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can have an even better x1 experience. simple. easy. awesome. the waiting game. a summary of robert mulers' russia investigation report is due to congress very soon but democratic lawmakers demand a full release. engine failure leads to a may day call and hundreds of people now being air-lifted off a cruise ship off norway. we will have the latest on the rescue operations there. this hour, the isis caliphate loses the last of its territory to syria but their presence in the region still remains. we will have live reports from iraq. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm george howell.
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>> i'm natalie allen and newsroom starts rye now. details of the special counsel's long awaited russian election interference report to soon be sent to the u.s. congress. attorney general william barr sent saturday reviewing it and plans to send lawmakers a summary of the investigation by the end of this weekend. >> the democrats want the full report to be released and they are prepared for the legal fight. they say they are willing to subpoena the report and its supporting evidence, if necessary. our evan perez has more on this highly anticipated report. >> reporter: attorney general bill barr spent more than nine hours at the justice department reviewing the findings from robert mueller's investigation. he spent the day with people and among few who have seen the conclusion of the trump russia investigation.
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they say barr is pushing to send to congress what he calls the principle conclusions from the mueller report. what exactly barr's report to congress will look like, we still don't know. officials tell us to expect a summary that still the main takeaways from what mueller produced. they suspect whatever barr sends to congress he will also share with the public. in the weeks since barr took office, officials told us he is wrestling with how much detail he can really from mueller's report. the more detail mueller included in his report about evidence that didn't lead to charges, the more complicated the job would be for barr as he tried to prepare his summary. barr's report to congress is being eagerly awaited by lawmakers and by the president who has been uncharacteristically quiet since mueller completed his investigation on friday. evan perez, cnn, washington.
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the public response has been reviewed and sources say likely because his advisers are encouraging him to lie low until they learn more about what is in that report. >> mr. trump's private response has been a private one. he spent part of the week golfing in florida and sources tell cnn the president is happy now that the investigation is over. one can understand that. u.s. lawmakers are awaiting the summary of the report but democrats as we mentioned aren't sitting still while they wait. >> they are urging the justice department to release the findings in full and demanding the latest documents be preserved. >> reporter: democrats are anxious about the mueller report and what they may ultimately see and they are gearing up what could be a rather intense fight between house democrats and the trump administration. if the justice department does not provide what the democrats say is full transparency.
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they want the underlying evidence that everything bob mueller decided in his investigation, things who he prosecuted and did not prosecute and why. they want all of that information. they believe it should be publicly released. nancy pelosi today told her colleagues she would even reject having briefing classified briefings because she believes the public deserves a right to know. she wants this out in the open and her members to talk about this in the after if they were to have a briefing and not classified so they can go about publicly and discuss what they have learned. this process fight beginning to take shape and potentially subpoenas as well. democrats talking points to their members earlier on saturday and said this. if necessary, democrats would be prepared to use its subpoena authority to obtain the full report in underlying evidence as well as to obtain briefing and testimony from the special counsel, the attorney general, deputy attorney general and other necessary officials.
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the democrats also spent letters to the heads of various agencies, the fbi and the white house and the state department and treasury department and others demanding those records related to the mueller investigation be preserved because they want to be able to see that potentially in the days, weeks ahead. now, the question is what will bill barr ultimately provide? will he provide anything more than a summary to congress of the mueller's conclusions? but already nancy pelosi made clear both in the conference call and in a letter to her members that a summary of the conclusions could not suffice the day after the conclusion of the mueller investigation. democrats are making clear this is just the beginning of the fight. surely not the end. >> there is more fight coming up, yes. because it's washington. >> definitely. we are getting reaction from u.s. lawmakers who are running for president in the 2020 election easement here is are
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what of the democratic tenan candidates are saying about this. >> i think a lot of things in this are helpful but not just congressional investigations but other investigations going on in the district attorney district of new york around criminal activity. this president has everybody around him from his personal lawyer to his campaign team be convicted or plead guilty to serious charges. we want to see how far this corruption goes. >> it is absolutely imperative that the trump administration make that full report public. >> this is someone who has conducted an investigation on behalf of the people of the united states and it's also producing 34 indictments for guilty pleas and it is a serious investigation. we want to see. and they should be able to. >> this is about hold people accountable, yes, as you know. dozens of people have already been indicted but it is also about knowing what happened, what the scheme was so we are in a better place to prepare for
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the 2020 elections. >> even without knowing the details of the report in full, it's clear the mueller investigation has been fruitful. some 199 criminal charges have been filed against 37 people and entities, seven defendants pleaded guilty and five people have been sentenced. let's talk about all of this with leslie. she is the head of the u.s. and americas program and chatham house think tank. good to have you from london. >> thank you, george. >> the white house is claiming victory and keep in mind we don't know what is in the report but the u.s. president at mar-a-lago, we understand it is victorious politically. is this a win for president trump saying no collusion and if it is a win, how significant of a win is it for him? >> i think right now the optics around this are being interpreted in that way. we know virtually nothing about what is actually in the report.
