simply to write stories on. to get his work to the people is headquarters in another city he has to save it on a pen drive and take it to a media facilitation center run by the government. the center has one internet connection and 5 computers for hundreds of local national and international journalists. it's also where he can catch up with other reporters on what they are hearing but these aren't the only hoarders he and his colleagues in kashmir face and it's very difficult to get off for version for that instance already and what are we really geared for and concerned there have been so many journalists have been someone about the officials where did you get from this information this against sort of against a threat and of course and also. there are occasional briefings like today when reporters are invited to hear from army and police official that's the focus of the briefing however is not on the situation in the media. it is on pakistan and its

alleged efforts at infiltration. officials insist that the past month has been the most peaceful and cost me and shutting down communications has been a legitimate means to achieve that we have not. done this. is. one of the many with the. best of the block. but it isn't just troublemakers that the government is why did about dogs on the media are evident when security forces don't count as a real reporter this cannot argue i tell bob it is because that maybe in the absence of communication that folks under libel knew it was hearsay and conjecture are rampant if an a.d.f. cordoned off by security forces for example people assume that while it has broken out that there's no way to ratify it. these unofficial channels are amplified

because dress events do not trust little clue people was on national television news. they believe those journalists are doing the official line from the hindu nationalist government and refusing to portray the hardships on the ground. would be was really don't get any news media reports fake news they say schools are open shops are open traffic is moving but look around you you are in the heart of srinagar shops are closed schools are closed people are distressed on the good news many of the news i've watched is totally fake which we can't trust the media anymore we can't trust what they are saying. and. is grateful that his edit does do not dictate what he can and cannot write but he what he is that all journalists do not have that freedom. they don't even go to their duty is not a single comment on the street and what has happened to the people not

a single comment this question there are some kinds of precious little passes for the precious. right to speak freely one simply be distorted when the form stopped ringing again. you're watching the news live from by later remember you can always get the latest on our web site that is d w dot com up next is the doc film you know rochelle a father lost his daughter to islamic state i mean and humphrey in violent acts as a fuel company and see we again see. that. and i'm just i'm the brand new delusions on the gulf coast this person to voice the topics that affect us all

a lot of climate change and the return of. only 3 things check out. the helicopter dad it's me there's no future press here i don't have one single dollar. if there is a smuggler who got 10 women out of here yesterday without any problems. but. it shatters any illusions you might. your own child would rather go join terrorists

than stay with you for a listening and even thing. it's cool for the some of my friends and i thought i was young i guess and want to have whatever absolution islam was sort of in. this film tells the story of a father i accompanied over a period of 4 years and his daughter. florence the 3rd and it's clear to us that she's not only some little girl who was groomed me behind the law allowed it unfold around spot sure i was 19 and a from the results of the perpetrator and. the story of 2 vastly different worlds. it was the get out of there as quickly as you can go . a story of life and death. sad to learn today i'm waiting please dad plays. in march 2015 mike messing's world was turned upside down his daughter had suddenly

disappeared without a trace he then started receiving messages on his phone from a stranger. who. was a mere tree but i could not understand what he was telling me to walk. but when i saw that tiny profile photo of him and clicked on it looked horrible for your well deserved and saw that flag. that was like final. his daughter leonora was 15 years old at the time her parents had separated some years earlier mike who runs a bakery in

a small town in eastern germany had recently remarried was that the reason for leonora's disappearance had she felt like a 3rd wheel mike didn't know. to those around her she had seemed like a typical teenager interested in boys and beauty products desperate for clues to help make sense of it all mike searched leonora's room he found her diary and was confronted with a parallel existence one dominated by islam and in which his daughter was wearing a headscarf. he found photos on her computer which showed her hidden transformation. mike hadn't noticed a thing and blamed himself. for is that you keep coming back to yourself and ask why for why process or for why more for

for what is or. young girls in germany have been systematically recruited by a supporters are searching social media for potential targets event after girls are often married off while they're still minus and push to produce new fighters if they fall out of favor they become slaves so why are girls and young women from across europe choosing to go and live in this darkness scene for an agonizing 12 days mike heard nothing from leonora then finally he received the voice message little did the father know that soon he would be keeping his phone by his side at all times it would become the sole source of contact with his daughter. hi dad i'm trying to send you a voice memo that reaches you quickly and we get i'm doing really well we have a really big apartment here. that is that is decorated everything in purple of

course we have you know we don't have couches here but these pillows you sit on. i'm also sending you photos of the president he gave me gold. leonora was talking about how wedding aged just 15 she married an islamic state fighter this is the official wedding photo she was one of the man's 3 wives mike's leo was now living in another world in syria in the midst of a civil war. previous world had been biking by a village of 200 people in the hearts mountains region of eastern germany. at this point mike approached me. i'm a journalist and already had years of on the ground experience covering i-s. and had been to syria and iraq often we immediately had a good reporter but at that 1st meeting in 2015 we had little idea of how often we

