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an arms buildup that began as tension but the ron increased last year after saudi aramco plants were attacked dozens of military personnel are also being redeployed and when asked about the report president on but not give specifics. i don't want to talk about it but we're doing some things will make it a lot of moves in the middle east and elsewhere we're doing a lot of things all over the world militarily we've been taken advantage of all over the world our military and. in the sense that we're and this is nothing to do with saudi arabia this has to do with other countries frankly much more we have the most powerful military in the world libya's capital has come under renewed attack from forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar our shells landed near the turkish and italian embassies and a hotel in the city center after our war in turkey on thursday against supporting the u.n. recognized government for the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera much more news to come when i went east as that next. point of prime minister takes
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a lump of coal into his own parliament that call means a lot to the country's fortunes we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we're living again breaks it doesn't matter what's a slogan that whatever the problem is the course jokes and counting the cost on al-jazeera. from the impoverished communities became alliance reports children attracting in the south. separated from their families boys and girls forced to pose as orphans to attract foreign donations. now finally hitting hard but will their parents accept them one i want to east follows the journey of the children of course in the polls a legal contract. i'm
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on my way to make a special group of children. this price is quite important in the whole crisis of offering tickets to god that's right. i must say this is a transit high on the outskirts of katmandu all of the children here have been rescued from a legal orphanages i'm going to do try seeing how many ha they were trafficked from their villages deep in the mountains. with. the next bit 10 year old davy is finding her voice again what about that one. who lives that's right.
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she's mischievous sometimes she cracks jokes she is very very friendly with all the children and she just loves a carefree type of child as she is so she's a bit of a character yeah she is is they are never. allowed to do that they're ok on this is going to be difficult that being a. bit lonely as a guard and want to play. despite everything she's been through davy hasn't lost. as a good is it or a good dream of own why i'm strong. more on. want to put that one. no i can't imagine how these young children between the age of 3 to 9 or 10 how can they be separated you know how can they live away for so many years so many months. yes that's in
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a few days the children will start the long trip back to their family so that's. the poles mountain regions are is beautiful as they are poor opportunities here are few and. many parents in remote villages want to bet a lot for their children. often age recruiters pri on that just. families hand over the savings on the promise of an education for their kids in kathmandu. but there's a catch. all orphanages might provide some schooling the children are falsely presented as all phones to attract foreign sponsors and
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volunteers. it's an industry exploited by nepalis the driven by western democracies. we're trained in western countries to think a certain way about developing countries and one of those ways is that. often edges are a great way of caring for children who are who would otherwise be living in poverty and that in combination with the good intentions and the funding and the flow of volunteers just drives the separation of church or from their families. the cold hard facts are there on an awful finance to volunteer with or fund this whole industry so the orphans of being invented paper often say our offense made by their fortunate documentation i mean like. a struggling
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lawyer kate bedore speaks from 1st hand experience. yes in 2006 she and some friends write used funds to open an orphanage in kathmandu with an initial in types of 6 girls handed over by another institution. personally sponsored the smallest child 4 year old alicia. i felt a huge sense of responsibility towards fair but i also wondered where her parents and why is she off and then we just ashamed have parents been dead she was too small to tell us otherwise for more than a decade cases mine time to contact with alicia and the other girls. to die there reuniting for the 1st time in 5 years.
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but it's you. know. so i don't. have a mystique to. my family they hit in the. wilds . families earth they are in the room long as i have been but i don't need to in order to rely rather than it. knows now that all of the girls have a living family it's. ever seen g.s.t. . in 2012 an audit revealed that being trafficked as paper
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before entering her can. we found 4 drawn death certificates and birth certificates . they found that the children's names had been changed to prevent a surprise family finding them and i thought if they've got family. there's no way that they should be here with us. if they've got family when we need to find a way to get them apart. quite so organization forget me nots began the process of tracing the families they discovered alicia's parents had been searching for her for years and we got that news i remember crying when her father came to katmandu to see aleisha he hadn't
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seen her for 6 or 7 years and he kept her chin and he turned her head and she has a scar just here and he touched a skier and then he lifted her forehead and she has a scar tissue from when she was obviously a small child and he said this is this is my child. you can't even if you did nothing else. was the most important. and just moments ago. forget me not has completely changed its mission from often age to reuniting children with their families. after living at home with her family for 4 years alicia has returned to katmandu to enroll in college and to mentor children like davey got
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to. see that if there are no foreign staff volunteers at the transit on the care is in the hands of nepalis they know what needs to be done today institutionalize this country they're on their way there and we just felt that it's more important having a holy voice in that process than it is to have an honest question that process here but at least at the staff carefully build trust with the children so they can try to find their families. when the children start trusting you justing us the team here then they start telling more stories about the previous orphanage or the family members. under the one is helping to put the pieces back together when you are able to reunite a child with her or his family i think is the best thing in the world that's how i
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feel and my t. . was on that with him by liam over. and. many of the children like davey are still traumatized that are with them as the head. hurt. the button button go like this video shows the die that davy and the other children were rescued from the illegal orphanage that had been held on the outskirts of katmandu for more than 6 months at the heart of for better life here they were lured the families were tricked but actually the life which they were living in this place. was hell. the orphanage owners had filed to secure
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sponsors meanwhile the children went hungry. boys me you know and i think that anger is good for me because that will help me to talk in front of the government authorities and the people who are supporting orphanages that you are harming children. davey's own arms cowburn our border has been charged with trafficking the children it's common in the orphanage tried for relatives to be used as go betweens. kalpa na has agreed to speak publicly for the 1st time she climbs she was assured the children would receive quality schooling and accommodation but she filed to rise the alarm when she saw the terrible conditions. over so much of what made the natives by their own bad unless academy after what had nobody by it there was that life any mayor who did
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nothing but that is of a day there are fluff no matter. what another one day may miss who the navy captain are says she tried to help the children. w. for a loan and they will but it may so give us here a way if that is the most part is i guess my the cause of this whole mess i think oh boy lagaan but once i get into it it's a catholic that has had this little subway to 30 i've got a photograph of him in a place that's a company is out on file but he'll be gyal if she's found guilty. of a moby that are not bad no they asked me who by allen they is mother. this is our lizzie pointed over north over the big government and say boy oh by midst of any. good law our mandate is to win that seat to the ducats. the court proceedings take years to resolve.
