i. just find the full of islamic state in iraq sounds of people from the minority still being held hostage we speak to a fifteen year old girl who's just escaped terrorist captivity. while an israeli court extends the detention of a teenage girl accused of attacking two i.d.f. soldiers after her cousin was hit in the face by an israeli rubber bullet. and two people died during price rise protests in iran which turned political with government officials suspecting foreign involvement in the deaths. thank you for watching the weekly headlines on new year's eve here at r.t.

international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate partridge. this week has shed light on the fate of an iraqi ethnic and religious minority the u.c.d. is despite the fall of islamic states thousands of the kurdish speaking group are still being held hostage many of them are children who have been abducted and sold as slaves markets. the men would offer us as gifts and in the evenings they would get together and treat the women and have their fun with us. it was indescribable funny laugh turned into endless suffering tears and hunger i couldn't do anything not cry. well according to iraqi officials in twenty fourteen

alone almost seven thousand u.c.d. people were kidnapped by iso and three thousand still missing what i guess the of reports on the way home of using it is from terrorist captivity not age location. starting bid ten thousand dollars russia guide location turkey starting bid fifteen thousand dollars in us age location syria starting bid. dollars and dollars. age fifteen location baghdad soul put two thousand dollars the deal was kidnapped by isis in mosul in two thousand and fifteen for near enough three years she endured horrible things things that no fifteen year old girl or any woman should ever have to endure two

hours ago she was bored. 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 arrest would be brief ask her how she's going to show sufficiently. so many people are happy that she's. meeting her relatives took her shopping. but she was rescued by a group of men who specialize in tracking down these kidnapped by isis they then either negotiate the sale or steal them back so the big gun secrecy i don't think

she got you know if i say that if we show the girl still in that possession of them with their relatives a parent the 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 stories. are good and that you get your good to this day one of the girls was kidnapped when she was . raped for three years. house here where there are several girls san and 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. when isis fighters flee to turkey they sell their slaves because they need money to go back to their home countries. but when the u.s. led coalition and their allies in syria repeatedly let hundreds of isis. i didn't

need that then besieged raca whose jihad took not only the guns and family but the roots of the hostages and slaves the same people that are now being on the border back of the big get the price is very depending on where they are if they're in dangerous place you can be eighty thousand dollars otherwise around fifty thousand . others is also tracking down in the south and you so one iraqi army has made a name for herself rescuing children. don't know that she spent her own money buying out several of these kids and then to have a child at one of the girls told me the story of her she and her aunts were a nice escape to 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 fighters her gave her some sleeping pills she kept them then put them in his seat the terrorist fell asleep and she and her managed to escape the girl was eight years old in the song and was too terrified to do anything so the girl told her that let's destroy and run away they will kill us anyway. three thousand years edis is still missing hundreds presumed held by isis the international community no longer. cares if the these don't attract the same ratings now that they aren't being slaughtered so it's up to them to recover that children and to help them to heal from what isis has done to them or our guys they have seen from the whole iraq. r.t. contacted several human rights organizations about what's being done to help the

victims of these crimes so far we've heard from 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 the islamic state 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 comes 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 law international effort whatsoever this is

a community single this really wouldn't iraqi community and they're not supported with it out for. the areas that are neglected. you have not seen. 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 made it to judges during the trials against them have been held using the sex slaves but but you see these are not being invited into the room are not being invited to the trials and are not even granted real access to justice. and israeli court has extended the detention of a palestinian teenager and her mother after the girl was caught on video hits. two israeli defense force soldiers the court says the pair pose a danger to the i.d.f.

