a powerful wind to storm is making its way through the u. s. in canada. it's been called a once in a generation event that's already disrupting air and land travel. floods triggered by monsoon rains, have killed at least 5 people in false, nearly 65000 from their homes in northern malaysia. accusations went away forecast as were expecting more rain in the coming days. those were the headlines submitted on. we'll have the news, our and just in half last time the next on al jazeera. it's the stream to stay with us. as 2022 jewels to clue. we reflect on the major stories that shatelle. well. julie knelt 0 for a series of in depth was looking back at this year and a head to 2023. and i us, i me okay. you're watching the stream. how do you say, sorry for slavery, this, how the doth dutch government apologize for its part in the trans atlantic slave trade? let's get documents d new. it is true that nobody alive to day bears any personal guilt for slavery. but it is also true that the dutch state, in all its manifestations, through history, bears responsibility for the im

u. s. have carried out a high profile prisoner swap, which has been confirmed by the russian foreign ministry versus business men. victor boots, who was convicted on arms, dealing charges in the u. s. has been handed over to moscow. and that's an exchange for american basketball star. brittany greiner, who was sentenced to 9 years in a russian prison for drug trafficking. moscow had been pushing for boots released for years, but washington had declined to consider the move until now. and we'll bring you more details just a bit later in the program. oh, in an effort to get the homeless people off new york street, the cities may is to allow the police to remove temporarily to the thing those they consider to be mentally ill. kellum often takes us to the streets of manhattan to explore the new policies more worrying implications. since taking office new york city, mayor erick adams has been clearing out the homeless encampments that have sprung up across the city. on average, 14 encampments are torn down by authorities each day with a total of roughly $3200.00 being torn down since march. but th

u. s. government also tried, but it was an able to secure the release of pull whelan. he is a u. s. citizen who has been held in russian prison since 2018 on charges of espionage, but according to a secretary of state antony blink. and they had no other option that than to do a one on one exchange. meaning, greiner, for a boot, he said the alternative would have been to not have a release at all. a whelan will remain in prison and president biden promised that they will keep on fighting for his release as well. and even to do that extreme for brittany greiner, u. s. president biden said it took painstaking negotiations. how do you think the american public feels about the fact that the u. s. government is striking. deals with russia while it is waging a brutal war on ukraine. care, the priority for the american people. it's all, it's all really that brutal a war in ukraine. many people of course, show sold directly with ukraine, but the war is far away. people don't really feel the impact of the war on the sanctions as much as they do in germany or in europe. so the priority for the administration here

u. s. a. been fighting reparations and now the ground. so it's happening worldwide. thanks for your thoughts on you, chief on twitter. i'm as quincy and linda, we really appreciate you helping us understand what makes a good apology. how do you make a formal apology for enslaving millions of people? and so watching, i see next time pictures ah, in depth analysis of the days headlines from around the world. what it did was also to them they have to sign because they didn't, they wouldn't get in frank assessments. do you think diplomacy still spends a chance? i'm not very up to about any kind of negotiation informed opinions. everybody tweets. everybody's on tick, tock, tick, tock doesn't vote. you have a winter, it's going to have a whole there. pretty soon, insight story on al jazeera. i all ready for the 1300000 football fan. i think that this is only the beginning, that equity always going to keep moving forward with that happen. make or break the moment 1st, then they go back to being given for thinking good sounds good. well, a happy trend fair. i can tell you tha

u. s. a. been fighting reparations. and now the ground, so it's happening worldwide. thanks for your thoughts on you cheve. on twitter, i'm as quincy and linda, we really appreciate you helping us understand what makes a good apology. how do you make a formal apology for enslaving millions of people? and so what changes i seen exxon take? ah is abandoned as a child by his ha cristella. nothing of his early life in the republic of hunger. after 40 years living in switzerland, cristella follows a fascinating paper trail that leads from his adopted home to the country of his birth. and the most unexpected re union witness. earlier on al jazeera, what happens when the news media failed to do their job? it's one of the biggest reasons why iraq is not a democracy. there's no accountability. the listening post exposes the powers, controlling the narrative. russian media does a lot of favorably. his method has to be back by the whole propaganda, but app of and the tools they used to do it. how do you read through all of them information? how do you determine what is this and p

