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issued by spain for the ousted catalan leader, carles puigdemont, and four other ex—ministers. they are accused of rebellion and sedition. a belgian prosecutor will study the document before deciding whether to pass it to an investigativejudge. president trump has made his first visit to pearl harbor, after leaving for a marathon tour of the asia—pacific region. it will be mr trump's longest foreign trip so far, with visits to japan, china, vietnam and the philippines. he's expected to unveil a new american strategy for trade and security in the region. president trump has expressed outrage at a decision by an american military court to spare a soldier from prison. bowe bergdahl admitted deserting his post in afghanistan and was captured by the taliban. let's take a quick look at what's making the headlines on some of the front pages of the first editions of the morning's papers: we start with the daily telegraph, which leads on the sexual harassment scandal that's
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engulfing westminster. the paper reports on a row between former defence secretary, michael fallon, and leader of the house, andrea leadsom. the cabinet is apparently in meltdown. the i says the tories have been forced to suspend one of their mps because of what it called "serious allegations" against him. charlie elphicke says he's not aware of what the alleged claims are, and denies any wrongdoing. the opposition labour party has its own problems. the independent shows a picture of former shadow defence secretary, clive lewis. he's been accused of groping a woman at the party's annual conference a few weeks ago — a claim he denies. the guardian leads on brexit. the paper claims new research shows that households face an increase of more than £900 in their annual shopping bills if the uk crashes out of the european union without a trade deal. poorer families and the unemployed would be hardest hit. and the daily express reports on the furore surrounding labour mp
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harriet harman. she's been criticised for repeating a joke about the holocaust on televsion. but she says she only did it to show that anti—semitic humour is "no laughing matter". now on bbc news, it's time for our world. street by street, so—called islamic state is losing its foothold in iraq and syria. the caliphate is almost finished on the battlefield but what of the children? the families who became part of islamic state? i have come to northern iraq to find those who are trying to rebuild their lives after isis. to meet its child soldiers. its former slaves. and the
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search for some of the families of foreigners who chose to serve isis. many of them have now disappeared without trace. ina in a classroom in northern iraq, they are singing to overcome their memories. these nine and ten year olds were all captives of so—called islamic state, where music was forbidden. from their smiles, you might not guess the violence they have seen but they are all scarred by it. isis enslaved this brother and sister. in the time of isis, what was it like? what did they tell you about the
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guns? the children at these rehabilitation centre apart of the non— muslim minority singled out for particular cruelty by isis. in 2014, their villages were seized and thousands of men murdered on the spot. women sold into slavery and children taken for re—education to serve the so—called caliphate. what did they say about your family? when first they talk about their
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experience, it was not easy and good but now they can express it in a different way. at first they were too scared to talk about it? yes. now they can talk about it but freely. in a better way. they do not express , freely. in a better way. they do not express, i wouldn't say anger, but they feel comfortable and relaxed 110w. now, every day brings more your cd
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children to camps like these, as they returned from captivity. —— non— muslim minority. the terror group trained thousands of boys like these and called lion cubs of the caliphate. they were fighters, informers, suicide bombers. more than 50 boys blew themselves up defending mosul before it fell in july. some themselves up defending mosul before it fell injuly. some children were foreign fighters, others were recruited or keep out from local families. —— kidnapped. this boyd
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was reunited with his fatherjust two weeks ago but the three years away have left a golf between them. he has lost his native language and was forced to be converted to the islamic state religion. they were teaching you about guns and the koran. what were they telling you about the koran? if you did not say the right things, how did they punish you? he was nearly killed as he was launched in to an attack over the syrian border. how is your leg now? who did they
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say the enemy was? the infidels? according to isis, his own father is an infidel and, after three years, not surprisingly, part of the boys's mine may still be long to the group he was forced to fight for. when did they show the videos? these two children returning from
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their music last taking me to meet their music last taking me to meet their mother. they were separated when isis captured them. the family paid 28th there is in dollars for his release. he never had to fight for isis but his sister says that while in captivity he became a track did to weapons. —— 20 acres and ——
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$28,000. as for the little girl, she suffered the fate of all women. she was forced to be a domestic servant and sex slave. the wives we re servant and sex slave. the wives were as cruel as the captors themselves. they did nothing to help. she says many relatives are still in living hell. now, there are still in living hell. now, there are still some family members missing? that is a lot. because they say now