sixteen year old afeared to mimi confronted the two soldiers in front of her house in the west bank an hour after her cousin was hit by a rubber bullet there a video of the incident with her head went viral with some hailing it a symbol of palestinian resistance. then saying. that. the footage shows are said along with one of her cousins kicking and shoving the i.d.f. soldiers a mother can also be seen in the video heads causing was also arrested but released after forty eight hours the pair were angry after another of our heads cousins a fourteen year old boy was injured after being hit in the face by an israeli rubber bullet as father has defended his daughter saying she feels she had no choice but to take action to look. for what a photo for the listing there if you believe that we must give though the me or the

throne she needs to be in the door of the sword in the. in the clashes with me. this is what you believe in. for that we. saw her on issues saw that there are more the more she warned the leader to avoid the 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 of a soldier and also for throwing rocks at the girl's twitter account has been deleted although it's unclear whether the head herself is behind the move former i.d.f. soldier already weisberg says the israeli presence in some palestinian areas is at a military level 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 then 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 and i don't think that the i.d.f. sees itself as in a precarious position. well tensions have been high in the region since december the sixth when donald trump decided to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital he

also announced his intention to move the u.s. embassy there from tel aviv the four week standoff between israelis and palestinians has left more than a dozen dead and over two thousand and just. 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 days right. throwing tear gas canisters on the protesters and since the morning since that announcement was made. well you can smell the tear gas from here so strong made that announcement fourteen palestinians have been killed in those figures according to the palestinian health ministry they also report that more than three thousand. it's escalating its uprising that is right the army has been throwing tear gas canisters all the protesters are running away from the buffer zone thank god that israelis have been

shooting live i mean they see an hour briber bullets sometimes one that's landed very very very close to where he was standing so. the situation here. for the last month. quite tense and we can safely smell take a civil way out here does that mean a certain there were at least five ambulances that. floor or three injuries more news after this short break. but hopes his hands to do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. for something i want to be preached . to going to be first to see what. real people.

i mean first of all is why. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the senate it's the law and. the only show i go out of my way to find you know what it is that really packs a punch. yeah it is the john oliver of marty americans do the same we are apparently better than nothing. and see people you never heard of love right back to the night president of the world bank the nation about the cause of death of the two protesters in the city of thought and in western iraq officials say the author of his didn't open fire at any point while the deputy provincial governor claims foreign influence is more likely that he and deploying we have found evidence of

enemies of the revolution. well audio the u.s. state department said it's closely following the protests it also condemned any arrests also claiming the protests were peaceful however these haven't always been resolved peacefully in this video obtained by our rockley news agency you can see a police station burning after reportedly being torched by for testers hasn't been any information about whether anyone was hurt the u.s. state department also quoted these remarks made by secretary rex tillerson at a hearing in june. our policy toward iran is to push back on the show containing their ability to develop obviously nuclear weapons and to work toward support of those elements inside of iran that would lead to a peaceful transition of their government those elements are there surely as we know but already we do see that foreign players are involving themselves

in iranian affairs and this is ironic because the united states right now complaining about legit russian involvement in the u.s. election be even though they've never provided. any evidence for this but i personally don't think that this is anything of major significance i think the west and the western media they want to exaggerate the importance these are protests. that are that were small most of them were expressing their own economic grievances and very few were expressing hostility toward the government or the state and today they're actually counter protests against those groups that were protesting against the political order and they were much larger in numbers across the country but again those were not reflected in the western. australia's new chancellor says the e.u. is migrant relocation quotas are not helping solve the refugee crisis sébastien coutts believes the problem should be handled in the migrants home countries migrants who

want to go to bulgaria are hungry they want to go to germany austria sweden they should be held in safe areas in their own continent the e.u. should support that perhaps even organize it and back it militarily. well there have been similar calls in the past from other european leaders last month french president emmanuel mcroberts reaction to help and people try such an approach is deeply flawed. to send troops or european armies to abort their. very. think it's not practical in probably 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 well these pictures show just how demure up european leaders are now increasingly looking towards the migrants home countries but abdullah believes they using the crisis to exert their influence on the region you've been you know the feeling that they are. outside of the political settlement now example in syria they are outside libya they started to go for against libya. not. internal affairs of libya in yemen they say maybe in africa we cannot see that. for all is very important so because of the there are trying to. to review their role in the middle east. now the world is welcome year in the new year and twenty eighteen has already begun in japan and other parts

of the asia pacific region as each country celebrates spectacular fireworks are lighting up the sky. but it's claimed one billion people while watching sydney live on t.v. in what was coached the most technologically advanced violence ever thousands of people came out in australia and new zealand to welcome in twenty eight. and i'll be back with that dines at the top of the hour see that. it's the cradle of jazz. that is america still america we have. to know all of this jazz feeling. a city of climatic contest