u. s. a been canceled on friday because of high winds and heavy snow. and more than $700000.00 homes have already lost power, mostly across tennessee, north carolina, virginia and maine. will the coal snap is even affecting southern states, such as texas, where sub 0 temperatures are rare. for the north, it's expected to drop below minus 17 celsius. and some areas are full cost or get us know as minus $45.00 degrees celsius. experts warm this could lead to frostbite . in 5 to 10 minutes. rosen, jordan reports ah, dreaming of a white christmas sounds romantic for song but for millions of people in the west this holiday weekend, it's more like a nightmare. a massive winter storm from canada has brought sub freezing temperatures and heavy snow to most of the country. as well as nationwide flight disruptions, power outages and pipe breaks, and the threat of frost fight and hypothermia, particularly for those without shelter. yahoo, alan called there pretty much close on. i think most winters we unfortunately deal is some of our neighbors who are living outs

a way to the u. s. who it was already being welcomed by his family in moscow theatre. he had been in the u. s. jail turns 2012 serving a 25 year sentence for arms trafficking of semen. i mean, i've seen it, so what i'll call up, okay, anything griner was arrested at moscow. ap put in february and sentence to 9 years for possession of cannabis by a russian court. these images published by the russian government show being released from the penal colony. she was held in and put on a plane to abu dhabi, a long ordeal. it's finally over. and our washington correspondence currently not chima has more about this deal. there has been a lot of public pressure in the united states to get greiner back home, despite a recent release. we know that the negotiations have not been an easy victory for the bite and administration. the u. s. government had to pay a heavy price. they released victor boot a major arms dealer for al qaeda, the taliban, and to rebels in rwanda, that was sentenced to 25 years in prison. he would have been released in 2036. and in addition to reiner the u. s. government also tried

and so it proved victor boot a russian arms dealer serving a 25 year sentence in the u. s. had been considered as part of a prisoner swap. but russia was apparently unwilling to negotiate. while greiner trial was on going, after her appeal was rejected, craner was said to one of russia's notoriously harsh penal colonies to serve the rest of her sentence. no, she is on her way back to her loved ones in the us would, according to her wife, she intends to do all she can to free fellow american citizens, imprisoned by russia. i u. s. correspondent carolina tomorrow joins me now from washington. d. c. and d, w correspondent, you're russia, so joins me from riga. that's where dw has been reporting from. since it's moscow bureau was shuts down curly, now i'll start with you. can you tell us how big the pressure was on the white house to make this deal happen? yes, well there has been a lot of public pressure on the us government to get griner a back home. however, despite the big success that this means now for the white house and for buying some ministration, we know that negotiations hav

u. s. presence, middle east trip over the u. s. has been a long time ally. we thought maybe a current president did not receive any visible success during the visit. no one got this. saudi arabia, being one of the main opec plus members took part in cutting down or production a decision on which provoked a negative reaction from washington. that we spoke to c g t n correspondent, young cheng. she who told us about the wide ranging areas of improving corporation . tony present it in writing on wednesday. on his birthday here in the 1000 capital, with the officials, including the sal monday and grounding mama since i'm on an important operation document with the kingdom. now president, she is also said to attend our summit with leaders of golf and why don't you, why don't the world after the bilateral meeting with sal the leader? let's look at some of the results so far. you said 1000 and chinese companies, 530 for investment agreement. we covering a wide range of specter look green energy information technology, transportation and health care, housing, and fa

hope of being released, and so it proved victor boot or russian arms dealer serving a 25 year sentence in the u. s. had been considered as part of a prisoner swap, but russia was apparently unwilling to negotiate. while greiner trial was on going, after her appeal was rejected, craner was sent to one of russia's notoriously harsh penal colonies to serve the rest of her sentence. no, she's on her way back to her loved ones in the u. s. were according to her wife, she intends to do all she can to free fellow american citizens imprisoned by russia . let's get more on this story from carolina shamore in washington, d. c. carolina. we just saw those emotional scenes with grinders wife in the white house. how big do you think the pressure was on the white house to make this deal happen? here, there has been a lot of public pressure in the united states to get a gardener back home. despite her recent release, we know that the negotiations have not been an easy, an easy way and an easy victory for the bible ministration. they had to pay a heavy price on it. they released victor boot and major arms dealer. and it's

