This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Valerie Sanderson and in the early hours of Friday the 2nd of August,

these are our main stories.

We have more details on the major prisoner swap that's taken place between Russia and the West.

President Biden described it as a feat of diplomacy.

The head of Hezbollah, Hassan-Lazrala, says Israel cross red lines by killing one of its

commanders and can expect revenge.

Also in this podcast?

I can't emphasize how painful it has been to be living 23 years after my sister was

murdered and to fear that I would die before there was justice.

As three men accused of plotting the 9-11 terrorist attacks in the US receive a plea deal, we

get reaction from a family member of one of the victims.

In the Olympics, a clash in the women's boxing competition was abandoned after just 46 seconds

amidst controversy over gender eligibility rules.

And there's a final farewell to British tennis legend Andy Murray,

whose Olympic hopes have come to an end. We've been getting more details of the largest east-west swap of prisoners in decades

between Russia and Belarus on one hand and the US, Germany and other

European countries on the other. The exchange of a total of 26 people including two

children was made in Ankara in Turkey.

The Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed his nationals at the airport when they returned. Mr Putin congratulated them saying Russia, the motherland didn't forget about them for a minute.

It comes after a discussion about a prisoner swap for the American journalist

Evan Gerskovic who'd been detained in Russia and given a hefty jail sentence. Natalia

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