From all of us here. Welcome to your program. Despite its demise in iraq. Speaking still being kept. In the past few. Age ten location. Starting bid ten thousand dollars russia nine location techie starting bid fifteen thousand dollars keenness age eight location syria starting bid teen dollars and dollars. Age fifteen. Baghdad sold for two and a hot thousand dollars was kidnapped by isis in mosul in two thousand and fifteen for near enough three c. In jewett horrible things things that new fifteen Year Old Girl or any woman should ever have to endure two hours ago she was born back by a have family here in baghdad no one called the police no one wanted to risk her life she spent her first hour of freedom crying in the hotel room bear in mind isis tells its hostages that their families will kill them if they ever return but her arrest would be brief as to how shes going to show sufficient. And up front about the little salut very story doesnt assume many people who are happy that shes. Shortly after our meeting her relatives took her shopping. She was rescued by a group of men who specialize in tracking down these e. D. s kidnapped by isis they then either negotiate a sale or steal them back so the big gun secrecy i dont and she got you know if i say that if we show the girl still in that position with their relatives a parent t. V. Deal will be on that they killed the hostages as such some of the. People involved didnt want to appear on camera but the stories the chilling and what you get your good to this day one of the girls was kidnapped when she was sent. For. Consecutive house here where there are several girls san eleven twelve years old who were all raped gifted or sold as many as fifteen songs. If not for sexual pleasure isis brainwashes children and sends them on Suicide Missions or sells them for money oh when isis fighters flee to turkey they sell their slaves because they need money to go back to their home countries. You may not know but when the u. S. Led coalition and their allies in syria reportedly led hundreds of isis fighters need that then besieged graca whose jihad took not only the guns and families but also the hostages and slaves the same people that are now being on the border back of the prices vary depending on where they are if theyre in dangerous place you can be eighty thousand dollars otherwise around fifteen thousand. Others also tracking down missing and you kill one iraqi enemy has made a name for herself rescuing children. She spent her own money buying out several of these kids and then to have you know one of the girls told me the story of her she and her aunts were in isis captivity two of the terrorists watch them day and night to prevent them from running away and then the girl told one of them that she couldnt sleep and asked to see a doctor the isis fighters gave her some sleeping pills she kept them and put them in his tee hee. Terrorist fell asleep and she and her own managed to escape the girl was eight years old and was too terrified to do anything so the girl told her lets destroy and run away they will kill us anyway and they skate three thousand years edis is still missing hundreds presumed held by isis the International Community no longer really care as they see these do the track the same ratings now that they arent being slaughtered so its up to them to recover their children and to help them heal from what isis has done to them more our guys the odd see from doctor iraq. Weve contacted our numerous human rights organizations to get an idea of whats being done to help the victims of these horrific crimes however so far only a few have responded though this is what the red cross told us. The battles in mosul and ramadi and fallujah all over iraq have yielded an overwhelming overwhelmingly large or high amount of missing people people whose fate are unknown the families are still looking for them whether they are in captivity with this lamech said group or any other party in iraq families do not know the fate of their loved ones and if they have the right to know the fate of their loved ones whether they have been dead or are still alive somewhere in iraq being held by a Certain Party to a conflict what we do to assist because we know that the process to look and search for missing loved ones is a really painful process that can go on for many many years and we call on the anyone who has a missing person in iraq to approach an International Committee of the red cross and to report the missing case so that we can assist in the search and identification of people who are missing as our guest just mentioned many went missing after the fierce battles for more so despite the citys liberation over five months ago with still looks very much like a war zone on the map coming your way the red squares showed just how much of mosul has been obliterated it after i suppose to feed locals warning little effort has been made to rebuild what was once considered one of iraqs most beautiful cities. When we havent received any aid from the get. Any of them are going to say she. Said and i feel completely destroyed i dont feel like coming back to this kind of news ive lost all hope of living here after seeing all this devastation. Powerful painkillers are affecting the Life Expectancy in america figures show opioids played a bigger role than Overdose Deaths last year than any other legal or illegal drug tackling the addiction has become a National Priority the epidemic doesnt seem to be going away as american reports the nations Opioid Epidemic drug overdoses this countrys recent surge in opioid addiction incredible epidemic one of the most serious crises facing people in this country. I dont know what is the average Life Expectancy in the u. S. Is getting shorter for the second year in a row now thats according to the center for Disease Control and prevention and they predict this downward trend will only continue it doesnt look at me but we havent Seen Movement two years in the row in the claw new Life Expectancy since the spanish flu one hundred years ago. And the sorts of territory which is extremely concerning now this is all while other major causes of death like Heart Disease and cancer have dropped however Overdose Deaths have been on the rise estimated to be around sixty three thousand six hundred thats more than the number of u. S. Soldiers that died during the vietnam war around fifty eight thousand and thats not it about two thirds of drug related deaths were linked to opioid use so its pretty safe to say that. Because were dealing with an Opioid Crisis thats only getting worse. Every one of those little girls