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US basketball star Brittney Griner appears in court in Khimki, Russia, for a hearing in her trial for charges of drug smuggling. She was arrested at a Moscow airport in February for possessing vape cartridges with cannabis oil, as she traveled to to Russia to play club basketball with UMMC Ekaterinburg. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in a bid to find a way home for Griner as well as Paul Whelan, a former Marine jailed on espionage charges he denies. IMAGES
Speaking via video link, US basketball star Brittney Griner asks a Russian court to reduce her 'traumatic' nine-year prison sentence, issued on drug charges. SOUNDBITE
US basketball player Brittney Griner, who was sentenced to nine years in a Russian penal colony in August for drug smuggling, is seen on a screen via a video link from a remand prison before a court hearing to consider an appeal against her sentence. The hearing is held at the Moscow regional court. IMAGES
US basketball star Brittney Griner sits in court accused of drug smuggling smuggling charges, for which the court found her guilty and requested a sentence of nine and a half years in jail for the athlete. IMAGES
US basketball star Brittney Griner asks a Russian court not to "end my life" as prosecutors requested she be sentenced to nine and a half years in prison on drug smuggling charges. SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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