Right now welcome home. Americans, newly free from russian prisons are back on us soil. After that historic prisoner swap landing in san antonio for treatment early this morning the video, the hugs, the tears, and the message now from president biden as they arrived overnight also, breaking this morning the kamala harris campaign announcing it s raised a whopping 310 million in july. That s doubling president trump s fundraising haul for the same we re going to break down what that means for the race, for the white house. And in paris, the highly anticipated and long awaited olympic debut of track star sha carri richardson, team usa, ready? you go at least we hope we have a preview. I m omar jimenez with kate bolduan and john berman and sara sidner out today. This is cnn news central breaking overnight, three americans freed he d from russia now back in the united states greeted with understandable amounts of tears and hugs and overwhelming joy after their plane landed at joint base an
It s 4:00 in new york. A feat of diplomacy and friendship. That s how president biden described the largest prisoner swap since the cold war. It was a massive effort resulting in four u. S. Residents, wall street journal report e paul whelan, finally heading home. Here s president biden surrounded by the families of the detainees. It feels like this one come with tough calls and there are never any guarantees. There s nothing that matters more to me than protecting americans at home and abroad. So we ll continue to work for the release of all wrongful detained americans around the world. In total, russia is releasing 16 prisoners in exchange. Nbc news reports the u. S. Released three russian prisoners, including an intelligence operative including smuggling ammunition to the russian military, slovenia released two russian prisoners, norway and poland each released one. The swap is the result of nearly two years of persistence after brittney griner was released in december of 2022. Now
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and business can play their part in reducing emissions. racism row at yorkshire county cricket club now yorkshire tea is the latest sponsor to withdraw its support. missing in australia for 18 days the moment a four year old was rescued from a house by police after she d vanished from a campsite. coming up on sportsday later in the hour on the bbc news channel. pressure is ramping up on yorkshire county cricket club over their handling of azeem rafiq s complaints of racial harassment and bullying. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. a conservative mp who was found to have broken lobbying rules won t be suspended for now after mps narrowly voted to look at an overhaul of their disciplinary process. an investigation by the parliamentary standards watchdog had ruled that former minister owen paterson should be suspended for six weeks for repeatedly lobbying ministers and officials for two companies paying him more than £100,000 a year. but today s vote means hi
because of very high covid rates in the uk. the racism row at yorkshire county cricket club major sponsors withdraw their support over the way former player azeem rafiq was treated. and in the last few minutes, the south african writer has won the booker prize for his novel the promise. good evening, and welcome to bbc news. a conservative mp who was found to have broken lobbying rules won t be suspended for now after mps narrowly voted to look at an overhaul of their disciplinary process. an investigation by the parliamentary standards watchdog had ruled that former minister owen paterson should be suspended for six weeks for repeatedly lobbying ministers and officials for two companies paying him more than £100,000 a year. but today s vote means his suspension is halted for now. downing street insists the move is about the fairness of the system, not one individual case. but labour called it an absolute disgrace and accused the government of breaking and then remaking