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 have not been easy and that there is a hea

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

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 german

u. s. had had, you know, failed to persuade china to join international sanctions. again, russia, china, russia, see each other as a strategic counter waited to the united states and share many common interests. you know, a boat that china and russia, i believe a mutual assistance between these 2 countries will effectively balance the u. s. and diffuse the d as strategic pressure dad. the strengthening of the chest landing the at ally as may bring to both countries. chinese, ready to work with the russia and the world to, to oppose. hagaman is a man of power politics, oppose them, unilateralism protectionism and bullion china, russia, matic partners, with a common goal of pushing back at a western dominant 8 dominated international system. la china has accused a number of western media outlets of miss representing the situation of the country after a strict anti cope at measures but lifted in our number of nations. a previously urged beijing to drop the barriers of imposed travel restrictions on chinese nationals, autism or in a culture of a has her take on what som

u. s. had had failed to persuade china to join international sanctions. again, russia, china, russia, see each other as a strategic counter waited to the united states and share many common interests. you know, both at china and russia. believe that mutual assistance between these 2 countries will a effectively balance the u. s. and diffuse the d as strategic pressure than the strengthening on the chest landing at ally as may bring to both countries. chinese ready to work with russia and the world to oppose. hagaman is a man of power politics, oppose them. unilateralism protectionism and bully and china, russia like magic partners with a common goal of pushing back at a western dominant 8 dominated international system. the indian air force will dominate future battlefields. that is the statement from an i a f wing commander after a successful test of a super sonic at a surface cruise missile with an extended range of the test was carried out above a bay of bang goal, where a target ship was hit from a distance of 450 kilometers out of this version of the

u. s. had had failed to persuade china to join international sanctions again, russia, when instead of aging, have quoted for peace bus stop shorts of the convey me, my counselor, launching. it's a military operation and blame the prices on the actions of the west and including nato's east award expansion. rory, what was the china has said in the recent past that it like to avoid conflict and hope that all parties involved. ready with ukraine will approach the negotiating table and find a peaceful resolution for all parties involved. you, you talked on shay about the further integration of the russia, china relationship. right now, we're seeing record energy exports from russia to china at a time when putin has mentioned that russian ties was strengthened despite quote, an unfavorable external environment illegitimate restrictions on direct black male by some western countries. some very strong words that what's your opinion on that statement? well, i think china, russia see each other as a stra

u. s. and our lives have been training around 15000 ukrainian soldiers off these eager don spoke to one ukrainian prison of war had been trained in the u. k. and we should warn you, the interview may have been taken 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 to nia, critic levels. it has brought tens of thousands of ukrainian soldiers to britain's training site and claimed they've evolved into proper commandos. but now the smith is ready to bust overseas training did nothing for this fresh ukrainian captive. no lunar will. in september, they called me to, but it, i got a draft notice and i joined the army where it is 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 today? no, from poland, support for the british military training program was covered

u. s. is targeting europe in place in africa. earlier we spoke with john kitty aki who's host of ortiz, the whistleblowers, and he believes the u. s. had another reason for not inviting those countries even when the new governments of these countries have pledged a return to democracy and have in some cases scheduled democratic elections that still wasn't good enough for the united states. and so these 5 countries weren't invited, and i'll add that these 5 countries are 5 that in which the united states can't make any money right now, russia is very popular in africa. china, a china is very popular in africa. and the western countries are not. there not because they, they ignored the needs of the child of the african people and the african governments for many, many years. the u. s. presence is literally a one of, of war. the only real u. s. presence in any of these countries is a paramilitary force. look at molly, for example, or mauritania, or any of the other of this a hell countries needs year. we only know by accident because of a leak, that the united states has a military presence there. a military presence that has not been app

