if i thought i lost my child my husband and i was captured and i was better than with my life so i took poison is that i decided it was better to die when they caught me i thought that since my family my husband and my house were down it would be better to die. one in twenty fourteen up to ten thousand you see these were killed or kidnapped by i saw in a matter of days of those the third were executed however the true scale of the tragedy may never be fully known the testimonies that have emerged to suggest many have been taught is to be heard there beheaded or even burned alive in many cases entire families were captured together women and girls were often sold as sex slaves while young boys were forced to become ice or fighters in fact some weren't even old enough to school when they were forced to serve the terrorists. my daughter was five years old when she was captured four years have passed since then so she's nine we endured

a lot of suffering my brother escaped and i stayed at his place then he died instant jar i was desperate after his death and i went to stay with my other brother he's poor and has young children all girls. now russia is suffering a severe hiv epidemic at the moment and in terms of infections every year russia is third only behind south africa and nigeria making matters worse to you is the emergence of people in russia who deny the disease even exists with more on the story is. hiv epidemic is sweeping across russia poor health experts more than a million russians are in fact it. almost one in a hundred people in russia are diagonals state hiv positive. despite a year of increased efforts to tackle the spread of the virus the country is on course to see annual infections pass one hundred thousand again which accounts

for almost two thirds of all infections in europe and central asia. world aids day saw quite a few depressing headlines in russian like russia. says losing the war on hiv. and most countries around the world the number of new cases of hiv is going down the sad truth is here it's going up i went to see the country's top hiv prevention researcher to find out what was going wrong. i'm about to enter a lab where the staff work with samples from people diagnosed with hiv and who say there is no defeating the virus without their work.

will go more for quite a long time in five years not nearly enough attention has been paid to the issue of h r v aids there has not been enough funding the war and h.i.v. requires decisive action without it's this academic told me the virus spreads far beyond the two main so-called risk groups drug users and men who have sex with men . from food. we've lost time that's for sure while health authorities were losing time people known as aids deny lists wasted none online spreading fake h.i.i. the news of the next the on russian social networks in blogs and elsewhere online aides to nihilists clearly ahead of us and that's really dangerous if you refuse therapy an early death is guaranteed we started looking for denial this

who were willing to share their thoughts with us finding their social network communities which of thousands of members was easy but arranging an interview required over a week finally one woman who used to refuse therapy a choice that almost cost her her life agreed to talk on condition of anonymity. she asked to be called ileana the ex aides deny list struggled to maintain her composure as she recalled how she was diagnosed with hiv. you're going to go to my new. you know. so not those two that only are you petition the chorus of show to system to. continue. even as initial treatment had put her health back on track until she met a man who introduced her to the online world of aids denial the diem eventual he convinced her to give up hiv treatment her desire to get rid of the stigma prevailed over common sense. when you write

a book you're not going to show us what's just here but you can do with mr sarkozy chop an onion or. sauce and the couple of years later after wild ups and downs and health she did just that with a form of cancer in the up north but it's. number. one hundred yards up on your plate you most of all presidents were but your last. year's stop was a forced him choice. and the local one the most important don't know. put off. knock wood. was after several rounds of surgery chemotherapy and renewed hiv treatment in a managed to survive unbelievably she was then bullied online by the denial list for taking medicine again but says she can put all that behind her hoping that in

a country with a worsening hiv problem her story could help others avoid fatal mistakes. r.t. . and other news today an israeli politician has been filmed hurling abuse at palestinians travelling from gaza to visit relatives held in jails in israel. but. now they're. both well shortly before that video was filmed the m.p. or and has tweeted a photo of himself with an israeli flag saying he had come to confront the families of what he describes as animals he claims he was trying to garner support for a new bill that would prevent palestinian families from visiting prisoners in israel the israeli parliament's media services declined to comment broughton has that has and is certainly no stranger to publicize these stunts a member of prime minister benjamin netanyahu has likud party has and first gained

notoriety with a godfather style political advertisement he also tried to discredit a left wing ngo by creating a false identity in order to provide made up testimony and he wants threatened to execute the family of an alleged palestinian criminal in a facebook video the red cross which was escorting the bus from garza to the israeli prison have rounded on the israeli authorities for failing to prevent the incident the charity said it was the duty of officials to ensure family safety during visits protected human dignity human here and you're going to see action that is extremely important to us so people being treated this way. one of the best provided it is now to be able to go and visit their families something that is acceptable because they were elderly or they were children and there were of us we know not that fast so that is why we all of these really know where it is so how

