the court in moscow has extend that the detention of wall street journal reporter evan garcia, events until the end of january. russian authorities accused him of espionage which he and the newspaper denied. russian president vladimir putin. this at moscow and washington are in a dialogue over the journalist the presidents of diana and venezuela, and have agreed to avoid the use of force or threats in their dispute over the oil rich as a keyboard region. president, your fund ali and nicholas my doro held their 1st or rec toxins. a recent flare up of tensions over the contested region. they have pledged to continue speaking to each other. the body of a french citizen being held hostage in gaza has been found by is really forces in a message posted on social media. the foreign ministers said the country was in, quote, immense pain over the death of india until the dano, according to french media reports he was part of a group kidnapped by him oswell taking part in an open air music festival. on october 7th, in the us has called on israel to end. it's large scale military operation in ga

evan, thank you so much. a very important report. boris? >>> we want to dig deeper now with democratic congressman, robert garcia of california. a member of the house oversight committee. congressman, thank you so much for sharing part of your afternoon with us. these nine new charges are for more serious than what was in that plea deal that hunter originally agreed to. one that fell apart over the summer. republicans are arguing that this is happening because irs whistleblowers came forward saying the doj was taking it easy on hunter. do you think these new charges are proof that the justice department was trying to give the president son a sweetheart deal? >> a couple things are really important to know. first, although the country will be held accountable by the courts, by a judge, and he will be held accountable for all of these charges. he is a private citizen. he will go through the judicial process. it is also very clear that the accusations of the republicans, saying that somehow president biden controls or as weaponizing's justice department, is absolutely false. they are literally taking hundred through a judicial pr