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is still struggling to cope with. a very warm welcome to you. some five thousand eight hundred civilians may have been killed by iraqi and u.s. led coalition forces in the last month during the battle for mosul the latest estimate from human rights organization international in its new report the group says government forces relied upon precise weapons during the liberation of west of mosul north the growing number of civilian deaths it also claims pro baghdad troops have repeatedly violated international humanitarian law something that may amount to war crimes i'm going. the international collective the testimonies from those

displaced it says over six hundred thousand people were forced to flee west of mosul well for more on the situation there in the town of joy by mollett water from the iraqi branch of unicef about eighty kilometers away where you're located now from mosul in erbil thanks for joining us here on the program today i missed the international says almost six thousand civilians may have been killed in four months as a result of iraqi and u.s. led coalition attacks in mosul are you surprised by that figure. thank you very much for having me. i cannot confirm those figures but what i can tell you is the fighting in most of this was difficult in western mosul was in tents extremely intense with a lot of damage and destruction and i have seen that with my own hours with my own eyes the cost of civilians is something that i am not sure in terms of

numbers but we know because of the high temperature and because of the difficulties the lives on the live living conditions of the people who are even a stark inside mosul or outside mosul have been extremely bad so it's a situation that's extremely difficult it's a situation that's but declared lee difficult for children thousands and thousands of children that have been affected by this fighting and many of them have been separated from their children from their bad and some from their communities and families and many of them had been wounded so yes they have been quite a big cost of civilians and infrastructure damage to the live fighting and eats a sad it's a sad for all those who care about you do you describe or the number of children

and the number of children being being affected by this we understand the report his audience almost six thousand civilians i do apologize we've lost the connection here on r.t. international do stay with us i'm out a little water far from unicef will come back to you in just a moment please stand by. now the horrors of war were also witnessed in another way by artist and illustrated george butler who was embedded with iraqi forces in the area previously he's worked in syria where he traveled several times to document the conflict and this time he depicted those who were displaced from west mosul.

now the media has largely praised coalition efforts to liberate mosul we spoke to george butler about what he witnessed during his latest mosul trip. what was your first impressions when you when you arrived and became embedded with the iraqi special forces what i found i guess was huge destruction to. civilian life and as ever it's the civilians that. are losing out more than anybody and they're the ones with the with the stories and other ones that i as an illustrator and as an artist i guess are trying to do to give justice to what was the most difficult almost striking thing that you that you saw there something that really made an impression on you on one side a pile of endless piles of rubble these houses been destroyed in an airstrike and this. came out and bought me a chair to sit on you could see i was touring and just begins to tell

a story and isis fighters had fled the mosque next door during the fight a fire fight they'd come into his home where his family were living and then the iraqi army had called in an airstrike which it often does in mosul of course killing but also killing his mother two of his brothers and one of their wives this attack actually happened on the same day that. the that there was an infamous attack where sixty people were killed in mosul you know the willingness to talk about it and the openness and the normality of it was the most extraordinary thing is the fact that i was so so regular i guess is was the difficult thing to accept you were obviously fortunate to capture this in your drawing but is this something you really occurred all over the city a lot of the damage that you see is not done by. not done by car bombs or firefights but by

a strike that story of people civilians being caught up in that is obviously very sad but it is happening in mosul over the last few months i just want to ask you on that point to the refugee camp as well you've made one painting in the. mounted recently suffered a heart. born just after the second world war. lying in this tent outside the main refugee camp conditions the heat. and his wife you can imagine the desperation he hasn't eaten for five days or drunk and. it's a very private moment this man may well be dying maybe it will be dead by now but you're inviting strangers in into your tent for those last moments on the off chance that they can help for me was was very difficult to sort of make a really difficult choice whether you whether you engage with that and tell the story or whether you stand out from it because of course. the chance of helping is

very i think very slim memory you will take away from from your time in mosul the one you know impression that really will stay with you i think it's always this well i suppose it's always been the same and that is. that it is the majority of civilians losing out. hugely. to something that they have no control of. and the lack of. that kind of very vulnerable the moment and the lack of choice and the thing i guess it was sticks to me is that. the drawings that i'm doing are done with permission the best drawings i did were the ones that i was very much emotionally attached to the kind of desire to draw to do justice and draw exactly what was in front of me. now let's go back now to far from the iraqi branch of unicef or thanks for joining us and staying with us on the program here on r.t.

