same thing the iranian leadership said that there were no gay people in the country the leaders of chechnya have taken a similar stance judging from my own experience i can say that the west will hardly except a position like that are you prepared to say there are no gay people in and. if there are gay people here then there have to be some signs of that. for instance we can say for certain yes there are refugees yes there are people who feel mistreated by politicians yes there are people of liberal views these are all living and breathing people they are arrested or punished others.

correspondent donald they have been brought to russia to the city of grozny in the russian republic of chechnya and from what we understand they're about to meet their loved ones now this whole story really has been an emotional roller coaster for everybody involved pretty much brock's earlier this month when we just launched the campaign when we went and went and filmed to those forty eight children in iraq in shelters we could only hope that someone may recognize them on some of the accounts that we have that we recorded back then they will really soul crushing the absolutely no one is still a don't void don't need. don't. you know air of willingness. i'll go and you'll solution will in the service affected me just get what so does just the topic. and i mean the list. just. i need to. see you're still. not on i know more than we know. it all neal. only at. least out on the one only it. was still. but in a school just. hearing more described in such young voices it's just truly heartbreaking what we know about any of these children who have come back to russia well we've seen we've just seen s

past russia was always willing to strike ceasefire deals with terror groups by the way it was in chechnya almost recently in syria it seems that present attack the has a somewhat different approach because when he was offered by those militants to have a cease fire back in december of two thousand and sixteen he refused why don't you think that that could have saved perhaps some lives and resources. before isn't foremost. first and foremost especially is especially with the communists and the n.p.a. and and if he wait he was he offered a cease fire unilaterally you know and and the fact is the president understands truly where and how where and how where and how the that there is groups where we're actually making advances the meat what was necessary was to make the connection between the drugs and the and the with into drugs and the and that there is groups now we need to just understand that the president is really truly committed to peace in the plays and would and would be neat and would be much and would really and history seeking to establish that by peace talks and yes nothing like

chechnya's leader is encouraging divorced couples to the nite.he pressure to reunite, with one calling the initiated by then. bbc russian has that story. brazil's government has abolished a vast national reserve in the amazon to open up the area to mining. brazil is a massive country with a vast rainforest. the protected area straddles the northern states of amapa and para, and is thought to be rich in gold, and other minerals. it is larger than denmark. according to the energy ministry, protected forest areas and indigenous reserves will not be affected. it says... "the objective of the measure is to attract new investments, generating wealth for the country." but there's plenty of opposition to the move. the head of wwf in brazil said that mining in the area would lead to "demographic explosion, deforestation, the destruction of water resources." on the government's position. for a while, the government has been making a series of decisions, announcing a series of measures to increase the amount of money it is able to get every year, because pu

chechnya's leader ramzan kadyrov is encouraging divorced couples to reuinte.ho preach sharia law for the campaign. some ex—wives have complained about the pressure to reunite — with one calling the initiative "violent". bbc russian has the story. the government of sierra leone says more than 500 people are now known to have died in last week's mudslide and flash floods in the capital, freetown. 810 are still reported as missing. that's on bbc afrique. and one of the most read stories at bbc.com — a split among scientists over whether these animals — snow leopards — are endangered. the bbc has found that while some big cat exerts say the population has stabilised and is even increasing in some places, others argue there isn't enough solid evidence. net migration has fallen to the lowest level for three years here in the uk. it fell by 81,000 - and the interesting thing is a large part of that is migration from other eu member states — which is down by 51,000. and of course a lot of people are making the link the deputy political editor of the mirror newspaper d

same thing the iranian leadership said that there were no gay people in the country the leaders of chechnya have taken a similar stance judging from my own experience i can see that the west will hardly except a position like that are you prepared to say there are no gay people and then. look if there are gay people here then there have to be some signs of that. for instance we can say for certain yes there are refugees yes there are people who feel mistreated by politicians yes there are people of liberal views these are all living and breathing people they are arrested or punished others can talk to them and so we can say that they all really do exist. but as for the ones you are talking about they exist they don't exist at the same time if you show us at least one of these people for example when a person appeals to the european court of human rights he says openly that he has rights who are in on by a government body or a law enforcement agency that is a real person and if the court rules in his favor russia or any other government has to compensate for his damages and he receives a sum

