this is daily news live for almost a year after its recaptured from islamic states a militant group iraqi city of mosul is still in ruins in an exclusive report d.w. meets the people clearing the corpses that still lie amid the rubble more than the thousands of whom we've covered so far also on the program. the death toll in guatemala's volcanic eruption crisis increases authorities say at least sixty nine people are dead rescue workers still hope to find people alive. and behind the scenes of a rocket launch visits baikonur. as the next international space station crew

prepares to blast off we'll speak live with the former astronauts will talk us through the action. i'm phil gale welcome to the program it's almost a year since iraqi troops retake the northern city of mosul from islamic state jihad ists mosul's one of iraq's biggest cities and strategically important because of its oil deposits despite this much of the old city still lives in ruins and amid the rubble there are still corpses d.w. reporter jeff will karim has been speaking to aid workers in mosul and sent 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 the corpses still fill the streets we meet hosseini the young nurse has volunteered to help remove the bodies. and this old house in this room we found one hundred fifty corpses they were all shot and they had us all here yes . the stench is hard to take it fills your nostrils and chill now because we took away all of audience then we burned the room and to sanitize it but how did they all say that. they were let out for one on top of the other man the women and children. there are still bones here they were stuck to the blankets. anyone passing by can see the corpses under the rubble. hats 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 sometimes they also find dead fighters. with isis was responsible for your sister's death correct the one 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 she is 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 and leave why don't you wait till the area secured and then remove the bodies here in atlanta we're not security officials many times nobody wants to do this and no one wants to come here. families can't identify their loved ones because of the lack of forensic medicine. you have to shift have you met people hunting for their relatives 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 it is the bodies of women and children. this may even rule is that no one asks about them not even the government. three thousand people remain missing their bodies likely somewhere here the need the rubble.

leaving german politicians are calling for the expulsion of america's new ambassador to germany less than a month after he's taken up his position richard grinnell stepped out rage last weekend with comments he made in an interview with the ultra right wing website breitbart saying that he wanted to empower other conservatives in europe he also weighed in on germany's ugly of the migration crisis a storage ally of u.s. president donald trump the further annoyed german politicians for plans to host a lunch austria's conservative chance but sebastian cortes germany's foreign ministry says it's seeking clarification from grinnell about his comments shadowed to have his inaugural visit to the ministry of wednesday. political correspondent nina haas. nina the criticism has come from all sides of the bundestag what are they so upset about. well in this interview with the ultra right wing newspaper breitbart grinnell actually said that he was excited about the wave

of conservatism in europe and that he wanted to empower the leaders of the movement and many german politicians here see this as a clear interference in domestic politics they quote the vienna conventions according to which diplomats are not supposed to meddle with domestic politics of their host countries and clearly they say that grinnell has crossed a line he has clearly expressed support for people like the bust and courts the austrian chancellor who is a vocal critic of anglo-american refugee policy so that's what their peers are subsets about what is the official german government stance well the german government has said it wants to question grinnell that taking the criticism seriously and that will take place at the inaugural visit at the foreign ministry this wednesday at the same time the foreign minister heikal miles from the social democrats has also cautioned against overreaction he says he wants to talk to him

but let's not that react relations between germany and the u.s. were already strained over u.s. sanctions on iran nuclear deal amongst other things clearly this is not going to help. no well many transatlantic experts here see it as further proof that the us president don't trump is using all kinds of different means to try and divide european politicians and they say that they can see this strategy by the u.s. president that he wants to stop the european union from further integration and he tries to separate the leaders of the european countries and this is something of course that is not going to help but don't trump strategy seems to be that he wants to clearly target individual european leaders rather than having to talk to the european union as an important global player and having said that many people here are also reacting with sarcasm they're saying that at least after fifteen months we

have an ambassador here in germany a u.s. ambassador because let's not forget that was the longest period in germany's post-war history that the country didn't have a u.s. ambassador and in may rick grinnell finally took office and people are saying at least we can argue with somebody now you know has a thing here. you know the death toll from guatemala is devastating volcano eruption has risen to sixty nine or thoughts as warnings of the number is likely to increase as rescue workers continue their search guatemalans zavala down flags are all capable fire is one of central america's most active sunday's eruption was its biggest for more than forty years president jimmy morale assessed declared a state of emergency and calls for three days of mourning. everyone. amid the tragedy there are moments like this. when a baby pulled alive from the wreck of a mountainside home then i don't know. to come over to share in

