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With christmas lights. Each tree was rigged with a motion detector that lit up the tree and a banner when the guerrillas walked by at night. It read, if christmas can come to the jungle, you can come home. What we did was try to make coming back home for christmas an important thing. And it worked . And it worked incredibly well. Tell me about the night you got lost. What do you remember . Its a memory thats been within me for such a long time. Saroo was just five years old when he got lost, and as depicted in the movie, he ended up on a train that took him a thousand miles away. No way to know how to get home. Its a ghost train. No ones on the train. And and the train is hurtling down the tracks its hurtling down the tracks. I was locked in the carriage. I couldnt open it. And youre five years old. And im five years old. Im steve kroft. Im leslie stahl. Im bill whitaker. Im lara logan. Im scott pelley. Those stories, tonight on 60 minutes. 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Netanyahu and his followers on the israeli right are greeting the idea of President Donald Trump with a resounding lchaim. Benjamin netanyahu i know donald trump. I know him very well, and i think his attitude, his support for israel is clear. He feels very warmly about the jewish state, about the jewish people and about jewish people. Theres no question about that. Stahl with trump, do you think that israel will not be as at odds with the United States as you have been under the Obama Administration . Netanyahu yeah, we had differences of opinion with i had differences of opinion with president obama and most well known, of course, is iran. Stahl was it personal between the two of you . Netanyahu no. No, i dont think so. I think that suppose we had the greatest of personal chemistry, okay . So, what . You think i wouldnt stand up against the iran deal if i thought, as i did, that it endangers the existence of israel . Of course i would. Stahl he says it wasnt personal, but there were times when it sure seemed that way. The relationship, often rocky, hit bottom when mr. Netanyahu took the provocative step last year of lobbying against the Iran Nuclear Deal, and by extension, president obama, in a speech before congress. Netanyahu it doesnt block irans path to the bomb, it paves irans path to the bomb. So why would anyone make this deal . Stahl when you campaigned against him and you spoke to the congress, it was read as a lack of respect and something that had never been done before. Netanyahu no, it was not borne of any disrespect, because i have the greatest respect for him. I had then and i have now. Stahl but do you regret that you did that . Netanyahu no, on the contrary. I think that its my responsibility to speak up when something threatens our very future. Stahl hes says hes going to see mr. Trump soon to lobby him to scuttle the deal. The president elect has called the agreement stupid and a disgrace. But trumps choice for defense secretary, general james mattis has advised against pulling out. If it were to be abrogated, wouldnt that put you in a more precarious position than you are now . Because they would obviously then rush to the bomb. Netanyahu i think iran didnt rush to the bomb before there was a deal. Stahl really . Netanyahu no, because they were afraid of retribution. Stahl but if okay, you get rid of the deal. Then what . Netanyahu i think what options we have are much more than you think. Many more. And ill talk about it stahl like what . Netanyahu with president trump. Well, i think quite a few, actually. Stahl because if you, you know, put sanctions back on, the other signatories to the deal wont. Netanyahu there are ways, various ways of undoing it. Stahl you have something in your mind. Netanyahu yeah, i have about five things in my mind. Stahl well, give me one. Netanyahu well, id like to talk to the president before i talk to 60 minutes. Stahl what about the intelligence that the west is getting from onsite inspections . Apparently, most of the Intelligence Community thinks its worth keeping the deal for that intelligence. Netanyahu i think we have the deal is not the critical thing of intelligence. Intelligence is a critical thing. laughs stahl which israel is really good at. Netanyahu which is were very good at. And you know, with a little help stahl so you dont think were stahl gaining that much by these onsite inspections . Netanyahu for intelligence . Stahl yeah. Netanyahu no. Stahl what about the Silver Lining . That because of this deal, you now have all this these better relationships with your neighbors. Netanyahu oh, well, thats true. I would say i will say this. The only good thing i can say about the deal with iran is that it brought the arab states and israel closer together. Stahl its the old proverb the enemy of my enemy is my friend. On a trip to the desert town of beer sheva, he told us theres been a tectonic shift its been reported that israel and the arab world are sharing