this is bbc news. we'll have all the latest headlines and news stories for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. drums and chanting. the great spirit, whose voice i hear in the wind, hear me. i need your strength and wisdom. we are kind of an invisible

culture, because people know about native americans, but people don't know about native americans. i'm tired of being homeless, man. | i'm tired of being alone. i'm tired of being too scared to kill myself. law enforcement, search warrant! come to the door! go ahead. violence, murder, overdoses from drugs, and we have to protect our people. it's ok. it's like trying to stop _ a haemorrhage with a band—aid. our communities are sick. we are trying to heal them, but it's a slow, hard process. strength lies in knowing who you are and where you come from, and that's what we're focusing on differently.

indian reservations are a difficult place for our children to grow up, based on what's happened to us. some of them grow up thinking it's indian to be drunk, it's indian to be on drugs, it's indian to be poor, it's indian to be violent. they don't know their history, they don't know the beauty and the strength of where we came from. they don't know what our ancestors did a long time ago, their ways, their culture, that kept us as a people together, that makes us strong, resilient. drums and chanting.

on loudspeaker: good morning to you, sir. - good morning. good to see you again. i have been called on by the people, and they made me their leader of our nation. my name is mark fox. i am the chairman of the mandan, hidatsa, and arikara nation, also known as the three affiliated tribes. when i serve the best i can, it is an honour to be that, but it is also very difficult. it's very demanding and it is very stressful. one of the biggest reasons why social ills exist in indian country is because the answer has always been economic. but when the united states came in for their own purposes of flood control, recreation and hydropower, flood us out with their dams and destroy our backbone, that's where you begin to see the social ills begin

to immensely take off, in the '50s, '60s, '70s, each decade getting worse and worse. 85% of all our crimes committed are alcohol or drug—related. 85%. the reality of the situation is we have to stop being a market. we never had a dea before, created a drug enforcement agency, drug treatment programme, getting people off of drugs, and we try to save lives by building what we're doing now, not ten years from now, not 20 years from now — now. this is good road recovery. they originally built it

because we were sending a lot of people out for treatment, and we wanted to be able to try and take care of our own people. there's two rooms that the clients can stay in, and we have close monitoring. sometimes it's every hour, sometimes it's every three hours. if they have symptoms, we can give them medications, so we can't take all the symptoms of withdrawal away, but we're just trying to get them to stay in treatment. my name isjoy froelich. i am a member of the mha nation. i am arikara, i am also the executive director of recovery services for mha. hi, how are you? somebody�*s waiting? male orfemale? ok, then we need to get over

to the male cottage before he gets over there. i had a warrant for the 24—7 programme because i had two duis here. they arrested me and they took me to burleigh county. 0k, my room, my bed. i don't know how long i'm going to be here. it might be two months, three months, four months, i don't know. my addiction started when i was 13, 14, around then. started with me stealing cigarettes, drinking a beer every once in awhile. then i started smoking more weed, and drinking obviously became heavier and heavier.

ifell into pills when i was about 16. i loved the way pills made me feel, made me feel confident, made me feel like, yeah, i was confident, able to talk to chicks, you know? my mom and dad would let me drink with them, as long as i would bust the guitar out, even on school nights. and then being recognised, and having my ego stroked, as a little misunderstood, broken little kid, felt good to me, you know what i mean? when everyone around you is using, and has this life, it becomes normal. the abnormal becomes normal. you are currently looking for treatment services, right? it's heartbreaking.

last month, we had two people a week die from overdose. and so our people are dying. do you use substances as well? i'm just thankful that our council and our tribe is trying to, and is, making a difference, and one of the ways is to try and make a sober community. i'm a drug cop, always been a drug cop. it's poison, and addiction runs rabid. i wanted to do more, i wanted to help my people, so i went into law enforcement.

we're going to newtown, to an apartment complex for an overdose death. it's unfortunate, but i haven't been to a scene like this in a while. he wasn't really on our radar. i know people knew him, but he wasn't somebody who i thought i would be responding to this sort of call with. and to have him lose his life so young, to something like this, it's upsetting.

