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tv   Our World  BBC News  November 5, 2017 3:30am-4:01am GMT

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the headlines: there's been a major purge in the government in saudi arabia. ten royal princes, among them several senior ministers as well as dozens of former ministers, have been detained in a campaign to stamp out corruption. the crown prince appears to have sidelined powerful rivals. president trump has arrived injapan, the first stop on what will be the longest tour of asia by a us president in 25 years. the trip comes at a time of heightened tensions with north korea over its nuclear programme and missile tests. the issue is likely to dominate the tour. the opposition labour party has called on all the main british political parties to agree a new, independent system to tackle sexual harassment within parliament and politics. it follows a series of allegations levelled against several high profile figures, some of whom subsequently resigned. sport now. here's james pearce. at the fa cup goals, all the premier
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league results for you in a few moments but let's start in scotland where celtic‘s unbeaten run in domestic matches now stands at a british record of 63 which beats the old record that stood for 100 years in its 50th league game in charge the manager brendan rodgers named an unchanged team only the second time and afterward, he paid tribute to his players. it means everything. it is an incredible feat by the players and a wonderful example of professionalism, of playing and creating high standards every day. and we have faced everything, going behind in games, playing in dodgy surfaces, playing on astroturf pitches, being tired in games, going behind, semi—finals, finals. they deserve all the credit they get for it. west ham manager slaven bilic is beginning to sound like a man who is
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expecting the sack. liverpool have pulled the pressure on him the 4—1 win at london stadium. west ham regret an early chance and two liverpool goals in 2.5 minutes but jurgen klopp‘s fibre in charge, alex 0xley and the getting his second goalfor the club. 0xley and the getting his second goal for the club. it all leaves west ham just one place at one point above the relegation zone. west ham just one place at one point above the relegation zonelj west ham just one place at one point above the relegation zone. i can't talk about the application about the attitude and all that and about their determination and about the effort, especially not today. the players tried but it isn't working at the moment. lack of concentration, definitely, for a few of us, but it's not the effort. and is not the application. elsewhere in the premier league the early kick—off between spokane and leicester ended in a draw, a home win the huddersfield against west wrong, 01’ win the huddersfield against west wrong, or with gordian stoppage time to beat newcastle at st james's park which means they come out of the
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relegation zone and another way when the burnley to beat southampton 1—0 at st mary ‘s and brighten up to eight on the table when they beat swa nsea eight on the table when they beat swansea 1—0, the swans drop into the bottom three. 27 fa cup first—round ties today and three league sides have come unstuck against nonleague opposition, 0xford city will be celebrating right now i'm sure, their club at their first ever win in the competition over a leg side, the 56 places below lead to colchester, early in the second half goal was enough to put them into the second round. national league maidstone united pulled off a shop with a convincing 11—2 victory over cheltenham. the fourth and final goal. national league borehamwood came from behind the knockout league 0ne came from behind the knockout league one side blackpool 2—1 was the score. and 80th minute winner. it gave the home fans at metropark victory to celebrate. england have got theirfirst win victory to celebrate. england have got their first win of the rugby league world cup, are far from
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convincing performance against levin on at after defeat against australia and importa on at after defeat against australia and import a result of them. the lebanese are below was drenched in the tournament, they led 20 to six at half—time and were very poor after the break but tom burgess fielded 29— ten to rebut it was a win that was marred by an allegation of biting, the claim made by the lebanon captain robbie farah against england wingerjermaine mcelderry. allston beat the pro 1a worst team the southern kings in an amazing 12 try much import elizabeth. at the score 36— 36 and three minutes remaining, a powered over. the result means that ulster remained second place in the latter. but as all of your sport for now. now on bbc news, it's time for our world. street by street, so—called islamic state is losing its last footholds in iraq and syria. the caliphate is almost finished on the battlefield but what of the children
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whose minds it moulded? the families who became part of islamic state? i have come to northern iraq to find those now trying to rebuild their lives after isis, to meet its child soldiers... if you didn't say the right thing, how did they punish you? ..its former slaves. ..and to search for some of the families of foreigners who chose to join isis. many of them have now disappeared without trace. children singing. in a classroom in northern iraq, they are singing to overcome their memories. these 9— and 10—year—olds were all captives of so—called islamic state, where music was forbidden. chldren singing. from their smiles, you might not guess the violence they have seen
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but they are all scarred by it. isis enslaved this brother and sister three years ago. in the time of isis, what did you — what was it like then? what did they tell you about the guns? the children at this rehabilitation centre are yazidis, a part 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.
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the women were 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 experience, it was not actually easy and good but now they can express it in a different way. at first they were just too scared to talk about it? yeah. now they can talk about it but... freely. in a better way. like they do not express it with so much — i wouldn't say anger but they feel comfortable and relaxed now. now, every day brings more yazidi children to camps like this one, as they return from captivity. and many not only witnessed atrocities, they became instruments in the isis project themselves.
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the terror group trained thousands of boys like these. they were called lion cubs of the caliphate. they were fighters, informers, suicide bombers. more than 50 boys blew themselves up defending the biggest isis—held city, mosul, before it fell injuly. some were children were foreign fighters, others recruited or kidnapped from local families. boys chanting. this 14—year—old yazidi boy reunited with his fatherjust three weeks ago but his three years away have left a gulf between them. he has lost his native language, kurdish, and was forcibly converted
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to the isis version of islam. you spent all of that time, and they were teaching guns, they were teaching you about the koran. what were they telling you about the koran? if you did not say the right things, how did they punish you? he nearly was killed as he was launched into an attack just five months ago, over the syrian border. how is your leg now? who did they say the enemy was?
