they did not manage to return viktor but.tate in which the owner left it in 2008, but, of course, all things were carefully preserved here and his music library and of course, the souvenirs that he brought from all over the world, for example, such a map of africa for many years of persecution and accusations of illegal trade viktor butuv was lucky enough to hug his mother pilot yaroshenko was so unlucky his mother died before his son returned viktor botha was arrested in thailand in 2008, as in in the case of konstantin yaroshenko, this was a planned us action that considered it possible to detain people in third countries, then there were extraditions and in 2012 a sentence of 25 years in prison, the businessman became interested in graphics paint portraits in bed at home, will return in the status of members of the union of artists of russia unfortunately , the last, and the last, probably, 5 years. he was not able to draw because he was transferred back to a strict regime of detention, and he was no longer able to do anyt

then an arm trafficking investigator who tracked viktor viktor bout for years. we will look at the assassination of jamal khashoggi. the u.s. federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit because the saudi brown krantz -- saudi prince. >> there was the obligation from the biden administration. they could have remained mum on the matter. it was too difficult for them to weigh in but they chose not to do that. they chose to voluntarily respond to suggest immunity for mohammed bin salman. amy: we will speak with sarah leah whitson. her group was a coplaintiff with jamal khashoggi's fiancÉ in the lawsuit. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. wnba star brittney griner landed in san antonio, texas, early this morning after her release thursday from a russian prison in exchange for notorious russian arms dealer viktor bout. the prisoner swap ends griner's 10-month ordeal, which started with her arrest at a moscow airport for possessing a small amount of cannabis oil. she had been sentenced to nine

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medvedchuk was viktor medvedchuk. lurking behind the walls of the sbu since april, was also flown to russia. i congratulate you, solomiya vitvitska, this is the invincible program. stories about those thanks to whom ukraine remains invincible. march 2022 is the most difficult month in the history of chernihiv. the city is almost completely blockaded. products are delivered here by volunteers under constant fire in early spring. chernihiv remains without heat, water supply and electricity throughout the city. in one day, on march 3, 32 townspeople were killed and at least 18 were wounded. on march 16, the fascists fired at a human queue for bread, 13 people died on the spot. the wounded cannot be counted. they are accepted by hospitals that also work under fire. the medical front is on a par with the armed forces. it makes history. doctors save human lives in medieval conditions in the cold , darkness and in the absence of water. doctors live at work . hospital, he comes to the aid of his colleagues from the military h

actually, we see viktor but, who is walking on the runway .eign ministry of this exchange? it was possible to achieve thanks to a long and very difficult. american side practically to the last refused a constructive dialogue. they kept it, of course. uh. as a result, as we see the agreement was nevertheless reached. here viktor bout is in the cabin of a private jet, and we measure the temperature, he looks quite thinner. and what can i say enough, aged compared to those video cameras that we periodically showed archival video frames. yes, definitely here to measure the pressure temperature. this is the first thing to do after he was released from american prison. and see that i'm fine. it tells me that now he will probably have his conversation with his family on the phone, which so far we have heard, that from the side of the wife in direct connection it is impossible to go to church, everyone met. it would be fine, don't worry, everything is fine. i love you very much. don't worry, everything is fine. i'll tell you when we meet. everything i

depends on what viktor bout does. his lawyer in russia said, look, a pardon signed by president biden at the american interest in viktor bout is now over but viktor bout goes back to old arms smuggling ways i expect he'll be back on u.s. radar. his lawyer told me earlier he's probably going to live a more quiet life now but we shall see. >> indeed. joining us to discuss, representing brittney griner in russian court. maria, congratulations on getting your client out, playing the role that you did. when did you find out brittney would be released and what was her reaction when she found out? >> well, we found out about the release, in fact, today, but there were signs. there were positive signs, i would say, which appeared last week, and i got a call from brittany then last week and she told me that she's hopeful. so we had an understanding that things would be happening very, very soon. so she was just, as i said, very hopeful and expecting this to happen. >> for months the discussion has been about swapping viktor bo