represent the person we lost. Now this epidemic has resulted in a few shocking cases in the us in ohio a Coroners Office ran out of space to store dead bodies in West Virginia officials had to send over a Million Dollars just to transport dead bodies and you would think that this would raise some concern in washington and it did in my administration is officially declaring the Opioid Crisis a National PublicHealth Emergency under federal law and why i am directing all executive agencies to use every appropriate Emergency Authority to fight the Opioid Crisis however the government has an allocated any additional funding to deal with this crisis while the former c. E. O. Of a company that produces opioid meds has been nominated as health and Human Services secretary we are a country a culture that tends to look for quick fixes for Simple Solutions and particularly as it as it relates to drug use you know we think drug users are criminals or they are more only effective than we stigmatize them or we offer them in adequate treatment the overemphasis on drugs for striving rather than on seeking more comprehensive more complex solutions both to the problem of addiction but more generally of problems of human suffering and while people expect the government to act Life Expectancy continues to drop samir khan r. T. Washington d. C. We discussed the opioid. With law professor richard was written about the failure to prosecute Drug Companies he warns that big pharma quote downplayed the addiction risks. The structure of the Health Care Programs in these various countries does have an effect i think that doctors tend to prescribe opioids when theres private Health Insurance perhaps more so than in europe where there are government programs. The Drug Companies developed lobbied the medical profession and among doctors to prescribe these drugs for chronic pain which they werent really designed to be used for so i think that perhaps has as much to do with it as. Opioid use. And therefore both physicians and patients were somewhat misled about the risks clearly. And certainly its needed now to try to prevent the problem from getting any worse. You know refuge even at home or at the playground and are exposed to brutal violence on a daily. Among the countries highlighted it is me and my conflict is driving growth children from homes to seek safety in neighboring bangladesh in Nigeria Boko Haram militants routinely abducted young girls for rape and forced marriage in the democratic republic of congo hundreds of children have been injured and had to flee their homes as a result of violent clashes between the army and militia groups in syria children trapped in the ruins of rebel held east which Government Forces are still trying to recapture and most are syria but also in yemen more than a million children are at risk of disease and starvation amid the continued saudi bombing campaigns. Even these one of the most police is. Right now because season or discuss you dont have access to seven million anyway were not appealing to international media. First to compete with those parties and order to find the name. Lucian disconsolate that is going on for for so long and second of course the very quick is for additional resources. To try to help this is a humanitarian crisis of the war and at this point in time. Three people have been injured after a bus drove into a stall. Taking place close to a metro station during the morning rush hour this footage showing that the bus stop was a very large lead damaged in the crush of police are still at the scene a preliminary report suggests the bus was hit by a car causing the bus driver to lose control of the view. Earlier this week a similar incident had disastrous consequences when a bus crashed into the way of an underground Pedestrian Crossing in the east of the capital during that ride four people were killed and others were injured police have now are down to possible causes for that accident either malfunctioning brakes or driver error and more news after the break. A play for many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. The ball isnt only about what happens on the pitch for the final school its about the passion from the families its the age of the super money. And spending to get the twenty million. Its an experience like nothing else because i want to share what i think i know about the beautiful game a great chance for. The hour here in moscow with the u. S. Ambassador to israel has said palestinians reacted to Donald Trumps decision to recognize jerusalem the capital of israel he added there were reaction to the move had been ugly and anti semitic meanwhile its been revealed washington proposed to make a small west bank village the palestinian capital as part of a larger peace plan. Visited the village its cold this. This is a neighborhood of jerusalem that is home to some Twelve Thousand people and which has been under Israeli Occupation since one thousand nine hundred sixty seven it is also being offered as the future capital of the states now that is according to the former head of Hamas Ismail Haniya and then anybody can. The United States office of the Palestinian Authority account with rule in city in the abu dis area far from jerusalem so there is a bridge linking abu dis and the al aqsa mosque also part of the peace plan that is being presented by the saudis and it does seem plausible if you remember that President Trump is planning to move his embassy to jerusalem but if you swing across here and you see the security the Israeli Security barrier which runs through the middle of abu dis it begs the question how can a place like this service the capital of a future palestinian state in theory it is possible to have direct access from abu dis to the muslim holy sites in the distance in the old city and there is a plan that is being put forward to pulled a bridge from here to the alex a compound which is the third holiest site in islam without that access that would be a conversation stopper but it is hard to believe that palestinians would support us and. We want jerusalem to be for the palestinians not just for the israelis our home is here our life is here. They go are told hold a holy place in the name of if used in the name of capitalism or democracy there is no ins you have to be holy to hold the holy name whatever the future of this village one thing is clear President Trumps decision to move his embassy to jerusalem will have far reaching consequences what is suggesting is exactly thinking americans are reading only reading the israeli plan to the area dont want really a state in the west bank and if they