From New York, this is democracy now.

It was like a classic kidnap, like the ones they used to do.

It just hasn't happened in a long time.

They came through the taxi driver out of the car.

They got in, put my head down and tied my hands.

They put me in my knees and epistol to my head.

Prominent Russian journalist Elena Milashina suffers brain injury after being violently attacked

while reporting in Chechnya.

We'll go to Moscow.

But first to key, as Ukrainians mourn the death of writer Victoria Amalina, she was killed

in a Russian air strike in Kramatorsk.

We'll speak with her friend, Andrea Kirakoff.

One of Ukraine's best known authors, he says her smile sparkled even in the most difficult

times.

Then to Syria, where the United Nations has established an independent body to investigate

what happened to more than 130,000 people who've gone missing during the 12-year conflict.

We'll also look at a new BBC documentary, Capdagon, inside Syria's drug trafficking

empire.

My search reveals the role of Syria's most powerful family.

No smuggler operates without connections to the regime.

And I uncover how the Syrian regime itself has become addicted to Capdagon.

If Assad stopped the drug trade for 20 days, the economy would collapse.

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