intelligence. Netanyahu all i can tell you is that israels position in the arab world has changed because they no longer see israel as their enemy, but as their ally, in their indispensable battle against the forces of militant islam, either those led by iran, the shiites, or and those led by daesh, by isis, the militant sunnis. Stahl we hear that you have dramatically improved your relationship with egypt. Is that correct . Netanyahu yes. Stahl jordan . Netanyahu yes. Stahl saudi arabia . Netanyahu no comment. Stahl i have to ask you, because its the most fascinating of all israel and saudi arabia. Are you actually developing an antiiran alliance in the middle east . Netanyahu doesnt have to be developed. Its there anyway. Stahl israel is developing a whole skein of new alliances, in some cases with countries that have been challenging the u. S. Around the world; like russia, which has placed its troops in syria, israels next door neighbor. How would you describe your relationship with russia right now . Netanyahu its amicable. But the minute mr. Putin decided to put his military forces in syria, i went to see him. And i said, look, heres what im doing. Im not intervening in syria. But at the same time, if syria tries to intervene with us, if iran tries to use syria to attack us, well stop it. Stahl youre telling mr. Putin that you will attack . Netanyahu i said, we should avoid this. And he said i agree. So we coordinated between our militaries, because no one wants an inadvertent israelirussian clash. Stahl you have a friendship with mr. Putin, and a friendship with china. You seem to be inching toward an antiamerican bloc. Netanyahu god, no. Let me tell you something stahl well, talk about that, because i think theres an impression of that. Netanyahu thats a false impression. First of all, there is, there is an irreplaceable ally. Its called the United States of america. Stahl yeah, but here you are making friends with our adversaries netanyahu so no. You have relations with russia and you have relations with china. We can have relations, economic relations, trade relations with other countries, as you do. Why not . Stahl he has used economic and trade relations to improve israels standing in the world by selling, and in some cases, giving away, its hightech inventions. Israel boasts of more startups per capita than anywhere in the world, many based in beer sheva, and nations have lined up to buy drones, as india has, and cutting edge agricultural technology, as china has. Theres excitement about a new innovation that extracts Drinking Water out of air. So this is israeli diplomacy through technology . Netnyahu exactly right. Stahl countries that used to vote against you regularly at the u. N. Are now your clients. I mean, african nations netnyahu its a revolution there. We cant keep up. Stahl whats surprising is that hes making progress with all these countries, without making any progress with the palestinians, who have lived under Israeli Occupation in the west bank for half a century. What about the quality of palestinians lives . You know, its 50 years since what people call the occupation. Its 50 years. You still have checkpoints. People have to be cleared. Soldiers everywhere in their lives. Netanyahu actually, ive lifted checkpoints quite a bit, and were trying to create bridges and thoroughfares and so on, so we can have freer movement. Palestinians know they look at aleppo in syria, and they look at yemen, and they look at libya, and they look at other places, and they know that our intention is coexistence. Stahl you told us that israel is less isolated today than it has been in many years in the past. And yet, at the same time, youre losing support in in western europe. Netanyahu isolated . All these countries are coming to israel and its a fantastic change. Stahl but not western europe. Not you, your natural allies, or your older allies yet. Netanyahu well, theyre coming stahl they call you colonials. Netanyahu theyre coming around too. Stahl but they call you occupiers. Netanyahu well, they call us a lot of things, but i think theyre coming around too, i have to tell you. Stahl but criticism has spread, on u. S. Campuses, too. Theres a movement called b. D. S. , to boycott, divest, and sanction israel and its products, because of the palestinian issue, the unresolved palestinian issue. And this is the playbook that they used, you know, against apartheid in south Africa Netanyahu yeah, well, i dont buy it. Its not about this or that issue. Its against the very existence of the state of israel. Stahl you know what they want . I know what they want. They want you to stop expanding and building settlements. Netanyahu yeah, well, we did. We stopped. We stopped in gaza. We tore out the settlements and gave the palestinians gaza. And what happened . Did we get peace . We got 20,000 rockets on our heads and terror tunnels. Stahl still, his critics argue thats not a justification for the steady expansion of the settlements in the west bank. Those