want to make it in an enlarged gaza for that purpose they will continue to grow. The borders of the was like they were. As well and more than sixty percent. Of the with bank area and i dont think that to proceed with agreed at any time or any Palestinian Leader with agree at any time to want the americans and this very hour of. Us magazine has named five stars who claim their careers have been ruined by Donald Trumps tweets among them Comedian Kathy Griffin who says the president s message destroyed her life after she posed with a mosque that looked like trumps severed head. For that video filmed seven months ago griffin not only faced Death Threats on social media she was also fired from c. N. N. Back then tweeted that she should be ashamed of herself and that his eleven year old son was distressed by the clip but griffin and now says he is precisely that tweet that made her the target of an online backlash when media and legal analyst lionel didnt mince his words over whether the real blame lies this is an individual who goes on t. V. Or goes on i guess the internet or whatever holds this head up this severed head of this man and this severed head under for some reason showing some artistic expression ok. And then when it comes out the president says you know i dont like that g. M. Magine that imagine donald trump tweeting that hes displeased with this this rendition of himself beheaded so what Kathy Griffin is saying is you know donald trump had you just kept quiet about it id still be working today and instead of showing print trishas youre showing you shes sorry asking the world and america everyone importantly president drunk for forgiveness i dont know what she does if she goes into a routine so she makes it even worse heres why no person on this planet that Kathy Griffin can blame for the plight that shes in and that person is Kathy Griffin. A Spanish Court has ruled in favor of a man who was sued by his exwife for breach of their daughters previously for reading whats up conversations the mother claimed that her childs privacy had been violated but the judge decided that its parents responsibility to monitor childrens internet use as the show social network requires proper vigilance from adults but also gave permission to read her a chance to form a couple also have a son who apparently refused to show his father the whats up messages on his account and the ruling could set a legal precedent for cases involving childrens activity on social media well my colleague nikki erin discussed this with george bought a political activist as well as a Stephen Morris from the english democrats party. Looking at the case it looks like these are obviously a bit of animosity between the two parents. Something obviously not been reported between whats been going on between them and hes obviously going to go out in a known obviously you have a responsibility to make sure that your children are using social media responsible you know theres a lot of. Things happening in the world today and weve been told that we have to monitor social media to see whats going on and we have to be careful of what our children are actually. Seeing and engaging in personally i dont think it should be the norm at all i think you know. Rewind sort of thirty years in a childs right to a diary and if the child finds out the parent has looked in their diary then probably the child will be very upset and will have very real grievances and concerns that the parent is not respecting them appropriately in the parent will then have to justify the child whether that. You know the child will probably thats not an appropriate thing the pair will have to just. In other words we go back to this question of right and wrong versus whether or not the courts should be involved so i think you know there are all sorts of issues here but i think its important not to treat the current world as if its entirely novel you know these issues of how parents and children negotiate questions of privacy versus parental responsibility even if children are raised without having their privacy respected isnt there a risk theyre going to grow to be more tolerant of invasions of their privacy later in life for example government snooping perhaps well children. Ive always kept secrets from the parents thats a given its always up and the issue now is social media a lot greater and a lot wider. I was a child you know our interaction was just sent to the community centers. Around the bush eltons which is what kids do but now the a lot wider people travel a lot for the first. These are a lot more dangerous to the social media i think we are faced with a danger where the more over thirty governments and courts have to police the relationship between parents and children the more that ends up becoming a pretext for further surveillance of all communications itself so i think keeping the Family Private is an important part of keeping the government away from inappropriate surveillance of citizens you friday while headlines continue here on r. T. International very soon. Come to call russia no ones ever no one has ever had a country never even heard about most. Fears will people been saying about rejecting the night was actually just full on awesome ill feel the show i go out of my way to look like you know what it is that really packs a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of marty americans do the same we are apparently better than Blue Mountains but i see people youve never heard of love went back to the night my president of the world bank so kate im going to let me send us an email. Following welcome to cross talk all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle this is the last edition of cross talk for the year and were doing Something Different we answer questions from you. Our viewers. Crosstalk in the year that was im joined by my guest mark sloboda hes an International Affairs and security analyst we also have he is a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and we have dimitri bob it is a political analyst with Sputnik International or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate before we go to war our viewers questions id like each one of you and maybe i will start here to kind of sum up some of the most important things that happened in the last twelve months and i think im going to kind of end the year in kind of a dramatic note i think we face in the United States a constitutional crisis its really very much coming to a head we have a congress that is not answering demands. We have Good Department of justice and the f. B. I. There are not answering demands from congo