a bit of break can use for you. now russia and the u. s. have carried out a high profile prison, a swap which has been confirmed by the russian foreign minister, the russian business in victor boots crews convicted on arms, dealing charges in the u. s. has been handed over to moscow and exchange for american buskie. both brittany greener who was sentenced to 9 years in a russian prison for drug trafficking. moscow had been pushing for boots, released for years, but washington had declined to consider the move until now. the u. k. is to double imports of liquefied american natural gas and in efforts as prime minister busy soon not going the lines to low prices. together the u. k. in the us will ensure the global price of energy and the security of the national supply can never again be manipulated by the women of a failing regime. the partnership will bring down prices for british consumers and help and europe's dependence on russian energy wants and full repulse. suggest the both u. k and europe will be facing major challenges to stay warm in the coming year. the sanctions on russia back fire and countries struggle to replenish energy stocks

u. s. specific fleet in the fed. he a career in u. s. naval intelligence. he's been a top intelligence official for the u. s. 7 fleet in the us as kitty hawk aircraft carrier strike group to point to japan. he's fellow at the geneva center for security policy in switzerland from where he joins me. thank you so much captain for coming on the show. i wanted to talk about the us postal service in the pacific islands and how that may be important when it comes to what's happening, the south china sea. but of course, everyone is there while everyone in the global south, perhaps not in nato nation, media is turning to what's been happening in the west pacific. what do you make all of the people's liberation army navy, as well aircraft carrier, the leon ng going into the west pacific? obviously, a china, people who support china were saying this is a response to jake sullivan celebrating japan has taken a bolden historic step to strengthen and defend the free and open indoor pacific. after japan appeared to overthrow it. sorry, no 1st use of weapons policy. well, 1st of all, ash appreciate the invitation to speak

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u. s. secretary of state anthony blink. and swept into vilnius last november with a delegation to lithuania and with some trade support. and since then, the u. s. has been saying, yeah, well, you are in a bit of a pickle. maybe it's a bit much and maybe just don't call your representative office. there are the taiwanese representative office, but maybe something else that doesn't suggest that taiwan is some kind of self governing country. like, oh, call it the type, hey, representative office. but last summer, as you, as how speaker nancy pelosi was doing her war drum bongo performance during a visit to taiwan, lithuanian government officials thought it would also be a good idea to do the same thing. china beg to differ and slap sanctions on lithuanian. the visit tramples on the one china principal seriously into fees in china's internal affairs and undermines turn a sovereignty and territorial integrity. so now after china refusing to just go along with these western attempts to subvert it, sovereignty and even western official policy, either subverting that to the e, you want to now wind to the world trade organization. maybe at some point, brussels w

moment from one quarter of arte don't escrow public, a photographer, and soldier and ukraine's neo nazi as of battalion has been on a tour of the u. s. visiting pro ukraine events during his trip. dmitri, cuz that sky was pictured with hollywood actor sean penn, as well as a u. s. law maker. and is he been reported to have visited the state department dmitri, cuz that's he became known in western media after his voters, with neo nazi as of battalion soldiers. inside the as of stall steel factory gain popularity. but more recently, because i keep posted multiple images featuring nazi symbols, honest twitter page, which were later deleted images showed neo nazi t shirts in his wardrobe. a tattoo of a double arm swastika. similar to those warned by german concentration camp guards and a swastika inspired pizza, human labor rights lawyer, dan, public believe support of the far right has been a part of u. s. foreign policy for decades. well, i mean, i think we have to go back to the reality that the u. s. has been supporting neo nazis and even nazis hardcore nazis in crane for about 80 years. these are the friends of the u. s. these are

a u. b, u. s. is standing tall and taking care of africa, africa that had been the case. why hasn't worked? no, there's a damn visa moyer, and many years ago wrote a book called that 8. and it basically had a rough correlation that the amount of money that is given to africa, countries as a necessary and become more independent or to grow their g. d, p is higher. so you know, at this juncture, chinese not beijing is not asking anybody to choose. and this goes back to your question about what this is. china has to offer. china is trying to be inclusive. they believe that trade is necessary, that making nations stronger, especially those that it is involved with our economically key, creating stability, creating larger middle classes. larger markets is a rising tide that floats ships. so that, that's the approach that they have. this is what she's thinking is always talking about, and she's often drilled by for this idea that there should be a shared future from kind of david. one of the problems with the grants that you talk about the us offering is it does come with they do come with conditi

