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Will that convince critics to come back and see orcas in captivity? sea world is certainly hoping it will make a splash. david wright, abc news, new york. >> this is going to be one of those debates that wont be over anytime soon. >> i know a lot of mothers who saw the documentary and just were like were never ever taking our kids to sea world at all. im from florida and we often went to sea world growing up and it was pretty cool to see the animals so up close. especially animals from the sea b...

Left his base there in eastern afghanistan talk to me a little bit about his behavior. >> there are reports that he had maybe walked off the base at least once beforehand and there are some questions -- i mean the charges suggest, first of all, that bergdahl walked off the post and he should you know face those charges. i dont think theres a possibility here that he will pe maybe discharged from the army have his pay cut, but i think theres a small chance very small chance that hell face jail ti...

Nevertheless theres probably not enough punishment. >> lets move on from some of the politics surrounding this. remember when president obama staged a photo op alongside his parents. >> in the simple moments with family and friends which all of us take for granted, but while bowe was gone, he was never forgotten. >> remember when susan rice hailed him as a hero? >> certainly anybody whos been held in those conditions in captivity for five years has paid an extraordinary price, but that is really...

Impressive. >> the wealth in china is increasing, so as a status symbol to be able to acquire products that include tiger bone, tiger bone wine, for example, elevates your status in the community. >> while there are just over 2,000 wild tigers left in india, three times as many are locked up in chinese tiger farms. a london group called the environmental investigation agency shot this undercover video. >> there are two in china that have more than a thousand tigers each. its like farming tigers....

Impressive. >> the wealth in china is increasing, so as a status symbol to be able to acquire products that include tiger bone, tiger bone wine, for example, elevates your status in the community. >> while there are just over 2,000 wild tigers left in india, three times as many are locked up in chinese tiger farms. a london group called the environmental investigation agency shot this undercover video. >> there are two in china that have more than a thousand tigers each. its like farming tigers....

I want you to know i had nothing to do with this. so im trying to keep my head up the best i can. >> yeah. yeah, i know. >> being in here sucks, you know? >> i know. i know. i know. its like being in captivity. i know it sucks. its just a modern form of slavery. carltons had a little past, and everything is based upon the past. but i see this with many of our minority kids. theyll be locked up, theyll be searched 15, 20, 30 times. but if a cajun kid, ive never seen searched 15, 20, 30 times. i d...

John. he described the torture he suffered at the hands of jihad eye john in an article he wrote for the sunday times in the u.k. he said at one point he held a sword to his neck and said feel it? cold isnt it? can you imagine the pain youll feel when it cuts. unimaginable pain. espinosa says jihadi john relished scaring hostages with gruesome details of how he would slaughter them telling them the first blow hits the veins. you all squirm like animals. the third blow will take off your head. i ...

And explains why people havent been talking. they were told by isis if they talked about their captivity, all of the remaining captives would be punished. there is essentially only one captive left and thats why javier wrote this piece and talked about it. >> reporter: espinosa was held with more than 20 other western hostages in syria, including americans james foley, steven sotloff and kayla mueller who are all now dead. espinosa says kassig told him of his own torture saying when they realize...

Was not acceptable for sale. to protect herself, she also pretended to be deaf and mute. isis took her to a building with a makeshift sign hospital of the islamic state written on the front. she spent the next 50 days in a darkroom in the basement. >> translator: we asked the women with us what happened to their babies and they told us they had been taken away. they were separating women from their babies to stop them from escaping. >> after about seven weeks in captivity, she gave birth. she ha...

A radio and tv ad campaign targeting mothers in immigrant communities, pleading with them to talk to their children especially their daughters, about the dangers of traveling to syria. >> the dangers are enormous. they may get there, they may never leave. thats one of the big problems. thanks very much brian, for that. he was certainly tortured tortured by jihadi john and threatened over the time he was being tortured with beheading but a former isis hostage lived to tell the world all about i...