mosul counts the cost of a deadly counterterrorist campaign unique access to the ruins of a once thriving iraqi city. and it's good to do the job. for the. good kick you tried to play with it. and. these little you know. the russian foreign minister speaks exclusively to r.t. about the north korean nuclear crisis hopes of peace in syria and the key events of the year. and families who lost loved ones in a russian military plane crash one year ago recalled the moment of their tragedy. by one of their cheerful. this except once called the charge of the war the

spilling of blood for the. international live from moscow would mean a day or two day welcome to the program as the starts to settle from the operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul to its residents is becoming painfully clear. went 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 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 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. 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 was walking around the family is that her attorney could kick it tried to play with it touch it and set it off these littered 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 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 or i guess do you have from mosul iraq we spoke to mohammed circle the u.n. coordinator for democracy and human rights we asked him whether they 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 the us itself to rebuild most of what we expect the international coalition to rebuild more so. as we spoke before that we do 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. russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has been speaking exclusively to r.t. he gave us his insights on some threats and challenges. 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 rights of the 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. i wish i was there you have so when you were among the undefeated terrorists there is just 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. when they mark one year since evesham defense ministry plane crashed into the black sea killing or ninety two people on board. among them a renowned russian quiet which was heading to syria to perform he had cough came down showed me off to take help find his thought it was due to pilot error was the plane.

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inside she people brought flowers to the black sea shore and lit candles to pay tribute to those who lost their lives a year ago for many the pain remains strong one woman whose husband died in the crash has been collecting the stories of other widows. but. 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 off on another where can travel they had several such trips a month they flew a lot and expectedly they didn't come back. and you can watch the stories which i learned i collected by heading to our documentary channel's website the dress is on your screens right now.

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so i didn't also tell me then or called it the so last. time i just will or will it is going to go. to the next must form. so you just need to put you. along with reeves when. you go to be nice to peter it gets a shock when the government or whoever this war. the u.s. vice president has taken a swipe at pakistan echoing donald trump's claim that the country provides a safe haven for terrorists the head of the pakistani senate fired back by saying his country will not be lectured to you know for too long on pakistan has provided safe haven to the taliban and many tourists organizations. but those days are over president trump has put pakistan on nodes pakistan is

a sovereign state and is not in the habit of taking new taxes from anyone least to the united states. massoud overtired left i know general of the pakistani army told us that the u.s. is 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're hardly have control over fifty to sixty per cent of the territory in this sun so on what basis they're talking that pakistan would be providing safe havens because there are plenty of havens in the oneness on itself so it's a self-defeating argument and it shows the level of frustration us is suffering as a consequence of its failure to end up on the stand it has been seventeen years that there have been enough to understand and they don't have anything to say that

they did something good put of london stand 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 the one stan will continue there will spill over in pakistan and pakistan will continue to remain a scapegoat for america. the u.s. has cut its funding to the united nations that story animal after this break. and when else should seem wrong. why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to shape out just to come out to. and in detroit because the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

twenty eight seen what will see are central banks adding big oil into their strategic reserves alongside gold so big gold buyers like china and russia will be adding big oil to their strategic reserves some of the banks possibly better as well and they could completely change their fortunes in the global economy by switching over to crypto switching over to a bit coy and then that will set a precedent for other countries of policy. welcome like the program the us government has decided to slash his contribution to

the united nations budget for the coming year i'm boss at the nikki haley gave a statement explaining the. when we make generous contributions to the un we also have a legitimate expectation that our goodwill is recognized and respected the united states will remember this day in which it was singled out for attack in the general assembly for the very act of exercising our right as a sovereign nation we will remember it when we are called upon to once again make the world's largest contribution to the united nations. nikki haley went on to accuse the united nations of inefficiency and overspending washington's contribution will be reduced by two hundred eighty five million dollars over the next fiscal year while we're going to cross live now to political scientist cafe are frust c.l.p. author of u.n. management reform thanks for coming on to the program cafe so let's start with the

