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Hey what's news listeners?

It's Sunday August 4th.

I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal, and this is What's News Sunday, the show where

we tackle the big questions about the biggest stories in the news by reaching out to our colleagues across the

newsroom to help explain what's happening in our world. And this week

securing the release of journal reporter Evan Gerschkovic and 15 other prisoners

from Russia and Belarus required the most complex

prisoner swap in a generation, a triumph of multilateral diplomacy,

and a vindication of months of intense public and behind-the-scenes efforts by the journal and others.

But what message does the deal send to autocrats who increasingly embrace a strategy of hostage

diplomacy? Let's get to it.

With me now to look at the forces required to pull off a prisoner swap of the

sort we've just witnessed last week and consider what precedent it sets. I'm joined from New York by Wall Street Journal

assistant editor Paul Beckett and from Berlin by chief European political

correspondent Bojan Panchevsky. Paul let me start with you. You have been working to secure Evans

release now for more than a year. Broadly speaking, what's needed to negotiate a

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