i. think. another setback for islamic state is the syrian army liberates the city of. one of the terror groups last stronghold in the east of the country plus a review of the week's big stories too as the syrian army continues to repel i so from. our senior correspondent has the story of two little girls battle for survival isn't over even with. that. it was a week of failed expectations and more uncertainty for spain as catalonia is present

gives you a signal on the regions and dependent madrid's ordering him to clarify whether he's actually proclaimed independence or not. but media manipulation expose an undercover sting. and his friend from the new york times revealing how they sway watch. this sunday the fifteenth of october more scope. international news review of the week we start with this syrian government troops have liberated the eastern city of dean from islamic state it's the latest blow to the terror group which is now being steadily pushed from the war torn country. i i i. i.

i. i. i. i i try. i. could. a lot of things haven't decided if. that's among the better. i. think. but of course liberation is not the end of the story for a lot of people out there is or province stupid living under ice of brutality for three long years now our senior correspondent war against year has been to meet two young sisters for whom their struggle is far from over. meet sally she's five maybe six perhaps seven she doesn't know in this market the

streets. surviving isis's see each of their disorder was no mean feat so many perished as a result of starvation sickness violence. that sally is a survivor she a sister and brother were abandoned by their parents years ago they divorced and left the children to fend for themselves and. can't oh i'm. almost done on the land she spends her days begging stealing playing and surviving no easy lot for them in this life with it went from home to home and live in the streets they beg for money to stay alive inside today sick poor sally bags alone former neighbors who knew

their family have taken pity on the kids and have looks out for them sally's sister all she has left since her brother died of starvation we found the older girl at the end of this gloomy bullet riddled carville 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. it's suicide but if fluids keep building and there will be consequences she will

lose her sight hearing and the ability to swallow so the pressure on her brain is growing she'll find new cures in that as order as we were filming a nice a shell landed just a few hundred meters 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 so many visitors but there is one vigil person who always makes a smile that. if left alone sagitta begins to scream and cry she needs people the story has spread and good samaritans do show up. that honor and everything my friend and i can do we will do for her everything right up to the moment when she stands up and

can see bushra whose own daughter is disabled is not rich will middle class she's poor but a kind heart goes a long long way. well there does there. are a lot. there is cause for optimism sagitta is suffering has touched a chord action is being taken to get the girls out of bed as order but for now all they really have the site from promises and p.t. is each other or i guess the see from dead as or syria. this last week the cattle and president suspended the declaration of independence and called for dialogue with madrid the move prompted the spanish prime minister to demand clarification on whether or not independence had officially been declared.

potluck at all we asked for a mandate to declare catalonia an independent state. responsibly with all due respect i asked parliament to suspend the declaration of independence so that in the coming weeks we can undertake a dialogue. for a moment we formally require the custom government to confirm if it has declared independence of catalonia after the deliberate confusion created over whether it has come into effect meantime 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 madrid's part well it's given the cattle and president now till tomorrow monday to clarify the situation in that he has three days after that to drop the declaration if it is made covering all this in barcelona for us and us to sit. was

was you see was done. through their reach it was. it is necessary to show rebellion i do not know if and dependence is the solution with this it demonstrates this half of the population is tied up with this independence will hurt both spayed and 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 like people in the hours to come preparing to listen to this crucial if the problem is right there and we do know that because that 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 is no certainty as of right now what

exactly he's going to say was. that a lot. of the super. bowl was . here. i. can't begin to play them again so i think he should have declared independence because now he says he wants time like but good morning and 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 he stated he didn't take the step forward that everybody wanted we understand he wants that but catalonia has spoken and it is born it independent it's only definition you i want independence i don't want anything to do with this . pain my ancestors wanted it but were forced to be spanish only if i ever can say

that my nationality is cattle and i'll be very happy i know where the iconic sensual must point out my salon not because it's a loony right now and thousands of people if you can see have been marching from the actual actions towards this square this is that will be seen from the south where all of these people are coming out to speak in support of the think that's love with this president that the lawyer really has by only to the law you should assume because the question was was with he was with he was who he is it's been two weeks now since the independence referendum in catalonia where ninety percent of people who did vote said they wanted to break away but of course the big cases elsewhere previously in which yes votes and referendums have been translated

into any real change catalans are holding their breath after drawing that referendum will they end up sticking with spain after all will really go it alone. with the about winning the referendum hasn't always brought about the desired goal let's look at a couple of cases first up the greek bailout referendum in two thousand and fifteen prime minister alexis tsipras promised a no vote would mean an end to e.u. and i.m.f. imposed a stereotypic that's going on was a cooling on you to support this negotiation calling on you to say no to this recipient of memorandums that's just doing europe. when an overwhelming no to a stereotype was returned to suppress caved in to the troika anyway but when you i'm telling you right here that i take full responsibility for mistakes as well. for signing an agreement that i do not believe in however i'm obliged to implement