settlements are smothering palestinians hope for their own separate state. Netanyahu i think the obsession, the focus on settlements as though this were the issue and this is the obstacle to peace, i disagree with that. Stahl but it is an obstacle. I mean netanyahu no, its not an obstacle. Stahl well, you say that, but they dont say that. Netanyahu yeah, but ill Say Something else. The real reason we havent had peace is because of a persistent refusal of the palestinians to recognize a jewish state in any border. You ask us to recognize you, im willing to do that. I ask you to recognize us. Recognize the jewish state, for gods sake. And if they do, this thing will begin to correct itself very quickly. Stahl its a condition he doesnt put on his new friends. Have any of the arab states said they accept israel as a jewish state . Netanyahu yeah, they say a lot of things in various forms. Stahl and never actually said they accept you. Netanyahu do they say it publicly at this point . Not yet. Stahl he acknowledges that the arab states want to see movement on the palestinian issue. But despite washingtons call for a halt, Settlement Expansion has continued, even after the u. S. Gave israel a 38 billion military aid package. Netanyahu and the Palestinian Leader Mahmoud Abbas recently greeted each other at the funeral of former israeli president shimon peres. But the two have not held open, direct negotiations in over six years, for which they blame each other. What kind of a state is it going to be if you just, you know, dont do anything . Netanyahu im not going to just not do anything. Im going to do something. Stahl well, if you dont negotiate with the palestinians netanyahu well, im willing to negotiate with them at any moment. Stahl and if it doesnt happen . Netanyahu i havent reversed my position. Ive said, look, we will solve this because we want two nation states at peace and with the proper security arrangements. Stahl you would be pushing for a twostate solution if that netanyahu two states for two peoples. And thats where im focused. Yeah, id like to have president trump, when he gets into the white house, help me work on that. Id like to see if the arab states can help me achieve that. Its a new reality. A new possibility. announcer vo when you have type 2 diabetes theres a moment of truth. 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Logan for more than half a century, colombia was one of the most violent and isolated countries on earth, infamous for cartels, cocaine, and kidnapping. The revolutionary armed forces of colombia, or farc, fought the government in the longest running war in the western hemisphere until recently, when colombia achieved what many thought was impossible. The war is effectively over, the country transformed. How do you end a 52year war that left 220,000 dead and millions displaced, against a revolutionary army dedicated to overthrowing the government . Billions in u. S. Aid helped, but the Colombian Military came up with one of the most unusual ideas in modern warfare an advertising campaign. They hired a creative ad executive, jose Miguel Sokoloff, to convince thousands of fighters to give up without firing a shot. How did sokoloff do it . With soccer balls and Christmas Trees. Jose Miguel Sokoloff advertising is a very, very powerful force. In the good you can do, by changing minds of people in certain ways logan thats why its powerful. Sokoloff thats why its powerful. He wanted peace forever. Logan it was the power to change minds that brought colombias deputy minister of defense to jose Miguel Sokoloffs ad agency in 2006. explosion the military had brought the farc to their knees and were looking for a new weapon to end the war. So they asked sokoloff, one of the worlds top ad men, to create a series of campaigns and tv commercials to convince the guerillas to surrender and the colombian people to accept them back. Sokoloff this gives us the chance to apply our skills to something that is fundamentally important to us, to our kids, to our country. Logan in december 2010, they launched Operation Christmas which they filmed for commercials that played on local tv. At great risk, blackhawk helicopters carried two of sokoloffs colleagues, led by Colombian Special forces, into rebel territory. They found nine 75foot trees near guerilla strongholds and decorated them with christmas lights. Each tree was rigged with a motion detector that lit up the tree and a banner when the guerillas walked by at night. It read if christmas can come to the jungle, you can come home. Demobilize. At christmas, everything is possible. Sokoloff what we did was try to make coming back home for christmas an important thing. And we knew that if we put up up these Christmas Trees with that sign up there, we would touch the hearts of the guerrillas, because my hearts my heart was touched. And they went and they did it. Logan and it worked . Sokoloff and it worked incredibly well. Logan he said 331 guerillas, roughly 5 of the rebel force at the