three of the crossroads of the island is on the rise. another setback for islamic state as the syrian army liberates the city of al made one of the terror groups last strongholds in the east of the country personal review of the week's biggest stories to. the syrian army continues to repel eisel from duras all prophets of a correspondent is the story of two girls whose battle for survival isn't over even with the terrorists. that. failed expectations and more uncertainty for spain as president gives. the

region's independence a madrid orders him to clarify whether or not he's actually played. a media manipulation exposed an undercover sting catches a q chub employee and his friend from new york times revealing how they sway what you watch. very good morning for me kevin i am sunday morning the fifteenth of october this is after international live from h.q. with the news of you the week starting with this the syrian government forces have liberated the eastern city of rome a deed from islamic state it is the latest blow to the terror group which is now big steadily pushed from a war torn country. liberation

is not the end of the story for people india is all provinces who've been living under eisel brutality for three years now more goes to of went to meet two young sisters for whom the struggle is far from over. meet sally she's five maybe six perhaps seven she doesn't know and the smog hit the streets. surviving isis's see each of their disorder was no mean feat so many perished as a result of starvation sickness violence. if. sally

is a survivor she has a sister and brother were abandoned by their parents years ago they divorced and left the children to fend for themselves. only share her home. who are now almost gone on the land she spends her days begging stealing playing and surviving no easy lot for them in this life many bit of it was so they went from home to home to live in the streets they beg for money to stay alive inside today sick for sally bags alone for my neighbors who knew their family have taken pity on the kids and have looks out for them but it's not easy to mark us now by the government i wanted to take her in she kept escaping that i sent people to look for her but she never stays in

one place long shell escapes. well there. are no. sally's system all she has left since her brother died of starvation we found the older girl at the end of this gloomy bullet riddled cargill is a room with broken windows in it leaves a young girl with only flies bloodstain mattresses for company. about a month ago sagitta who doesn't remember her age was brought in with a head injury when she fell she damaged an implant that siphons away the fluid different people tell different versions some say the full was accidental others

attempted suicide but i'll but i but if fluids keep building liquid there will be consequences she will lose her sight hearing and the ability to swallow much of the pressure on him bringing his gramma. and horse in hospital i don't know she'll find new cures indeed as order as we were filming a nice a shell landed just a few hundred metres away sagitta needs to get to damascus to survive but lacking identification relatives and trapped in a war zone it's difficult to see how that's possible. sagitta doesn't get many visitors but there is one little person who always makes us smile that. if left alone sagitta begins to scream and cry she needs people the story

has spread and goods. barrett institution is what i miss for a woman once came to the hospital and heard the screaming she followed it and found the girl since then she's been coming two or three times a day to care for her so to wash or to feed her she never knew this girl bushra whose own daughter is disabled is not rich or middle class she's poor but a kind heart goes a long long way now that are the end of everything my friend and i can do we will do for her as well dr up to her gender to law everything are right up to the moment when she stands up and can see that. there is cause for optimism side suffering has touched a chord action is being taken to get the girls out of bed as or but for now all they really have aside from promises and p.t. is each other or i guess the scene from their disorder syria.

this week the catalan president suspended a declaration of independence and called for dialogue with madrid the move prompted the spanish prime minister to demand clarification or know whether independence had them officially been declared or not. and that got popular we asked for a mandate is to declare catalonia an independent state. responsibly with all due respect i ask parliament to suspend the declaration of independence so that in the coming weeks we can undertake a dialogue but a good deal for the moment we formally require the catalan government to confirm if it has declared independence of catalonia after the deliberate confusion created over whether it has come into effect meanwhile people in catalonia have been less frustrated by the confusion many were visibly affected while listening to the president's announcement and deeply disappointed at the end of it for its part

madrid has given the cattle and president now till tomorrow monday to clarify the situation adding that he has three days after that to drop the declaration if it is made if we come on up then and this is said churkin reports from barcelona. that was that was you could see. through their reach it was. like you must that i it is necessary to show rebellion i do not know if independence is the solution which that's a demonstrates this half of the population is tied up with this independence will hurt both spade in catalonia it took many years to make the country whole and to divide it just like that is absurd this particular square there are screens being set up where no doubt this area is going to be kept by people in the hours to come

preparing to listen to this crucial if the problem is right there and we do know that because when leaders in their meeting with parliamentarians in the head of the preparation of what's going to happen and people here despite this being a pro independence gathering really there's no certainty as of right now what exactly he's going to say. the. you know. he. is. demanding i think he should have declared independence because now he says he wants done like the good lord has asked the spanish government like seventeen times and every time the doors have been closed so i believe today he would finally declare rates and i'm a bit disappointed that he stated he didn't take

a step forward that everybody wanted we understand he wants that but to want to have spoken and we did want to independents. on the map i'm still very happy because it mean assume what he said. carried out and it looks like in the end catalonia will finally be independent after so long that's what we need either a european only i want you dependence i don't want anything to do with spain my ancestors wanted it it was but we were forced to be spanish and only if i ever can say that my nationalities catalan i'll be very happy i'm just not i know where the iconic french play out my solo now plus a council me right now and i was feeling this way are joining streets that are out here thousands of. government boxing from that direction towards this where they're still continuing to fight our status. like. it's