a moment that makes this complex rescue effort. you know i think about what i would have but i guess. 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 more tis a race against time. during the next five days it 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 its 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. grandchild fifteen and another eight year old. that's what i see if i could. i have nothing i don't even have clothes to change into the. scene from the size of the affected area becomes clear. there will be three days of national mourning. the funerals here have already started but as the chance of finding survivors diminishes there are likely to be many more

to come. they're watching the news live from berlin still to come the enduring appeal of space as a crew prepares to blast off for the international space station we'll speak to a real live astronaut about his travels through the cosmos. is here with the inevitable response to washington's trade tariffs mexico is now announcing tariffs on american and steel products talk bourbon whiskey cheese still in motorboats face duties of twenty to twenty five percent analysts say trump could use mexico's which to finally ripped up the nafta trade deal between mexico canada and the u.s. trump's economic advisor larry kudlow said today that the president would prefer to negotiate separately with canada and mexico.

now let's see how that went down the markets go to live in frankfurt only is this the move to waiting for dash any any nafta hopes. yes it's certainly giving them ammunition to say that mexico is not playing ball and canada probably won't either and irrespective of the fact to move first you know he has a case to make to his voters but here there is someone who is trampling on the united states' interests and it could lead to the beginning of the end of nafta but you know this the reaction to this also shows how bizarre this whole conflict is the mexico of mexico's pays or the currency when sharply down when the news came and that of course is detrimental to both sides if you will the mexicans they get more competitive with the lower pay so they get more attractive as a location for for factories but that could lead to jobs going into mexico but on

the other hand of course with the americans. they can't sell their products as well in mexico so that's only one of the side effects that. policies like these yield and they're not positive. this tit for tat what is doing that to the mood in the markets. it's very quiet you can see behind me the dax it's going up and down and basically that movement is typical for the past few days and. in between you see sharp movements downwards last week the bond market crashed in southern europe spain and italy over the development in italy and that since recovered but sharp movements like that are a sign that the market is super nervous and the lack of stable development upwards or maybe even downward shows that the people in the market are not happy campers are not happy. where they are and when when you have movements like this then you

see that italy is on the mind but a trade war also with a trade war of course no one winning in the end difficult times on the markets the only boss thank you. president trump is also facing increasing pushbacks over his import tariffs at home to of america's most wealthy businessman wants trumps still an element in terms lifted as well as those lined up on chinese goods the billionaire koch brothers are backing a multi-million dollar campaign against the terrorists they are better known for using their wealth to support ultra conservative agendas and it's unusual for the industrialists to repose a republican president compendia man's house and senate votes to on any new tariffs with a debt crisis looming many italians are worried about austerity but now

a newly sworn in prime ministers is that the continent as declared is a euro skeptic government wants to reduce the country's huge public debt through growth and not austerity investors in milan are breathing a sigh of relief today and the italian index slightly in the green after a rather steep decline over the last months. now did mark zuckerberg hide the truth when questioned by the e.u. two weeks ago he said everything you share on facebook you own and you have complete control over who sees it and how you share it but an article in the new york times now reports the social network has given dozens of device makers like apple or some stone access to users friends data without their consent while facebook denied there was anything wrong journalists and was a blow as had a different story to tell and another hearing at the european parliament. worries

about data theft and privacy breaches drover the hearing with the committee on civil liberties justice and home affairs on monday night european lawmakers looked at ways to ensure data protection and prevent illegal use of collected personal information this comes in the wake of the facebook data breach scandal in which cambridge analytical used personal data to detect political preferences and manipulate voters. proponents of political micro-targeting insist it is necessary tool for engaging with electorates however unless these political technology machines are built upon fundamental rates of access and privacy by design it strains credulity that democracy can survive uninjured if we do not absorb the difficult lessons that we can learn from the cambridge analytical catastrophe the hearing also aims to identify how the misuse of these data encroached on europeans

fundamental rights such as privacy and of the right to impartial information the european parliament is also looking at whether facebook abused its dominant market position hearings are set to continue until next month. that's all your business now it's back to phil who'll take us to space thank you gary hart yes we're talking about a multinational crew of astronauts who are due to blast off from kazakhstan later to spend six months on the international space station the crew comprising a russian an american and germany's star astronauts i found a guest on takeoff from the city of baikonur which was made famous during soviet times the w.t. russia has this report from the launch site. i mean by cornu are at the world's largest spaceport cause more drama as it's called here in the middle of the.