u.n. vote one hundred twenty eight or nine against china's decision on jerusalem in your opinion do you think this is a direct retaliation from washington. based on this statement. haley there is no doubt there is a direct connection between the board which was a total embarrassment to the united states and retaliation and swallowed in the form of a big financial un regretted by all the you and hire someone. to and there was a fear that this could be twice. on the bright side it's not even close to what candidate prompts promised in terms of fifty persons slash in the u.s. his contribution to do nevertheless is supposed. white house's reverse christmas gift to the world community and the premier war organization that says

menus own lives and is responsible for global peace and security and definitely a big step in the wrong direction concert to what ambassador. yeah i mean the explanation that she's given is that it's down to inefficiency and overspending of the united nations which she says is a well known fact and she goes on to say will no longer let the generosity of the american people be taken advantage of or remain unchecked how right is she. about the accusations of inefficiency and overspending. well. you know the un has been grappling with the issue of reform and are written extensively about that for a long time but is the wrong way of approaching the problem and connecting it to

a particular board at the un general assembly and so forth i think just about everything that ambassador haley has done since assuming paused as being contrary to the spirit of the u.n. charter has been quite an diplomatic foray into the very notion of war diplomacy complete tact packed less tactful lessness and without any sense of nuance so this kind of crude language of threat and punishment use against soldering nations and so forth this really hurts the uses image and credibility war wide and united states is not helping by having someone representing the united nations who saw undiplomatic and for into the spirit of the united nations. some would say that it's been a tit for tat kind of reaction now if we if we look at the u.s.

and their payments to the u.n. in the past in trying to fifteen for example the us over two billion dollars for peacekeeping efforts according to the u.n. budget office you think washington is exaggerating its so-called generosity to the u.n. if we look at that one figure. absolutely i mean if you look at the un's contribution to the city of new york itself it's four odd ways what the u.s. gives to the u.n. and the u.n. the u.s. takes a lot more from the u.n. . than the other way around. and a lot of people tend to ignore that i doubt very much that mr trump himself would be the u.s. president if the u.n. headquarter was not in this city but you know the fact of the matter is that you have an administration that uses the philosophy you're going to harbor most affairs to as into instrumentalists rationality. you know is simply an archaic

nineteenth century method of dealing with war diplomacy is this arcane approach is bound to you know have negative repercussions on world peace and security and if you take money from the u.n. and starve it financially that means that the u.n. will be able to do a lot less in terms of refugees population management sustainable development conflict prevention peace building peacekeeping and so on and so forth and unfortunately the halley is just the wrong person you know at the wrong time and is doing whatever it can to continue this trance war on the united nations have a i mean you just listed all the things that the u.n. is supposed to do and this isn't haley's point is the fact that she's saying that the u.s. . people have been taken advantage of because of the contribution to to the u.n.

. you know because the very purpose of contributing to the united nations is not to you know use it as a platform to bully and threaten other nations and to extract uni directional benefits from it but rather to engage in global diplomacy with a resolution of global conflicts and an issue such as the problems of sustainable development and so on and for ambassador haley to claim that there's going to be a you know monetary value. is just misreading the very notion intention and purpose of the united nations and membership in it unfortunately there will be a b. c. un culture of peace and. tolerance and dialogue is

missing in the minds ward of haiti. we could discuss this for ages but. management very much for coming on to the program. with a christmas. on the wish list. we wish the breaks of never happened and that she was never promoted to prime minister. probably. is still to be her weekend. you're. probably a better way to deal with baby north korea in some way a. drinking straw.

i guess he's always going to need. to go to spice. just bring out all the cliche that. he's pretty happy. for anything. more stable europe probably. with more on what could be on the wish list of chancellor merkel after a difficult year 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. 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 our think nick for a bit of help with. 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 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 barry and 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 with our world is accidental christian jewish humanistic islam. no 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. they're all those that have started to write political obituary heading into twenty eight thing i'd say that was a bit premature for chancellor 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 to coming through wishing you all a very merry christmas from all of the team here in germany for all in berlin and thanks for all of our. roundup of the news from up on social media or on facebook twitter on you tube i'll be back at the top of the hour with more top stories so stay with us.

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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 this sad state of affairs is a self-inflicted wound and 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 alterman in new york he is a sunni distinguished professor 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 headings 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 i mean.