uh, he didn't need to be persuaded viktor anatolyevich is a courageous person.or a long time with his beautiful wife alla yuryevna and, uh, viktor bout is a truly iconic figure. in today's russia, he courageously endured the most difficult conditions of many years in prison at that time. he read a lot. he thought a lot, uh he is highly analytical and uh, he made a decision for himself did not make it yesterday. well, as for his role in party affairs. now his task is to restore health, and then we will look. ah, and such a question. eh, after all, you will offer him some position of the party, it’s too early to talk about it. maybe it's an iconic figure? but now i emphasize, it's too early to say whether ordinary party members will take it. uh, some serious positions, party hierarchies. we can say that viktor bout is our pride and i think that they will say so, not only members of the liberal democratic party well, for us, uh, the arrival of viktor anatolyevich of many of those who today are writing a statement with a front line asking to accept a member of the l

viktor will not see this puppy yet.d in the coming days elizabeth, the daughter of victor, should return to moscow from a business trip, as if she is now in a hurry to go home in order to meet, finally, with dad in person for the first time. it's been over three years now. and this one will be very long and happy holidays for the family. ahead of the first new year, a full-fledged for the family. and on january 13, on the old new year, victor will finally celebrate his birthday at home. alexey thank you or for this the long-awaited khramtsov channel, the release of the rector of but, who will fly to moscow in the next few hours. but in the united states, president joe biden reacted extremely ambiguously to today's news. of course, he called it a great success. the homecoming of an american drug lover, with the help of which she apparently counts. well, at least somehow raise the ratings, the current administration, however, representatives of the republican party have a completely different opinion. they call the releas

pierre thomas, what more can you tell us about viktor bout. >> reporter: viktor bout is a convicted arms smuggler of the highest order that the united states government had convicted. he was serving a 25-year sentence. i spoke with a source just a few moments ago who said the swap had, in fact, taken place. brittney griner for viktor bout. obviously law enforcement not the lead on this particular case. this was held -- dealt with at the highest diplomatic levels as cecilia just said. the president himself signing off on this swap. the white house was under enormous pressure to get this done. the likes of lebron james, stephen curry, major stars in the nba telling the white house over and over, get this done. this woman does not need to be in custody, so therefore the united states government reacting to this had been working behind the scenes, my source saying the swap has taken place. law enforcement was involved in transporting viktor bout to the location, the swap has taken place, george. >> okay, thank you. let me bring in martha raddatz. and, martha, we know there are other american

he used to come here often, but after the death of viktor stepanovich, strangers settled here. the son of ryakhin lives there, as i understand it, his name is nikita, but i don’t know for sure about the name, but again, according to the stories of my grandfather. that's it, let's just say it for the fact that they looked after him lived there, let's say. so where are the children lyudmila ryakhina is a social worker who was assigned to the veteran of the great patriotic war viktor vasin before his death. a 94-year-old man unexpectedly included lyudmila her husband in his will and made the daughter-in-law of the late veteran the happy heirs of two apartments in nizhny novgorod and the volga region. olga recalls it happened very quickly to the direct heirs of the grandson and granddaughter. just put before the fact the monstrous too. i think the memory was affected by some kind of pressure, because he, in the first place, already at such an age was quite sweaty, he was residential people. they are very like. here again, too, he survived and to change the death of his son, while t

and businessman viktor bout returned to moscow, he spent 14 years in an american prison on frankly far-fetched and unproven charges, he was exchanged for an american britney runner as a result of long and painstaking negotiations with his relatives. victor works met our correspondent. boris ivanin. he managed to get exclusive footage of how victor would have entered the moscow land and met with his wife and mother. so boris is now in direct contact with us. boris is waiting for all the details from you, how everything went. yes, greetings anton. again. indeed, it was a very touching meeting. after so many years of separation, uh, almost 14 years. victor bout spent e away from his homeland, and finally that night he returned to russia, this path was not easy in many ways, including in the most direct e from the state of illinois, where victor seemed to be kept in prison. at first, uh, he was sent by plane to british manchester there was refueling, and then from the uk an abortion with a russian flew to abu dhabi exactly there in the capital of the united an exchange took place in the united ara

