Ukraine and even questions about his past. Voting is underway in indias state for the second phase of local elections is being seen as a test of popularity for Prime MinisterNarendra Modi who spent weeks campaigning in his home state direct has been controlled by mateys party for twenty two its right up to date with the headlines next up here on out is there its people in power. But. The bomb shattered buildings of the damascus suburb of jobar sits just a few kilometers from the center of the city but through the long brutal years of syrias war its beleaguered residents have somehow held that against the forces of the acid regime in the first of two exclusive reports of people in power goes behind the scenes to find out how theyve survived so long amid the rubble and why theyve been so determined to cling on despite repeated attempts to drive you mad. Still moon on the moon will gun its. Genuine moolah and. Winning for you giving it was shown but not being. Been the. One he has over. The whole. Novel from the one who are sitting. Out of them on. How dialing it on. A besieged on klav in the east of syrias capital in the sixth year of a coup. Over two hundred fifty thousand people means to move and job of. Filling the streets with life and noise. Now only two hundred families remain somehow holding out to make the rulings as phones and the side of president bush as. Its the festival of are you an old who can make it so ive come to the local mosque on the ground. But but its not a time for celebration. And. Own logo on our. Show and i was never there in the young lulu and then the revolution bit. However you how do you know did they know you were out what you had to move out and how much out you do dont ultimately lead up. But that they are also remember to hear and jobar spain ssion bomb shelter cemetery. In a. Fad has been an undertaker a job of more than fifty years. The work of the women. Many of his own family now law i met these broken tunes. 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I mean we have the. Will but i dont you i knew we thought will bring up the body. I mean. What. Will be written if any of the i mean delta said children domestically you know modify. The way you want to get your hand i want to do exactly. That. As the protests grew louder and opinions hardened there is became more aggressive sending in the army and using heavier more destructive weapons to punish its opponents. Bit by bit and this once prosperous damascus suburb just a few kilometers from the heart of the city was to be reduced to rubble. I dont have music you have to tell you one that i think you know and you know thats not as yet i want to know about that how and you know who in the not that the love of your mother could not tell you who and how i mean it all i dont know sumit jaimie come on its the noble. Man and how to be formally a local real estate tycoon still lives in job out with his family. To be killed at the still a gun it a day lucky on the out. A smile even if hell work some sort of idea for the role of ai he was the make and not and that may stick it in no other than that but all gone we need must have the us in full time job at a biscuit if what i was i got its my. The devastation left no building enjoy a bottle untouched be it old or new. In the shocking set it was my. Hundred one hundred home gun of rule washington a year with caution when you know that guns thought of london zoo and i need a lot. Now the district is in theory shuttered drek. Streets off the streets of ruined homes shops and public buildings shredded by high explosives. And even that means that the site has the next seven to say me im in and need to pay us not one cent comes out of. Me and i want. Safety to be his own. Whos down there is a little tricky. The hospice is chairman of the council of free job. Park mayor and part to a community of the refuses to give in to the regime. That has to have. Both of them. Have. So. Is that how to feel how the law. And how to. Vote is the largest remaining rebel bastion on the outskirts of damascus. Jutting out into government territory joe bought has been on the front lines since the conflict began. As the uprising escalated into open war over two thousand and twelve wrestling control of the un played back from the rebels became a king regime. Whatever the cost in civilian lives inevitably many of the casualties were children. I. Thought of that. And it will mark one had done how you called on the thank you on a lot have you know im done unable to emphasize the importance of this crucial battleground president bashar even made this painfully choreographed visit to his troops on the job out front. But offered to come to secure the release of the leon. County it was to create a Police Helicopter which would put all shifting to help it not you cannot do. Not know you know should be good numbers not the whole of people your thoughts of those are not low level of individual had that was relevant to finance because it would have wi fi the choice of movable that we would. But any blessing its a side may have given his army did not extend to the people of georgia. Against whom he was soon using chemical weapons. I find that ive done but each time. I run. One especially deadly attack in august two thousand and thirteen reportedly involved the use of the bam nerve agent sarin. Was you know. You can only. According to Many International observers including french government scientists the victim symptoms was certainly consistent with exposure to a nerve agent. And. This was denied by the assad regime. The precise death toll from the two thousand and thirteen attack has never been fully established the United Nations put the figure around six hundred the Syrian Opposition said fatalities were nearer thirteen on that. 