for a party america is. parents better than. a c. . heard of. the. president of the world bank he. sent us an email. five hundred meters from. village isis is making the. rounds and the. like of how super the syrian government forces continue to repel islamic state from province we've got exclusive footage from their. strongholds of is liberated in the east of syria. austria will have a new chancellor after a conservative. party tops the polls the vote saw a significant surge in support for right wing parties in the country.

failed expectations more uncertainty president gives big signals on the region's independence. and whether. the world festival. so open in russia's black sea resort of sochi with people from around the world and. with the big stories of the past seven days on right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly on our to international hello and welcome our top story syrian government troops have liberated the eastern city of all my. dean from

islamic state it is the latest blow to the terror group which is now being steadily pushed from the war torn country. to give up but. the idealism. are obvious. for. let terrorists are fighting fiercely to retain what they can of their last stronghold in the region iraq as the

if i list report from the village of how. shall the syrian troops during its liberation and. under a bright blue sky through devastated country across the euphrates the only bridge in the entire province we came to the village of had lot less than a day ago this was of the caliphates buds no longer from what we were told the syrian army's fifth division did the heavy lifting here much of had has already been swept and cleared but no tool it isn't like the movies do is rarely open at the first peek. then came the first warning might have. gotten any no no no. he was right

it wasn't one of the. isis back up had arrived reinforced the jihad ists felt confident enough to pick a fight and we weren't in a good place the syrian army responded quickly but there was some confusion that. did about a. there will never know how many. five hundred meters from hadleigh village isis is making it. doesn't doug and. i got house over there. to. try to be harassing the syrian troops what they're doing is they're driving around in circles using speed and distance as their protection taking potshots the other

thing hiding behind a house driving out far in the east for a little bit then hiding back before the syrian. with heavier weapons it isn't going to get that came very much but it's a harassing in keeping everyone on a jury in the five five one of the pickup trucks still here is one of the jihad ists briefly showing himself while spraying the way on full auto with a clear targets out came the heavy of weapons. it was a miss try again. the scrap i says last but every. being you just school was short within the span of

a single hour one village with a small unit these scenes being repeated hourly across the front hundreds of kilometers wide we're at guys do you see from hard luck syria. austria is said to have a new chancellor encourage the claires victory for his people's party he will become the european union's youngest leader just thirty one years of age. reports we now are hearing the final results with some. people's party coming in if 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 the leader of the freedom party he has said that this is a great success for his party and then we also heard from chancellor kim 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 whom 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're witnessing across europe that sees voters voting for more white parties was.

i believe in a third force a reason to be reexamined the ear. of the. book of the dark waters. that are in the. now celebration since about stand campaign headquarters have of course already begun and will continue to contrast that with the sense of disappointment that is being felt by the social democrats. yes there are a lot of questions after today's election let's try and answer some of them with verner fosler ben turner is president of the austrian institute for european policy and security in vienna you're very welcome to the program so it looks as if according to the preliminary results the top two parties in this election are

center right on far right how much does today's results change the face of austria i think change there will be a change but it's more or less a change in the reform agenda not so much in the political specter because the top number one party is a center right party and it will continue this way of a centrist politics fota future yeah it's quite extraordinary some of the facts here sebastian kurtz who is said to be the next chancellor of austria he's thirty one he was the foreign minister before he's got some experience on the world scene but in terms of off politics what he comes up now as leader of his country how do you think he's going to fare or how will he do as chancellor. you know

i think is the most talented or most gifted politician in the last decades probably one of the most talented politicians in austria since world war two he has already acquired some experience because in the age of twenty four he became already state secretary and with the age of twenty seven he became foreign minister and in so far he was involved in politics all the way the. almost a decade actively in government and therefore he's also will be the most experienced politician out of the northeast. of politicians from any party in austria almost as a secondary story to all this of course is that the ruling party the social democrats they have dropped from first to third place it looks like why did they

lose support. well i think the most important factor certainly is the person of the past in curt's because he is gifted his very charismatic and he also promised to change the situation also in the way of a reform agenda to make. feet for the future this is the point number one the second one certainly is the migration affairs word of former government was not so successful and he looked not only very competent very decisive in this matter for the people yet just on that last point sebastian curtis said that he was going to take a tough stance on illegal migrants is he going to be able to influence the european union is he going to be able to get enough support maybe to push his

agenda on the continent. i'm pretty sure about that because he was responsible for closing as we call it the western balkans the route that led from turkey. germany and to scandinavia he was there one who are going to just to get on with countries like america donor serbia and slovenia that this route for illegal migrants became closed and since then. the number of migrants decreased very much and then. he will not only be able but he proved already that he will be able to do something because this also was more or less to cornerstone of a politics that was overtaken also by european union and even by until

