That walked free because her governments, all but one european, have negotiated and paid millions of dollars to win the release. Today, the unique roundtable. Well speak with Philip Balboni president and ceo of globalpost, where james foley was a freelance reporter when he was taken hostage in 2012, and who u. S. Threatened his family with prosecution if they attempted to pay ransom. Foley was beheaded. We will also speak with the former chief of the fbis crisis negotiation unit, gary noesner and with sarah shourd held prisoner by iran for or 10 days and released through negotiation with a third country which facilitated half 1 million each for her and her two friends josh for tall and shane bauer. And we will be joined by new York Attorney Stanley Cohen directly involved in secret talks with the freedom of u. S. Aid worker peter kassig held by isis in syria when u. S. Ally the talks collapsed and kassig was beheaded soon after. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now de
Martha teichners cover story. Then on the store radio of three american hikers strayed across the border in to iran. Coming their inside story to tracy smith. They walked free after two years in a tehran prison. Some still want to know how the iran hikers got there in the first place. You must have heard comments from people saying, come on, you were naive, you were stupid. To make this mistake. What i would say to people that criticize me for going to the middle east in the first place that something terrible could have happened to me in my own back yard. Their inside story ahead this sunday morning. Catherine da knew is a legend on the screen. Known for her talent and beauty talk about it with bob simon of 60 minutes. Catherine she has been acting for 57 years. In her early days she was known as the ice maiden, elegant, distant, reserved. But then things changed. What was it like for you when you acted in your first really steamy movie . A steamy movie . Would be sex. Later on sunday
Hostage in iran recalled her harrowing ordeal. For 410 days, mostly in solitary confinement. Held for 26sh were months. Their memoir is being published today. It wasnt until six months or so into it that we saw a new sticker, american spies to go to trial at some point. We kept telling our interrogators, what are we being charged with . They would say, we dont know. And we will look at what theyve been doing since the release. Once i left prison, it didnt feel over. I thought about the people i was in prison with. I thought about prisoners around the world. It made sense to me to start looking into prisons in this country. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Russia is formally recognized crimea as an independent state, paving the way for the annexation and define new sanctions led by the United States. In a speech today, russian president Vladimir Putin announced his support for itsxing crimea following vo
But i suspect that you have made a noble bargain for your self. So they had contest at the boundaries going back to 1682. So france said we are selling you louisiana and the french understanding of that was broad and so jefferson adopted that. The spanish understanding was much narrower and they adopted that. Have a good evening. Tell their story of being captured and imprisoned by the iranians after hiking on the border of iran and iraq in 2009 while they were charged with spying and entering illegally. This is about one hour and 20 minutes. I would like to begin by congratulating shane, josh and sarah on the release of their memoir a sliver of light three americans and imprisoned in iran. The story begins on a warm summer day in july of 2009. The Three Friends that met as students decided to go for a hike in the mountains of iraq. Shane and sarah were living together in serious teaching and writing and josh was visiting from the u. S. Sarah shared recently on cbs morning edition that
Literal, you know, thing. And, but i, you know, i do feel stronger and i guess i feel stronger in the belief that there are forces that are unknown to us or barely knowable and definitely unable to be spoken about. That are around us. This isnt nearly as tedeep question, but it is a serious question. You guys are all obviously very intelligent people. So, i mean, you had to have known where you were hiking was near iran and iran is especially unfriendly to american s. Did you not have a map or any sense of how far youd going . No, maam, we were walking beforehand. Yeah, no, i remember we were in i remember seeing it on the map. The town. And its like on the eastern part of iran, but its not like of iraq. But its not like, on the border. People said go to this waterfall. So we went to the waterfall. I remember thinking, we are near the eastern side. Like, and at one point during hiking, and this is one of those thoughts that plagued me in solitary confinement, i remember mentioning, oh,