rebel children at risk in armenia to where a criminal scheme has been revealed to helping foreigners legally. 247 news live from moscow this is r t international my names you know real hello and welcome to the program we begin with breaking news several rockets reportedly hit iraq in close vicinity to the american embassy in baghdad and a military base near the capital for more on that i'm joined by our senior correspondent. rob what indeed is known at this stage while another. tense day in. these protests now we have in the evening reports of guided missile attacks. as you mentioned which also houses a number of american troops it is important to caution everybody to take the you know this is a very fired. mation has no official sources that have confirmed anything but apparently 3 missiles 3 unguided rockets hit balad air base one of them apparently impacting on the runway there's no evidence yet reports of civilian or otherwise casualties whether anyone's been hurt or killed in this attack or material damage but we also see reports these these even less certain of a number of proj

of all children at risk in armenia to. reveal to helping foreigners legally adopt. one minute. pm and 8 in the evening right here in moscow on this the 1st day of the year welcome to our international. mourners have been holding funeral processions in the iraqi capital. to honor those killed in a u.s. strike on friday. general. money the crowds waved national flying flags of various shia militia groups chanted death to america the remains of the commander's body will be repatriated to iran for burial. but consider the 2nd most powerful figure in the islamic republic salomone was among 10 killed in the early morning raid following a direct order from the us president donald trump as the fended the assassination claiming it was necessary to prevent an imminent attack on american personnel another possible war in the middle east but it's called profound both in iran and beyond. solemn 80 has been perpetrating acts of terror to destabilize the middle east for the last 20 years what the united states did yesterday should have been done long ago we took action last night

and vulnerable children at risk in armenia to where a prominent scheme is being revealed helping foreigners and legally adopt youngsters . say they're going to just 16 pm saturday the 4th of january live from the arts international worldview center here in moscow season's greetings is kevin always with this hour's update so 1st thousands of mourners have been holding funeral processions in the iraqi capital baghdad to honor those killed in a u.s. air strike on friday morning including iran's top general solomon i the crowds have been waving their national flag on the flags of various to run by shia militia groups the remains of the commanders body will be repatriated to run for burial sunday considered the 2nd most powerful figure in the islamic republic in was among 10 killed in the early morning raid following a direct order from the us president donald trump's defended the assassination saying it was necessary says to prevent an imminent attack on american personnel and another possible war in the middle east but to its cause profound anger both in iran and beyond. solemn 80 has been per

vulnerable children at risk in armenia to where it's appeared are criminals schemes been revealed helping foreigners illegally adopt youngsters. just turned 7 pm saturday the 4th of january live from the art international world new center season's greetings for me care for now and with this hour's update thanks you company so the 1st thousands of mourners have been holding funeral processions in the iraqi capital baghdad to one of those killed in a u.s. airstrike on friday morning including iran's top general has seen solid monied the crowds have been waving their national flag the flags of various to around back shia militia groups and chanting death to america the remains of the commanders body will be repatriated now to iran for burial on sunday considered the 2nd most powerful figure in the islamic republic he was among 10 killed in the early morning raid following a direct order of things from the u.s. president donald trump whose defended the assassination saying it was necessary he said to prevent an imminent attack on american personnel. oh and another possible war in the middle e

and in armenia criminal schemes being revealed helping foreigners illegally youngsters we get in major. life from our international news center this is our to your room welcome to the program my name's you know. our top story violence is ramping up in iraq where several rocket attacks taken place including in close vicinity to the american embassy in baghdad a military base near the capital and also reports of a strike on a base in the northern city of mosul he gave me the details a little earlier. well something is definitely in the air and we do not know for sure exactly what have been the targets what exactly those mortar strikes targeted but we do know the approximate locations and well within with all the context around that people can draw conclusions out of the situations so far 3 confirmed strikes in the vicinity of baghdad the iraqi capital some mortar shells landed 2 not far from a base where american troops are stationed outside of the iraqi capital and some shells landed within the vicinity of the green zone of the green of the so-called green zone areas indeed yes it is it

