato has to pressure it to change. the members of our alliance remain concerned by the parties course of policies by its use of disinformation, by its rapid opaque military buildup, including its cooperation with russia. but we also remain committed to maintaining a constructive dialogue with china wherever we can. and we welcome opportunities to work together on common challenges that have been reports that the u. s. was mounting diplomatic pressure on european allies to ramp up the rhetoric on china, putting more pressure on it, criticizing it more true or not. nato is more critical that has

so understand entity blinkin has been talking about the ukraine situation once you've been saying well, essentially what we heard the secretary of state antony blank and tell reporters in a briefing in the past hour is that the chances of the war in ukraine ending any time soon are virtually nil, and that's because the government and moscow is not prepared to withdraw its forces and to engage in diplomatic talks to negotiate an end to the war. so the message from the secretary of state is the same message that we heard from the u. s. president joe biden on wednesday, which is that the us and other countries, particularly in western europe, will continue, provide financial assistance, humanitarian assistance, and perhaps most important military assistance in order to help the ukrainian people get through what does look like, not just a long winter, but perhaps another year or so of war. this is a situation where the belief is that as long as the ukrainian military can maintain its a strategic position on the battlefield, that this strengthens the ukrainian government's ability to negotiate terms for peace. when that day comes. and what are yo