was how it was sure that. the happen in the future. human rights organizations have expressed their concern before hope the plight of palestinian prisoners held in israel the prisoners support and human rights association says there are currently just over six thousand palestinian detainees among them five hundred twenty five serving a life sentence and just over three hundred are under the age of eighteen international says the policy of holding people who were arrested in palestinian territories in israeli prisons breaches the geneva convention. what. is demanding an apology from the united arab emirates after it banned women from boarding flights phase of terrorism. that's among the stories to come just after the break.

dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle. for new socks for the tell you the gossip the tabloids but. they. tell you on the cool enough to buy their products. all the hawks for a long. walk. president two thousand and seventeen national security strategy report tells us how he sees the world or rather how the washington foreign policy leads to clearly washington are running the show.

welcome back now it is holiday season as i'm sure you know and each culture does try to put its own stamp on making this time of year special and for the african american community there is a relatively new festival to. its origins are a bit unusual as it expects. the holiday season in the usa is rather intense there's lots of shopping lots of t.v. specials now with christmas festivities still underway americans are waking up to find donald trump sending out greetings for yet another holiday today marks the first day of kwanzaa a week long celebration of african-american heritage and culture that's a celebrate the richness of the post and look toward a brighter future never heard of kwanzaa don't worry you're not alone according to a survey taken in the last three years this holiday season is the african-american

christmas is actually only celebrated by less than three percent of african-americans do you celebrate kwanzaa no i don't celebrate kwanzaa i don't so it kind of. i try not to get too involved with so much hype of all these different festivities you know anything about the history is it something you identify with i really don't. i haven't really been exposed to much about clowns that i actually don't think too much about it i grew up celebrating christmas the thing about donald trump sending out a statement for kwanzaa you know today a lot of stuff that he does is pretty hypocritical so i left it he does because surprise me now kwanzaa has been around for quite a long time it's been endorsed by many presidents including george w. bush and barack obama the media covers it quite extensively this time of year kids are static at the start of kwanzaa kwanzaa a holiday that millions of people around the world hold dear a secular celebration to honor african-american and pan african heritage and values

all week long holiday that inspires african-americans to take pride in their cultural roots and reinforce principles to live by see it in a number of places whether it's m s n b c whether it's the new york times whether it's the l.a. times there's farming coverage of this event as if it's a real event more coverage i would dare say is given to kwanzaa considering. how few in here and there are then even christmas and hanukkah so what is kwanzaa what is it all about well the holiday was started back in one thousand nine hundred sixty six by dr melodic harang he is a black nationalist and he felt like the holiday would strengthen the african-american community and resist the white majority i wanted to give black people a holiday of their own so i came up with kwanzaa and said it was african because you know black people in this country wouldn't celebrate it if they knew it was american now just five years after he came up with kwanzaa kurang i actually went

to prison for torturing two of his female followers now in the media generally chooses to ignore his jail term and his nationalist views when they do coverage of the holiday and they also still invite him on to talk about it however at this point we've learned that not everyone in the african-american community is a big fan of kwanzaa there is no holiday in the on the continent of africa associated with this set of events this is all made up by a person who when the radicals in the nineteen sixty's the black panthers were operating thought he was too radical for them and he wasn't able to be a part of what they were doing and he helped put this forward as a way of distinguishing himself and trying to build a greater following african-americans have a diverse and rich history but kwanzaa seems to have very little to do with it many

african-americans don't see a need to celebrate what they consider to be an artificial holiday kaleb moppet r.t. new york. the north african country of tunisia is demanding an apology from the united arab emirates it's after the country's emirates airlines prevented female two museums from boarding flights to the us friday citing a threat of terrorism a move the coast widespread anger. i just i'm she believed why would i go to a country that wonder exactly if that's the case and we should also be opposed visas on the united arab emirates. these suppressions are force preventing an arab from visiting arab countries is unacceptable when we see the westerners going from country to country freely the most rigid is one of the tunisian state must defend the rights of two new zealand women and force the us to apologize for the ban was lifted the same. as there was some and the gulf states