viktor chumak, the chief military prosecutor of ukraine in the 19-20th years, viktor, stay with us in federation on friday morning resulted in the damage of approximately nine generation facilities and limited the production of nuclear plants. this was announced by the head of the ministry of energy herman galushchenko. what we are already seeing is the damage to about nine generation facilities. now we are still verifying the damaged substations that transmit electricity, which led to the limitation of production, primarily of nuclear generation, and the emergency situation was announced by ukrenergo through russian shelling as a result of massive missile attacks on the electric power infrastructure of ukraine caused a loss of more than 50% of the consumption of the unified energy system in accordance with the market rules. chief military prosecutor of ukraine in 2019-20 major general of justice viktor thank you for being with us and you have noted the mechanism by which it will be necessary to bring to justice of russian war criminals at the same time, we will understand that the ru

exchanged for convicted arms dealer viktor bout.e united states to make the hard calls and protect american citizens everywhere in the world, anywhere in the world, and i'm proud that today we had made one more family whole again so welcome home, brittney. >> cnn national security correspondent kylie atwood is at the state department. kylie, state department,

putin is going to be ready to deploy viktor bout. he comes with years of experience, years of contacts. he started in ukraine. i think that's one of the areas we have to be concerned about right away. we viktor bout will be a major asset for putin. >> so she doesn't think he's retired. she thinks he's going to be a national security threat. >> yes but he's been in jail for 12 years. he's been cut off from his network. and before that he hadn't been active for a number of years. so if you lost your network, your suppliers, you have to rebuild that. i respectfully disagree, but she's an expert and national security, i'm not. but from the evidence i heard of the trial, it seems unlikely to me that he can go back in the business now. he's a marked guy. >> thinking about the idea of the mandatory minimum, you had descendants him, to an important point you raised. but for many looking at this and saying you know, there is an imbalance between the allegations against brittney griner and those against viktor bout. india about the amount of t

who is viktor bout? he is a monster, but he is also — who is viktor bout?er, but he is also one of— who is viktor bout? he is a monster, but he is also one of the _ who is viktor bout? he is a monster, but he is also one of the most - but he is also one of the most prolific arms traffickers. he was so sophisticated that even when sanctions were in place against him, he managed to support those sanctions and managed to be responsible for delivering weapons to conflict and ward zones from our scanners than, colombia, congo, sierra leone, liberia, pretty much all overthe sierra leone, liberia, pretty much all over the world. that resulted in hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of debts.— hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of debts. they have made one movie about _ millions, of debts. they have made one movie about this _ millions, of debts. they have made one movie about this guy, - millions, of debts. they have made one movie about this guy, the - millions, of debts. they have made one movie about this guy, the onel one movie about this guy, the one

the hunter, who was assigned to the veteran of the great patriotic war viktor vasin before his death, the 94-year-old man unexpectedly included her husband's lyudmila in his will, made the late veteran's daughter-in-law the happy heirs of two apartments in nizhny novgorod and the volga region. olga recalls that it happened very quickly to the direct heirs of the grandson and the granddaughter was simply confronted with the fact that stepanovich was subjected to some kind of pressure, because he, firstly, was already such an age, he was quite malleable people. they are very like, here again, too, he survived the death of his son, while the son of viktor vasin konstantin was alive, everything was in order. he regularly visited the veteran, but after his sudden death, the pensioner was left alone with the social services. after that, of course, we had to use the services already. everything worked, because in the first place. well, especially, well, it's difficult to travel from moscow all the time. e here, but we were not going to. never stop contact. nobody was going to take him to a n

and businessman viktor bout returned to moscow; he spent 14 years in an american prison on frankly far-fetched and unproven charges, he was exchanged for an american woman. britney granners as a result of long and painstaking negotiations with relatives. victor work met our correspondent. boris ivanin. he managed to get exclusive footage of how victor entered moscow land and met his wife and mother. victor bout spent almost 14 years away from his homeland , and finally, this night, he returned to russia this the path was not easy in many ways, including in the most direct way. see from illinois where victor will be kept in jail. first, uh, he was sent by plane to british manchester, there was refueling, and then from the uk, an abortion with a russian flew to abu dhabi, it was there, in the capital of the united arab emirates, that the exchange took place. uh, our compatriot for an american basketball player to buy a non-grainer, who was convicted here in russia. uh, 9 years in prison for drug smuggling and possession. and here, uh then from abu dhabi, and already the plane headed for russia,