time, demobilized. They came out of the jungle and gave up. This is spectacular. Sokoloff its beautiful, isnt it . Logan like most colombians, sokoloff was born into war and grew up here in bogota without knowing a day of peace. In the beginning, what was the purpose of the campaign . Sokoloff it was always exactly the same demobilize as many guerillas as possible. Logan as with any ad campaign, they began with research. Their focus group former guerillas. Sokoloffs team tracked them down and interviewed them. Sokoloff we found the common denominator of all those stories is that a guerilla is as much a prisoner of his organization than the people he holds hostage. Logan there was no way out . Sokoloff there was no way out. And it certainly softened me up when i heard these stories. And i said, these poor people. Logan and you never expected that you would feel that way . Sokoloff i didnt expect them to be so human. But how do you reach your target audience, when they are hiding in 150,000 square miles of jungle . The rivers, they discovered, are the highways of the jungle. So they launched their second christmas campaign, operation rivers of light. They asked people in nearby villages to send messages and gifts to the guerillas, which were placed inside capsules that glowed in the dark, then floated down the river. Sokoloff so you just put them there and these lit up at night. And logan wow. Sokoloff when you see that beautiful thing coming down the river, you cant help but being touched by it. Logan how many lights like that did you send . Sokoloff almost 7,000. Logan one of the messages was from colombias president juan manuel santos, who was just awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the war. And you did this with the Colombian Military . Sokoloff absolutely, we couldnt have done it without them. Logan it humanizes them as much as youve tried to humanize the guerillas. Sokoloff exactly. Logan sokoloff and his military partners never let up. They rolled out dozens of campaigns, each uniquely designed to show the guerillas the way out, with beams of light, stickers on trees and voices of exguerilla leaders booming across the jungle. But no voice was more powerful than their mothers. Sokoloff shes waiting for you, shes been waiting for you for at least 20 years in some cases. Logan in 2013, sokoloff found 27 mothers of guerrillas. They gave his Agency Photos of their sons and daughters as young children, that only they could recognize. During christmas, flyers with those photos were placed all over the jungle. Sokoloff and the message was before you were a guerrilla, you were my child. So come home, because im i will always be waiting for you at christmastime. Logan we call that going for the jugular sokoloff laughs yes. Logan jose, because wow. Sokoloff 218 people with this campaign gave up their weapons and came home and stopped shooting. So, whatever number you get out is people that you dont have to fight. Logan what was your most Successful Campaign . Sokoloff football. Logan football . Sokoloff football. Always football. Football laughs moves this country. Football is our passion. Logan it was a passion shared by the guerillas, who often stopped fighting during matches. When colombia hosted the under 20 world cup in 2011 goal colombia logan sokoloff kicked off a new campaign. Soldiers armed with thousands of soccer balls entered stadiums and players, celebrities, and fans all signed them. They loaded them onto helicopters and threw them out over the jungle, each with a sticker that said demobilize. Lets play again. Over eight years, 18,000 guerillas put down their weapons and came home, in large part because of sokoloffs campaigns. The ads helped bring the farc to the negotiating table in 2012. During the peace talks, sokoloff said guerilla leaders asked the government to stop airing his commercials. Soon after, they agreed to a ceasefire. Sokoloff colombians started feeling confident, started feeling that we could do whatever we wanted. We started feeling secure and safe, the fear started going away, and as we went outside and the world came here, it was infectious. Logan the energy. Sokoloff the energy was incredible. And that is what the world sees now of colombia. Logan colombias spirit, once buried by war, has risen again. In the last ten years, International Investment is up over 100 ; tourism 240 . Not long ago, it was too dangerous to go out at night; now, clubs in bogota are bursting with locals and foreigners. Sokoloff yeah, and that is bogotaaa, which is probably not the best example of transformation. Medellin, cali, all these other cities logan even more . Sokoloff if you had been there ten years ago and you go today, you would say, this is a completely different planet. sirens logan medellin was the last place tourists would have come. At the height of the drug wars, it was the murder capital of the world, 6,000 a year. Now it is the jewel of colombia. Modern, cultural, reborn, it has been hailed as a model of urban innovation, mostly