They really got field, these rumours and speculations, when on sunday we heard that a number of high profile russian political prisoners were reported missing from Detention Centres and from prisons throughout the country. We havent heard from the country. We havent heard from the kremlin yet. They are often very tight lipped at moments like this. They dont you what is going on from their perspective. We now know from their perspective. We now know from the biden administration, from the White House, that this is under way. Just looking through some of the things i am being sent here, some Wire Copy that is coming in with further details. The white House And State department were not immediately returning requests for comment but when asked about the movement of the russian prisoners on wednesday the State Department spokesperson said they wouldnt speculate that they were working around the clock to get wrongfully detained citizens home. That continues to be the case. We have no update
That the charges against him as i have described it are observed, that he is not a spy, he is a journalist and his arrest they argue very firmly is simply a sign of the crackdown on free speech and free expression and on the Freedom Of The Press Inside Russia, and that he himself was always a political hostage taken because russia wanted a trade. Ultimately that is what has happened. He spent more than a year in prison. A young journalist, extremely ambitious, just in a new job with the Wall Streetjournal, extremely good at thatjob. He was then arrested. It now looks like he is going to be heading home. I know there have been a huge number of his friends. Otherjournalists and people who work with him in moscow and elsewhere have been campaigning and elsewhere have been campaigning and getting people to write letters and getting people to write letters and translating those letters tirelessly, even one of his Friends Reading Books together with him in prison, sending books to him and th
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# edelweiss, edelweiss. christopher plummer, who shot to fame as captain von trapp, in the sound of music, dies at the age of 91. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. us presidentjoe biden doesn t believe his predecessor donald trump should have access to intelligence briefings because of his erratic behavior. former us presidents traditionally receive some briefings after they leave office. but talking to cbs evening news in his first broadcast interview since becoming president, mr biden said he was worried about mr trump s access. he also spoke about the upcoming impeachment trial he was asked if he would ve voted to convict president trump if he was a senator. i ran like hell to defeat him because i thought he was unfit to be president. i watched, and everybody else watched what happened when that crew invaded the united states congress. but i m not in the senate, now. i will let the senate make that decision. let me ask you something that yo
lockdown parties in downing street and that the pm should resign in the national interest. live from our studio in singapore this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 8am in singapore, ”am in melbourne and 4am in dubai where in the next 90 minutes or so, novak djokovic is expected to touch down following his deportation from australia. a panel ofjudges upheld the australian government s decision that his refusal to be vaccinated against covid 19 made him a threat to public health. the serbian prime minster has accused australia of a witch hunt. meanwhile, back in melbourne, the australian open is now under way without its defending men s champion. from there shaimaa khalil reports he s used to winning on court, but today, he was defeated in it. the world number one men s tennis player lost his last ditch battle to stay in the country and was forced out of australia. ..the amended application be dismissed, with costs. threejudges upheld the government s decision to cancel h