in the stories the check the week the syrian army liberated the city of al myatt in one of islamic states final strongholds in the east of the country we have the story of two girls from the region on that fight for survival amid the devastation . very bad. so for. a little i know he. failed expectations and growing uncertainty castleman is present gives i'm big it was signals about the region's independence as madrid. clarifying his position.

the leader of all seized people's party sebastian curds claims victory in the country's election as the political right joins a surge in support. little come to the nineteen year old festival of youth and students in sochi. and the world festival of usin students opens in russia's black sea resort of sochi with thousands of people from around the globe attending. we want to know we can hear an all to international with main idea today it's all round up of the week top stories of the day welcome to the program. syrian government troops have liberated the eastern city of all myatt in from islamic states is the latest blow to the terror group which has suffered

a string of major defeats in the water own country. for. i. i. i. i i i i i i. i. if you're talking about a good job at this ready now to look like you know there's a market about it i think the public. eye. the people in the province liberation after three years of brutally doesn't spell the end of their struggle. 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 home surviving isis's c.g. of the resort was new meaning feet so many perished as a result of starvation sickness violence. if. sally is a survivor she has 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 killing the man 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 a life 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 carville 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 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 was 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 vigil 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 that i did that i did and not everything my

friend and i can do we will do for her everything fred up to the moment when she stands up and can see bushra whose own daughter is disabled is not rich or middle class she's poor but a kind hearts goes a long long way. the reason for optimism. suffering has touched a chord action is being taken to get the girls out of bed resort but for now they really have aside from promises and p.t. use each other or i guess. from their is or syria. the leader of the right wing people's party has claimed victory in austria as legislative elections paving the way for him to be on the country's chancellor

sebastian kurtz's set to become the e.u.'s youngest leader just thirty one years of age has the details. 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've also heard from chancellor ken 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 white parties was. was. viva the birth of course a review of if you think you've got three sixty. go back over the bar work everything for her earn the living. now celebration since about stand

campaign headquarters have of course already begun and will continue to contrast that with. the stance of disappointment that is being felt by the social democrats . we heard from several analysts about the results of the election they told us that with curtis chancellor we can expect to see significant changes in the country's policies towards migrants. he was the one who organized together with countries like america donor serbia and slovenia that this route for illegal migrants became closed and since then also. the number of migrants decreased very much and. he will not only be able to keep proved already that he will be able to do something actually the whole political landscape in austria shifted to the right like to think through thousand and fifteen that was the big. refugee well come. home and after that people

found out that is what's actually not such a good deal that let so many people which often are undocumented into the country this created a lot of problems up to now in. austria sticklers germany and to establish. with the new government this is likely to get claustrophobic getting close to the eastern neighbors. in another of the week's top stories the president of catalonia signed an independence declaration on tuesday and then suspended it for several weeks saying he wants the whole thing with madrid the need prompted the spanish prime minister to demand a clarification on the region's position. 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 again 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. meanwhile people in castle and i have been left frustrated by the confusion many were visibly affected while listening to the president's announcement and deeply disappointed at the end. madrid has given the cast one president until monday to state clearly his position it says he has three days after about to drop the declaration if it's made reporting from barcelona for us this week was honest to see it joe. was you could see was a reach it was. it is

necessary to show rebellion i did not know we found dependence is the solution but 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 divided just like that is absurd this particular square there are screens 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 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. look at a lot. of the soonest that you've given up unison with the book which he. took

i think she thought it was you know. how was. it again in a million 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 has spoken and really wanted independence you know italy i want independence i don't want anything to do with spain my ancestors wanted it but were forced to be spanish if i ever can say that my nationality is catalan i'll be very happy. where the iconic french show must point out barcelona plus a cartel lumia right now and thousands of people if you can see the cover marching

from that direction towards the square this is not the easy part of south where all of these people are coming out to speak in support of keeping cats loaded with neighbors who don't have the you know in the house by only to be alone you should assume because it was. i. the spectacle of color signal signals the start of the world festival of use on students in russia visible city of sochi we'll look at what's in store this week after the break.

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welcome back to the bleak leap on thursday the u.s. announced it 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 mounting u.s. every is the need for fundamental reform and new ness because alleged anti israel bias the us still owes of a hall for 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 dodged the issue. is it fair to say that it's truly destruction is no longer trying to find a way to do that with. the rational. well i think we've made our determination and that is to pull out of you know. they're never going to get their money i. mean less the less they will for me to rejoin. ok meanwhile israel has

followed america's lead with prime minister benjamin netanyahu not saying they were quitting in esco as well twenty sixteen israel suspended corporation with unesco after its adopted resolutions which ignored jewish ties to a key in jerusalem the resolutions also criticize israeli policies on at the holy places in jerusalem on the west bank and that's you know who called the u.s. move this week a brave and moral decision because you nascar has become a quote of the absurd journalist max blumenthal voiced concern that instead of preserving history the organization distorts it this goes back all the way to twenty eleven in congress withheld funding for your nasco because you know it's go allow 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 pro israel lobby and easily influenced by it and i think this really reflects the weakness of the trumpet ministration. they will fast. and students as a friend in russia's black sea resort of sochi this week long cultural event is expected to attract the points of the twenty thousand visitors from around the world here are some of the highlights from the opening ceremony. welcome to the nineteenth world fest. deveau 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 . danielle holkins is also in sochi for us. 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. managed to finally get out of that quite loud noise excite the crowd and 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 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 and 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 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 said to me 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 the east and 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. was that 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 a 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. for the

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