as the cost of a deadly counter terrorist campaign we gained unique access to the ruins of a once thriving in vatican city. is once on the edge of the job is walking around the families that you could try to play with it touch it and set it off at least a little all over. the russian foreign minister speaks exclusively to r.t. about the north korean nuclear crisis hopes for peace in syria and the key events of the year. and families who lost their loved ones in a russian military plane crash one year ago because the moment of the tragedy. are we feel sure that. this is it won't scar the fog of the war on its bills but if

. you're watching r.t. international live from a moscow studio with me and it is welcome to the program as the us starts to subtle from the operation to liberate the iraqi city of mosul the cost to its residents it is becoming painfully clear right gaza to find the city to assess the real scale of the civilian tragedy. winning isn't always pretty mosul is testament to that it's being 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 calculus bodies buried and the 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 women children and exploded bombs shells rockets. 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's smelled even worse nature has done its job but rescuers 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 houses oh my god i'm 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 as senior health official in mosul province who is forbidden from speaking on camera tape 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 they seize an isis made bomb is 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 lifted 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 booby 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 more i guys do you have from mosul iraq. it's back to mohammed circle the u.n. 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 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 u.n. on this current situation in mosul i spoke this morning. to two i spoke this morning to the iraqi human rights commission they were stabbed this last month and

yes their knowledge their numbers could rise to up to eleven thousand victims in mosul but the number could have rights could rise are because some of the areas and worst in morsel still people under under rubble still be in 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 key global threats and challenges. 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 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 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 a russian defense ministry plane crashed into the black sea killing all ninety two people on board among them a renowned russian quiet which was heading to syria to perform the aircraft came down shortly after takeoff i thought pilot error was to blame.

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in sochi people probably flowers to the black sea shore one 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. to. 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 contract 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 all you and i collected by heading to our documentary channels website the dress is on your screens right now.

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under so i didn't also or they only just then or called if the so lost. so much as will or will it is going to go. to the next most profitable so you just need to know but you. along with reeves will. go to the store very nice to peter really shocked when the government wants what. 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 elected to. you know for too long pakistan has provided safe haven to the taliban and many tourists organisations. but those days are old president trump has put pakistan on notice pakistan is a subbrand state and is not in the habit of taking notice is from anyone

least to the united states. masood a retired left hand 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 are hardly have control over fifty to sixty percent 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 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 enough to run a stand and they don't have anything to say that they did something good for of one

to 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 and of understand will continue they 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 and more after this break.

twenty eight and 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 bad as well and they could completely change their fortunes in the global economy by switching over to crypto switching over to bitcoin and then that will set a precedent for other countries of policy. welcome back to the program the u.s. government has decided to slash its contribution to the united nations budget for

the coming year i'm positive he headed in and gave a statement explaining to me. 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 political analysts have a africa gave us his views on the decision i think just about everything ambassador haley 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 packed list for listeners. without any sense of nuance saw disco no cool language of threat and punishment use against sovereign nations and saw was this really thirsty uses image and credibility war wide and united states is not helping him by hiring someone representing the united nations who saw undiplomatic and fall into the spirit of the united nations. now perhaps the biggest gas controversy over recent years has been settled the stockholm arbitration institute has ruled in favor of russia's gazprom in its dispute with ukraine enough to pass the ukrainian company must now pay up to two billion u.s. dollars in overdue payments the dispute dates back to two thousand and nine when

kasper arms signed a ten year contract with nafta and gas but after the coup of twenty fourteen ukraine stopped its purchase as per the contract however gas prom continued supplying its gas to the country during the time of the conflict the ukrainian side then refused to pay for the gas plied to the eastern part of the country. the ukrainian side claims that it was them who won the case and the vice chairman of class plans on mad at dad claims that the ukrainian side misinterpreted the court's decision. it's just that. the stockholm arbitration institute reached its final decision last week many jaring statements came from the ukrainian side when president poroshenko claimed the ukrainian when it's really really a question of whether he was informed correctly about the decision in general the take or pay rule is only being applied partially which is if it were applied fully that would lead to the collapse not only of nafta gas but of the ukrainian economy

as a whole. all market expert told gonchar off told us the outcome of the case is were mixed the crying 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. ukraine from paying to russia if you look at the track record of russia's relations with its neighbors with its 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 our european court try to delay it but the bottom line is they owe the

money it has been contracted for and where do you go from there. with the christmas shopping rush now as what would be on the wish list for global leaders well aniston has been asking people in london for their thoughts. think there isn't a will probably was the breaks it never happened and the series never for most its prime minister probably. being the key means it wastes is still to see how we can help from that score i said. yeah we're. probably a better way to deal with maybe north korea in some ways probably something of a. drinking straw. water than i was so maybe something to make that

a bit easier. i guess he's always going to need. to go to spice. barrister . just bring out all the cliche that it is. his muscles. he's pretty happy. for anything. the most stable europe probably with could be on the wish list of. difficult in his. imagine if you will that i've been able to get a hold of the letter 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. this hamster 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 anyway in negotiations with the social democrats on forming a new grand coalition get underway in january therefore for a done deal and you know we're not entering a grand coalition we said this clearly in this room after the elections and we still stand by this angle and 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 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 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. they're all those that have started to write political

obituary heading into twenty eight thing. 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 coming true wishing you all a very merry christmas from all of the team here in germany for all. i'm sure all of us. back at the top of the top stories stay with us.

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