it's a good move for you. in the stories though and shape the week this syrian army liberates the city of. final strongholds in the east of the country you hear the story of two girls from the. fight for survival in the devastation. of their. field expectations more uncertainty as president gives signals about the

region's independence. clarifying his position. also austria looks set for a new chancellor as conservative purchases party tops the polls the elections all surge in support for right wing parties in the country. the world festival of youth uninsured. in russia's black sea resort of sorts. of people from around the globe attend. the big stories of apos seven days on right up to the moment developments as well this is the weekly r t international hello and welcome to our top story syrian government troops liberated the eastern. all maya dean 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 oh. i. wish i. could. if you just took all the out of the job you describe. looks like. that's america but i. i i. but for the people in the province liberation after three years of brutality

doesn't spell the end of their struggle morocco's the if went to meet two young sisters to hear their story. meet sally she's five maybe six will perhaps seven she doesn't know and the smog hits the streets a home surviving isis's c.g. 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. can't oh i'm. almost done 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 me 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 attempt. 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 her brain has grown she'll find new cures in that 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. 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 idea not 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 daughter is disabled is not rich will middle class she's poor but a kind hearts goes a long long way. there. are no. there is cool is for optimism sides does suffering has touched a chord action is being taken to get the gills out of bed as order but for now all they really have the sight from promises and p.t. is each other or i guess d. of. from good as or syria. to another headline stories austria is

set to have a new chancellor with sebastian kurtz the clearing victory for his center right people's party he would be the youngest leader not just thirty one years of age reports. we now are hearing the final results with some code says people's party coming in a for 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're witnessing across europe that sees voters voting for more white parties was. was viva the birth of course a. fever that thought except for the. focus of our work you

clearly remember her urn that is. now celebration since about stand kurtz's 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 a bite the result of the election they told us that we can now expect to see significant changes in the country's migrant policy he wants to one who are going to just to get on with countries like indonesia serbia and slovenia that this rule 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 actually the whole political landscape in austria shifted to the right to with two thousand and fifteen there

was the big. refugee well come. home and after that people found out that this was 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 close to getting close to the eastern neighbors. in another of the week's top stories the president of casa lonia signed an independence declaration on tuesday but then suspended it for several weeks saying he wants to hold negotiations with the grid well the move prompted the spanish prime minister demand to cardiff occasion on the region's position. that's not popular 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 to go to you for a 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 meanwhile people in catalonia harping left frustrated by the confusion many visibly affected while listening to the president's announcement here and clearly disappointed at the end when the grid has given the cattle on president on till today monday to state clearly his position it say's he is three days after that to drop the declaration if it's made reporting from barcelona for us this week. it was

you could see was through their reach it was. it is necessary to show rebellion i did not know we found dependence 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 divided just like that is absurd this particular square their screens big set up where no doubt this area is going to be like people in the hours to come preparing to listen to this crucial belief the problem is right there and we do know that because that leaders in their meeting with the parliamentarian 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.

look at a lot. of the soonest the cuban leader someone can develop which he. took i think she said if you want to see. it again later means 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 a symbol 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 have spoken and it is wanted independence you know italy i want independence i don't want anything to do with this. pain my ancestors wanted it to be spanish if i ever can say that my nationality is catalan i'll be very happy. where the iconic french

must point out barcelona plaza got some money right now and thousands of people if you can see you covered marching from baghdad since the ones this is where this is about to explode when you see protests all of these people are coming out to speak in support of the things that's loaded with this may present. to me probably relate to. assume because it was. thank you thank you i. thank you but. the world festival of youth and students is taking place in russia's black sea resort city so what she would look at something incredible pictures from there after this. that's.

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you're back with the weekly on r.t.e. international on thursday the u.s. in nine states was withdrawing from unesco the un's educational scientific and cultural organization the main reasons for the withdrawal cited by the state department or concerns over munting u.s. arrears the need for fundamental reform and unesco's alleged israel bias the us still owes over a half a billion dollars to be organization five times more than all other member states combined when pressed on whether america would pay up the state department doj the issue. is it fair to say that it's to discourage use tradition is no longer trying to find a way to work around the progression of. doing what i think we've made our determination

and that is to pull out of the us that this time around so in other words they're never going to get their money i unless you owe unless unless they form and you rejoin. that ok meanwhile israel has followed america's lead with prime minister binyamin netanyahu announcing they were quitting unesco as well in twenty sixteen israel suspended its cooperation with unesco after it adopted resolutions which ignored jewish ties to a key holy site in jerusalem the resolutions also criticized israeli policies and other holy places in jerusalem on the west bank netanyahu called the u.s. move this week a brave moral decision because he has become quote a theater of the absurd journalist blumenthal 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 has opened and russia's black sea resort of sochi the week long cultural event is expected to attract operates of twenty thousand visitors from all across the globe here are some highlights from the opening ceremony. welcome to the nineteenth the 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. colleague daniel hawkins is also in sochi watching the opening certainly. 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 and 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 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 twenty 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 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. believe a bit of a record for suddenly for the spectrum of arrivals coming or going to speak to some of those people earlier 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 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 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 nineteen fifty seven they came from very followed 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 up of the old rule because rule thirty thousand young people. for the festival and two of the hundred and fourteen did a geisha and thirty thousand people from one hundred and fourteen. countering the war. or. peace and friendship. live. live live this is somebody you might recognize.

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dr ron paul discuss the imperial war machine but first jesse joins me from minnesota with some words on north korea should try to show starts right. now you. wish. governor corporate media is hyping up a potential nuclear war with north korea it's been seventy two years since nuclear weapons were first developed and dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki the destruction was so catastrophic that humans have not deployed them since but now some pundits are going as far as to promote a preemptive us military strike because diplomacy has continuously failed with north korea but that is because the only option presented to kim jong un and his father before him has been for them to give up their w m d's the nine hundred sixty eight international treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons prohibits

countries from developing nuclear weapons however the united states france russia china and the united kingdom are exempt from these rules because they had already had these weapons prior to signing the treaty. therefore these countries are considered the world's only legal nuclear weapons states now several other nations do have nuclear weapons like pakistan and india which have not signed the treaty israel would never admitting that most likely also has nuclear weapons more than two decades after the cold war these eight nuclear states in total still possess nearly fifteen thousand nuclear warheads. diplomacy has continuously failed so wouldn't an international treaty banning everybody from possessing nuclear weapons and developing them be the best way moving forward. well in a perfect world yeah.