Hello. Welcome to the programme. Within the past couple of Hours President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have greeted american detainees at an airbase outside washington, following their release from russia as part of a Prisoner Swap the largest since the cold war. The plane carrying the two us journalists, evan Gershkovich And Alsu kurmasheva, ex marine Paul Whelan and leading kremlin critic, vladimir Kara Murza landed late at night. Family members of those whod been detained some for several years were there, as emotional scenes played out on the tarmac. President biden said he was grateful for the diplomatic Co Operation from many other countries involved in the negotiations. In total, ten russians, including two children, have been exchanged for 16 westerners and russians imprisoned in russia. Our North America Correspondent Will Grant sent this report from the Andrews Air Force base. Cheering. Greeted by a president ial embrace. After more days behind bars than theyd
Stabbing in southport. Growing controversy at the olympics over the algerian boxer imane khalif, who is through to the quarterfinals despite failing a Gender Eligibility Test in another competition. Hello. Hundreds of mourners have attended Funeral Prayers at the State Mosque in the qatari capital, doha, for the hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh. His coffin, covered by the palestinian flag, has now been taken to a Cemetery Outside Doha where he is being buried in a simple ceremony. Lets speak to nomi bar yaacov, associate fellow at the british Think Tank Chatham house and an expert in diplomacy in the Middle East. Thank you for your time today. What role is therefore diplomacy in the Middle East and, perhaps more pertinently, is there space for diplomacy given the current climate . Absolutely, theres always a place for diplomacy, especially in very difficult moments like this. Diplomacy stretches to minimising the severity of potential attacks. It is very clear that iran, Mykolaiv
Out, we need to sort this out fast. Absolutely. Do me a favor, i want to talk to you about a lot of stuff, i know youre being asked to pull triple duty, i appreciate your sticking around, my friend. Welcome to ayman. Tonight, will they or wont they . With constant Roadblocks Clogging up the senate, is time running out . Plus the supreme court this month effectively ended roe v. Wade. Justice Amy Coney Barrett wants you to know that the supreme court is not a bunch of partisan hacks. Okay. And it looked like a big win for equal pay when the u. S. Soccer federation announced its offering the womens and mens national teams identical contracts. So why is the u. S. Womens national team Players Association calling this move a Pr Stunt . Lets get started. All right. Our top story tonight, Voting Rights. With republicans doubling down on their attempt to restrict the right to vote, senate democrats introduce new federal voting Rights Legislation this week. But its chances of passage remain dim
Are literally sinking below the sea in indonesia, because of the fights over what is land any more. With the g7, we plan to launch an ambitious effort to support resilience and develop meant around the World by investing in high quality, high standard, physical, digitaland quality, high standard, physical, digital and health infrastructures. We have to make sure the new technologies and norms of conduct in cyberspace are established, including addressing the growing threat of ransomware attacks. Governed by our democratic values, not by the autocrats who are letting it happen. These are all critical National Security Issues in 2021, and we are going to be driving this agenda together with our g7 partners. In brussels, Iwill Agenda together with our g7 partners. In brussels, i will make it clear to the united States Commitment to our Nato Alliance in article five is rock solid. It is a sacred obligation we have under article five. The uk are both founding members of nato, the strongest
Before. I have never read about anything like this before happening in american politics, in government. As far as we know, nothing like this has ever happened before. But the New York times says tonight that it has, and the consequences remain to be seen. All right. Let me spell this out. You may have read over the last couple of weeks newly reported revelations about the Justice Department under Donald Trump secretly obtaining the communications of a number of reporters, journalists from cnn, from the Washington Post, from the New York times. Reporters communications seized by the trump Justice Department secretly. And those communications that the trump Justice Department went after, they were all from 2017. The Trump Administration was frantically trying to find out who the sources were for those reporters when they were Writing Stories about the early days of the Trump Administration and the 2016 campaign. Now, the reason this has come out now, the reason all of these stories abou