news agency on tuesday latin america past year it with the region with the as the region with the highest death toll but more than 206000 deaths the u.s. brazil india and mexico have been leading the rise in fatalities. and then afghanistan's health minister saying 10000000 people in that country might have been infected with the virus that's almost a 3rd of the population figures were based on a nationwide antibody seve. and shrank and have turned out in big numbers to vote in there twice delayed parliamentary election the 1st country in south asia to hold a general vote during the pandemic president got to buy rajapaksa is hoping to install his brother mahinda as prime minister carabine to caliphate is the program coming up next what happened asking what happened to the men and women who left trinidad and tobago to join i still will have more news from doha off them.

caribbean states are trying to fake a new president being famous for its spectacular conduct putting 2017 we reported on a more sinister reputation it was then developing as the nation with the highest group in right to ice in the western hemisphere so what happened to the young trinidadians who went to join islamic state for this update to that sage giuliana rufus has been finding at.

the end. just in the euphrates in my house wonders same crowfoot has just bush to prepare for prayer in syria the year is 2013 and cruel foot is believed to be the 1st islamic state recruit from the caribbean island of trinidad and tobago. everybody but one by one here. and this is cruel for its best friend for reading this stuff seen here training snipers in a recruitment video made by islamic state all eisel. according to government estimates $13020.00 data including women and children have since joined crowfoot and was stuff in the middle east. this makes trinidad the highest per capita

contributor to eisele in the western hemisphere and some experts think up to 400 people may have gone 2. but these happy images of schools that they ran were only one side of the story. of the trade of agents joined us fighters and many were killed in battle. it is this edition of the idle magazine that really made international headlines in appeal to muslims in his home country saying crawford called on them to take the fight back to trinidad and to terrify the disbelievers in their own homes and to make the streets run with their blood the question is why do so many 20 dady and

take up arms feisal in the 1st place. today that is best known for its world famous carnival it may seem an odd place to be exporting fighters to eisele but there is a long established muslim community of those african and indian descent and. they make up only 6 percent of the population but over the last decades the voice of black muslims has become louder mainly because of this man. oh. yes in leeds a movement called the gem of a muslim mean the community of muslims it was founded in the 1980 s. to empower astrotrain a day dns who were converting to islam in the early days the jem'hadar muslim mean came to public notice because on the streets in forces were tackling the country's growing drugs trade their militant image was new to muslims here do you always have

private security was you know i have no private security. people who are here with me all the time no i go anywhere i mean how i run down here i think of what i have a more powerful and i have a heart for the love for people and drive my protection but abu bakker led the only armed islamic uprising against the western government. on 27th of july 1990 he and his men stormed parliament and held its m.p.'s at gunpoint of 6 pm just after noon. the government of turning to be a go. it was overthrown. the prime minister of the cabinet rushed. down muslimeen wanted to topple a government they said was criminal and corrupt but the population failed to support them after 6 days of chaos in which $24.00 people lost their lives accepted

an offer of amnesty and surrendered. he claims when the muslimeen stopped policing the streets after the coup the government lost control and the power of the drug gangs erupted into a spiral of violence pre 19 anybody could tell us when i was on the control. their murder rate would not reach a 10450 the water almost 500 and this is predominantly among the african people the same or slave population that nobody ever did anything to have a will because says the root cause that has been left untreated remains poverty the germans food in school programs for the community. there for comes a woman pool of unemployment nothing to just sit in the ghetto and do nothing and then the drugs come in you know and it's a haven for the drugs and and now the guns and so the military is just spiraling out of control do you think there is

a connection between that and the fact that members of the opportunity and community have gone to fight in syria because of their marginalization and the difficulties with them to succeed because the african muslims. little is known about how fighters in trinidad are actually recruited and to find out more we have set off to follow the stories of saying prove it and for reading this stuff. with carnival taking over the streets some was limbs of 4 family friendly retreats. were low like this one set up in a car. here are men who knew both crawford and mustafa has agreed to meet us businessman mohammed has brought his whole family along he instantly recognizes crawford's photo i noticed a brother but he was in jail at least me and this brother here for reed who was in

the same cell they had 3 of us in a cell so then you know them intimately i mean can give you just drive them or what sort of yak as they were they have a good character good character in 20 alyson crawford mustapha and others who have rested for conspiring to assassinate the prime minister but all this soon released due to lack of evidence some people believe that the government of the time used the alleged plot as a pretext to arrest people who are being tracked for other reasons. why do you sing you a name appeared on this list of people and he does that as wanting to kill the prime minister that is a $1000000.00 question. because every so often i would go to physical. settlement. led by even. has been. you know on the watch lists quite