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Most of the job as the residents have long since fled the war here the few thousand who remain especially the civilians determined whatever the cost to cling on to their homes eke out a strange existence under the ruins of the mafia that was not as nice a sort of not a sort of free i dont play out on top of somebodys home what you have to do you know how i did little boy that he loves and i think if it flooded if you got your family dont medicine and that he had added im just my mom im not young to have enough is enough you have got me from no nothing had an exam and you had no home. I mean. Thats the magic of it yeah im. A long look at last night in that it would have been a good. She would be ships and the launch of august i mean when i got off that i mean its money that you dont have to live you know one life and it is a kind of shape you know i mean yeah i mean i think the next day he comes im just im not i know a lot of audio a lot of time. Was you know i hope that you have me but it was not over the blue sea as he looked leon who im told about you know the thought he. Looked at her smart well my history for a time. Whatever it may have become in other parts of syria the conflict in job shows few signs of being driven by sectarian for ever. So committed to the revolution most of the fighters who defend these ruined buildings do so because beneath them by the homes and the businesses and ordinary lives that one day they hope to rebuild. A lot of it when their friends their one of them with the model at the. She had. A father of three used to run as your Grocery Store before taking up arms to defend. One with. Lots of people. Can you. Show. Like im not uphold the business and design i would a international. Order. But my thought. Was that i want to. Model. God as you for. The people of are determined to keep life as normal as possible. Setting up Ad Hoc Council departments to provide local service. Every year for the most majority. Leader and then itll be. So much i dont want to put them on the net here in the gulf. And how do you know. That the number of them without. Sorry. Your bonnies have even managed to keep some schools open. You know from adam kadmon to do it in our so i. Will minute that is through the model. For i had obama more adults at the dca to be a menace out there on the cool militarism of those not a version of the law. Today with our cameras present the children have gathered outside to send a message to the free world. Can. You. See. The councils efforts to try and restore basic services frequently come up against regime efforts to stop them. Such as diverting damascus is so which system and an attempt to flush out your but us residents. Feel how that has. The. Shuttle. Thats a bit about the. Design. A little bit i mean look at that lee was hundred learn here but i mean. If you. We found others even more determined to cling on to some aspects of their own lives. How long. Ill. Be. On the list. Who. Got nothing. Yet only three days after we filmed this interview things did change for a show. He and his wife were killed when their house was on the. You know. Although the distance between the two sides of the front line is just a few hundred metres the largest number of job us casualties ive come from regime air strikes. Its rather. Difficult. She did doesnt it a lot of that. The. Photos. We make them and the you know about. My love life. That. You love. Honestly and. A man that has. A stake. I know. That you mustnt let me do what i know which no in all a would have done and im at the civil law if the better as youll the mother said could you emotional job with. An actual granny and mother say lovely. Mission among the forty much you had a chance at least of what are you doing now and what not money to see. You know i dont know mood pisani not highly them not you know honey them about the. New look over. The miniature now but the object. To. Take whether driven by optimism stubbornness or courage the surviving residents of your bar show no signs of bowing to the assad regime and leaving their shattered town. I did not be elbow. Here did out there he blew it now he has no. Oh no not me no you about my jersey and the fact. That home. Thought you. And i will see. A deal before. But that may depend on the capacity of those who fight to defend your book to hold out against the regimes increasing the ferocious attacks. In the next episode of people in power as the siege intensifies we go on to job as parents front lawn. Business updates. Business updates. On. The news. The killing of children in miramar Doctors Without Borders say they were among almost seven thousand victims of. South koreas president makes his first visit to china as regional pressure mounts on north korea over its nuclear and missile tests and im. Top story in sport Brazilian Football Team flamenco upstaged on home soil as the argentine rivals one of the biggest prizes in south american football. And un brokered talks on syria are resuming in geneva after a short break