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warren and senator bernie sanders seem to be much more enthusiastic and rockets. we think a little bit worse the ideal candidate she's smart she's got a plan she's looking out for our planet earth as well as all americans not just the one percent what do you think about the front runner. mr by. anybody the trouble so if he's the nominee i mean hi jim but my preference is elizabeth warren order will be a new castle in eastern new hampshire a number of by come pain start his advisors say joe biden represents the democratic party but then anyone there's a party they say that is older and more moderate than many as you know but that also means that his record is being questioned by young progressives my question is how can we trust that you're going to act on climate on the climate crisis if you're saw attending fundraisers that fossil fuel executives like andy goldman are
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at i want to look at my art i guarantee you i guarantee you we're going to end fossil fuel and i am not going to cooperate and thank. the activists doesn't seem to be convinced but dr morse on it's still early in the primary race and his companion is bracing for a long fight. that will now in germany did just enough to defeat northern ireland in a euro 2020 qualification match the victory followed a demonising loss to the netherlands just last week northern ireland battled hard to deny germany clear cut chances in the 1st half and tested keeper manuel neuer a number of times left back moscow has been back broke the deadlock off to 48 minutes and sasha napoli added a 2nd goal late in the match with an impressive finish the 2 know when sens germany to the top of group c. with 3 matches to play. will schools now from the european
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championships qualify as group stage in germany's group c. unevidenced bleu pasta star nia in korea i belgium likewise have no trouble with scotland group g. while standing 8 is potent play to a school a stroll hungry last as the vacuuming group gave up 1st face to croatia the world cup run is up managed a $11.00 draw against azerbaijan. and just her mind is now the top story that we're following for you. british lawmakers have that once again rejected boris johnson's call for a snap the general election in a parliamentary vote the prime minister has suspended parliament for 5 weeks with no solution to the brig's it deadlock which could see the u.k. needs the european union without a deal. but i forget you can get any news on the go any time just download all free out from google play all from the apple store and that gives you full access to the latest news from around the world and push notifications for breaking the whip yet
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you can also send us photos and videos of what is happening where you will. be watching to delhi newsnight from bali and up next the dog film follows a father trying to save his daughter the so-called economic state and hannah humphrey inviting thanks for your company and the forward to seeing you can see. that. i'm the brand new delusions
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are middle class let's proceed to voice the topics that affect us all. climate change and the return of. only green friends check it out. hi dad it's me there's no future for us here i don't have one single dollar. if there is a smuggler who got 10 women at a fair yesterday without any problems. see
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it shatters any illusions you might. buy your own child would rather go join the terrorists than stay with you. and even think it's cool for example quote rough sex and i thought i was young i guess and wanted a bit of revolution as mom was sort of in. this film tells the story of a father i accompanied over a period of 4 years and his daughter. for instance pretty it's clear to us that she's not only some little girl who was groomed to have the law allowed it unfold around us by sure i was naive in a friends of yours also a perpetrator in. the story of 2 vastly different worlds. it was to get out of there as quickly as you can go. a story of life and death sad to learn either way i'm waiting please dad please.
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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. the job was a military much i couldn't understand what he was telling me walk law but when i saw that tiny profile photo of him and clicked on it looked horrible as all your. buddies are and then saw that flag. that was like final. and that is.
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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 furred we. 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.
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mike hadn't noticed a thing and blamed himself. for is that you keep coming back to yourself and ask why for what process or for why more for for what is old and young girls in germany have been systematically recruited supporters are searching social media for potential targets like 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. 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.
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hi dad i'm trying to send you a voice memo that we could you quickly. i'm doing really well we have a really big apartment here. that is as decorated everything in purple of course. you know we don't have. which is here but these pillows you sit on so i'm also sending you photos of the president he gave me gold because. nora 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 layo was now living in another world in syria in the midst of a civil war. that previous world had been brightened by a village of 200 people in the hearts mountains region of eastern germany. at this point mike approached me. i am a journalist and already had years of on the ground experience covering i-s.
