liberation. to report from inside mosul to see the truth scope of the battle to recapture the iraqi city of course thousands of survivors in danger. isis made. this one unexploded to the. families that we. could try to play with it. and set it off at least a little. also the. conflicts hopes for peace in syria but concerns over america's intentions the russian foreign minister talks exclusively to r.t. about the biggest global issues of the year. the seconds to disaster which changed forever as they mark year since losing their loved ones in

a russian military plane crash in the black sea. this is. a live from moscow. welcome to the program and of course christmas as well. as the dust starts to settle from the operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul the cost to its residents is becoming painfully clear. to the city to assess the real scale of the civilian tragedy. weaning isn't always pretty. is testament to that it's being that almost half a year since they declared this a victory and it was despite its ugliness that of these 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 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. 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's 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 airstrikes 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 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 families that are attorney could kick it tried to play with it touch it and set it off these a little 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 an isis be trapped 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 more i guess dia from mosul iraq. we spoke to mohammed circle the u.n. coordinator at salam for democracy and human rights we asked him whether he expected coalition countries to invest in rebuilding the destroyed city. we've seen how the us rebuild iraq after the invasion in two thousand and three now we don't expect a us itself to rebuild mosul but we expect the international coalition to rebuild more so. as we spoke before that would do would require

a special session by the un on the current situation in mosul i spoke this morning . to the two i spoke this morning to the iraqi human rights commission there were stablish 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 and the rebels still believe in been booby trapped by isis so we do we do expect the number to rise. at the end of the year is often a time for reflection a chance to look also ahead at what's in store and with that in mind r.t. correspondents have had an exclusive opportunity to get the world view from russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov. but don't 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 dialog and while we were passing on that signal the americans declared they had unplanned drills that would be conducted in october surprisingly north korea didn't respond and it seemed to worse that the us wanted to squeeze a response out of them. with this year the us 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. there you have so when you were among the undefeated terrorists there is just a 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. it's exactly one year since the lives of nearly one hundred families were changed forever. off the russian defense ministry a 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

a total of one for a full plane they were traveling on came down shortly after takeoff it's thought pilot era was to play.

too soon for the troops when the issue for the school football hooligan roof but if you took you were only some linkable see the book on which it was stupid. to put. now in sochi people are bringing flowers to the black sea shore lighting candles to pay tribute to those who lost their lives one year ago for many the pain remains strong one woman whose husband died in the crash has been collecting the stories of other widows they've been recounting how they deal with the pain of their loss. to see. this documentary for us was a way to deal with the pain that hit us unexpectedly and 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 off on another where can trip they had several such trips a month they flew or not unexpectedly they didn't come back. you can watch the stories which are collected by heading to our documentary channels website the address is on our screens right now. on your behalf so critical national story about. it in the in the most recent. really one of the fairly from the caribbean where there's a serious sort of ellicott where it's like you're born or stalks me sure well and for months at the most of my little girl said she was but i guess me just to stick one thing this it's been your father also it's your self-worth it was the goal of course the problem of this it's one. where we looked at the will. this it's are

going to cause them struggle more spills but we knew. that they all middle i knew on. the last one up. almost never. questioned or of course one of. but. we should also know. that it will because. it's good that i mean it's. because i've gotten sort of well up a bunch of so i think i'm also. not work on the if the so about. some i just will or will it is going to go. i think you must warm up when you can so you just need to put you. through leaves one. who gets to be nice to peter and it's a shock when the government you have this war. and

other headlines the u.s. vice president during a visit to afghanistan took a swipe at neighboring pakistan donald trump's words that the country provides a safe haven for terrorists the head of the pakistani senate 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 trump has put pakistan on notice pakistan is a sovereign state and is not in the habit of taking newts is from anyone least to the united. we spoke earlier to tell it masood he's a retired lieutenant general in the pakistani army he told us the u.s. is just 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 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 stand itself so it's a self defeating argument it shows the level of frustration us is suffering as a consequence of its failure in afghanistan it has been seventeen years that they have been in a one a stand and they don't have anything to say that they did something good for of one stand except to bring death and destruction unless the internal situation of afghanistan and governance improves and the people are satisfied you know these problems in afghanistan will continue they will spill over in pakistan and pakistan will continue to remain a scapegoat for america or two states coming up a look at what might make christmas merry for angela merkel as well as other world

leaders will have that story and more just after this short break. with this manufactured sentenced to public will. when the ruling closest to protect themselves. with the famous clear euro. be the one person. to ignore middle of the room sick news. from the real news. twenty eight seen what will see our central banks adding bitcoin to their strategic reserves alongside goal so the big gold buyers like china and russia will be adding

big point to their strategic reserves some banks possibly in venezuela they could completely change their fortunes in the global economy by switching over to crypto switching over to bit coin and then that will set a precedent for other countries of policy. to auti now it's such a christmas of course a sound some makes his way around the world delivering toys to children what will be on the wish list for global leaders want to see it should come to has taken to the streets of london to cost people for their thoughts. probably was the breaks it never happened and the series never promotes its prime minister. so it wastes is so to see how we can. do it.

probably a better way to deal with maybe north korea in some way a. drinking straw. i guess he's always going to need. to go to spice. barris. just bring out all the cliche their. muscles. pretty happy. for anything.

a more stable europe probably. more on what could be on the wish list of. his. 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 lynn but 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 is asking out think nick for a bit of help which. disarms her please can we still tout the coalition shenanigans . we will not abandon our voters for a 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 anyway in negotiations with the social democrats on forming a new grand coalition get underway in january therefore for a done deal we are not entering a grand coalition we said this clearly 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 berry and sister party the christian social union stepping down is horse dizzy hot for their long serving 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 with our world is accidental christian jewish humanistic islam has not made an outstanding contribution to bavaria in the last two hundred years and now we have to be clear about the root. of our own land. can you make it so the c.s.u. did stuff this up for me. they're all 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 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 our tea in berlin and peace for all of us. now in a year that has seen every clinton try to explain away her failure to become the us president with a tell all book she's now got american youth in her sights our washington

correspondents american shares her thoughts. keep marching keep speaking up and to shirley chisholm one sends 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 guest 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 it's perfectly ok to be totally hypocritical i believe. that marriage is. not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman i support marriage for lesbian and gay couples i support it personally and

as a matter of policy and law number to deflect criticism by shaming anyone 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 and was on the way to winning until the combination of jim crow means 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 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 by religion by political view bipartisanship and she's divided.

to such a point that america was almost unrecognizable another section contains advice for young woman 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 or this piece of humor to dodge a question on inspirationally wiping her email server before giving it to the f.b.i. . like a cat or something. ok so it is vogue after all so here's your fashion advice from hillary clinton if i want to knock a story off the front page i just changed my has. and here's chapter three a set of pictures of hillary clinton laughing but here's a special moment i think they missed we came we saw who died. so

what's next after teen vogue well it seems hillary might be marketing herself almost like she's going out of fashion i think that it is diminishing the intelligence of young women who want to have both sides or all sides presented to them and then to be able to be entrusted with the information to make an intelligent decision when you only present one side of an argument you say you send a 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 speach. well that's all the news headlines from os for this hour at least i'm very merry christmas to all of you from. back up what i am must go time for global headlines through the.

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