Is r. T. International coming here live from moscow im Kate Partridge thank you for joining us. Thousands of kurdish speaking years edis are still being kept hostage in iraq despite the demise of Islamic State many of them minors who have been abducted and sold the jihadist slave markets r. T. Senior correspondent what i guess the of reports on the long way home from terrorist captivity nardil age. Should. Start in ten thousand dollars russia. Location turkey starting with fifteen thousand dollars. In this age. Syria starting bid the grounds of the dollars. Age fifteen. Baghdad soul food too. And the hot thousand dollars was kidnapped by isis in mosul in two thousand and fifteen for near enough three years she endured horrible things things that new fifteen Year Old Girl or any woman should ever have to endure two hours ago she was back by her 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 where in my isis tells its hostages that their families will kill them if they ever return but her arrest would be brief asking her shell join a church that. Many people happy that shes. Shortly after meeting her relatives took her shopping. But she was rescued by a group of men who specialize in tracking down these kidnapped by isis they then either negotiate a sale or steal them back their big gun secrecy i dont and she got the ice to say that if we show the girl still in that possession with their relatives a parent t. V. That the deal will be on that theyd kill the hostages as such some of the people involved didnt want to appear on camera but the stories. And if you could just get to this day one of the girls was kidnapped when she was sent. For. 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 you. The children then 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 that allies in syria reportedly led hundreds of isis fighters need that then besieged graca whose jihad just took not only the guns and families but also their hostages and slaves the same people that are now being aborted back give it get the prices vary depending on where there are but if theyre in dangerous place you can be eighty thousand dollars otherwise around fifteen thousand. Others also tracking down missing people 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 a child at one of the girls told me the story of her she and her aunts were in isis captivity two of the terrorists watched them day and night to prevent them from running away then the girl told one of them that she couldnt sleep and asked to see a doctor the isis fights her gave her some sleeping pills she kept them then put them in the street the terrorist fell asleep and she and her on managed to escape that 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 cares if the these dont attract the same ratings now that they arent being slaughtered so its up to them to recover that children and to help them heal from what isis has done to them or our guys they have ahd seen from the hawk iraq. R. T. Has contacted several human rights organizations to understand whats being done to help the victims of these crimes so far only a few have responded including the red cross. 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 mix a 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 the 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 anyone who has a missing person in iraq to approach an International Committee of the red cross and to report the missing gay so that we can assist in the search and identification of people who are missing. Powerful painkillers are affecting Life Expectancy in america theyre going to show opioids played a bigger role in Overdose Deaths last year than any other drug legal or illegal so touching 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 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 any better we havent seen more than two years in the row in decline in Life Expectancy since the spanish flu one hundred years ago would be and should. 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 us 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 americas been dealing with an Opioid Crisis thats only getting worse. Every one of those little represents the person that 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 have spent over eight 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 theyre morally the fact that we stigmatize them or we offer them you know adequate treatment they. Drug prescribing rather than those 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. The United Nations childrens agency has called twenty seventeen a nightmare year for youngsters trapped in conflict zones unicef also says children are exposed to brutal violence on a daily basis. Among the countries highlighted is man made our way ethnic conflict is driving Muslim Rohingya children from their homes into neighboring bangladesh while in nigeria but the horror militants routinely abducted young girls who are raped and forced into 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 on in syria children are trapped in the ruins of rebel held east ghouta which Government Forces are still trying to recapture and in yemen more than a million children are at risk of disease and starvation during ongoing Saudi Coalition bombing raids yemenis one of the most police is. Gray now because shes the. Number of children minorities two million in the number of two that dont have access to water is enormous at the scene with access to her and leash and that hes almost twenty seven million and seventy percent of them are living in poverty and seven million of them in the news the dont have support in another ten Million National security dont think any worse than we are to pilate the International Community. First to drop the can be to those parties that war to find that they will seek the. Solution to this conflict that is going on for for so long and second of course of the their requests for additional resources. To drive to help in one of the big decision money diary and crisis of the war that these point. More news after the short break. Plt. Leg. Little. Leg still in you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police hawks forcing you to fight the battles they dont believe you saw spread a tell you that plenty gossip the public by fell for the most Important News today. About telling me you are not cool enough and that you buy their product little. All the hawks that we along with all those little. Welcome back italy is to send almost five hundred troops to the border between asia and libya saying it wants to control Human Trafficking and the smuggling of migrants italys Prime Minister branded michette the main transit country in africa for europe migrants troops will be deployed to fort madama on the border between asia and libya an area described as a gateway for refugees who want to cross the mediterranean a top european officials have already called for military action however the toughest deals being sailed by italy as interior minister is raising eyebrows after boasting about his murphy attack takes. The oath. I want to make them out. Only when i reassured them that i was from calabria a region which deals in alliances a suit with blood that they finally agreed to sign. Monitors were shocked by what they witnessed thousands of the massey ated and traumatize men women and children piled on top of each other locked up the hunger is with no access to the most basic necessities and stripped of the human dignity. Some tough words from our community there and lets cross live now to alexander markovitch spokesperson for the european Patriotic Group generation identity and hes best former vice chair of the European Council on refugees and exiles to discuss this particular issue gentlemen thank you very much indeed for joining me and hes on if i could start with you well weve heard that as i said strong words there from our community but theres no evidence that military Solutions Work then usually fail. If there were groups question first and for all of this is some kind of emergency measure to finally stop the Human Trafficking through europe on the one hand and on the other and also the influx of terrorists for this routes to europe which also tried to come of last themselves as refugees so i think this is an emergency solution in the long run. We simply have which is also an opinion of the sort of institute in vienna. We simply have to help governments like the libyan one pledged to rid Libyan Government to