nowhere in the world launches as many spacecraft as of this place thus even the russian cosmonaut human regarding the first human in space to call from here. there are just a few hours left until the launch. desperation train brinks of the soyuz spacecraft to the ram. security is tight especially i was told because there is a danger of espionage and here comes the rocket of a long shot at seven o'clock in the morning. right up until takeoff technicians work in the rocket and recheck everything meticulously because of the actual launch is one of the most dangerous moments of the whole flight obviously the launch is one of the more risky phases but it's also

something the crew is really looking forward to to experience these incredible forces that push the humans from the surface of this planet into orbit it's remarkable the g. loads it's pretty quick less than nine minutes from lift off until you reach the weightlessness and you are traveling with almost twenty eight thousand kilometers per hour it's something to look forward to on earth these flights to other astronauts are on board alongside of the german commander alexander garrisoned with russian sergei prokofiev and the u.s. american siri not a non chancellor you know to this imagine only these two guys is almost universally. three which we really want on our families who isn't willing to spend time in your. mind with a weekend on trips around most you know it's me for leaving them if you say no

these guys are fantastic they know their job. and i know that you were. that big moment is approaching and then all systems go everything is ready for space. very exciting you saw thomas reiter in the report he's a retired astros and currently an advisor to the european space agency he joins us from bike and welcome to day doubly so have you made this trip you wish you were going. oh definitely yes you know i had the chance to see this morning had a few words with him it's amazing he's completely relaxed really looking forward to this great moment to morrow and i wish him all best of luck and of course also to the crew what will they be doing up there.

well. they are in a phase where they of course want to relax a little bit they have a very very demanding task ahead of them the last evening the last hour before launch is really time to focus a little bit to relax to get rid of all the stress they had during the training phases before which was really very intense and to be really fit for this fantastic task that is ahead of them so how long will they be there what will they do that. they will be up for half a year they will return just before christmas at least this is the current planning and they have quite comprehensive scientific program will perform about seventy experiments from all different kinds of scientific discipline from medicine

material sciences technology. fundamental physics so the possibility to work really on the front of all these fields of research is one of the interesting most interesting aspects of being an extra apart from this incredible view to our planet and you mentioned the intense training tell us about that how does one prepare for the international space station. well the training runs for two years in these two years the crew gets prepared for all the specific tasks that they will carry out when they are on orbit so about eighty percent of getting acquainted with the scientific toss. about twenty percent is really doing the board engineering task because the station is a very very complex machine and of course it needs to be maintained some times

normal maintenance sometimes systems need to be repaired and this is a credible amount of knowledge they need to. need to get prepared for the specific work that needs to be done running the robotic preparing for an extra vehicular activity and of course the science so this is the main part of this two year preparation everything is stored in their brains and ready to be called as soon as they reach the station. and international crew. well the two languages they will talk there is russian in english. the russian commander can speak a little bit of english speaks very good russian the communication with the control

center is in english in. russian so those two languages need to be known by the noughts and they change between the languages during the day i remember when i was on the station in two thousand and six we almost every. flipped the language from russian to english back and forth and only when you have the chance to make a phone call to grown to your friends of cause then you revert to your. native language. well we wish them all well thank you for joining us. now happy birthday to us the w is sixty five today we've gone from a radio station that started after the second world war to a multimedia broadcaster beaming content around the world sixty five is quite an anniversary and even germany's chancellor joined in the celebrations.

anglo-american probably welcome the chance to take a beautiful break from the usual political disagreements and celebrate a positive the sixty fifth anniversary of germany's foreign public broadcaster. at the official ceremony the chancellor stressed the need for reliable information in an age of distortion and propaganda and are starting to think we can say that story chevelle is a success story in the name of the entire government i'd like to offer you our heartfelt congratulations keep plugging away and but you can celebrate a bit today as well in. america took time to learn about some of the w.'s initiatives he signed to combat misinformation and fake news. that's one of many things that has changed since t w first went on air in one thousand nine hundred fifty three. in the early days only broadcast in german and.

today it's become a global media player employing journalists from sixty different countries in berlin and he w. has come a long way. from outside gobsmacked when it was just german and just shortwave these days we have thirty languages in use all the media under the sun t.v. radio social media online whatever you want so you can see that things have changed radically. firsthand information remains as important as ever t w correspondence file reports from all over the world whether it's the middle east africa or the u.s. more than one hundred fifty million people use d.w. content every week congratulations poured in from various corners of the globe. congratulations to dortch of ella for sixty five great years here's to the next sixty five and. i wish you all the best. always

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