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that daesh is almost defeated that everywhere is almost liberated. where are you think they are, where could they be? her sister—in—law says there is another problem, isis families may 110w another problem, isis families may now be passing of captive children as their own. this four—year—old yazidi boy was found with these isis foster father. he is dressed ready as if a battle and a he is dressed ready as if a battle andaa he is dressed ready as if a battle and a a rifle can be seen against the wall. here he is again, looking queasy at the back of a car as his
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guardian films him in a mosul. the boy has now been rescued by this man. he is a lawyer, and now devotes himself full—time searching for lost yazidi children and reuniting them with theirfamilies. that kid is only four years old. however young they start, it will be yea rs before however young they start, it will be years before he can become an isis soldier or even a slave. from the looks in the video, it almost looks
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as though the man is being kind to him. he has rescued more than 200 children and women slaves over the past two years. he has a network across iraq and syria that research for captured yazidi. he says that some isis families are living on —— undetected, among other displaced people in camps have taken the captives with them. even now, though, slaves are still too scared
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to try to escape. millions of people displaced by war 110w millions of people displaced by war now live in camps across iraq and syria. they hope to find all of the remaining yezidi slaves among the chaos. but over other women and children also lost in the aftermath ofa children also lost in the aftermath of a chronic state's collapse. families are foreigners who chose to join the group. in the dying days of the caliphate, they have been desperate to escape its clutches. this is a russian muslim mother of
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three. i will call her zainab, although it isn't her real name. she and her sister were both married to isis fighters. is that the husband kidnapped their children and took them to isis territory. zainab and them to isis territory. zainab and the sister came to try to retrieve them but got corrupt. zainab sent me frantic messages as ices collapsed around her. then there was this, to another contact, before her account went silent. relatives of other lost isis families, particularly from muslim parts of the former soviet union, have also contacted me as i've been researching this story. one of them is moika who spoke to me from
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chechnya about her daughter and two small granddaughters who were with ices in mosul and who are now lost. —— isis. here is a family video of other browsers —— russians living under moika in rucker in syria, isis wa nted moika in rucker in syria, isis wanted children like this to belong to the islamic state with their fathers died, over some of the mostly fathers died, over some of the m ostly d ea d fathers died, over some of the mostly dead as ices has fallen and desperate grandparents back in russia have no idea what has happened to the women and children. grandmothers like her have asked me
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to find out anything i can. and finally, i do get a clue. i'vejust heard that a kidnapped yezidi girl has been reunited with her relatives. she was rescued from one of hundreds of foreign isis families detained by the iraqi authorities after the group's defeat. worse, some of the role lost russian children's were there with her. —— we re children's were there with her. —— were some of the lost russian children there with her? whether other children in the prison? i showed her the photos i'd been sent by russian grandmothers. were any of these children with her
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in the detention camp where there we re in the detention camp where there were so many foreign families? really? she said she didn't know the girl's name but i recognise her also. she's the daughter of one of the women sent desperate messages as they tried to flee isis. later i discovered that her family has survived and will soon be sent back to russia. but what of the other lost children on searching for?l child looks familiar. but i don't know. they all — of a 0lesen the same family? yes. 0k. there were
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1402 arrived at one of our emergency science, it wasn't something we were expecting. i don't think any of the children ever smiled. thus, any of us. aid worker melanie markham saw the same foreign families who the girl was with in this counter displaced people before they were taken to the detention centre. no names of those there have been released by the authorities. some of the mothers may now be prosecuted for complicity in isis crimes. it melanie believes the children should be returned to other relatives. two thirds of this group were children. so they would never be charged with a crime. and i saw tiny babies, what are they guilty of? so those children need to be with their families. and with people who care for them. and whatever way that can happen, the authorities and
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humanitarian organisations need to work together to ensure that. but the suffering of isis wives and children in the little to yezidi families. they have lost far more. gathering to welcome her back, but also lament her murdered father and her mother, sister, and brother, all kidnapped and still missing. a 19—year—old yezidi has returned. her father was murdered when isis took over their village three years ago. she was taken prisoner, along with her two sisters, and they all suffered more than three years of sexual slavery, passed from one isis rapist to another. but today, she is going for a ceremony that is meant to help cleanse women like her.
