the. headline. in the u.s. is. for the first time. twenty seven. children in conflict zones across the world.

will look at why some feel it's. appropriate. international all of us here are very welcome. despite islamic states in iraq thousands of kurdish speaking. still being kept hostage many of them abducted and sold to slave markets in the past few years. age ten location. starting bid ten thousand dollars russia age nine location turkey starting bid fifteen thousand

dollars penis age eight location syria starting bid thirteen thousand dollars and the deeds age fifteen. baghdad sold for two and a hot thousand dollars d was kidnapped by isis in mosul in two thousand and fifteen for near enough three years see in july a horrible things things that new fifteen year old girl or any woman should ever have to endure two hours ago she was back by her family here in baghdad no one called the police no one wanted to risk her life she spent her first hour of freedom crying in the hotel room where in mind isis tells its hostages that their families will kill them if they ever return but her arrest would be brief asking

her if she was sure that she's a teacher. and up front about. this so many people are happy that she's. shortly after meeting her relatives took her shopping. she was rescued by a group of men who specialize in tracking down years edis kidnapped by isis they then either negotiate a sale or steal them back they have begun secrecy i don't and she got you know if i say that if we show the girl still in that position with them with their relatives a parent t.v. deal will be on that they killed the hostages. as such some of the. people involved didn't want to appear on camera but the story's chilling and what you get your good to this day one of the girls was kidnapped when she was sent. for.

consecutive house here where there are several girls sand eleven twelve years old who were all raped gifted or sold as many as fifteen songs. if not for sexual pleasure isis brainwashes using children and sends them on suicide missions or sells them for money oh when isis fighters flee to turkey they sell their slaves because they need money to go back to their home countries. you may not know but when the u.s. led coalition and their allies in syria were pitted hundreds of isis fighters need that then besieged raca whose jihad just took not only the guns and family but also their hostages and slaves the same people that are now being on the border back of the prices vary depending on where they are if they're in dangerous place you can

be eighty thousand dollars otherwise around fifteen thousand. others also tracking down missing people one iraqi and he has made a name for himself rescuing children. she spent her own money buying out several of these kids and then to have. one of the girls told me the story of her she and her aunts were in isis captivity two of the terrorists watch them day and night to prevent them from running away then the girl told one of them that she couldn't sleep and asked to see a doctor the isis fighter gave her some sleeping pills she kept them and put them in his seat at the. terrorists fell asleep and she and her on managed to escape the girl was eight years old and was too terrified to do anything so the girl told her let's destroy and run away they will kill us anyway and they skate three thousand

years e.d.'s is still missing hundreds presumed held by isis the international community no longer really cares if these do the track the same ratings now that they aren't being slaughtered so it's up to them to recover that children and to help them heal from what isis has done to them or i guess the odd scene from the whole syria we've contacted numerous human rights organizations to get an idea of what is being done to help the victims of these horrific crimes however so far only a few have responded and this is what the red cross told us. the battles in mosul and ramadi and fallujah all over iraq have yielded an overwhelming overwhelmingly large or high amount of missing people people whose fades are

unknown the families are still looking for them whether they are in captivity with this like said group or any other party in iraq families do not know the fate of their loved ones and if they have the right to know the fate of their loved ones whether they have been dead or are still alive somewhere in iraq being held by a certain party to a conflict what we do to assist because we know that the process to look and search for missing loved ones is a really painful process that can go on for many many years and we call on anyone who has a missing person in iraq to approach an international committee of the red cross and to report the missing gay so that we can assist in the search and identification of people who are missing well as our guest just mentioned many went missing after the fierce battles for mosul despite the city's liberation over five months ago it still looks very much like a war zone the red squares on this map showed just how much of most of all has been

obliterated it after eyesores defeat local's war little effort has been made to rebuild what was once considered one of iraq's most beautiful cities. we haven't received any aid from the government or any other organization.

with the us in hand i feel completely destroyed i don't feel like coming back to this home i've lost all hope of living here after seeing all this devastation. the sudden tempest they are here in moscow powerful painkillers are affecting life expectancy in america the figures show opioids played a bigger role in an overdose deaths last year than any other legal or illegal drug and the tackling of the addiction has become a national priority the epidemic doesn't seem to be going away so america investigates. the nation's opioid epidemic drug overdose is this country's recent surge in opioid addiction incredible epidemic one of the most serious crises facing people in this country. i don't know what the average life expectancy in the u.s.

