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Visual Explorer: Tracking Down A Zvezda Clip Quoted By Reuters In A CBS News Report

US media coverage of events around the world frequently quote from local media in other countries without linking back to those original sources, making it impossible for readers to learn more details. For example, a CBS News report earlier this week about CIA Director John Ratcliffe's visit to Moscow included this statement: "Reuters quoted Russian Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova as saying 10 prisoners of war from each side were exchanged during a handover in Belarus … Lantratova, speaking on Russia's Zvezda TV network, did not say if there were any senior officers among the prisoners exchanged on Wednesday." No link is provided to the interview and no details are provided on what else she said about the handover.

One of the most powerful capabilities of the Visual Explorer lies in the ability it gives us to track down sources like this. Here, we were able to find the interview Reuters quotes from that CBS News cites, which you can watch for yourself!

Remember that we are OCR'ing all of the onscreen text from each broadcast – in this case, the text is transcribed as "МОСКВА … Яна Лантратова … Уполномоченный по правам человека в РФ", which Gemini translates to "Moscow … Yana Lantratova … Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation", confirming that this is the interview in question. Interestingly, Chirp + Gemini translates this clip as "In Belarusian Gomel, the Russian side also handed over 10 prisoners of war to Ukraine", giving us the additional piece of information not contained in the CBS News report that the exchange occurred in Gomel specifically.

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