A very warm welcome you are watching r. T. International with mina care and good to have you with us this hour our top story for three hundred palestinians have reportedly been injured including around fifty with gunshot wounds this is another day of rage was declared on friday against president trunks unilateral decision to recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital weve been following the fresh wave of protests from the ground. Im here with these bases six point three in northern ramallah where the focus of come all the way in and they firing tear gas are we moving to the back the smaller crowd here than normal but they have as always been throwing rocks and stones and sometimes molotov cocktails at the Israeli Soldiers this is the floor its friday of rage actually palestinians all over gaza strip East Jerusalem and the west bank are demonstrating and protesting against Donald Trumps declaration days right the army is drawing tear gas canisters on the protesters since the morning since that announcement was made. Well you can smell the tear gas from here so this trump made that announcement fourteen palestinians have been killed and those figures according to the palestinian Hope Ministry they also report more than three thousand people have been injured its escalating its uprising but that is right the army has been throwing tear gas canisters all the protesters are running away from the buffer zone found out that israelis have been shooting live that nation are probably has one hundred very very very close to where he was standing so. The situation here like it has been for the last month. Quite tense and we can see if you smell tear gas if away there were at least five ambulances that. Floor are three injuries. The u. S. Decision ends decades of american new china tea on one of the most complex issues in the region as both israel and palestine have claims on jerusalem but under International LawEast Jerusalem is not part of israel the city also houses holy sites for the three most popular religions the u. S. Ambassador to israel has the palestinians over reacted to Donald Trumps decision in an ugly and anti semitic way that says transplant to relocate the u. S. Embassy to jerusalem has sparked a global condemnation with protests held around the world an overwhelming majority at the Un General Assembly voted to reject the move. Weve also followed the story of a palestinian boy who spent twenty days in an israeli prison and to whom many now refer to as a symbol of resistance against israel. But i wasnt what i was and there were there were confrontations and the demonstration to reject trumps decision when we were with sound cannons and gas bombs i had no choice but to run away. Hit me in my chest with a weapon and i was thrown on the ground then a group of twenty three soldiers attacked me they tied my hands and blindfolded me so i could not see anything and insulted me. To. Me its us for several minutes they hit us on the feet and hands i lost one of my shoes and the took the other one and poured such cold water must for. Thousands of kurdish speaking years it is are still being kept hostage in iraq despite the fall of Islamic State many of them are children who have been abducted and sold at slave markets r. T. Senior correspondent mara does do you have reports on the way home from terrorist captivity. Age ten location. Starting bid ten thousand dollars russia nine location turkey starting bid fifteen thousand dollars keenness age eight location syria starting bid for the thousand dollars. Age fifteen. Baghdad sold for two and a hot thousand dollars d. 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 born back. 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 she shouldnt shops or to shut. The fuck up with very Serious Business so many people who are happy that shes. Shortly after 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 they have begun secrecy i dont she got you know i says say that if we show the girl still in that position with their relatives apparent t. V. The deal will be off but theyd kill the hostages as such some of the. People involved didnt want to appear on camera but the stories ive. Heard this one of the girls was kidnapped when she was sent the noise of rapes. Is a consecutive house here where there are several girls son eleven twelve years old who were all raped gifted or sold as many as fifteen signs. If not for sexual pleasure isis brainwashes you see the 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 neve then besieged raca tuesday hardest took not only the guns and families but also their hostages and slaves the same people that are now being boarded back of the prices vary depending on where there are if theyre in dangerous place you can be eighty thousand dollars otherwise around fifteen thousand. Other is also tracking down missing people one iraqi m. P. Has made a name for herself rescuing children. Dont know that she spent her own money buying out several of these kids another had at one of the girls told me the story of her escape 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 fighters or gave her some sleeping pills she kept them and put them in the sea the terrorist fell asleep and she and her managed to escape the girl was eight years old. Was too terrified to do anything so the girl told her lets try and run away they will kill us anyway and the escaped three thousand views e. D. s is still missing hundreds presumed held by isis the International Community no longer really cares if these do the track the same ratings now that they arent being slaughtered so its up to them to recover their own children and to help them heal from what isis has done to them or our guys the odd scene from the hawk iraq r. T. Contacted several human rights organizations about 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 who whose fate are unknown the families are still looking for them whether they are in captivity with islam except 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 case so that we can assist in the search and identification of people who are missing as was just mentioned many people went missing after the fierce battle for the mosul despite the citys liberation more than five months ago it still looks like a wolf in the red squares on a map showing just how much of mosul has been obliterated yet following isis defeat the locals a little effort has been made to rebuild what was once considered one of iraqs most beautiful cities. In the. In. The. We havent received any aid from the government or any. I feel completely destroyed i dont feel like coming back to the sort of ive lost all hope of living here after seeing all this devastation. In the u. K. Facebook and twitter could face sanctions if they dont help apollo mentary investigation into alleged russian his affair and the brags that vote the head of the socalled fake news