song. says it views further tightening of u.s. sanctions on russia as the start of an economic war washington says it's stepping up the restrictions over the poisoning of a former russian agent and his daughter in the u.k. . u.s. democratic party wants facebook to share data. so it tell them what's right thus the social media. censorship controversial show host.

israel and hamas militants reach a tentative cease fire agreement after israel retaliates against dozens of rockets from the gaza strip. to this friday lunchtime a special report a legacy of war we hear from families in southern russia desperate for news of loved ones who went to join the islamic state terror group many are young children were also missed. it will be ok. i just feel so sorry for the children it's so difficult to. children are. there this is out international with me very well welcome from. thanks for taking

the time to join us today first than further tightening of u.s. sanctions on russia will be viewed as the start of an economic war that's how russian prime minister dmitri medvedev reacted to newly announced restrictions by the u.s. over the poisoning of former russian double agent sergei scriptural and his daughter in britain in march if it comes to banning banking activities or certain currency use we will be able to call it a declaration of economic war and this will require a reaction by implementing economic political or if necessary any other measures so these new sanctions will come into around as the first places limits on financing an export especially on a number of national security goods then the second wave will hit diplomatic relations as well as banking and imports and isha sesay takes up the story for you . when it comes to global disagreement sanctions that the u.s. weapon of choice as russia's number two at the u.n.

put it let's us welcome the united sanctions of america well russia it's been on the receiving end of plenty of them they stem from allegations of election meddling military aggression human rights abuses all cyber crimes take your pick and the latest well that's of the souls we're poisoning washington says it has determined that russia used a military nerve agent to attack form a double agent sic a script paul and his daughter where are you getting the conclusion that her she's behind the screen poisoning i will leave it to others to characterize the current state of our understanding of the screen but others haven't given any evidence either just various grades of highly likely it's highly likely that russia was responsible we do hold russia culpable culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder and this being uncertainty from specialists investigating the case. as analysis of the p.c.

w.'s report i did to find the country. of origin of the agent used in this attack and we continue to see a sort of a series of corporate baggers here of insinuation that russia is involved which basically is a mood music which is feeding the population in the west with the idea yes it is the russians despite the evidence just a constant constant stream of those. people just accept oh yes it must be the russians therefore that's ok we're almost in point more sanctions it's time that we get all the evidence but my suspicion is that as going to happen although that seems of little interest to washington which is found moscow guilty slapped it with new sanctions and strangely given it's ninety days to prove it wasn't involved or it will ratchet up the penalties to a whole new level with even talk of branding russia a state sponsor of terrorism that regardless of trump. wanting russia as a partner in his fight against terror and the torso doesn't seem to matter that the

u.s. itself has a long history of consorting with groups branded as terrorists for instance america's support for the movement which techie label to terror groups organizing an attempted coup. sooner or later the united states will make a choice either to. either the blood in. country of democracy. or how about the american officials here they are a nix tree miscreant then wish i had the. bombs the headquarters of the islamic republic party there is a viable opposition to the rule of the. noun opposition is centered in this room. and let's not forget how america stood alongside the afghan wish i had been in its battle against the soviet union only to see that group later fall into al-qaeda the people we are fighting today we funded twenty years ago so does america dealing

with these five and groups amount to sponsoring terrorism while the state department has a good answer for that i will leave it to others to characterize the current state of our own standing. third and final from our special reports next a series of reports on the fates of children of islamic state fighters from russia but in a coach you have to travel to the south of the country to talk to people desperate for news of family members that have pledged allegiance to that terror group. it's early morning but the office of those human rights group and brosnan is packed with women all desperate to find out any news about their loved ones many have come here from other regions of russia's north caucasus and almost all cases their relatives left russia to join i.c.l. in syria often taking their young children with them these women are united in

their quest to have one simple question answered other family members still alive there are over six hundred women and children reported missing at this human rights office and these are just some of the photos that their family members have left in a bid to locate them now our free picture has the name date of birth and some general information on the back this is a four year old so my this child left russia when he was less than they hear but there are so many more of them. that he said doesn't miss a single meeting held at the office she says she has already accepted that she will never see her only son again but she just hopes that her grandchildren are still alive she brought pictures of her son's wife mariam one taken before she went to

