requested a colonel convicted of murder and added along this infamous arms dealer for wnba star brittney griner and paul whelan. we have a team of correspondents covering these breaking developments. frederik pleitgen is in moscow for us. let s start with natasha bertrand, who is breaking this exclusive. what have you learned. reporter: what we ve learned is that in response to the russian proposal to trade that arms dealer, viktor bout for the two americans detained in russia, paul whelan and brittney griner, the russians put forward their own request and they said we don t want just viktor bout, we want this guy name vadim krz krosokov, convicted in december of 2021 for murdering in broad daylight a chech an fighter and the germans sentenced him to life in prison. the russians in response to this proposal submitted this kind of back channel request to the americans. it was done through an fsb back channel, the fsb of course is the main security service for the russians.
Breaking news out of the middle east, Especial Msnbc our from irans state tv. They are reporting that irans president , Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a Helicopter Crash on sunday. The president was traveling back from a visit to azerbaijan, when the helicopter he was in made a crash landing. For hours, Rescue Workers were searching for the wreckage and any survivors. Have found the crash site, and there were no survivors. That weather is believed to have contributed to the crash, and it certainly slowed down a Search And Rescue efforts which were going on for hours. U. S. Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer, earlier on sunday saying intelligence authorities informed him that there is, quote, no evidence of foul play in this crash, adding that it looks like an accident. It is still being fully investigated. The death of irans president comes during a volatile time in the region. Iran and israel have exchanged attacks directly on each other, just last month, and militant groups, backed b
Breaking news out of the middle east, a special msnbc our from Iranian State tv, they are reporting that irans president , Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a Helicopter Crash on sunday but the president was traveling back from a visit to the Iranian Border with azerbaijan when the helicopter he was traveling in made a crash landing. For hours, Rescue Workers were searching for the wreckage and any survivors. They have found the crash site and there were no survivors. Bad weather is believed to have contributed to this crash, and it certainly slowed down a Search And Rescue efforts, going on for hours. U. S. Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, earlier on sunday, saying intelligence authorities informed him that there is, quote, no evidence of foul play in this crash, adding that it looks like an accident. It is still being fully investigated. Now, the death of irans president , comes during a volatile time in the region. Iran and israel have exchanged attacks directly on each other just la
We are getting more information by the hour and the day about exactly what happened in manchester. Much of the focus on salman abedi, this young man who appears to have been the suicide bomber. The more we learn, the more you learn, does it seem to you this fits a familiar template or does this in any way seem different from europes other mass murders of recent times . I think it fits a familiar template but it is changing. You know, terrorism is not always the same. And within that sort of Third Generation jihadism that we have witnessed over the years, of course. Of course as a frenchman, what happened in manchester reminds us of the bataclan Music Hall Attack On 13th November 2015. But there it was a whole group of people who were largely organised, who had come back from syria through belgium, and you know, there were a number of people, the attacks took place in many places, they were coordinated, the stadium of france, in the sidewalk cafes, this is a loner. He acted alone. Maybe
We are getting more information by the hour and the day about exactly what happened in manchester. Much of the focus on salman abedi, this young man who appears to have been the suicide bomber. The more we learn, the more you learn, does it seem to you this fits a familiar template or does this in any way seem different from europes other mass murders of recent times . I think it fits a familiar template but it is changing. You know, terrorism is not always the same. And within that sort of Third Generation jihadism that we have witnessed over the years, of course. Of course as a frenchman, what happened in manchester reminds us of the bataclan Music Hall Attack On 13th November 2015. But there it was a whole group of people who were largely organised, who had come back from syria through belgium, and you know, there were a number of people, the attacks took place in many places, they were coordinated, the stadium of france, in the sidewalk cafes, this is a loner. He acted alone. Maybe