but government and foreign aid groups and the pig farm seems to be a catalyst bringing so it's now begun to get sincerely worse until of course this brings us closer we can communicate with them and they can communicate with us because we work together. weeks later in early may serbs elected a new governor. the nationalist prime minister for students confronting the west over kosovo looking for another term. but when the results came out in belgrade a surprise victory for pro western democrats led by president boris tadic which the democrats also reject cos of an independence but getting serbia into the union is their priority. for the celebrations went on long into the night this results reduce tension across the board.

sama in the village of but. the ruins of the houses destroyed in the war ugly reminders of what went wrong here not so long ago. but next to the new houses for the serbs who are trickling back. the cost of a government has helped build them it says it's committed to a multiethnic society where serbs are welcome. oh no more but there is a growing serb community and. and in june salvato and his family feel this ceremony they call this day spousal marking the ascension of christ in the orthodox calendar . by tradition the serbs gather at the site of a ruined orthodox church just as they did before the. pick me goes on all day. has plenty of drink and old folk songs of courtship and

love a day that folded them together and strengthened their feelings but but those where they belong. in july news from belgrade resonated across europe the bosnian serb leader and war crimes suspect rather than carriage was courts after years in hiding this is how he disguised himself. there were protests against his arrest but they were contained maybe this was the final angry spasm of serbian nationalism. by the end of september salvo has reason to be satisfied the first crop of peppers since the serbs returned is a good one and he's been led to car by

a nearby serbian monastery giving him the freedom to drive across kossovo if he feels safe doing so. today he's going to the nearby town of cleanup. had been attacked by albanians even since the war with the money problem and so far we've had no problems whatsoever neither with people nor with the police your thing is not of money however what you have are most of our license plates which helps as far as i'm concerned drive all the way to pristina if you want to. know where you are so full. shopping in cleaver solve always treated politely by albanians but some say they're worried about their safety in this town and they dare not go to bars. they're not all over the world they're in bourke of oh salvato film this delivery of free grain from the serbian government.

it shows how belgrade tries to keep the loyalty of serbs who live in kosovo giving them aid the serbian government undermines cost of those independence. by big november it's kosovo's albanians who are part. of the very same prestigious streets where that celebrated nine months before they reject a plan from the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon which will allow serbia to retain power over parts of kosovo. but there's a deeper frustration here that independence has not changed their lives in the way that home that costs of those government has let them down. there have been changes we are now independents with the constitution of we are making new laws to european standards donors have promised us one point two billion euros

that's why people today are more optimistic and hopeful about the future certainly of there will be difficulties but we will make progress. but like so many costs been albanians lucian his son did not yet see that progress. by the end of the year things are going badly at the peak farm donors have pulled out lose doubts it can survive. back home he looks after his own life stopped and wonders how to find paid work optimism has turned so quickly to disillusionment. courses where this there. is so much corruption you can't even imagine the top officials are taking everything for themselves opening up businesses like restaurants and petrol stations and we have been abandoned.

and for the first time i sensed resentment from this family towards the serbs in the village the third scum on the. reverse worthwhile goal of about a woman for i can't blame the serbs they have nothing to do with this we mind our own business but the truth is that they have been held more than we have. they robbed hours they killed us they burned our homes and now they've come back and the authorities have built them new homes. they lived comfortably in the past and now we are left helpless no one comes to help asses. not that the serbs of but are finding life easy many still depend on social security and help from their neighbors but there's also a determination to stay on and possible to enormous who would go to the store i

don't know if it means a lot to me it means that it's ours and nobody else says my grandfather and my great grandfather were born here the slant has been ours for two hundred years and nobody can take that away just like that. you understand the border. this is the last bit of home video software sent to us it shows his neighbors gathered in his living room it's hard to know if there is a future for this community. and here's the last bill we received from the family enjoy that time together and for one night at least be getting back frustrated. at least. the declaration of independence.

and life carried on pretty much as before in fact perhaps what is most striking is how much in common. they both mistrust politicians in distant cities frustrated at slow economic development and corruption and perhaps above all a common desire to carry on living here. on the land they consider their home. throughout the year and we saw that they did confrontation. but we also saw they live largely separate lines. with their own religions customs and languages. to. believe. that's unlikely to change but maybe.

