for accountability? from making sure no otherfamilies endure what we have? you ve heard that report. what is your response to it? i m very grateful for the immense thoroughness of donna s work. i m very grateful that she has very clearly said that what happened at this trust was unacceptable and has to change. i m not entirely certain whether or not the trust actually has the ability to make the changes she mandates. i hope they will for obvious reasons, but at least so far in the last 20 years, they haven t shown any signs of being able to. so i think it will be a case of watch this space and see what happens next. russia says it has signed up some 16,000 recruits from the middle east to fight with its forces in ukraine. social media in syria has been flooded with requests for people tojoin russian troops in return for up to 7,000 dollars for deployment. one former syrian regime soldier who has been offered thousands of dollars to fight in the war has told the bbc his country s broke
richard, thank you for being here, it s phenomenal footage today, i have to ask you what happened to that woman. do you know where she came from and where she and her family ended up? she is from a kurdish part of northern syria very close to the turkish border. her husband was a regime soldier who defected. he didn t believe in the regime s policies or couldn t stomach them anymore and was hiding out and then once the town got surrounded by isis and their neighbor s house was destroyed this family, this young couple, he a defected soldier, she s 19 years old, decided that they had to leave so they went to turkey, they spent six days in turkey. they took a boat to go to greece. it took them four different trips because one of the times the motor didn t work. another time the boat started to sink and they were rescued by turkish fishermen. she had a miscarriage a year ago. then after this fourth attempt on the boat she successfully made it to greece with her young husband and they hav
be executed. even if we wanted to go back, we don t have any money left. she says. i asked her how she felt before in the gas. everything was burning she says. my eyes, my skin, my stomach was hurting. she doesn t remember falling. she s more worried about what happens next, no way forward, no money left and a baby on the way. joining us now from hung i have nbc s chief foreign correspondent richard engel. richard, thank you for being here, it s phenomenal footage today, i have to ask you what happened to that woman. do you know where she came from and where she and her family ended up? she is from a kurdish part of northern syria very close to the turkish border. her husband was a regime soldier who defected. he didn t believe in the regime s policies or couldn t stomach them anymore and was hiding out and then once the town got surrounded by isis and
is a rebel fighter or a regime soldier. the united nations estimates more than 100,000 people have been killed in the war with nearly seven million uprooted from their homes. leland is live from jerusalem. with all of this diplomatic talk, tell us more about how things really are on the ground. jon, they still continue to spiral out of control, especially with the summer offensive ongoing inside of syria. 5,000 people die there every month. that means since the alleged chemical weapons attack, about another 3,000 people, men, women and children, have all died there from conventional weapons inside syria. the fighting rages on. just recently rebels overran one of the key christian villages there inside syria and said they would blow up two of the oldest monasteries that exists inside of that country. also there s a lot of talk about these rebels that have overrun a number of christian veillagevil
that his name is abu sakar, one of the founder of the brigade that s based in homs. in the video, you see this man standing over the mutilated corporation of a regime soldier. he then reaches into, starts carving into the chest of the syrian soldier, rips out the man s heart and liver, looks up towards the camera. says, i swear to god we will eat your hearts out, you soldiers of bashar, you dog, then proceeds to bite into the heart. he looks very proud as he s doing this and proclaiming what he s doing to the camera. now, this is a video that has shocked many. we can t independently verify its authenticity, but other members of the rebels that we spoked with confirm that this did actually take place. the opposition syria national coalition has strongly condemned this video. i spoke a few hours ago with human rights watch group here in