the inquiry m. P. Damian collins has now given the social media giants almost three weeks to hand over all the information hes requested. They need to be able to turn us what they can do about it and what we need to be able to do is say to the companies we recognize that you are best placed to move it so what is going on your insights but if you fail to police the search effectively and deal with highly problematic contant then it has to be some sort of sanction against you Damian Collins the chair of the department of Culture Media and Sports Select Committee in the u. K. Parliament hes leading this investigation into socalled alleged russian interference in the e. U. Referendum and hes really slammed these tech giants the social media giant saying that they arent handing over enough information and that the information that they are handing over is the same that they handed over to the Electoral Commission earlier this month and we can look at some of the numbers of come forward facebook for example handing over information which says that story russian ads were taken out with only two hundred views or two hundred people viewing those ads and the total cost of ninety seven cents spent on the Damian Collins saying that no work has been done by facebook to look for other fake accounts and twitter as well handing over information saying that only six tweets from r. T. Accounts at a cost of a thousand dollars again mr collins saying that twitter information that theyve shared is completely inadequate now weve spoken to facebook theyve told us that they are closely cooperating with the Electoral Committee but that they dont have any evidence thus far of russian actors attempting to influence the brigs that vote but this all is very similar to the types of inquiries weve been seeing in the us and looking into the president ial election there and again alleged russian interference and weve also heard from the us senator mark warner whos also been very critical of those social media giants i was concerned at first. The social media Platform Companies did not take this threat seriously enough i believe they are recognizing that threat now theyve provided us with information course the social media giants theyve continuously stressed that the number of ads in the reach of the ads taken out by russians or anyone linked in any way to russia is very small in comparison to other adverts taken out and of course very little has been spoken about for example president obama before that briggs referendum came to the u. K. He gave a speech and told people how to vote very little attention there given to seoul called american interference so many people making those points as well. Well artie contacted facebook for a comment are now warning it told if it had responded fully to all the inquiries of the Electoral Commission independent political commentator adam garry thinks that all the inquiries into alleged russian meddling have reached a point of absurdity to sign of desperation is someone that wants to go to a very nice restaurant in the no tables if the guy is really desperate to get in the can you check again or are you sure you dont have any tables it really is just ridiculous they want to prolong and prolong scandal when frankly all they need to do is look at the facebook its all a matter of Public Record and yes the fingers might get a bit sore scrolling down through the past but it doesnt take you dont need to be some sort of super james bond in order to conduct this it really comes down to irresponsible Corporate Governance irresponsible political governance and a lack of transparency on both sides and in order to stir hoodwink the public about this of this sort of back scratching competition which occasionally draws blood they need a destruction its either a sex scandal its russian meddling. The first ship carrying russian produced gas has reached the u. K. Under a new energy deal such a story wouldnt normally make headlines however the gas is produced by a company which the u. S. Put on it sanctions list in a move strongly supported by london at the time the first round of washingtons sanctions were imposed in twenty fourteen in response to russias alleged involvement in the ukraine conflict the us has always been critical of russias gas supplies to europe thing they undermine Europes Energy Security with moscow using the Energy Sector as a Foreign Policy tool a few britain has backed. Its not in europes interests its not in our interests its also a political rather than a commercial undertaking and there is an existing framework in place for the e. U. To take more aggressive action on more trim too and similar projects if it wished to do so politically we have seen how countries such as putins russia use their gas supplies as a tool of Foreign Policy threatening to cut off supplies address tical increase prices however the end of twenty seventeen has seen the u. K. Out in the cold and in need of russian gas it all started around three weeks ago when the most important pipeline to britain was shut down due to a crack then one of the biggest hubs in europe suffered an explosion which led to a record spike in gas prices in the past four years more over britain has faced an unusually cold winter with snow blizzards and freezing temperatures we discuss this with International Oil and gas expert there selami why is the European Union but it then sub borked u. S. Sanctions when it comes to their own needs they can put aside your share of these sanctions for their own benefit and that is the situation with the United Kingdom now but i sure have is very liable supplier to europe so i think that will continue of course the United States would like to be able to reduce europes dependence on russian gas and the russian oil but they cannot they might try through sanctions doing please their supplies of. The euro old but it will not work because barry can and he is far more expensive than the russian gas. Powerful painkillers are affecting Life Expectancy in america figures show opioids played a bigger role in Overdose Deaths last year than any other drug legal or illegal r. T. Similar can reports. The nations Opioid EpidemicDrug Overdose is 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 new Life Expectancy since the spanish flu one hundred years ago would be entering 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 americas been dealing with an Opioid Crisis thats only getting worse. Every one of those little girls represent the person that we lost. Now this epidemic has resulted in a few shocking cases in the u. S. In ohio a Coroners Office ran out of space to store dead bodies in West Virginia officials have sent 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 hasnt 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 or Simple Solutions and particularly as that as it relates to drug use you know we think drug users are