gotten to the other this is. where all of these people are coming out to speak in support of the things that's loaded with a major crisis it's a great country. really has violated the law and that's because when i was with three. i. was. next potential collusion between new york times and you tube was revealed it on this week in an online sting by the project veritas group which of course is going to reputation for uncovering uncomfortable truths within the media is some of the latest on the cover video than the very rare cases we'll. try to make up for that something isn't in the front who he

is believed to be ernest petty according to his linked in profile he is the brandon diversity curation lead in the video that elaborate somehow you tube sometimes intervenes to change trending videos. very rare but in those cases you will use some human intervention to make sure that we. do. encourage the thing to be there basically they provide and some cases ninety percent of what a lot of people receive as knows it's just not you tube or you think of a picture of a doc playing the piano this is the pipeline of nudes and if somebody can affect what news makes that pipeline you have in essence and effectively affected the transportation to and the transmission of data all over the world. there's a thought well that you tube manager wasn't the only person exposed in the project veritas video either it also featured

a guy called nicholas dudek an audience strategy editor for the new york times who's also thought to be a friend of patty's now due to claims he previously worked on the election campaigns of both hillary clinton and barack obama he's on camera next saying he benefits from his relationship with you tube stuff and calls himself a gatekeeper for the new york times deciding what gets coverage and what doesn't. people just like it says something about the uber just like your teachers out about it we don't know it's just words but for the security. as a leader i mean certain scenes but those are the single that's very very something based. we've got just a few. minutes. and you do all this there's always been a share of news there's always been bias and centering yes that's always existed but here's what's different you have these new intermediary platforms you have

facebook and you have you tube who themselves are the arm around to this information superhighway so they're critical for very fast is an essence exposing is that which affects the ability of the new if it doesn't make the stream of commerce that's the level of censorship that's the cloud or theory if you will that they're exposing so what did you tube had to say we got in come to that we had no response back at old we did hear about from the new york times let me tell you about that in a statement the newspaper admitted dudek it apparently violated his ethics standards it also says he generated the influence he had of the company between occasions director of project veritas meantime believe so-called gate keeping in the media is a huge concern. certain political entities certain media entities rise to the top of the pecking order there is collusion between the social media networks and the major media outlets what we did was we

caught it we caught them admitting it would caught them being candid on undercover video admitting what most people want most americans and what most people around the world strongly suspect was the case anyway but just couldn't prove we've just proved that. mr dudek kind of the star of these first two videos was pretty clear about having worked for two presidential campaigns and wanted to continue his mission working for the new york times lots of interesting is in the new york times statement they didn't rebut the accuracy of what we said we kind of suspected that if they well here's a low level guy but when they did they said he's a junior player but they didn't rebut the accuracy of what we put out they are just making excuses for. one of the worst the seats the mainstream media does an album major social media does is gate keeping it's a role it's not necessary stopping more suppressing story lines that they don't want to hear don't want you to hear they've got debilitate to do

a lot more than they used to in the start of days of the internet and when new york and new york times and you tube aren't bad the bastard child of that relationship is fake news right had he had donald trump trying to pull the rug from under that big landmark iran nuclear deal this last week in future a thing of what else involved in it his reasons and the reaction coming up next weekly.

here's what people have been saying about rejecting. the only show i go out of my way to. get the really packed a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than. see people you've never heard of love redacted tonight president of the world bank very. seriously he sent us an e-mail. about this is a sunday morning from moscow so then that historic nuclear agreement with iran is in jeopardy after president trump announced on friday he won't certify to rounds compliance with the deal. do it go it alone move the faces of ministration and

american allies to its also despite the global nuclear watchdog saying that in fact iran has already its end of the bargain we cannot and will not make this certification iran is not living up to the spirit of the deal that deal was hammered out under the obama administration in twenty fifteen along with the help of russia france the u.k. china germany and iran it followed a lengthy nine years of talks and a decade long standoff which many viewed at the time as one of the world's most pressing crises but now the u.s. secretary of state's been trying to rally european allies over trump to session and so far they've been mostly reacting angrily back at it. our allies and friends of europe maybe the region are going to be version or president of united states as many posts not this one it is not a bilateral agreement it does not belong to any single country and it is not

up to any single country to terminate it we cannot afford as international community as europe for sure to dismantle and nuclear agreement that is working and delivering especially now this is a difficult and in our view dangerous signal the agreement with iran has shown for the first time that it's possible to prevent war through negotiations the destruction of this agreement would mean that others around the world could no longer rely on such treaties it's therefore a danger that goes far beyond iran we in europe germany france the u.k. and the e.u. we stand by this agreement with iran we want to preserve the agreement so after trumps announcement that deal is now in the hands of u.s. congress which has sixty days to decide whether or not to reimpose sanctions against iran that will effectively end the agreement if it does another scenarios to come up with new legislation maybe even to try and amend the agreement but it's highly unlikely that the parties will agree to the new conditions and there's a third option too and that's for the president to bypass congress and terminate it

