this is. better than. the c. . heard of. the world bank he. sent us an e-mail. and the stories that shape the week another setback for islamic state the syrian army liberates the city of. one of the terror groups strongholds in the east of the country also as the syrian army continues to repel from. here's the story of two girls whose bottle for survival isn't over even with a terrorist call. that. austria will vote in the. current set to become the e.u.

youngest leader at the age of thirty one on the election seems a significant surge in support. parties in the country. and the world festival of youth and students opens in russia's black sea resort. with people from around the world. with the big stories of the past seven days on right up to the moment developments as well this is their weekly international hello and welcome to our top story syrian government troops have liberated the eastern city of all. from islamic state it is the latest blow to the terror group which is now being steadily pushed from a war torn.

you can see that the thought of the ship at this ready held up the booklet yeah that's a mark of the bad guys. liberation is not the end of the story for people endure is or province we've been living under ice all brutality for three years marotta against the of us being to meet two young sisters for whom the struggle is far from over. meet sally she's five

maybe six or perhaps seven she doesn't know and the smog hits the streets. surviving isis's see each of the resort 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 oh. you. don't want to learn that she spends her days begging stealing playing and surviving no easy lot for them in this life. event the sony 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 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

attempted suicide but i believe the fluids can build a leak and there will be consequences she will lose her sight hearing and the ability to swallow much of the pressure on delivering it was graham 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. if left alone sagitta begins to scream and cry she needs people the story has spread and good samaritans doing. that i know everything my friend and i can do who

will do for her everything on the ground up to the moment when she stands up and can see bushra who's. disabled is not really sure middle class she's poor but a kind heart goes a long way. back there. are all. the reasons cool is for optimism side suffering has touched a chord action is being taken to get the girls out of bed a store but for now they really have aside from promises. is each other or i guess. from their disorder syria. with almost all of the votes. in austria snuff parliamentary election sebastian

kurtz declared victory for his people's party he will become the use youngest leader just thirty one years of age for the latest on the vote with the cross live to paula who is in vienna sebastian kurtz has got plenty to celebrate tonight it's been a big day for him. he said he does have a lot to celebrate and as you mentioned we now are hearing the final results with some. people's party coming in a full first position the second position has been taken by the freedom party a right wing party as was widely predicted before these elections and in the third position going to the social democrats now congratulations have started coming from across the european union for sebastian coats he has thanked his supporters he has also said that he has pursued a goal and made the impossible possible as far as strong. the leader of the freedom

party he has said that this is a great success for his party and then we've also heard from the chancellor who says that the tosk of his party for the next five years for the social democrats is not to strengthen confidence in social democracy of course now it tension turns towards who will form this new coalition government and in this respect sebastian coats has left the field open he's given no indication with he will move forward but there is a lot of speculation on the ground here that he could form a right wing alliance with the freedom party and indeed if he does this it will be part and parcel of a trend that we witnessing across europe that sees voters voting for more parties. was. was vivre the birth of course a review of the b.b.q.

thank you thanks for the. book over the hard work of your. career earlier in the interview. now celebration since about stand campaign headquarters have of course already begun and will continue until late into the evening contrast that with the sense of disappointment that is being felt by the social democrats. from the center of vienna artie's polis leader thank you. well earlier i spoke to christian editor of the deputy all of austria's chamber of commerce he believes the election result will see vienna build closer relations with eastern europe. so really the whole political landscape in austria shifted to the right to with a two thousand and fifteen that was the big. refugee wellcome boom and after

that people found out that is actually not such a good that the a little bit let so many people which often are undocumented into the country this created a lot of problems up to now and. also just because germany and to establish. a new government this is likely to get. getting closer to the east than labor's well in the build up to today the media dubbed the austrian election campaign as one of the quote dirtiest it's seen acting chancellor christian kern accused of using facebook to discredit opposition leader sebastian kurtz calling him as then a fold the pages were allegedly set up and run by a former advisor to the chancellor with current himself denying any involvement on promising to investigate the scandal. another aspect ready the most likely