is getting shorter for the second year in a row now that's according to the center for disease control and prevention and they predict this downward trend will only continue it doesn't look any better we haven't seen more than two years in the row in decline in life expectancy since the spanish flu one hundred years ago would be entering the sorts of territory which is extremely concerning now this is all while other major causes of death like heart disease and cancer have dropped however overdose deaths have been on the rise estimated to be around sixty three thousand six hundred that's more than the number of us soldiers that died during the vietnam war around fifty eight thousand and that's not it about two thirds of drug related deaths were linked to opioid use so it's pretty safe to say that america's been dealing with an opioid crisis that's only getting worse.

every one of those little represents the person that we lost. now this epidemic has resulted in a few shocking cases in the us in ohio a coroner's office ran out of space to store dead bodies in west virginia officials have spent over a million dollars just to transport dead bodies and you would think that this would raise some concern in washington and it did my administration is officially declaring the opioid crisis a national public health emergency under federal law and why i am directing all executive agencies to use. every appropriate emergency authority to fight the opioid crisis however the government hasn't allocated any additional funding to deal with this crisis while the former c.e.o. of a company that produces opioid meds has been nominated as health and human services

secretary we are a country a culture that tends to look for quick fixes or simple solutions and particularly as it as it relates to drug use you know we think drug users are criminals or they're morally the fact is that we stigmatize them or we offer them inadequate treatments the overemphasis on drugs prescribing rather than on seeking more comprehensive more complex solutions both to the problem of addiction but more generally to the problems of human suffering and while people expect the government to act life expectancy continues to drop samir khan r. t. washington d.c. we discussed the opioid crisis with law professor richard alston this was written about the failure to prosecute drug companies he warns that big pharma quote downplayed the addiction risks. the structure of the health care

programs in these various countries does have an effect i think that doctors tend to prescribe opioids when there's private health insurance perhaps more so than in europe where there are government programs. the drug companies developed lobbied the medical profession and demand among doctors to prescribe these drugs for chronic pain which they weren't really designed to be used for so i think that perhaps has as much to do with it as. direct to consumer advertising. the drug companies didn't do their part either they downplayed the risks associated the addiction risks associated with opioid use. and therefore both physicians and patients were somewhat misled about about the risks clearly

an educational program would have helped that and certainly it's needed now to try to prevent the problem from getting any worse. cold twenty seventeen a quote night mejia for children trapped in conflict zones across the globe the humanitarian group says kids can find refuge even at home or at the playground and are exposed to brutal violence on a daily basis. among

the countries. where conflict is driving children from their homes to seek safety in neighboring desh also nigeria boko haram militants routinely abduct young girls for rape and forced marriage in the iraqi city of mosul children were caught in the crossfire between eisold terrorists and u.s. backed iraqi forces and of course syria children trapped in the ruins of rebel held

east ghouta which government forces are still trying to recapture also in. more than a million children are at risk of disease and starvation amid the continued bombing campaign. the him and he's one of that it was police is it right now because he's the he's the or sky lady the number of children minorities two million and the number of two that and don't have access to one to use a normal isn't the same without access to health and we need in that these almost twenty seven million and seventy percent of them are believing what we're the and seven million of the yemenis the don't have food in another ten million are food secure i don't think i've seen these anywhere where the peanut thing done national media not to confront the first to drop the can be because those parties had ordered to find that it was cheat the or eat the got a peaceful solution to this conflict that this going on for for so long and

secondly so of course the quotas for additional resources. to drive to help in the end of the beach is a humanitarian crisis of the war that these pointing can. your friday what headlines continue in just a moment. no . friends.

join me every thursday. i'll see if. it is good to have you with us today the u.s. has proposed to designate a small the west bank village as the palestinian capital that is according to a former head of palestinian group hamas. the move was a part of a larger peace plan along with the decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's

capital move by the un. visited the village it's called to examine washington's proposed. this is a neighborhood of jerusalem that is home to some twelve thousand people and which has been under israeli occupation since one thousand nine hundred sixty seven it is also being offered as the future capital of the states now that is according to the former head of hamas ismail haniya and then anybody can. the united states office of the palestinian authority capital and see this in the abu dis area far from jerusalem there is a bridge linking the al aqsa mosque is also part of the peace plan that is being presented by the saudis and it does seem plausible if you remember that president trump is planning to move his embassy to jerusalem but if you swim across here and you see the security these raids security barrier which runs through the middle of abu dis it begs the question how can a place like this serve as the capital of

a future palestinian state in theory it is possible to have direct access from abu dis to the muslim holy sites in the distance in the old city and there is a plan that is being put forward to pulled a bridge from here to the alex a compound which is the third holiest site in islam without that access that would be a conversation stopper but it is hard to believe that palestinians would support this we're not. in jerusalem three for the palestinians not just for the israelis and i hope. they get a total hold a holy place in the name of if used in the name of capitalism or democracy there's no ins you have to be holy to hold the holy name whatever the future of this village one thing is clear president trumps decision to move his embassy to jerusalem will have far reaching consequences what i just think is exactly

thinking americans are reading only reading the israeli plan to the area they don't want really a state in the west bank and if they want to make it in an enlarged gaza for that purpose they will continue to. buy and they will continue as well and more than sixty person. of the with very area are going to think that the president would agree any time or and the palestinian leader with agree at any time to want the americans and this very hour of. us magazine has named five stars who claim their careers have been ruined by donald trump's tweets among them comedian kathy griffin who posed with a mosque that looked like trump's suffered head.

