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visited only news live from burlington almost a year after its recaptured from the islamic state militant group the iraqi city of mosul is still in ruins an exclusive report d.w. meets the people clearing the corpses that still lie amid the rubble more than a thousand have been recovered so far also on the program. the death toll in guatemala corruption crisis. say at least sixty people are there and. rescue workers still hope to find people on the higher.
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i'm still get welcome to the program it's almost a year since iraqi troops retort the northern city of mosul from islamic state jihad ists mosul is one of iraq's biggest cities and strategically important because of its oil deposits despite this much of the old city still lies in ruins and amid the rubble there are still corpses w. reporter jeff aapl korea has been speaking to aid workers in mosul and sends us this exclusive report we've pixilated some of the more disturbing images. the smell of death is everywhere old mosul is like an open air symmetry nearly a year after the battle between the so-called islamic state and iraqi troops and their corpses still fill the streets. we meet hosseini the young nurse has
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volunteered to help remove the bodies. and this old house in this room we found one hundred fifty corpses they were all shot and i had not thought here yes. the stench is hard to take it fills your nostrils and chill now because we took away all a body instead we burned the room and to sanitize it but how did they also that. they were laying it out for one on top of another man of the women and then children. there are still bones here they were stuck to the blankets. anyone passing by can see the corpses under the rubble. with the bodies. a girl's hair still stuck to her abaya. the volunteers have removed one thousand three hundred fifty bodies so far. the old city in mosul in was and i asked stronghold
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sometimes they also find dead fighters. most with isis was responsible for your sister's death correct initially and today you are removing the bodies of some of their fighters what goes through your mind when you do this. you know this is their place and this is where they deserve to end up ahead of us my sister said she has a great i can visit her to find his remains and that without a grave the fact that i get to remove their bodies is my biggest revenge that fighting them with a weapon is exactly what they want they want us to be inhumane they want us to fight each other. it's life threatening work for the volunteers there could be unexploded bombs anywhere. why don't you wait till the area is secure lot and then remove the bodies he allegedly were not security officials many times nobody wants
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to do this and no one wants to come here. families can't identify their loved ones because of a lack of forensic medicine. you have to shift have you met people hunting for their relatives and i've seen women all the men who come looking for their dead children they say their children died here but they're not sure if this is the exact place because everything's been obliterated. what shocks you about all of this is the bodies of women and children the little bothers me even mall is that no one asks about them not even the government. three thousand people remain missing their bodies likely somewhere here beneath the rubble. report was produced by a korean who joins me now welcome to the end of your report there you asked one of the workers what what shocked them most what shocks you going in from outside. what
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shocked me most is to see that you as a human have no value at all no dignity no respect for humanity you're almost nothing no one cares who you are no one cares if you're a dead body to be buried because even when you die you have dignity no one cares about anything concerning you as a human being and people who are searching for their loved ones are left alone no one asks them no one supports them which is according to my opinion is of her eighty's and government should support these people. what shocks me is to see a very big area which is totally destroyed and you see dead bodies lying around and these bodies have sister father mother brother by you're simply left alone and and no one cares you know you go as you think as
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a humanity people's right human rights someone who deserves to be treason and definitely when you lose someone you have to right to get the body and there everything is gone you know like you're simply speechless and that's what really makes you ask a lot and appreciate the work these volunteers are doing because they're doing this on zero and what happens to the bodies of those volunteers recover. according to what sue told us days sometimes they're picked up by the authorities sometimes not because they put them on the side as we saw in the report and sometimes they are being heard in a mass grave. and no one asks about them and this you could see when you talk to dissidents when you talk to the people who lost their loved ones and they are
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searching for their loved ones according to what they said there's no d.n.a. test so you don't know that the family member you lost are they bear it or their life are they missing are they somewhere still under captive of someone captured you don't know and it's really when you when you see what's going on on the ground you're simply shocked because no one is taking care of it and you say the report all we hear in the report that the authorities are unwilling to secure the area in order that the bodies can be recovered safely why. according to what i heard from the people that the authorities you know when we did this report it was around three weeks ago it was they lection time so that people and the authorities are making a campaign an election campaign and four volts and then two to entertain the people so with this topic you cannot support you can again voices according to what people
