Already say the final death toll will be staggering the top of. The monthly. Terms and dark drama joker takes the golden lion award for best movie at the Venice Film Festival find out more about the title role performances got all the critics excited to. Play. American evanston its good to have you with us. A long awaited exchange of prisoners between russia and ukraine has taken place the swap is being viewed as a step towards easing tensions between the neighboring countries and could also increase the chances of resolving the conflict in Eastern Ukraine 5 years of fighting between troops and russian backed separative has left more than 13000 people dead. I their 1st steps of freedom back on home soil 35 former prisoners arriving in kiev. A handshake from the president is nothing compared to the embrace of a loved one. Some had been separated for months others years never knowing what would come next. For most of the Knowledge Status kept on changing we heard that the prisoner swap was going to fall through. The end of august it was a difficult time i couldnt sleep for 5 days. They only told us today at 4 in the morning that we should pack and someone would pick us up so the time for the flight just crawled. Ukraines president low to me is alinsky looked on as his Campaign Promise became a reality. Its the 1st move he says towards ending the conflict with moscow. But all this is the 1st step to reopening dialogue the 1st stage to ending the war to getting all our soldiers and sailors back and to reclaiming our territory not that well on them that was what you put in the 1000 did it go to. This man received special attention filmmaker all the sense of ukraines most famous political prisoner he was captured in crimea in 2014 just as the territory was invaded and i nixed by russia. Also released 24 sailors captured by russia last year in unable to suits. But the same time another plane carrying Prisoners Released by ukraine landed in moscow among them journalist vission ski head of russian state media in ukraine who kiev had accused of treason and. Also transferred to me to see more of a separatist commander accused of involvement in the downing of flight m. H. 175 years ago ukraine released him despite pleas from the netherlands which lost citizens in the aircraft attack. But for russia and ukraine getting their prisoners back took Priority International observers including the European Union has urged the 2 warring countries to maintain the momentum towards peace. And lets get a check now of some of the other stories making news around the world. And another blow to the embattled British Government employment secretary amber rudd has stepped down tensions over bread that remain high londons all rival demonstrations on saturday as progress of marchers clashed with police earlier this Week Parliament voted to block a new deal exit from the new. Pope francis has joined 100000 young people in madagascar are for an evening vigil earlier he planted a boa bob tree in a symbolic move to support Pro Environmental efforts in the country francis has repeatedly touched on environmental themes in his 3 nation tour of east africa. Police in hong kong have tried to Disperse Protesters who gathered at a train station in a bid to disrupt traffic to the airport prodemocracy activists have vowed to continue their protests despite hong kong leader kerry lab announcing the withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill. Around 60 pilot whales have become stranded on a beach in iceland the animals got trapped. In the shallows of a rocky seaweed covered part of the coast they were spotted by hikers and a rescue group is now trying to push the whales back out to sea. Hurricane dorian is speeding towards canada after making landfall in the u. S. States of north and South Carolina forecasters expected to bring Hurricane Force winds to parts of nova scotia late on saturday the storm has already left a trail of devastation in the bahamas and thousands of people have been fleeing the islands to escape the catastrophic aftermath of the storm the death toll is now at 73 is expected to rise sharply. A cruise ship full of evacuees from the bahamas people on board have survived an apocalypse and for now theyre the lucky ones. Desperation is setting in for those left behind whove lost everything. Until the bridge or even nobody. Will be on the poles who have nothing no are no power no more i know. I its by everything we have seen printing is made such. As the scale of the destruction becomes Clear International aid efforts are ramping up. But its a complicated task the destruction is so widespread. We have 2 major islands in the bahamas grand bahama and abaco and oftentimes we forget about the many keys around the clothes that particular. We have to put this focus on those keys because we have residents living on those fees as well in the us dorian made landfall as a category one storm hitting the coast of. North carolina with battering waves storm surges and heavy rains caused extensive flooding from powerful winds and a series of tornadoes ripped the roofs off houses and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people. Dorian has lost little steam as it barrels on towards Eastern Canada packing sustained winds of up to 145 Kilometers Per Hour is forecast to touch down in nova scotia later on saturday. Iran says it can now and rich rainy into weapons grade material and yet another violation of the 2050 nuclear deal with world powers tehran announced it fired up advanced centrifuges prohibited by the accord in the appears to be an attempt to