i'm oracle, so there could be more regulation, there could be a been, or there could be a cell of or the u. s. m, entity of tick tock. so, but something i guess will and it has to happen. right? well again, thanks for that update and have a happy christmas chat g p t is taking the world by storm. the chap bought developed by open a, i uses a large language model to answer questions and complete tasks. what's what a lot of people worried is just how good it is that a range of tasks from brightened letters to checking developers code to even programming games. so i decided to give it a try myself. let's take a look. first ask it to pitch me a sick. com set in eighty's, west berlin. it came up with the characters and an outline of the story all by itself. and i asked him to write a scene with a few jokes, but hilarious but possible. then i told chat g p t to draw up a hello meal plan for the week. you can see it here, just a sec building the table. there we go. and the ideas were pretty good. and then comes coding. i asked chat g p t to write a simple to do app in python, and you know what? not

it's a pleasure to have you with quote, the u. s. has long been trying to divide the post soviet world and influence ukraine. and that's what president vladimir putin had to say at a press conference after today's state council meeting. patricia scully, mores. can we now say that the u. s. is directly involved in the conflict? the u. s. has been dealing with this for a long time. it's been involved and trying to undermine has an influence ukraine since soviet times our opponent civil was trying to divide us and then tried to manage the separate ponce. nothing new there. the idea of ukrainian separatism was born a long time ago, while the russian president of course, spoke a lot about how the a west was trying to stoke the flames of nationalism and ukraine long before the soviet union even collapsed. but the russian president also spoke a lot about the russian economy. of course, he said that it's fair a lot better than many people in the west had predicted back in march in february of this year despite predictions that russian gdp would fall by do

and so it proved victor boot a russian arms dealer serving a 25 year sentence in the u. s. had been considered as part of a prisoner swap, but russia was apparently unwilling to negotiate. while greiner, trial was on going, after her appeal was rejected, craner was sent to one of russia's notoriously harsh penal colonies to serve the rest of her sentence. no, she's on her way back to her loved ones in the u. s. were according to her wife. she intends to do all she can to free fellow american citizens, imprisoned by russia. a stick deeper and brand cutting that she will in washington, dc, and constantine. i got from villainy is good to see you both a catalina. let's start with you. how big was the pressure on the white house to make this deal happen? where there has been a lot of public pressure in the united states to get griner back home. however, despite the victory, this really means for the white house and for violence administration. we know that the negotiations have not been easy and that there is a heavy price that the u. s. government has paid. they have released victor boo

i'm oracle, so there could be more regulation, there could be a been, or there could be a cell of, of the u. s. m, entity of tick tock. so, but something i guess will and it has to happen. right? well again, thanks for that update and have a happy christmas chat g p t is taking the world by storm. the chap bought developed by open a, i uses a large language model to answer questions and complete tasks. what's what a lot of people worried is just how good it is that a range of tasks from brightened letters to checking developers code to even programming games. so i decided to give it a try myself. let's take a look. first, ask it to pitch me a sick. com set, an eighty's west berlin. it came up with the characters and an outline of the story all by itself. and i asked it to write a scene with a few jokes, but hilarious but possible. then i told chat g p t to draw a hallowani meal plan for the week. you can see it here, just a sec building the table. there we go. and the ideas were pretty good. and then comes coding. i asked chat g p t to write a simple to do app in python, and you know what? not

a tight runoff election in the u. s. states of georgia, but incumbent democrat, rafael, one oak has been declared the winner taking the last remaining u. s. senate seat with a 5149 split. the democrats now have an outbreak majority fully years president donald trump's company's been found guilty of tax fraud in new york. asked mary, out of legal woes facing trumpet campaigns. office again, how are okay, don't spain to reach the world to finals for 1st time? it is the 1st arab african country history to reach the last 8 the match, finished gola celtics, time and rural k one. a penalty. one of the remote places that people are watching the world cup is in the pacific on a nation of to value one family that is watching the football on an island. not it's about the same size as stadiums here. enjo right now we are in the small, i live full full affected. it's one of the islands gone up with. my name is c o. c, matthew, i'm a family man with a will cut. it's unique and special in the sense that there are lots of v was around the world what that will help. so what is he on the i'll it is very special and unique. i usually s

