all over a hearty americans do the same we are apparently better than food to see people you've never heard of love redacted tonight my president of the world bank so kate was really pretty seriously send us an e-mail. another setback for islamic state is the syrian army liberates the city of one of the terror groups last strongholds in the east of the country plus in our review of the week's biggest stories. the syrian army continues to repel leisel from derrius province but against the air here is the story of two girls whose battle for survival isn't over even with the terrorists got. there. oh my. expectations are more uncertain see catalonia as president gives ambiguous signals

on the region's independence and druid orders him to clarify whether he's actually declared it or not. comparable to mask watching bush or was it the live pictures from sochi because the world festival of youth and students has just opened in russia's black sea resort will be their life shortly. but i welcome the latest developments and a look back at what's been happening over the last seven days to you watching the weekly here on r.t. international now syrian government troops have liberated liberate 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 water.

i. tracked. thought it. was a good joke because i. think i. thank. you however liberation is not the end of the story for people indeed it is or province who've been living under i still brutality for three years or more against year of has been to me 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. can't oem. 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 bit of it was so many 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 that 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 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 attend. it's suicide but i believe the fluids keep building and there will be

consequences she will lose her sight hearing and the ability to swallow much of the pressure on him bringing has grown she'll find new cures in datasource 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. the . if left alone sagitta begins to scream and cry she needs people the story has spread and good samaritans do show up. that i know 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 not reach all middle class she's poor but a kind hearts goes a long long way. back but there. are also. 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 or but for now all they really have aside from promises p.t. is each other or i guess the scene from their disorder syria. in other news this week the catalan president suspended declaring the region's independence calling for dialogue with madrid instead on the move prompt the

spanish prime minister to demand clarification on whether independence or deficiency being declared or not. when. we ask for a mandate 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 left frustrated by the confusion many were visibly affected while listening to the president's announcement there and deeply disappointed at the end to 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 see chalk and i reports now from barcelona. it

was she wasn't. sure of their reach it was. that 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 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 screams 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 that's what leaders in their meeting with parliamentarians. had in the preparation of what is 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 cut . if. i. can make a lady millions i think he should have declared independence because now he says he wants done like the good morning and 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 a symbol and i'm a bit disappointed he stated he didn't take a step forward that everybody wanted and we understand he wants that but to want to have spoken today and we did want to independence it only means in you i want to

dependence i don't want anything to do with this. jane and sisters wanted it but we 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 french clam was the last to catalonia right now and thousands of people if you can see actually from that direction what is this where this is that. the land of these people are coming out in support of the things that's loaded with a president. who really has violated the law and you to assume because when i am. now the opening ceremony of the world festival of youth and she's currently underway in russia's black sea resort of sochi the week long cultural event is

expected to to attract upwards of twenty thousand visitors from around the world or two people there we know very well daniel hawkins and caleb martin who are covering the event for us we can cross live to them now let's start with you i understand that you are in the. park where the opening ceremonies are underway tell us what's happening. he said we want you to use your phone i said how and she said all right let's cross to daniel to say we're trying to contact with the caliber there are quite a noisy environment don't you know you were at the olympic park to just tell us what's happening this afternoon and a bit about what we can expect over the next few days. and we've just seen pretty lavish opening ceremony but kaleb is in the meantime here in the square in the middle of the olympic park it's a bit of a look back at history there's a crowd of several thousand people gathered here behind me and they're looking back at some of the clips on this big stage this big screen of previous festivals this.

of course the third time the festival has been held in russia it's been held twice in moscow the very first one was back in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven this is the sixtieth anniversary and this year it's of course in sochi there's a big program for everybody involved a big concert some of which we've seen here today cultural events through a present all the different countries there are in attendance sports competitions there's about twenty thousand people expected to attend this festival from one hundred fifty different countries or spoken to many of those from a far away as india and career south america asia many many countries here around the world of course of originally the festival was a bit of an opportunity for youth for young people from around the world to pretty much see each other for the first time and when the first was held in a safe union. during the iron curtain foreigners in russia were a rarity very scarce of course times have changed but global events global problems

do still exist do still need solving and that's the deal proceeded to young people will have at this festival as well to take part in discussion groups in forums to exchange ideas to talk about salient issues of the day from global warming to security issues to health and the environment as well so time for fun and entertainment but also a bit of a serious backdrop to the festival as well and it all began of course in moscow yesterday with a parade on red square which was a bit dampened by the rain we've been a bit lucky with the weather here in salt she was about twenty degrees and sunny so far that all finished with a fireworks display and we're here with the opening ceremony now of course many of the volunteers here are called silver volunteers their people hope perhaps a bit older than the eighteen to thirty five age group and some of those people actually attended those festivals back many decades ago in moscow we spoke to some of them and they relieved relived rather those memories from those many years ago

let's take a listen. thirty thousand young people. for the festival. fourteen. thirty thousand people from a hundred and fourteen counting the world. peace and friendship. this is somebody you might recognize. you must imaging. thousands of people here. we will leave to be here.

