on a frozen road traveling through the high plateaus of kyrgyzstan a small truck is on the move. in these extreme conditions the truck is beginning a long journey to deliver mandarin oranges to remote villages. the fruit is highly prized as a symbol of good fortune in neighboring tajikistan. but to get to the villages the drivers must risk their lives on. insurance road. located in the heart of central asia. is kurdistan's 2nd largest city. after nightfall to drivers stock up on supplies. they bought expensive chinese mandarins from a local trader and hope to sell them for a small profit in neighboring tajikistan. the truck is loaded with cases full of the fruit. of. the drivers wrap the mandarins in a blanket to protect them from the cold. they topped off their load with a few sheets of plywood to. the loading completed they head off into the night. so what. you should you sure do sure. is the driver and mechanic who won the senior of the 2 companies. they pray for a safe journey ahead but their own us albert shake up. the other side of the bus their leisure. was rushing work th

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pulitzer and today they'll receive the unesco guillermo cano world press freedom prize in absentia in kyrgyzstan a journalist and sim john oscar office serving life in prison he spent nine years in detention already his crime documenting human rights abuses in his hometown last year the committee to protect journalists asked to visit oscar off but the government would not even grant him that and in the philippines the reporters at rappler have captured a lot of global attention they faced a crackdown after their critical reporting on president two territories government w.'s on a scientist's takes a closer look. like most journalists to start her day opening emails and social media messages are in boxes usually flooded with rape and death threats because she writes about the people president rodrigo to turkey came to a point when they're at the himself when. bashing me on camera they're the kind of emboldened his own supporters to do you know bashing me on line so. the death. increased exponentially it's almost as if he's saying it's better for you to not gain my attention because once i have i'

hour they've reached their objective the kizil are to pass one of only 2 crossing points between kyrgyzstan and tragic is down. most drivers would avoid risking this passage. says i hear you got it in your chair because there will. be strong enough but they're out of. luck because i can't walk left alone. a lot. talk clock. it's minus 30 degrees and the customs officers are too cold to leave their offices . and finally make it to the start. at this point their lives are at the mercy of the truck's old brakes. watch metropolis. boarding was up just to go the. boy door there should be a few sympathetic here but that's just in the good of a. warming. mission. after 2 days cohen. finally make it to the desert that leads to monaco the city of. love them. in tajikistan lenin still holds a place of honor. in this former soviet republic average less than $75.00 u.s. dollars a month. and i would love it. if this. whole series did you. snuff out all the fun no fun but enough to shoot sure. doesn't go online to. see a definite frontline yet get this. traditionally coma scene koga stand is a family aff

afghanistan, okay maybe we'll just dip in for one day, but about a week after we had landed in kyrgyzstan started talking about his plan was that we essentially going to make our way down to the border of afghanistan and that that was his intention with the trip. he believed that the taliban in afghanistan were misrepresented in the west, so he saw this as he's going to get in and sort o no good guys in the war against the taliban and that he wanted to document their perspective. why didn't you say, are you crazy? what are you thinking? >> i did say that. and he just said essentially you're dumb, to be quiet. >> reporter: so why didn't you say, i'm pregnant, no. you're dumb, i'm out of here. >> i westeish i had the strengt do that. he made it difficult for me. he kept the passport. he didn't give me access to money. i think i recognized that things were so bad that i didn't want to deal with it. >> reporter: but caitlyn would sto soon be dealing with much more. after crossing into taliban territory, the couple was captured, kacaitlyn now six mons pregnant. was a long time bore the hostage

people here all generations of all colors creeds and races i've seen flags here from kazakhstan kyrgyzstan delarue small dover and it's also interesting how it unites generations because the people in attendance here on just those who may have some memories of the war all their children people of middle aged there are people here much you're going to meet children teenagers who are actually joining in singing the songs of the time that rang out on the victory day of nine hundred forty five it is certainly poignant and as you were saying from the crowd there people bearing photographs portrayed scouring medals of those who fought many of whom died in that war behind each one as. story no family left untouched in some way or another some came back from the front some did not one person who did not was my great grandfather could do small to go and who died in ninety two to defending stalin right that was one of the key battles of the great patriotic war as it's called here in russia that we did a little bit of digging around in family background family history and we found out that after the