u. s. boat was already being welcomed by his family in moscow. he had been in the u. s. jail since 2012. solving a 25 year sentence for arms trafficking thing. and i mean, it greno was arrested at moscow airport in february and sentence to 9 years for the possession of cannabis by a russian court. these emergence published by the russian government shall ha, being released from the penal colony. she was held in and put on a plane to abu dhabi once inside. she was asked about her well being with well, i wrote a poem and with that her long ordeal is finally over. and for more on this, let's bring in our correspondent and russia. analysts konstantin edgar, his joining us from vilios in lithuania, so a sports, sports star here being traded for an arms dealer. how is this being seen? well, it depends on where you're looking from. i'm in the u. s. it's clearly seen as, ah, the kind of american gum and saving an innocent american citizen. and in russia, i think the return of victor boots will be not very much noticed by the why the public, unless put on really wants to publicize it. and that's a possibil

u. a as part of a prisoner swap for russian arms dealer, victor boot, he'd been serving 12 of a 25 year sentence in a u. s. federal prison for conspiring to kill americans. acquiring exporting anti aircraft missiles and providing material support to a terrorist organization at the white house grinders wife expressed relief. her ordeal was finally coming to an end. the month y'all have been so privy to one of the darkest moments of my life. and so today i'm just standing here overwhelmed with the emotions, but the most important emotion that i have right now is just sincere gratitude. subsidence still faces questions about american poll wayland left behind, and currently serving a 16 year sentence in russia on espionage charges. his family says he's innocent, sadly, for totally illegitimate reasons. russia is treating paul's case differently than brittany. and while we have not yet succeeded securing paul race, we are not giving up still, their fear about present and violence decision to swap a convicted arms dealer for an american convicted of drug possession. their fear is it could encourage further host

u. s. has been involved there for a very, very long time. it's been trying to undermine russia and influence ukraine going back to the days of the soviet union couldn't set even back then. washington was preparing the ground, looking for people, finding new ideologies to planned in ukraine. boot and set up potential opponents of always dreamed of breaking our unity to tear us apart. but there's nothing new about that. and just finally here, one of the questions from the press to vladimir putin is russia running out of missiles in the ukraine conflict is the russian, the military industrial complex, strong enough to replenish supplies and continue. puting said that western resources, those of nato are not about to end. he said ukraine is receiving ammunition and equipment, mostly from former warsaw pact, countries, and that's old soviet equipment which is about to run out food instead. that doesn't mean that nato doesn't have other systems and weapons equipment to hand over to ukraine. he said western weapon systems. they need a lot of, i muni

u. s. specific fleet in a 30 a career in u. s. naval intelligence. he's been the top intelligence official for the u. s. 7 fleet in the us as kitty hawk aircraft carrier strike group to point to japan. he's fellow at the geneva center for security policy in switzerland from where he joins me. thank you so much captain for coming on the show. i wanted to talk about the u . s postal service in the pacific islands and how that at may may be important when it comes to what's happening, the south china sea. but of course, everyone is there while everyone in the global south, perhaps not in nato nation, media is turning to what's been happening in the west pacific. what do you make all of the people's liberation army navy, as an aircraft carrier, the leon ng going into the west pacific? obviously, a china people who support china was saying this is a response to jake sullivan celebrating japan has taken a bolden historic step to strengthen and defend the free and open endo pacific. after japan appeared to overthrow it. so no 1st use of weapons policy. well, 1st of a

a battleship pollution just further contribute to this false sense of what happened there. i think it's inappropriate, at the same time, it's not all that shocking. this is something the u. s. military has been doing for a long time. i long understood the importance of creating and disseminating victor's history. of the wars and battles and and those were this ours most pressing new stories from around the world for more 247 years, had over to r t dot com. and don't forget to follow us on odyssey rumble and gab. we'll see you again next hour. ah, fresh in the west, revive the cold war because both recognize and practice, the concept of indivisibility of security. one country should not attempt to attain security at the expense of another country. this is exactly what the west has done against russia to the point of claiming russia has no right to any security guarantees. ah, in the least of counter russian state will never be as tight as on the north landscape with within the 55 with the speed anyone else with will ban in the european union the kremlin. yup. machine, the state on russia for date and square r t sport that even our video agency, roughly all band on youtube with me. ah, ah.

