ns he's accused of accepting gifts from wealthy businessmen he denies any wrongdoing to mass graves containing the remains of dozens of people from iraq's easy minority have been found in the northwestern town of single ninety bodies were portly discovered including those of women and children i saw took over same job in twenty fourteen killing and enslaving thousands of members of the religious minority group supporters of independence in spain's catalonia region of hell the torchlight march in the run up to a regional election they demanded the release of politicians and activists jailed by the central government for organizing a succession referendum austria has become the only western european country with a far right party currently in government that's after thirty one year old chancellor sebastian kurtz made a coalition deal with the freedom party. chile will hold a runoff election on sunday for the first time in almost thirty years a conservative coalition could be swept to power by voters dissatisfied by the performance of the center left government and bolivia's president ever has shrugged

off claims he's a dictator after announcing he'll run for a fourth term tens of thousands of his supporters turned out in the city of cochabamba to bacchus twenty nineteen bit but it's triggered protests in several cities but those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after people in power stations that are watching. facing realities if a piece of machinery goes wrong is there a chain of all of this to get a ship through which we can bring a legal system to battle getting to the heart of the matter i don't think we need of the ball but some of my goodness is just that he had a story on talk to houses in. this time. the bomb shattered buildings of the damascus suburb of jobar sits just a few kilometers from the center of the city the truth and long brutal years of

syria's will its beleaguered residents have somehow held out against the forces of the acid regime in the first of two exclusive reports of people in power goes behind the scenes to find out how they've survived so long with the rebel and why they've been so determined to cling on despite repeated attempts to drive you mad. still moon on the moon gun it's.

genuine luna's. winning for you giving it will assure them but not being. been the. one he has over. the whole. novel from the who are sitting. out of the moment. i was how dialing it on. a besieged on klav in the east of syria's capital in the sixth year of a coup. over two hundred fifty thousand people means to me job of. filling the streets with life and noise. now only two hundred families remain

somehow holding out to meet the ruins as phones in the side of president bashar assad. it's the festival of eid an old who can make its i've come to the local mosque on the ground. but but it's not a time for celebration. known load on our. show and i was never here in the us was looming and then the revolution bit. however you how do you know did they know you were out what you had never done how much of that you believe it will be done ultimately lead up.

to the dead or also remember to here in jobar spain sion bomb shelter cemetery. in a. fad has been an undertaker a job of more than fifty years. the work of the women. many of his own family now lawyer i met these broken tunes. on some of the thought it that the mismatches if you have that will kind. of them find it. but it's the it that is to put the fear in me but. the mode of the civets to you.

i wouldn't have thought it would be a doubt it was god it was a man i was so what i got is a month ahead and because. they are no solace and i love it i would ignore my side of the vision of the wisdom i mean what the. i mean. by this with i love i do you know is in. so how to job outcome to. such death and dreadful destruction. i. began in the very earliest arab spring days of the uprising when the people here joined. the first optimistic antigovernment protests.

but peaceful protests only invited a brutal response. soon the number of the regime's victims started to grow. can know what she knew. this morning when i. saw him. and then i'm mad as a widow and lives on her own her only son was killed three years ago he was just eighteen so what the most of those saw him she was appalled. but the show adi i mean we have the. will but i don't you i knew we thought will bring up the body. i mean. what. will be written if any i mean go to such children to medical you know modify will boy i want to get her hand i want to see my dad.

used to show. that. as the protests grew louder and opinions hardened there is became more aggressive sending in the army and using heavier more destructive weapons to punish its opponents. bit by bit this once prosperous damascus suburb just a few kilometers from the heart of the city was to be reduced to rubble. i don't have music you have to tell you one that i think you know i you know that's not as yet. a matter of how and you know who in the north to fly love to your mother couldn't tell you who and how i'm in all i don't know assume it hymie come up with a noble. man and how to be formally

a local real estate tycoon still lives in job out with his family. still but i'm just still a gun in a day lucky on the out. of work a slave in a field what got some sort of idea for the role of ai it was that megan that may stick it in no other than that but all gone when i read mother yes in food i look at a biscuit about what i was i got it's my. the devastation left no building enjoy a bottle untouched be it old or new. in the shocking set it was my. hundred one hundred home gun of rule washington and you know washington that gun sort of lawn is too and i need a lot. now the district is in theory shuttered drek.

streets off the streets of ruined homes shops and public buildings shredded by high explosives. and even that means that the site has settled next and say me i'm in and need to pay us not one cent comes out of. our. safety that he pays on. down the road to the. the hospice is chairman of the council of free job. park mayor and part two a community of the refuses to give in to the regime. that the have. both of them.

have. the myth of the. so. then how do the when. and how to. load is the largest remaining rebel busted on the outskirts of damascus. jutting out into government territory joe bought has been on the front lines since the conflict began. as the uprising escalated into open war over two thousand and twelve wrestling control of the un played back from the rebels became a king regime. whatever the cost in civilian lives inevitably many of the

casualties were children. out of that. and it will mark owen to have done how you called on the thank you on a lot have you know him duck out on his belly to emphasize the importance of this crucial battleground president bashar even made this painfully choreographed visit to his troops on the job out front. that often comes up to secure the release of the. plan to deal with the political and we've got now but ultimately it all shifting to help with nothing you cannot do. not measure you know should be good numbers not the soul of people your thoughts of those are not love letters you know

what the author does your going to do finance because it would have wi fi the choice of movable wood. but any blessing it's a side may have given his army did not extend to the people job. against whom he was soon using chemical weapons. i was done by the time i. was. one especially deadly attack in august two thousand and thirteen reportedly involved the use of the bam nerve agent sarin. was you know. i can only. according to many international observers including french government scientists the victim symptoms was certainly consistent with exposure to a nerve agent. and this was denied by the assad regime.

