despite the fall of islamic state in iraq thousands of people from the minority ethnic group c.d.'s are still being held hostage in the program we speak to a fifteen year old girl who has just escaped terrorist captivity. and is really cold understands the detention of a teenage girl the accused of punching two i.d.f. soldiers off a fourteen year old was hit in the face by an israeli bullet. and that's the fear standoff between israelis and palestinians rages for a fourth week following donald trump decision to recognize jerusalem as the.

it is eight am december thirty first here in moscow welcome to the weekly with the top stories of the last seven years. this week has shed light on the fate of the small ethnic and religious minorities in iraq that over the years he's despite the fall of islamic state thousands of this kodesh speaking group are still being held hostage many of them are children who have been abducted and sold at slave markets . and the men went off. in the evenings they would get together and treat their women and have their fun with us. so. it was indescribable for me. and i couldn't

do anything but cry according to iraqi officials in twenty fourteen almost seven thousand people were kidnapped by ice so three thousand are still missing. senior correspondent reports on the long way home of some. terrorist captivity. age location. ten thousand dollars russia nine location. fifteen thousand dollars penis age location syria starting bid. and dollars. age fifty. baghdad sold put two and thousand dollars d was kidnapped by isis in mosul in two thousand and fifteen for near enough three. 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. crying in the hotel room wearing my isis tells its hostages that their families will kill them if they ever return but her rest would be brief asking how she shouldn't shops or shut . up shop for. many people who are happy that she's. meeting her relatives took her shopping. she was rescued by a group of men who specialize in. these kidnapped by isis they then either

negotiate the sale or steal them back so the big gun secrecy i don't you've got to know if i say that if we show the girl still in that possession of them 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. and if you get your good to this day one of the girls was kidnapped when she was sent. for. house here where there are several girls eleven twelve years old who were all raped gifted or sold as many as fifteen songs. if not for sexual pleasure isis brainwashes 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 the. booze jihad took not only the guns and families but also the hostages and slaves the same people that are now being aborted back to 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 herself rescuing children. she spend her own money buying out several of these kids and the other half. as you

know 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 the isis fighters her gave her some sleeping pills she kept them and put them in the sea but the terrorist fell asleep and she and her on managed to escape because 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 no longer really cares they see these don't attract the same ratings as now that they aren't being slaughtered so it's up to them to recover their own children and to help them heal from what isis has done to them

or i guess the odd scene from the hawk iraq to contacted several human rights organizations about what's being done to help the victims of these crimes so far only a few have responded including of the red cross and human rights watch. 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 to the families are still looking for them whether they are in captivity with group or any other party in iraq 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. three years have passed the community still vastly displaced in their future the woman who brought back to come from captivity

. or taken care of those who are still in captivity are still there and there has been no international effort whatsoever this is a community singled out basically within the iraqi community and they are not supporting the women in. the areas that are neglected. you have not seen in any serious efforts by the british or baghdad government to ensure that the victim get their day in court and get justice for what has been done to them even when some of these men and boys it needs to judges during the trial it's against them that they help you see the sex slaves by but you see these are not being invited into the court room are not being invited to these trials and are not being granted real access to justice. and israeli court has

extended the detention of a sixteen year old palestinian girl and her mother after her daughter was caught on video slapping two i.d.f. soldiers the court says the pose a danger tommy confronted the two soldiers in front of a house in the west bank and. relative was hit by a rubber bullet that video of the incident with the head went viral with some hailing it as a symbol of palestinian resistance. the footage shows i head along with cars and kicking and shoving the i.d.f. soldiers a mother can also be seen in the video i had cousins arrested those who was also arrested but released after forty eight hours the tension had been good after another of our heads cousins a fourteen year old boy was injured after being hit in the face by an israeli

rubber bullet heads father has defended his daughter saying she feels she had no choice but to react. to pull his head physically the one of the for the palestinian issue she believes that we must study or the time she needs to be. in the. in the clashes with me. this is what she believes in it for that would be where i saw her when she saw. the autumn leaves she became more they gave more she won the two fide we requested comment from the israeli defense forces on the girl's case the i.d.f. said she's being investigated for suspected assault on a soldier and also throwing rocks the girls twitter account has been deleted though it's unclear whether i had herself is behind the move and former i.d.f. soldier or weisberg says the israeli presence in some palestinian areas is that

a military level and it's why such incidents are. what happened last week and the video that's gone viral with her slapping and pushing two soldiers. is not part of a protest it went much more viral once they showed up. later on a few days later early in the morning and arrested her a sixteen year old girl for pushing somebody who was without any sort of authorization standing on her property image of a fearless young woman she's sixteen standing up to fully armed soldiers and the soldiers if you notice they come into these villages and i did when i served in the i.d.f. as well fully armed for battle the heavy military presence which in palestinian communities is thirty years old the amount of force is overwhelming these soldiers are only partially trained for doing what are essentially police duties but you

notice they are in full battle dress they don't look like police men i don't think that the i.d.f. sees itself as in a precarious position tensions have been high in the region since donald trump decision at the start of the month to recognize to roost on them as israel's capital he also announced the intention to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv of a standoff between israelis and palestinians has continued for four weeks now and many left injured on a number dead. significantly .

this is the floor it's friday rates actually palestinians all over gaza strip east jerusalem and the west bank are demonstrating and protesting against donald trump's declaration that israeli army is growing gas canisters on the protesters and since

the morning since that announcement was made. well you can smell the tear gas from here so straight that announcement fourteen palestinians have been killed and those figures according to the palestinian health ministry they also report that more than three thousand people have been injured it's escalating it's uprising but that is right the army has been at throwing tear gas canisters all the front. stairs are running away from the buffer zone than israelis had been suiting life i mean a c.n.n. i remember bullets and as one that landed very very very close to where we were standing so. the situation here latter has been for the last month and quite tense and we can certainly smell tear gas everywhere. there were at. five ambulances that. floor our three injuries.

russia is suffering a severe h i v epidemic in terms of infections every year russia is third behind south africa and nigeria making matters worse is the emotions of people in russia who actually deny the disease even exists and they put trying to house the story but 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 is the country's 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's losing the war on a child. in 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 h.i.b.