syria and another when she was over there with her son that he said has never even seen her grandchildren and passen both of them were born in syria and communication was lost long ago so much so that she doesn't even know the name of her granddaughter. so we all hope that it will be ok that somehow it will all be ok i just feel so sorry for the children it's so difficult when you don't know where exactly the children are. heard anything from my daughter in law in the last eight months and then i cry and i will turn thinks is this year it is so difficult i don't think i can last much longer. that enid tries to spend almost all her free time at this office coming here after work she listens to the women's stories fills out forms and registers the newcomers her own personal tragedy brought her here to this place three years ago her brother left home and never returned his phone was

last tracked in turkey but not a trace since almost three years of silence said. it is very difficult for me now it was so close since we were kids always together went to school together to university together work together he was always around i guess off to his left to feel like part of me as i don't leave a normal life now i just exist. was arena still believes that one day she will see her brother a life she has dedicated her life to helping others find their families twenty one russian women are currently in prison there are all of them were sentenced to life behind bars but they're there in prison with their children so now we're trying to bring back these children it is going to be such a joy just one child for to us if i help these children maybe this might somehow

help me bring my brother back home. for her search has come to its conclusion but there was a no for a retail ending she found out that her older sister aida is among a group of russian women convicted and sentenced to life in prison in iraq for joining and supporting i so she is in jail with her twelve year old daughter so while god knows she will probably never see her sister again she is doing everything possible to. to get her a nice back home and give her the childhood she's so clearly lost sass that she still can't fully come to terms with her sister's decision. i don't think she was looking for a better life there were building

a house together our brothers gave us land we had so many plans we planted trees there we wanted to do so much we had so much planned for the future and suddenly this happened. all these stories are tragically familiar had the start of a who leads the search for missing people says that the real number of families of fact it is catastrophic she says their database comprises over two thousand people was for thirty two least i feel irritated when i hear people say you're saving terrorists i'm deeply disturbed by that was what is this child's fault what's the fault of these children only the fact that their parents took them there and they became victims of this war when you start to deal with this problem you understand these are human lives we're talking about and they are all our citizens it's easy to just ignore these people there are only two official employees working at this office the others are volunteers that help when there is time as there is not

enough manpower to deal with the vast amount of people affected and every second counts we can't afford to lose time every minute cost the lives of one or two children says afterwards began to reunite families nine planes have a right back in russia carrying a little over one hundred people just a fraction of the thousands stranded and the war torn region. reporting from russia's republic of chechnya. reporting next for you the democrats are looking for a new tool to counter a fake news online this time they're asking facebook to share data on its users so that they could maybe further what they think is the right information that they are and sees frequently accused russia of course of trying to influence voters in the twenty sixteen presidential elections but anyway. take a look at what's in this player. it's not as great as we want who

might you hear that from a teacher checking your rest say your gym coach boss or a senior technology officer for the democrats talking about how well the likes of facebook are cooperating with their party as if catering to the d.n.c. was on the network's mission statement what would make mr krikorian happier we would love to do was give every campaign something like the weather report to tell every campaign what is being said on social media in the morning and how they can combat it i'll explain the dems won facebook to look for people who've been fed fakes or propaganda the network should then share that audience with the d.n.c. so that they could feed them what's accurate i.e. the right thing. the democrats are hungry for facebook data this could have been a great moment to remind you of the cambridge analytic data gate if one person if you joined the asp i would not just see your facebook profile i would see all of

the facebook profiles of everybody that you're friends with and people had no idea that it was being taken in this way you know that was one massive gate but i'll remind you of something else the a bomb it seemed had a solution in place a facebook application more than one million a bomb about because you signed up for the app gave the campaign permission to look at their facebook friends lists in an instant the campaign had to wait see the hidden young vote just a little democrat trick to get hold of some user data for political gain before the two thousand and twelve vote you never heard about it because pretty much no one cared those were the days no hash tag collusion media fallout news anchors didn't go on about a twenty four seven and some people in charge at facebook were just real fans of mr obama facebook was surprised we were able to psych out the whole social graph butt . they didn't stop us once they realized that was what we were doing they allowed

