i. own the world. another setback for islamic states is the syrian army liberates the city of my did and it's one of the last strongholds of the terror group in the east of the country plus as we review the week's biggest stories. going to.

the syrian army continues to repel eisel from dear is all province correspondent for the troops as they free another village from the terrorists and expectations and more uncertainty catalonia as president gives ambiguous signals on the region's independence i mean trade orders him to clarify whether he's actually declared it or not and media speculation exposed to sting operation catches he. and his friend from the new york times are veiling how they try to influence what you will. welcome the latest developments and look back at the last seven days to watch and weekly here on r.t. international and i will start with the news that syrian government troops have liberated the eastern city of my didn't from islamic state it is the latest blow to the terror group which is now being steadily pushed from the war torn country.

i. think. if you. look at this i. think. it's a mark of. well liberation is not the end of the story for people in tears or province who've been living under ice and brutality for three years. has been 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 hits 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 a sister and brother were abandoned by their parents years ago they divorced and left the children to fend for themselves and family and. can't oh i'm. almost done with the land she spent her days begging stealing playing and surviving no easy lot for them in this life bit of it was so me went from home to home to live in the streets to beg

for money to stay alive inside today sick for sally bags alone for my neighbors who knew that family have taken pity on the kids and have looks out for them 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.

it's suicide but i believe the fluids keep building liquid there will be consequences she will lose her sight hearing and the ability to swallow much of the pressure on delivering it has grown she'll find no cure indeed 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 many visitors but there is one little person who always makes a smile that. bears. her. if left alone sagitta begins to scream and cry she needs people the story has spread and good samaritans do show up

a bit on that on the end of everything my friend and i can do we will do for her everything on credit to the moment when she stands up and can see bushra whose own duties disabled is no treat sure middle class she's poor but a kind odds goes a long long way. back but there. are no. there is cool as for optimism side still suffering has touched a chord action is being taken to get the girls out of bed as sought but for now all they really have the site for the promises p.t. is each other or i guess the scene from that is over syria. now elsewhere than in the killed by saturday's twin blasts in somalia's capital has

risen sharply to one hundred ninety nine according to the pay. shoe the country's largest ever attack also left around two hundred injured police say the first bomb a powerful truck explosive went off outside a hotel close to government offices and also a tourist area the second blast happened two hours later in a car pulls my district no one has admitted carrying out the attacks but isn't this militant group al shabaab is known for conducting a series of atrocities in mogadishu the somali president has declared three days of national mourning. 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 on whether independence had been officially declared or not. we asked for a mandate to declare catalonia an independent state.

responsible with all due respect i asked parliament to suspend the declaration of independence so that in the coming weeks we can undertake a durable but to go to europe for a moment we formally require the kassam government to control has declared independence of catalonia after the deliberate confusion created over whether it has come into effect. meanwhile people in catalonia have been left frustrated by the confusion many were visibly affected while listening to the president's announcement there and also deeply disappointed at the end madrid has given the cattle and president until monday to clarify the situation adding he has three days after that to drop the declaration if it is in fact made and situ orcon are reports now from barcelona. was was you could see was through their reach

it was. that it is necessary to show rebellion i do not know if i'm dependence is the solution with this it 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 one 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 was. that a lot. of the super. bowl

cut. yes. i. did it again in a minute i think he should have declared independence because now he says he wants done like the good morning he has asked the spanish government like seventeen times and every time the doors have been closed to you so i believe today he would finally declare rates and i'm a bit disappointed he stated he didn't take a step forward that everybody wanted we understand he wants that but catalonia has spoken and we do want it independent european only not in here i want independence i don't want anything to do with this. 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 that i know where the iconic sensual must clarify is the not possible to libya

right now and thousands of people if you can see covered marching from that direction towards this square this is not true you can see russia where all of these people are coming out to speak in support of the things that's loaded with a president. to me because by only to the law you should assume because when. i thank you. my possible collusion between the new york times and new chief was revealed earlier this week in a sting operation it was carried out by the project veritas group which has gained a reputation for exposing uncomfortable truths within the media has some of the latest on the cover footage very rare cases. try to make up for the fact

something isn't in the trunk. well that there is believed to be petty according to his linked in profile he's you tube brand and diversity curation the lead in the video he then elaborates on how you cheap sometimes intervenes to change trending videotapes. very real but in those cases they. use something with intervention make sure that they. do. 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 tube or you think of a picture of a doctor playing the piano there is is the pipeline of new and if somebody can affect what news makes that bike like you have in essence and effectively affected the transportation and the transmission of data all over the world. well the

