according to the state department's report, a young woman from azerbaijan had a sister who had been tricked into unregistered marriage to a trafficker who later abandoned her when she got pregnant. when the woman confronted her sister's trafficker, she became a victim. she ended up in turkey where she and other girls were tortured and forced to engage in prostitution. she escaped with the help of police who arrested the nine men who trafficked the woman and her sister. they found help from local n.g.o.'s and now she works and lives her life as a free woman. so there are some -- some of these tragedies, we've seen heroic actions take place, some encouragements that we are making the progress we'd like to see. prostitution is not the only form of involuntary servitude outlined in this report. it contains true stories like a family in india that were bonded laborers until freed with the help of n.g.o. young boys abducted from their school by militia groups and tortured until they submitted to serving as soldiers. an eight-year-old girl given away as an unpaid domestic servant after her mother

. >> i'm from neighboring azerbaijan. do you have real information about the death toll, how many people were killed on the streets of teheran, tehran -- of iran, tehran, because the official figures to not seem to reflect the real level. and how the events going to develop? >> it is very, very difficult to have an actual headcount, because some of the victims' bodies are dragged to places that even their own families cannot recover them.

. >> i'm from neighboring azerbaijan. do you have real information about the death toll, how many people were killed on the streets of teheran, tehran -- of iran, tehran, because the official figures to not seem to reflect the real level. and how the events going to develop? >> it is very, very difficult to have an actual headcount, because some of the victims' bodies are dragged to places that even their own families cannot recover them. that is also, perhaps, part of the contingency of the regime to hide as much as possible the number of the victims from public eye and public knowledge. it is difficult at this moment to give an actual headcount. the victims are numerous, not just in the main cities, but the provinces. not all the numbers have been reported by the media. i am not faulting the media -- it discuss you perhaps do not have access within iran to get such data. -- it is because you perhaps do not have access within iran. i want to express my gratitude to summon a -- so many who have the opportunity to connect

has a bases in iraq, kuwait, saudi arabia, barain, turkmenistan, azerbaijan, pretty much every country around iran, turkey, has got a u.s. presence. my question is do you think they would tone down the rhetoric a little bit and things could be a little bit smoothfer we chose to return to a strategy of offshore balancing and reduce our presence in the middle east? >> david, you want to speak to that at all? >> um, i think, that would probably help. oh, i'mary. i think that would -- -- i'm sorry. i think that would -- i think it's more than our posture. that, that determines whether they feel encircled or not. >> how could they not feel encircled if iranians were occupying canada, cuba, mexico, for example. >> absolutely. but it's not the only thing, is what i am saying. they also at the same time have a confidence anew found confidence despite the presence of u.s. forces, especially in iraq and afghanistan. they believe they are on the march. a number of the elite believe nat they are on the march in the region and that they have a greater confidence in their, in their ability to presen