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i think the headline such as they have come out have been captured and they are being very much subjected to, these politics. but fact of the matter is until we have any sign of that report endetails of that report we don't know. so very difficult to draw any conclusions at all at this point. >> that is what we are doing. we are drawing conclusions. we are trying to kind of understand or get a sense of the mood around what we know so far. at this point, there are no new indictments. we know that for sure coming from the special counsel. we don't know what's in the report, but does the white house still have reason to worry, leslie, what could be in the report and should they worry about the district attornsouthe new york and other investigations? >> they are important to know what is in that report and we don't know there is evidence
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suggesting obstruction of evidence firing comey or working with the russians surrounding the presidential campaign and the u.s. elections. all sorts of things could come out. of course, there will be ongoing investigations at the federal level across the country and it's very difficult to know how this will play out, in part, we don't know how much of this is going to be released more broadly and how much of it will be subject to executive privilege, how much will be held back from the public, so i think what lies ahead could be very destabilizing, will be very political, and it could be still very problematic the president. until we see that report, we simply don't know. >> how do you see the fights playing out between white house and democrats and attorneys trying to make as much public or as little public as possible? >> you know, it's very clear that the democrats want to see this report. they have called for the underlying documentation.
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they are not going to hold back on that request. i think that it could very get difficult and i don't think that it's going to -- if less of that report is released to the house democrats or to the public, there is very serious call for transparency. people want to see this report and, remember, the public's desire to see this report will be stoked in an ongoing way by pressure from democrats in the house. so i think this will be a very intense politics. >> i want to look at this. let's go from micro to macro now with an eye toward 2020. mr. trump claiming this news from the special counsel as a win. we don't know what's is in the report yet but the mood victorious among trump world. the defeat of isis played out as well. a strong economy that mr. trump moving forward with the wall he promised his base clearly, his voters must be satisfied. what does it mean for democrats now looking to take on president
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in 2020? >> yeah. i mean, you know, if you take a look at trump's base, they have been with him pretty much the whole time, regardless of all of these things. the territorial defeat of isis, remember, isis remains a very considerable threat in asia and africa and many parts of the globe. they have lost their territorial stro strongholds but remain significant as an insurgency. that didn't deplete the reports that trump is receiving from his base and not likely to increase it. it's steady throughout. the democrats are negative on trump an the game changing is if something changes in the economy. the economy is strong right now and don't know where that will go or if something comes out of this report by mueller or the investigations. again, those are things we simply don't know but can't anticipate going forward. again, the prospects for trump
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in 2020, the base is there but as we saw in the midterm elections he has lost considerable support in suburbs and lost a lot of support. the number of registered republicans have come down and we can't be certain of his success going forward. >> leslie, thank you for your time. >> thanks. hundreds of people could be living what could be their worst nightmare right now. water on board a cruise ship. the cruise ship is going nowhere. we will have the latest for you. >> as weather conditions on the water get worse, we will update on the rescue efforts with those stranded on the cruise ship. stay with us. ♪ - [woman] with shark's duo clean, i don't just clean, i deep clean carpets and floors, so i got this. yep, this too, and this, please. even long hair and pet hair are no problem, but the one thing i won't have to clean is this
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so far, 400 people have been air-lifted out of the 1300 passengers and crew on board. three engines we are told have now been restored and tug boats are helping to slowly pull the ship to shore. so it looks like things are moving along but it has been a harrowing, to say the least, for the folks there on that ship. you can imagine.
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we are following the story from london and quite the stories from people who have been rescued saying that it was no picnic trying to board that helicopter. tell us about what you're hearing. >> reporter: that is right. there are two things happening in parallel here. first, that ship, as you said, has 3 out of 4 engines working now. a couple of tug boats are moving it slowly, but surely, to shore. this is, as these helicopters are ferrying people one-by-one from that cruise ship to safety on shore. but you can imagine there is 400 people rescued so far. there is high winds, high waves. it is almost a moving target for these helicopters to lower down, pick up these people. some of them elderly and some of them with health issues and pluck them up in the middle of these manic seas and take them to safety. take a listen to what one american couple who were rescued endured. >> furniture would slide across
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the room, slide back and with it came people in class. it was very dangerous situation. few people got hurt. we could see we were blown into some rocks. the most frightening thing. but luckily, that wasn't our destiny. >> the guy came down from the hospital, one of the coast guards, snapped my belt and said, hold it. shot me up about a hundred fee in the air and on to the helicopter. >> you can hear how intense that experience was, you know? snap hee up and take me a hundred feet into the air. this is really a holiday turned into a nightmare for these passengers and we don't know how long this rescue operation is going to take but we do know that right now, there is a break in the weather before a new storm system moves in tomorrow. so time is simply not on their side. >> we are going to get into that in a minute.
