liberation los we get unique access to report from inside mosul to see the true scope of the battle to recapture the iraqi city its thought of course thousands of lives left survivors in danger and i just made. this one unexploded with a child who's walking around the families that are with. could kick it tried to play with it touch it and set it off these all over. escalating the korea conflicts hopes for peace in syria but concerns over america's intelligence the russian foreign minister talks exclusively to r.t. about the biggest global issues of the year. also this hour the seconds to disaster which changed some families forever as they mark one year since losing their loved

ones in a russian military plane crash in the black sea. we promote the skill of. the international live from moscow on. happy christmas and welcome to the program. i was the dust settles to the operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul the cost to its residents is becoming painfully clear. has been to the city to assess the real scale of the civilian tragedy. weening 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 there. 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 it 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 and 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 up without my dad going up there are still people under the rubble a woman just found her husband under the wreckage but no one can get him out it smells terrible it smelled even worse nature has done its job but 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 several thousand of their victims i have four or five of these

a senior health official in mosul 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 child is 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 be trapped and 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 civilly and massacres in recent history more i guess. from mosul iraq. and we spoke to my colleague here and coordinator for democracy and human rights we asked him whether he expected coalition countries to invest in rebuilding the city. we've seen how the u.s. rebuild iraq after the invasion in two thousand and three now we don't expect a us itself to rebuild most of what we do respect the international coalition to rebuild more so. as we spoke before that would do would require a special session by the un on this current situation and more so i spoke this

morning. to the two i spoke this morning to the iraqi human rights commission there were stablished last month and yes their knowledge their numbers could rise to up to eleven thousand victims in mosul but the number could have right could rise up because some of the areas and western morsel still people under under weapons still be been booby trapped by isis so we do we do expect the number to rise. the end of the year is often a time for reflection that charts the look ahead at what's in store with that in mind our correspondents including myself had the exclusive opportunity to get the world view from russia's foreign minister. looked out over the hood this year i don't think any sane person would want war on the korean peninsula estimates of huge losses of life have already been voiced not just by us but by american officials as well that's why i don't think any sane person would have such

intentions and i would like to mention some details of a trend in the us in september we received a signal that they wanted to start dialogue with north korea that there would be no military drills until next spring and that we could use that natural pause to build dialogue and while we were passing on that signal the americans declared they had unplanned drills that would be conducted in october or surprisingly north korea didn't respond and it seemed to worse that the u.s. wanted to squeeze a response out of them. with this year the u.s. has been leading other foreign nations in demanding the adoption of special regulations on protecting journalists rights of the o.s.c. for many years russia is entirely for that the us is not the only country which has discriminated against r.t. r.t. has some difficulties in france where the channels just been launched r.t. journalists together with the sputnik news agency have been banned from the president's press pool we've raised this issue with our friend partners and we consider it indecent but we still haven't received

a response in diplomacy and life reciprocity is the major principle you should treat others the way you want to be treated we need to demonstrate to the entire world that the policy of bands is ridiculous. when you were among the undefeated terrorists there is job and for some reason the us coalition doesn't want to take any decisive actions towards it despite our multiple requests to do so and despite this group being listed among terrorist organizations by the un security council it probably means they have some plans for it to remain there in case they want to return to their regime change plan. exactly one idea since the lives of nearly one hundred families were changed forever. the russian defense ministry plane crashed into the black sea killing all ninety two people on board among them a renowned russian choir which was heading to syria to perform it to pull off one five four aircraft that were traveling on came down shortly after takeoff it's thought pilot error was to blame.

