in the day's other headlines the five Americans freed in a prisoner swap with Iran are finally back on U.S soil one by one they stepped onto the tarmac early this morning at Fort Belvoir Virginia loved ones welcomed them home with cheers and tearful Embraces after years of separation they were freed after President Biden agreed to unfreeze nearly six billion dollars in Iranian funds for humanitarian purchases a Moscow court has refused to consider the latest appeal by Evan gershkovich The Wall Street Journal reporter who's detained on Espionage charges his trial date has yet to be scheduled gershkovich appeared in public for the first time in months standing behind glass walls outside the court the U.S ambassador said she won't rest until he and American detainee Paul Whelan are released the plight of U.S citizens wrongfully detained in Russia remains a top priority for me my team at the embassy and for the entire U.S government it is unacceptable that Evan gershkovich and Paul Whelan still languish in prison Russian prisons on charges that are baseless gershkovich faces up to 20 years in prison Paul Whelan is serving a 16-year sentence on similar charges forces in Azerbaijan fired on Armenian military positions today killing at least five civilians and wounding scores more the shelling happened in the long disputed nagorno-karabakh region that's under ethnic Armenian control azerbaijan's defense Ministry released video of today's strikes they called it an anti-terrorist operation launched after a land mine killed several soldiers and civilians India expelled a senior Canadian Diplomat today hours after Canada did the same to an Indian Diplomat the dueling dismissals come amid allegations that Indian agents murdered Hardeep Singh nijar in Vancouver back in June he was a Canadian Citizen and leading advocate for sick Independence India has called the claims absurd but Canada's prime minister Justin Trudeau defended his decision to investigate we are not looking to and provoke or escalate we are simply laying out the facts as we understand them Canadians have a right to know and need to know when things are going on like this and that's why we made the decision to do this Canada has the highest population of six outside their home state of Punjab in India in Libya authorities have divided the flood ravaged city of Darna into four sections to create buffer zones to prevent the spread of disease that comes amid reports that at least 150 residents have fallen ill after drinking contaminated water meanwhile anti-government protests erupted outside one of the city's mosques demonstrators demanded a transparent reconstruction process there are any rebuilding efforts that no Libyan company be involved everyone in derna is corrupt from the head of the municipality to City officials dharna should either be left as is or a foreign company should be involved protesters also called for a thorough investigation reports allege authorities ignored warnings that the two dams that collapsed near derna during the storm needed maintenance and stocks lit on Wall Street today as investors awaited tomorrow's Federal Reserve decision on interest rates the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 106 points to close at 34 518. the NASDAQ fell 32 points in the S P 500 slipped nine still to come on the NewsHour Republican Congressman Ralph Norman on critical negotiations to avoid a government shutdown why Crews regularly removed tons of fishing debris from the bottom of the Gulf of Maine the newest state and local efforts to register more people to vote and the first woman to lead Texas's old list HBCU recounts a remarkable life in a new memoir [Music] from WETA a studios in Washington and in the west from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University