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salma, can the cruise liner, are they talking about how this happened? >> we don't know exactly how this happened so far. what we do know is that only one out of those four engines was working at one point yesterday when that may day call went out. only one engine was working and we had these horrific weather conditions. this area along norway's coast is notorious for these it terrible bad weather conditions. shallow waters and high waves and high winds. we have to wonder why was the ship in that area? how did they not realize that this could be dangerous? and why did those engines shut down? we don't know yet and all of the focus is on rescuing those who are still on board about 900 to a thousand passengers stranded. >> that should be the focus. thank you, salma. we hope things go well. >> one man who raised that
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question why was the ship in this area? our own meteorologist is tracking the weather conditions there. derek, a fair question. what is the situation right now? >> a dangerous part of the world for any ship to be sailing through. the islands that dot the western coastline of norway. i checked the latest observations in and around the molde region where the ship is located and the winds have subsided somewhat and gusting about 40 miles per hour. at their peak they were gusting well above 55 miles per hour. so they really had quite a strong storm system that moved through. and what you've noticed here is that there is relaxing winds over the next 12 hours but it won't be long until the next round of weather starts to move in from the atlantic. you can see our wind map showing the shades of red and orange pushing in once again. some of the wave heights here are incredible. we are talking about 20 to 26-foot waves on the open ocean.
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you get that amount of wind taking place. you'll get white caps on the open water but going to have a cumulative effect and those are tower two to three story highs wind speeds in excess of 50 miles per hour. you can imagine what it's like to be on a hospital to steady a helicopter and pluck individually people off of that moving target. so true, too. this begs the question why was the ship in this location? it is one of the most dangerous stretches of norway's coast and you can see how difficult it is to navigate these waters. we know shallow nature to the water here with coral reefs located across this weather and the weather this time of the year we will see storm system after storm system move through and what we have setting up at the moment. dangerous conditions still. even though the winds have abated somewhat, that potential exists here so time definitely not on their side at the moment. >> it's just treacherous condition out there.
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derek, thank you, just giving us a sense how weather is playing out. we are joined on phone by per felled, a representative from the joined rescue system from norway. good to have you with us. what is happening right now? give us a sense. we understand the rescue effort is under way, at the same time, the ship may still be moving, correct? >> the ship is still moving and it's also now being transported under tug by two tug boats at the moment. the effort is to turn it in the direction so it can turn towards shore. peril to that, the evacuation of persons on board is still ongoing via helicopter as has been the case throughout the mission. >> clearly you have a sense of how people are faring on that ship right now.
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these pictures that we have been showing our viewers here, the jostling of everything, that is not secured to the floor, it has to be terrifying for people. what are you hearing from people on board at this hour? >> we are watching those as those who are on the receiving end in norway and we are seeing the same reports and trying to make this evacuation as efficient and safe as possible. so far, the crews of the helicopters have done a tremendous job and they are still are going forward with this operation, which has been also challenged by rather rough weather, i must say. >> heard from our meteorologist that there may be a break in that weather but then there is another storm system that is likely on the way.