scandal is rocking armenia where a criminal network has been uncovered which for over 20 years forced a mothers to give up newborns against their will to be sold for adoption abroad. this is a story with many children involved but it is not one of these typical happy ending tales a team might expect to hear during holiday season an investigation is on to go in now in armenia into an alleged black market adoption network believed to have been operating for years to citizens of the republic of armenia using their contacts in one of the republican obstetrical institutions organized the adoption of more than 3 dozen children more than 30 babies to italy and there were also cases of adoption by u.s. couples one of the victims has been trying to achieve justice for almost 2 decades already her name is susanna she says 20 years ago doctors pressured her to give up her daughter stella threatening to report her case of a 16 year old mother to police and her father she signed papers refusing her rights . because i held my baby in my arms after he was born but i stayed in the hospital for anothe

and vulnerable children risk in armenia to work criminal schemes being revealed helping foreigners a legally adopt young. why they just turned 3 pm saturday for the january live from the r. to international world news center season's greetings it's kevin owen here with this hour's update so 1st thousands strong crowds are lining the streets of baghdad for the funeral procession of the iranian commanders killed in friday's u.s. air strike including iran's top general kasim solomon ie the iraqi prime minister is said to also be in attendance there today as well as iraqi flags mourners are also waving the flags of iran backed militias loyal to saddam any it's understood his body will be repatriated to iran for burial on chews day he was among 10 killed on friday following a direct order from donald trump the u.s. president defended the assassination saying it was necessary said to prevent war in the middle east but it sparked widespread fury across iran and beyond. solemn 80 has been perpetrating acts of terror to destabilize the middle east for the last 20 years what the united states

in armenia needlessly often forcefully isolated separated from their families and placed to institutions more than 90 percent of them have at least one living parent and said the international ngo then tried to draw attention to disturb an inaction by authorities the government of armenia has made some both commitments to reduce the number of children in institutions but needs to make sure those promises backed by serious sustained action 2 years later last september the authorities noticed that 4 times as many children went to foreigners rather than to locals and started investigation all adoptions have since been suspended in armenia which might be a good news though changes little for those who believe their kids were wrongfully given away years ago but. there must be a legal solution so that we could do validate the don't should of the child it's about selling children i will do everything i will not back down there must be a fair trial. coming up the anger is palpable in france over the country's divisive pension changes that's right after a break you watch american international. w

on the children are dressed in armenia or pretty old stealing has been revealed helping foreigners illegally adopt youngsters there. just after 11 pm here in moscow this. we have a lot to get through welcome to our to the international our top story several rocket attacks have hit a rock including in close vicinity to the american embassy in baghdad on a military base near the capital there are no reports as well of a strike on a base in the northern city of mosul for more on today's developments i'm joined in the studio by igor off equal we could tensions turning to violence again today what are we learning what's known well something is definitely up in the and we do not know for sure exactly what have been the targets what exactly those mortar strikes targeted but we do know the approximate locations and well within with all the context around that people can rule conclusions out of the situations so so far 3 confirmed strikes. in the vicinity of baghdad the iraqi capital some mortar shells landed not far from a base where american troops are stationed outside of the iraqi capital and som

market adoption network believed to have been operating for years to citizens of the republic of armenia using their contacts in one of the republican obstetrical institutions organized the adoption of more than 3 dozen children more than 30 babies to italy and there were also cases of adoption by u.s. couples one of the victims has been trying to achieve justice for almost 2 decades already her name is susana she says 20 years ago doctors pressured her to give up her daughter stella threatening to report her case of a 16 year old mother to police and her father she signed papers refusing her rights . because i held my baby in my arms after he was born i stayed in the hospital for another 2 days of song but i didn't see him ever again they told me that he was born prematurely and didn't survive and i was given some peoples to sign but i was too weak to understand. what i was signing in december the armenian authorities detained the country's chief ops attrition who sits on the accuses of threatening her and all other officials as part of the probe does make a better man was released seve

