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Hostages Released
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The hostage ordeal lasted four days.
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Chris Nuttall, BBC correspondent in Turkey
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More than 200 people were on board the ferry.
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Chris Nuttall, BBC correspondent in Turkey
Noah talks with with Chris Nuttall, the BBC correspondent in Turkey. Nuttall discusses the end of four-day hostage ordeal in which gunmen seized a Black Sea ferry with more than 200 people on board and threatened to blow up the boat unless Russian troops halted their attacks on Chechen rebels in southern Russia. The pro-Chechen gunmen surrendered to Turkish authorities near Istanbul after throwing their weapons into the sea.
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