Their way home to the us, expected to arrive in the next couple of hours. They are wall streetjournal reporter evan gershkovich on the left, and on the right, former us marine paul whelan, and radio free europe journalist alsu kurmasheva. This photo shows them on a phone call with presidentjoe biden after their release. In addition, vladimir kara murza, the russian british journalist who holds a us green card, was freed in the deal. In an address to the nation after news of the deal was made public, president biden said the deal was the result of difficult, complex negotiations. He said that the us will continue to work to free americans who are detained abroad. The president and the vice president, kamala harris, are scheduled to welcome the freed americans on the tarmac ofjoint base andrews in maryland. This is expected to happen in a little more than two hours from now, at 11:30pm local time. With more now on the prisoner swap, here s our russia editor, steve rosenberg. will gran
With the people being persecuted so unfairly, adding quote, in addition to everything else, it has proven conclusively that we are a twotiered system of justice. Whatever that means. And in the end, however, just till will justice will prevail. On that last point, he might be right. Justice may well prevail in these cases. Seven of the january defendants are being sentenced. Yesterday a california woman was sentenced to probation but not before she told the court the insurrection was a quote unique experience and she had never been to a similar event. Oh, due say. A shocking confession came days after the fourth person affiliated with the far right group the oathkeepers pleaded guilty relating to january 6th. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy and other charges. So let s go live now, to the nation s capitol and this rally in support of the insurrectionists, allison barber is at the rally and let s start with you. What is the situation right now? what is it like right now? what are you exp
Soon dr. Anthony fauci warns hospitals will face tough choices about who gets an icu bed and who doesn t. And can gavin newsom save his job? eight days away from the california recall, he s calling massive rallies and getting big reinforcements in washington. We begin with the labor day crises facing biden. He promised to bounce back from covid and turbulent trump era decision making on the world stage. Instead the president enters the fall months with his big legislative goals in limbo and covid, afghanistan, and climate crises converging to test him. Policy challenges yes, and at the moment a political crises. The president s political numbers are slumping. Let s get to kaitlyn collins. Big challenges for the president. Yeah. John, he is still in delaware right now. The president is coming back to the white house in a few hours. He has a lot on his plate as he s entering the september month. Still dealing with afghanistan even though u. S. Troops are out of there. There are still ame
Now on bbc news it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. The athletic excellence we saw at the tokyo olympics will live long in the memory, but so will the moment the brilliant us gymnast simone biles chose not to compete, to safeguard her mental and physical health. Us gymnastics, still reeling from the repercussions of a sex abuse scandal, illustrates what can go wrong when gold medals and glory are put above care of individual athletes. My guest is former us olympic champion gymnast aly raisman. Is there a wider lesson for elite sport in the shame of american gymnastics? aly raisman in massachusetts, welcome to hardtalk. Hi, how are you? i am very well. It s a pleasure to have you on this show. Let me begin by asking you what it was like for you as one of us gymnastics most decorated olympians, the captain of the gymnastic team in rio 2016, what was it like for you watching your team compete from afar in tokyo just a couple of weeks back? i think
Illustrates what can go wrong when gold medals and glory are put above care of individual athletes. My guest is former us olympic champion gymnast aly raisman. Is there a wider lesson for elite sport in the shame of american gymnastics? aly raisman in massachusetts, welcome to hardtalk. Hi, how are you? i am very well. It s a pleasure to have you on this show. Let me begin by asking you what it was like for you as one of us gymnastics most decorated olympians, the captain of the gymnastic team in rio 2016, what was it like for you watching your team compete from afar in tokyo just a couple of weeks back? i think there was a lot of different emotions. I just want to first start off and say how proud i am of all the gymnasts. It was really. I think there was a lot of different things going through my mind. I m very proud of all of their hard work, very proud of them for doing the best they could, very proud of simone but obviously very heartbroken for her, as well. I can t imagine how d