microsurgery absolute. the. next. level that deals with the. experience of the. open minded while also at the festival is writer a motivational speaking make the each a chair he hopes to inspire young people and also to encourage them to believe in themselves. i love russia and actually with the heritage of my parents coming from former yugoslavia we have

a lot of similarities in our culture and i love the food the hospitality and russia's a beautiful country and i'm very excited for the country as they're holding also the world cup so i'm glad to be planting seeds of hope and love all across the country especially to the next generation my expectations at sochi i had the world festival of youth i'm so excited that my story can inspire people to never give up and to help them conquer their fears overcome obstacles and really come to a whole new level of of happiness in their lives so i hope that they receive it well and i just want to let them know that they're beautiful and to never give up idea and begin that. fall i just need this to right now and unforgettable you had the days. we used to visit. the spoon i. think the d i do you have now needs i don't know but it.

can be keeping a close eye on the festival over the next few days you watch in the weekly here and i think we're back to.

you should. put themselves on the. big picture of the reject. so when you want to express. yourself want to. have to go right to be cross that's what before three of them or you could get. interested at the water's edge. they should. follow again now al qaeda linked terror group al-shabaab is thought to be behind the deadly twin attack in somalia's capital the number killed in saturday's bombing has risen sharply to one hundred ninety nine according to the police in mogadishu the country's largest ever attack also left around two hundred people injured police say the first bomb a powerful truck explosion went off outside

a hotel close to government offices the second blast happened two hours later in the capital's me district no one in the midst of carrying out attacks or those using this group al-shabaab has a history of carrying actually trustees and mogadishu the somali president has declared three days of national mourning. potential collusion between the new york times and you tube was revealed earlier this week in a sting by the project very task which has gained a reputation for uncovering uncomfortable truths within the media is some of its latest on the cover video very rare cases. try to make up for the fact that some of the images things in the trunk. that man here is believed to be in his posse according to his linked in profile he's ichi brandon diversity curation lead in the video he then elaborates on how you cheap sometimes intervenes

to change trending videos it's very rare but in those cases. they use something with intervention to make sure that they. do. encourage the thing to be sickly 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 pipe like you have in essence and effectively affected the transportation to and the transmission of data all over the world well the chief minister wasn't the only person exposed in the project very task video it also features nicholas do you think here an audience strategy editor for the new york times who's also thought to be a friend of patty's duty claims he previously worked on the election campaigns of

both hillary clinton and barack obama he's on camera saying he benefits from his relationship with the cheap stuff and calls himself a gatekeeper for the new york times deciding what gets coverage and what doesn't. people just resort to something of you two for a page like yourself you're sad about if you don't know it's just because i present security. as i. can see what those are that's what's great something based they could actually just a few i. guess i could do with this but we did get in touch with the cheap comments on this although so far they haven't responded although we did hear back from the new york times and this is what they said in a statement the newspaper admitted the dick had apparently violated its ethics standards but also said that he exaggerated the influence that he had had at the

company the communications director of project very task they believe so called gate keeping in the media is a big 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 or 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 wanted to continue his mission working for the new york times so it's 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 what 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 for. not voting is taking place at the moment in history snap parliamentary election in which three parties to choking for position and the chance to install the next chancellor but the refugee crisis having dominated much of the campaign the biggest parties have been trying to leave that have to buy shifting to the right to say ok the situation across europe and she a way populist parties have seen some successes poor sleep now reports. already vivre the full say revealed it to be. yes she says and i think. you're right this morning. the master

says people's party is widely expected to come in with more than fifty percent of the votes it is running on a platform of being tough on immigration. which ducktails with the program being presented by a right wing party known as the freedom party that is also being touted as a party that will come in second speaking to experts here it simply does seem a possibility that the two parties could form a coalition although having said that the freedom party is accusing sebastian coe people's party of stealing some of its proposals look at it nobody is coming into the country without registration without a passport no one should be allowed to enter austria. will do everything possible to stop illegal immigration i am asking that social benefits for non austrians be significantly reduced. everything we can to end the abuse of our social welfare system by immigrants this election so he reflects on the ground that voters are

turning more white here in austria and the reasons are numerous there is high unemployment there is a lack of economic growth and there is fears of migration the current government certainly appears not to have addressed these issues and we could have a situation in which the ruling party finds itself pushed into the opposition on saturday the austrian chancellor warned against choosing a rightwing alliance he stated that the country finds itself at one of the most important crossroads in decades despite that however it does seem highly likely that all still could be on the road to forming a right wing government. reports now will polls to close in the just over half an hour's time keeping a close eye on this story throughout the evening you've been watching the weekly i'm back with more in half an hour.

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of welcome two 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 of addressing the global migration challenge without being swapped underneath it well to discuss that i'm now joined by demetrius.

co-founder of the migration policy institute mr papademetriou thank you 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 that inflow 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 does this go to speak about european by european has 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. they 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 and some of these policies are succeeding for some of these countries and some of them are failing. until very recently just two months ago. italy you could say that you could have said that italy that either does not have a policy already destroyed going to develop a policy but you know they were still getting a couple hundred thousand people coming to their shores across the central mediterranean but three months ago they cut a deal with libya and libya has got paraded and as a result we see essentially flows across the central mediterranean down to less than twenty percent of what they were in may or of march or april of this year i heard want to.