and finally, they negotiated the deal and it's a great victory for a russian diplomacy, despite relations between russia and the u. s. been at the lowest, they've been for decades that the 2 countries can still agree even, you know, in a prison swap like this. oh, i wish i would say that it's because both countries just are they just value human lives. but i do believe that the issue that the united states was the rest in saying that we don't want it and want them just to show everybody that we have the russians and look at them is horrible. it's look wish. well, joe biden, intern says grind, had been wrongfully detained in russia. thus, despite the fact she actually admitted bringing drugs into the country, albeit mistakenly which landed her 9 year prison term is relieved to finally be heading home. and the fact remains that she's lost months of her life experience. needless trauma, she deserves space privacy in time with love was recovered. he'll from her time being wrongfully detained. greiner was detained by moscow. airport customs officials back in february this year after police dog found cannabis oil in her luggage

a month on german soil since april the u. s. and his allies have trained around 15000 ukrainian soldiers r t s e good is done of sports a ukrainian prisoner of war. he'd been trained in the u. k. and we should warn you, the interview may have been given under duress. the u. k. prides itself for an overwhelming amount of support. it's provided for ukraine in the war against russia . london has scooped its own stockpiles of weapons too near critical levels. it has brought tens of thousands of ukrainian soldiers to britain's training sites and claim they've evolved into proper commandos. but now the smith is ready to bust overseas training did nothing for this fresh ukrainian captive lunar wool. in september they called me to put it. i got a draft notice and i joined the army with that. is that what happened? then? we'll put a full, i began training. what the training, nor will i was abroad in england. gutless. how did you get there? without them on a plane, they dropped us off somewhere in england. then we rode a bus for around 9 hours. did the plane take off from ukraine, though? no, from poland sports. so the british military training program was covered i

u. s. is fully committed to the continents future. almost 50 african heads of state of gathered in washington dc where the u. s is attempting to position itself as a reliable trade partner. the talks have been overshadowed by rising competition for influence across the african continent. the u. s. is old in on africa's future. that has been the message at the 1st u. s. africa leaders summit in almost 8 years after decades of inconsistent engagement, president biden cold for a renewed, long term partnership with the african continent. trader, i emphasized shared success an opportunity because in africa 6 age united states succeeds quite frankly, the whole world succeeds as well. his recipe for success, pledging more than $55000000000.00 to support african democracy, food security, trade, and infrastructure biden's pushed to frame the u. s. as a reliable partner comes against a backdrop of rising competition between china and the u. s. over the past 2 decades, china has become africa's largest economic partner investing trillions into infrastructure and development. the u. s. is now trying to catch up. critics say it is forcing african nations to choose between the major powers, but african l

u. s. boot was already being welcomed by his family in moscow. he had been in a u. s. jail since 2012. solving a 25 year sentence for arms trafficking thing. and i me, a call back at 3 griner was arrested at moscow airport in february and sentence to 9 years for the possession of cannabis by a russian court. these immigrants published by the russian government shall have been released from the penal colony. she was held in and put on a plane to al dubby. once inside, she was asked about her well being with well, are you ready for it? and with that hello, go deal is finally over. i'm brittany griner is free, but the ordeal continues for another american unlawfully held in russia former marine paul whelan. he's been held for 4 years on espionage charges and i can now speak to his brother david whalen. welcome to the day mister whelan. you were hoping that a deal would be made to free your brother as well. now that that has materialized. how are you and your family? well, we've been working on this for 4 years and we are back to work. we had all hopes. i had hoped that

u. s. states independent country or have a different type of government. puerto rico became a u. s. territory bike in 18. 98 was activists have campaign for a greater self determination for decades. that have been fixed referendums on the issue since the 900 sixty's, but they were non binding as only the u. s. congress. congress states on the island . because a comment from the spokesperson of the puerto rican action movements, a novelist, one lopez, bozza, in 2014, the general accounting office of congress did a whole story on the, the economics outcome of puerto rico, becoming their state. and had done report is so catastrophic for the statehood option. the pro stated people don't even want to bring it up. and when i'm a listen about it at all because it will be present a really impossible situation. riggle will become poorer, will become less competitive. and will not be able to develop you, tony, because on the us we don't have no, we don't have or, or economy or economy. it's pretty much in the jungles. in the case. we don't produce anything there, stay who it or can only be little or put us as long as we we, we still know makes it to asian, which means we have to develop a economy to sola

well, there has been a lot of public pressure on the u. s. government to get griner a back home. however, despite the big success that this means now for the white house and for buttons administration, we know that to negotiations have not been easy and that there is a heavy price that the united states government has paid. they have released victor boot a huge figure for the united states and for russia, an arm stealer for okay. ada for the taliban. and for rebels in wanda booth has been sentenced for or had been sentenced to prison for 18 years. that means he would have been released in 2029. also the u. s. government was actually trying to secure the release not only of britney griner, but also of poll whelan, another u. s. american citizen who has been held in russian prisons since a 2018 charged with espionage. so a 2nd concession, the white house and violence administration had to make, in this case you re, president biden said that they've been pushing for months to release, growing a. well, was it that made russia agree to the deal now? well, this prisoner exchange is the