marshals had moved viktor bout.hed out to the white house, but they would not confirm in even this morning very early when i said we repor this. has he been released from federal custody? typically switzerland is the place for these great. >> so they both are on their wa home. does he worry about that message . >> several adversaries have see them taking hostages they treat them like ponds. brittney griner was detained days before the invasion of ukraine. no doubt, this was part of russia's plan. you knew she was coming over, take it we don't even know if i was planted on her. it would be that advantage to say that to blame the russian government and make things worse . it might have been a at tactic ph you might've been forced to admit to something she didn't do . >> absolutely it is a fantastic day for that family, no doubt about it they are celebrating and we saw the wife grinning broadly, and so so happy, but a the same time, there was so much , and you know this from covering it, there was so much political pre

a guy named viktor bout.f course the dea has a global operational footprint and we put together a complex sting to go after viktor bout. it was a very successful operation after like seven months, it was like record time to actually indict him on four terrorism charges and to bring him to justice to america. unfortunately we had a setback at first with the lower thai court that ruled against extradition but, pete, i never watched such great work by american patriots in the white house and throughout the interagency. president obama was newly elected. he started out and secretary state clinton, attorney general holder, all their principles were at this meeting and basically everyone came together because we did not want to see viktor bout get released. fortunately we were successful and he was brought back to face justice. as you said, he was convicted on terrorism counts, very significant terrorism counts. lisa: derek, what i worry about is the precedent that this sets. what does this mean for americans trave

hello in the studio, eduard petrov asks viktor zvonovsky to commit murder directly from the apartment, when there was some kind of violation of the law, he was tough on this, if you saw the dacha. and thought about the security system. the murder of the prosecutor of the khanty-mansiysk autonomous okrug yuri bedelin became the most high-profile crime of 2000, the best detectives were sent to search for the killers, researchers from all over the country managed to quickly find the killers and the organizer of the crime and pointed to the customer an influential official, the head of the local control and audit department of the ministry of finance, yuri chekin, for a criminal auditor. hunted for many years. at first i searched, the prosecutor general's office, and then the investigative committee offered a substantial reward for information on the whereabouts, but to find a fugitive. could only 2021. after chekin's relatives began to fight for the legacy of the invisible man. how did the accused manage to hide for so long, how did yuri chekin earn a living while in hiding, and why his

i'm not viktor arbut., i didn’t violate the laws of the russian federation, liberia, not the usa, i’ve never been to the usa and they legally took them out in the same way that victor bout was illegally expressed from thailand . there was no procedure going on either passed, so i believe this is the exchange. this is a victory for our authorities, who were purposefully trying to pull me out of the american walls, as well as the vectors of the last decades there, and this is in the end. they came to the conclusion that it is necessary to give the americans a tough equivalent response, as they do with our citizens. it is very rightly said, but you correctly noticed that now in the usa a scandal over the exchange is flaring up. viktor bout in the media directly they say that this exchange is unequal americans are used to changing in a completely different way for the first time in history they managed to change one for one, and the scandal is big, because they themselves are trump's former security adviser. j

but as you alluded to, the american people don't care about viktor bout. they wanted brittney griner out and that's the priority here. just terribly sad for paul whelan's family, and clearly the russians are treating that differently, treating it as a spy case and looking for a different kind of swap. but viktor bout was a very dangerous person accused also of providing weapons to the taliban, al qaeda, all sorts of nefarious groups. >> all over africa as well. to your point about the people who took down viktor bout, this long, complicated operation where they did get him eventually but then i'm thinking about as you cover justice, the prosecutors in the southern district of new york who put together this comprehensive case, took him down, put him away in a federal prison in illinois, they thought maybe for the rest of his life. are you hearing from any of them today? >> i'm hearing from justice department official who is just don't like these kinds of swap, period. they never have because it's just such an unequal trade. and it's really blackmail. and, y