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the infidels, the non—muslims. according to isis, his own father is an infidel and, after three years, not surprisingly, part of the boys‘s mind may still belong to the group he was forced to fight for. what do they show, the videos? the two children, returning from their music class,
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are taking me to meet their mother. mother and daughter were separated from the boy, rayan, when isis captured them. the family later paid a $28,000 ransom for his release. he never had to fight for isis but his mother says that, while he was in captivity, he became attracted to weapons. as for the mother, she suffered the fate of all captured yazidi women.
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she was forced to be a domestic servant and sex slave. her capturers‘ wives, she says, were as cruel as the men themselves. and other localfamilies did nothing did nothing to help her or the yazidis. she says many relatives are still in that living hell. now, there are still some family members missing, yes? that's a lot! because they say now that daesh is almost defeated, that everywhere is almost liberated. where do you think they are, where could they be? her sister—in—law says
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there is another problem — isis families may now be passing off captive yazidis as their own children. this 11—year—old yazidi boy was filmed in mosul earlier this year with his isis foster father. he is dressed already as though for battle and there is a kalashnikov against the back wall. the boy is obviously totally dependent on the man, he can have only the vaguest memories of his realfamily. here he is again, looking queasy in the back of a car, as his guardian films him on a drive through mosul. where they're going, no—one can tell. the boy has now been rescued by this man,
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khalil al—dakhi. he is a lawyer, and now devotes himself full—time searching for lost yazidi children and reuniting them with theirfamilies, despite the efforts of isis to hang on to them. that kid is only four years old. it'll be years before — however young they start — before he can become an isis soldier or even a slave or anything like that. from the looks in the video, it almost looks as though the man is being kind to him. khalil has rescued more than 200 children and women slaves,
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over the past two years. he has a network across iraq and syria that constantly searches for lost and trapped yazidis. he says that some isis families are living undetected, among other displaced people in camps, and have taken the captives with them. even now, though, the slaves are still too scared to try to escape. millions of people displaced
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by war now live in camps across iraq and syria. how could you hope to find all the remaining yezidi slaves amid this chaos? but there are other women and children also lost in the aftermath of islamic state's collapse. families of 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 three. i will call her zainab, although it isn't her real name. she and her sister were both
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married to isis fighters. they say their husbands kidnapped their children and took them to isis territory. zainab and her sister came to try to retrieve them but got trapped. zainab sent me frantic messages as isis collapsed around her. then there was this, to another contact, before her account was silenced. 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 malika. she spoke to me from chechnya about her daughter, seda, and two small granddaughters who were with isis in mosul, and are now lost. here is a family video of other
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russians living under isis in raqqa, in syria. isis wanted children like this to belong to the islamic state if theirfathers died. now, their fathers are mostly dead, but isis 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 to find out anything i can.
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and finally, i do get a clue. i've just 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. were some of the lost russian muslim children there with her? were there a lot of other children in the prison? i showed madiya the photos i'd been sent by russian grandmothers. were any of these children with her in the detention camp, where there were so many foreign families? oh, really?
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madiya has said she didn't know the girl's name but i recognise her too — she's the daughter of one of the women who sent desperate messages as they tried to flee isis. later i discover that her family has survived and will soon be sent back to russia. but what of the other lost children i'm searching for? that child looks familiar. but i don't know. are they all — are they all from the same family? yes. 0k. they — there was 1,400 who arrived at one of our emergency sites. it wasn't something we were expecting. i don't think any of the children ever smiled at us, any of us. aid worker melanie markham saw
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the same foreign families that madiya was with in this camp for 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. but melanie believes that 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 were they guilty of? so those children need to be with theirfamilies, and with people who care for them. and whatever way that can happen, the authorities and humanitarian organisations need to work together to ensure that. but the suffering of isis wives and children means little to yezidi families like madiya's.
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they've lost far more. gathering to welcome her back, they also lament her murdered father and her mother, sister, and brother, all kidnapped and still missing. hefa is a 19—year—old yezidi who has returned. herfather 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. hefa has come to the yezidi's holiest place, lalish.
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it's 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 but now, that ceremony is repeated for those like hefa, returning from isis captivity. before leaving lalish, there are other prescribed rituals that hefa, her sisters and her brother should also perform. reconnecting with their faith comforts them, they say, but they're not planning to stay here in their historic homeland. now, what do you think your future will be? so you would you would leave all of these places behind?
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you'd leave lalish? you'd leave everywhere, forever? 0ne ceremony involves throwing a cloth over a pillar. if it lands, it's good luck, and that's something hefa and that all of the other victims of isis desperately deserve now. but what this family is wishing for is asylum in australia, and many of the yezidis want to leave too. isis may be defeated but they know that escaping the black shadow it's cast over this region will take much, much longer. hello again.
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part two of the weekend looking dry and brighter than part one. showers to begin with but in the afternoon the sunshine will be widespread and cold for all. some showers to start with will be heavy in the west with wintryness over the higher ground
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but in the afternoon they will be confined to coastal areas to the west and south—west and in the east, with most places dry that it will be cold, eight to ten or 11 at best. then bonfire night into sunday evening and it looks like it will be a dry and a cold one for most, a few showers in western and eastern coastal areas but it will really be cold. you'll need to wrap up. as you head deeper into the night it turns really cold, central, northern and eastern areas potentially with temperatures down to —5 or —6. we start monday on a frosty one for many with a little bit of mist and fog around as well. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is duncan golestani. our top stories: saudi arabia's crown prince launches a major anti—corruption purge, several senior ministers are detained. touchdown in tokyo.
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donald trump arrives injapan as his mammoth tour of asia gets under way. lawyers for the us soldier who pleaded guilty to abandoning his post in afghanistan say he will appeal his sentence. as harassment claims continue to engulf british politics, the opposition calls for a new way to deal with complaints. hello and welcome to bbc news.
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