in the shape the weak the syrian army liberate. strongholds in the east of the country we hear the story of two girls from the region their fight for survival and the devastation. there. alone i know. feel the expectations more on certainty as president. signals about the region's independence. his position.

conservative. party the polls the vote saw a significant. part in the country also ahead. world festival of youth students opens in russia's black sea resort of sochi with people from the globe attend. with the big stories of the past seven days on right up to the moment developments as well. this is the weekly n r t international hello and welcome our top story

this hour syrian government troops liberated beat eastern city of all maya deen from islamic state it's the latest blow to the terror group which has suffered a string of major defeats in the war torn country. yes a lot of the ship at this ready to go for. the bad guys. liberation

is not the end of the story for people endure is or province who have been living under brutality for three years right because the of has been to me two young sisters for him the struggle is far from over. meet sally she's five maybe six or seven she doesn't know and the smog hits the streets. surviving isis's of the resort was new 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 their own.

she spends her days begging stealing playing and surviving no easy lot for them in this life. went from home to home to 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 cardle 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 fall was accidental others attempted suicide. the fluids keep building and there will be consequences she will lose her sight hearing and the ability to swallow the pressure on who brain is grow him she'll find new cures in dead 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 vigil person who always makes us smile.

if the loon sagitta begins to scream and cry she needs people the story has spread and good samaritans do show up a bit on that on 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 duties disabled is no treat sure middle class she's poor but a kind heart goes a long long way. back but there. are no. there is cool is for optimism side just as 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. from that is or syria austria is set to have a new chancellor with sebastian kurtz the clearing victory for his center right people's party he will become the european union's youngest leader at just thirty one years of age all asli reports. we now are hearing the final results with sebastien code says people's party coming in a for the 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 kurtz 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 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 witnessing across europe that sees voters voting for more white parties was. was viva the birth of also revealed to be. except for the. we are

going to go back over the bar ordering her urn the to. her. house celebration since about stay in campaign headquarters have of course already begun and will continue to contrast that with. sense of disappointment that is being felt by the social democrats. we heard from several analysts about the result of the election they told us that we cannot expect to see significant changes in the country's migrant policy he was still one who just took it 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.

he will not only be able but he proved already that he will be able to do something actually the whole political landscape in austria shifted to the right to think through thousand and fifteen there was the big. refugee well come. home and after that people found out that is actually not such a good idea let's 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 close to the eastern neighbors. in another all of the week's top stories the president of catalonia suspended declaring the regions independence calling for a dialogue with madrid instead on the move prompted the spanish prime minister to demand car fixation on whether independence had actually been declared or not.

that's not popular 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 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 well it 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 when the traitors given the catalan president on until monday to clarify this situation he has three days after that to drop the declaration if it's me reporting from barcelona during the week for us unless the ca chirk.

was was you could see was. 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 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 that's what 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 was . in. i. think a late eminence i think he should have declared independence because now he says he wants dielike but 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 that he stated he didn't take a step forward that everybody wanted we understand he wants that but to want to have spoken and we did want it independently of your view and only definition i

want independence i don't want anything to do with this. jane my and sister's wanted to force 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 clam barcelona plus a council lumia right now and thousands of people if you can see covered boxing from that direction towards this square this is not close you can see further south where all of these people are coming out to speak in support of the things that's loaded with in spain president of the e.u. to me because my only to the law you should assume because it was. i. i think. the world festival of youth and students is taking place in russia's resort city of sorts we've got the latest from the opening ceremony pictures from there right

after this. would make this manufacture consent to step into the public well. when the ruling plus is some protect themselves. with the famous merry go round if suddenly the one percent. we can all middle of the room say.

you're back with r t international on thursday the u.s. anon state was withdrawing from unesco the un's educational scientific and cultural organization the main reasons for the withdrawal cited by the state department are concerns over munting u.s. arrears the need for fundamental reform and you know alleged anti israel bias the us still owes over half a billion dollars to the organization five times more than all other member states combined when pressed on whether america would pay up the state department dodge

the issue is it fair to say that it's for ration is no longer trying to find a way to work at the grocery. well i think we've made our determination and that is to pull out. so in other words they're never going to get their money i knew i would last unless they were for me to rejoin. that. israel has followed the america's lead with prime minister binyamin netanyahu announcing they were quitting unesco as well and twenty six thing israel suspended its cooperation with unesco after it adopted resolutions which ignored jewish ties to a key holy site in jerusalem the resolutions also criticize israeli policies and other only places in jerusalem on the west bank netanyahu called the u.s. move a brave on moral decision because you know school has become quote a theater of the absurd journalists. voiced concern that instead of preserving

history the organization distorts it. this goes back all the way to twenty eleven and congress withheld funding for you nasco because you nasco allowed the palestinian authority membership and congress is very very easily influenced by the pro israel lobby whereas traditionally the state department and the u.s. mission at the u.n. have not been so this is the first time we've really seen the state department kind of get in line with the congressional elements that are funded by pro the pro israel lobby and easily influenced by it and i think this really reflects the weakness of the trumpet ministration. the world festival of youth and students is open now in russia's black sea resort of sochi the week long cultural event is expected to attract upwards of twenty thousand visitors from right across the globe here some of the highlights from the opening ceremony welcome to the nineteenth world festival of youth and students in sochi.

as you can see behind me the opening ceremonies of the bastable have already begun the. performances that we've seen in technology human progress and development many people here all of them very excited. so in sochi for his colleague daniel hawkins. but at the excitement we've had many concerts on this square here behind me as well of course is the grand opening ceremony which 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 i'm always excited crowd to join us here in the square as well for us a bit more about what was going on inside and of course this is your first time in

russia but not your first thought to you first of all how's it compared so far wow 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. all 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 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 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 again from the middle east from sri lanka we have so much in the meantime

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 move on 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 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 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 that kaleb 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 lot of the putin speech as well let's just take a listen briefly to what the russian president had to say. 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 they prove that 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 but first of all in

moscow in one hundred 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 human story. the old rule because rule thirty thousand young people get. for the festival and two of the hundred and fourteen biggish and thirty thousand people from one hundred fourteen. countering the war. or. peace and friendship. live. live live this is somebody you might recognize.

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