and it's a great big thing for a russian to policy, despite relations between russia and the u. s. been at the lowest, they've been for decades that the 2 countries can still agree even, you know, in a prison supply this oh, i wish i would say that it's because both country is just our core values human lives. but i do believe it's russian positions. the united states was the site and said that we don't want it and want them just to show you that we have the russians and look at them is horrible. it's like we moving on now ukraine's president volume is dylan ski has been named time magazines, person of the year, one another western outlet politico has called him the most powerful purse in europe for 2023. this comes just a year after some of the same media warned the kids far right as old moving poses a huge threat to the western world. as even inspired more terrorist attacks in the u. s. done islamic extremism. i discussed the story earlier in our studio with our correspondent rachel blevins. all time has made it official. they're calling him now in the, the person of the year, but als

german concentration camp guards and a swastika inspired pizza. human and labor rights lawyer dan kabbalists believes support of the far right. has been a part of u. s. foreign policy for decades. well, i mean, i think we have to go back to the reality that the u. s. has been supporting neo nazis and even nazi's hardcore nazis in crane for about 80 years. these are the friends of the u. s. these are the folks that the u. s. is using it's world 1st against the soviet union and now against russia. so really it's not surprising at all. this is part and parcel of us for aussie for decades. what i guess is knew about it is that now you've been out of celebrities like sean penn embracing these people. i guess that's what's really new. people have been programmed now to view the ads, our battalion as heroes of ukraine and the fight against russia. it's an incredible thing that really we witnessed only since february, right? i mean, so the media campaign has been a meant using way affective at to convincing the population of the u. s. ironically, particularly the liberal population, right, rank and file, the democratic party. that the as all battalion or th

new york has been especially hard hit, the area around buffalo in the western part of that u. s. state has been struggling with a weather phenomenon known as lake effect snow. that's when cold air passes over the warmer waters of the great lakes, bringing the region huge amounts of snowfall. now that is exactly what buffalo is experiencing now, along with heavy winds and arctic cold. as city paralyzed by a mega storm. buffalo new york is at the epi center of the blizzard, battering north america. people are stranded in their vehicles, in homes, as snow pummels the region. the governor of new york gave a sobering assessment of this situation. we have then to a lot of wars together and this blizzard is the one for the ages. certainly it is the blizzard of the century. and we are here to can talk about our, our collect, our collaborative approach to dealing with this crisis. that it is a crisis, thousands of homes are without power, and a driving ban has been issued. the governor warned that the worst is not yet over. and as much as we can see, the skies right now, we know that though the storm is coming back. so a

u. a. he is part of a prisoner slot for russian army dealer, victor boot referred to by some as the merchant of death. he's been serving 12 of a 25 year sentence in the u. s. federal prison for conspiring to kill american, acquiring and exporting anti aircraft missiles and providing material support to a terrorist organization. before his arrest, who had built a business, allegedly supplying weapons to support wars and uprisings around the world, from africa to afghanistan. at the white house grinders wife expressed relief, her ordeal was finally coming to an end. 20 all have been. i'm so privy to one of the darkest moments of my life. and so today i'm just standing here . i'm overwhelmed with the emotions, but the most important emotion that i have right now is just sincere gratitude. but biden still faces questions about american poll wayland left behind, and currently serving a 16 year sentence in russia and espionage charges. his family says he's innocent, sadly, per totally illegitimate reasons. russia is treating paul's case differently than brittany's. and while we have not yet succeeded securing paul henry's, we are not giving up. still, there's f

u. s. as to rickly, involved in the conflict. the u. s. has been dealing with this for a long time. it's been involved and trying to undermine us and influence ukraine since soviet times. our opponents have always tried to divide us and then tried to manage the separate parts and nothing new here. the idea of ukrainian separatism was born a long time ago. while the russian president of course, spoke a lot about how the west was trying to stoke the flames of nationalism in ukraine long before the soviet union even collapsed. but the russian president also spoke a lot about the russian economy. of course, he said that it's fair to a lot better than many people in the west had predicted back in march in february of this year despite predictions that russian g d. p would fall by double digits. it's only actually fallen by 2.5 percent. and on top of that, indicators connected to unemployment and inflation have been kept very low as well . took a sissy co limited. that's for the economy despite the predicted collapse, devastation and catastrophe. none of the kind has happened here. moreov