a few of the people who went to syria unknown to have been part of the jemaah community of jews most in the town of real close. to read most of lived there for a while others like same crew for just pass through i see new people just. people i notice some belong to a real car all it would come there was stay there for a week or 2 and then a disappear and the people in in the job even know they're leaving because if you go into syria to fight a war which. of course you would want to go silent you would want to tell your shadow because you don't want to be caught ashmead. says someone tried to recruit him to i remember clearly one night abroad telling me. that he is considering going to syria and i should also go. courageously into jihad 9. with some bullet in your

chest in your head in because. if you die in that position it's the most honorable that you can get according to islamic teachings this is why you see so many people just rushed into syria and will not investigate here fully. i say no i don't think i need. to go to have learned. yet others came very close to the. stuff and for my house made a mosque has publicly stated that he considered joining. me here. says he was part of the 1900 but felt let down by its leader. we felt that. we were prepared to go to.

the government in this country on the starvation islamic state. abdullah claims he planned terrorist attacks within trinidad but none have come to fruition now he wants to pursue an islamic state by peaceful means he's agreed to take us to booze mosque in rio claro this may be rural trinidad but carnival is in full swing carnival now it's changed a lot since you were young we're all like you got more. has got more violent more immoral. lies just outside of town it's a mom nasm mohammed very rarely talks to the media but thanks to my dollar he has agreed to speak to us. nice to meet you dear mom and his family have given out land for free to create a self-sufficient community based on islamic principles this is how we got into

love him give orders to below so they are just and all together how big is your damn argue group home so here 25 homes that's quite substantial do learn from mustapha used to live in one of these houses until mustapha fell out with the a mom because you asked him to leave them on here why was that. was this will be. one of the things that has been reported is that it involved the matter of the killing said he was unhappy human chain crawford where we're not happy with it was something that happened in the community. and i'm going to go into. it there are reports that crawford and mustafa carried out a double murder before travelling to syria this mosque has long been on the radar of intelligence agencies like the f.b.i. who came to question him on nazism and what it can be. like

a system. what a consumer what american. people. if somebody came to you a young 20 day again and said i'm not sure if i should go and go to the caliphate and join i sell and fight would you encourage them or would you try to hold them back. my. daughter. when gandhi narrowed knew that. i never knew will go. on till a week. and a machine sort of is not believed and never knew the. why do you think she left the room it will encourage you know not only got into that don't look or look inwards

ones organs there are next though on. i mean when you look. by now at least 30 members of nasm mohammed's family have settled for syria children their spouses and grandchildren after leaving the mosque takes us to the house he shared with fareed moustapha when they 1st came to rio claro roof pretty much enjoyed each other's company did you speak to him after he left to syria where you attach for them when he was there we did share. some words for one of the shoot from the school when did he say your courage in me to come. i mean i was almost fareed like gods god does exactly. what you see here all the maker joerg of you know what i've done with love with you know things that are so so this killing that shayan and and for reeve carried out what life does that throw on him because that's not the happy go lucky person that we see in the pictures you know i thought

it was more use of the what i can see is that for you to have developed a type of. eagerness to fight for justice truth and justice to seek out a reason music how you can. get all the defenders brothers and sisters. by 2013 mustafa and crew food had already planned a trip to join but elated to avenge the death of a brother from. he had been shot while trying to buy a gun. while driving around the city of shotgun as they found their tongue and this is the corner where friedman staff and shane crawford carried out their killing it's a spot well known for trouble. that jumped out of a car and broad daylight and shot dead dead 2 victims within weeks both were in syria. the fear is that i still recall it and has been feeding of trinidad's

gang was some. of the feuding guns drawn them was in my identity and i closely associated with mosques. we had to enterprise on the outskirts of child line and wishing crowfoot grew up. violence surged and to prise in july 26th teen after the murder of cell intellects also known as robo calls. to all this died at the scene including the killer. alex's was never convicted of any crimes but he was widely believed to be the good father of a local museum day after his killing some form of associates set up their own gang but they became known as unruly isis. from out on the farm. we are in a foreign object *.

it is friday and i'm really isis have agreed for us to join them so pray 2 degree of this accused of a series of killings at the sermon is one of peace loving people the only one of those willing to do what moses left that example standing in his imaam in this makeshift most is avinash. aka abdul lucky and generally known as crisis good luck to me that we've heard about those who we think we are at the quarterly was my god that we asked crisis about the murder of a lexus my friend killed i mean really my friend killed him and he died not a reason why he killed them people might say oh you want to hear what the news and say about this guy right there was that he was on a well known bed in the man that's what the new said about him you know i'm saying

