he had called in an airstrike. killing his mother two of his brothers wives the cost. of the civilian suffering in the iraqi city of mosul. international releases a damning report on the coalition led liberation. run. that's the message from. in a new video instructing. terror. on the route to spain becomes the second most popular is a sphere. which is struggling to cope with the influx of new comers.

thanks for joining us. some five thousand eight hundred civilians may have been killed by iraqi and u.s. led coalition forces in the last four months during the battle for mosul that's the latest estimate from human rights organization international in his new report the group says pro-government forces relied upon precise weapons during the liberation of west of mosul and ignored the growing number of civilian deaths it also claims troops appear to have repeatedly violated international humanitarian law something that may amount to war crimes i missed the international collective the testimonies from the. displaced it says over six hundred thousand people were forced to flee

west of mosul well earlier in the program here on r.t. we discussed the dire situation in most or all with mollett one of the iraqi broader of unicef is about eighty kilometers away from mosul in irbil. i was about we can have a go in the central hospital of western more so. than people are coming that they're coming there with fresh wounds and one of the image that touch me and still remains on my. head is this woman who brought four of five children into the hospital. all of them you know head with the blood and she was so traumatized by young one year and a half all was on her lap and she was trying to press his arm to stop the bleeding

fighting in most of them specifically in western mosul was in cannes it's extremely intense with a lot of damage and destruction of the people and specifically children how. extremely terrible a price on the fighting in mosul they have witnessed hora and a nightmare yes they have been quite a cost of civilians and infrastructure damage. the horrors of war were also witnessed in another way by artist and illustrator george butler it was embedded with iraqi forces in the area previously he's worked in syria where he traveled several times to document the conflict this time though he depicted those who were displaced from west mosul.

the media though has largely praised coalition efforts to liberate mosul some even blame my soul alone for the devastation of the city and we spoke to george butler about what he witnessed during his latest mosul trip. and 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 stories and other ones that i as an illustrator and as an artist i guess are trying to do to get 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 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 so 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 that there's an infamous attack hundred sixty people were killed in mosul you know the willingness to talk about it and the openness and the normality of it was perhaps the most extraordinary thing and that is the fact that i was so regular i guess is a difficult thing to accept you what was the 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 it's obviously very sad but it is happening in mosul over the last few months i just want to ask you on the point of the refugee camp as well you've made one painting in the. amount of recently suffered a heart attack. just after the second world war. lying in this tent outside the main refugee camp conditions the heat. 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 a 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. memory will take away from from your time in mosul the one you know impression that really will will stay with you i think it's always the. 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. the. kind of very vulnerable the moment and the lack of choice and the thing that i guess it was to me is that the drawings that i'm doing are done with their permission and so i did wear 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. 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 in a clear reference to the deadly terror attack on british tourists in tunis year two years ago. the boy took to the streets of london to see what people think of this instructional video. british 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 if this is the best option it are just people to think of the instructions in the same way they think about airline safety videos everyone is a we have when you going to need a plane you get a safety briefing on what should happen if the plane came down and that's what

we're trying to say here that the chances are very unlikely because just giving you the knowledge of what to do and what not to do if you're caught up in such an attack kind of what's your response to that kind of wave to video. pick street here is we're going to stay are you going on on a summer holiday that i know of there's maybe quite scared to go forward really at work right they're all trying to scare religious terrorists be going on the train it's quick it's pretty frightening missing at the different you would make me worry about traveling the kind that we all stay like everything is about terrorism and stuff but 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 they could just travel in the haven't they there and what's going to happen next feel 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 your daily shop sometimes can be worrying

kind of a new reality to how you know it is but if you're safe. would it 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. 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 fear. for packing your beach bags as 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 and also various counterterrorism courses on terror survival guides being offered to the public chris hunter a former british army intelligence officer things this all 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 a 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're just live with the terrorist threats and keep getting killed and while brits are facing up to the challenges posed by this 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 eman f.m. broadcast speeches by on the what a lucky who was killed in a u.s. drone strike in yemen in twenty year eleven it was a radical american

a 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 links to the nine eleven attacks him on f.m. says it was unaware of the radical content of a speech years chris hunter 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 and crucially you know i'm not for monitoring all broadcast 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 their message any developed country in the world not going to have the resources to actually stop it in its tracks to monitor all these publications so there is a huge emphasis and moral obligation on the communities in which all of this media

is actually being propagated. it is our international law and yet another accusation being leveled russia or russia is now accused of trying to undermine the american energy sector by paying off environmentalist will tell you all about it after the break.

