Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger D. Carstens

Amanpour

CNN

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Abroad, alone, and locked away on trumped up charges, it's the stuff of nightmares. Yet for one year that has been the reality for Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who is being held in a Russian prison on the charges of espionage. Charges he, and everyone who knows him, deny. Now, a Moscow court has extended his detention by three more months. At the same time in Gaza, more than a hundred hostages are still held captive after being taken during the brutal October 7th attack on Israel. Negotiations to release them -and build a ceasefire- have dragged on in Qatar for months. As the US Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs, Roger Carstens is at the heart of both these crises, and he joins the program to talk about it. Also on today's show: correspondent Melissa Bell; Annelle Sheline, resigned in protest from US State Department; Widlore Mérancourt, Washington Post Reporter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:37.0	American journalist Evan Gerskovich still behind bars in Russia one year later and I speak to the special
0:45.1	presidential envoy for Hostage Affairs, Roger Carstons, about US efforts to free
0:50.5	him and we discuss the ongoing Israeli hostage crisis.
0:54.4	Then we bring you a report on the latest from Gaza
0:58.2	as another State Department staffer resigns over US policy there. and now Sheline joins me for her first
1:05.2	television interview. Also ahead? Two of the biggest prisons in Haiti has been
1:10.5	left open with thousands of inmates, some of them was criminals quite
1:16.7	frequently in the country released in the streets. As Haiti extends its state of
1:21.2	emergency Washington Post reporter,
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