we over here in enterprise we know that he was a kidnap will. kill you. people you know what i'm saying price's says he wants his crew to be known simply as muslims claiming the name unruly isis was given to them by the media he sings anyone going to join i still is misguided saying it's room for muslims to kill muslims so how then does he justify the same thing and to probably do that understand something people call it as killing one in reality we what does that mean defending ourselves so it's like you know somebody's coming to kill you close and then you go get em fast you know what i'm saying that most or not and yes ok without know is not ok is ok to defend yourself you know what i'm saying but it's not ok to kill an innocent person is enough or ok to kill an innocent person is not that we going to come out one day and say well ok give me a gun i'm going to kill this guy no it's not that that's what they make it seem

like it this is our back against the laws it's got you got everything to do with these people bring in the drugs into our country if they would stop the drugs in the guns off the way we have no kill and no crime and find out that. the perception is that i still recruited gang members who were already used to violence by promising them a more meaningful night but many trinidadian recruits are well educated and come from wealthy families whose no use advised them not to tool so we returned to the mosque of jamaat al muslimeen to meet a man personally knew more than 15 of them throughout the son of the 1990 s. cruelly politest and sometimes try to minimalize this legacy that there is a small group of people who are you know criminally oriented who get involved in these things not as much the child and put them selves under arrest for ideological

reasons. and then they try to recruit thousands. of files are for. and who has. traveled to syria and is sending pictures of you know schools with kids and gardens and a society that is operating by islam into your good interests a muslim unusual but videos attributed to eisele that depict violence all dismissed as american propaganda when a muslim says videos of didn't drop as he is in deep along. playing in the background and his korean sayings i don't. trust those images you know many people say well it was very fired up for the roots of the problem trinidad he sends i think some people feel as though there's no. almost instant political system that exists here and i strongly believe that some of these

individuals see maybe we would need more of our different. their. government's response has been to pawson new terror bill aimed at curbing recruitment a former national security minister explains what's happening the organizations are well known by law enforcement agencies on the steps i what is required is to come to you not just to monitor them but to read. to suppress them if you don't provide through and if you do not. explain and let these people know that you are enemies of the crush i'm not going to negotiate with you you embolden them you make them feel that they have an opportunity to speak more in common to try to reveal more individuals and that is what should be prevented what trinidad feels most is an attack on home soil you know especially on its lucrative oil and gas industry if it is that you are when we need to crush you we need to prevent you from going on even as you do will we need to put everything possible to make sure you do not ever get

back to the 200 b. therefore. we're going to keep. are you going to be killed or are you going to die in syria and does what is required. indeed many today thousands who traveled to syria i no longer alive freedom stuff i died in battle and shame crawford was killed by an american drone. and then in june 2017 goodish forces and the us coalition attacked isis de facto capital. most men stayed to fight but their women and an estimated $1200.00 eisel tilden fled to wood safety among them these 2 bolinas. 00000000 it's of what's up message sent by the red cross from

northern syria in 2018 mahmoud and i you have been there for 4 years abducted by the trinidad in father from their mother perkins ferrera. since then the boys have been reunited with phyllis and so 2 years after our 1st filming trip to train their return to meet them when he left he told me he was going by his mother so and i was going to work so i couldn't even stack it up put one on one together the same idea will go when we're leaving the country phyllis is husband is believed to have died and the boys and it up here in the rush cancel i saw members run by kurdish forces when philistia travel 10000 kilometers to be reunited with them it made national news. now taking to the reaction. also later. when i saw that are you heroes like

miami area. mamoru the whole budgeteers very obvious try to play a beggar but as soon as we close a dollar the cameras win a day he literally break. them in my arms once again i was like. i can back i'm tax man. mahmoud and i you receive psychological support organized by trinidad's ministry of security which is also investigating the circumstances of other women and children still held in ice over refugee camps. they include families from fallacious religious community and her best childhood friend she's over there so the trick she had. over in syria her friend had told her that living on the ice was not as they'd once imagine the tired frustrated

. depressed america but basically all they want is to come back home just go back into the reality life and have it just a bit silly says nell campaigning for their return under the watch of the authorities and a policeman was present during our interview i still have families out there in stand because majority of them i grew up with. so no dice so have mothers cry for decades it really mushes me. nearly 100 trinidadian women and children unknown to have emerged from high school territory the 20 dating government is now working on legislation that will determine whether and how they can return there are fears that not everyone who has fled has given up on line and means by back at home the issues that cool so many trinidadians to leave the

country to be addressed. this underwater treasure is a risk of disappearing juice a coral bleaching caused by rising temperatures when we think about the great bear it gives a strain the area that's truly heritage's iconic in the tourism industry baseband says we will lose instantly if we have another bleaching event of these magnitude if this continues they just will not be the opportunity for the currents to recover in between those methods scientists a calling for strong climate policy from the government to reduce emissions without this the situation will find they get worse. in russia a mixed martial artist didn't just pull. it to bring the same

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