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Country feel like you are in a recession because they go to the store, everything costs so much. and they really feel their wallets being pinched. so, that is sort of the political messaging side of things that the white house has been careful to address as well. >> okay. mj lee, thank you. >> meantime, biden administration officials are said to be deeply frustrated by moscows lack of meaningful response to a proposed prisoner swap. the u.s. often resist prisoner exchanges over concerns it encou...

What it is set to gain in terms of the agreements, but i think what we have seen throughout this conflict is a russia flexed its muscles to remind ukraine who is in charge. with that in mind, if this deal falls apart, and not only harms ukraine, it not only harms russia, but so many other countries, particularly those in the developing world to rely on the screen and where people are grappling with an affordably high food prices. imilieu affordably high food prices. when this deal was _ affordab...

Griner a top priority. >> fully focused on getting her home safely and as soon as possible. >> reporter: 31-year-old griner, at the height of her wnba career, pleaded guilty last week to drug possession, admitting to bringing cannabis vape cartridges into russia in her luggage. >> i would like to plead guilty on the charges. >> reporter: russian policy experts say the guilty plea may be a strategy to expedite griners trial and switch the focus to negotiations to bring her home. griners wife spok...

We're at Day 134 of Vladimir Putin's inevitable victory in Ukraine, let's take a look at what's happening.

Charges, saying it was not her intent to break the law. she was packing in a hurry. so, the plan here, according to the lawyers, they are now counting on leniency from the russian courts with recognition of that, lack of intent to commit a crime. of course, there is now perhaps consideration this might speed up a verdict and get to, as i was talking before, get to a point where the russians are willing now to talk about prisoner exchanges. just earlier today we heard the russian deputy foreign m...

What can they do? honestly very little. foreign secretary liz truss spoke to her counterpart here, both of them said it was a breach of the conventions. there are no formal relations between the united kingdom and the donetsk peoples republic, they dont recognise it or the court, there is not much they can do legally automatically. there are a few options for these men. there is an appeal, that they have one month to make, that would see their sentence taken from a death sentence to life impriso...

The whole combat operation there. but if you look at the treatment of people accused of being mercenaries who are also two brits and another foreigner who are currently being held inside the donbas, inside the russian held areas of the donbas, theyre being accused of capital crimes potentially, being accused of murder because theyre so called mercenaries, they were paid up members of the ukrainian armed forces, and in one cases, the brits, the ukrainian british national, so all of this, though, ...

Tears streamed down my face. i was very happy. i could not believe that i was in ukraine, that i was in a place where you could breathe freely, in ukraine. in war, capture is an occupational hazard for a soldier, but conflict has seen people, citizens, taken by the russians as they try to do two things, either use them as currency in prisoner exchanges, and that seems to have worked in some cases but also to try and crush their resistance, theirfight, and that hasn�*t been so successful. i res...

Tribunals are being set up to dry captured ukrainian soldiers as war criminals. some leaders down there are saying that they should face the death penalty. whilst both sides continue in this endeavour, that will complicate negotiations for prisoner exchanges, prisoners that include both soldiers and citizens. it is a sizeable operation, alongside the continued fighting on the battlefield.— the battlefield. james, thank you very much. _ the battlefield. james, thank you very much, james _ the b...

For russias war effort there. bethany bell, bbc news, brussels. this war in ukraine has seen thousands of soldiers and citizens captured by both sides. many are used as bargaining chips in prisoner exchanges, and russians have used captured as a measure of trying to crush resistance. one ukrainian soldier has told me his story. metal scaffolding... holding together hlibs broken pelvis. he also broke his jaw and lost vision in one eye. hlib is onlyjust taking his first steps. two months ago he wa...