u. s. had been pushing the narrative of victor boots, being a so called merchant of death, his lawyer steves to so spoke to r t a by the case sand. his client's release. 15 years ago, the u. s. government devised a plot, if you will, to create a crime of this retired russian citizens living in moscow. committing no crime against anyone. they target him simply because they didn't like what they thought he had been doing in previous years and, and at victor sentencing. and i don't, it's hard to believe or this talk crime that nothing ever happened with. and no one was ever heard. and no one was ever done at the sentencing. the u. s. government, prosecutors ask that victor be sentenced to life without rule. meaning he would never be released that's, that's the, that's the insanity he were fortunate that the judge and victor's trial judge gentlemen made some very important findings at his sentencing that were really strong and supportive. and pointed out several of the things that undermined this m

u. s. and the u. k. and israel, the u. k. on the u. s. had been particularly vocal in their criticism of iran's response to this process. of political scientists say it must offer caution says that foreign forces meddling in a runs affairs on nothing. you your networks have been operating inside the ron for the past 3 years. john bolton, the former national security adviser on the donald trump, appeared on our b, b. c. per sure to say that all he has seen armed off position are providing gar, you know, guns, law all to rioters inside iraq through the rock western borders and go to san province. there are many please hold saying that they are operating in iran and it's no strange to see that they used to do that in 2009. they did it in our 5 years ago. they did it also some 3 years ago. well, the u. k. foreign office told us that is seeking more information on the situation from the iranians. both won british n p, branded the arrest, the industrialized taken of hostages, and called on british people to leave the country straight away. if i was

u. s. had june withdraw its troops, sir, from europe, starting with the check to co give you the will and nuclear weapons that you have in the hub in circles at turkey and in europe. what use that would have been our negotiating positions. however, we approached it in a fair way, which was to find a solution that would be comfortable both with the u. s. and the nato. we tried to look at the current situation from the perspective of our western colleagues. that is how these documents were conceived. and my view, they come to obtaining some just fair proposals. munoz, particularly because they were based on the reassurance letter that we had heard and multiple occasions of worlds. in particular, we proposed to get back to the meal reconfiguration of 1997. when the nature undertook under the russian h o acting are found an act and not moved on to avoid any permanent placement of all else long. the plan to combat forth of near the rotten border. and in lifton bull, when l settlement option was prop

u . s. had said a change in policy on women's education is needed before it can consider formally recognizing the taliban government rights activists say. the move shows the televisions indifference to international criticism. every single time the wall puts a pressure on the taliban by saying, do this or done, or you haven't done this, or this is not done enough. then they come around and david tag it and they and make it harder on the woman. so the woman have janice on actually have, have become, as i said, you know, they don't for them they don't, they don't really exist. they're not human beings. they are, i don't know what they are, they don't consider them as, as in all they just, they just are using continuous for the way they think to them than they are using because they've never erased the woman from the, from the society. people work from vacation for member thick from life. obey della bye. here is a university lecturer and at founder of the campaign that let afghan girls learn, he sa

u. s. has admitted to committing cyber attacks on form paolo's during the mid term elections. it's justified the move by saying those targets could have in to fit in the vote unless the u. s. had stepped in we did conduct operations persistently to make sure that our foreign adversaries couldn't utilize infrastructure to impact us . we understood how foreign adversaries utilize infrastructure throughout the world . we had that mapped pretty well, and we wanted to make sure that we took it down to key times. this is the idea of understanding your foreign adversaries and operating outside the united states. washington has been accusing russia and iran of meddling in his elections for many years. but the recent made some vote a scene, a u. s. security official said there was surprisingly a lack of foreign interference. he said that russia wrong was supposed to be not focused on the you are so too preoccupied by the grain conflict. and the wave of protests in the islamic republic form a c. i a analyst, and just john curio that is in washington uses claims of forum meddling to brush off more pressing domestic concerns. there's literally no evidence that anyone has found of russian