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can you give us any numbers of how many people had been air-lifted so far? also how many people may still be on board that ship? >> all in all, when this started, there were 1,373 people on board. we don't have the exact numbers of how many have been transported to shore but the figures should now be above 400. >> talk to us about the process. the ship is moving. the rescue efforts continue by helicopter. how many people can you air lift at once and how long do you think it will take to get people off the ship? >> there will be ongoing evaluation as to whether or not the evacuation process will be going on at the same pace as now, keeping in mind that the ship will be planning to go
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under tug to shore, so that is something that have to be decided along the road. we have to use one helicopter at the time hovering over the ship and the rescue personnel goes down and picks up regularly one passenger each time, so it takes sometime until the helicopter has been filled up with -- the capacity would be normally somewhere in the vicinity between 15 and 23 passengers that they can take and then fly ashore. >> my goodness. what that translates to this is going to be a very slow, methodical surely process to get them off the ship. >> we have also to keep safety in mind here so we can't really speed up this in order to do it safely. >> no, of course, of course. per feld, we appreciate you
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giving us insight what is happening on this ship. thank you. we will keep following. more than one week since tropical storm cyclone devastated southeastern africa and death toll stands over 600 but could go higher. thousands remain missing. >> relief agents are just now arriving as army volunteer and organizations air-lift medical supplies and food in that region. one saw as many as 400 bodies washed up in one place. the immediate concern is flood, cholera, and starvation. >> the months long russia investigation by robert mueller is finally over. could congress get its hands on the full report? we will vsome legal unless ahead on that. the calls are getting louder
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three of its four engines restored we are told. even so, efforts to air-lift the 1,400 passengers and crew off the ship continue. 400 people have been asked off the ship. thailand's first selection since 2014 coup. u.s. president trump says 100% now of isis-controlled territory has been liberated in iraq and syria. u.s.-backed forces announce the territorial defeat on saturday and they have been celebrating that victory but warn isis sleeper cells remain a threat. this is the scene in southeastern africa. more than 600 people now confirmed dead from psych low idai. relief aid is now being brought
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there beginning to arrive in these badly hit areas of eastern zimbabwe. they are air-lifting medical supplies and food and anything else they can get in that region. two years awaiting the end of the robert mueller russia probably. we will know soon what is in that report, possibly. the u.s. attorney general william barr spent saturday in his office with the report. democrats are preparing to sue if the entire report is not made public along with its evident. >> the justice department says there will be no more indictments. the white house sees that as a win since no one from the trump campaign has been found to be guilty of collusion. however, several trump associates have been indicted. president trump remains silent
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on the matter but that doesn't mean he has been out of sight. he's at his florida resort playing some golf, but surrounded by his lawyers. joining me to talk about the mueller report and what comes next, cnn legal analyst areva martin. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> the mueller report is complete. the big question is what is in it? democrats very much want to know. how far could they take the process to try and get the entire report released and what could prohibit that from happening? >> well, we have already heard nancy pelosi and chuck schumer be very emfattiphatic not get t principal conclusions what is what the attorney general william barr has promised to provide to congress over this weekend, but they say they want the entire report, including all of the supporting documentation and evidence that goes along with the report and they want it
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made public, not just to congress, but to the american people, and they say they are prepared to subpoena barr and other members of the special counsel's team, including the special counsel himself to ensure that the information contained in the report and the supporting documentation is made public. now, here are a couple of issues. what we have heard from reports is that the report is likely to contain information gleaned from grand jury investigations and grand jury testimony. it may also contain classified information and information that donald trump may assert executive privilege with respect to. so we should anticipate a big fight between the republicans and the democrats as to what portion of the report can be made public, not just to the american people, but what also will be provided to congress. >> right. mr. barr has said he wants to be transparent but how transparent
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is the question. does he have sole discretion on what is released in this report? what do you think? >> there is some guidelines that dictate what should happen with respect to the report. i think it's important to note there are no prohibitions making that entire report public. barr, when he was testifying before the senate during his confirmation hearings, he was somewhat vague about how much information he would provide. he used frames like, we will make the report available to the extent of the law. so it's not clear what his position is as it relates to how much information he will be providing. >> in the meantime, president trump staying uncharacteristically quiet at his florida resort and no doubt his aides are saying let's sit back here until we look at this. we know there are no more indictments from this investigation and that sitting president cannot be indicted but
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what questions remain that could be worrisome to the trump team? >> what is not clear if crimes were committed but that there was no indictment for donald trump. we don't know if there was a determination by special counsel mueller that trump did engage in any criminal activity. those are the big unknowns with respect to this report and i think why the president and his team have been uncharacteristically, as you indicated, quiet, because there could be some very damaging and damming evidence in this report and we can't forget about the other investigations and the other legal jeopardy the president and his children still face in districts outside of washington, d.c., such as the attorney district of new york. we know there are active investigations as we speak that involve the president and his children. >> right. one can understand why he is enjoying golf down in florida
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after enduring two years of this. many questions remain. we will be finding out as the days tick on here. thank you for your insights. >> thank you, natalie. to the united kingdom that calls for a second vote on whether the uk should leave the eu are growing louder. listen. >> that is 1 million people taking to the streets in london on saturday demanding a revote. that is after the prime minister convinced the eu to give britain more time to get its act together. we have more from london. >> reporter: just two days after the official brexit date was delayed the streets of central london were packed with protesters on saturday demanding a second referendum. now organizers of what is called the people's vote march claim that 1 million people turned out
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packing the streets marching from hyde park down to parliament square. police haven't commented on that number but the streets were full of protesters, childrens, dogs, lots of signs and ended in parliament square where speakers including the mayor of london and parliament rallying saying brexit was sold to them on a bill of lies and should have a second vote on whether they want to exit the european union or stay in the european use and reverse the brexit referendum of 2016. organizers said this is the biggest march so far and the third one. the last time they did this in the fall they said they had 700,000 people then and this time they said they a million people turn out and they said the most passionate crowd they have had so far. >> i think a real belief in growth there can be a referendum at the end of the vote. i think people gave us low chances in april but the way
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things have developed and people have see the brexit chaos unfolding, the uk getting a terrible deal essentially and people realizing that regardless of what brexit is offered at the end of the day, it will be worse than the eu membership and none of the brexit promises is standing up and the promises made in 2016 in the referendum then and people realize more and more they should have a say and if parliament can't decide, send it back to the people. >> reporter: teresa may say while she is in power no second referendum. this week we will see whether she tries to bring her brexit deal once again for a vote in parliament. this will be the third attempt she will have to get that brexit deal through or whether we will see parliament try to wrestle over and take control of the brexit vote and a second vote on the second raempleferendum that many people here want.
