me. i was terrified. i m i m a mother just fighting for her child. that s universal. some she survived a harrowing ordeal in one of the most dangerous places on earth. tonight they have brought me out to kill me. then from across the world, her kidnappers found her again. he reached out on facebook. did your heart stop? it was scary that he could find me. for the first time, she shares her dramatic story. how she helped secret agents hunt down her captor. this all plays like a thriller. absolutely. the setting. a perfect island paradise. the plot, a daring undercover sting. you are supposed to get wet today give you? they didn t think it would work. face to face with her kidnappers last. i just broke down. it s so hard for you. this is real, lifelike pain. would she get justice? i fought the courage in that moment. and i said i m ready. hello and welcome to dateline. request itself amanda was a fearless young journalist
massive evacuations are happening this hour in southern ukraine. an important dam on the dnipro river destroyed overnight. one ukrainian official accused russia of destroying the dam to, quote, create obstacles for any ukrainian counteroffensive. russia is blaming ukraine. video shows water gushing through the destroyed portion of the dam you can see there. i want to show you another angle that we have pulled in. you can also see what looks like a geyser shooting up into the air. some of the dam s facilities there in the background, some heavily damaged as this flood unfolded. whoa. whoa. whoa. whoa. wh whoa. so flooding is now hitting the roads an neighborhoods downriver in kherson. more than 800 people have been evacuated from there. one ukrainian official said 16,000 people on the west bank
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home alone. and my heart started pounding. and he said, we have arrested adam. and then, i fell to my knees, and i started crying. the next day i woke up, it was my 34th birthday. on the front page of every newspaper in canada was his face. a face that i had not seen in over five years. i came in right after, and she was crying. she said, they got him, they got him. they got adam. and what were your feelings? i was crying. i could not even speak. and immediately, my mind went to, well, there is going to be a trial. and i will have to testify in that trial. and the weight of that, what that really meant to me and would mean to my life became real. amanda is about to take the witness stand and come face to face with her captor, at last. coming up. she was crying, she was upset. i was so afraid to see this man again. what would happen inside that courtroom?
first, we have a boardroom set of four-hour meeting, the book publisher arrives, knocked on the door, comes on in. him and i are allegedly old friends. this is the publisher. nice to meet you. they are actually both undercover agents? both undercover agents. we had a bit of chitchat, sit down, go over the contract. and adam, as we had done in mauritius, he goes over everything he had done. so, you will be the negotiator between people who had amanda and nigel, and who else? and i told lorena that they accepted the thing. right. i am the spokesman. right. i m i am an intelligent person. an educated person. it played out like a movie,