would speak and meet over the next years and every time we met one big question loomed why is our concern for the massacre and she shut us out she left us without any opportunity to be part of her life. she was a girl who went voluntarily to syria go and talk with the and welcome to the talk show 2 and a half years after the u.s. withdrawal iraq is at risk of being plunged into chaos also here are a mass safe distance we might pinch also says to the pace at which a few 1000 jihadists a terrorizing an entire country designing their militias are over running around one 3rd of iraq and syria and setting up a ruthless regime of terror. and somewhere in the south declared caliphates was leonora gushing with pride over her husband. he went by the name of me hurt. me hard yes it was born martin lemon curd and was

a welder you know mine in germany before joining us where he reportedly came to hold a senior position and i asked intelligence a fellow german i asked recruit would later testify that instead of torturing people himself had others do it for him leonora was getting acquainted with her new home rocca the capital of the i asked color foot she texted her dad about what she'd seen. the 2 at. the roundabout was right outside leonora's home. by s. used such violent images as propaganda on the internet in order to recruit new people and intimidate opponents. in the weeks after leonora disappeared the police were informed and visited mike's home where they seized his daughter's

computer. but there was little they could do. here mike is heading to berlin to a counseling center called high out arabic for life it was set up to help families whose children have signed up to islamist groups. there he met dozens of families in a similarly desperate situation the center's director cloudier dunja advised parents to talk to their children about everyday things in the hope that they'll get homesick. a fetus is and the crucial thing is that you realize you're not alone because you're not the only idiot in germany whose daughter is run away nor appeared unaware of exactly what kind of place she was now living in me and i asked in rocca laws and punishment what draconian me listening to western music was punished with a whipping me leonora and her fellow wives managed to have their own little parties

in secret. life. leonora soon began to lose faith in i.a.s. she found her husband disgusting i asked brutal and was unhappy to be one of 3 wives at the time or not now after around 2 months she seemed to realize for the 1st time that this wasn't everything she hoped for. and got out of the she admitted as much i said she wanted to come home. and wanted us to help her you know when you were good and then it helps if you know people who know other people and. the people mike was referring to was our team we knew the other people smugglers some of whom had close ties to i asked at 1st we were unsure whether journalists would get involved in such a way but after a lengthy discussions we decided we would but under the condition that mike alone would take all decisions our team would accompany him merely as observers a meeting

was arranged in turkey when mike arrived we were already that. smuggling people out of i.a.s. territory was extremely dangerous especially when a woman was involved. mike met the smuggler in a hotel in southern turkey. we kept our distance while listening in mike did the negotiating. stuff and. i met with this was a smartly dressed guy. he said he had links to the news for a front. so basically. the highest. miko's pods or mike from the hamlet of bach was having a cup of tea with 2 guys from al-qaeda i think of the smoking around 100 cigarettes . but if you're incredibly tense it's like you're talking through

interpreters. the smugglers set out a complex secret operation involving 3 cars and forged documents. mike was tempted to give them the go ahead straight away i want my kid back. if you're just and if that means that afterwards i face prosecution for giving money to a terrorist organization i'd be happy to go to jail as long as my child is back home and. with that go ahead somewhere in syria a group of men set out for rucka. they had already smuggled people out of what was now the capital of i as. that plan to get leonora was potentially a matter of life or death. because rocca the heart of i ask was teeming with militias patrolling the city seemingly at every street corner. shops even often i asked her concretely what was she was up to it just just said in her typically casual way sure no problem. leonora sent her father

a current location and photos of the surrounding area if caught doing this by us she could be sentenced to death in. the water that was the plan. to fix up later on or in a car park where she would travel with a cover family as their daughter that. they were repeated problems coordinating a pickup with each failure the danger rose. where are they i'm waiting to know what is here please dabs leave it to pull off. around a dozen such attempts failed to work out. the of a cog i was there was an hour or an hour and a half each day that were just crushing your nerves having to get the questions

rightly repeating answers correctly it was nerve wracking you're so wound up start to put into words. but they decided not to give up. good. stuff all of us that was the last thing we heard or read from her directly live and. then silence for days there wasn't a single word from leonora instead they heard from her husband had.

gotten the book we were really afraid for lay off with calm kind of madam and then we didn't hear anything nothing rover a week you want to go on the on ish. event the 2nd wife of martin alias nihad got in touch. back in brighton bob mike and the rest of the family needed time before they could start believing the news. slowly it sank in that leonora was dead that she had been killed in a civil war that wasn't hers. 3 weeks after the news of her death we visited mike for the 1st time with

a camera and again. he told us he was trying to somehow get through the days that he hadn't made it through a 90 yet without trying. thank you distort your child history. you know you phrased after you failed to get her out of there and you shove your sword. we have at the bottom front of plant this tree thought we were preparing her but will be saying farewell to a child. when you have a place we can go which is symbolically her last resting place at the border and. we took stock of the last few months going over everything again and again. the family organized a memorial service so that everyone could say goodbye then suddenly

a message arrived. but was it really her my couldn't be sure so he asked questions to which only leonora would know the answers what had best childhood friends home looked like inside the names of her grandfather's ponies. the answers were correct leonora was alive. even if she was still living under a terrorist regime islamiah arabic for islamic state. and he was a popular man or woman young or old and. even slightly toying with the idea of going off to sit in.