people, rich people, christian, muslim, jordanian, lebanese, lived in the neighborhood, armenian, chechnya and, in the same neighborhood and we played with each other and never thought of us versus them. this is our neighborhood. i grew up in a muslim country, the arab world, i grew up in a muslim home but i never knew if i was a muslim. i knew i was muslim but never knew whether we were sunni or shia. until i went to high school. these concept of sunni versus shia not concepts we grew up with. i became of age, well america was in the 60s we had our 60s, basically much different. in this country rebelled against certain traditions, the vietnam war. against certain dominance. we rebelled against male-dominated society, we were for international out of nationalism in colonialism so that era shared a lot of people of my generation. my mother, i also grew up with strong women, the concept of arab women as we've, submissive, they have no voice is such a big myth. i grew up with a very strong woman. my mother and family was very rich, she hated housework, she had nothing to do with it and she wo

but russia has banned foreign countries for flying over moscow or chechnya.'s worry when moscow will fly over the u.s., they could be used digital cameras and high tech sensors that have not been certified under this treaty. all of the information gathered during these flights is supposed to be shared between the countries that transparency is hard to police and the treaty with russia, we have each flown over their countries a combined 165 times, shep. >> shepard: thanks, trace. we'll be back with a look at early mass transit got a boost on this day in history. before fibromyalgia, i was a doer. i was active. then the chronic, widespread pain drained my energy. my doctor said moving more helps ease fibromyalgia pain. she also prescribed lyrica. fibromyalgia is thought to be the result of overactive nerves. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. woman: for some, lyrica can significantly relieve fibromyalgia pain and improve function, so i feel better. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions or suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if

still under a lot of stress and refuse to talk with the kids who are with them say they're from chechnya if you think you might recognize either them please get in contact with this on children at r t t v dot com artie's correspondent brad has the if takes a look now at the problems children face in war torn iraq. these children have seen more bloodshed and agony than most adults will in a lifetime nearly ninety percent of children have lost a member of a family either they were kidnapped or killed and when they were escaping from the fight many of them have lost family members they were shot at from behind or falling on booby traps it has been a horrible experience. so this helicopter flights that are. dropping down on the floor and carrying some of them my some of them feel when they see for a mask some of them feel when they see you know people that they are not comfortable with some of them shut up and say no what for quite a long time until they could actually opened up definitely they go all the extreme distress and also physically unfortunately many of them are wounded. many of th

just heard the children don't speak russian but the kids who were with him say that they're from chechnya the girl's name is she's badly burned her foot the little boy is called mohammed he has a knee injury most children are still under a lot of stress if you recognize either of them please contact us on children at r.t. t.v. dot com ati's what i guess the of takes a look at the problems children face in war torn iraq. these children have seen more bloodshed and agony than most adults will in a lifetime nearly ninety percent of children have lost a member of a family either they were kidnapped or killed and when they were escaping from the fight many of them have lost family members they were shot at from behind or when they were falling on booby traps it has been a horrible experience. so this helicopter flies around. dropping down on the floor and. some of them my some of them feel when they see for a mess some of them feel when they see you when you know people that they are not comfortable with some of them shut up and say no what for quite a long time until they could act what opene

under a lot of stress and refused to speak but the kids who are with them say that they are from chechnya and if you by any chance recognize either of them please contact us regarding the children of t t v dot are you. now though donald trump has only been in office for less than a year talk is already growing about the well the next u.s. presidential election in twenty twenty some are arguing over whether the president will manage to hold on to his job polls suggest a growing dissatisfaction among americans with the traditional two party system altogether as jacqueline fuko reports. here in the u.s. capitol it seems that republicans and democrats alike are struggling to gain any traction politically when it comes to the left our recent poll shows that only forty two percent of the public views the party in a positive light and the funding is coming to a crawl and as we earlier saw in new york many see the party as purely anti trump but many struggling to define any clear policy message the policy proposals. i mean specifically. i'm not sure oh no. nothing comes to mind nothing now. i can

are still under a lot of stress and refused to speak the kids who were with them say they are from chechnya if you perhaps recognize either of them please contact us on children at all t t v. in brussels are concerned new migrant is starting to form similar to the infamous gold in the french port of a which was alternately cleared last year and their fears were spotted by the hundreds of refugees now sleeping in a one of the city's main train stations and. visited the site. the remnants of a makeshift migrant camp a in down town brussels is being described as sums potentially in the next jungle a reference that that notoriously squalid camp in neighboring france that was dismantled a year ago and one medical charity working here in brussels the said that just a few weeks ago there were any handful of people and now as you can see from the evidence around us many more people have been using this as a base most people are traveling here from countries like sudan and eritrea. you know. because. they didn't used these not play some migrants only agreed to speak to us if we didn't shoot their wh