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The rare places of Islamic State rule. Is rare to get this kind of insight. Much of the town has been hit by airstrikes. The evidence still remains. This is what is left of the state market. For the price of a couple of hundred dollars, dozens of young women were wrapped in black gowns and treated here. The women were brought across the iraqi borders. If you look around, it is hard to imagine what these women went through over the past two years. We found the ball making factory across the road. Militants turned this into a gym for its fighters. On the main street, another building hit find airstrike. We need a man outside, he witnessed the brutality we met a man outside. He witnessed the brutality firsthand. That was sentenced was taken outside the court and condemned to death. They would be shot or beheaded. They would hang them for three or four days. Was one of the Islamic State commanders who tried to defend the city. He was captured after being injured by u. S. Airstrike. Having fought in iraq and syria, he admits the is are struggling to cope with attacks. May have affected us a lot. 70 of ournt that defeats are due to airstrikes. Theres nothing we can do. The airplanes use thermal imaging at night. It is easier during the day, but at night it is a big problem. Correspondent under the cover of the british and u. S. Airstrikes, the forces are slowly advancing. We joined them just outside akbar. These fighters are 30 miles from the city. It might take months if not years before they make it inside and defeat the Islamic State. Bbc news, northern syria. Laura lets pick up on the impact of the u. S. Airstrikes. A former i spoke with u. S. Under secretary of state and ambassador to nato from palo alto, california. I. S. Commander admitted airstrikes are hurting the group, but can airstrikes alone in the conflict . The airstrikes have been significant and they have lost territory, but i do not believe, and i dont make anyone does, that airstrikes alone can defeat the group. The strategic problem facing all of us is that the Islamic State is still there and the threat has metastasized. They have an outpost in libya. This is a longterm fight. We have to take it more intensively through the air, and we have to support people on the ground whether they are kurdish, moderate syrian, or the iraqi army, to defeat them where they are. Laura having the military progress against i. S. Enabled president assad to consolidate his hold on power. He held elections today. No question that president assad, unfortunately in my view, is stronger than when the russians entered the fight in september 2015. They now have territory from , which the Aleppo Syrian state controls. They have not use the power of the Syrian Air Force and the russians have not used their power to strike against the Islamic State across the board. That is also been one of the features, the disarming. Arab states and european countries, United States, and canada a renewed effort to increase the tempo of the airstrikes and to be more effective through training and arms to some of the groups on the ground. The fight gets harder because they have to be successful in iraq and libya. Laura on the syrian peace talks front, they began in geneva against the backdrop of that shaky ceasefire. You expect those talks to go anywhere . I think there is a lot of pessimism. Secretary of state john kerry has defied to the expectations. He has managed with the Russian Foreign minister to engineer a ceasefire that has held in many places. Ive said been saved over the last 30 days or 40 days. Tennessees fire be extended . Like the Syrian Government will extend the ceasefire. They feel they can make gains on the ground through further fighting in and around aleppo. That will be a problem keeping it together. In the final analysis, this war will only end, and maybe in one year or three years from now, at a negotiating table. Idea of encouraging negotiations is right, but we need more muscle. The russian government needs to do more to hold the Syrian Government accountable to those negotiations. Laura it has been nearly two years since the kidnapping of 200 schoolgirls in the nigerian town of chibok. Thursday marks the anniversary. The Extremist Group continue spreading terror in the region. The United States will continue offering intelligence and advisory support, as well as financial aid. It may take more to bring the chibok girls home. A nigerian city, we met a grow that was rescued, but that is only the beginning. His report contains distressing images. Correspondent you do not know her. She was not one of the chibok schoolgirls. She is one of the thousands of other girls taken by boko haram. Story is the story of how they are tearing communities apart. She explains how she was kidnapped by boko haram and taken to the forest. Choice to beus a married or a slave. I decided to marry. Correspondent what is getting married involve . Together. D i became pregnant from my husband. I gave birth to a boy. Correspondent she was rescued before her son was born and kept in touch with her husband of phone before the army took it from her. It was the last time she spoke