RT News - September 07, 2019 (17:00 MSK)

The international community praises the major prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine as an important step. Moscow and Kiev also herald it as a significant move forward in their ties. Russian journalist Kirill Vyshinsky whose release was widely called for by liberty groups is among the 35 to arrive in Moscow the same number were returned to Kiev. The US State Department confirms it tried to bribe the captain of the Iranian oil tanker at the center of a diplomatic row - so they could seize the vessel. And, ongoing xenophobic riots in South Africa, as foreign-owned businesses are looted in the country's largest city, Johannesburg.