put pressure on european powers to do more to salvage the nuclear dear after the u. S. Unilaterally pulled out last year. Centrifuges like the spy needed to enrich uranium tehran now says its cut its centrifuges back into operation making it possible to enrich more uranium at a higher concentration a breach of the nuclear agreement. Law home but a few other signatories stick to their commitments sort of will we but until then well go our own way the europeans should know that there isnt much time left but if you want to act you should do so quickly. But the europeans are sticking to their demands. Weve been very clear and consistent that our commitment to the nuclear deal depends on full compliance you know on. The streets of tehran when you support the governments hard line on the nuclear deal. With industrial europeans are doing the bidding of the americans we have to do our own sittings on the ground its a fine line for tehran to trade between its own conservative hard linus and its european partners. France has offered iran a 15000000000. 00 credit line to compensate its for the economic sanctions in return tehran would be expected to return to the nuclear deal with. All rights and sports news now and cameron soccer legend samuel etoo is hanging up his booth at the age of 38 the former barcelona forward is best known for his days at the camp nou where he was 3 lolita titles and 2 Champions League crowns hes also the most capped african player in the Spanish League at tow represented cameron at 4 world cups and was named african player of the year 4 times. In formula one ferraris Charles Le Clerc locked up whole position for qualifying for sundays italian grand prix ferrari fans out in full force and monza were ecstatic with the cleric showing no start at the front of the grid with Mercedes Lewis hamilton fellow mercedes driver voluntary boathouses in the 2nd row with live clerics teammate Sebastian Vettel ferrari are hoping to win their 1st home g. P. s since 2010. Now its one of the biggest prizes in International Cinema the golden lion from the Venice Film Festival this years prize has been an announced and its joker from american director Todd Phillips the film is a dark were agents story. Of the batman villain starring 100. 00 phoenix in the title role its the 1st golden lion for philips as a director. To talk more about that his Film Festival im joined in the studio by Melissa Holroyd from culture hello to you melissa so joker gets the top prize do you think it deserves it. Certainly looked like it deserved it during the screenings that got very long Standing Ovations cheering almost all of that screenings down there a large part of that was due to Joaquin Phoenixs outstanding performance as flick a mentally ill stand up comic whos taking care of his ailing mother and who ends up going down a very very dark path finnick said he lost 52. 00 pounds and started to go mad while preparing for the role that occasion. Hes always doing that work in phoenix is always diving into roles the film has a lot to say about Mental Illness and access to guns the act the inspiration for it is said to come from Martin Scorseses taxi driver and king of comedy both which spotlight the dark side of american celebrity a big part of this films punch is that it invites the audience to love the monster so it sounds like a very psychological film very dark i mean i suppose that resonated with a lot of people this time around all right lets talk about director todd philips how important is this win for him its very important Todd Phillips is best known for writing and directing the hangover films and for war dogs this is a very very important when the festival and especially the golden lion is really seen as a gateway to the oscars the winners of the last few years have done very well after winning venice of the coorong thrown by went on to pick up 3 oscars all right well there was some controversy at this years festival in venice in particular over the inclusion of a film by director Roman Polanski now polanski is wanted in the United States and statutory rape charges it stemming from something that happened in the seventys many people were quite upset that his film was included in the festival how did this all play out in the end i think in the end it could be said that did a great job of publicizing his film. Which was very very well received the inclusion of polanski has of course been heavily criticized in this age of me too with people saying you know how come when we have only 2 female directors in the competition do we have you know do we have Roman Polanski there as well now melissa i know youve been sort of following the ins and outs of the festival what were some highlights for you well one of the films that absolutely has to be spoken about is the painted by chick to rector model who this is a film that has to be talked about because it was arguably the most shocking film at the festival a lot of people walked out of the cinema but its also been given rave reviews its the 1st movie ever in slavic esperanto a created language the director said he didnt want to single group of people to be directly associated with these awful events its set somewhere in Eastern Europe at the bloody clothes of the 2nd world war and it follows a young jewish boy and his struggle to survive the movie was nearly 11 years in the making its very very violent the director describes it as a timeless story that is not in fact a holocaust film its rather about the struggle between darkness and light and good and evil. 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