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at the transit home debbie and the other children are preparing to go home to home . you're. just like the kids to be lama is from home. so isn't theirs and ours is organization the himalayan innovative society is partnering with forget me nauseous to ensure the children arrive home safely. and tell you when you buy number but you ain't getting what a pass. i guess and yes we know that he or you know.
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but twas to come back to defend me it is a hierarchy of family members so you have to respect each of the family members defending so that it will be difficult for the thai. it's a rough ride. as the plane gets closer the children start recognizing their villages billard. home which is one of the most impoverished and isolated parts of nepal its capital
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simak caught sits at almost $3000.00 masons. so high the prime banding needs to make it to see. the kids whites for their families to arrive early is to get. up and leave the piano when the yes i want to get them up that. doesn't give you a pass. at 1st the children i'm not sure how to reconnect. but i'm told no more from the local culture is reserved. for come by now i believe that of course here i am going to have a new move because well got her on her maclaren get a loan then he will no longer talk about winning but at the end i hold on and i saw you saying don't i mean this is just the start of
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a complex process davey lamas job isn't just to reunite the families a to help them through the hardships that separated them in the 1st place. the new young go. to hughes her. to hear her. going on that. i mean i don't. know if you seem to. hate. this 30 going to care the news or. when you know. we are not the only sending the side back to family but we support higher education is obvious not finished college of staff from the air because we have to. watch all the v.a. vs the changes in the family and counsel them into just. the 10 year old davy is doing why isn't it as the die ages you got is not really that i
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miss no no no miss some of them at last davies mother kawasaki arrives who are there. who need cash. and best to custom dic tights that she greets the men the 1st. person lay there when they pull up pools had lived and there were no shadows of a fiction to debut but one man in my if you know so you know you but he budgeted no that's atlantic city. yet here i. am with you oh not only merrifield davies mom trusted that her daughter was being educated and cared for incrementally now she's learning the reality.
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it's not until you get out here that you really understand just how father traffic is prepared to god to get children so they also need to market in kathmandu it also gives a sense of the oscillation and remind us that the parents of fighting the desperate for opportunities and education for their children. to these mom has lived to last if he would struggle 3 of her 6 children died of illness. are you here and you going after with the beauty of magic you knew he had money on her. after night gamma though it seems that i is yeah a minority on a pathway that is to say that. and the everyday orderly on that island.
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davies journey back to her village is finally i thought. to be great so psystar only it's an awkward region yet and. they've lived very different lives since davey left the katmandu distance but once the davies family will receive financial support to send her and hourly to school in the village social workers will check on them for the next 3 to 5 years if you look at the level that it is maybe i live where they had to go through as i am well rather. well again gotta have more more she didn't give us here the delay i am on my cameraman is only. a presenter there's. all 4 shrines out there he need them one need than 110 i.
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gotta keep ones so he was the last man every afternoon less of a guy was there were a flood of yeah. because if they were and their city than boise i mean now and they're going on a day. back in katmandu so bodies are beautiful each tried like alicia don't want another generation to suffer. terrible i learned the way. the arson is wrong but it all goes off bonding with oh they need to have her on that but a washout was on me to advantage in my life to them not on me loves all work in the good to the mind when it will get out. family with dollar are from the most hated cost of food and self.
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i would say please do not volunteer or fund off midges this is not just a problem in the pope but it's actually a global problem and we know it is up to 8000000 children living in open ages across the world and we know already that 80 percent of them have a parent that could care for them if they were supported and that's astounding quite ben-dor is campaigning to end the floral found it's really hard to get people to change their minds particularly when they have been supporting an orphanage for a long time even when we found a family for these children some some dinosaurs and to us that's great they've found a hamley bit you want let them go back they will you back to poverty because the kids will be better off with you one day. poverty is just a lack of resources resources we can fix laos can't buy that we can't just pay for
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