in the stories that shaped the week the syrian army liberated the city of one of his landing states a final stronghold in the east of the country we had the story of two girls from the region on that fight for survival amid the devastation. very bad glad to get us over. a little i know he. hadn't been. failed expectations and growing uncertainty that's money as president gives ambiguous signals about the region's independence as madrid demolished the clarifying his position. on the leader of

people's party said plans to include screams victory in the country's election of the political right joins a surge in support. come to the nineteen year old dust devil of youth and students in tsotsi. and found dozens of people from around the globe descend on russia's black sea resort town of song g. to promote peace dialogue and international solidarity. you're watching the week here on l.t. international with mean a day or two day thousand round up of the week and top stories of the day welcome to the program syrian government troops have liberated the eastern city of our mind in from as. mixtape is the latest blow to the terror group which has suffered

a string of major defeats in the war torn country. but. if you talk about the job this radical political thing yeah there's a market the bad guys. i. know but the people in the province liberation after three years of ice and paternity doesn't spell the end of their struggle where i 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 it's these streets. surviving isis's see each of data zork was no mean feat so many perished as a result of starvation sickness violence and making. it. 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 and. only shared her home. who are now almost don't want to learn that she spends her days begging stealing playing and surviving no easy lot for. 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 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. the fluids keep building and there will be consequences she will lose her sight hearing and the ability to swallow the pressure on who brings has grown she'll find new cures indeed 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 so 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 are that are the end of 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 who is. disabled is not rich sure middle class she's poor but a kind heart goes a long long way. there. are a lot. there is cause for optimism . suffering has touched a chord action is being taken to get the girls out of bed as or but for now all they really have the site from promises and p.t. is each other or i guess. from there it is or syria. the leader of the rhine twinging peoples party has claimed victory and also has

a legislative election paving the way for him to become the country's chancellor sebastian code's is set to become the easy youngest leader just thirty one years of age you know me we did not just run to win the election we did serve to bring austria back to the top today is not a day of triumph over others but is the day the austrian population gave us their confidence to bring about a new type of political culture meanwhile the leader of the freedom party which is projected to finish in second place has hailed their success so these shows what we have achieved in recent years dear friends today will be player in the political landscape. has more now on the outcome of the election. we now are hearing the final results with sebastien 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 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 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 would 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 preview of the big. except for the. we are going to go back over the marker of your. career or another. 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. in another of the week's top stories the president of canceling a signed independence declaration on tuesday but then suspended it for several

weeks saying he wants to hold negotiations with literate with prompted the spanish prime minister to demand clarification on the region's position. we ask for a mandate to declare catalonia an independent state. through responsible 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 catalan 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 have been left frustrated by the confusion many were visibly affected while listening to the president's announcement there 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 that to drop the declaration if it's made reporting from barcelona

for us this week was us to see a joke and. you could see. through their reach it was that. it is necessary to show rebellion i do not know if for independence is the solution but it demonstrates this half of the population is fed up with this independence will hurt both speed in catalonia it took many years to make the country whole and to divide it just like that is absurd in this particular where there are screens being set up where no doubt this area is going to be by people in the hours to come caring to listen to this crucial meet the parliament is right there and we do know that the council on leaders in their meeting with parliamentarians in leave had on

the preparation of what is going to happen and people here despite this being a problem to run the gathering really there is no certainty as of right now what exactly he's going to say. a. little sooner than he usually. did. she. knew she. was. hit again later i mean i think he should have declared independence because now he says he wants time like that to. 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 the step forward that everybody wanted we understand you want your style but to want to have spoken again and we did want

it independents. 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 sensual must point out barcelona plus a council lumia right now and thousands of people if you can see covered marching from that direction towards this where this is that you don't see protests planned all of these people are coming out to speak in support of the things that's loaded with this is a president. really caused by the late to the law you should assume because it was . i i i i i. i. suspect of coal of color signals the start of the world of the youth and

students in resort city where look at what's in store this week after the break. with make this manufacture consent to the public well. when the ruling classes from protect themselves. the fight larry. let's listen to one person. we can all middle of the room sick.

of the program the u.s. has announced it is withdrawing from unesco the united nations educational scientific and cultural organization the state department said the decision was taken due to concerns over mounting the u.s. a rare is a need for fundamental reform a new alleged anti israel bias washington still owes overhaul five 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 was reluctant to want

. is it fair to say that it's to discourage discretion is no longer trying to find a way to look at the regression implication on finding what i think we've made our germination and that is to pull out of us so in other words they're never going to get their money i love that you have less and less they will form and you rejoin all of that. meanwhile israel has followed america's lead with prime minister benjamin netanyahu announcing his country is quitting you know as well. in twenty sixteen israel suspended its cooperation with unesco after to adopted resolutions which ignored jewish ties to a key holy site in jerusalem the resolutions also criticized israeli policies on other sacred places interview slim and the west bank netanyahu called the u.s. move this week a brave and moral decision because you know sco has become quote a theater of the absurd which distorts history journalist my experiment told us

that the pro israel lobby in washington was ultimately responsible for the decision . 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. students has opened in russia's black sea resort of song the cultural event is expected to a time of twenty thousand visitors from around the world there was some highlights from the opening ceremony. what will come 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. daniel 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 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 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 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. 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 certainly set so i believe a bit of a record for suddenly 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 again from the middle east from sri lanka we have so much in the meantime a lot of countries as you well 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 a 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 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 up of the old rule because rule thirty thousand young people get. 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. live. this is somebody you might recognize flaming.

you must imaging. people. i cannot believe to be. your slave to live. my first century and absolute. right through our century. the. next the first of all the lives. of all that our ideals we keep. the old. experience a little more open minded i've seen and heard him that.

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