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syria starting bid thirteen thousand dollars. age fifteen. baghdad sold for two and a hard thousand dollars was kidnapped by isis in mosul in two thousand and fifteen for near enough three years she endured 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 rest would be brief as to how she was shown in shops are shut.

up shut up. 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 these e.d.'s 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 i says say that if we show the girl still in that position with their relatives apparent t.v. the deal will be on that they kill the hostages as such some of the people involved didn't want to appear on camera but the stories i chilling in which you get you're going to this day one of the girls was kidnapped when she was sent. out here where there are several girls san. twelve years old who were all raped

gifted or sold as many as fifteen songs. if not for sexual pleasure isis brainwashes u.c.d. 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 reportedly led hundreds of isis fighters need that then besieged graca whose jihad just took not only the guns and families but also the hostages and slaves the same people that are now being on board back of the prices vary depending on where there are but if they're in dangerous places you can be eighty thousand dollars otherwise around fifteen thousand. others is

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 on their behalf after that one of the girls told me the story of her escape she and her aunts were in isis captivity two of the terrorists watched 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 at the isis fights or gave her some sleeping pills she kept them and put them in his tea and the terrorist 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 edis is still missing. hundreds presumed held by isis the

international community. really can is. due to 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 more i guess the odd see from the hawk iraq it contacted numerous human rights organizations to get an idea of what's being done to help the victims of these crimes. only a few have responded 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 who whose fate are unknown the families are still looking for them whether they are in captivity with this lamech 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 case so that we can assist in the search and identification of people who are missing 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 waltz or the red squares coming up on the map to show you just how much of mosul has been obliterated it after i supposed to feed the locals warning little effort

has been made to rebuild what was once considered one of iraq's most beautiful cities. when we haven't received any aid from the government point. going to say to. him i feel completely destroyed i don't feel like coming back to i've lost all hope of living here after seeing all this devastation.

this is all too international powerful painkillers are affecting life expectancy in america figures show opioids played a bigger role in 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 a smear a con investigates the nation's opioid epidemic drug overdoses 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 at me but we haven't seen movement two years in the row in the claw new life expectancy since the spanish flu one hundred years ago. and 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 u.s. 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 girls represent the person 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 effective and we stigmatize them or we offer them you know adequate treatment the overemphasis on drugs prescribing rather than on seeking more comprehensive more complex solutions posed to the problem of addiction but more generally to 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 s 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 were 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. the united nations children's agency has called twenty seventeen a nightmare year for children trapped in conflict zones across the globe unicef says kids confines refuge even at home or at the playground and are exposed to brutal violence on a daily basis. among

the countries is. conflict is driving children from their homes to seek safety in neighboring. in nigeria boko haram militants routinely abduct young girls for rape and forced marriage in the democratic republic of congo hundreds of children have been injured and had to flee their homes as a result of clashes between the army and militia groups and of course in syria children are trapped in the ruins of rebel held east ghouta which government forces are still trying to recapture but also in more than

a million children are at risk of disease and starvation amid the continued. pains . even he's one of the most police is. right now because he's the. number of children minorities two million and the number of two that and don't have access to one nor the same with access to health and we needed that he said almost twenty seven million and seventy percent of them are leaving the. seven million the yemenis don't have support in another ten million national security i don't think i've seen these anywhere where no pilate the international media the. first to drive to compete with those parties that order to find the negotiate the. solution to this conflict that is going on for for so long and second of course the requests for additional resources. to try to help this is

a humanitarian crisis of the war that these point. three people have been injured after a bus driver to a stop in northwest moscow the incident took place close to a metro station during the morning rush hour this footage showing the bus stop was largely damaged during the crash and police and ambulance was still the scene early reports suggest the bus was a cut up by a taxi causing the bus driver to lose control of the vehicle now it was earlier this week a similar incident had disastrous consequences will show you here when a bus crashed down into the way of an underground pedestrian crossing in the east of the capital four people were killed eleven others were injured police have narrowed down to possible causes for the accident either malfunctioning brakes or driver error. are still those of headlines coming your way here on the program today including the u.s. ambassador to israel risks further inflaming tensions in the region after making

provocative comments about palestinians we'll give you details after the break. it's. a play for many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the fun of school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money. and spending to the twenty million. it's an experience like nothing else because i want to share what i think i know about the beautiful game great chance for. peace.

thanks for joining us here on r.t. international the us ambassador to israel has said palestinians overreacted to donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel yet at the reaction to the move had been ugly and anti semitic meanwhile it's been revealed washington proposed to make a small the west bank village the palestinian capital as part of a larger peace plan. visited the village that's cold.

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 a state now that is according to the former head of hamas ismail haniya and then america the united states offered to give the palestinian authority a capital and city in the abu dis area far from jerusalem so there is a bridge linking abu dis and 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 the israeli 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 al aqsa 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 model to have because we want jerusalem to be for the palestinians not just for the israelis our home is here our life is here. they cannot hold hold a holy place in the name of if used in the name of capitalism or democracy there is 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 the israeli 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 have a state make it in and in lot of gaza for that purpose and they will continue to control jerusalem they will continue to control the borders of the west bank and they will continue to control as well and more than sixty percent of the with bank area and i don't think that the palestinian would agree that any time or any palestinian leader would agree at any time to what the americans and israeli are offering. us magazine has named five stars who claim to have been ruined by donald trump's tweets among them comedian kathy griffin who says the president's message destroyed her life after she posed with a mask that looked like trump's suffered head. now 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 tweeted that she should be ashamed of yourself and that his eleven year old son was just stressed by that clip but griffin now says it's precisely that tweet that made her the target of an online backlash media and legal analyst lionel didn't mince his words over where the real blame lies this is an individual who goes on t.v. or goes on i guess the internet or whatever holds this had 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 rendition of himself beheaded so what sadly 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

protrusions you're showing your sorry asking the world and america everyone portly president run for forgiveness not you court has ruled in favor of a man who was sued by his ex-wife for breach of their daughter's prophecy 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 children's internet use as the social network workwise proper vigilance from adults the daughter also gave permission to read charts and perform a couple also have a son who apparently refused to show his father his what's up message is now the ruling could set a legal precedent for cases involving children's activity on social media and my colleague nicky aaron discussed the story with george brown social justice campaigner as well as with stephen morris from the english democrats party looking at the case you want to muster between the two parents. something obviously not

been. going on between them and he's obviously going to get in we know obviously you have a responsibility to make sure that your children are using social media responsible you know when there's 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 i want children who are actually. seeing an engaging in person i don't think it should be the norm a total i think you know. rewind sort of 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 good. even citizen concerns that the parent is not respecting them appropriately in the parent will then have to justify the child whether. you know the child will probably be the that's not an appropriate thing the pair will have to just like so 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 well there's if it's entirely novel you know these issues of how parents and children negotiate questions of privacy if children are raised without having their privacy respected isn't there a risk i was a child you know our interaction was just sent to the community. and i'm going to be on the push elton's which is what kids do but now the a lot wider people travel a lot further and there's a lot more danger we social media i think we are faced with a danger where the more authority governments and courts have children the more that ends up becoming a pretext for. so the holiday season is in full swing and for russia the biggest celebration of the new year is just a couple days away from moscow right now are posting some dazzling decorations this year it is dressed to impress if perhaps you're planning

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