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 there were. the would not move go model for quite a long time in five years not to really enough attention has been created so that is you have a huge part of aids there has not been enough funding while health authorities we're losing time people known as aids deny lists wasted none online spreading fake a child venus will subside next to on russian social networks in blogs and

elsewhere online aids to nihilists clearly ahead of us and that's a really dangerous if you refuse therapy an early death is guaranteed started looking for denial of us who are willing to share their thoughts with us finding their social network communities which have thousands of members is 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 aids denial list struggled to maintain her composure as she recalled how she was diagnosed with hiv. you're going to go to my new. bush in your stiffness tomorrow so not those two there were your petition of course up show to system to. continue to 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 demon venture. he convinced her to give up hiv treatment her desire to get rid of the stigma prevailed over common sense. when you might. not see just the open you can be with mr sarkozy chop an onion or there's a source and a couple of years later after wild ups and downs and health she did just that with a form of cancer. but it's. pretty skinny one hundred yards. the last. few years of stop it is a forced him choice. and the focal. point now in prison all. of whom. knock. up 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 lists 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. martine. austria's recently sworn in new chancellor says that you use my migrant relocation quotas are not helping to solve the refugee crisis sebastian kurtz believes the problem should be handled in the migrants home countries. migrants who settle for europe don't want to go to bulgaria are hungry they want to go to germany austria or sweden they should be helped in safe areas in their own continent the e.u. should support that perhaps even organize it and back it militarily there have been a similar calls in the past from other european leaders last month the french

president proposed military action to put an end to people trafficking in libya but by some love. the damascus center of strategic studies believes such an approach is deeply flawed. to send troops or european armies to. very true will save zones i think it's not practical in first of all these armies would be involved in the internal affairs of these countries and their reaction from the law people will be may be negatively they will lose a lot of. soldiers first so i think to be engaged in internal a verse of any account you would it would be reflected on their internal affairs and i think they should read very good the story of syria during seven years they should read the story of libya the story of him and the story in africa and i

don't think that this is a good approach or let's show some pictures now to show just how desperate some migrants crossing the alps from italy to reach france battling freezing temperatures and often inadequate clothing are trying to find a better life in europe but little sign the flow will and anytime soon european leaders are increasingly looking towards the migrants home countries and. again suspects that e.u. members are trying to reestablish themselves as major players in the middle east and africa. you've been you know they are feeling that they are. outside of the political settlement now example in syria they are outside in libya they started to go shit against libya then they became not a. player in internal affairs of libya in

yemen this is maybe in africa we cannot see that the role is very important so because of that they are trying to. to review their role in the middle east. for the holiday season upon us each culture is putting its own stamp on make a marking this time of the year special for the african-american community there's the chance of celebrating a relatively new festival out of kwanzaa although its origins are somewhat unusual as caleb maupin explains. 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 posts and look toward a brighter future kids are static at the start of kwanzaa one is that a holiday that millions of people around the world hold dear as secular celebration to honor african american and pan african heritage and values 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 kwanzaa 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 it's pretty hypocritical. enough that he does it surprise me 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 whole day of their own so i came up with kwanzaa i 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 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 america. 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 one nine hundred 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 mopp and r.t. new york thanks for joining us here on r.t. international and as we prepare to ring in the new year here in russia and of course around the world has some rather startling footage right in the skies above us. but it was hard to sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles that. the new socks try to tell you

to be gossiping probably. one. of the my eyes and tell me you pullin out like a rat. these are the hawks that we all adore on the one. the. day is eighty one and a very serious science and here. is the low memorial corner bad i'm putting together it's not finished i'm finished on this side i have this medication backing with taking i have this to his cell phone . the.

son's name was eric bana he died he was strangled by a policeman. the scene was filmed and has been seen around the world. yes cry cry all over again with nothing at all spoiled ass what else. to now not look at that video i said oh my god what they take too much. states in nine and south of new york eric garner is on the right to policeman suspect him of selling cigarettes on the streets. among much just to see all. the policemen want to arrest him but the situation gets quickly out of hand. one of them literally throws himself at eric to handcuff him by force another one

strangled him for nearly twenty seconds. thank. god you're able. to cure this is one of. my country eric garner will desperately repeat that eleven times before dying. it was jests holdall brutality what they did to him for no reason for they said for selling the lucy. it's like they have a license to kill and all that stuff strangulation is prohibited by the new york police yet the agents will not be sued this incident shocks viewers across the world all the men so that these cases of brutality and excesses by the police happen every week in the united states film blunders that cost light on violence

abuses and the victims are on most always black people. and. last november in cleveland up next time your rice a twelve year old child is playing with a plastic gun when a police car racing by stops a group c. and the officer on most instantly shoots the child. off but. beginning of april in oklahoma eric harris is chased by policeman after they tackled him down. they fired bullets into his back. pocket. the agent said he mistook his weapon with his taser the man is dying but the policeman doesn't seem to be both the. two days late in

charleston south walter scott is arrested for a broken taillight he escapes. eight bullets in the back once again the victim is not tom and. once again a white policeman shouts a black man. most crimes in the united states are committed by white people yet black people have much greater risk of dying shot by the police . if a louis for example. in two thousand and fourteen the american police killed a hundred unarmed blacks that his two weeks a fact that americans have come to realize it hit them suddenly today.