once he called us thinking that he was calling the president of kyrgyzstan we also used the same plan we used on president mccraw and we left our phone number and when he was in his office surrounded by aides so he made a phone call using a special secure line when you invited he thought that he was calling another secure line not a regular virtual phone number. but i shouldn't call also used a mobile phone we found out about it a year ago we also called him pretending to be the georgian leader i think we also wished him a happy new year and i really it was good them it was a great brink we made an audio recording of jens stoltenberg stay. eight minutes he heard his words begin to express his excitement in english while but at the end of the co alexei killed his enthusiasm a little bit yes he sounded very disappointed. well i think maybe we were the only ones who called to wish him a happy new year that criminals now are going back to that conversation of at micron i thought he sounded pretty guard that i mean the you managed to draw a couple of laughs and some interesting admissions

called us thinking that he was calling the president of kyrgyzstan we also used the same plan we used on president mccrone we left our phone number and when he was in his office surrounded by aides he made a phone call using a special secure line when he thought that he was calling another secure line not a regular virtual phone number. also used a mobile phone we found out about it a year ago we also called him pretending to be the georgian leader i think we also wished him a happy new year but i really it was good them it was a great brink we made an audio recording of jens stoltenberg statements he heard his words and begin to express his excitement in english while but at the end of the call alex a killed his enthusiasm a little bit yes he sounded very disappointed. well i think maybe we were the only ones who called to wish him a happy new year that. now going back to that conversation with micron i thought he sounded pretty guarded that i mean the you managed to draw a couple of laughs and some interesting admissions from him but by and large he was quite diplomatic do you think

once he called us thinking that he was calling the president of kyrgyzstan we also used the same plan we used on president mccraw and we left our phone number and when he was in his office surrounded by aides he made a phone call using a special secure line when you invited he thought that he was calling another secure line not a regular virtual phone number. but i shouldn't call also used a mobile phone we found out about it a year ago we also called him pretending to be the georgian leader i think and we also wished him a happy new year that i really it was good the it was a great.

they were joined at the table by ambassadors from kyrgyzstan and ab bazan. during which gordon mentioned that he meant what he said in his speech about what was said, the republican platform. 2016 convention foreign policy advisers to the trump campaign working with republican national committee revealed the foreign policy platform to identify the earlier platform and candidate trump's position. the campaign team discussed toning down language from the platform that identified russia as the country's number one threat. given the candidate's belief there needed to be a better u.s. relation with russia. rnc platform committee sent 2016 draft to national security and defense platform committee on july 10th, 2016, the evening before its first meeting to proposed amendments. although only delegates could participate in formal discussions and vote on the platform, trump campaign could request changes and members of the trump campaign attended committee meetings. john mashburn, the campaign policy director helped overseas the involvement in the platform committee m

we got stranded in bulgaria for a day, got left in kyrgyzstan for a couple of days, and i got to know got to afghanistan, he and his unit went on to an area that saw some of the most sustained combat while we were deployed. and i went to first marine division's headquarters and oversaw combat operations from our combat operations center. on thanksgiving day, i heard that he had been killed. he got me safely to afghanistan but we weren't able to get him home. >> he died in his 20s, not even 30 years old. >> yeah, it was eight years ago now. >> i'm sorry. let's talk about, of course today is about honoring those lost and those who served us. you also want to make the point that today is about all of us not directly tied to service, talking about how we can help those veterans who are alive as well. "usa today" reported on the u.s. army's twitter account that tweeted to people essentially how serving in the military has affected their lives. them read you some of the responses, because they were just heartbreaking, many of them. quote, my cousin committed suicide while on duty at the arm