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What changed? i so, caroline, what has happened, what changed?— so, caroline, what has happened, what changed? ithink, brutally, for iran, this what changed? ithink, brutally, for iran. this was _ what changed? ithink, brutally, for iran, this was always _ what changed? ithink, brutally, for iran, this was always a _ what changed? ithink, brutally, for iran, this was always a transaction. | iran, this was always a transaction. anoosheh ashoori, a 68—year—old retired engineer and nazanin za...

Welcome home signs with her friends and is just keen to hold a mothers hands, to get her back into the house and show her what she has missed out on all those many years of her life when naranin zaghari—ratcliffe was stuck in a iranians prison, going on hunger strike herself with her husband on hunger strike, trying to get the message across that they should not be bargaining chips in an international debt obligation. and for viewers who are joining us, we are seeing life is from raf brize nor...

President zelenskyy himself. thats absolutely heartless. you have at least 100,000 people still stuck in the city of mariupol. 7,000 got out yesterday. thats just a drop in the bucket. these poor people who are really in a struggle for their lives and someone is trying to get them food and medicine and someone is strong those aid convoys and taking the aid workers into custody. their status, frankly, ainsley, is unknown. >> steve: mike, is custody in the country of ukraine or is custody they tak...

Political ramifications. oh, i understand that. yeah, they do... they do have political ramification. whenever someone wants to bargain or get something from jovenel moise, you see kidnappings everywhere. so we know that and we denounce that. when i was, for instance, minister of foreign affairs, i denounced the political ramifications with gangs, and gangs are everywhere, with politicians, with oligarchs. they use them as bargaining chips. so thats exactly what happened in our case. do you thin...

Other hand, no why say long term? russia hasnt abandoned the objective securing the donbas and crimea. the other thing is to take terrain as much as possible and force friendly terms on the ukrainians for cease-fire and peace negotiations. so anything outside of that strategic objective of getting a land bridge is bargaining chips. so containing or controlling chernobyl, circleing kiev and siegeing that. all of that is negotiating material. thats not a part of the strategic objective here. its s...

So we know that and we denounce that. when i was, for instance, minister of foreign affairs, i denounced the political ramifications with gangs, and gangs are everywhere, with politicians, with oligarchs. they use them as bargaining chips. so thats exactly what happened in our case. do you think it is fair to describe haiti today, and indeed for many years previous, as a broken, failed state? iwould... i would say that this is a country that has a history of... where foreign countries, i should ...

Leave mariupol and want to leetch the areas where russia has a high concentration of forces. russia has been playing with the idea of humanitarian corridor, saying you want to have a humanitarian corridor, well give you a humanitarian corridor, and it leads to russia. so get on this bus and well take you to a camp in russia where youll be safe. and many ukrainians say that these people are openly being used as bargaining chips, theyre being held e hostage, that russia is accumulating these peopl...

In all those areas. but they... what you need to understand is that those gangs has political ramifications. oh, i understand that. yeah, they do... they do have political ramification. whenever someone wants to bargain or get something from jovenel moise, you see kidnappings everywhere. so we know that and we denounce that. when i was, for instance, minister of foreign affairs, i denounced the political ramifications with gangs, and gangs are everywhere, with politicians, with oligarchs. they u...

According to venezuelan ngo. >> it seems that they have been used as, you know, as bargaining chips. >> former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. bill richardson is navigating this mine field in an effort to win the freedom of the "citgo 6." he tells me what he believes maduros intentions are. >> they dont want any further sanctions. they want sanctions lifted, but, you know, the relationship has been so poor in the last four to eight years that im the one thats talking to the venezuelans. the u.s. gov...

Wanted to arrest him on corruption charges, charges he denies. >> translator: the arrest order and the way they were detained is an instruction to spread terror, to generate fear. >> reporter: so they were set up? >> translator: yes, of course. this spread fear throughout the country, a feeling of fear and terror with regards to the security forces started to grow around the country. >> reporter: a fear that only increased with the purge of employees, 15 arrested since 2017, according to venezue...