little bit, not about our time, so far i do n't expect anything like that well, that's exactly when viktor was speaking. it was part of that map, which was presented to show how successfully wagner is trying to storm bakhmut, how unsuccessfully , in parallel, there are troops there near in kharkiv region were they regrouping or retreating or what were they doing eh well and eh, since we already talked about what is very strongly marked in this, it is precisely near bakhmut that the whole situation is noted, after all, the ratio of artillery, then probably also the ratio of artillery, well, at least parity would be artillery eh- ours with russian might have softened this situation. perhaps this is how you can say it to express this opinion because so far there is no well-worn artillery there, they are pulling more and more artillery. judging by all this, the main idea in principle is to concentrate there more sertilleria to still be broken. that's the only way i see it. let's talk near melitopol because, well, ughledarska near ughledarska. apparently , the attempt to storm something there e

player britney griner, relatives did not know until the last, we talked with viktor on tuesday. he still didn’t know anything, as if they were waiting at home for viktor’s office, all things were carefully preserved in the kremlin by the heroes of russia sincerely i thank you for the service to the fatherland, the memory of our ancestors. each name on the award list is a feat on the verge of human capabilities. the enemy will be defeated , victory will be ours to hide our plan from our opponents. from which the dnieper is visible, it is better to run so as not to be a target alexander balitsky about the extremely magnificent reception of the chinese leader in saudi arabia, the ceremony should have upset biden. merkel admitted that europe never wanted ukraine to comply with the minsk agreements. here is a specific request for tribunal recall the words of merkel seven years ago, the way out of the crisis lies in the strict observance of the minsk agreements. why is she better than a masked european diplomat of a barrel who is trying to scare moscow into turning boris godunov into

is the argument that viktor orbán actually feels very confident about and allows him.r has been doing this for 12 years already that's why the situation is even more complicated and more intriguing because it's very interesting how the european commission is going to act this time. well, it's not that they destroyed this situation, but it's roughly the same because i'm sure that it's not in the interests of, for example, ukraine not from the west completely not to give funds so that it fell on the knees of the economic best, but at the same time again like 12 years in a row saying to forgive all these maneuvers to hungary especially since there are reasons, you understand. that is, there is the issue of freedom of speech, the issue of corruption is the same all specific well problems so that's why well, you know, it's such a very intriguing moment right now, er, internally victor robin feels very confident, i.e. 50-52%, er, and the prospects that these ratings will disappear are not yet visible. to win over the sympathies of the hungarians there, whose such force is al

why has viktor bout been so important to vladimir putin? >> there's a little bit of a mystery there as a number of people have mentioned. you know, i think that,ing loo, the reports are that he was probably a gru officer. there was some kind of intel background there. he's part of this emergence of these -- yes, merchant of death but an arms oligarch. you can think of him that way where he was promoting russia expansionism and influence through arms deals in africa and, look, right now, what does russia need? they need more arms. kind of convenient for him to come back now. i'm sure all these contacts just mentioned around the world certainly would be useful but the russians have been after him for a long time and i'm sure it's because of personal professional and economic financial connections from his past. >> the president discussed today the difficult choice in the sense that secretary blinken has as well as you noted this was not a deal where -- it was not a bring paul whelan home or brittney griner home. it was either get brittney gri

here is the next time now the deputy will meet with the family of viktor bout and together.hen they will go to the airport. where is the nearest ? well, you can say for a moment. she, of course, this longest, perhaps a minute. e in the life of the family bud. well, at least over the past 15 years, twice a week, relatives could contact your loved one. and on tuesday, and not the last time we talked today , there was supposed to be another conversation, but not by myself in the morning, businessman. not his relatives did not know that the meeting would take place so quickly, and this is what relatives say about that recent conversation. well, we talked with victor on tuesday. he didn't know anything yet. it was the day before yesterday. eh, i say, i was supposed to call today, just like that, just eight in the evening, they were waiting for a call. here, but see you. i'll hug, just instead of calling. it will be the most the best is the best and better than anyone. wife and daughter victor will last personally visited him in prison in 2019 then with great difficulty. they were

