doing good in afghanistan. there was no no no no no he didn't do that had he asked me i would have written to the to the british people and the truth of conveyed my sentiments on the military front and given he's off off nato and the us and allies in afghanistan and also conveyed to britain to the mothers of britain. that. the purpose was to send their sons stuff got a stand. for the mothers of consent we highly appreciate but that's not what's happening on the ground in afghanistan. as their children are dying in afghanistan sort of thousands of for people there for war is not the way forward there for bush and must start as a country deeply involved historically in that part of the word for peace and. for it issues here that would bring parks them closer to afghanistan and us closer to

box. and that's it for one of your favorite shows of the season will be back with a whole new episode to going on the ground on wednesday the seventeenth of january till then keep in touch by social media have a happy yuletide. small room good them to come in the studio to eddie and.

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a free for all they're a better alternative to end the homelessness crisis. is a civilization just a tiny bit more advanced than we are that they can already pick up jerry springer or any other sit coms interview shows the nightly news they see what we're doing to our planet you know it isn't really a very pretty picture and so in addition to sending this chaotic messages that we use to communicate with one another we want to send a clear signal to the extraterrestrial but there's also some rationality on. what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line they did accept or reject. so when you want to be president. or some want to. have to go right to be for us this is what before three of them can't be good. i'm

interested in the waters in the. city. hello welcome you're watching out international this christmas morning where it's just turned eleven o'clock here in moscow and in the next couple of minutes two we do expect the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov to sit down with r.t. journalists for an exclusive interview to talk about being gone by and also have a look at the year ahead to it is to just start in the next few minutes and it seems it does of course we'll go straight to it in the meantime though we're going to turn to iraq because the dust starts to settle from the operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul the cost to its residents is becoming more painfully vivid more again has been to the city to assess the real scale of the civilian tragedy

winning isn't always pretty. is testament to that it's being almost half a year since they declared this a victory and it was despite its ugliness they did this 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 calculus 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.

still people under the rubble woman just found her husband under the wreckage but no one can get him out of it smells terrible it's 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. units. three or four of the 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. health official and no sole 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 bomb is one unexploded of a child who's walking around the families that are attorney could kick it tried to play with it touch it and set it off these little 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.

like this every day we got two or three more bodies victims of new explosions. these could be from anything and i suspect be trapped an unexploded iraqi shell or a bomb dropped by the u.s. led coalition months ago official statements on civilian casualties about the 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 the scenes from mosul iraq. now it is exactly a year since the lives 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 one five four they were traveling on came down shortly after takeoff it is thought a pilot error was to blame.

here's a little soap which will shoot us in football hooligans but left it to you are only some linkable see the book on which it was stupid. to put. well one woman whose husband died in that crash has been collecting the stories of other widows who've been recounting how they do deal with their pain of their loss but to tim. 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 know well the stories of alone of their garbage have been put together in a program which will be shown on the r.t. documentary channel in about four hours time will also be available online for you but here is some of what is ahead. on your left over to go on national story about. it in the in the most recent news just live on council really one of the first. from the caribbean where there's a serious sort of ellicott it's like your former stalks me sure well and for months at the most of my little girl said she was but i can see this disappointing this is your point when you buy the. software that was the goal of course the final in the distance what. are we look at the role. this is to quantize the struggle.

and spills that's where we are. but they are little i mean one last one up. almost. as well as i should or of course like. but our. goal got. about three minutes. ago i looked at sort of well but so also they are all yes they're all called if so what a lot. of time i just was going to go. because it's a must for up in your. distant future. along with three of three. great store or three me stipulated shock when the government got the war.

now there is only a couple of weeks left for perkins to put themselves forward to be in the running for next year's procession presidential election a few names are already in their hands but as far as the foreign media is concerned there's only one man they are focusing on at the moment tonight is the outspoken opposition leader alexina valmy he's clocked up plenty of column inches in the western media over the years where he is described as a challenge to the incumbent leader vladimir putin but in a bound he's not eligible to stand for the election are to being found guilty of embezzle mint and given a five year suspended prison sentence even so he is regularly described as a kremlin critic who attracts thousands of supporters on sunday he submitted the necessary paperwork to be candid the election next march hundreds of supporters joined him but the numbers were markedly down on his last attempt in twenty twelve when more than thirty thousand turned out in moscow. another contender will see a new name in the running for the communist party is putting forward powerful

gruden in he replaces an election veteran you had been trying to get the kremlin's top job for over twenty years because you've done of takes a closer look now at the election hopeful. his name doesn't say much if anything at all to the majority of russians meet pavel gruden and the new face of the russian communist party in this presidential race he's taking the place of a man who ran for the communists in every election but one since one thousand nine hundred ninety six so who is he was he known for and why i put him on the ballot well first and foremost he's a businessman who's been building a socialist utopia in miniature for just over a decade just outside moscow nicknamed the strawberry king he governs a small community that's become a shining example of what socialism can achieve. that

ertms. expect. these are some of the socialist dreams turned reality at the livin farm gordon has long been active in the grassroots russian politics he was one of lattimer putin campaigners back in two thousand helping him rise to power a decade later he switched factions and backed the communists saying russia had taken a wrong turn russia's communist party of today is a very different beast from the one during the soviet union and gruden hopes to steer it more towards a swedish or german style of socialism citing his own socialist success outside moscow even of my own. after farming community the.