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see the book on which was. to put. on the city of sochi people bring flowers to the black sea shore and lighting candles to pay tribute to those who lost their lives one here ago for many the pain remains strong one woman whose husband died in the crash has been collecting the stories of other widows who've been recounting how they deal with the pain of their loss. at the tyndall and that's because this. was a way to deal with the pain unexpectedly. that's when he the title of the documentary wives is a mind that while we were filming we still felt like live stream is very difficult school himself which we saw our husbands often another when can travel they had several such trips among the flu or not but it's actually really didn't come back

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of course. but. of course in that you're going to go on. about i mean it's always on the go i don't i'm sort of coming up under so i didn't jump also i only just not work on that if the so about last. time i just was going to go. thanks so much for stopping you can you just let you know that you. want to leave so we're. going to three mr peter agreed to shock no not we're going to schwarz. another news russia's prosecutor general has written a letter to the president of the european parliament strong attention to the actions of several any peace which the prosecutor calls a direct interference in the internal affairs of

a sovereign state earlier seventeen members of the european parliament wrote an open letter to the cypriot president asking him to stop corporation with russia in an inquiry into ex investor and lobbyist william broder is being investigated in russia for fraud and is suspected of having used cypriot offshore accounts to launder money russia's prosecutor general spoke to us exclusively about the matter . but the worth of it doesn't just undermine the institution of the european parliament but threatens the national system with legal as well as i have to see that this city and insulin pressure on the legal process is unprecedented. and the u.s. vice president during a visit to afghanistan took a swipe at neighboring pakistan donald trump's words that the country proves provides rather a safe haven for terrorists the head of the pakistani said it fired back by saying that his country wouldn't be lectured by anyone. you know for too long pakistan has

provided safe haven to the taliban and many terrorist organizations. but those days are old president trumpeters proud to stand on notice but his son is a southern state and is not in the habit of taking new taxes from anyone least to the united states. we spoke earlier to tell at masood a retired lieutenant general of the pakistani army told us the u.s. is simply trying to pass the buck. united states has got into the habit of making false accusations against pakistan because they want to lump their failures on pakistan they are hardly have control over fifty to sixty per cent of the territory in this town so on what basis are they talking that pakistan would be providing safe havens because there are plenty of havens in the one in stand itself so it's a self-defeating argument it shows the level of frustration us is suffering as

a consequence of its behavior in afghanistan it has been seventeen years that they have been enough to understand and they don't have anything to see that they did something good for of one to stand except to bring death and destruction unless the internal situation of understanding governance improves and the people are satisfied you know these problems in one stand will continue they will spill over in pakistan and pakistan will continue to remain a scapegoat for america coming up in just a few i would say look at what might make christmas very for as well as other world leaders more of a short break. here's

what people have been saying about rejected and i would do exactly this full on awesome for all of the early show i go out of my way to find you know what it is that really packs a punch oh it is legal is the john oliver of r t america's gift is in fact we are apparently better than blue the things that i see people you've never heard of love redacted tonight the president of the world bank. and the army seriously he sent us an e-mail. for.

welcome back to our to international. is making his way around the world delivering toys to children will be on the wish list for global leaders and has been asking people in london for their thoughts. i think there is a will probably wish the breaks had never happened and that she was never promoted as prime minister probably. had been the theme in two ways is still to see how we can help donald trump not bates' the right to finally yeah but he did go i didn't so i think. probably a better way to deal with maybe north korea in some way probably something on the lines of what's in place for the nukes drinking straws to see if he's struggling with drinking water then i'm so maybe something to make that

a bit easier. i guess he's always going to need orange to go in his vice. just bring out all the cliche that it is. muscles. is pretty happy i don't need anything. more stable europe probably. topic with more what could be on the wish list of shots. your correspondent. if you will be able to get a hold of the leftist to sunset it was written by this is. from right. in.

