and this is the day ah, this is not something new in the islamic republic of iran west thinks will just hand the country over to the protest is gone, but not the reigning students would never let it that it was only the on the line of position and anger against islamic republican design. for a quiet driving change in the political system remains lively and active. we need the international community's attention on this and we needed to go far beyond just the same old same old of we're outreach also on the day after 10 months behind bars in russia, basketball star, brittany griner is freed in a prisoner swamp. moscow released her in exchange for a notorious arms dealer known as the merchant of death. she safe. he's on a plane. she's on her way home from wants to be no justly detained in russia, held under on tolerable circumstances. brittany will soon be back in the army of your loved ones and, and she should have been there all along. ah, welcome to the day. molson shikari was 23 years old. he worked and cafe he loved music and wanted to live in a free country. to day he became the 1st known person to be executed by the iranian regime for his participation and anti government demonstrations. shikari was hanged in the morning only 3 weeks after a sham trial without proper legal representation and waiting for a chance to appeal his sentence. fears are his execution might only be the beginning of a new escalation of the regime crackdown behind these walls and t. ron's even prison. a young man was reportedly executed. iran's judiciary claims he injured a police officer during the protests. but observers say this was a show trial. it was broadcast in installments on state television, the 23 year old, and neither an independent legal defense nor the opportunity to challenge the verdict. regardless protests against the iranian regime are still going on for 3 days across multiple cities. many businesses have been on strike. people on the streets report, a massive deployment of police and malicious store owners preferring to remain anonymous. say there have been targeted intimidation attempts. we were severely threatened if we left the store closed, they would shut down our cafe completely and rules. iran's president r e z continues to blame other countries influences for the ongoing protest. he reiterated that point when he addressed pro regime students at a t. ron university. as i work out then, your west thinks will just hand the country over to the protest as you donna, but no on the reigning students would never let that happen. it's not even a pause from his supporters, but the majority of students are his fiercest critics. cellphone footage shows them protesting against raise the and the regime outside the university. you have no honor, they shout repeatedly, not only in the capital, but at universities all across the country. and the demonstration show no sign of dying down. behold a merry magdalena is director of the angio around human rights and joins me from oslo. welcome to the day loss. and shikari was only 23 years old and protesting for a better future. why did he have to die? yes, that's actually a question. many people can ask her rightfully because they're if b r to believe what the running authorities claim. he and he endured her one of the militia who was facing people. and he blocked a road. but to, you know, even that we cannot live because he didn't have a fair trial. he, he was subjected to torture in some of the video footage broadcasts at, by the iranian media, you know, there was in sign of injury on one side of his face. so even these confession that's the extracted from him. they were under torture. so basically he was like many iranians, demanding his fundamental human rights and the right to live a normal life. and he was executed for that. his family says his execution came unexpected to them, and he was actually hoping to be able to appeal his sentence. what do we know about the circumstances of his hanging and the timing of it? you know, run in traditionally or on purpose. they give hope to the families to make and b is the silent and not to talk about their children so that they can execute them with the least possible political cost. and i'm afraid what happened to more centric ari and the time of execution, that normally executions are taking place around 5 am. and what you know is that he to get at least 2 others were transferred to solitary confinement. couple of nights ago. we don't know who the 2 others are and what happened to them . but and you know, we have been expecting executions. we know this regime that they use that kind of to, to spread fear. and we have been waiting for this, but it was shocking. it's always shocking when the wake up and here terrible news like this. this is of course intimidation tactics by the regime, but it's also a dangerous gamble for them, isn't it? this is going to anger many people and presumably drive even more people to the st . absolutely, and i think as you say, it is again that because previously, you know iranian authorities, people are in power like mr. ac to participate. think in math, execution of political prisoners in the past. they have managed to make to spread fear and transfer this feeling of hopelessness. but this time is different to what we have heard from iran and also iranians across the globe. people are much more angry and much more to mind so, so as you say, i don't think they are going to get the effect that they are expecting from people . and i hope that the international reactions will also be in line with their reactions from what can the international community do to help the iranian people to contribute in one way or another to stop this is it now iranian regime has crossed a line. do you have escalated the violence that i've been using against people in the last 2, almost 3 months by shooting at protests? there's now the, they have started hanging detained protesters. and i think this means that also international communities should elevate the level of the reaction. one step, i think every country knows what they can do to send a clear signal to the run, you know, so it is that it is an acceptable. so what we used to do until yesterday, it is not good enough because iranian regime had crossed a line. if we don't react appropriately, we might say mass executions of protest says there are thousands of them in the prison out. what kind of sanctions or movement on behalf of the international community would you would you think would be efficient to create some leverage over the regime and you see develop a condemnation that have come to day