america even if she did not like this very much at the beginning yeah so still a lot of talking to do this week isn't there in terms of coalitions and all that we will be keeping track of it thank you very much for your time this hour of verner fosler band president of the austrian institute for european policy and security in vienna. now and one of the biggest stories to shape the past week the president of catalonia suspended declaring the region's independence calling for dialogue with madrid on the move prompted the spanish prime minister to demand clarification on whether independence of officially been declared or not. we asked 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 council and government to confirm if it has declared independence of catalonia after the deliberate confusion created over whether it has come into effect. or does seem people in catalonia have been left straighted by the confusion many were visibly affected while listening to the president's announcement there are deeply disappointed at the end. madrid has given the catalan president until monday to clarify the situation adding he has three days after that to drop the declaration if it's made reporting from barcelona for us this week. was was you could see was through their reach it was. that it is necessary to

show rebellion i do not know if independence is the solution which as a 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 cut 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 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 the super. bowl was.

i. think a late eminence i think he should have declared independence because now he says he wants time 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 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 it's a european only not in you i want independence i don't want anything to do with this. my ancestors wanted to force to be spanish only if i ever can say that my nationality is catalan i'll be very happy i'm just not on the net where the iconic central must clam barcelona plus a cartel lumia right now and thousands of people if you can see covered marching from that direction towards the square this is not a phrase you can see from the south where all of these people are coming out to

speak in support of keeping cats love me with this may present. to me house by only today will you soon assume because it was. i mean i. think. the world festival of a youth students is taking place in russia's resort city of sochi there's just been an opening ceremony from the past couple of hours to leave this this for . what we want is to put an end to nuclear testing and then to move towards

a world free of nuclear weapons and to do that we have to bring countries who seek or who out of this ambition to understand that their national security doesn't depend on the full session of nuclear weapons. manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final. we can all middle of the room see. the real news group.

hello again the world festival of youth and students is open now in russia's black sea resort city of sorts see the week long cultural event is expected to attract operates of twenty visitors from right across the globe are some of the highlights from the opening. welcome 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 other themes of the song and dance performances that we've seen have been technology human progress and development many people here all of them very excited . talking to some of the baccarat and of walks a head over the next week artie's daniel hawkins and what you are. 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 to splay 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 not your first time but 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 nothing like this i was not prepared for what i saw in that auditorium that was that was a tremendous performance i mean music dance and the audience i mean the audience was just on the edge of their seat i saw people bursting into tears at mutual of a numerous times people were just very emotionally moved by the ceremony it was quite powerful and to see so many young people just

a sea of young people in their or their 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 something for the spectrum of arrivals coming want to speak to some of those people or to get some of their emotions and thoughts on their experience so far let's take a listen i came from the middle east from sri lanka we have from i joined a lot of countries as you know more than one hundred fifty countries a lot of cultures a lot of people said to me 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 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 great of course as well as to the ball need to network to meet new people it's also a chance for young people of all over the world to discuss and debate global ideas in that kind of 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 emphasis 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 a lot of the putin speech as well let's just listen briefly to what the russian president had to say. this but 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 moves and conflicts. they proved that batteries are powerless in the face of real friendship. many people here young eighteen to thirty five but some are a little bit older bob some were actually in attendance that festival in moscow nineteen fifty seven they came from very far away place to see it and they've returned to russia this time around to relive some of those emotions let's take a look at well that story. the old rule because rule thirty thousand young people gathering together. for the festival and the. hundred and fourteen the delegations thirty thousand people from

a hundred and fourteen counting the world. or cheering to those about peace and friendship. this is somebody you might recognize. we used to call. your muslim agent. the whole tenor believed to be. my first century absolute. the. next the first of all the.

world that our ideals we. had. grown old had experience of a more open minded idea and begin that. this too right now i'm forgetting you had the days. we used to visit in. the spirit. mickey d. i do have mounted scout number. theories surrounding rush's alleged meddling in the twenty six thousand u.s. election seemed to have find a new angle now the global gaming sensation poca mungo is being named as one of the tools moscow used to guide american voters a c.n.n.

investigation shows russia's propaganda attack on the u.s. went beyond using fake accounts and a ads on facebook and twitter post announcing a contest on poker go directing gamers to visit locations where alleged police brutality took place. russian online agents are accused of posing as part of the black lives matter movement using the game to intensify u.s. racial tension however no attempt was made to explain the influence the u.s. election they play must be mocked both online.

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