everyone who followed your fate, dear viktor anatolyevich, and most of them in our country, are wellaware that even far from your homeland you experienced in connection with the events related to the special military operation of our soldiers on the front line. this fact is an example of the fact that the difficult conditions in which you were in america did not break or weaken your love for the fatherland. we we are sincerely glad that russian efforts for your release were crowned with success. from the bottom of our hearts we wish you well-being and happiness, now at large in our beautiful and great russia. we want to assure you that we will continue our energetic work to free all russians who have ended up in american prisons, we will not calm down until all our compatriots return home. so this was a statement by anatoly antonov, ambassador of russia to the united states, regarding the release of viktor bot . very soon, the plane with viktor should to land in moscow of course, we will show all this and tell you in more detail. about now the continuation of the documentary film abo

makes no sense to me. >> viktor is not a national security threat. been home for more than 15 years. the time he was, he wasn't involved in any business that violated u.s. law. what viktor's going to do now is go back to retirement, take care of his family, and look after his kid who just got married in viktor's absence. >> reporter: the prisoner swap coming at a time when u.s./russia relations are more strained than they've been since the cold war. griner detained one week before russian forces invaded ukraine. just this week, ten civilians killed by a russian air strike. and in turn, two explosions at a russian air base. as of now, no one has taken credit for that attack. as the war drags on, some say this prisoner exchange, a high-level arms dealer for a basketball player, could be a diplomatic showcase for president vladimir putin, that he still has power on a world stage. >> this is about saying that russia is able to make the u.s. do something that it doesn't want to do and that russia is able to force the u.s. to give someone back who it reall

viktor bout was released today in abu dhabi.sketball player and returns to her homeland. with which we congratulate victor's family with a bottle, of course, our entire country. this is really a big important event victor bout will be at home today. well, we are also following what is happening on the fronts of the special military operation and now boris alexandrovich rozhin is in touch with us boris alexandrovich good evening. what's new on the fronts? good evening. yes indeed, despite the happy message. fighting on primarily on doms. uh, our troops continue to fight for the pervomaiskaya and nevelskoye waters in the augia region, and a massive enemy counterattack was repelled. in the area of ​​​​the water, the enemy tried to break through in our position with a large armored group and in order to to believe a truly conscious one, because the loss of this village, and i will follow the advance of our troops in the direction of the thin and beyond which the orlovka avd road itself is located, which is supplied with a pharmacy g

i also want once again viktor vasilyevich for the constant attention and support of the unit, even theublic. director of the russian guard viktor zolotov presented ramzan kadyrov with medals for combat commonwealth in the solntsevo metropolitan area, dozens of families may be left without a roof over their heads in the apartments that were given to them in the early nineties , now some residents are being settled right on the street, and as it turned out , no one can legally challenge this decision. it’s all to blame for the confusion with documents that arose 30 years ago . why all these years people allowed me to take ownership of the apartments was found out by eduard buttons. i am requesting you to leave this premises in case of failure to comply with this requirement, you will be bailiffs used physical force, gave ekaterina only 15 minutes to get ready and demanded to vacate this apartment. i have babies. you listen, calm down, they came out of here and returned me by physical force, and the children were given to the authorities, guardians stood here alive in the city of 15 buoys

she was exchanged for convicted russian arms dealer viktor bout.e from alex. >> reporter: the dramatic moment, high stakes prisoner swap. brittney griner walking towards the american plane. coming towards them state department official roger carstegs and viktor bout. griner is leaving russian detention and boarding the plane in the snow. her passport returned, griner smiles knowing she's heading home. >> are you ready for flight? >> yes. >> congratulations again. >> thank you. >> reporter: back in the u.s. griner's wife sherrell was invited to the white house. >> today i'm just standing here overwhelmed with emotions but the most important emotion that i have right now is just sincere gratitude for president biden and his entire administration. >> reporter: the release was the culmination of many months of negotiations with russia. >> this work is not easy. negotiations are always difficult. there are never any guarantees but it's my job as president of the united states to make the hard call to protect american citizens everywhere in the world. >>