for that video filmed seven months ago griffin not only faced death threats on social media she was also fired from c.n.n. back then trump tweeted that she should be ashamed of herself and that his eleven year old son was distressed by the video but griffin now says it's precisely that tweet that made her the target of an online backlash when media and legal analyst lionel didn't mince his words over where the real blame lies and this is an individual who goes on t.v. or goes on i guess the internet or whatever holds this head up this severed head. of this man and this severed head under for some reason showing some artistic expression ok. and then when it comes out the president says you know i don't like that g.m. magine that imagine donald trump tweeting that he's displeased with this this

rendition of himself beheaded so what kathy griffin is saying is you know donald trump had you just kept quiet about it i'd still be working today and instead of showing contrition showing that she was sorry asking the world and america and more importantly president run for forgiveness oh no what she does is she goes into a routine so she makes it even worse here's why no person on this planet that kathy griffin can blame for the plight that she's in and that person is kathy griffin. a spanish court has ruled in favor of a man who was sued by his ex-wife for breach of their daughter's privacy for reading her what's up conversations the mother claimed that her child's privacy had been violated but the judge decided that it's parents' responsibility to monitor children's internet use as the social network requires proper vigilance from adults and the daughter also gave permission to read chats the former couple also have

a son who apparently refused to show his father his what's up chats and the ruling could set a legal precedent for cases involving children's activity on social media my colleague here and discuss the story with george barda a political activist and social justice campaigner as well as with stephen morris from the english democrats party looking at the case it looks like these obviously a bit of animosity between the two parents. and the something obviously not been reported between what's been going on between them too and he's obviously goes concerns regarding a known obviously you have a responsibility to make sure that your children using social media are responsible you know these are a lot of. things happening in the world today and we've been told that we have to money to social media. to see what's going on and we have to be careful of what our children are actually. seeing and engaging in personally i don't think it should be the normal toll i think you know if you rewind to the thirty years in

a child's right to a diary and if the child finds out the parent has looked in their diary then probably the child will be very upset and will have very real grievances and concerns that the parent has not respected them appropriately in the parent will then have to justify to the child why they did that. you know the child will probably have the that's not an appropriate thing the pair will have to just. in other words we go back to this question of right and wrong versus whether or not the courts should be involved so i think you know there are all sorts of issues here but i think it's important not to treat the current world as if it's entirely novel you know these issues of how parents and children negotiate questions of privacy versus parental responsibility even if children are raised without having their privacy respected isn't there a risk they're going to grow to be more tolerant of invasions of their privacy later in life for example government snooping perhaps well children something memorial of always kept secret from the parents that's

a given it's always up and the issue now is with social media it's a lot greater and a lot wider than we ever envisioned when i was a child you know our interaction was just either you sent to the community centers . around the bush elton's which is what kids do but now the each well a lot wider people travel a lot for the further and there's a lot more danger to be social media i think we are faced with a danger where the more authority governments and courts have to police the relationship between parents and children the more that ends up becoming a pretext for further surveillance of our communications itself so i think keeping the family private is an important part of keeping the government away from inappropriate surveillance of citizens. so the holiday season is in full swing and for russia the biggest celebration the new year is just a couple days away moscow boasts some dazzling decorations on this year it is

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that comes you call russia no one has ever no one has ever had a country never even heard about most of. the troubling ministration the american economy super c.e.o. or. robert nardelli is our guest on this edition of politics.

to a special edition of politicking on larry king president donald trump is taking credit for record breaking stock market substantial cuts in government regulations trade policies that he claims will help american businesses and of course the tax reform plan which he tells as a gift to the middle class critics denounces nothing more than a corporate tax benefit so what's the truth and how will the trump and ministration policies help or hurt the american economy in the twenty eighteen year let's talk about that with robert nardelli american businessman he's a former chairman and c.e.o. of the chrysler corporation as well as c.e.o. of the home depot from two thousand to two thousand and seven provided that he rose to become one of the top executives of. these very active and one of the most successful businessmen thanks for coming here it's great to be here thank you ok

robert why.