that's what i should be aware of what they're doing and. this is as good they're making their family go through hell actually turning from the. for leonora's family that held continued every day every week every month mike was haunted by the question of how his daughter was and whether he would ever see her again in winter 20152016 in syria people were being killed on a daily basis on all sides. but i have. more with mr canal for right now there is nothing we can do just wait we go on a course in a stream of that we were getting experienced in this. this of not giving up is the

most important thing because sometimes you have lows. you have to carry on. but mike was permanently on edge the constant flow of messages in use was like being on a hamster wheel that never stopped spinning. leonora contacted him reported that her husband me had now had a slave a woman he bought. and sold me had came home yesterday sometime after midnight and said so i bought myself a slave for $800.00 when i was like $100.00 is nothing is how can somebody do that comes from a human being. she's easy at least 30 years old and has 2 children so i don't know what to say. let's just so sorry for her her arms are blue no idea if not treat her well at all she's really starting from lesson x.

there are reports of mass executions of women and girls being raped and sold into prostitution and of children being forcibly recruited for fighting if it's vital it seems the displacement of these c.d.'s is deliberate people who are not children slave to driven out of their villages with no water or food. that's what i said i 1st thought was this poor woman of less years 2 kids i think i'm pleased mercy of a dangerous man. how can a person change like that because the question keeps bothering me shifty fact that he's grown up here and probably happily he went to kindergarten and high school a normal civilized person wouldn't buy himself a slave. i'm so shocked. i want to help her and it's like i want her to at least have a few ok days that's had a. chance i'm sorry thank god. the woman was called la mia

she wouldn't be an issue for leonora for very long because soon after this photo was used to offer her for sale back to her yesterday family. one year later in 2016 i drove to northern iraq i guess free territory. i had found refuge in a displaced persons camp here by being looking for her for months. i cautiously stepped into the room. i was still severely traumatized. me we communicated with the help of an interpreter. nobody could say how many men had literally owned her she was barely able to talk after a while i showed her a photo of leonora's husband how did he buy her.

those who does she remember his name. how did he treat or. so on the. you kissed me. and we then left alone for the entire time we were there her children likewise barely said a word. llambias husband was still missing she was living in her brother in law's tent. the family had to raise $24000.00 to secure her release money they didn't have. would spend another 3 years in this kurdish tent city since 2019 she and her children have been living in safety in canada and we've been told she's doing a little better. suddenly last night fighters began advancing on the terrorist

militias unofficial capital back out for the air raids on rocker in the autumn of 2017. 1. to a short time later leonora left rocca and i asked lost control over the city. when mike heard the news he feared the worst for his daughter as so often before. is it still you're sitting or you can't do anything. you feel completely powerless . over the you try to distract yourself and not think about it too much and it's through fear that will because there's nothing you can do by. the most you just have to accept things as they come. in the.

meanwhile leonora was carrying on with her life she posted m. o. g.'s rating her 1st week of pregnancy. while leonora was still somewhere in syria i traveled to the liberated city of raka now little more than a wasteland of ruins and rubble i found the apartment where she used to live. in the month when she posted photos from morocco back then i spent ages searching the internet to find out exactly which building she was in.

this was what was left of the stairwell leading to her apartment. leonora spent several months here and evidently made herself at home while just out on the streets people were being locked in cages and i asked was publicly torturing and murdering. leonora and other i asked deaver to use one now on the run and being hunted down by the international coalition led by the united states. 2017.

she was probably somewhere in the vicinity of the euphrates river in eastern syria . and while my continued to keep his bakery running leonora was trying to find a people smuggler to get her to turkey and out of the war. there's the smuggler who got 10 women out of her yesterday without any problems. ok ok use that chance to get out of there as quickly as you can. come and then the day actually arrived when they said they were setting off was. coming to find out it's me oh i'm at the waiting point and praying to allah that was each other soon ok the spaniards and a few minutes time i'll be offline a. month i enjoy like i'm pretty

anxious but i guess it has to work out. as good or. bad i stay strong don't cry. don't come and then there were no more messages maybe they really had set off. and then our smuggler of choice contacted me. and he started this horrible. really nasty she says well game is the wrong morning the thing he said is there are loads of checkpoints we're having to bribe so many people so we need more money you can write back a 100 times i haven't got any more it happens you know. so i build up this unbelievable pressure so what can you do.