i have relatives that are hooked on meth, and it's tough. close cousins that i grew up with, i never would have thought would go down that road. you know, you have to arrest family members, you have to make those decisions, and you get ostracised by family, you know, "you're no nephew of mine, you're no cousin of mine, you're no brother of mine." what? what is it? do you need some lovin�*? we know our people are great, and so let's give them every chance possible to have a great

life and get back to their roots, get back to who we really were, you know, loving the land, and having community. it's hard to do that when your community isn't sober. tonight, they have sweat. yep. so we're going to run and get funds for them. how it starts out is that we have wood and we have rocks. we heat the rocks and we take them inside the pit there. it's very similar to a sauna. the thing with this one, it's more connected to nature, you know? we have all the four bases of belief there, fire, the water, the air,

then we are sitting directly on the earth there. if you want to tell us a little bit about what happened to bring you here, why you chose good road, what progress you are making here. and i see you have a thing on. what have you got there? this is a sweet grass, and it's got sage in there, and it has bark from the tree that me and the boys, we cut down during sundance, and the analogy for that was, you know, kind of fighting my addiction, fighting my demons, fighting this darkness inside my soul, our soul. it's like we went to war with it and we cut the tree down. it's to protect me. i got two circular rocks there to protect me from negative energy, negative spirits. for both of you, that was your first sundance? yeah. i know some folks talk about the spirituality. did you find that too? like i say, it was my first

time, so it was a new experience for me. mine came afterwards. when i was there it was kind ofjust like learning how- they're doing everything - and how the ceremony went. afterwards, reflecting| on it was kind of more the learning part of it, - just looking back and thinking about what everything meant and being able to be - a part of that. yeah, it was pretty special. when you get them sober and you say, "re—examine "who you are, and identify who you are by where you come "from, your lineage, your roots," we find when they do that, they find that strength. that's, i think, the stark difference between what other treatment might do — non—indian treatment facilities may do — and ours.

addiction is — it affects families. it doesn't just affect the person, it affects the whole family. my son is 25. he first came in contact with alcohol and marijuana when he was a teenager. for him, it became a problem, it became an addiction. but it continued to get worse and worse and worse, to the point where we were staying up at night with him because we were afraid he would vomit and choke or even just so he would not sneak out of the house and take the vehicle and drive some place and kill himself or kill others. and he's sober today. he's 18 months sober, i think?

and he's doing good and i'm just so proud of him because i know that he overcame a lot of hurdles. i'm gonna go somewhere. i'll be there for a while and then, i'll come back. 0k. it'll be ok. i'll be careful, you know? it sounds crazy that i'm, you know, more fearful of him relapsing than i am fearful of him getting shot, but that's just addiction and it just tears families apart.

what we're going to be doing is going over our dot brief, of a search warrant of a residence that we have gotten information on, to have some suspected drug activity going on in. counsel received information that she's possibly pregnant. just, when we take her down, just be mindful of that. they said six or seven months but she doesn't look like it. all of us are affected by it, on or off the reservation. i don't think there's one family not affected by addiction to either drugs or alcohol, and it causes a lot of trauma. thumps on door. law enforcement! search warrant! come to the door! go, go, go!

the worst situation that we could ever find in a home is kids being exposed to this, this being normalised. this fentanyl, if you would tell me ten years ago that this was to come to my reservation and invade and kill this many people, iwould never have believed you. this isn't a movie. this isn't a game. this is real. and lives are real and we're just out here trying to save them, and that's what i tell my team all the time — every pill, we saved a life, and that's all that matters to me. can't save them all,

but we can save them, one at a time. kevin. what's going on? what's up, bro? good to see you, dude. good to see you too. and i'm back! i'm back. woo! i was relieved to be arrestedl because that was my way out of the chaos and it was a way i to keep me from my addiction. there was an opportunity for me to become a better person, - become a better father, i a better version of myself. yes, i was here earlier this year and, you know, - i was in mid—addiction, i was — you know, and i abused - the grounds and everything and

i was totally wrong for that. - i do appreciate you coming in and owning up to that and i am glad you are doing better. i do rememberthat incident that happened... yeah, yeah. ..so i do appreciate it and i appreciate that you are doing a lot better and that is good enough for us, that you are doing better. yeah, thank you. be betterand keep it up, 0k? yes. guitar plays. # said, said that's what you want. # because i've got my baby on my side. # but the pain, the pain just won't stop. # it's been this way ever