to him. Do you love your husband . Yes. Correspondent her family is half muslim have christian. They voted to decide if she anuld have a abortion abortion. Choose allowed to keep the baby, but it brought shame. People labeled her a boko haram wife, called her a criminal. They did not want her near here they didnt like her. How do they treat your child . They hated my child. He fell sick and no one took care of him. No one likes hi liked him. Correspondent one nights ago, her ninemonthold was bitten by a snake and died. Half the family celebrated what they called gods will. Summer happy that he died. They were happy the reminder of boko haram had gone. Correspondent she is sad, angry, confused. She is 17 energy talks of going to school and being a doctor. Two talks of going back to the forest. She talks of being a suicide bomber. Not far from her home, there are other women with similar stories of life under boko haram. How did you escape . Stories of beatings, forced marriages, suffering a stigma. When you live under them, they beat you. Even with the child on your back, they beat the child. At night they try to rape you. You have to fight them off. Correspondent this is another town were boko haram came and at least 300ook children from the school. One of these men have lost his wife. The other his 7yearold toy to the islamic group. What do they fight for . Leadership or what . Chibok is all they are talking about he says. No one is talking about how our children were kidnapped. The crisis in northeastern nigeria is about more than the chibok girls. Thousands of people being kidnapped were forced to live under boko haram. It is not just the trauma of that or the sexual abuse, it is when i come back to their communities and people reject them when they come back to their communities and people reject them. That is the real tragedy. She is alone and grieving her child did whether she goes back to school or back to boko haram depends on how her family and community treats her. Bbc news, nigeria. Laura she and so many others terrorized by boko haram. The pentagon says that Russian Military aircraft have conducted a series of aggressive overflights of a naval warship in the baltic sea. A russian fighter jet flew nine meters above the destroyer uss donald cook in international waters. The u. S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention have confirmed that the zika virus in pregnant women causes babies to be born with unusually small heads and brain abnormalities. After months of debating that ofa was connected to a surge birth defects in brazil. There was no doubt that zika causes microcephaly. The police in spain have arrested a frenchman suspected of providing arms to the extremists that attacked a supermarket in paris last year. He was arrested in southern spain. He was living under a false identity. Spanish and french investigators believe that he led france he fled france shortly after the 2015 attacks and continue trafficking weapons. There is been an outcry after footage emerged a vigilante bulgaria rounding up migrants, forcing them into the ground, and tying them up here at first their help was welcomed to obtain migrants illegally crossing the border from turkey. They have now reversed their position. what happened in the seclusion of the bull gary and forest has been seen all over the world. The men on the ground are thought to be afghan refugees. The message from their assailants could not be clearer. Noble guerrier for you. No bulgaria for you. No bulgaria. They the video emerged same time the bulgarian Prime Minister publicly thanked the citizens who round of migrants. The footage was taken just outside of this village. It is close to the turkish border. We saw dozens of police and soldiers here. Even so, 90 of the migrants by locale picked up people. We hand them over to the police. He says that he gives refugees something to eat and drink before he reports them. Everyone we met condemned the video, but it is not the first time bulgarians have taken the law into their own hands. Take the selfstyled Margaret Hunter who recently were stained a group who recently restrained a group of syrian refugees. He was called a superhero. It is illegal to detain migrants, or anyone, because they have no knowledge that these people were migrants. Hey could have been bulgarian it is very difficult to say. Jenny your Prime Minister thanked people that rounded up the refugees. That is not true. Jenny folk area has openly adopted one of the toughest stances on migrants in a whole european union. Protect theas to to eus external borders, but it does so at the expense of human rights. A man has been arrested over the video and the government has promised a crackdown on vigilantes. Many wonder how far some will go to protect their borders. Jenny hill, bbc news. Flare innsions bulgaria over migrants. You are watching bbc world news america. Still to come, taking on paralysis. How new technology is helping a man in the u. S. Move his hand. The Chinese Court has ruled against a gay man seeking the right to marry. Sun wenlin failed to force the local authority to issue a marriage certificate. , andspondent sun wenlin internet employee, and who