because of this man, sergio fajardo. Como esta . Logan we saw people thanking you for transforming their lives and for what youve done. What does that mean to you . Sergio fajardo im very proud. Because we have shown that hope can be built and things can be changed. Logan fajardo was a math professor, a political novice, when he ran for mayor in 2003. Without bodyguards, he dared to walk the poorest and most dangerous streets promising to end the violence and reunite the city. He won in a landslide. Fajardo whats the power of violent people . Fear. And when you are feel fear, you are diminished as a human being. You are s subjugated. Logan divided . Fajardo divided there is no sense of community. So we have to put the pieces together of our society, and we have to connect physically and mentally. Logan they connected the city through its Public Transportation system. So now we head to the metro . We started our tour on a metro train that took us to communa 13, a slum that was once the citys bloody epicenter, where tens of thousands who fled the war now live. This is ridiculously steep. Because it sits on a steep hilltop fajardo even for us, this is steep. Logan fajardos urban planners took a bold step. They built escalators up the side of the mountain, the equivalent of 28 stories. If you wanted to build hope, this was a good place to start. Fajardo this is a symbol. Things can be done in the poorest part of town. Logan beautifully designed, decorated, and landscaped, the escalators have literally lifted the spirit of the community. Fajardo convinced the wealthy and the poor to contribute to rebuilding medellin. From that came a cultural center, science museum, and botanical garden. Fajardo this was rundown. It was a place that people wouldnt come. They would be afraid of coming out to this neighborhood. Logan especially after dark . Fajardo most of the day. Logan to get kids off the streets, he poured money into education with new schools and libraries. You built a 4 Million Building . Fajardo right. Logan in the middle of one of the most violent fajardo up to the logan slums in medellin . Fajardo it said the most beautiful things for the humblest people, which is a message of dignity. Because usually we say, well, if they are poor, whatever they get, thats plenty because they have nothing. We said, no, the most beautiful things in this town, should be coming to these places. Logan no symbol has helped more than medellins cable cars. They soar over its mountain slums carrying 40,000 people a day, connecting the poor with jobs and opportunities in the citys wealthier neighborhoods. And these places were pretty isolated before that . Fajardo they were. It was very difficult to get in here. You will never have someone from that part of town coming in here for any reason. And now, most people come to medellin, they would want to come here to ride the cable car, to see what we did in here and to get a feeling of a transformation. Logan colombias transformation remains a work in progress. Drugs and violence are still present. But after several failed attempts, the country now has a peace deal with the farc that was just passed by its congress. Sokoloff and the benefit of doing it. Logan and jose Miguel Sokoloff . He was publicly recognized by his client, colombias ministry of defense, with its highest honor thats rarely awarded to civilians for his Creative Advertising campaigns to help end the war. Normally in advertising, you always want to see your clients coming back . Sokoloff yeah. laughs logan you nev you never want to get rid of them. 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That he survived is amazing enough; what happened next got hollywoods attention. His story is now a movie, called lion, the english translation of his indian name. But there would be no movie, no story without saroos memories, the recollections of a terrified little boy. Its hard to recall events from age five, but witnesses we talked to and documents we found support almost all that he remembers. Saroo brierley considers himself lucky to be alive. When you hear his story, we think youll understand why. Tell me about the night you got lost. What do you remember . Saroo brierley i remember it so vividly. Its its a memory thats been within me for such a long time. Whitaker it began when Saroo Brierley was five in his village in central india. He lived in a cramped one room house made of cow dung and brick with his mother, two older brothers, and younger sister. His father had abandoned them leaving them penniless. Do you remember being hungry . Saroo brierley were always hungry. We were always sort of having to sort of live a day at a time. Whitaker you found more food at the train station than anyplace else . Saroo brierley if i really wanted to sort of find food, the train station is the best place. It wasnt just myself, there was other beggars and people at the train station too. Whitaker is that what you and your brothers were . Saroo brierley we were beggars, yeah. Whitaker