with strong wards, from some authorities like the german authorities. i think they are very good and, but you know, all countries in a treat in western europe and many posts of the warranty. i have a normal diplomatic relations. we still have other kind of relations with iran and authorities trades relations. and i think again, every government knows how to i take it one level up, it can be imposing more sanctions. it can be a downgrading kid diplomatic relations. it can be freezing some other relations. but what is important is that dease specific execution gets a very specific response. i won't, i'm mary margaret on from her on human rights. joining us from oslo, thanks for your time. with you. ah, she is safe. she is on a plane. she's on her way home. that is how you as president joe biden announced what his administration had been working on for 10 months. the release of basketball star, brittany greiner from custody and russia, she was freed, as part of a prisoner swap with the u. s. a. to time olympic gold medalist griner was arrested in moscow back in february and sentenced to 9 years in prison on drug charges. she recently had an appeal rejected and was transferred to a remote penal colony in russia. she was released an exchange for victor bouts and notorious russian arms dealer, detained in the us for over a decade. and the high price paid for grinders release as cast renewed light on the fate of another american held in russia. paul whelan, a former us marine who was arrested in 2018 and is accused of spying grinders. wife charel was at the white house for the announcement. she expressed her deep emotions and her gratitude for the help from the bite administration. today my family is whole, but as you all are aware, there's so many other families who are not whole and still b, g is not here to say this, but i will gladly speak on her behalf and say that b g and i will remain committed to the work of getting every american home including call, whose family is in our hearts today as we celebrate b, g, b, a home. we do understand that there are still people out here who are in doing what i endure at the last 9 months of missing tremendously their loved ones. so thank you everybody for your support and see there's a happy day for me and my family. so i'm going to now right now. thank you. and she surely wasn't the only one filing there for more we can bring. and aaron solomon, whose chief legal analyst at esquire digital. welcome to the w. how much pressure was on the us to free greiner? after 10 months in russian detention, there was an enormous amount of pressure, and this pressure was mounting month by month. there's actually a very interesting parallel between what happened a year ago with a lot of brittany spears. his own fan starting the free brittany movement and brittany grinders and starting another free written movement. her fans over social media as well as traditional media kept a lot of pressure on the u. s. government not to put this on the backburner. efforts to bring her home as you, as you just pointed out, have been going on ever since she was 1st attained in mid february. why do you think this will happen now? well, as president biden talked about this morning during that press conference with sharon greiner, the united states, i believe, really has been working on this as a priority item. for a long time, prisoner swaps are very, very delicate things. and i don't believe that they're ever done in isolation between 2 nations. i'm quite confident that the united states had the guidance of some of their allies, including germany in trying to bring this to a conclusion, which very mercifully very luckily for everybody involved. it did so brittany was able to step on us soil this evening and be home for the holidays. let's circle back here for a 2nd and look at how exactly brittany greiner did become a pond in russia's political game. she was the perfect time and just as russia was getting ready to evade the ukraine, brittany had played 7 years for you. m m c. you catch framework and talk to your team in the russian league owned by a russian all of our. so she was very well known as the kind of superstar player she was in the russian league that she was in the w and b. it's also very important for people to understand that the reason top american players play international basketball in europe is because they can earn between 4 and 7 times their salary playing in places like russia. so russian you exactly where she was. they knew that she was there for 7th season, and she was absolutely the highest profile, american athlete, male or female, to be in russia. at that time, she was a perfect palm. now the man, the us freed an exchange for greiner was once considered by the d. a one of the most dangerous people on earth. how big of a win is his release in exchange for greiner, for russia, the release of victor booth is a massive public relations when for if you just take a quick look to see thing on russian state media, it is absolutely being held as a huge victory of russia and all of the ideals of the former soviet union in the united states, both sides are placing this as a huge win, which of course is nothing new and a prisoner small. but there's no doubt that releasing victor about is being seen by as allies when it's trying to put some oxygen back into the war effort from the public relations and the spin perspective. and you make it a few weeks of very good internal press out us. do we know anything about how brittany griner was treated while she was imprisoned in russia? or will we have to wait and, and hearing from herself. the 1st thing that's going to happen with her landing in the united states is debriefing with us authorities and part of the questions are going to be how she has a lot of people in the united states. so i've done a lot of media today including american sports, radio, or hypothesizing. how quickly brittany griner is going to get back on the court and be a superstar, after what she endured over the past 10 months, emotionally, spiritually and physically. it could be a very, very long roads recovery, even though she's back home in the united states. now her being slot for victor, both for the us was a big compromise because they actually wanted to get 2 people back home didn't they? the white house says that russia is treating griner is case differently from that of pol whelan marine veteran who has been imprisoned in russia on espionage charges since 2018. what do you think it'll take to bring him home? it's going to take a lot more. my understanding from a couple of inside sources today is