a very warm welcome you're watching r t international with me becky erin we start this hour in syria years of war with terrorists sounds militants have left the country in ruins huge amounts of key infrastructure were destroyed including factories and hospitals we visit some of these signs to see how the rebuilding job is going and how close people like getting their lives back together. if damascus is serious about welcoming back millions of its refugees well it has a lot to do first and foremost most of the country has been reduced to rubble by the war so a lot of people just don't have a place they can call home anymore secondly infrastructure is a big issue too because major transportation arteries have been cut and thirdly electricity so skies that anyone who has a power generator well is a very lucky person. that's why factories like this one are crucial most syrian cities have to survive amid a chaotic and unstable power supply we've been told is that when anti assad fighters captured this facility they looted it to clean for equipment and left it badly damaged it's fully oper

international with me becky erin now we start with syria where people are getting their lives back in order after years of war against militants and to harvest huge amounts of key infrastructure were destroyed including important facilities such as factories and hospitals and the rebuilding is getting underway we visit some of these sites to see how the job sky. if damascus is serious about to accepting millions of its refugees back home it has some serious rebuilding to do barros villages in small towns like the one over there in the province of holmes have been completely raised from the face of the earth by the war. that's why factories like this one are crucial most syrian cities have to survive amid a chaotic and unstable power supply we've been told that when anti assad fighters captured this facility they looted it clean for equipment and left it badly damaged it's fully operational now but lack of power of course isn't the worst that syrians have had to endure lie i swear we were dying of hunger one kilo of bread for one thousand lire you have to eat otherwise you starve to de