ideally, all kids should havaves carefreeee a childhood as possible. but in reality, one in every nine children is raised in a conflict zone or warzone. that's a total of 250 million young people, according to a unicef report. many of them battle depression, develop aggressive behavior, or face psychological trauma. civil war has been raging in syria for five years now. unicef estimates that more than 8.5 million children in the country are effective. -- affected. a safe, carefree environment is almost like a distant t dream. >> the game is quite simple, a variation of blind man's bluff. first, two kids are blindfolded. then colored pencils are scattered on the floor. whoever finds the most is the winner. we're in a rebel-occupied neighborhood of aleppo. it's full of orphanages and daycare centers. some of these children have lost everything, while others just come to play. >> when they first come to us, they're in a terrible state emotionally. they won't participate in activities. they wonon't play. theyey feel abandonened and just keep t to themselve

in recent years, tens of thohousands havave fled the norh triangle of cecentral amererica, seeking asysylum from t the re's rampant crime and gang v violen. filippo: these e high figures ae not just fiigures. behind each one of these 65 million people is a story of fear, of dispossession, of exile, and of hopelessness. we need not to forget that. and we need toto remember thatat, to draww m that awareness that these are human beings with human stories. we need to drdraw from ththat awareness a renewed s sense that we need to tackle this all together, that n none of us is exempt from that responsibibili. suzana says that she will die from sorrow. monthshs ago she watched in horror as anti-government militia in burundi violently tore her family apart. [interviewewer speaking lococal langnguage] narrator: the violent acts weren't solely attributed to anti-government militia. mamanase, a hospital pharmacist, was arrested by burunundi's pro-government forces. he still bears the scars of his torturous 3-month stayay in prisison. [shouting] [gunfire, whistle blowing] [indistinct shouting] filipppp

how could a landscape with such potential havave been reduced to this?s? when chinese scientists and civil engineers began to survey the area, they realized that several thousand years of agricultural exploitation had denuded the hills and valleys of vegetation. the relentless grazing of domestic animals on the slopes meant that there was no chance for young trees and shrubs to grow. the rainfall no longer seeped into t the earth, but simply washed down the hillsides, taking the soil with it. over millennia, this progreressively destroyed the region's fertrtility. when this happens over an area as extensive as the plateau, millions of tons of silt arare swept down into the yellow r river, which gets its name from the color of the fine loess soil. the mounting quantities of silt clog up the river, impeding its flow, contributing to the floods that give the river another name: chinana's sorrow.w. in sosome areas, creating floloating mud mattttresses that attract passing tourists, aa local p problem becomes a national problem.m. in the drdry season, the light

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. >> the message for the communities are you havave to defend yourself and know thahat your governmement that you are financing is not adequately defending your health, safety, and welfarare, nor your rights o clean air, clean land, and clean water. >> the people who live around coal ash dump sites believe they are being shrugged off as collateral damage, by both corporate intnterests and sslow-movingng government agenc. more than anyone, they know what's at stake. >> i've lived 55 years. and i know that it's a tough economy and people have to make tough decisions. um, i do think thatat power andnd money and grd is s a big--i-is a big papart o. >> i do believe that we need energy. i do believe that we-- i'm not against coal. t the thig that i would like to see is, um, not shutting the company down or anything like that. i just do not want these contaminants seeping into the underground water. >> if we could jujust let people hahave clean water andnd clean air to breathe. and just get back to the bubusiness s of living and nott worried about dyin >> burning coal to generate power isn't go

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of refugees from afghanistan, iraq, syria, somalia, eritrea, sudan, and other war-torn cntntries havave been living in the camp as they seek to reach englanand through the channel tutunnel. to get a sense of the largest refugee camp in france, go to democracynow.org, where we were last year. in the largest auto scandal settlement in u.s. history, a federal judgdge has approved a $14.7 billion settlement over the volkswagen diesel emissions cheating scandal. the payouts include buybacks for impacted vehicles and cash compensation to u.s. car owners. volkswagen has admitted to rigging some 11 million vehicles worldwide. u.s. regulators say volkswagen vehicles were emitting up to 40 times more pollution than standards allow. in healthcare news, the obama administration has announced the average premium for obamacare insurance plans sold on healthcare.gov will rise 25% next year in the biggest jump since the affordable car act was -- affordable care act was passed. republican lawmakers jumped on the news saying obamacare should be repealed. meanwhile, advocates of single payer also reacted

what you havave seen the past several years, the concern was at some point the world as a battlelefield and the prpresidet can exert more power is inside the united states. what you have seen over the last couple years is very much moving in that direction. security.s. national officials five years ago talked about al qaeda as the greatest nationalal security threat werel qaeda and the arabiaian peninsua or various affiliates, now they talk about almost uniformly the greatest threat eating what they call homegrown terrorists. what you have seen the civilil liberty abuses, new ones, spreading up almost exclusively on american soil. two o years ago, the obama juste departmentnt announced new rules where miranda rights were diluted. deluded -- you have legislation being proposed to strip people of citizenship a and eliminate legl protections they have. and the end of last year, you had the e national defefense authorization act which codified the power, , probably the most un-american power there is, looking at america and he romanticize sent, on u.s. soil as well. you see this incncredibl

the brututality we havave seen y the regime is nonot something n.t is s not somomethinghat can explaineneby addressining internatational intervention on. it is a m manifestation o of hoe regime operatetes when iis under threat. itit is not jujust the identitif the opppposition ththat makes te regime a act this way, , but the resumeme would act this way when faced with any t threat. it could be mother thereresa ora mamarxist movement, they would rereact in the same mannerer. what complplicates the s situatn anand what makeses this a diffit context is the e identity o of e supporters of f the uprisining n the revolution, whwhich includes --servative countries oil-rich c countries like e saui arabiaia, and therere allies lie the united s states, as wewell s turkrkey early on -- whihich hed brining i in thousands off extel fighters. players,,tity of thesese of these s supporters, has t tud this into a conflicict that is much larger than syria.. it b became a conflflict that is much morore than just aboutut s. if w we d don't realize this development and

. >> i havave four kids. i have not seeeen them in six runs.ir dad brought them to see me lalast weekk here. my 10-0-year-old d daughter lood atat me and said, i thought you were deaead in a ditch. my youngest childreren just do't understand. for them, evererything is just scary. so that is roughgh. that is sosomething that not ony i have to deal with, but they have to live with. i have done that to them. amy: part of the "america divided" series. lucian read, you f followed petr sarsgaard into this prison. >> the wider story is about the opiod epidemic and we chose to focus on dayton, ohio, hard-line american city that has been just ravaged but this addiction crisis. time to time, listed as the city in america the highest rate of overdose deaths. approached peter. he was interested in the story. he has sort of addiction issues for himself and his family and his past and was very engngaged and willing to understand this crisis. we took him through the series of steps of the crisis in terms of where it temperament and the people it affects in da

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