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now many want to come back among them a german who claims she didn't join the terrorist group voluntarily. stranded in the middle of nowhere seventy four thousand people live in the al whole camp in northern syria it was made to hold only ten thousand the conditions are unacceptable especially for children most people want to leave as soon as possible they want to return to their former homes which they left years ago so they could live under the rule of the jihadist group islamic state out of conviction carelessness or compulsion. they now gergen studied psychology and berlin and married a turkish man during a trip to turkey he took her to syria where he joined us at least that is how the twenty three year old describes it. just talking she told summers off terrible things happened there. that women and children should not have any value.

women are charitably of used and beaten by us mine among my former husband died about two years ago. it happens he locked us up and abused us in horrible ways. i couldn't recognize myself one day in day out. talk i can't talk also. her son was born during the chaos of war the two of them suffered years of hardship and now she hopes she has survived the worst and things will get better. i'm happy that i can return to my beloved homeland times germany concert you often in my greatest chant. the kurdish authorities would like to get rid of foreigners like zainab as quickly as possible but hardly any country wants them back the local authorities are overburdened with investigating securing evidence clarifying guilt

an international court is now supposed to solve the issue but the west is treating this initiative with great caution. the presence of thousands of fighters and their families is a major problem for the autonomy's authorities in northeastern syria. we do not have the possibility of bringing them to justice here if they have committed crimes against syrians or iraqis now they spend their days waiting to go back home but their fate remains uncertain as long as they are not welcome in their former homelands. then we go north to bella ruse smart you know apartments are planned for a site in central brest but recently a mass grave of jews killed in world war two was uncovered there and a story and is opposing the project. bones jewelry and even shoes the past is pushing into the light. this is the site of

a mass grave of jews shot by the nazis it was found during construction work in the center of breast during the german occupation in the second world war the area was a jewish ghetto tens of thousands were executed in and around breasts during the time the site is currently closed off to the public including to local historian a real lover of gaia she has been petitioning to stop the building work and argues that should be a memorial park here and not an apartment complex and. people shouldn't be able to live on the spot of a mass execution half of the population of the city was killed within several days here half of the people can imagine. that pain continues to exist and will not give us peace until we learn to respect history and what happened here. when you're so obsessed with watching him from which to preserve sure

a special battalion of the belorussian army has been in charge of the excavations most of these young soldiers are doing their military service here in total they have found the remains of over eleven hundred bodies which will be repaired at a local cemetery. and right next to this mass grave the building work for a modern apartment complex will now continue it's a lucrative project one square meter is selling for nearly twice the average market price and breast the city authorities say the foundations of the building won't touch the mass graves and it will be marked with a memorial plaque. at the an apartment complex is the right thing for this spot it's what the city needs a well tended to area in the center they used to be unsightly houses here when it should be tidy and beautiful this isn't the first time that builders a fun bones during construction and historical center but not everyone impressed agrees that should be apartments on the mass graves. it will be done to build

houses there should be a memorial instead. of the world here we have to find a civilized way to solve this problem after all every city in europe is built on people's bones. audrina is determined to see the site of the mass grave with her own eyes before it becomes a landscape courtyard and the quaintance of hers is a direct sixty from her window she says the building project shows that the bella russian authorities are insensitive and haven't learned any lessons from the past well of russian authorities have been criticized before for building one juror cemeteries as recently as twenty seventeen saw the last straw in this country the authorities only respect the memory of the soviet protectors of the breast fortress for example of soldiers who fought unequally to tell a tarion country with weapons in their hands that they respect. the russian. the construction company had told us the apartment complex would be

a gated community now city or thirties insist the grounds will be open to the public. every year hundreds of women in india fall victim to acid attacks one of these women refuses to be intimidated as an activist campaigning against acid attacks she's already achieved results. a comic with an unconventional heroine the story of a young woman who has been attacked. she transforms from being a victim to being a super heroine her mission is to help the survivors of acid attacks. videos of the comic show readers who's behind the story laxmi who suffered a real life attack and twenty five. of them with. after i

refused his advances he and his younger brother's girlfriend turned up with acid in a beer bottle they pulled the acid into a glass and threw it on to my face. i think they made it but i fainted and when i came to again it felt as if i'd been burnt alive or me i think i would have been the. blacksmith he was only fifteen when she was attacked by a man seventeen years her senior. she had refused his advances so in a cruel act of revenge he attacked her and changed her life for ever hundreds of acid attacks like the one suffered by laxmi a reported in india every year when the judge didn't kill me he attacked me so that i would have to live my life in agony he knew that society would accept him either and that is same society would reject and victimize me would give it a life. that lets me refuse to be a victim and became an activist she's part of

a campaign called stop the sale acid she's helped make great changes in india the sale of acid is now regulated and prosecutions of acid attacks have been made easier but she wants a complete ban her comic book focuses on male and female equality worldwide she hopes children will learn about the topic in classrooms lakshmi is a mystic of girls including her own daughter a different image of the world she's also a single mother which is far from the norm in india you see make believe me my dream hasn't yet come true but there has been a huge change these last few years. and that shows me that equality and the changes we're all talking about now will happen you know there were teens. laxmi wants to see an end to all violence against women and spare future

generations from the suffering she and others have endured how will she do it while the super heroine can help make it happen. to small farmers in northern gaza often have a hard time finding buyers for their crops middlemen dictate the prices now the farmers have an app that helps them find a market. care amanda is a small community in northern garner. farmer joshua tangay used to struggle to sell his praja use but now he and enough to support his wife and two children thanks to a digital platform he's able to sell the fruits of his labor on a regular basis and at a fair price. that it has dies in over here and i just finished have as done my maize. and rice and i sold it out to santa and their payment

was done right on my my my phone through mobile money. garners capital acra this is where the digital platform is based that has helped to make joshua's life so much easier. agro center is an agri tech start up that connects rural farmers with big buyers the company takes up to thirty percent commission from those buyers it's in agra centers own interest to get the best possible prices meaning the small holders also profit. so far we've had about close to ten thousand farmers probably sail from the platform now before that they were making less money and now i would trade has helped them to increase the income tremendously so the farmers after they love us. back in caroming agro center agents are visiting the village they're here to teach the farmers not only how to

use the app to check market prices but also how to maximize their output. this is agro centers regional storage center from here the farmers produce is sold to big food buyers earlier the farmers had to sell their produce to local middlemen often for a third of its real value. the digital platform has helped the farmers to increase their income by about twenty five percent. if i made those had to make my whopping as far as i want to sell at fair market prices and if i was fair market prices are too good with money to be able to take on their family or to even reinvest a portion of their farm. joshua tangere is not worried that he now depends on a virtual broker for him the benefits of very real.

entering the conflict zone fronting the powerful moves international criminal court has a new enemy in washington the jump administration is accused of having no legitimacy and says it once it's done i guess this week here in the hague is cheering again sujit who is the president of the i.c.c. how can he defend be organizations against such powerful. conflicts are focusing on g.w. if. you know that seventy seven percent of hockey are younger than thanks doc. that's me and me and you. and you know what it's time all voices. on the seventy seven percent speech obama people you

should stop. this is where. the sixty minutes long t w. e takes it personally. with all of the wonderful people and stories that make the game so special. for all true fans oh my god. look up more than football online. i think that's actually one question you should cost kingfish you seem remarkably complacent about the fact that the most powerful country on the you say you can consume death why do you think it's complacency the international criminal court set up to charge the worst crimes on the planet has a new enemy in washington the trumpet ministration was accused of having no the just a missing and says it wants to die my guess this week here in the hague is

a book sujit always be president of the i.c.c. how can he defend.