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Welcome to hardtalk, with me, zeinab badawi. My guest is american journalist theo padnos. From october 2012 to august 2014 he was held hostage in syria by the nusra front, which is allied to alqaeda. He was beaten, abused, not knowing from day to day if he would be shot or spared by his captors. But was he the victim of his own actions . He says the most bitter moment of his captivity was the realisation that it was he himself who was mostly responsible for his ordeal. Theo padnos, welcome to ha...

Welcome to hardtalk, with me, zeinab badawi. My guest is american journalist theo padnos. From october 2012 to august 2014 he was held hostage in syria by the nusra front, which is allied to alqaeda. He was beaten, abused, not knowing from day to day if he would be shot or spared by his captors. But was he the victim of his own actions . He says the most bitter moment of his captivity was the realisation that it was he himself who was mostly responsible for his ordeal. Theo padnos, welcome to ha...

Welcome to hardtalk, with me, zeinab badawi. My guest is american journalist theo padnos. From october 2012 to august 2014 he was held hostage in syria by the nusra front, which is allied to alqaeda. He was beaten, abused, not knowing from day to day if he would be shot or spared by his captors. But was he the victim of his own actions . He says the most bitter moment of his captivity was the realisation that it was he himself who was mostly responsible for his ordeal. Theo padnos, welcome to ha...

The metro also leads on the snowy conditions. Its headline is white out travel misery, as snow sweeps britain. The telegraph leads on britains role in the trump dossier. It quotes an american source as saying the British Government gave permission to the fbi to speak to the former british spy who compiled the documents. The Financial Times says that, just one day after heavily fining volkswagen, the Us Government is turning its fire on fiat chrysler. The daily mirror front page is dedicated to t...

The metro also leads on the snowy conditions. Its headline is white out travel misery, as snow sweeps britain. The telegraph leads on britains role in the trump dossier. It quotes an american source as saying the British Government gave permission to the fbi to speak to the former british spy who compiled the documents. The Financial Times says that, just one day after heavily fining volkswagen, the Us Government is turning its fire on fiat chrysler. The daily mirror front page is dedicated to t...

>> hard to believe but here we are, final rehearsals as the winter olympics begin in beijing, now critics from the hills to the nba want the focus what is happening on the other side of that country outside the media spotlight. more than 1 million men and women and children are in concentration camps in china because of their uyghur ethnicity. stories of evil that ranks with the worst atrocities in history. we will spare the graphic details, except things like forced sterilization surgeries, ele...

Subjected to physical abuse. discovered wrong we were tortured with cattle prods which everybody in germany offered and ordnance a decent sort and you wouldnt want often bought what theyd used to prod on your stomach or genitals. there were two electrodes at the end of the proud and when you felt the sharks and head that buzzing noise you went crazy with fear which one was on hysterical woman was all forms. going to torture was absolutely hellish it was searched the value of what i wanted to die...

College campuses i dont think well make a whole lot of progress. and well keep seeing videos like out of oklahoma today. >> you were a former member of sae. it lists more than 130 have been suspended since 2010. and that doesnt include recent incidents. those incidents include people shocked with cattle prods, burned with an iron. freshmen kept in a dark basement for hours. but we dont talk about all the racist incidents. ben ferguson do you think that this incident is isolated? >> no i dont. an...

Alcohol hazing or drug incidents at some kind of sae event. that is more than any other fraternity across the country. in 2006 pledges at the university of texas were allegedly shocked with cattle prods, beaten with pieces of bamboo, forced to binge drink. in 2008 a student at california state university died of alcohol poisoning at an initiation ritual. the family sued sae members for negligence and settled for at least $2.4 million. and in 2009 a student at the university of cnn died, also, yo...

We were demonstrating and marching, protesting in front of the different stores here in town for the right to be served at the large counters. they used cattle prods, if you know what a cattle prod is, on us here in gaston. i still have burns on spots of my body today where they had stuck those cattle prods to me. >> the fears of frustration and discord are burning in every city. next week i shall ask the congress of the united states to act, to make a commitment that is not fully made in this c...