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i have come to the yezidi holiest place, lalish, a complex of shrines where her people have celebrated their unique religion for hundreds of years. a religion isis regarded as devil worship. yezidi children have always come here for a form of baptism that now, the ceremony is repeated the those returning from isis captivity. before leaving lalish, the other prescribed rituals that the girl, her sisters and her brother should also perform. reconnecting with their faith comfort them, they say, that they are not planning to stay here in their historic homeland. now, what do you think? your future
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will be? do you believe —— you would leave all of these platers behind question mark you live lalish, you would leave these places forever? 0ne ceremony involves throwing a cloth of a pillar and if it lands, it is good luck, and it is something that all of the victims of isis desperately deserve now. but what this family is pushing for
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its asylum in australia and many of the yezidis want to live also. isis may be defeated but they know that escaping the black shadow it is cast over the region will take much, much longer. hello once again. the weekend is upon us, let us see if the weather is going to fit in with your plans, whatever they may be. the weekend certainly turning colder eventually across all parts of the british isles. eventually many of us will get to sunny spells and showers, but for some we'll have to contend with a rather wet start to the weekend, especially so across england and wales because yes we have the weather front getting in across scotland and northern ireland, but i suspect it's this cloud coming in from the south that will be the thing that many of you notice first up as the two weather systems combine to produce just a lot of rain across a good part of england and wales to start off the day. especially here concentrated down through lincolnshire, east anglia and into the east
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midlands, parts of the south—east and away across the channel. further to the west, the rain becoming a wee bit more patchy and you've really got to get up into scotland or northern ireland to see a brighter start to the day, a glorious start i would have thought in the eastern side of scotland but from the word go, showers aplenty in northern and western parts of scotland and into the western side of northern ireland. slowly, oh, so slowly, as we get on through the morning towards lunchtime, into the early part of the afternoon, yes, it will be that late until we see the last of that persistent rain getting towards the east anglia coast and getting away from kent. with somewhat brighter skies following in towards the midlands and across the south—west as well, where we will keep a peppering of showers for a good portion of the evening, so if you've got plans for bonfires and fireworks, across many northern and western parts, you'll have to contend with quite a noticeable wind, so safety first of course, and the peppering of showers, drier i would think further east and this is how we start sunday. the showers there in northern and western parts but you get
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the sense there are fewer of them. if you're holding off with your firework plans until sunday evening, many more of you i think will be dry by this stage although there will be a few showers flirting with the eastern shores. underneath the clearing skies, a widespread frost to start the new day on monday, certainly in the countryside, but there is a sign of a change. after that dry enough start for many parts of the british isles, eventually we”ll bring weather systems in from the atlantic so it's a combination not only of wet weather but also quite windy weather getting into northern and western scotland through northern ireland. generally speaking the further south and east you are the drier, finer and brighter the day will be. this is bbc news. i'm duncan golestani. our top stories: in hawaii, en route to asia. memories of american wartime losses for president trump. while thousands protest in catalonia, belgium receives an arrest warrant for the independence leader
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carles puigdemont. spared jail by a militaryjudge — the american soldier who abandoned his post in afghanistan. and, police in new york say they have a viable case against the disgraced hollywood producer, harvey weinstein. president trump has arrived in hawaii en route to asia.
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