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our. own of welcome to worlds apart that is the last thing one would want to talk about their new year's eve but in russia paradoxically it's also a source of hope and renewal palliative care barely existed in this country just two decades ago now provides one of the most inspiring examples of civil active is not only influencing governments but also becoming part of it how can that we people die change the way people believe well to discuss that analogy joined by new the feather messer had a moscow soundtrack for palliative care you does great to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you for your time now. if i do take it

a go i used to volunteer for a small school hostas another one we did set out by your mother that i really want to cover and i know that at that time there wasn't wasn't even the notion of failure to carry in russian law i know it has changed is that but it's certainly not fully or properly legislated i wonder if when you look back at what has been done and what still needs to be done are you more inspired or depressed. i think both because when i look backwards i get inspired when i look forward to depressed because there's still a lot of things to be done we still have lots of difficulties with pain killing and we still don't have enough forms of golf and that would follow. the philosophy of police of kids who would mainly have injections. and we've got to have pills we've got to have siren for children we'll have to have sprays we don't have all that and . of course we could have bought it all abroad but policy.

in drugs in russian federation doesn't let us do this and it's quite a long time till we have it all produced here in russia i think that the first in that noninvasive. painkilling drug for children from birth will only appear in russian federation in two thousand and twenty two we are used to a lot of pain for children. you mentioned the philosophy of the hospice moment and i think the slogan of the hospice moment here in russia if a person cannot be cured it doesn't mean that he or she cannot be held strikes at the very heart of just the distinction between medical and palliative care and i know that from personal experience that many ordinary people strongly effort that emphasize that but i wonder if the death origins have internalised do they treat pail of care as something that they are obliged to provide like medical care for

example or still as a charitable activity. you were right when you say that very little time ago some ten fifteen years ago we had just a few hospices in this huge country and obviously all they have around a hundred or a shard yeah we had about an hour hundred hospices but we also have a lead of care units everywhere and we have home care services quite a lot of them but a few years ago. this few activities a really only existed. due to enthusiasm of their we do it and they had very scarce financial support from the government and even fuel money from charity. it was already after my mother's death my mother as you said she was a part. a person who brought into this country in its. philosophical south actually brought it from the united kingdom after my mother's death she died seven

years ago. are were thor it is the government have stated politi of medical care in the federal law about. health. but unfortunately the understanding of elite if care to turn away to medical care in this law very much differs from understanding of police of care in the world health organization in russia it only states that police have medical care aides to ease the suffering of the patient by means of pain killing or some medical inventions. therefore in our legislation point of care left all the aspects connected with spiritual health with a social support something which is the same way a both your mother and yourself have tried to provide in the facilities years and

that's what's been happening in the last years so i think in this country we should not so far look at police of care. sort of coursing out one of its aspects federal money or charity money hopefully will never have to cross out charity of federal money but. i think one of the hugest achievements of charity you verify is that in the last eleven years and there a foundation has existed for eleven years now. is that this phrase the phrase that you mentioned if one cannot be cured it doesn't mean one cannot be helped it no longer causes any questions i very well remember the time when i would address journalists and to the channels ten eight seven years ago and we would come to talk with journalists and they would say ok but please know what cancer no word such as hospice on there no death on their ok why what would you not want me to talk about

then as years passed by now there's no questions about it any longer can't can i pick up on that because in the one of your interviews here you talked about normalizing or even humanizing death and from what i've known in other countries to you the hospice moment has encountered certain resistance because of all those professional and cultural taboos associated with open communication about death how big of an issue is that in russia i think it's a very big issue actually death and topples and talking about death you cannot look at it. without years and years behind you have to take into consideration all the cultural layers and what is it specifically say about russia because it's not only about people are afraid to discuss death here but for exam.