yeah, extremely strained. so this is just yet another instance of the relations degrading. - if you remember an american i basketball star, britney griner, was detained for months last year. she finally was released in a swap with an arms dealer who was held and sentenced to prison. here in the united states. there's another american, - paul whelan, who has been held there, was convicted i and sentenced to prison for what russia said was espionage. the united states is trying to get him out as well. - so this is a sign that depths of relations not seen - since the cold war, which also was the last time an american journalist in moscow, _ in russia was accused of espionage, back in 1986 with a us news & world report reporter. - now to a big story here in the uk, a man has been found guilty of murdering a nine—year—old