then to indigenous leader winona laduke. a judge in minnesota has thrown out criminal charges against her and two other water defenders who were arrested for protesting at the construction site of enbridge's line 3 pipeline. >> it has been heartbreaking for us to undergo this trauma of all of these years of facing this corporation, and have the judge say to criminalize as further would be a crime, that was just all the kind of cry. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. authorities in nagorno-karabakh say they have accepted a russian-proposed ceasefire, one day after azerbaijan launched a military operation in the contested territory. peace talks between azerbaijan and armenia are scheduled to start thursday. yesterday's attack reportedly killed closed to 100 people and injured hundreds. tensions have been growing in nagorno-karabakh in recent months as azerbaijani forces sealed off its only road linking it to armenia, leading to major food,

the three women -- winona laduke, tania aubid, dawn goodwin -- were arrested on the banks of the mississippi river on ceded anishinaabe land as they sang, danced, and prayed near construction crews. in a landmark opinion delivered monday, aitkin county judge leslie metzen wrote the women were exercising their rights to free speech and to freely express their spiritual beliefs. the judge dismissed the charges against them in the interests of justice she said, including "to criminalize their behavior would be the crime." five u.s. citizens released from prison in iran monday following a rare prisoner swap agreement between the united states and tehran have landed in the u.s.. they were freed after the u.s. unfroze $6 billion of iran's oil revenue and released five iranians imprisoned in the u.s. secretary of state antony blinken spoke to the five americans after their release. >> i can tell you it was for them, for me an emotional conversation. it is easy in the work we do every day sometimes to get lost in the obstructions of foreign-policy and relations of other countries. and forgetting the