with the government but he also fears an american may still want regime change of course we'll have more on this later on in the program but that was about an hour long interview given exclusively to party journalist by the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov. another news is the dust starts to settle from the operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul the cost to its residents is becoming more painfully visit vivid were against his 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 hard for years since they declared this a victory and it was despite its ugliness better this than isis but no one mentioned the smell five months on mosul still stinks of death the stench of decaying and decayed bodies is 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 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 smells terrible it's smelled even worse nature has done its job the rescue was overwhelmed the she'll 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 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. health official in mosul province who is forbidden from speaking on camera deep to soften the true scale of what happened in the casualties keep on coming in. here's another little surprise.

a kid or even an adult might not know what they seize and. bob is one's unexploded of a child who's walking around the family is that her 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. 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 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 from mosul iraq. among them a renowned russian choir which was on route to perform in syria one five four they were traveling on came down shortly after takeoff is thought pilot error was to blame.

use a little soap which will be with you for the sinful or legal for looking at it that you are only some linkable see the book on which. to put it. one woman whose husband died in that crash has been collecting the stories about the widow used to be recounting how they deal with the pain of that 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 to come and you know well the stories which alone has got it have been put together in a program which will be shown on the r.t. documentary channel in about three hours time it will also be available online to his some of what's ahead. on your beloved talk 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

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i guess he's always going to need. to go to spice. just bring out all the cliche that. is pretty happy. for anything. a more stable europe probably. correspondent has been wondering what i. have christmas with what's been a difficult year. imagine if you will that i've been able to get

a hold of the letters to santa it was written by mrs angler merkel from right. now i'm not saying this is the german chancellor's letter to santa claus just saying some else can't keep secrets aside from a german football jersey and i wish that when the world cup in russia or in twenty eighteen there are a few pressing political points it seems that the chancellor and asking our think nick for a bit of help with. the sound please can we still tout the coalition shenanigans . we will not abandon our voters policy with which we are not convinced it is better not to govern than to govern badly and it's been months since the election here in germany and way in negotiations with the social democrats on forming a new grand coalition get underway in january therefore for

a done deal we're not entering a grand coalition we said this clearly loose room after the elections and we still stand by this angle of merkel's christian democratic union party are also unchanged in their negotiating stance but a bigger problem may come in the form of their prepared sister party the christian social union stepping down is horse z. hot for their long serving out outspoken leader he was always almost always willing to step into line behind lynne well he is going to be replaced by marcus who's already being trying to appeal to the party's base and it's the party's base that doesn't like a lot of anglo merkel's policies particularly when it comes to refugees and asylum policy trip reagan was our world is accidental christian jewish humanistic islam has now made an outstanding contribution to bavaria in the last two hundred years and now we have to be clear about the root. and for our only man. can you make it

say the c.s.u. did stuff this up for me. they're all those that have started to write political obituary heading into twenty eight thing i'd say that was bit premature for a chancellor that remains personally popular with a large proportion of the people here in germany however it's not like she couldn't benefit from a christmas wish or two coming through wishing you all a very merry christmas from all of the team here in germany for all to see in berlin and thanks to all of us. and thanks for being with us this christmas day we do hope you are enjoying your christmas wherever you are in just over half.

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