that is, what happened to one of the most dangerous people on earth, as viktor butylkin said, viktorain on the fact that you managed to return to your homeland. i think you won't get tired of these congratulations yet. as long as we can before we, uh, discuss this topic simply. uh, today i found out that victor will supported this idea to create such an agency. let's do this. uh, we'll make a preface, as it were, of a political nature, we will need it in further discussion. for the first time , the western press wrote about viktor bout in 2000 on the pages of the new york times, an article appeared that the russian, as if bypassing the sanction , sells weapons to africa, and in return receives the so -called blood diamonds in 2005, 3 years before his arrest, hollywood released the blockbuster arms baron, where the prototype of the protagonist yuri orlov he was played by nicolas cage performed, just victor to sell weapons all the same, to sell in the face, you call, you look for clients, you take orders. i was an honest merchant of death. i supplied all the armies except the army. eig

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in addition, we've heard from former dea agents about this swap, griner for viktor bout. they've told us they want to see these families reunited. but in this case, it undercuts the rule of law in their opinion and sends a very dangerous signal in the future. >> yeah. thank you very much. a day of celebration for the griner family but people concerned, monitoring what happens to viktor bout. merchant of death is one name, but sanction buster is another. vladimir putin has a lot of sanctions he's trying to get around. our coverage of brittney griner's release, that great news today, will continue on cbs news streaming and your local news. we will have much more news ahead here on "cbs mornings." this has been a cbs news special report. i'm tony dokoupil. gayle king, nate burleson, all of us here in new york. thank you for watching. ♪music playing♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ nothing brings the pack together like a trip to great wolf lodge. now open in northern california. >>> welcome back. it's a first alert weather day in the bay area. we are starting off calm. that's not to say things a

security interests and make sure that viktor bout does not again become a threat to american lives. lester >> andrea mitchell thank you. >>> she was known as an independent streak at least, tonight arizona senator kyrsten sinema making it official, leaving the democratic party to register as an independent. ryan nobles with what it means for the balance of power in the senate >> reporter: tonight, a political sonic boom from arizona senator kyrsten sinema announcing she's leaving the democratic party to become an independent. >> registering as an independent and showing up to work with the title of independent is a reflection of who i've always been. nothing is going to change for me. >> reporter: sinema often votes with democrats but had been a holdout on key items of the biden agenda. >> my stand today is about joining the many americans and lots of arizonians, in fact, the majority of registered voters, who don't believe that any political party fits them perfectly >> reporter: her stunning move comes just as democrats had been celebrating, winning their 51st vote, a clear majori

the plane with viktor bout landed at the capital's airport, vnukovo, around midnight, and this way home for the russian was not easy from the us state of illinois, where the businessman was kept in prison for a trans-atlantic flight to british manchester, then after refueling, a flight to abu dhabi, where the exchange took place , and from there to russia, but first to makhachkala, where there was another refueling, and now, finally, moscow, at the airfield trail, he was met by his closest mother and wife , peering through the windows with bated breath. there he is, a few seconds later. the long-awaited meeting with flowers, joyful hugs and tears of happiness waited for whispering son. raisa is blacksmith. but at 83, it seemed to her that she would never see him again. victor, embarrassed, thanks everyone who brought this day closer. well, sort of got there, this is the most important thing. we, of course, congratulate you and warmly. welcome here in russia you learned that here you are, but they are going to return to your homeland, well, in the middle of the night, you just got up get

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they also wanted to get viktor boot out of prison.s been there for more than a decade, for a long time. and one of the questions that has been sort of circulating through this whole thing is whether this long-time arms dealer who is considered one of the most dangerous people on earth was worth more -- the united states should insist that they get more than just a single person back in return, particularly somebody who is held wrongfully. so the fact that they didn't get paul whalen as part of this is i think going to be politically a bit difficult for the president. he's the bigger name -- >> we're learning the president is going to speak at 8:30. >> paul whalen has been in the hospital in recent days in russia. abby, you had that interview we all remember and i understand you've been in touch with cheryl, who is brittney griner's wife? >> yeah. we have been waiting -- they've been waiting for this news for quite some time. what i've been hearing from over there is that they've been waiting for the phone call and that phone call clea

