the republic of dagestan is in the north caucasus near the caspian sea. the last two decades, a brutal separatist insurgency has fought the russian state, and violence has spilled over from neighboring chechnya, where russia fought two wars. americans may know dagestan: the boston marathon bombers were from there. but now, a new problem. by one estimate, as many as 5,000 dagestanis are fighting for isis. again, in partnership with the pulitzer center on crisis reporting, special correspondent nick schifrin and producer zach fannin examine why. >> ( translated ): it is no accident the youth are tempted to go to syria, because today there is a revival of islam. >> reporter: kazim nurmagometov is 62 years old, and his son fought for isis. he was never tempted to go to syria, but he and his wife rashida understand why their son marat was. >> ( translated ): the islamic call i was talking about, the one in every muslim's soul, is hidden, deep down. it's like a light in someone's heart. >> reporter: nurmagometov lives deep in the caucasus mountains where nearly

so dagestan is safer, chechnya is safer. whether syria and iraq are safer is another question. >> glor: where does vladimir putin want the people in the u.s. to believe he is on i.s.i.s. right now? >> i actually think it is relatively genuine when he says that we are fighting a civilizational war, and i.s.i.s. is the enemy. now, the technicalities of that in syria are another question. there are a lot of people and a lot of people in this administration who followed this directly, the u.s. administration, who say russian jets are not attacking i.s.i.s. russian jets are attacking whoever russia's enemy is that day and propping up the assad regime. but, overall, you know, russia presents itself as an enemy to i.s.i.s. and is trying to align itself with the u.s. on that very basis. >> glor: what do people in russia think about donald trump? >> they're disappointed. >> glor: in what way? they heard a candidate who said, we won't meddle in syria or elsewhere, we won't meddle in other people's backyards, who said i love putin, he

i decided today to go to this demonstration to set a point does it have i had to dagestan are just as the violence yesterday evening was awful and i also don't understand the message they want to send is violence is simply tragic. when i don't have an absence involved what was clear from the very beginning was that the police did nothing the officers gathered in small groups generally you could say it was incompetent. or we heard about the actions of the police officers there with some people saying they wanted to see ball from them however when officers did spring into action it was very forceful indeed resource. some scenes of web. them police moving in with well they were messing about in the slightest they moved in in full riot gear. pepper spray at the ready. and we understand some two hundred people detained. many more people injured there we are we were expecting this of course there was one hundred thousand people set to descend. for these demonstrations with. expecting around eight thousand from extremist groups and they're not just coming from here in germany from all over e

dagestan is safer. chechnya is safer.hether syria and iraq are safer is another question. >> where does vladimir putin want people in the west to believe he is on ice is now? >> i think it is relatively genuine when he says we are fighting a civilizational war and isis is the enemy. the technicalities in syria are another question. inre are a lot of people this administration who say russian jets are not attacking isis. russian jets are attacking whoever is russia's enemy that day and propping up the assad regime. overall, pressure presents itself as an enemy to isis and is trying to align itself with the u.s. on that basis. >> what do people in russia think about donald trump? >> they are disappointed. >> in what way? >> they heard a candidate who ind we will not meddle syria or elsewhere. we will not metal in other people's backyards, whose that i love putin. he says nice things about me, i will say nice things about him. i think the bombing of syria convinced russians that trial -- president trump: -- that trump is jus

. >> i think the representative from his dagestan. i will make a statement. >> representative contain explicit revisions against any technology by the dprk and the launching of the missile on jule resolution and section of the will of the international community. china finds this unacceptable and we strongly urge the dprk to strictly abide by the resolutions of the council and put a stop to any rhetoric and action that might further exacerbate the tension in the peninsula. at the same time, we call on all the parties concerned to exercise restraint, avoid provocative actions and stick to rhetoric. we want to work together to defuse the tension. on july the fourth the head of state of china and russia exchanged the views on the situation of the green for and agreed that the nuclear issue of the korean peninsula should be resolved through dialogue and competition. foreign ministers of our two countries issued a joint statement which expressed the concern of china and russia regarding the issue of the korean peninsula. the joint statemen

. >> i think the representative from his dagestan. i will make a statement. >> representative contain explicit revisions against any technology by the dprk and the launching of the missile on jule resolution and section of the will of the international community. china finds this unacceptable and we strongly urge the dprk to strictly abide by the resolutions of the council and put a stop to any rhetoric and action that might further exacerbate the tension in the peninsula. at the same time, we call on all the parties concerned to exercise restraint, avoid provocative actions and stick to rhetoric. we want to work together to defuse the tension. on july the fourth the head of state of china and russia exchanged the views on the situation of the green for and agreed that the nuclear issue of the korean peninsula should be resolved through dialogue and competition. foreign ministers of our two countries issued a joint statement which expressed the concern of china and russia regarding the issue of the korean peninsula. the joint statemen

was a hearing in this room and we were evaluating the incredibly unreasonable activities of his dagestan as they had the audacity to want to stand there mixed 21's to a hostile nation. the other side of the story was they had come to the state department and come to our government in the bush administration said look, we are a poor country were trying to become a rich country and we have oil we want to turn these weapons into plowshares. we want to sell them off, we're not replacing them, we want to raise cash. they said can we sell them to? mr. goldberg, states that we can't give you a list. clearly, lucky wasn't interesting and bind them as they were trading and neither was bowing. my question to you is, each of you, i've been through these hearings on country after country and we are going to see whether it's the palestinian authority including hamas, whether it's kuwait, qatar, saudi arabia, will have these hearings and were always going to find one thing -- money is leaking too bad people from within these countries by individuals or, in fact, there may be a nexus to the government