and so i 1st, i couldn't find a law firm in washington that wasn't conflict because u b. s. had them all retainer and the 2nd thing was i had to go with a 2nd rate firm. unfortunately, i didn't think the u. s. was going to be my problem. i thought the swiss government or this was banks and even the us would be the problem. so that's really where the crux was and i came in in good faith to drive you the right thing and they kept yelling at me and there were hostile towards me at the very beginning. and i said, look, i can't give you names of clients until you give me a subpoena. so we're not going to give you immunity. i want to give you a subpoena. i said, well, you're not getting the names and we are going to fix the cost in deal headquarters . i'll never forget it. and what really made me wonder was, i said now i'm really in this net deep, but i still held my ground as you know, i'm gonna hold firm on this. and ironically, later, once the investigations and so started the senate and u. b. s. is called to testify, they give the same answer. we can't give you these names until w

u. s. had negotiated his extradition because last month it was reported that muscle had been in fact kid 9 kidnapped by a militia group in libya, leading to speculation at the time that he was indeed going to be handed over to us officials. and certainly those will be matters that his defense team will argue before the us court. and i'll be given every opportunity to argue that we had a very recent and very similar situation with the, the so called beatles that were in detention in, in iraq. and then handed over to, to us will, thirty's, but on trial and convicted and sentenced. so it is gonna be something that the, the, the court is going to have to deal with as to the circumstances of the arrest detention and the open trends, interest custody. we would hope that the correctly procedures have been followed so that it won't impact on the proceedings because what the victims want to see is a fair process. and these in this individual particular family, prosecuted and convicted according to the e

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. as think deeper and brain carrying nancy, my washington, d. c, and constantine again. and melanie is good to see bell a catalina. let's start with you. how big was the pressure on the white house to make this deal happen? 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 victoria boot in exch

u. s. department of the treasury, hillary clinton, when she was secretary of state, was active at the same time. the united states had several prisoners of weaker origin chinese muslims. they were housed at one torno at the notorious u. s. prison camp there and they needed to be resettled. while the governments of albania and fiji agreed to take 2 weaker is each. there were still 2 that needed to find somewhere to go, and no country wanted them. so hillary clinton called the president of switzerland and said, we want you to take these 2 weeks hours. the president of switzerland said that the country was not interested in taking any wiggers or any other people from guantanamo. this discussion went back and forth for several months until finally hillary clinton sent a cable to the president of switzerland through the u. s. embassy in that country, and she said, we really want you to take these 2 weeks hours. the president of switzerland then came back and said, we'll take the 2 weeks. if you arrest bradley burke and felt to which hillary clinton said, done. and that's exactly what happened, an order went from the state

u. s. had only been able to account for about 10 percent of the weapons and sent the claim by that point. that's an incredibly low numbers. and i just saw today, this year's a us criminal institution. i'm forgetting which one, but that they are now down in the alarm bells that they expect these weapons end up in the hands of criminal element. so this is a real problem here. is the problem that i think the, by the ministration has no interest in handling. and how do we know this? we know this because the democrats voted down in a house committee, a republican proposal to audit the weapons that have already been sent to you. so we know that the u. s. has no interest in being held accountable on any. yeah, it's really devastating. now my job button is kind of said that these weapons that washington is providing you. grain are only defensive. it's an interesting word, but there's with alligators, that nato rounds of ease to show civilian areas in de la ask, what do you think about that? yeah, i wit

u. s. had ministration of john and i guess, and there's also another thing up and they go after the german reunification this, even though nato obviously did make promises or not expanding further for no such guarantees were given in writing. and they probably already had some thoughts about ukraine by 4, and that's what caused all the tensions. and the conflict now developed into a law. i don't know if our austin audience knows that, but ukraine's a name cramer literally means on edge or on the boundary or between 2 different camps or cry. peruse, get in russian with the law with the law. so the political neutrality, it is now an open question, where the boundary between east and west will lie. what do you think is the most realistic scenario of this point of time with russia having and once deep into the ukranian territory and having accepted for with former regions into its own territory? where do you think this fighting could stop? what could be this new line, dividing, new wall, dividing t