international today mr waterford the international saying six thousand civilians may have been killed during the liberation of mosul six hundred thousand displaced as well when it comes to the liberation of mosul mr water is there a level of collateral damage that may be deemed acceptable when it comes to the fight against terrorism. thank you very much again. we have been i have personally been in and there's some massive destruction of the infrastructure and of course people and specifically children how. extremely terrible a price on the fighting in mosul they have witness hora and a nightmare that will last many many years to come with them and. and that it's really faint fools picture that will remain with many of us and with

the children and with the people of mosul. i'm not in a beausejour to comment on the politics of collateral damage and would destroy who but the fact remains a lot of people have been affected by themselves. many many children well known to many others who are separated from their loved ones and unicef and partners that we work with. seriously committed to making sure children go back to normalcy and go back to being children as soon as we can fixing the schools they have been taking the quickest time possible for many of the schools in mosul and we have all of you done over three hundred. schools supported by unicef are going to offer now children an opportunity to go back to school and we are now working with our partner networks to support children on their psychosocial

support wellbeing or psychosocial will be what i can assure you is this is the biggest. nightmare any child would witness in their lifetime. toward her now that what if from unicef thank you hello. now with the holiday season in full swing in europe u.k. police are warning brits to be braced for any eventuality during their vacations including terror attacks. the video includes scenes of a hotel on the sea and a clear reference to the deadly terror attack on british tourists in two years ago

. took to the streets of london to find out what people think of this video. police have now released a video showing british terrorists how to react in case they get caught up in a terrorist attack if it's a safe route to get out now and this is the best option it are just people to think of the instructions in the same way they think about a line safety video everyone is a we have when you going to need a plane you get a safety briefing. and if the plane come down and they're trying to see you that the chances of very unlikely is just giving you the knowledge of what to do not to do if you're caught up in such an attack kind of what's your response to that kind of wave d.v.d. a. big street here is a mistake are you going on on a summer holiday that i know of there's maybe quite scared to go very early at work right but will find it quite scary religious terrorists because on the train it's

quite pretty frightening missing that the defendant would make me worry about traveling the kind that we all stay like everything is about terrorism and stuff like that it just adds more to stress you what's going on today to kind of relax not to think about potential terrorist attacks i think it's a bit scary if they could just travel and we have been in there today john what's going to happen next less safe everywhere there's a fire or a terrorist attack every day so it's like you do worry generally more about even trying to get out to get you know to do you up sometimes can be worrying kind of a new reality to have you know it is here to feel safe here in the u.k. so you wouldn't change your plans this kind of thing watching this kind of video i . wouldn't you know. it wouldn't deter you from going away. you know a little to just to deal with it every day so police say there's no specific intelligence that british holidaymakers are going to be targeted but they still

want you to what the film saw packing your beach bags and i was people adapt to the terror threat. industries are adjusting as well u.k. insurance companies for example are now offering special policies that cover terrorism there are also various counterterrorism courses on terror survival guides being offered to the public chris hunter a former british army intelligence officer thinks this whole shows just how much things have changed we're definitely living in a different worlds the you know the rise in islamist extremist terrorism is unprecedented and i think you know just looking at it from a domestic perspective when i was growing up in the you know in britain in the early eighty's i remember the provisional ira threats but they used to give coded warnings they didn't actually want to kill civilians with islamist extremist terrorism it's a completely different mindsets and completely different threats so we have to take

the threat seriously and we have to be prepared to either forego some of our civil liberties or you know we say ok we'll just live with the terrorist threats and keep getting killed and while brits are facing up to the challenges posed by the new reality a u.k. radio station recently aired twenty five hours of al qaeda recruitment propaganda its license has since been revoked by a communications regulator ofcom imaan f.m. broadcast speeches by underwater. who was killed in a u.s. drone strike in yemen back in twenty year eleven he was a radical american muslim cleric of yemeni origin the u.n. security council states that he was a leader recruiter and trainer for al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is also suspected of having had links directly to the nine eleven plot now am on f.m. says it was unaware of the radical content of the speeches chris again says communities must do more to tackle the promotion of radicalism. twenty five hours

of evil hatred and vitriol and it once i'm on it's and crucially you know i'm not monitoring all broad cos but somebody gave these people a license presumably if they were broadcasting illegally the real issue with this is that there are so many different mediums through which terrorists can actually propagate that message any developed country in the world are not going to have the resources so actually you know stop it in its tracks to monitor these publications so there is a huge emphasis and moral obligation on the communities in which all of this media is actually being propagates it's busy day for news here on r.t. international thanks for joining us so far still to come here on the program rush hour is now being accused of trying to undermine the american energy sector will describe that and discuss the details and.

