To release her immediately could a diplomatic deal to see her walk free. So coming up on the show, concerned over russias treatment of ukrainian prisoners of war keeps as moscow is behaving illegally with prisoners being sentenced to death on spurious grounds. We meet the parents of one man being held by russia who they fear might face a similar fate. And china stepped up its military activity around taiwan, beijing puts on its biggest shovel force around the island in decades following a controversial visit y u. S. House speaker and see policy. And during world breastfeeding week we had to france to find out why so many women their prefer to feed their babies from the bottle. Ah. Hello, im claire richardson. Thank you so much for joining us. A Russian Court has found us basketball player, brittany griner, guilty of drugs, possession and smuggling. She has been sentenced to 9 years in jail. The sport star was arrested for carrying a vague pen and partridges in her luggage, which contai
To release her immediately. Could a diplomatic deal. See her walk free . Also coming up on the show, china steps up. Its military activity around taiwan. Beijing puts on his biggest show of force around the island of decades following a controversial visit by west. How speaker nancy pelosi. Ah hello, im claire richardson. Thank you so much for joining us. A Russian Court has found us basketball player, Brittany Griner, guilty of drugs, possession and smuggling. Shes been sentenced to 9 years in jail. The sports dar was arrested for carrying a vapor pen and cartridges in her luggage, which contained marijuana oil. Russian authority said the charges against her were fully proven. The u. S. A says shes been wrongfully detained with President Biden calling on russia to release her immediately. Brittany griner entered the cramped court room and defended cell, hoping the sentencing judge would be lenient that the judge would consider that greiner admitted her mistake, but had accidentally pa
For months, Washington had tried to publicize the prisoner exchange via numerous media leaks and public statements, something that was harshly criticized by. 10.12.2022, Sputnik International
these people that are pushing back on it, what if it was your loved one, i don t think you would be pushing back. okay. let s look at the exchanges, if we can, to get an indication as to what it may take to get paul whelan home. for trevor reed the exchange was konstantin yaroshenko, he was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison for cocaine trafficking, griner exchange for viktor bout, mer chant of death, picked up for 7 grams of cannibis oil and he supplied guns for decades. if you look at paul whelan do you have any sense of what category of person or exchange that russia will be looking for here? not really in the sense that they could be looking for spy f symmetry. the united states continues to have custody of high profile russians important to the kremlin for a number of reasons.