rebuild its sovereignty to so that cone control its borders itself so that we can finally stop this. Movement of human traffickers and one and for all so what its a looser now is an emergency solution and i think in the long run we have simply to rebuild the sovereignity of the states in the north african region and also in the middle east to stop those movements otherwise there wont be a solution to the conflict as youve pointed out well as is the case i mean the alexander saying that is that is one solution i mean every other solution so far does seem to have failed is not a good way then all one attempt to stop Mass Immigration case what do you think. Well it is its a very complicated issue of course is so theres no easy solution because if the world on it would have been found already first of all can i dispose of this terrorism myth mr minetti himself is on record as saying there is no link between terrorism and migration and i share his view on that and that is the common understood situation in most terrorism sadly is homegrown it is from within countries where the terrorists come its not people who masquerade as Asylum Seekers and coming into another country i have very considerable sympathy with italy because theyve borne the brunt of the migration from north africa i mean one hundred thousand people this year sadly of course two thousand people dying on the way of trying to get to. Two to italy drowning in the mediterranean but of course some would say that his methods of work deals with mr surat from libya and with the tribal chiefs who came to rome to see him has meant visibly in the ninety seven percent reduction in the number of Asylum Seekers coming to italy the sad thing is and this is where the whole thing falls apart is this should not be an Italian Initiative this should be a European Initiative this should be a coordinator in the city and when you get a country like france for example negotiating with a different leader from mistress or raj in libya then you can see the degree of discontinuity thats going on this is something that should be tackled in a coordinated way within the European Union and its manifestly failed to do so there is there is a humanitarian area here of course italy has provided ships to the libyan orthorexic is to try to help people who are getting across to to italy but the real problem is. How do you identify the genuine i see Asylum Seeker at an early possible stage i. E. Just outside the country from which theyre fleeing not after theyve been in the hands of the traffickers and the smugglers and people who rip them off treat them appallingly put them into these camps which youve heard described thats the real issue and that does need a lot of cooperation between europe and those countries which generates the the refugees in the first place so alexander how would you respond to that i mean if his case if its not military military is not the answer then how would you help with the coordination how do you solve it. I think a good example for a common european coordination in this cause would be first and foremost. Was the initiative by a new team to restore the libyan coast guard which its aloof did on its own and with the help of the other European Countries so first we would have to. Help the libyan coast guard through our guard its own National Waters that would be to First Initiative furthermore. Would have helped libya to somehow. Care for all those people who already came to libya who are daring cams so actually europe should guarantee the security on the one hand and also the conditions of the People Health there and then finally the European Countries must help countries like libya for a remark gratian initiative for initiative of repatriation of those people who came to live in their countries of origin so i think its all about this restoring of serenity cutting the smuggling routes on the other hand and on the other hand of guaranteeing the security in this countries but. Unfortunately our western imperialism actually lets through the situation libya is currently him so i think its the end of conflict in libya which was also cast thirty our western intervention back in two thousand and eleven i think there wont be an end to this crisis i cant i can see you nodding a lot there i mean do you think then that helping the sovereignty is sovereign countries such as maybe resolve their conflicts and therefore preventing refugees from leaving in the first place would help to solve the migrant crisis. Of course. At the end of the day why do silent seekers and refugees flee their country it is because of oppression it is because of deprivation if you can stop that reason for migration then what you will be reasonably certain that those who do then choose to migrate are economic migrants rather than those in genuine fear of persecution but you have to stop the persecution at its source and that is not what is not being done now were dealing with with the result rather than the symptoms of the problem and that requires an enormous amount of activity and i share a lot of whats just been said about the need to coordinate with those countries many of these countries are very poor countries they dont have the resources to provide extensive refugee camps and to provide food and lodging for people who are fleeing from persecution on their borders they need help in that and that help has to come from one of the wealthiest parts of the world namely europe we have the capacity to do it there is not the political will to do it thats the real tragedy and so on is that how do you think then that you motivate that political will to effectively intervene on a humanitarian basis within cut countries of conflict like libya. I think this logic of weights the waltz and the world is the worry problem which led to the Current Situation so i think you can also see the hypoxia of european governments in the very fact that on the one hand people like me who are also are interested to enter the situation of Human Trafficking actually are trying to stop the smuggling routes in north africa on the one hand but on the other hand the government missed installing a socalled humanitarian corridor from libya to italy. Which actually results in. Finishing the human traffickers business to bring people from Northern Africa to italy but this time not we have boats but with planes and i think if you actually want to and to see human suffering in human enough in africa which is currently are happening in refugee camps in libya you simply have european have have to act in the common european front to once and for all and immigration from north africa because all these. Despised promises which are told and told all the refugees and immigrants from our from africa that they will find gold in future in europe these are actually lies and if you dont stop to give those lies a perspective you want and to human suffering so i also the opinion that if you want to end to suffering you simply have to answer this socalled humanitarian corridor and instead help the people in there from africa to solve the situation on their south. European intervention to somehow. Create a steady influx of people to europe and. To promise them some kind of golden future which actually does not exist in our continent indeed this would be the first foremost perhaps the initiative to end this problem india and appreciate it very much in a nutshell kate how do you respond to that very briefly if you dont mind. Yes the needs to be better coordination needs to be an acceptance that those countries which are the first port of call for refugees such as libya sudan or places like that are poor countries they need help to deal with the migrant crisis but at the end of the day there needs to be much more not just european but International Political will to identify the causes of migration and to deal with that where its causing persecution indeed and we will leave it there alexander markovitch and keith best thank you very much indeed for your time thank you thank you for derivative. Now friday has been declared the fourth day of rage since president trumps unilateral decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel these are the latest pictures from the west bank city of bethlehem but the move has been condemned by the un dozens have already been killed in weeks of demonstrations in gaza and the west Bank Hundreds have also been injured in clashes with israeli police. 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