he says his mother would often leave the children for days on their own so she could earn less than 1 a day hauling rocks at construction sites. Saroo brierley when i saw her eyes as a child, i know she was going through hardship. Whitaker you remember thinking that, looking at your mother . Saroo brierley yeah. Id see, whilst im sort of sleeping or almost asleep next to my sister, and i could see sort of tears going down her eyes as well. Whitaker one night, guddu, his oldest brother he idolized, wanted to scavenge at the big train station down the track. Saroo says he begged to go with him. Reluctantly, his brother gave in. Saroo remembers the station had a water tower and a pedestrian walkway. He also remembers he was exhausted. When they got there, it was late at night. Saroo brierley and i just wanted to go to sleep, and my brother said, wait here. Ill be back. I ended up going to sleep on the bench. Im not too sure whether it was like ten minutes, 20 minutes, an hour, two hours, three hours. Whitaker when he woke up, he remembers a train was there but his brother was not. Saroo thought he might be inside looking under seats for coins and food. He didnt find him, but he did find a comfortable seat and fell back to sleep. When he woke up again, as depicted in the movie, the train was careening across india for hours and hours. Saroo brierley its a ghost train. No ones on the train. And whitaker and the train is hurtling down the tracks Saroo Brierley its hurtling down the tracks. And i just ran up and down. Tears. I was locked in the carriage. I couldnt open it. Im on this carriage, on this train, all by myself locked as a prisoner. Its prisoner. Whitaker and youre five years old. Saroo brierley and im five years old. Whitaker he thinks he was trapped more than a day. He ended up 1,000 miles from home, in the crowds and chaos of the main calcutta train station. More than a Million People pass through here every day. Saroo brierley i was panicking. My heart was going triple time. Im calling out for my brother, my sister and my mother. Whitaker was no one paying attention to a little little kid in the crowd . Saroo brierley no one was paying attention. No. To them, its like youre just another kid outside the train station, you know . A beggar out from the train station. Whitaker to make matters worse he spoke hindi. In calcutta, people speak bengali. He avoided the police because, at home, Police Arrested beggars. So hed have to do what hed learned from his brothers survive on his wits and scavenge in a vast, unforgiving city threatening to swallow him up. He slept alongside other street kids in the train station, but there were adult predators at night. Saroo says he barely survived perhaps for weeks before a young man helped him and brought him to the police. A judge sent him to an orphanage. While the movie heightened the action for dramatic effect, we confirmed with the director of the orphanage that saroo told his story of being lost when they took him in. The social workers wrote his story in this log. Fiveyearold saroo didnt know his last name, didnt know his address, didnt know the name of his village. They put his picture on flyers, on tv, in the paper. But no one responded. He was declared a lost child of india. The woman who ran the orphanage told saroo a family in australia wanted to adopt him. About six months after getting on that train, he got on a jumbo jet to australia where he met his new mom and dad, sue and John Brierley. What was that like when he gets off the plane . Sue brierley sighs oh. John brierley pretty incredible sue brierley yes. John brierley yeah sue brierley it was just so amazing. He just had these incredible eyes, and calmness about him. He seemed a little bit cautious, but he didnt seem fearful. Whitaker they took saroo back to their home on the australian island of tasmania where he had a toyfilled room as big as his house in india. His new mother put a map of india on his wall, so hed always remember where he came from. Sue brierley he virtually put his life in our hands from the first moment we met. Whitaker you could feel that. Sue brierley yes. Yes. Definitely. Whitaker they saved you. Saroo brierley they did. But they didnt know my past and what had been. And i only told them to the point of, you know, as much language as i had that i could describe things. Whitaker slowly, as he learned english in school, he began to reveal his past. He remembered details of the station where he got on the train to calcutta. The water tower. The pedestrian bridge. He remembered the dam where he would play in the river. Sue wrote it all down in this diary. Under the love and care of sue and john, saroo thrived. He excelled at sports. He was popular at school. Saroo brierley i was happy, i was comfortable, getting the love that i that ive always sort of wanted. Whitaker with your new life, did you think about your old life often . Saroo brierley of course i did. Those memories came alive when i went to sleep. Whitaker but sometimes