from armenia. >> a.a. armenia armenia.cus samuelsson joins us first on cbs this morning. good morning and welcome. >> thank you so much for having me. >> you are an immigrant yourself. >> i am. >> we told the story before. when you go to these places does anything about the immigrant experience surprise you? >> you know what's amazing is that each one has a story. you know, the immigrant stories of america, it is not monolithic and we need to hear it again and again because it inspires us. food is such a great way, such a delicious way of learning about another culture. right? like i cooked all my life but through "no passport required" i was lucky enough to have nigerian food that i wasn't that familiar with or armenian food in los angeles. these amazing cities have also these surprises. i didn't know that the second biggest immigrant community in seattle was filipino, for example. i didn't know that the west african community was so big in houston. >> america is a nation of immigrants, i guess it's true, so i guess we're

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racial politics invited folks from eastern europe, greece, armenia, turkey, italy, ireland to all fade into a whiteness while the u.s. community further separated itself from blackness. >> that's fascinating. we need to take a quick break your mosaic. >> good morning welcome back to mosaic. i am rabbi aaron weiss. we are in the middle of a wonderful conversation. there talking a lot about the complexity of race and color in the jewish community. in the whole landscape. i'm wondering if we think about it as a tech, why choose philanthropy in the initiative is a philanthropic fund to in some ways articulate the vision and hopefully form change? >> what a great question. when we think about the pathways to leadership and the national community ecosystem and the pathways to be able to create programs or match policies with the people that we are trying to serve, there has to be some organizational vehicle to make all of that happened. the national ecosystem like many other sort of fields and ecosystems, one of the vehicles is philanthropy. that's like giving communal resources to programs

in armenia when they offer you food, you have to eat it. they would welcome you and food is very important for them. >> in every armenian community we feel like we're a "smallville"age and they come together to put on something like this. what i find really interesting about san francisco is the blends of armenia that come together. once they are here, the way people work together at any age, including our grandmothers, our grandfathers, skewering the meat, it's fun to see. fun to see everybody get together. >> we call it subarek. it's a cheese turn over if you want. we make the dough from scratch. we boil it like you do for la san i can't. >> the amount of love and karin fused in these foods is tremendous. they come in every day to prepare, cook and bake bread, all in preparation for this big festival. >> nobody says no. when you come them, they have to come tomorrow for the feast. >> what a treat it is to taste a delicious recipe, all made from scratch and passed down through generations. it really makes you appreciate the little things.

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in august 2015 kitty stand joined russia kazakhstan belarus and armenia as the 5th member of the kremlin led your asian economic union the country's politicians have failed to move as an important step towards development and cooperation facilitating the free flow of labor between the unions members but while entry into the e.u. certainly made life for kyrgyzstan the migrant workers a little easier others believe the move could lead to increased social tension was really it's a hero really in store for the people sure thought of or slow. to put in michigan ag has the original status as they had probably a law that there was a word citizen in the president put a swab of them with a garbage can which plus there was a video. the idea for a quota system was also put forward at a gathering of nationalist activists in moscow last year it's a controversial proposal that has disturbing echoes of sentiments heard from far right groups in the us and europe yes of those 2 reasons. at the feet of the gov the only possibly is why did not others you cannot sit up but who i mean what do we have our lea