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better than nothing. and see the people you've never heard of low down to the next president of the world bank very. seriously send us an email. thanks for joining us here for you and yours several top u.s. republicans are calling on the trump ministration to investigate alleged russia funding of environmental activists in order to undermine the american energy industry. and investigations you've been watching mainstream american television lately you've probably noticed a recurring theme former cia chief john brennan is connecting the dots between russia and wiki leaks a lot of connect the dots information as you said the dots that connect the dots to get connected back with russia connect the dots russia did it it's a game of connect the dots first find something that you do not like and then

somehow blame russia for it and we're not just talking about hillary clinton losing her guaranteed presidency back in two thousand and sixteen are you a fan of donald trump's energy dominance plan if you are then the environmentalists who are protesting against fracking a controversial shale drilling technique are part of the kremlin conspiracy if you connect the dots it is clear that russia is funding u.s. environmental groups in an effort to suppress the domestic oil and gas industry specifically hard really cracking. and on the other hand if you're an environmentalist don't you know that putin is the mastermind behind the controversial keystone pipeline. are you worried about the right white nationalism right wing extremism.

and on top of that the occupy wall street protests can be traced all the way back to russia's secret security services and also moving give to practical examples of how the russians have been engaged in our political system one was an anti fracking campaign that the russians seem to be engaged in another one was the occupy wall street movement that the russians were engaged in as well sure the financial crisis low wages income inequality had nothing to do with it we all know that people were protesting back in two thousand and eleven because they got orders from moscow right. and the public trust in the mainstream media is shrinking it's because someone is feeding them fake and false information guess who what about false information the real fake is being put out by russians russian propagandists russian operatives were almost surely possible in a war with a new or a. new bag of tricks or something to try to do russia has become the world's

scapegoat for everything and it's this weird witch hunt that like now if something doesn't go someone's way and international business or elections or whatever the automatic finger pointing goes to russia i guess it's just the automatic excuse now especially with this fracking story in particular like ok they're saying now that russia is involved with. powering environmentalists to stop fracking it just doesn't make sense so from hacking to fracking it's all because of the kremlin whenever something goes wrong you can always say that the russians did it it never seems to get old caleb artsy new york meanwhile the white house continues to view russia as a threat that's despite the us president's quote tremendous meeting with vladimir putin and the g twenty summit where they discussed a cyber security deal we recognize that russia is a cyber threat but we also recognize the need to have conversations with our ad was

serious however after the g twenty summit in hamburg last week a trumpet wrote an optimistic tweet on a potential joint cyber security unit the idea however was roundly criticized over russia's alleged hacking activities of former u.s. congressman michael flanagan told us that despite the setback president trump is still committed to working with russia. if we can work with russia nuclear arms treaties if we can work with russia on peace treaties in syria we can certainly work with them on technological issues the president is absolutely committed to work with president putin to work with the russians on many levels and many areas in the deep state in this country hates it will continue to scream about it and that's too bad but it's going to happen it's going to be a bumpy ride for everybody but we cannot continue to have a permanent implacable enemy in russia in all things and whatever they do is going to be wrong and we have to continue to act from that need your place it's it's wrong it's silly it's foolish and it's counterproductive to world peace. spain has

seen a shop rise in migrants arriving from africa this year between january and june up to six thousand five hundred lines in the country compared with eight thousand arrivals in all of twenty sixteen not just for a brief moment here on the program on r.t. international let's have a look at what route the migrants travelling from africa are taking these days for example the way from morocco up towards spain across the mediterranean has become the second most popular it's believed that the morocco spain route is viewed as safe by migrants thing going through libya to italy. for. the un the states that spain is not prepared to

handle the increase stressing that there are not enough facilities in the country to deal with all the new arrivals italy still though remains the e.u. state that's accepting the vast majority of migrants departing africa's shores almost eighty five thousand have landed there since the beginning of twenty seventeen greece is also affected with more than fourteen thousand migrants stranded on other greek islands on monday. through a refugee camp on less balls believed to have been deliberately started by the migrants who are facing deportation mr professor believes the e.u. still does not know how to handle this crisis. in may june deja it's likely the case of the most famous with well able to call this situation i think you really want to go up to the tossed out of control going on wal-mart. acting hopefully days and not call and call this if you think that the phone

longball demotic wants to be nice that you sure number will migrate to spain with these with mom oh my sweetly there's not too many i'll call them all this is just gracious we have to do that as well as your sick policy i don't see it frantically all day noon is it. and i see the future. like once it reaches the shore so great that it greece and spain are next here on r t international we take you behind the scenes of reporting from the multi-national war in syria. in case you're new to the game this is how it works not the economy is built around quite. perforations washington washington media the media

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