side but he's very close to russian president vladimir putin in fact mr putin is the godfather of medved daughter and they meet regularly and talk about among other things the prisoner exchange so as i say what exactly brought this out the mechanism of this one remains to be seen but obviously this is he could have played a role in this ok and david apparently a father prince prisoner swap is already being worked on this is what a spokesperson for the pro russian rebels had to say just a little bit ago and that's the last they have there are sixty more prisoners in kiev who are not part of this exchange they weren't included in the first list we've placed them in a second round of prisoner exchange we haven't forgotten them i'm sure will return to this discussion after the new year but had to say. so an upbeat statement there from the rebel side david is there any suggestion that these prisoner exchanges the talks. surrounding these exchanges may lead to a more productive peace process perhaps. well certainly there is the hope of that in a nice and of course this is a positive sign of an

one of the people that's involved in this is from the ukrainian side is a man by the name of viktor medved shoop very interesting person a bit ambiguous as well as i say he's ukrainian but he's also very close to russian president vladimir putin in fact mr putin is the godfather of his daughter and he's been part of these negotiations he's been speaking in fact to mr putin directly so it will remain to be seen what exactly is role is but it seems that he did play some some role in these dismissed recent exchange rate and interestingly in a related development we're hearing that a potential other prison prisoner swap is in the making because earlier a spokesperson for the pro russian rebels had this to say and that's the last thing is that there are sixty more prisoners and key had who were not part of this exchange they weren't included in the first list we placed them in a second round of prisoner exchanges we haven't forgotten them we'll continue this discussion after the new year. but at you all right very encouraging words there from the spokes woman what do you make of this could we s

about his contacts with russia michael medved his actions were wrong but said he was asked to do so by a senior member of trump's transition team. the un has launched a record appeal for more than twenty two billion dollars to help victims of conflict and natural disasters yemen's the world's worst humanitarian crisis with more than twenty million people in need the situation in yemen is atrocious the and number of people in need and through population in twenty to twenty eight million is approaching twenty million seven or eight million of these people are right on the verge of famine and starvation we need to get there fully opened the fuel to run the water systems can get the fuel to get the food around the country can get in more commercial food as well as the aid food can get in. there's still no result in the honduran presidential election even though ninety five percent of the ballots have been counted there is growing anger over the a with violent demonstrations even one person dead and twenty injured about a thousand ballot boxes are set to be recounted by hand after irregular

fortunately for most of you were you were we all understood that medved yes was just a pure sorrow good when it wasn't seen as an independent politician but rather as putin psychic. in two thousand and twelve flooding near putin became president again. for partly admitted that this had been the plan all along. putin saw the revival of his country as his life's work. here do you think and i see you know about what i feel at night we did you. give me the idea i were. put in spreading ruffian colleague alexander lukashenko has been in office since one thousand nine hundred ninety four in many quarters his authoritarian style has earned him the name europe's last dictator. to lose nobody has talked about free elections and belarus since one nine hundred ninety six elections and belarus are controlled by the government. and their results are pretty determined by the power apparatus. he's. so bella roost does hold elections but the police and the intelligence services do everything possible to stifle any opposition. or. say a ship is from that is our group which was made up mainly of young pe

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