foreign minister later tweeted that the u.a.e. disrespect and values tunisian women adding that they want to avoid any misunderstanding but i wasn't enough that you know which retaliated by banning all flights from landing at its airports this tweet was posted by the airline shortly afterwards telling customers that flights were suspended indefinitely we talked to a blogger and activist who said that the u.a.e. was insulting on many levels it consider that what happened is lation of tunisian women rights but it's a violation of women rights and general the spokesperson for the national presidency talk about security problems but this doesn't justify what happened isn't small female babies who are not allowed to go on planes i don't think that a toddler is. pretty darn sure of the tradition government is still

asking for official apology and it happened under the pressure of people here in tunisia. north korea may have caused a panic in the region with its nuclear tests but now it is proving to be a troublesome topic too for a french children's magazine that has been pulled from the show was over an article which suggested the country wasn't a real state and it said the saying about israel or so prompting strong complaints from jewish groups imperative is shouted dubinsky. a french children's educational magazine has provoked a firestorm of criticism here in france now in the latest edition of you be it features a fact sheet for children which says we call these one hundred and ninety seven countries states like france germany and algeria you'll be the magazine then goes on to suggest that not all of the countries in the world agree that israel and

north korea are real states the magazine has since been withdrawn from sale here in france and the publisher has apologized they go on to say that this does not mean that they do not recognize the existence of israel yet that apology made obsolete the no mention of tool of north korea well we've been gauging reaction on the streets of paris so what people think about this publication i just would like you to hazard a guess how many countries you think there are in the world. two hundred fifty. three hundred maybe tan closer to two hundred. three hundred. six hundred forty six hours a few hundred ninety five the. magazine in france for children he says that not all of these countries all real i want you to have a guess what ones would spring to mind for you those smaller countries collide

kozak staying on ukraine maybe i don't know or countries wouldn't be a real country to get heard so the kurdistan so unnecessary. the america birth of the country i don't know again you stop me on that one i'm sorry ok this magazine says this israel is not real countries what's your reaction to that or i think that's fake news i don't take so what about israel well it's nice as a country i would never say that they were not real countries i didn't think that would happen in france it doesn't sound very attritional the washing out international thanks me company today don't forget you can keep yourselves updated on our social media pages.

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the simple fact in l.a. is there's just not enough shelter even if people on the streets right now decided to come in there's nowhere to come in. it's been a struggle. this man found his own response to the problem and constructed dozens of tiny homes for people in need of shelter when you have nothing in order to go. you know having something like this may as well be a castle to the authorities a. tiny house on a city parking space is not a solution. to someone wanted to ring the site otherwise it will be a free for all there are a better alternative to end the homelessness crisis. when you don't. see the teachers. who are

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president donald trump's two thousand and seventeen national security strategy tells us how he sees the world rather how the washington foreign policy leads for a candidate who ran on the messages. change report is unremarkable in its defense the status quo policies and views clearly washington's neo cons are running the show. the national security strategy i'm joined by my guests in washington michael o'hanlon is a senior fellow at the brookings institution and we have brian becker he's the director of the answer coalition as well as host of loud and clear a daily new show on radio sputnik all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate brian let me go to you first i'll be quite blunt i mean i read it quite carefully it seems more or less a continuation of what we've seen for almost the last thirty years and actually seems a lot more. confrontational i would say. the some of the points that about

trade actually agree with on immigration i actually agree with but more or less the same guy only the people that wrote the two thousand and seventeen report could have written the one justifying the iraq war if you actually compare texas they're very similar in the words they use go ahead. well i think i'm glad you mentioned the iraq war because the national security strategy which is a congressionally mandated report from the executive branch. it sometimes is a predictor of what's coming in in the case of george w. bush six months before the invasion the shock and awe invasion of iraq. bush came out with a national security strategy which provided although we didn't use the exact words of preemptive war it was the logic of preemptive war another words the u.s.