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and had been to syria and iraq often we immediately had a good report 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. and so for the mosque 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 to go. and welcome to the talk shop 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 ourselves as 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 this self declared caliphate was later nora gushing with pride over her husband who went by the name
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of me heard. me heard it was born martin limca and was a welder in a mine in germany before joining i.a.s. where he reported. came to hold a senior position in i as 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 for it she texted her dad about what she'd seen. us. the roundabout was right outside leonora's home. by s. used such violent images as propaganda on the internet in order to recruit new
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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 hyatt 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 but you're not the only idiot in germany whose daughter's runaway leonora 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
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listening to western music was punished with whipping me leonora and her fellow wives managed to have their own little parties in secret. leonora soon began to lose faith and i as 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. in your work and and then it helps if you know people who know other people like him. the people mike was referring to was our team we knew the other people smugglers some of whom had close ties to i-s. but 1st we want unsure whether journalists should get involved in such
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a way but after 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 the meeting was arranged in turkey when mike arrived we were already there. smuggling people out of i asked territory was extremely dangerous especially when a woman was involved. michael 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. like us by the storm ike from the hamlet of pride and bach was having a cup of tea with 2 guys from al-qaeda i think of the smoking around 100 cigarettes
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. when this. credibly tense one of them were 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 end of that means that afterwards i face prosecution for giving you money to were terrorist organizations i'd be happy to go to jail as long as my child this back home with can people with that go ahead somewhere in syria a group of men set out for rocca they had already smuggle people out of walked was now the capital of i ass that plan to get leonora was potentially a matter of life or death because rucka the hot of i ass was teeming with militias patrolling the city seemingly at every street corner is shops you can
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aachen i asked her concrete calling or her she was up to it child us just said in her to prickly casual way sure no problem him leonore a sent her father a current location and fight says of the surrounding area if of court doing vest by i-s. she could be sentenced to death the what a pod that was the planet or and utter pick up leo nor in a car no com where she were travel with a cover family as their daughters me that sport it that where repeated problems coordinating a pick up with each faily of a danger rows of his inky tad were are they i'm waiting and know what his hair plays dabs leave it to pull both around a dozen such attempts fail to work out the alcock out as there was an hour or
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an hour and a half each day that were just crushing ogma your nerves havin to get the questions rightly its product repeating answers correctly it was nerve or at least one of your so wound up the sartor put into words i know but they decided not to give up the boom. boom. boom. boom boom the low for. us all of us that was the last thing we heard or read from her directly. then silence for days there wasn't a single word from leonora instead they heard from her husband me had.
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gotten broke we were really afraid for layoffs calm kind of meddling and then we didn't hear anything nothing for over a week you want to go on that one issue. event the 2nd wife of martin alias nihad got in touch. back implied above the 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
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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 the camera again . he told us he was trying to somehow get through the days that he hadn't made it through a 90 yet without or trying. thank you distort your child is dead. and if you fail to shaft us you failed to get her out of that situation of divorce or. we have got this bomb from going to plant this tree thought we were preparing her but we'll be saying farewell my child. we'll have a place we can go which is symbolically her last resting place at the border and.
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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 friend's 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 of life arabic for islamic state. and he was
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a tall order man or woman young or old and. even slightly toying with the idea of going off to a doctor in the. desert i should be aware of what they're doing and as i stood there making their family go through hell. nora'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. winter 20152016 syria people were being killed on a daily basis on all sides. and.
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mom coming there for control for right now there is nothing we can do just wait. on a frozen truck that we were getting experienced in this. not giving up is the most important thing. sometimes you have lows. all that you have to carry on. but mike was permanently on edge the constant flow of messages and use was like being on a hamster wheel that never stopped spinning. leonora contacted him reported that her husband me hard now had a slave a woman he bought. and sold me had came home yesterday sometime after midnight and said sorry bought myself a slave for $800.00 so i was like $100.00 is nothing it's how can somebody do that comes from a human being. she's a his eighties 30 years old and has 2 children so i don't know what to say. let's
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just so sorry for her arms her blue no idea they have not treated her well at all she's really starting for muscle x. there are the hordes of mass executions of women and girls being raped and sold into prostitution and of children being forcibly recruited for fighting if it seems the displacement of the zs is deliberate people who are not children slave to driven out of their villages with no water or food. mass murderers are going for. it was this poor woman of those 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 mr shifty 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 and. i'm so shocked. i want to help her like i want her to at least have
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a few ok days that's had. to say sorry and i caught. 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 yes the family. one year later in 2016 i drove to northern iraq i-s. free territory. i had found refuge in a displaced persons camp yet been 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
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a photo of leonora's husband. did he by her. look at it good. does she remember his name now the mother. with us how did he treat or. so on the. e.p. . and we then left la mia alone for the entire time we were there were children likewise barely said a word la me as husband was still missing she was living and 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
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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 terrace militias unofficial capital back out for. air raids on rocker in the autumn of 2017 . a short time later leonora left a rocker 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 . to try to distract yourself and not think about it too much and if through fear
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that will because there's nothing you can do. 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 celebrating 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 egypt and got my youth when she posted photos from morocco back then i spent ages
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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.
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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 get out of there as quickly as you can. come and then the day actually arrived when they said they were setting off who was. coming to find out it's me oh i'm at the wing point and praying to allah that was each other soon
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ok the spaniards and a few minutes time i'll be offline. month out angel like i'm pretty anxious of you but i guess it has to work out well to. combat status stay strong don't cry. and don't come and then there were no more messages that 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 word in the thing he said 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 below. so
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i build up this unbelievable pressure so what can you do. you.

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