he said the recent revelations prove twitter had basically been functioning as a u. s. government agency, well, it shows that they have been, they had been targeting trump for a long time, and this is just part of an overall establishment campaign to destroy him. i mean, they ran a legal operations to attempt to connect him to russia in the russian collusion narrative and some of the people that worked at twitter, including james baker were also active in that russian collusion expedition. so it tells me that the twitter has been operating as a state agent, and they had a definite they have trump in the crosshairs, just waiting for him to step over the line or what they consider to be over the line. he never violated twitter rules. they just associated his speech with the violence or the mark violence really that took place on january 6 at the capital. so they were what they were laying and wait, looking for an excuse to ban him from, from the platform. will among other discoveries the twitter files also claim the company shadow by users to quash right wing are in even

and so it proved victor boot a russian arms dealer serving a 25 year sentence in the u. s. had been considered as part of a prisoner swap, but russia was apparently unwilling to negotiate. while greiner, trial was on going, after her appeal was rejected, craner was sent to one of russia's notoriously harsh penal colonies to serve the rest of her sentence. no, she's on her way back to her loved ones in the u. s. were according to her wife. she intends to do all she can to free fellow american citizens, imprisoned by russia. more arrests are expected in germany, after dozens were detained and raids across the country. on wednesday, the targets are suspected supporters of a far right movement that rejects the legitimacy of the german state. the alleged leader of the group as a descendant of an aristocratic family and the german state of to ring. yeah. and police are currently searching his home there for evidence. the long arm of german law reaches as far as italy, italian police arrest a former german army officer who was suspected of being involved in an attempted coup in germany. he

a high level prisoner swap, where the u. s. she was exchanged for a notorious arms dealer, victor boot. she'd been sentenced to 9 years in prison. a drug possession and smuggling grind aspect to russian media seemed before her plain departed with.

a nationalist. he has been and speaking out against the u. s. in european multinational corporations who also has energy reserves. so it's a typical example in latin america. there are dozens of examples throughout history, where the working class of the region poor and working people, they elect a progressive left coming leader who represents their economic interests, who is then overthrown by the elite oligarchy, inch interests backed by the u. s. there, there are literally dozens of examples and pretty much every country and latin america. the people of the region are unfortunately very used to it. but that's again why i think we see such a large protests in peru because the majority of people improve, especially in the working areas in the rural areas that have indigenous descent populations who support their president castillo. they under. yes, very clearly. what's going on. this is an undemocratic who against a democratically elected leader, lead by a lead right wing oligarchy, multi millionaires and corporations, with the backing of foreig

a very large u. s. military base. you could've been met div i to the u. s. government to make a military base and just deported or douglas and people from their country. so they call it the returned back on the island. no, but we are fighting. that's why i'm fact we'll fighting for the right. so i, we do not consider that the right to self determination actually applies to the trickle. since i don't the question of self determination, the legal advice we have received is actually the chickens. we're not at all, not a people. for me, it's time to move on and see what we can do. a full the congress said committee to return back home. there is no support from the nomination. high commission again, united nish, i don't care about chug or send people ah, the headlines onasia international. the e u parliament scandal coined cut out a gate now shifts to morocco. that size and italian court agrees to handle with the former wife of an e. u lawmaker suspected of receiving bribes from the country. with wild islamic terror groups continue a taxing but a keynote fast.

a with the u. s. ordered a crack down on the protesters, and through that, supporting to the outfit president better feel who has now been sentenced to at least 18 months in jail by peruse new u. s. government. the africa leader summit wraps up in washington with america's top diplomat, bringing up the west colonial past to criticize russia. the un overwhelmingly adopt a russian brockton resolution to fight to force occasion of naziism. this fight you prayed, and multiple western countries voting against them both with good morning, from moscow to wherever you may be, watching. welcome to the hours most, pressing new stories from the globe. i'm here i'll is about peruse. supreme court has ruled that ousted president federal castillo must remain and pre trial detention accused of inciting a rebellion. the former leader wrote, were made in custody for the next 18 months. while the new government builds a case against them, the verdict comes as crew's. new leadership announces a 30 days state of national emergency in response to federal castillo supporters entering their 2nd week of protest, leaving the country and deadlock