the precise death toll from the two thousand and thirteen attack has never been fully established the united nations put the figure around six hundred the syrian opposition said fatalities were nearer thirteen on that. a large number of the dead were children. and then get it up to. about at the moment. student i mean it that they're not seeing them yet what was then you will know you had chemo you might have got it. thirty. six months i don't just think for money and i let you know and i meant to yell at

the. oh if i were left up at all and there is no and i live. in the city. at the end of it. has lost more than twenty members of his family. the city just the event i defended no doubt about. it different today i just think. that even. what had been i think any event i'm in the safety would have. been at the need of a nut and the money to fund it minute me. or

. defend it to god does he. come on different to that i mean. most of the job of the residents have long since fled the war here the few thousand who remain especially the civilians determined whatever the cost to cling on to their homes eke out a strange existence under the ruins. imagine that i was not as nice a sort of not a sort of free i don't play out on top of somebody's home with you how do you know how i'm going to last you not that in madison i like it if it gets flooded it get out your family don't medicine and that he had added i'm just my mom i'm not here in the family enough is enough you have got me from the left you had an exam and you had no home. i mean. that's the magic of it yeah i'm.

a long look at last night in that it would have been a good. she would be ships and the launch of august i mean or not you know i thought that i mean as long as you don't have to live a long life and it is ahead of you know i mean yeah i mean i think the next day he comes i'm just i'm not i know a lot of young a lot of time. was you know i hope that you have me but it was not over the blue sea as he looked leon who i'm told about you know the thought he. looked at her smart well my history fertile. whatever it may have become in other parts of syria the conflict in job shows few signs of being driven by sectarian fervor. so committed to the revolution most of the fighters who defend these ruined buildings do so because beneath them

by the homes and the businesses and ordinary lives that one day they hope to rebuild. a lot of it when that was the one of the. model at the would have. been a. how. she had. a father of three used to run as your grocery store before taking up arms to defend . with. lots of people. can you.

show all about. business and design i would a international. order. been in my thoughts. a lot. but then i'm out of the. modeling i. gotta do for. the people of are determined to keep life as normal as possible. setting up ad hoc council departments to provide local service. every year for them at maturity.

and then. put them on the net here in the. mean how do you know. that the number of them without. sorry. your bonnie's have even managed to keep some schools open. you know let them get out of those are doing it in are so often the i'm a slip on a financial minima that is through the model. about the. adults at the dca to be a menace out there on the whole militarism of those not a version of the law. today with our cameras present the children have gathered outside to send a message to the free world. i. can

. see. the council's efforts to try and restore basic services frequently come up against regime efforts to stop them. such as diverting damascus is so which system and an attempt to flush out your but us residents. feel how that hate. the. shuttle. about the.

desire. to live events that i'm here to look at the only one hundred learn here but i mean. if you. we found others even more determined to cling on to some aspects of their own lives . how low. on the list. there were how. come nothing.

yet only three days after we filmed this interview things did change for the show. he and his wife were killed when their house was bombed. you know. although the distance between the two sides of the front line is just a few hundred meters the largest number of job us casualties i've come from regime air strikes. it's rather. difficult.

she doesn't a lot of that. but the. make the you know about. my mom funny.

that. you look. honestly at. the man that had. i know. that you mustn't let me do what i know but no i don't know layard have to make the civil law if the better as a boot mother said could you live in a job with. an actual granny and mother say look the week.

is no longer for the much more had a chance at least of what they're doing now and who is now my need to see the. nation i don't know mood pisani not hide them not you know honey them i'm not going . to look over. the miniature now but that object. to. take whether driven by optimism stubbornness or courage the surviving residents of your bar show no signs of bowing to the assad regime and leaving their shattered town. i did not be elbow. here did out there he blew it now he has no. oh no not me no you about my jersey and the fact. that home.

thought you. and i will see. a deal before. but that may depend on the capacity of those who fight to defend your book to hold out against the regimes increasing the ferocious attacks. in the next episode of people in power as the siege intensifies we go on to job as parents front lawn. under surgery a scar. shattered monument towards destructor palos. there's amid the ruins the defiance to resist. and somehow survive.

people in power investigates all this suburb of damascus refuse to crumble under the might of assets. part two of this time. when the news breaks it was an announcement few were expected to hear by announce my resignation as prime minister from the lebanese government and the story builds i can't stop thinking about the bullets my life when people need to behead a mass exodus hundreds of thousands of rolled in just have fled ethnic cleansing in me and maher for bangladesh al jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and live news on ad and on line. hello i'm down in jordan doha with a quick reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera south africa's ruling party

will be picking a successor for controversial president jacob zuma on sunday the contest for the african national congress leadership has been marked by deep divisions on a page report from johannesburg. the conference started with two warnings don't to saying divisive songs and to keep the chairs on the ground everybody at speeds that will be flying around this conference or we can say that you will not in this conference. a.n.c. members from competing factions have hurled cheers at one another in the build up to this crucial event there have been allegations of vote buying and intimidation those accusations have led disgruntled members to take legal action that delayed the start of the conference by several hours but the trend to turn to the country's courts was criticized by president jacob zuma and his last speech as party leader.