with an executive order to tranq it takes a look at why might want to quit this deal. so donald trump's got a problem with what's known as iran's nuclear deal ok his not a fan of iran in the first place he's confident it's still a nest for terrorists but is that a good enough reason to basically throw the compromise agreement that required so much diplomatic effort to the floor i mean when it comes to sticking to the deal terms the world agrees to iran is behaving so why the assumption the deals in jeopardy because of washington the house foreign affairs committee chairman explains the tehran regime clearly sees itself as a movement one that uses ideology and violence to destabilize its neighbors to threaten others just for the record that was an american official talking about someone else promoting ideology and views using

violence in other countries to get what they want isn't that a us thing like the golden rule of their foreign policy that we've seen in action so many times by acting now we are opposing our values protecting our interests and advancing the cause of peace we will secure our nation protect our freedom and help others to find freedom of the right the burdens of leadership are often heavy. but the world's a better place because we have borne them what a historic background looks like mr royce might as well replace the words to iran regime with the names of american presidents they were the ones who love promoting ideology i.e. democracy elsewhere yeah interventions are exactly what i'm talking about.

also in the last seven days the u. case times newspaper claimed that british politicians are doing the kremlin's bidding participating in programs on t.v. shows it names prominent lawmakers who peddle shows such as going underground a news thing it gives the exact number of their appearances and phase reportedly paid to the times claims it's all part of moscow's attempt to extend its reach with a british politics while the boy has been taking a closer look. this is one of britain's most read newspapers and one of the

leading edge a tauriel in the london times today happens to be all about this place r t it's called helping parents in and it names and shames all the politicians that appear on the channel it's not although there's another article that elaborates on concerns about the extent of kremlin influence here in westminster and whereas talking to the media is normally considered an expression of freedom of speech here in the u.k. these articles appear to suggest that the politicians talking to r.t. are greedy and even treacherous well to talk about this more i'm going to gate crash the studio going underground host afshin rattansi action you talked to quite a few of the politicians live in this article do you think

that it's a fair assessment so why do they come on your show really short in journalism isn't it the murdoch times i mean to my knowledge they haven't gone door to difficult with little going underground which is named jake in this story m.p.'s politicians from all around the world for all policies in britain come on going underground because they can they know they will look at issues in depth and allow them to actually speak action one of the articles here lists a lot of the labor m.p.'s that came on the show and on the news channel and a select few of the conservative ones can you explain that to an international audience i think this obviously indicates the mud org line you know they're trying to attack media that is. funded by the russian government by saying it is allied to jeremy corbin the channel has been attacked in the past but does this feel like a whole new level this naming and. naming of politicians do you think it can be hard if you get guests on the show as

a result i think strangely it's been an uphill battle right at the beginning it was tough but actually i think more and more politicians are becoming used to the idea of the u.k. is here to stay and it's going to allow petitions to speak about real issues not about the sound bite culture of celebrity and all the rest of it the british view is you still in this country almost not what they say some of the main stories look these last seven days small to international i'm kevin i when you were moscow h.q. thanks for watching our news review of the week. and it always gives yeah you know until you go into the show you also the you know

mr wells the explosions. going never been so good in the. world you have. to go to war if you're really just to believe also on the bush the glad i'm. not the number one team nobody. got up out of the line. on the day that the impulse. you know to. see you somewhere. we all willingly accepted the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner but noone signed up to be friggin poisoned by our own people that was nuclear biological and

chemical products the said do not truck tires all types of styrofoam polystyrene batteries trucks there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between berm pits and what these brave soldiers were suffering from to compensate every soldier marine airman and sailor that was on the ground that are complaining about illnesses from their exposure from the berm pits would really literally send a v.a. growth and they don't want to pay it so they're waiting decades a lot of those soldiers will die in time and they won't have to pay and. call for help and get the middle finger to movies in the world is. delayed tonight hope you guys.

are. part of welcome to worlds apart unlike a decade ago the world without borders no longer seems a desirable or indeed uprooted proposition even the european countries made the most generous and welcoming migration policy i scaling them back is there still a humane and realistic way off addressing the global migration challenge without being swapped underneath it well to discuss that i'm now joined by. co-founder of the migration policy institute mr papa dimitrios thank. very much for your time it's great to have you on the show it is my pleasure and happy to be here it's generally believed that the european union despite some initial confusion has got

a handle on this migration crisis the numbers have stabilized you no longer see crowds of people storming train stations in the western balkans so they're in for at least has been taken under control i wonder though if the european migration policy has advanced much beyond controlling the gates has the e.u. figured out what it wants to do about it as opposed to simply stemming the flow well the answer is no they haven't but it is difficult to speak about european if by european you mean have the brussels institutions come up with some sort of an answer to all of this the answer is not. primarily because the european institutions do not have the mandate the authority to make decisions when it comes to migration now the european member states all twenty eight of them still twenty eight. have every right to have different policies.