it next up because this struggle for independence the self proclaimed region in moving the rock has been raring to go certainly for years now citing tensions with baghdad we choose to live together with baghdad willingly if they don't want us to be their partners we refused to be their servants and last month emboldened by months of repelling islamic state from iraqi territories the region held an independence referendum almost ninety three percent voted in favor of going it alone for all now this is a new era for the kurdish people it is a turning point and we have to use it and this is a big victory for the kurdish people that was almost two weeks ago and since then silence with the same silence to fall in catalonia awakes to be see. the potential collusion between the new york times and you cheat was revealed earlier this week in an online sting by the project veritas group that's going to reputation for uncovering uncomfortable truths in the media of late is some of the

latest undercover video very rare cases. try to make up for the fact that something isn't in the trunk. well that guy is believed to be ernest petty according to his linked in profile he is you tube's brandon diversity curation lead in the video he goes on to elaborate how you tube sometimes intervenes to change trending videos. very rare but in those cases you use something that intervention make sure that. you. encourage the thing to be basically they provide in some cases ninety percent of what a lot of people receive as knows it's just not you two or you think of a picture of a doc playing the piano yes is the pipeline of new 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 the achieved manager was the only person exposed to the project veritas video it also features guy called nicholas dudek he's an audience strategy editor for the new york times who's also thought to be a friend of patty's due to claims that he previously worked on the election campaigns of both hillary clinton and barack obama is on camera next saying he benefits from his relationship with you tube stuff and he calls himself a game keeper for the new york times deciding what gets coverage and what doesn't. people just it's like it's something that's on the new two front page just like your countries out about if you don't know it's just because my friend security from. i mean so i can see what those are that's what's great something based negative we've got you just did you know.

i said it's. was oh well we got in touch with you tube for reaction as yet it doesn't go back but we did hear about the new york times i can tell you what they had to say in a statement the newspaper admitted dudek had apparently violated its ethics standards but they also went on to say that he examined you rated the influence the head of the company the communications director of project veritas meantime believe so-called gate keeping in the media is a huge concern. for. 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 what most americans are 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 pretty clear about having worked for two

presidential campaigns and wanting 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 it's a 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're just making excuses. thanks for choosing us this sunday coming up donald trump threaten to pull a big rug from under that big landmark a rand nuclear deal on friday it's infuriated everyone involved in it his reasons and the reaction to it after the break of the weekly. world without borders no longer seems desirable even europe scales back its welcoming migration policies is there

a way of addressing the global migration challenge without being swept underneath.

logan so the historic need clear agreement with the rand in big jeopardy after president trump announced friday that he won't certified terrans compliance with the deal a start go it alone move may be but it's defied his administration and america's allies it's also despite the fact that the global nuclear watchdog has said that iran has on its end of the bargain we cannot and will not make this certification iran is not living up to the spirit of the deal. the deal was hammered out of the obama administration in twenty fifteen along with russia france the u.k. china germany and iran it followed nine long years of talks and a decade long standoff which many viewed at the time as one of the world's most pressing crisis now the u.s. secretary of state's been trying to rally european allies over trump's decision but so far they've mostly reacted angrily back at him. our allies and friends

in europe or the region are going to be version or president of the 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 and the agreement with iran has shown for the first time that it's possible to prevent all through negotiations of the destruction of this agreement would mean that others around the world no longer rely on such treaties it's therefore a danger that goes far beyond iran of we in europe germany france the u.k. and the e.u. we stand by this agreement we want to preserve the agreement so after trumps announcement the deal is now in the hands of u.s. congress that has sixty days to decide whether or not to reimpose sanctions against iran that would effectively end the agreement there's another scenario that would

be to come up with new legislation to try and amend the agreement but it's highly unlikely that the other parties would agree to the new conditions there's a third option that would be the president simply bypassing congress terminating it with an executive order next train kid takes a look at why i might want to quit this huge deal so donald trump has 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 in there 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 their run 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 the put.

it more than use in the way you case times newspaper clay british politicians were doing the kremlin's bidding by participating in these programmes it went on to name prominent lawmakers who have appeared in shows like going on the ground a news thing hated gave the exact number of their appearances and the fees

reportedly paid to them the times claims it's all part of moscow's attempt to extend its reach with input is politics. took 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 putin and it names in chains all the politicians that appear on the channel it's not although there's another article that elaborates on can sons 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 hate 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 of 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 from 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 in 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 mood or glowing here they're trying to attack media that is. funded by the russian government by saying it

is allowed to jeremy corbin the channel has been attacked in the past but does this feel like a whole new level this naming and. politicians do you think it's going to be hard if you get guests on the show as a result i think strangely. right at the beginning it was tough but actually i think more and more politicians are becoming used to the idea of it 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. hope the weekend's going good i'm kevin i mean thanks for watching the weekly.

and always gives yeah you know until you go into. the show you're also the you know mr one of the explosions. going to another bizarre through that into the the. world you have. to go to war if you're really just to believe all. the glad i. got. the one thing nobody can take on. my. mind. when the fed. you know to. run the truth. 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. broke and they don't want to pay it so the 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 and finally. delayed and i hope you get.

their. point 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 policies 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 dimitri.

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 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 man.