welcome back to watching our team with me lucy kaplan of let's recap our headlines. forty two rainy and pilgrims are kidnapped in damascus amid reports of bloodshed in the capital as well as syria's northern city. outrage in israel thousands of protesters demand social justice from a government that keeps cutting at home yet shelling out to score political points . dance experience violence escalates in the gulf states dozens of demonstrators have been injured in bahrain and a teenage protester was killed shot in in a saudi arabia. well up next a former soviet soldier and prisoner of war in afghanistan tells how radically his life changed after the conflict ended. is this it. do they live here. you know i did see of my has been away from his home village of unfrosted in ukraine for nearly thirty years. in the spring of one thousand nine hundred three he was drafted into the soviet army and sent to afghanistan almost as soon as he arrived he was taken prisoner. or. my guide is there to get an id. but. this is the first time he's been home after all those years. when h