in his waking hours, he would search the map of india, hoping to recognize something, hoping to find his mother. He said he feared she was anguished over losing him. How did you feel about that . Saroo brierley helpless. Thats what it was, at the end of the day. You couldnt do anything. You think about it quite a bit. I was holding onto those memories, never to let go. Whitaker nearly 20 years after he went missing, he discovered he could use his memories like a mental map to find his way home. His discovery . Google earth. Saroo brierley its just so massive. And this is what ive been sort of looking at. Whitaker with google earth, he could get a birds eye view of towns and landmarks. He calculated a search radius from calcutta based on the speed of trains and the time he thought he was locked on board. Night after night, he would follow the tracks looking for anything that would match his memory of the station where he got lost. So out of all of india, all the train stations in all of india, youre looking for a water tower and a walkway over the train tracks . Saroo brierley uhhuh. Basically, a needle in a haystack. Whitaker one night, frustrated by hours, years, of fruitless searching, he looked out farther than he ever imagined he could have traveled. Saroo brierley all of a sudden i come to this train station here and i zoom down. It matched absolutely perfectly. Whitaker the water towers right there Saroo Brierley the water tower is right there. Whitaker laughs and the pedestrian walkway. Saroo brierley the flyover bridge, the pedestrian walkway. Whitaker farther on, he saw the dam where he played in the river. It all matched what hed told his adoptive mother, sue, years earlier, down to the map they had drawn in the diary. Many people dont remember younger than five, but yet you remember in such great detail. Why do you think that is . Saroo brierley i reckon what it is, is that i never went to school. So language wasnt really in me, you know. It was all visual. My visual senses were extremely heightened. Whitaker he knew he had to go to india to try to find his mother. At the airport, sue gave him this photo. Its how he would have looked when his birth mother last saw him. Saroo brierley and all of a sudden, you know, my emotions and everything just take over me, and im just in tears. It was almost like feeling, you know, before actually knowing, mum, im coming home to see you. Whitaker after 25 years, 16 hours on the plane, and a four hour drive, he was finally home. It was just as hed remembered the path hed walked many times to his house. But when he got there, it was abandoned. Your familys not there. What are you thinking . Saroo brierley i thought, theyre dead. I thought the worst. All the worst things that you could think of possibly was just going through my head. Whitaker saroo, now an aussie, stood out in the slum. He couldnt communicate. A man approached who spoke english. Saroo said he was looking for the family that had lived in this house. The man told saroo to come with him. Saroo brierley and i walked for about 15 meters just around the corner, and the man goes, this is your mother. And she walked forward, and i walked towards her. We were our eyes were locked together. Whitaker whatd you see in your birth mothers eyes when you look in them for the first time in years . Saroo brierley the tears that i saw when i used to look at her and i can see that shes struggling but this time it was tears of joy. Whitaker we sent our cameras to his home village. His mother kamla told us, when i saw him i knew he was my saroo. Hes now been back to india fourteen times. He reunited with his sister and one brother who both had moved to a nearby city, but his mother never left their village. The movie shows the love between saroo and his oldest brother guddu, who took him to that train platform 25 years before. Kamla told saroo his brother was killed on the tracks the very night saroo was lost. On that one night, your mother lost two sons . Saroo brierley yes, and i cant think, you know, what she went through. Its like, one is just, you know, here it is, hes died, but the other one, hes just disappeared. Whitaker why did your birth mother decide to stay there in that very village . Saroo brierley because she felt that one day the son that she had lost would come back. And it was amazing because here i am, determined to find my hometown and my family from one side of the world, oceans apart, and heres my birth mother sitting there and waiting because she knew that one day her son would come back. And im so glad that she did. Whitaker saroo is now helping his biological mother in india financially, but he considers sue and John Brierley his mom and dad, and australia his home. This cbs sports update is brought to you by ford division. Im james brown with scores from nfl today. Leveon bell rushes for team record 236 yards in the steelers win miami. Has won 7 of its last 8 to stay in the playoff hunt. 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