us to do things they wouldn't have allowed someone else to do because they were on our site should we assume that dems are still on facebook's friend list you know they've been told to sort the russian fakes out and so be has been taken measures they've just gotten rid of pages followed by hundreds of thousands of people because they're linked to russia i mean facebook's not so sure about that bit we're still in the very early stages of our investigation and don't have all the facts including him maybe behind this but remember for the democrats it's ok not as great as we want and so i'd love to know what type of audiences were these hundreds of thousands of people because we want to talk to them or work with them come on it's just a bit of audience data or i will that aside for a minute while the subject of social media is continuing to be debated seems the problems it can cause a very real case in point our next story while being interviewed in a college

a seventeen year old student was asked not about his educational success but why he follows alex jones on twitter the controversial show host recently banned by several social networks the students' lawyer explained a bit more to my colleague neil harvey and ramifications of it do you represented a college student who wasn't admitted to university because they followed alex jones on twitter is that true and if so can you tell us more about that. sure i'm happy to explain exactly what happened what was going on was it during the interview process the application was question about the fact that he was following mr jones on twitter and the fact that he was looking his stuff and that was something that was a challenge during the during the actual interview process and subsequently the parents of the student reached out to me and then i reached out to the the mission's director of the university and made sure that the situation was resolved

in the student satisfaction so the problem here was that the fact that the interviewer was actually questioning why this young person was following mr jones and the other types of internet activities that he was partaking in alex jones might be on the alternative news channel info was was suspended indeed this week by several social media platforms like you said that's because he spread hate speech glorified violence broadly share against his people need to be more educated on how social networks use information these days. i'm a big fan of increasing people's personal privacy and i'm a big fan of not only personal privacy but freedom of speech and the problem here is the fact that a lot of people just don't understand how invasive a lot of these tech companies are and how invasive a lot of pride institutions are using their technology trying to figure out exactly what your rate is what your religion is what your political viewpoints are and

they're taking this information and they're using it against you so that's what i think people need to better understand is that these issues and then themselves against that and they only way they can do that is if they become more educated about what is actually happening in the world today this is out international face take the time to check in to us coming up with more of the stories making headlines this friday israel and hamas militants agree yet another cease fire after days of trading heavy fire but the question is going to last.

we have no idea what if he's doing on vacation but she will be back on it in september.

again a saudi led coalition air strike has killed forty three civilians in yemen most of them children according to the hoofy controlled health ministry where more than sixty one others were reportedly wounded the strike hit a school bus and also a marketplace a warning the pictures coming up here are upsetting according to the red cross twenty nine children were killed and thirty injured all under the age of fifty in the strike hit the north of a country which is under the control of hoofy rebels saudi arabia launched intervention against them back in twenty fifteen in an official statement read defended the attack accusing the rebels of using children as human shields. the targeting today is a legitimate military action conducted in conformity with the international humanitarian law to target the militants responsible for planning and targeting civilians which resulted in killing and injuring them the school bus bombing has been met with outrage in the u.s. senator chris murphy tweeting that the u.s. states bears responsibility for the deaths he pointed out that the u.s.

applies weapons to saudi arabia along with military intelligence the united states is by far indeed the largest supplier of weaponry to the saudis it also provides targeting assistance for air strikes and military drills last year saudi arabia spent seven hundred fifty million dollars on trading by american special is it claimed to reduce civilian casualties earlier this week the state department defended saudi arabia's actions in yemen. we should ask another country to stop attacking other nations and to stop fomenting terror that's one of the things that the united states government does how do you square that with the stance of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. as well i do you don't see i'm sorry what do you mean by you're saying that you don't have a problem telling the country how to get more impala getty yet but you're you're siding with saudi here. we have concerns about what the who the rebels have been doing for quite some time that is well documented they have been terrible and

conducted many many attacks against their own sins against the people of yemen saudi arabia certainly has a right to try to and to take out some of those bad actors that something something that they have a right to do and we support that and i would have to wrap it up i notice that you seem tongue tied about it though you would state department spokesman shouldn't she didn't like the fact that the questioner was asking her about what was going on in yemen we know the u.s. a selling the weapons we know the u.s. is providing targeting data so it's horrendous and i would say the u.s. bears absolutely direct responsibility for this it's telling the saudis what to do it's telling the probably the u.a.e. what to do certainly the saudis it's a horrible bloody business and it's a war that's gotten virtually no attention in the u.s. . elsewhere israel and hamas militants have reached a cease fire agreement for now following two days of trading heavy.