u. s. 7 fleet. and then my also my time at the office of naval intelligence. so i had a continuous look at the p l. a. the appeal i navy, and have watched them prepare for this and been trying to one americans that will not prepare. you know, the china. i've also been encouraged by recent wars that the united states has been involved in, in the sense that, okay, the united states, her fear ethically believes that taiwan is part of china. but china is also viewing what has been happening over the past 20 years. the u. s. defeat in afghanistan. notably, and of course, the nato was in syria, afghanistan and iraq, libya and realized they better get a move on because the united states is expanding its reach 400 military bases around at china. and that's a, that's what's concerning them, not to the semi mystical idea of an anniversary numer logically and the importance of reuniting china. well, my neurology is not a myth, it's something that they clearly stayed over and over again. they're going to have a grand ceremony on october 2049 to celebrate the rejuvenation, the grea

u. s. population are under weather warnings. more than 4000 flights within into or out of the u. s. had been cancelled 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. the cold snap is even affecting southern states, such as texas, where sub 0 temperatures are rare. further north, it's expected to drop below minus 17 celsius. some areas are forecast to get as low as minus $45.00 celsius. experts warn this could lead to frostbite in 5 to 10 minutes. rosalind 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 frostbite and hypothermia, particularly for those without shelter. jagow and call their please my pose on i think most winters we unfortunately deal is some of

u. s. that had tried to align with the u. s. have been sacrificed on the altar of profit of military industrial complex supremacy in the u. s. u. c. now ukrainian, you see libyan, you see theory and you see iraqis and africans, of course, from the past 2 decades of war. so ultimately, anyone who's anyone around the world knows the u. s. cannot be trusted. the u. s. is not a trustworthy partner. and the u. s will always backstab its allies for its own game. christopher holly, political analyst and researcher, thank you for that. thank you very much. the ukraine wants to hold a p summit up the united nations to put an end to the conflict, but it doesn't anticipate russia taking part that's according to the ukranian foreign minister. and he added that russia must face a war crimes tribunal prior to any direct negotiations. the idea of the peace formula is to fault on the one hand, not to allow russia to manipulate the issue of peace. because they regularly say that they are ready for negotiations, which is not true because everythi

u. s. had you monic power in the south pacific because a think tank our pro blinking. people seem to want to say, look, china isn't in with russia. we can use somehow ukraine to cleave russia and china. how do you see it as a former director of intelligence in the u. s. specifically? well, we've watched the chinese and the russian forces operate together since the establishment of the shanghai cooperation organization in 2005, the china and russia just announced a new naval exercise with a full squadron of russian naval assets leading black bar stock. so these chinese almost a dozen worships and submarines were out for a week from the chinese side are probably going to be operating with their russian counterparts. i would expect chinese unable forces to circumnavigate japan, go along and up the east side of honju and then come up to the north to operate in the sea of japan, at least at 1st. and then we saw just about 3 weeks ago, russian and chinese fighters and bombers operating again once again together the 5th time this year. and at the end of that exercise, russian

u. s. had gemini, is so dangerous, is it? the law is the sovereignty of all the countries. the exceptionalism that america uses in its international war planning is one of the greatest threats to the populations of different nations. if nature, what is founded, shareholders in the united states and elsewhere in large obs companies would lose millions and millions or is business and businesses good. and that is the reality of what we're facing, which is fashion. ah, welcome back. across stock. we're all things are considered on peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing europe's choice. ah hey, let's go back to tom in north florida. it's already been brought up in this program . i think it's really worth talking about more is a we experiencing the end of globalization as we've understood it for the last half century. because it seems to me that with this gambit that the u. s. is a playing visa v. russia and using the proxy, warren kit in ukraine, is that the u. s. wants to go on and its own controlled globalization, which europe would be part of, and there'll be other glob

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, but was sentenced to 25 years in prison. he would have been released in 2036. and in addition to greiner, the u. s. government also tried but was unable to secure the release of poll whelan . he is a us citizen who has been held in 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 h