when mingliang may have lost but they are still celebrating a victory of sorts. There celebrating the fact that even getting the court to hear the case is assigned the attitudes might be changing. Mr. Sun argued that there is nothing in chinese law that prohibits samesex couples from marrying. Our country has never had any written legal term preventing marriage from people of the same sex, other unlike the United States. Correspondent the court ruled in the favor of the local government in the city of changsha. This is not the beginning or the end. No right is achieved overnight. I believe as long as we try together we will finally realize the rights of equality. Correspondent relaxing at home before the case, mr. Sun and already decided they would appeal if the ruling went against them. We dont really need a marriage to prove our love, we just want to be treated equally. Correspondent they may face a long legal fight, but in raising the issue and placing it on the public agenda, supporters say they are already changing minds of the court of public opinion. Bbc news, beijing. A paralyzed man in the u. S. Can use his hands to perform demanding tasks like playing video games by thinking about it. Thanks to scientists who have sorted out a way to bypass the damage to his spinal cord. Ian is playing a guitar video game using the power of thought. His paralyzed fingers can move as a result of commands from his brain fed into a computer which stimulates his muscles via the sensors on his arm. Ian was paralyzed below the elbows in a diving accident six years ago. He is slowly relearning to use his fingers. Now it is so fluid it is kind of like it was before my injury. I think about what i want to do and i can do it. Correspondent the key to the technology is a tiny computer implanted onrgeons the motor cortex of the brain which controls movement. When he thinks of moving his fingers and hands, they cannot travel down his injured spinal cord, so they bypass the injury. The computer interprets the signal and sends impulses to the sensors on his wrists. His movements are slow and deliberate, but his dexterity is improving. He can demonstrate practical tasks like swiping a bank card. Engineers hope that he can eventually use a keyboard. The biggest dream would be able to get full function of my hands back. That allows you to be more independent. You dont have to rely on people for simple daytoday tasks that you take for granted. Correspondent several more patients are lined up to receive the device in ohio. It provides hope for many patients in the future as the technology evolves, to help people who have disabilities from spinal cord injury, traumatic rain injury, or stroke to be more functional and independent. Correspondent this technology is developing fast. Four years ago, a paralyzed woman controlled a robotic arm using her thoughts. A different approach is spinal repair. This patient in poland had a cell transplant and can now write a bike. Ride a bike. This research is restricted to the laborde tory restricted to the laboratory, but they hope that it will eventually allow patients greater independence. Now to the reallife story of the palestinian doctor in israelis children airstrikes which has been turned into a play called i shall not hate. The performance is heart wrenching and affirming. It is part of the voices from the changing middle east festivals in washington. Jane obrien reports. Jane i shall not hate tells the story of the doctor in his own words. It is performed in hebrew and arabic and chronicles his childhood in a refugee camp, his determination to become a doctor come the death of his wife to leukemia, and his three daughters killed when israeli missiles hit the family home in gaza. This shows one of his daughters being taken to the hospital after the strike that killed the other three. After i left there room, the first bomb. Me. Was the closest one to she was the most lovely girl. Jane how do you bear seeing your life and the tragedy that you experienced replayed in front of you so viscerally over and over . It is my need not forget that there are millions of people still there suffering the same. I ask myself, what can i do . To make a difference in others lives. Jane do you think that the Palestinian Conflict has become forgotten . It isnt forgotten. Is a child that is suffering and Palestinian People who are alive, the conflict is alive. When are we going to solve it . That is the problem. To relieve the suffering of the Palestinian People. Jane Laura Trevelyan dr. Laura trevelyan dr. Izzeldin abuelaish moved to canada with his remaining daughters where he opened a charity, daughters for life. To see the peace and reconciliation youre talking about happen. Does that make you depressed . I will never be depressed or lose hope, because i am a physician who believes in hope. Many conflicts have been solved. What is happening in the middle east, one day, it will be solved. [applause] laura help from springing from todays broadcast coming to a close. You can find more now website. Thank you for watching and please, tune in tomorrow. Make sense of International News at bbc. Com news. 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