coalition as we were just hearing from paula between kurtz is people's party who topped the polls on the freedom party who as we just heard came second in the polls is on shaky ground as the anti migrant party accuse kurtz of stealing their party agenda. but ken if nobody is coming into the country without registration without a passport no one should be allowed to enter austria. we will do everything possible to stop illegal immigration i am asking that social benefits for non austrians be significantly reduced i just will do everything we can to end the abuse of our social welfare system by immigrants. and one of the biggest stories to shape the past week the president of council looniest suspended declaring the region's independence calling for a dialogue with madrid and the move prompted the spanish prime minister to demand clarification on whether independence out officially been declared or not. among

the top luckily we asked for a mandate to declare catalonia an independent state thanks won't have that capacity with all due respect i asked 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 council on government to confirm if it has declared independence of catalonia after the deliberate confusion created over whether it has come into effect. madrid has given the cattle on president on till monday to clarify the situation he has three days after the two brought the declaration if it's made reporting from barcelona for us this week on a city. that was

you could see. their reach it was. it is necessary to show rebellion i do not know if independence is the solution but it demonstrates that half of the population is fed 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 their screens are 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 beat the problem is right there and we do know that because of that leaders in their meeting with the parliamentarian in the head of the preparation of what is going to happen and people here despite this being a problem the kind of gathering really there's no certainty as of right now what exactly he's going to say was.

never super. yes. i was. going to i mean i think he should have declared independence because now he says he wants done like 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 to want to have spoken and we do want it independent european only i want independence i don't want anything to do with spain and sisters wanted it but were forced to be spanish if i ever can say that my nationality is catalan i'll be very happy i know where the iconic sensual must

clarify subsequent salumi are right now and thousands of people if you can see the cover marching from that direction towards the square this is that close you can see from the south where all of these people are coming out to speak in support of the things that's close within a president. really caused by your late to the well you should assume because that was what. i was. potential collusion between the new york telling you the truth was revealed this week that details of that in about ninety seconds.

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to seventy minutes into the hour and up potential collusion between the new york times and you tube was revealed earlier this week it was uncovered in a sting by the project veritas group which has gained a reputation for bringing to light to uncomfortable truths within the media here some of its latest on the. very rare cases. try to make up for the back something isn't in the trend. is believed to be ernest petty according to his linked in profile he's you true brand diverse the curation lead in the video he then elaborates and how you sometimes intervenes to change trending video. very rare but in those cases they. use some human 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 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 will you choose monitor was and the only person exposed in the project virt video it also features nicholas dudek an audience strategy editor for the new york times in seoul so 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 he's on camera saying he benefits from his relationship with you tube stuff and calls himself

a gate keeper for the new york times deciding what gets coverage on what doesn't. people just dislike the system goes on the need to for just like here to reach out about it we don't know it's just close but for the security problem right as an editor i mean you can start and see what goes out that doesn't go in let's say wrote something based negative we've got you just a few things i. want to buy to do with this well for all that we saw reaction from you tube but how many not heard back yet but we did get a response from the new york times in a statement the newspaper admitted to due to counterpart and levi's elated its ethics standards but also ses he exaggerated the influence thought he has on the company they communications director project for autonomy 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 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 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 if they well here's a low level guy but they did they said he's a junior employee but they didn't rebut the accuracy of what we put out they're just making excuses for. the world festival of youth and students in russia's black sea resort of sochi the week long cultural i think it is expected

to attract operates of twenty thousand visitors from right around the globe are some of the highlights and some. come to the nineteenth world festival of youth and students in sochi. as you can see behind me the opening ceremonies of the festival have already begun under the aims of the song and dance performances that we've seen in technology human progress and development many people here are very excited. that's came up and on his colleague danny hawkins is also in sochi watching the opening ceremony unfold. but the excitement we've had. this square here behind me as well of course is the grand opening ceremony which set that report from culminating in