that russia made it very clear to united states that it was either going to be a one on one swap. and that only one was going to be pretty greiner. the problem with the poll wheeling case and i believe that everybody needs to maintain pressure over media and social media to keep this in the bible ministrations front window rather than the rear window is that paul whelan was involved in the espionage business. that's not to say that he was a spy, but he was involved in the intelligence business. and of course he has the background of marine russia seeing this is a very, very different case than brittany greiner, who is simply a superstar athlete. aaron, solomon, chief legal analyst and as quite digital. thank you so much for those insights today. thank you for having ah burton's. royal family is free thing itself for revelations, from a netflix documentary series on prince harry and his wife megan a couple known as the duke. and duchess of sussex are no longer serving members of the royal family. the 1st episodes debuted to day amid expectations of damaging claims about british royal life. it's really hard to look back on it now and go. one of the netflix docu series harry and meghan promises an unprecedented look at the life of the duke and duchess of sussex, a suitably dramatic trailer in which prince harry draws comparisons between megan and his late mother. princess diana sparked mixed reactions ahead of its world wide release from many royal fans were eager to hear their story. others annoyed at more complaints from such a privileged pair. i was some called out discrepancies. in the trailer footage, the royal family was reportedly bracing itself for further revelations. megan marshall's marriage to prince harry in 2018 was dubbed a modern fairy tale and hailed as the trans to modernize the monarchy by welcoming a multi racial woman. but already during their courtship, the couple complained the american former actress was frequently the target of criticism in the british press. in early 2020, they stepped down from their role as senior royals and moved to north america. an explosive interview with talk show host oprah winfrey in march 2021 stirred controversy even further. the couples claims of miss treatment and racism sent shock waves through the british royal's leaving harry further estranged from his family. the last time they were united was for the funeral of their grandmother, queen elizabeth the 2nd last september. shortly thereafter, harry and megan announced the release of the netflix documentary part of a deal with the streaming platform worth over $100000000.00 us dollars. no one knows the full truth. we know the full truth ah, among ordinary britons there's mixed reaction to harry and meghan's netflix theories. people in london and windsor happen sharing their views. so i think they really brave what they've done, like speaking out, especially against families. we discuss so fair play them to do enough. yeah, i think i think is a good face. important to tell your side of the story. i was i was where as 2 sites . so yeah, i haven't had a job. i think people one to against once they started to leave, but in the beginning, no, i didn't. i didn't see any so to fry system. but then you know, you, we don't sate behind closed doors. i think she needs to have a bit more. um, we spent the whole family, i think that are good cooper and i think it's a shame that is going to push the way of pop culture commentary. iran say a song vedo who's watched the highly anticipated 1st part of the series for us, ron, say, 3 hours of netflix and spill. do we know the truth now? any bombshell revelations we, a lot of it was shared in the documentary stuff we've heard before, especially in the over interview. but there were some big regulations, for instance, a fact of the fact that thomas marco wasn't going to attend via p. m z. and so that was a big one when we were also like smaller, you know, q, i'll say of revelations like the fact that they met via instagram. apparently, harry has a fence to actually share knob leasing a dish or this new nuggets. what the relationship that we know before this dr. mary . okay, so we're learning more about them than about our royal drama. one, what impression did you, did you have of them because this is a very close look at their life, right? yeah, i mean of course they're the ones behind the doc maneesha w portrays. i'm in a positive light. i thought it was good if it shows them as reliable and it shows them as willing to share more about themselves and never before we get to see their kids. i'm ways we haven't before we get to your, you know archie voice. i will also hear of from adore ragland americans, mom as she speaks about, you know, just her, you know, witnessing the relationship was and so then there, when you things that we went on about the couple and we learn more about the family and, and in their relationship with the press and how are harry describes this as, quote bribery. so lots of interesting onto perspective right at the palace was understandably nervous before this came out. but really, you mentioned the oprah interview there. is there really anything left to throw at the palace at this point? i don't think there's much more much, much else to throw up at the palace. i do think boot documentary was quite handed in his assessment of the palace and its role in slavery. and so i think that's actually the most damaging part about this, and he gets people to can take a step back and look at this family in its history and how destructive it's been. there also seems to have been some behind the scenes drama, harry and megan changed their director half way through the production process. do you know what that was all about? yes, so the initial director is garrett bradley wanted to film them in their home and apparently be objected to that. so that's how they ended up with linda garbus who is the the current director. all right, is it, is it watchable? it sounds like it was, you know, the set was seen and the thing was that by them they call the shots and portrays them in a very favourable light. is this 3 hours? well spend, would you watch the next 3 hours or is, is basically a publicity stunt? 3 hours very well spent was a really, really good watch and i think people are going to love it. so after breaking out of the royal family, they did build their brand somehow around telling their truth, right? and this has been done in a fair amount of times. now the oprah interview the show harry has a book coming out or what do you think is next? for them, and i think it's just more a tell you, i mean,