saying this is the german chancellor. just saying keep secrets from a. wish that when the world cup in russia or in twenty eighteen there are a few pressing political points it seems that the. thing for a party help with. please can we still tout the coalition shenanigans. we will not abandon our foreign policy with which we are not convinced it is better not to govern than to govern badly it's been months since the election here in germany. with the social democrats forming a new grand coalition get underway in january for a done deal. grand coalition who said this clearly after the elections and we still stand by this. democratic union party are also changed

in their negotiating stance but a bigger problem may come in the form of their berry and sister party the christian social union stepping down is horse disease their long serving outspoken leader he was always almost always willing to step into line behind 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. our world is accidental christian jewish humanistic islam has now made an outstanding contribution to the last two hundred years and now we have to be clear about the roots of our own land. can you make it say the c.s.u. stuff this up for me. there are those that have started to write angular merkel's

political obituary heading into twenty eight thing i'd say that was a bit premature for a chancellor that remains personally popular with a large proportion of the people here in germany however it's not like you 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 our tea in berlin and thanks for all of. our year that hillary clinton tried to explain away her failure to become a us president with a tell all book american youth in her sights while washington correspondents mira car shares her thoughts on the story. keep marching keep speaking up and does shirley chisholm once said if they don't give you a seat at the table bring a folding chair and that's exactly what hillary clinton's been doing since she lost the election searching for any way whatsoever to get back under the spotlight and when teen vogue invited her to guess at it it's december issue what resulted was an

ode to hillary never the less we resist guest edited by hillary rodham clinton and it features no less than three essays written by various women on what exactly they learned from hillary clinton and as an american female i feel as though i've learned so much from her myself so here's my list number one if marriage is. not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and support marriage for lesbian and gay couples i support it personally and as a matter of policy and law number to deflect criticism by who criticizes you as sexist this is a man who has called women pigs slobs and dogs number three never take responsibility for your failures last but not least number four blame russia for everything i was on the way to winning until the combination of jim call me as letter on october twenty eighth and russian wiki leaks raise doubts in the minds of people who were

inclined to vote for me but got scared off but the one thing that i would say that i've learned the most from hillary would be to be as far away from her brand of politics and divison from this as i can possibly be hillary has spent an entire career trying to chop up what is the fabric of america i race by gender religion by political view bipartisanship as she's divided america to such a point that america was almost unrecognizable another section contains advice for young. and in quotes from well you can guess who but too bad the issue doesn't include her best known quotations you could put half of trump's supporters into what i call the basket of deplorable zx or this piece of humor to dodge a question on inspiring a clinton if i once know. we came we saw her she

died. so what's next after teen vogue well it seems that it is diminishing the intelligence of young women who message to teen girls we don't think you're smart enough to figure this out for yourself so we're going to tell you what you're going to think that's propaganda not free not free speech. oh it's all from us for this use our wishing you had a christmas from all the team here ought to be back at midnight last time with more global headlines will see that. snow good i'm. a simple fact and now ladies there's just not enough shelter even if people on the streets right now decided to come in there's nowhere to come in it's been a struggle for the problem and constructed on a city and is there

a better alternative see what we're doing to our planet you know 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.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle trust in the mainstream media is an all time low but no one should be surprised in the media has itself to blame for this sad state of actually a conscious business model the media no longer has an interest in reporting news media today propagates ideology. crosstalk in the state of the media i'm joined by my guest eric holder of english and journalism at brooklyn college as well as the liberal media columnist for the nation also in new york we have lionel he is a legal analyst and

a news decoder at lionel media dot com and implement we cross to patrick and he is a journalist writer and founder of the news website twenty first century wired dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it let me go to lionel first in new york i'm not going to list all of the mistakes the mainstream media has made over the last few months because that would take up the entire program and then some suffice to say lionel i think it's quite evident that the new york times the washington post c.n.n. m.s.m. the m s n b c and other news organizations they're making mistakes because they have a blind hatred for donald trump their blind hatred is throwing journalistic practices and principles out the window and this is damaging the information sphere in the united states and i would say the political process as well go ahead lionel. i would venture to say is an admixture of trump derangement syndrome in full bloom it's negligence it's malfeasance and it also is that amazing isn't it amazing and

shocking perhaps that none of these mistakes ever in your are to the benefit of trump already body else or they never deal with hillary clinton or those of the so-called left and progressive left or whatever it's always a unit directional mistake there is never and by the by the biggest problem right now that is facing this country is not this this.