a pretty amazing forward display with fountains going off in the square here as well as managed to finally get out of that quite loud and noisy excited crowd to join us here in the square as well tell us a bit more about what was going on inside and of course this is your first time in russia but your first thought are you first of all how is it compared so far while i mean what a ceremony i mean that was something special now i attended the two thousand and thirteen festival in quito ecuador totally different experience and nothing like this i was not prepared for what i saw in that auditorium that was that was a tremendous performance i mean the music dance and the audience i mean the audience was just on the edge of their seat i saw people bursting into tears at. all of a numerous times people were just very emotionally moved by the ceremony it was quite powerful you see so many young people just a sea of young people in there are there yellow jackets there the uniform for the festival all kind of moving as one body there listening to the performances seeing

it was something special twenty thousand people from a hundred fifty different countries certainly set so i believe a bit of a record for sun for the spectrum of arrivals coming want to speak to some of those people to get some of their emotions and thoughts on their experience so far let's take a listen again from the middle east from sri lanka we have from my jim de mint a lot of countries as you know more than one hundred fifty countries a lot of cultures a lot of people excited to do people. youngsters a great opportunity to come and meet dance one to get to know you all around the world there's like a sense of that the possibility of food right a world where with more social justice it seemed possible and here we can see that it is since we can meet people from every country that can prove their experiences what they are doing in their country. and that's what we came to do and it's really great of course as well as a chance to to bond to network to meet new people it's also

a chance for young people of all over the world to discuss and debate key global ideas is that caleb well yes i mean a real emphasis on technology and scientific research that seemed to be a major theme in the presentations in the videos that were shown in the song and dance performances there seem to be this and this is on the idea that if we can develop and if we can raise the standard of living around the world and get people out of poverty and out of the conditions that drive them toward drugs and terrorism we can raise the standard of living around the world we can have a more peaceful and interconnected world where people are trading with each other doing business getting along and just kind of building a better life for humanity a very clear message but it's one that you just couldn't disagree with and that was of course a key tenant of lot of speeches well let's just listen briefly to what the russian president had to say see if you did it you know as a suspect seventy years ago the first festival was held back then young men and women were brought together by the belief that sincerity and kindness could break the ice of mistrust they believed it would help to release the world from injustice

from wars and conflicts what they proved the barriers are powerless in the face of real friendship. many people here young eighteen to thirty five but some are a little bit older perhaps some were actually in attendance well first of all in moscow in nineteen fifty seven they came from a very followed place to see it and they've returned to russia this time around to relieve some of those emotions let's take a look. well back story. the old rule because rule thirty thousand young people get very. good for the festival and two of the hundred and fourteen the delegations thirty thousand people from one hundred and fourteen. countering the war. or. peace and friendship.

live. this is somebody you might recognize. you must imaging. people here. the band is called i cannot believe to be here. to see your slave girl live. microsurgery absolute. right through our century school the. next the first of all the living. will that our five year old we be playing are using.

the old. experience of the world will be more open minded. also at the festival an incredible man writer on motivational speaker nick hitchon now he hopes to inspire the young people on 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 that at the world festival of youth i'm so excited that my story can inspire people to never give up and to help them. 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 inspirational to say the least more of the week's big stories at the top of the hour more r.t. program so. today is the start of a new stage in took us a couple of days to get here into jeeps each one traveling separately only one vehicle arrived so as not to arouse the suspicions of the neighboring farmer who keeps insisting we're producing cocaine. to believe in dari by a shake of our entry one three hundred thirty six days before cheese death.

and. in one nine hundred sixty six seven s. the trick of our already famous world wide covertly comes to bolivia to incite a guerrilla war to a very has of aleutian their experience under his belt and out of habit he keeps a diary in which she describes the rebels every day life in the tale. one that when. you.