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told us decide as you have a very high corruption in iraq and also in mosul and so the money if there is money send according what the governor said we talked to the governor in a talk show and he said no one is sending money running case there is money sent they are not being used at the right place for the right people and to bury the bodies so they are different to different different causes or arguments they are being said but at the end there is no argument when you see a place the way we're seeing now behind us which is ruin and rubbles and dead bodies on the ground and since eight months there should be no excuse whatever decks. this so just really not reading that closely between the lines you seem as critical of the authorities in mosul now as as. i asked who we presume that is because because you know when you're talking to the authorities when talking to the government you're talking even to the governor they are saying we are the one who were able to get out of mosul what after i asked
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there's a big there's a disaster on the ground there are people what should be more dead bodies lying around and no one's taking about taking care about them and when we had a talk show and the governor was there and he met seward through that we saw and in the in the in the report after that they had to talk and he said he denied at the beginning say no there are no that bodies and then we showed this report and it had an influence that they started a campaign and said ok because the media was there international media was there so they started a campaign to very did do once. a very moving report we thank you for bringing that to us to kareen thank you you thank. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world the king of jordan has a point of the country's education minister to be the new prime minister out reza has will form a new government today after the resignation of his predecessor honey muki and with massive protests the king has instructed our sas to review changes to the country's
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tax system an issue that sparked the demonstrations. iran's supreme leader ayatollah from in a house ordered preparations to boost the country's capacity to enrich uranium in the event that the international nuclear deal stands apart this comes nearly a month after u.s. president donald trump withdrew his country from the deal signed under the previous administration got to go. russian president vladimir putin says he has no intention of dividing the twenty eight nation european union is opposing is currently in vienna where he's meeting with austria's president it's his first foreign trip since you were sworn in for a fourth term austria it's one of the even smaller russia friendly members. the death toll from grattan modest devastating volcanic eruption has risen to sixty nine or thirty is a warning that the number is likely to rise as rescue workers continue to search what amount as volcanic death a go or volcano
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a fire is one of central america's most active volcanoes sunday's eruption was its biggest in more than forty years president jimmy barabus is declared a state of emergency and calls for three days of mourning. everyone. amid the tragedy there are moments like this. baby pulled alive from the wreck of a mountainside home then i don't know. colleagues to come over to share in a moment that makes this complex rescue effort all worth while. you go on whatever you are wherever i go. this is a risky operation more eruptions could happen at any time rescuers are having to tread quickly and carefully over still smoldering terrain. the weather could also hinder their efforts in what is a race against time. spec that during the next five days it
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will rain harder which could become a problem. if. there's a danger of mudslides because of all the debris from the volcano that's been left in the ravines and the rivers. sunday's eruption caught many by surprise the first explosion was followed by a strong second one people scrambling for cover searing hot ash gas and other barrels down the mountain a toxic mix that made this eruption particularly dangerous. and this was the grim aftermath of dead bodies so thickly coated with ash they resembled statues in some cases the task of identifying bodies dead or alive almost impossible. one grandchild fifteen and another eight year old. that's what i see if i could.
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i have nothing i don't even have clothes to change and. seeing from the size of the affected area becomes clear. there will be three days of national mourning. the funerals here have already started batches the charts of finding survivors diminishes there are likely to be many more to come. it was indeed only news live from their home to sports on the football world cup begins in nine days and germany's official squad photo has just been released in the middle you can see the newly fit captain a man well the neuer and blond just above him is julia brandt who grabbed what coach your love said was the last spot on the squad but everyone is talking about a player who's not on the photo as the winger leroy saami twenty two year olds was
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the is the english for it was the english premier league's young player of the year last season after a brilliant season with manchester city reaction to sunday's exclusion has been huge and will probably grow novice he has posted on social media he thanked his fans for their support and said he has to accept the decision promising to bounce back despite the disappointment he has encouraged the team to go get that title but criticism of the move is rampant former england striker gary lineker said the decision was not the same exponent as leader forward. fewer toft compared sunny's a mission with neuer being included despite not playing a competitive game since september. well the french open a german is a great hope for of has crashed out of the quarterfinals the twenty one year old lost in straight sets dominic pm of austria ten will now face i don't know about
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djokovic or marco czech enough to throw in the semifinals in the women's draw at madison keys of the united states has progressed to the seventies after defeating ukraine's junia put since a ba in straight sets that sets you up to date you at the top. of the day. make your small team even smaller than. what you what you want it. up to date. extraordinary. you decide what's on. sunday at the w.

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