that was a year of fear and hope since independence back in two thousand and eight life has been tough for the young state with major players like russia china and crucially next door serbia refusing to recognize its independence but how have the villages. braved the winter snow to go back and find out. this was my return to kosovo and the little village of book in the depths of a cold winter a return to a place which i got to know well in two thousand and eight following. families who are neighbors. i've not been back since i've been treated know what's changed when i left this village ten years ago the family were apprehensive about their future even physically worried about their safety the albanians well they hoped that cos of those independence would be the answer to all their problems that it would help

make them which one decade on i've come back to find out what happened to those hopes and dreams many of the old houses still lying ruins sad reminders of an ugly. but when i visited suffer and his wife lubyanka i found them in good spirits more relaxed more comfortable feeling more permanent in their presence. was the father the. there near them or now when the brits sure took order so you're ok so did the. islamists with their courts are more mature than them on their money or we program is a million. doesn't appear to be the big number but there is no dessert no room. and yet this community is precarious several of the older people i met in two

thousand and eight have died very few young half are timed mr to sail to see called . for the full story also bernie wanted to. rajan the track more to no matter. which model for the story doesn't really get it's perceptible for its simple this is how. nice it was a good film to the origin a really. serious tale symbolism in the bill and the. that was the. years that it. will be or. more. and yet all is not well in back of the pick farming business that salva and his albanian neighbor louche worked on together collapsed and albanian family moved into the property. away from here is not fear as in the past but

a lack of jobs and those economic frustrations i felt very strongly on the albanian side to. lucy was happy to see me but he's still a small time farmer still wishing he could afford a tractor still hoping for regular paid employment. through third poor. for good because under. the music the mean of the poor was a total of. seven hundred dollars from is a silver dollar thoughtful in the fifty's yourself if. you go from zero four to go to my living that's when we're going to. the most. lucian pre-announce family has grown they have ten grandchildren with the level on the way two of their daughters

live in western europe they depend on their remittances like so many families in kosovo. printer describes relations with the serbs exactly as she did ten years ago . up and. down. without. you but if you spare or taken. the complaints i've heard here about corruption lack of jobs reflect what people across kosovo a feeling disappointment that independence has not transform people's lives. what i found is that in one sense the village of bourke over is working serbs and albanians live in peace but in other ways this village is not so exceptional after all it could have been a lot of cooperation for cos of in fact the two communities lead parallel lives

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progress on talks to end a trade war plus the pope promises an all out battle against abusive priests calling them tools of satan but victims are disappointed and the curtains up for hollywood's biggest night we're live in assignments with the latest on who's taking home the oscar. thank you for joining us it's feared more people may have been killed in violent confrontations along venezuela's border with brazil than previously thought a local man says at least twenty five people died in the town of santa elena as well. has weighed in forces try to stop opposition supporters from bringing in foreign aid it was confirmation earlier of two deaths near the border with brazil as indigenous groups backing the opposition were fired out by venezuela's military mom june has the latest from packer in brazil on the border with venezuela.

potentially twenty five people killed and at least eighty four injured data is information that is coming to us courtesy of the emilio gonzalez he is the mayor of that good on sub on a region that is inside of it as well a close to the border with brazil we're talking specifically about the town of sound and that this is a town we've been speaking a lot about the past few days where there are indigenous groups that have been supporting the venezuelan opposition and they have been getting into clashes with venezuela's military off until today we had heard only that it was confirmed that two people had been killed and that seventeen had been injured those seventeen we were told were being treated in brazil at a hospital called hot i'm a general hospital in the capital of this part of brazil both of these so which is about two hundred kilometers south of us if this pans out if this is true this

would raise the death toll dramatically would be a serious escalation compared to what we've heard before now the mayor spoke to an assembled group of journalists he said that it is difficult getting precise information because he says that all the people that were killed were taken to essentially an area that venezuela's military is using where they are keeping the bodies there and because of that they don't have precise numbers nonetheless this is the most precise information we are getting from from venezuelans from people from inside in israel who have crossed over into brazil officials from that region who are now saying that they believe that at least twenty five people have been killed while international pressure is mounting on venezuela's president nicolas maduro after he ordered that sign and border assault to stop the foreign aide opposition either one is calling on one made us to keep all options open to help for his country the u.n. has joined a chorus of condemnation against the use of force by venezuela's military ally.

eric at its embassy in yemen reports from san antonio in venezuela the. venezuelan security forces again denounced in the aftermath of saturday's violent response to unarmed protesters i blame for the first time the un high commissioner for human rights strongly condemned the use of excessive force by venezuela's national guard and especially pro-government armed groups the venezuelan government has a different explanation that. the plan was to use terrorists to cross the sea bridge run over anyone they saw people and then blame the government of nicolas maduro. as for the quality or pro-government armed gangs whom we saw take over the streets and shoot the protesters in san antonio rodriguez claims they're illegal colombian paramilitaries who operate on both sides of the border. however after taking refuge from the gunfire we were able to see and film members of the

college devils alongside national guardsman while they looted a close store then surely some of the guardsman joined in to pick through the booty call it deals maybe paramilitary but residents tell us they are venezuelan operating an open complicity with security forces oh yes and then and then they belong to the government and they come through here threatening people slashing tires breaking windows. i mean i shot someone on the corner they're stealing motorcycles. on sunday morning they were still roaming the streets albeit more discreetly near the now closed cmon believe that a bridge and it's here that we found more of an israel ins preparing to migrate to one of the countless illegal border crossings fleeing the violence and poverty that is driving millions of in israel from their homeland to see and human are just sita san antonio in his way or in other world news u.s.

