American citizens freed from Russia in a prisoner exchange
The World
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4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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American citizens have been freed from Russia on Thursday in a prisoner exchange, including the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. Also, nearly 23 years after the attacks of Sept. 11, the man accused of planning those attacks — along with two accomplices — agreed to plead guilty. Plus, as the incumbent president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, faces accusations of election fraud, the legacy of a former president, Hugo Chávez, looms large over the country, even though he died more than a decade ago.
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| 0:00.0 | Some of them spent years in Russian prisons. Today, three Americans, |
| 0:09.7 | along with Russian opposition figures were released in a complex prisoner exchange |
| 0:14.8 | between the Kremlin and the White House. |
| 0:17.0 | And now their brutal ordeal is over and they're free. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm Carolyn Beeler and I'm Marco |
| 0:24.4 | Wurman. We'll also hear from southern India where deadly landslides followed |
| 0:28.4 | unrelenting rain. You literally can feel the rain horizontal. |
| 0:33.1 | The rain is horizontal and the rains just would not stop. |
| 0:37.8 | And for basketball fans from South Sudan, |
| 0:40.4 | the Paris Olympics have been epic. |
| 0:43.0 | Our country ever since it got independence, it has been known for civil wars. |
| 0:47.0 | And right now, at least we have something else that it can be known for, which is basketball. |
| 0:52.0 | All that and more today today here on the world. |
| 0:59.0 | This is the world, I'm Marco Werman. |
| 1:01.0 | And I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 1:02.0 | Huge news today about a prisoner exchange involving the US, Russia, and five other countries. |
| 1:09.0 | 26 people including two miners were part of a swap that took place today in the Turkish |
| 1:14.8 | capital Ankara. |
| 1:16.7 | In Washington, President Joe Biden called the deal a feat of diplomacy and a powerful example |
| 1:21.7 | of why it's vital to have friends around the world. |
| 1:25.0 | That's who we are in the United States. |
| 1:27.0 | We stand for freedom, for liberty, for justice, not only for our own people, but for others as well. |
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