before returning, viktor is already in moscow.e clock in the near future this indicator will pass for minutes with his family. we will wait all this time, we will definitely show this important moment on our air. this is a touching meeting. alexey yes, thanks or khramtsova was live for this, and i will add that we will closely monitor the development of events and return to the topic as new details become available. vladimir putin presented the heroes of russia with gold star medals, the solemn ceremony took place in the kremlin palace and was timed to coincide with the day of heroes of the fatherland, which is celebrated today. we we bow to our ancestors who created the great history of russia full of victories and are proud of the soldiers, officers, volunteers, militiamen who are now fighting, participating in a special military operation, honorably performing combat missions, protecting the life and dignity of our citizens. defending our common right to determine our own destiny. today. the highest state awards will be present

this swap was made yesterday, viktor bout for brittney griner. she will touchdown in san antonio and be taken to the brook army medical center, she lives in phoenix, she is going to the medical center to debrief her or who require sensitive medical care and the hospital that the u.s. government uses to treat people who have survived torture. i love this video of her on the plane. she looks so young and all smiles. you can only imagine what she has gone through, she was sent to the worst kind of russian prison. she was taken captive 10 months ago for having hash /* hashis oil in her baggage. >> todd: we cannot ignore the geopolitical ramifications of this and the tweet storm in response coming from unlikely sources. micah parson tweeting, we are still not voting for you, we are not -- no shot at brittney griner, i'm happy she's back home, i just have family who have served and it crazy to me the president wouldn't bring him home, too. i'm furthest thing from a trump supporter, but i'm not a fan of biden either. that comment from a star football pl

there is no need to wait for it to stop here wait, that’s it, that’s it, it’s your two questions, viktorake, and they will be washed off, mmm, we can recall a number of examples, the russians conducted, they simply use a general strategy, if a certain card did not lead to success, you just need to repeat it until it reaches the volume the president, some specific course of action, we can say chernobaivka, we can ask the entire history of the kherson region as a whole, and we can simply see what exactly is planned, simply absolutely in the system, structurally, not counting losses and if something just doesn't work out, then you have to throw in even more meat and projectiles and everything will definitely work out. well, maybe in their opinion, that's why we actually expect it, i don't expect any big changes here, uh, very practical moves , i tried somehow, i don't know i don't even know what to do in this case, if they have been going there for 9 months , the meat is just coming out and they will prepare the meat, the question is what is the actual capacity of our meat grinder or is it

explain why brittney griner for viktor bout is a good one. >> to be clear, viktor bout is a really bad guy, just like you're reporting, and i would prefer to get more americans out, to get paul whelan out and to get mark fogle out by the way, an american teacher, he used to teach my kids when i was the ambassador, he used to teach the kids of soldiers and diplomats of american, and he is wrongly detained too. i have been in these situations before. back in 2010, we had to make a decision about a spy swap, four spies, alleged spies, i don't know if they're spies or not in russia, for a dozen or so people that we knew were spying in this country, and they were hard call, and the department of justice and the cia and the fbi all got together, and made the hard call, and ultimately president obama made the hard call, take the deal you have now, instead of waiting for a better deal later. and that's exactly what president biden had to do. and we'd like a better deal, of course, but is this a good outcome for the american people, and for brittney griner, of course, that is true as well. >> l

in the family of viktor buton, his return is called a real new year's miracle and the best gift, viktorimself at vnukovo airport, where he was met, was laconic, he was in a hurry to go home, to which he finally got alexander karevich on fedorishchev alekseevich silovsky ntv television company please, the authorities of the self-proclaimed kosovo staged new provocations against kosovo serbs. this night in the north, inhabited by serbs. several hundred kostovo policemen and fighters arrived special forces in full combat gear and actually occupied the city of kosovo, mitrovets, and on the eve of the customs officers carried out a raid on the oldest serbian winery. in the village of velikopocha, kosovars, seized 40,000 liters. guilt. under the pretext that during the covidia epidemic, enterprises stopped working. so, this is an illegal product of riots and bloodshed. managed to avoid only thanks to the owner of the winery, who urged the neighbors not to interfere. they acted in a deliberately rude way. making it clear that serbs have no place here. they want to intimidate us, but we were no