liberation we get you need to report from inside mosul to see the true scope of battle to recapture the rock is city of course thousands of lives left survivors in danger. i just made. this once and it's. walking around that we. could try to play with it. and said these little all over. the russian foreign minister speaks exclusively to the north korean nuclear crisis hopes for peace in syria the key events of the year. plus the seconds the disaster with change some families forever as a marquee year since losing their loved ones in a russian military plane crash in the black sea. we have to.

give. you. the scale of that. and i welcome swati international live from moscow with. a merry christmas from the whole team here thanks for being with us this evening i was 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 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. 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 meld 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 airstrikes what they did not account for those still to be recovered from the rubble. this book alone contains several thousand of dead

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 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 ice is 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 an ice a spooky 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 instant history more i guess dia from mosul iraq and we spoke earlier to mohammad 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 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 most of what 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 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 write could rise up because some of the areas and western morsel still people under and the rebels still between been booby trapped by isis so what do we do expect the number to rise . now the end of the year is often a time for reflection and a chance to look ahead at what's in store with out of mind r.t. correspondents have had an exclusive opportunity to get the world view from russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov. 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 dialog 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 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 is 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 u.s. 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 a year since the lives of nearly one hundred families were changed forever the russian defense ministry plane crashed into the black sea all ninety two people on board were killed among them are now the russian choir which was heading to syria to perform the aircraft came down shortly after takeoff it's thought pilot error or

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are to feel that only some linkable see the coca-cola which goes to the. top of. in the russian city of sochi people are bringing flowers to the black sea shore and lighting candles to pay tribute to those who lost their lives a year ago for many the pain remain strong one woman whose husband died in the crash has been collecting the stories of other widows he's been recounting how they deal with the pain of the loss. the feeling. 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 is very difficult a widow we saw our husbands off on another working tramp and they had several such trips a month they flew

a lot and expectedly they didn't come back home and. you can watch the stories which i learned collected by heading to our documentary channels website address is just on your screens most of your screens right now. on your behalf so critical mass is thirty. feet in the room and. really one of the three from the caribbean where there's a serious sort of ellicott where it's like your former stalks me sure well and for months at the most of my little girl said she was but a christian it is disappointing this is your venue by the way also. for what it was the goal of course the bible in the distance what. are we don't see that ship of all. this it took want to cause them struggle more spills.

that they all metal on you on. the last one up. almost no. question or of course none of. but. we should also know. that you're going to go oh well that's good that. i've gotten sort of well up a bunch of so i didn't care also they only then or called if the so about. how much it will or will it is going to. take the most for when you can so you just need to put you. through leaves when. you go to any stipulated shock when the government or you have this report. and when other news the u.s. vice president during a visit to afghanistan took a swipe at neighboring pakistan here donald trump's words that the country provides

a safe haven for terrorists the head of the pakistani senate fired back he said his country would 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 our notice pakistan is a sovereign state and is not in the habit of taking notice is from anyone least to the united states. we spoke earlier to tell out masood a retired lieutenant general of the pakistani army he told us that the u.s. is just trying to pass the buck. the 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 percent of the territory in the sun so on what basis are they talking that pakistan would be providing

safe havens because there are plenty of havens in the one a 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 afghanistan and they don't have anything to say that they did something good for of understand except to bring death and destruction unless the internal situation of understand 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. don't go away you've got more stories coming up a look at what might make christmas merry for angela merkel as well as other world leaders that and more after this short break.

with this manufactured sentenced to the public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round lift be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. 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 just sending this chaotic messages that we

use to communicate with one another we want to send a clear signal to the extraterrestrial that there's also some rationality on. looking back through perhaps the biggest gas control issue of recent years has been settled the stockholm arbitration institute has ruled in favor of russia's gas problem and is this peat with ukraine's nuff to guess now the ukrainian company must pay up to two billion u.s. dollars in overdue payments for the dispute dates all about through two thousand and nine gas from signed a ten year contract with enough to gas after the coup of twenty four team ukraine stopped its purchases as per the contracts have a gas from continued supplying its gas to the country during the time of the conflict and the ukrainian side then refused to pay for the gas supplies to the eastern part of the country. well ukrainian side claims that it was them who won

the case and now the vice chairman of gas promise board oleksandr medvedev claims the ukrainian side misinterpreted the court's decision but it's just like. the stockholm arbitration institute reached its final decision last week many jittering statements came from the ukrainian side when president poroshenko claimed the ukrainian when it's really a question of whether he was informed correctly about the decision in general the take or pay rule is only being applied partially if it were applied fully that would lead to the collapse not only of nafta gatt but of the ukrainian economy as a whole. all market expert paul gunshot off told us the outcome of the case is mixed for ukraine there's do you think that they've won and so far as that they've saved themselves a hell of a national tragedy in terms of funds to be paid back. from

one one statement was fifty six billion dollars that they've saved. the ukraine from paying to russia if you look at the track record of russia's relations with its neighbors with its a business partners they've always been contractually reliable. i can't say as much with some of the other partners especially in ukraine recently i believe the feeling in the ukraine is that they will reappear over this and through a european court try to delay it but the bottom line is with the money it has been contracted for and where do you go from there. our santa makes his way around the world sort of ring toys to children what would be on the wish list for global leaders and at the same show together has been asking people in london for their thoughts. sprites. yeah.

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. a more stable europe probably. with more on what could be on the wish list of. difficult. correspondent. imagine if you will that i've been able to get a hold of the letters to sunset 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 is asking out think nick for a bit of help with. disarms her please can we sort out 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 in the way 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 in this 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 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 roots of our own land. can you make it say the c.s.u. don't 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 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. i want to hear that to see hillary clinton try to explain away her failure to become the us president with a tell all book she's now going america good american youth and her sites are washington correspondent some euro car shares her thoughts. keep marching keep speaking up and to shirley chisholm one cent 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 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 by 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. a celeb lines from us for the salma calling the year to shoot it will be with you throughout the night from all the team here at all to be happy christmas so it's mark.

all to see we have a great team but we need to strengthen before the freefall world cold and your bets have been a legend to keep it so it's at the back. in one thousand nine hundred two that must qualify for the european championships at the very last moment no one believed in us but we won and i'm hoping to bring some of that waiting spirit to the r.c.c. . recently i've had a lot of practice so i can guarantee you that peter schmeichel will be on the best fall since my last will come from that steroids or three. thousand no joke i was only kidding here i called russia. i fly strike. left left left more or less ok stuff that's really good.

well welcome to sophie and sophie shevardnadze spaces endless was the myriads of stars out there and chances are that we're not the only ones alive and it's a vast expanse but even if that's true should humans really be actively searching for extraterrestrial life. well a bit of downfall of our civilization or the opening of

a new writer will talk about that today with dr douglas the president of messy messaging extraterrestrial intelligence organization. surrounded by dust and radiation earth look slowly hung up in the middle of lifeless space dozens of billions of earth like planets potentially out there humans are determined to find extraterrestrial life. how likely are we to garner a response to messages would be to space. to get our signals who's to say they will be a danger to earth and could first contact the opening of a new era for the planet or the beginning of the. dr douglas back to the show great to have you on our program so your organization matches focus on sending out signals aimed specifically at aliens and you say that extra terrestrials need to know where ready to communicate but are we really ready to

communicate i mean look at us we can hardly communicate with each other. it's true communication is one of the big challenges but it is also a defining feature of our species that we are the intel of.