existed is just a possibility and as we know without speculating earth planet where i laugh exist surrounded by the vast freezing black space of dust and gas so could our obsession with aliens be just a way to cope with enormous costs make loneliness. i do think some people want to reach out they want to make contact because they feel like their lives are empty on this world my advice to them would be get a friend on this planet because an alien is never going to be our friend an extraterrestrial if we ever do make contact will be so different from us that we cannot expect them to solve all of our problems we can't expect self ation from the stars i think the best that we can hope for in contacting another civilization is to learn how another species understand this universe in a sense it's holding a mirror up to ourselves because what we know from contacting people on other

cultures on our own world gives us a new perspective on ourselves it's not that we want to give up our culture and take on theirs but we have a better appreciation for ourselves. golden words dr back get a friend from this planet don't rely on aliens thanks a lot for this interview when talking to dr douglas is back on the president of the messaging extraterrestrial intelligence organization discussing our chances of finding intelligent and we in life and whether we should be trying to in the first place this holiday season about ol i wish you and list love and peace let's hope that what's humane in us will always prevail over evil stay close and kind of each other a peaceful sky about our hads is worth much more than riches of the world happy holidays to you that's it for this edition of so i think i'll see you next.

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of. documents were examining. all the people we basically have tried to get an advantage out of this thought it was used for. and probably other politician which was. the media were quick to find targets such as the kings of morocco and saudi arabia the president of argentina several prime ministers. and russian president vladimir putin of course. oh my god i've had so i have sued so many newspapers for defamation some things don't just happen by chance it was very striking there were one america. especially a lot of people from the brics countries specially brazil russia and china

special project reveals what was missed in the media coverage. the panama chronicles. luxury and free but also an alarming number of people. living in the streets. the simple fact in l.a. is there's just not enough shelter even if people on the streets right now decided to come in there's nowhere to come in and it's been a struggle. to get this man found his own response to the problem and constructed dozens of tiny homes for people in need of shelter when you have nothing and nowhere to go. you know having something like this may as well be a castle but do the authorities accept such solution tiny house on a city parking space is not a solution. someone wanted touring the site otherwise it will be a free for all the news there

a better alternative to end the homelessness crisis. i like. the headlines this hour liberation and last r.t. gets unique access to report from inside mosul to see the true scope of the battle to recapture the iraqi city which is the cost of lives and left survivors in danger . i just me. it's one unexploded. walking around the

families that were. could kick it tried to play with it touch it and set it off these looted. also an exclusive interview with the russian foreign minister who shares his thoughts on the current middle east and the korean crisis. and ten seconds to change some families forever as they marquis years since leasing their loved ones in a russian military plane crash in the black sea. we have the right. to point. the line of still a simpler. but i welcome you watching r.t. international this christmas morning which just turned ten o'clock in moscow now as

the dust settles starts to settle from the operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul the cost to its residents is becoming more painfully vivid but it has been to the city to assess the real scale of the civilian tragedy. weaning isn't always pretty. is testament to that it's being the almost half a year since they declared this a victory and it was despite its ugliness better these than isis but no one mentioned the smell five months on mosul still stinks of death the stench of decaying and decayed bodies everywhere permeates the old city it's nowhere near as strong as it was back during the summer for obvious reasons but there are still countless bodies buried under all this rubble

and no one knows how long it will take to get to all of them. they are everywhere the corpses of isis fighters buried under the wreckage together with civilians woman children and exploded bombs shells rockets. people under the rubble woman just found her husband under the wreckage but no one can get him out smiles terrible it smelled even worse nature has done its job the rescue was overwhelmed the shia work required to dig up an entire city is mind boggling there is simply too many corpses. and they cleared away the bodies of civilians that they can see but they haven't been able to reach those in the collapsed housing is. going to cut them off at three or four of our neighboring families came here thinking the area was clear but there were very

happy airstrikes there now buried here. a recent investigation conducted by the associated press found that approximately ten thousand civilians were killed during the battle of mosul a third of them killed by the u.s. led coalition and iraqi air strikes what they did not account for those still to be recovered from the rubble. this book alone contains the names of seven thousand victims i have four or five of these a senior health official in los old province who is forbidden from speaking on camera deep to soften the true scale of what happened and the casualties keep on coming in. here's another little surprise. a kid or even an adult might not know what this is an isis made. these ones unexploded so the charge was walking around the family is that her attorney could kick it

tried to play with it touch it and set it off these all over mosul last tuesday three young children were killed when they were playing in the wreckage of a collapsed house all three died when an explosive device or bomb exploded. every day we got two or three more bodies victims of new explosions. these could be from anything and i suspect trap an unexploded iraqi shell or a bomb dropped by the u.s. led coalition months ago official statements on civilian casualties about a thousand dead made by the iraqi government the u.s. led coalition even by the u.n. a ridiculously understated but dig a little deeper and you likely stumble on one of the biggest civilian massacres in recent history or i guess you have for most of iraq.

now it is exactly a year since the lies of nearly one hundred families were changed forever after a russian defense ministry plane crashed in the black sea killing all ninety two people on board among them a renowned russian choir which was on route to perform in syria the cheaper one five four they were traveling on came down shortly after takeoff and it's thought that pilot error was to blame.

these are little soap which will be the truth of the sinful little but look at it if you will only some linkable see the book on which. to put it. well one woman whose husband died in that crash has been collecting the stories of other widows who've been recounting how they deal with the pain of that loss. but the to. this documentary for us was

a way to deal with the pain that hit us unexpectedly when the title of the documentary wives isn't random while we were filming we still felt like wives it's very difficult school so for a widow we saw our husbands often another way can travel they had several such trips a month they flew a lot and expectedly they didn't come back home and you of all the stories which you alone are has gathered have been put together in a program which will be shown on the r.t. documentary channel in about five hours' time it will be available online here's some of what's ahead. on your behalf so put it on a national story about. it in the in the in the piece in the news just liberal comes from really one of the fairly from the caribbean where there's a serious sort of ellicott it's like your former stalks me sure well and for months

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you. along with three of us will. go to the store or to me stipulated to shock when the government are going to war. now there is only a couple of weeks left for applicants to put themselves forward to be in the running for next year's russian presidential election a few names are already in the hands but as far as the foreign media is concerned there's only one man they are focusing on and that's the outspoken opposition leader alexina valmy he's clocked up plenty of column inches in the western media over the years where he has been described as a challenge the incumbent vladimir putin but never only is not eligible to stand for the election after being found guilty of embezzlement and given five years suspended prison sentence even so he's regularly disk.