arrogating to itself the right to perceived threats and go to war against them even before the us has been attacked of course that would be a violation of the u.n. charter and international law but nonetheless it became a powerful logical explanation for what came later the question now with donald trump's national security strategy is does this predict where trump is really going in and i think it i think it does i mean he mentioned china twenty four times in the report mentions china twenty four times all of them in a bellicose aggressive way it mentions russia in a in a bellicose an aggressive way there's no kind words for either china or russia iraq and north korea rogue states and of course non-state actors terrorism is the third dimension of the threat to america and so you have the trump administration sort of bringing together the america first or overarching sort of agit prop of the trump

election campaign with this idea that the rise of china or the reemergence of russia now back on its feet means that america is receding that america is being humbled that america is the victim that america is threatened and so i think what trump has actually done is articulate the not just the possibility of a new cold war but the logic of a new cold war and thus it becomes almost official in washington and. things will follow from that ok well that's a very interesting takeaway mike what was your reaction to it because when it was over a year ago i think it was when we still had candidate trump and he was. in the national interest i think his article was i mean this principled realism i still don't see anything principled and i don't see any really real is a minute here go ahead mike. hi peter nice to be with you i agree with some of what brian just said i do think that there is a tone in the report that is strong and tries to push back and that push backs

pushes back strongly against china russia north korea iran i agree with all that i do however and by the way you're aware i'm not a supporter of president trying but i never was but i know who he is and i know why he got elected and the putting america first concept if i could just begin with that in my in my first comment because that is the centerpiece of the opening page and i think the title of the report or at least the subtitle and i think frankly the way in which that concept is described is basically ok now i share some of your and brian's concerns about the tone toward certain countries that we can come back to that but putting america first of course can be interpreted as a zero sum competition among nations or it can be interpreted as here our principles we're going to try to live by we expect others to live by them and if we can all do that then we can all prosper and at least in terms of the theory of the report at least in terms of the language that's on the paper i think that it's more

the second that in fact there is an effort here to say we should be able to get along with other countries so some of the criticisms about the sort of generally negative tone of the report i don't really agree with that i do agree that the report is very tough on china and russia and north korea and iran ok let me read you a short fragment here and this is directly directed to russia and china these competitions russia and china require the united states to rethink the policies of the past two decades policies based on the assumption that engagement with rivals and their inclusion in the in international institutions and global commerce will turn them into benign benign amazing actors and trustworthy partners for the most part this premise turned out to be false i mean this is really really remarkable it is you know it's not the international system it's the international. the system as it's perceived and constructed by the washington consensus and if the chinese and the russians don't want to play by our rules want you to rules they are rivals even

adversaries like i pointed this language extremely arrogant because it doesn't it doesn't bring good policy foreign policy result for the united states and i would say put the world go ahead brian yes absolutely i'm so i'm so glad that you read that particular part of the report because it says so much it's not just that that part of the report is not simply an attack on russia or china it's a repudiation of past u.s. policy or the perception of u.s. policy since the end of the soviet union when they're talking about going back a couple decades we're talking about going back to the time of the collapse of the soviet union in the socialist bloc countries so trump is repudiating the past twenty five years well during the past twenty five years the united states sought to function as a unit a polar dominating power but still used multilateral institutions in other words kept the framework of multilateralism and the hallmark of american foreign policy

at the conclusion of world war two and key to the construct of the post world war two world order that had the united states in charge but in a multilateral framework where different powers including its defeated enemies from world war two japan and germany had a place they had a place as junior partners where they were given access to markets etc rather than what happened after world war one trump i think is stepping back on a lot of levels of the abandonment of the paris climate treaty the rejection of t p p the rejection of almost anything that has to do with a multilateral framework to bring up of the joint comprehensive planners trying to sabotage the iran nuclear arms deal we see in this document the us in america first it says america will be the dominant power we're no longer going to pretend. multi-lateralism is enough to keep china and russia and other countries in their place because they are rising and so america must put them back in their

place and thus it will be by the exercise of american quote american threats american intimidation we see that at the u.n. today trump is telling the rest of the world you know if you vote that long way today on jerusalem you're going to be punished that's not engage mitt that's that's bellicosity and using either military or the threats of military or economic aggression or sanctions as the way of disciplining or policing the new post world war and now postal cold war order that's very interesting you know mike when i read the report i found it to be very defensive about defense ok because i what really disturbed me was the lack of using diplomatic tools and i really very much agree with what brian was having to say here i mean particularly china i mean we've seen this in history over and over again a rising power either you you know back off and let it happen you deal with it or you have a war ok and it seems to me out of the three options.