since my mother died... i have to take action, making it right with people i have done wrong. oh, my gosh. just for the camera. good to see you. how are you? i'm pretty good. you look nice. good to see you. melody. this is joy. she is the boss of everything. do you want to come into my office? sure! ok! she has already been through so much. you know, we've been kicked out of, like, what, two or three homes and she is only six, you know? so, she's been homeless and all that stuff. so... but you know what? what did you learn? as long as you have your dad, and your dad has you,

that's what matters most. yeah. that's my heart and soul. that's my world, definitely. but, yeah, because you're doing awesome. one day at a time. it is. that's — and i have learned that from you, i've learned it from tyrell and all the guys and all the gals. it's like, "i am sober today and that is what matters." that's what matters, yeah. so... and if i am sober today, then i'm capable, you know? yep. ..to be the father i need to be. i think everybody has a light. when people have addiction, that light is covered with darkness and when they get sober, theyjust glow and they become what they were meant to become. # it's a lonely road when you're going nowhere.,

so i've to go with someone. my plan now — help. be of service. help my people back home any way i can. to show them that you don't have to get drunk to have fun, you don't have to get high to cope, you don't have to live that lifestyle to have a good life. at the heart of what makes us indian is our tribalism, is our communal togetherness. we take care of each other. and that's what allowed us to survive for thousands of years and that's what going to make us survive for the next thousand years. # so, i've got to go...

# somewhere... # some... # somewhere... hello there. i hope you've been making the most of the easter sunshine because on sunday the weather starts to change with some wetter weather in time for easter monday. at the moment, we're in between high pressure and low pressure that gives us a southerly wind. it's that weather front coming in from the atlantic that will signal the change still dry overnight. and these are the temperatures by sunday morning. so not as cold as it has been of late. there may well be more cloud around for easter sunday, but we'll see the sunshine coming through at times. it's in northern ireland, though, that through the afternoon the cloud will tend to thicken. some patchy rain coming in here over the irish sea

by the end of the day as well. and ahead of that advancing rain, we'll have a stronger southerly wind. now that's going to bring us a bit of warmth. temperatures could reach 17 degrees around the murray firth, north wales, merseyside, perhaps london and the home counties, but a few degrees cooler than that in northern ireland with the rain arriving here and that band of rain will push its way into western parts of britain during the evening. continue eastwards overnight. heaviest rain over the hills in the west and followed by some bands of showers sweeping across northern ireland into southwest scotland. so with all that cloud and rain around, sunday night should be pretty mild into monday morning. easter monday though we still have that rain to clear away from eastern parts of england. it could linger throughout the morning in east anglia and the south east. following on from that, some sunshine. but these bands of showers could be heavy with some hail and thunder and there'll be some frequent showers across northern and western parts of scotland. we'll have a chilly breeze and temperatures are going to be lower. we're back down to around 10 to 1a degrees in the afternoon. we're into that showery stream as we head into tuesday.

but this developing area of low pressure is going to be heading our way as well. whilst many places could start the day dry with some sunshine, we've got showers in northern scotland. we'll see the cloud increasing, the wind picking up from the south—west and rain moving its way northwards and eastwards through the day. and tuesday could turn out to be quite chilly, actually. temperatures typically 10 to 13 degrees. a lot of uncertainty overnight and into wednesday. the models are differing with the depth of that area of low pressure and the position. but for a while actually, it could be quite windy across some parts of the country and that signals this change to more unsettled weather over the week. heavy showers or longer spells of rain and temperatures by day on the low side for this time of the year.

live from washington. this is bbc news. girls at schools across iran are taken to hospital after another outbreak of apparent gas poisoning. crowds in israel remember the victims of a spate of attacks on civilians — amid a worsening security situation and political unrest. and coming up — reaction to the uncertainty about access to a widely used abortion pill in the united states after conflicting court rulings. hello, i'm carl nasman. we start in iran — where local media are reporting that dozens more girls have

been poisoned in suspected gas attacks on iranian schools.