Washington's United Nations ambassador makes a direct plea to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to release a detained US journalist and a former US Marine. "I am calling on you, right now, to release Paul Whelan and Evan Gershkovich immediately, to let Paul and Evan come home," Linda Thomas-Greenfield tells Lavrov as the Russian foreign minister chairs a UN Security Council meeting in New York. SOUNDBITE

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