nodar travelled to syria in 2014.ghting president assad's regime. in 2015, he took a break with his family in turkey. there, they were recruited by is, who took away their passports. soon afterwards, they moved to iraq to join the so—called caliphate. the family ended up in tal afar in north—west iraq. the videos they sent home to russia give the impression of normalfamily life. but nodar‘s wife, ayesha, said the family was soon desperate to escape is. look at is propaganda videos in russian and it's hard to believe that anyone who joined the organisation can really have been tricked. this one talks joyfully of a sea of blood. many of the images are too shocking to show. is ruled tal afar, where nodar and his family lived, for three long years. but by last august, it was the group's only remaining stronghold in the region. iraqi forces drove the jihadis from the town. days later, that video of is prisoners was already circulating on the web and madina recognised nodar. madina is not alone in her desperation. more than

parties are likely to maintain the results they made back in two thousand and nine to nazir's and nodar party is claiming victory in the country's first local elections since the twenty eleven arab spring their religious party says it's ahead of the second learned by about five percent the vote seen as an important marker in tennessee as transition to democracy mohammed jim drew reports. for tunisia which is considered not just the birthplace of the arab spring but also its only success story this is a significant step. citizens heading to the polls to vote in the first ever democratically free local elections. it's seen as another milestone on the long and difficult road to becoming a full fledged democracy. more than fifty seven thousand candidates are running for office in three hundred fifty municipalities. forty nine percent are women and more than half are under the age of thirty five but one officials have called for a large turnout observers don't expect many to come out citing an electorate demoralized by high unemployment a weak economy and years of austerity a lack of trust i

welton is here as a nodar party is claiming victory in the country's first local election since the twenty eleven arab spring the religious party says it's ahead if it secular rival knew that tuna spy about five percent of the two parties are coalition partners in the national government and the poll seen as an important marker in tennessee has transition to democracy but only one in three eligible voters cast their ballots official results are expected over the next few days. the united states has less than a week to decide whether it will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal on sunday the iranian president hassan rouhani warned washington about the consequences of withdrawing while european leaders continue to press prague president donald trump to stay diane estabrook has more from washington. with the may twelfth deadline just days away president donald trump's new legal advisor offered this assessment of the iran nuclear deal to a gathering of iranian dissidents in washington what do you think is going to happen to that agreement. that nuclear agreement. was president trump a longtime