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. >> a city and the capital of armenia. >> yerevan. yerevan. >> yerevan. i've never heard of this.m. yerevan. are there any other pronunciations? >> there is just "yerevan." [spelling word] [bell] y-e-r-e-v-a-n." >> shangri-laa. >> fake. >> that's right. [laughter] >> shangri-la. [spelling word] >> correct. [applause] >> there is a-. [laughter] -- a hyphen. [laughter] but you don't have to say anything like that. >> fake place, real hyphen. >> so, you may not believe it, but all of these are real, apparently. a new round of winds. >> winds? >> winds. gregale. maybe? a gray gale, >> i don't know what i gray gale is, but this is a gregale. >> can you use it in a sentence? >> certainly. blows so strongly on the island of malta, it sometimes approaches hurricane force and imperils shipping. >> so it is on malta? [laughter] what is its origin? >> let's see. originally latin, through greek and italian before becoming english. >> quite a journey. [laughter] i have to say, it being from malta is really throwing me. >> maltese gregale. >> so it is a strong wind, i take it. >> strong and gol

they devastated syria, and of all places, isolated landlocked, christian armenia. the armenians and the iranians get along very well because they boast -- because they both hate a group that share a shiite religion. i call the iranians the britons of the middle east. what i callity is the 100 year struggle of iranians to assert independence, dignity, and to have a government that treats its people decently. go back 100 years. iran was in a very bad place. literacy was 5%. life expectancy was 30 years. infant mortality was about for percent. --was about 50%. university placement, zero. they knew they were in a bad place. and they said we have to do something. originally inand the struggle, we have a constitutional revolution, you have other movements, you have the oil nationalization movement. originally on the good side of that. we were on the side of the good guys. untilported this struggle 1953. , in myther thing experience, that bothers my iranan friends, is as struggles, the arabs sometimes do better. and that bothers iranians. think of the green movement in 20

embassy was attacked by a gun man with gunfire and ambassador yovanovitch also served as ambassador to armenia and served the us embassy. she has been third in dangerous president trump under secretary of state describes the ambassador as and then add a critical empathy but then your public testimony and present trump tweeted everywhere marie yovanovitch went turned bad. she started off in somalia. how did that go clicks then fast-forward to ukraine with the new ukrainian president spoken favorably about her in my second phone call with him the us presidents absolute right to appoint ambassadors. but chairmanship asked the ambassador for her reaction to the presidents attacks with her testimony before the house. let's listen to that exchange. >> ambassador, you have shown the courage to come forward today to testify. notwithstanding the fact you are urged by the white house or state department not to. notwithstanding the a fact as you testified president did not threaten you with a call record but now he is attacking you. would affect do you think it has on other witnesses willingness to a com

ambassador yovanovitch has served as ambassador to armenia and served the u.s. embassy in moscow.f said earlier, she has served in some dangerous places around the world on behalf of our interests and the interests of the american people. and the secretary over state of political affairs described ambassador yovanovitch as, i quote, and a exceptional officer doing exceptional work at a critical embassy in kiev. but during ambassador yovanovitch's public testimony, president trump tweeted everywhere marie yovanovitch went turned bad. she started off in somalia, and how did that go? then fast forward to ukraine where the new ukrainian president spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with him. it is a u.s. president's outright or absolute right to appoint ambassadors. and in that same hearing, chairman schiff asked ambassador yovanovitch for her reactions to the president's attacks during her testimony before the house. let's listen to that exchange. >> ambassador, you have shown the courage the come forward and testify and notwithstanding the fact that you were told by

embassy yovanovitch's sempbed as ambassador to armenia and served the u.s. embassy in moscow.s chairman schiff said earlier, she has served in some dangerous places around the world on behalf of our interests and the interests of the american people. president trump's undersecretary state for political affairs said ambassador yovanovitch is an exceptional officer, doing exceptional work at a critical embassy in kiev. but during ambassador yovanovitch's public testimony, president trump tweeted everywhere marie yovanovitch went turned bad. she started off in somalia. how did that go? then fast forward to ukraine where the new ukrainian president spoke unfavorably about her in my second phone call with him. it is a u.s. president's absolute right to appoint ambassadors. and n that same hearing, chairman schiff asked ambassador yovanovitch for her reactions to the president's attacks during her testimony before the house. let's listen to that exchange. >> ambassador, you've shown the courage to come forward today and testify. notwithstanding the fact you were urged by the white h