manager wasn't the only person exposed in the project very task it also features this man nicholas do you dick he's an audience strategy editor for the new york times is also thought to be a friend of petty's due to claims he previously worked on the election campaigns of both hillary clinton and barack obama and he says on camera he benefits from his relationship with the cheap star he also calls himself a gatekeeper for the new york times deciding what gets coverage and what doesn't people trust to something a lot of you do for. your to it's not about if you don't know it's just proves right security. i. mean right since the troops are just words chris christie they could actually just. say. you do all this well we did get in touch with you choose to reaction although

so far they haven't responded but we did hear back from the new york times and this is what they said in a statement the newspaper admitted dudek had apparently violated his ethics standards but also says he exaggerated the influence he had at the company the communications director at project very task believes so called gate keeping in the media is a big 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 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 were 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 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 and watching us he still had t.v. sat donald trump threatening to pull the rug from under the dam ok ron you can deal any of this week infuriating many his reasons and the reaction to the press. in case you're new to the game this is how it works in our economy is built around corporate preparations from washington to washington post media the

media. voters elected to run this country business because. it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before . here's what people have been saying about reject. pull on. the only show i go out of my way to talk to you know what it is that really packs the party. yeah because the john oliver of party america is this. we are apparently better than. see people you've never heard of love redacted the next . president of the world bank very. seriously. welcome back to the weekly now the historic nuclear agreement with iran is in jeopardy the president trump announced on friday he won't certify terrans

compliance with the deal it is a start go it alone move that defies his ministration and allies of america and it's also despite the global nuclear watchdog saying that iran has on its end of the bargain we cannot and will not make this certification a red is not living up to the spirit of the deal while the deal was hammered out under the obama administration back in twenty fifteen along with russia france the u.k. china germany and also iran it followed nine years of talks and a decade of long long standoff which many viewed at the time as one of the world's most pressing crises now the u.s. secretary of state has been trying to rally european allies over trump's decision but so far they've mostly reacted angrily. our logic proves if you're really the original ruby version or the president of united states us many powers

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 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 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 so what does that mean then well after trump's announcement the deal is now in the hands of the us congress which has sixty days to decide whether to reimpose sanctions against iran that will effectively end the green mint another scenario is to come up with new legislation to try and amend the cream and but it's highly unlikely that other parties will agree to the new conditions the third option is for the president to bypass congress and terminated with an executive order. takes

a look now at some of the reasons why trump might want to quit the deal. 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 carved and 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 loved promoting ideology i.e. democracy elsewhere yeah interventions are exactly what i'm talking about.

not theories surrounding russia's alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. elections seem to find a new angle the global game sensation pikeman go is being named as one of the two was moscow used to guide american fact is a c.n.n. investigation shows russia's propaganda attack on the u.s. went beyond using fake accounts and ands on facebook and twitter post announcing a contest on polk a month ago directing gamers to visit locations were alleged police brutality took place russian online agents are accused of posing as part of the black lives matter

in the movement and using the gang to intensify u.s. racial tension however no attempt was made to explain how that might have influenced the u.s. election the claim has been mocked both online and off. now in a couple of hours' time or so the world festival of youth and students will get going and russia's black sea resort of sochi the week long cultural event is expected to attract upwards of twenty thousand visitors from around the world daniel hawkins is there. the very first class that of course was held all the way back in nineteen

forty seven it's been held twice in russia so far in moscow this time it's on the southern resort of sochi there's a really big program waiting for visitors from sports competitions concerts cultural events represent each individual country that is represented here around twenty thousand visitors are expected from over one hundred fifty different countries in the world we've spoken to people just today from india from south america from south africa from asia they're all really excited to be here most of them of course for the first time apart from a program of detainment but also get a chance to discuss and share ideas on global issues of the day from globalization and security to health and environment will participate in discussion forums over the next few days now it all began of course yesterday with a big parade in moscow traditionally the opening ceremony had a little bit of rain there but that didn't stop thousands of people attending for a grand fireworks display to culminate that parade having a bit more luck with the weather as you can see here behind me in sochi hopefully

fingers crossed that's going to hold over the next few days as well waiting for the grand opening ceremony that's going to take place in the next few hours with president vladimir putin of course also making a speech about some other people we've spoken to actually those who've attended previous festivals then we won back in one nine hundred fifty seven many many decades ago and they've come back some from across the world to relive some of those memories. the old rule because rule thirty thousand young people get very. cool for the first of all and your hundred and fourteen. thirty thousand people from a hundred and forty counting the world. too.

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