the. one of the latest bombing raids a cultural center in gaza city was destroyed in sort of defense forces moved the operation after hamas militants fired dozens of rockets into southern israel. was. there wednesday night an i.d.f. strike killed at least three people including a pregnant woman as well as her eighteen month old child according to gaza health ministry local journalist was there covering the funeral. we are attending the funeral of we now stand by an innocent but yet were killed yesterday and during that abstracts launch from gaza strip and that's

a plus three year old mother that was pregnant with the night baby i'm expecting him at any minute but yet is the one year and a half old baby eyes you see thousands of palestinians are just what they think and the few girls oh you see speeches i think that the airstrike came from this side the smell is very bad where blood is filling the place as you see the place is completely destroyed after talking to people in the same neighborhood they said that they found. the mother and the baby shot heard with pieces of their body and you know the journey ran to the most to find out if the explosion was there or in the house ambulances came in the voices of people screaming were good inside the house we started knocking on the door no one answered we went to the other door a small child opened it he was frightened he ran away from the woman's body blown apart my baby was to the ambulances took the victims to hospital the husband was

injured in the leg. and strikes were. done. kept the straits where the palestinian resistance also fired rockets at israel. that they would cut front. brakes the palestinians are calling for the palestinians to apply to the jury. the i.d.f. says a military action was a response to rockets fired from gaza into israel since wednesday several israeli citizens is said to been injured. that is a threat and an aggression that the i.d.f. cannot and will not tolerate and in response we have referred to it with striking one hundred forty military targets belonging to hamas inside the gaza strip. the idea of who's committed to defend the state of israel it's a vivien's and its sovereignty and we are ready and prepared for different

scenarios to come well that sobering note look at the news headlines so far this friday lunchtime from moscow it is actually twenty six minutes past one o'clock now kevin i would say goodbye jacqueline lucas here throughout the afternoon fully up to speed on all the news as it happens does get came across. on our site dot com have a good day. this . is a. church secret indeed carefully priests accused of sexually abusing children can get away with it quite literally i like to call this the do graphic solution so what the bishop needs to do then he finds out that the priest is is a perpetrator is simply moves him to

a different spot were the previous standards not the highest ranks of the catholic church help conceal the accused priests from the police and justice system to that end and if that's not going as the i intend. to do this out and. spend three. months down.

the ladder we found. in the desert when somebody jumped over the the wall and then we. we flew for these waters jugs out there and these racist groups slice them open with knives it's really sad and we find shotgun shells people should you know the migrants. twenty years ago i started going out to the desert like we're doing right now to bring water to people that are crossing because the people that are across you know

across the rio all the way they jam they cannot get visas there's no visas for these people so they risk their lives crossing of the desert or the mountains or the ocean where other cities by sandy able to one out there's a wall where there's no cities there's no wall and that's where people cross and that's where people die so every summer more people die because of the wall that exists right now then the entire history of the berlin wall. and you can see this is part of operation gatekeeper one nine hundred ninety four and as we walk in a walk to the end right here just to the bottom of this little hill that's the the

a wall though george bush did and if you look further down there's no wall. now is out of doubt most of the people in the united states do not want the wall all of the people in mexico do not want the wall and i guarantee you mexico is not going to pay one penny for their wall because the wall this is stop people the wall kills people. so if trump builds what he wants to build it'll be a little longer a little higher it'll just take a little longer to cross but it's not going to stop anybody. if you're lucky of course. so you can see that somebody is walking through here there's footprints right here . we put out maybe two or three thousand gallons every summer and i would say maybe three hundred of them or use another three.