president downtimes. says he's extending a deadline to increase tag of sun chinese imports after what is calling substantial progress in the latest round of talks with beijing high levies on more than two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods were due to be imposed from march first given elizondo reports from washington. trade negotiators from the world's two biggest economies were locked in talks all weekend in washington to meet a march first deadline for a deal to avoid an escalation of a trade war they weren't talking much about their progress but president donald trump was at least on twitter a deal might be close tweeted in part i'm pleased to report that substantial progress has been made on important structural issues including intellectual property protection technology transfer agriculture services currency and many other issues trump wrote before adding that there is no longer a deadline to get the deal done significant because if the deadline had stayed in

place tariffs on two hundred billion dollars in chinese goods would have jumped from ten percent to twenty five percent this likely now won't happen unless talks break down the negotiations were supposed to end on friday when trump met with trade negotiators in the oval office but were extended through the weekend i think we both feel that way i think we both feel that there's a very good chance that the deal will happen from china we believe that it is very likely that it will happen and we hope that ok it will have a deal it will please president xi jinping further tariffs won't hurt his economy and in the u.s. trump was under pressure u.s. stock market has slumps into trade war began he knows too that american farmers in the heartland where many of trump's key supporters live are hurting after tariffs sharply decreased exports of agricultural products such as soit to china trump has

said all along a final deal won't be complete until he and president xi meet face to face to sign off on it and it's believed this summit to sign that final deal could happen as early as the middle of march gabriels on doe washington. iraq's military says u.s. backed syrian democratic forces have handed over two hundred eighty eisel fighters it says they're part of a contingent of more than five hundred iraqis in s.d.f. custody in syria in twenty fifteen eisel controlled huge swathes of syria and iraq linking the cities of raka and mosul kurdish forces are helping hundreds of civilians leave the armed groups last pocket of territory in the syrian village of boggles its feared people are being used as human shields which has slowed the advance joshua landis is director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma he says it's taking longer than expected to flush out the last i saw fighters from buckles. the s.d.f.

has been overwhelmed with the amount of civilians had been pouring out well over five thousand and so have all the other fighters because there aren't tunnels underneath this but who's and it's very difficult to dislodge people without killing lots of civilians so they've been carrying on negotiations trying to get the civilians released it's taking longer than we thought because this is the end of isis they these foreign fighters have been collected in this one area and many of them are willing to fight to the death so it's a delicate it's a delicate process and whether it takes another week or so really is immaterial in order to save lives well we've been hearing that there are you know hundreds more but it's unclear exactly how many are there but i think it's in the hundreds by this point many of the arab fighters have had to try to disappear there were reports that perhaps one hundred fighters had gotten mixed in with the women and

children and older people who had escaped already or had been taken off as refugees into the various camps where they're being collected in and of tara gate so the arabs are trying to fade away many and it's the foreign fighters that can't just slip off into the night that are being collected there and many of them will fight to the end because. their prospects are really pretty bad. oh frances is a warring an all out battle against the abuse of children by priests a call from the head of the roman catholic church follows a four day meeting of senior vatican city but abuse survivors aren't happy with what they have heard for a challenge reports the war a religious service in the painted splendor of the vatican marks the end of this extraordinary meeting then pope francis gave high ranking clergy his concluding thoughts he called paedophile priests ravenous wolves and tools of satan and

insisted this is a problem everywhere not just in developed countries where most cases have been exposed or ray. here i would reaffirm that the church will spare no effort to do war that is necessary to bring to justice those who have committed such crimes the church will never seek to hush up or not take seriously any case it is convinced of the sins and crimes of consecrated people offer the tainted by infidelity and shame they just figure the countenance of the church and undermine its credibility. words that seem to go down well with those present i have a very good feeling. and also the speech for francisco after mass this morning. for full of strength and so very resolute so i think this meeting is not a finish up it's a start. we know there are some still active at least but survivors of abuse were

angry they wanted to hear the pope say that abusive priests and those who cover up for them will be thrown out of the priesthood. but only. just words words words avoided seven years for change and others have been waiting thirty years for change and he needs to do something concrete to remove bishops who have covered things up if there's a pope for the media critic of the cory mob it. additions are vital to the longevity and appeal of the catholic church such as the angelus prayer given by the pope each sunday in st peter's square but the traditional secrecy with which the church has covered up decades of sex crimes is a threat to its very future while people still flock in their thousands to hear the pope speak in person at the vatican and there are hundreds of millions more.