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>> 5 million people have signed a petition calling on the government to cancel brexit and the number keeps growing. >> at least a couple times so far, many people, so many, in fact, were signing that petition that it crashed the system. it is now the biggest petition on parliament's website. the previous record held by another brexit petition in 2016. there are signs that theresa may's shift may be in jeopardy of crashing with reports of a plan that is now in the works possibly to force her out of office. >> a few things crashing there around the brexit situation. the sunday times says 11 cabinet members plan a revolt and plan to confront the prime minister on monday and threaten a mass resignation if she doesn't resign. following the story of isis being defeated territorial at least. the black flag is toppled by a flag of u.s.-backed forces.
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>> the talk about this moment in history is arwa damon who is live in istanbul, turkey. arwa, isis physical presence may have been knocked down but they are down but not out obviously. talk to us about the continuing threat isis poses. >> well, not only as we have been reporting for quite sometime now you can defeat isis territorial but defeating its ideology is smlgs altogether. we look at the state of isis and iraq as an example, they are still operating as small groups able to continuously launch attacks on small vilgs in areas where the iraqi security forces do not have a permanent presence. and this is pretty much isis going back to its historical roots, its way of operating to a certain degree back when it was al qaeda and iraq and back when it was the islamic state of iraq.
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it has gone to ground in territory that it used to control in the past, very difficult to maneuver in a terrain and it continues to pose a threat in that sense. when it comes to the threat the ideology poses, one has to remember that trying to combat that is not something as we and experts have been saying time and time again, that can be defeated militarily. the factors that allow isis to rise in the first place that is what really needs to be eradicated and when it comes to both iraq and syria at this stage at least we are not seeing steps being taken to be able to accomplish that and there is also the other factor that isis exists in the virtual space and has online presence and they are a forward thinking organization and from the day that baghdadi clarified it a caliphate they are preparing itself for a territorial defeat.
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>> arwa damon, thank you for that perspective in istanbul. you've been to the camps where the children are held in camps and what are the conditions there and what do you know what happens to them now? >> that is the big question right now, the dilemma, the faith of the international community, the countries where they have come from and the syrian democratic forces that are now holding these women and children, more than 20,000 of these in these camps in northeastern syria and thousands of foreign fighters also in their custody. they come from 50 different countries as we mentioned in the camps and the humanitarian situation is dired as describe by the aids that 72,000 people in camps and they say on the brink of collapse. they really can't deal with the
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maximum influx they have gone, but the bigger issue now is what happens to these women and children and we spent time in a whole camp where they have this fenced section where these foreign women are and that is called the immigrant section. when we speak to the women you get opinions, some still defiant true believers that believe isis will be back and others who say they were knee enaive and foole isis propaganda and repented now about the the majority of these women we have spoken to want their countries to take them back and don't want to be stranded from the camps cut off from the world and they don't know what is going on, what the debate in the west is right now whether they should be taken back or not. when it comes to the sdf, we have spoken to officials, and they say they can't handle this
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for several reasons. one is the added burden in addition to the iraqi and syrian population in these camps. they can't house them and they don't have the judicial infrastructure. this is not a state. they don't have the inference o infrastructure. they are asking for the countries to take them back and they say they are not getting a positive response from the countries who seem to be quite reluctant to take them back but they are warning this is not only their issue, not only their problem, that this situation pauses a threat to the entire intnel communi international community becauseware talking about women and children in camps described as a ticking time bomb. >> goodness. they were in a no man's land and exist in one now as well. jomana karadsheh and arwa damon, we thank you both.
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