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remember when we first met my life turned on each day. but then my feeling started to change you talked about more like it was again still some more fun to feel those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters my. it's consumed with this. speech because there are no one there to. claim that mainstream media has met its make. the hour here in moscow several top u.s. republicans are calling on the trumpet administration to investigate alleged russia funding open environment all activists in order to undermine the american energy industry correspondent. investigates. 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 a 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 hide 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 the 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 seemed 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

a 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 who although surely possible in the world within there are. all that in their 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 says it continues to fuel russia as a threat to spy the u.s. president's quote tremendous meeting with vladimir putin at 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 adversaries however after the g twenty summit in hamburg last week trump wrote an optimistic tweet on a potential joint cyber security unit the idea however was roundly criticized of a russia's alleged hacking activities. but a former u.s. congressman michael flanagan told us that despite the setback president is still committed to working with russia if we can work with russia nuclear arms treaties if we can work with russia. peace treaties in syria we can certainly work with them on technological issues the president is absolutely committed to work with

president putin and to work with the russians and many levels and many areas and 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 sharp rise in migrants arriving from africa this year of between january and june up to six thousand five hundred landed in the country that is compared with eight thousand arrivals in all of twenty sixteen now just for a brief moment here on the program on r.t. international let's have a quick look at what route migrants saw travelling now these days from africa on the map here the way from morocco up to spain across the mediterranean has now become the second most popular route it's believed that the morocco spain route is

viewed as safe by migrants than going through libya to italy. i've heard good things about. the un says that spain is not prepared to handle the increase stressing the very simply not enough facilities in the country to deal with all the new arrivals italy still 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 this year greece is also affected with more than fourteen thousand migrants stranded on less boss and other greek islands in fact on monday a huge fire swept through a refugee camp on less boss believed to have actually been deliberately started by migrants who are facing deportation history professor paolo bunn a d.n.a.

believes the e.u. is still doesn't even know how to handle the crisis. in major. spain we want to be able to call this situation and i think. he's really not up to the task of control knob so they are not acting to hopefully do these and not call and call this if you think of the different. thing that these will now michael sweetly this is not to call them all this is just to do this with more than six policies frankly already knew. and i see the future. once it reaches the shore so weak that it greece and spain. the south african president has called for an acceleration of land redistribution between white and black farmers in the country he added that if necessary this may

include expropriation without. compensation local farmers who we spoke to say that is a dangerous approach. that's what we're going to do that's what we're planning to go take. the water at their belt and very scared that i should not get on with him and that was really what it. lent is the way to feed the people that just need. to stay on in and they will not produced any food for this country. feel comfortable with their land taken by force from somebody else. to deprive that person all the inputs he is put into that late they have worked so hard to be the bread basket of the country

you cannot to remove the people playing with with food for the entire nation. is playing politics you once the forms to the kids votes because the a.n.c. is now losing votes i say joining us here on r.t. international today more of your worldwide headlines in just about half an hour from now the latest watching the hawks. do colonies still exist. rico's treated as one as our own no economy equals and possibly town and them a little thrown him along on the puerto rico as you know and i knew well once he

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dreams come to get made or to be broken. long beach town of movie stars and screenplays los angeles has also boasted an impressive arrayed of musical artistry and genius that that that captures the very heart of the city of angels from the doors in the whiskey a go go to n.w.a. in compton to the byrds the carpenters the beach boys the eagles guns n roses are red hot chili peppers rage against the machine the descendents snoop kendrick the list could go on and on and on too many to count. like plastic surgery in beverly hills and hipsters in silverlake the los angeles music scene is going nowhere my friends which is why today we celebrate l.a. music as watching the hawks strikes a chord if you want to know what skills would know that you see the series at the bank fails or that you basically need to analyze it to gauge where the bottom sit

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