the cost of a deadly counter terrorist campaign we gain unique access to the ruins of a once thriving iraqi city. amidst will do some of the jobs walking around things that. could try to play with it touch it and set it off these looted. 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 loved ones in the russian military plane crash one year ago recalled a moment of the tragedy. a look at the world. this it supports president trouble you the more it's filled with.

r.t. international live from our moscow studio with me in a day or two to welcome to the program as the dust starts to settle up 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. 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 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 was 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 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 in recent history more i guess do you have for mosul iraq we spoke to mohammed al 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 us rebuild iraq after the invasion in two thousand and three now we don't expect a us itself to rebuild most of all 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. i spoke this morning to the iraqi human rights commission there were stabbed this last month and yes their knowledge their numbers could rise to up to

eleven thousand victims in warsaw but the number could have rights could rise up because some of the areas and what's been morsel still people under and the rebels still be even been booby trapped by isis so we do we do expect in 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 talented. talk to her this is that with you i don't think any sane person would want war on the korean peninsula as to motive 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 a 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 us that the u.s. wanted to squeeze a response out of them. with this year new puter with 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 has entire. for that the u.s. 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 joy about al nasra 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 the renowned russian choir which was heading to syria to perform the aircraft came down shortly after takeoff and is thought pilot error was to play.

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in such people brought flowers to the black sea shore one day 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 often another way can travel 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 i collected by heading to our documentary channels website the address is on your screens right now. on your beliefs over to go on national story about. how to do with and.

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how much is all a lot is going to go. because it's a must for the units you've just met you will get you. along with reeves will. go to the store very nice to peter it gets a shock when the government 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 side had fired back by saying his country will not be lectured to 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 new taxes from anyone

least to the united states. telling mrs retired left and general of the pakistani army times 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 hardly have control over fifty to sixty per cent of the territory in one is sun so on what basis are they talking that pakistan would be providing safe havens because there are plenty of havens in of understand 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 understand except to bring death and destruction unless the internal situation of

understanding 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 the u.s. has cut its funding to the united nations that story angle after this break. altie we have a great team we need to strengthen before the freefall world cold and you're better than 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 winning spirit to the r.c.t.

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welcome back to the program the u.s. government has announced a drastic cut to its funding for the united nations spending will be reduced by two hundred eighty five million dollars in the next fiscal year according to the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. . the u.s. contribution was around six hundred million dollars per year under the obama administration nikki haley went on to accuse the united nations of inefficiency and overspending. when we make generous contributions to the un we also have

a legitimate expectation that our good will 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. the move came a few days after u.n. members voted one hundred twenty eight to nine against donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel political analyst cafe africa gave us his views on washington's role in the un just about everything. done since assuming paused as being contrary to do spirit of the un charter has been quiet and diplomatic to the very notion of war diplomacy complete

package 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 hurts the uses image and credibility award why this is not helping it served by hiring someone to a prison in the united nations who saw undiplomatic and fall into the spirit of the united nations. perhaps the biggest gas controversy of recent years has been settled the stockholm arbitration institute has ruled in favor of russia's gas problem in this dispute with ukraine's nafta of gas 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 cast from signed a ten year contract with nafta gas but after the coup of twenty fourteen ukraine stopped its purchases as per the contract to have

a grasp on continued supplying its gas of the country during the time of the conflict the ukrainian side then refused to pay for the gas supply to the eastern part of the country. the ukrainian side claims that it was them who won the case and now the vice chairman of god's promise board alexander mad a day of times that the ukrainian side misinterpreted the course decision. it's just that. 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 gaz but of the ukrainian economy as a whole on market expert told contralto this 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. 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 of what would be on the wish list for global

leaders allowance the theatre class has been asking people in london for their thoughts. think there is a will probably was the breaks of never happened and the series never promotes its prime minister probably. being the key means it wastes is still to see how we can help from that score i said. yeah you're. probably a better way to deal with maybe north korea and some way. of. drinking straw. water than i do so maybe something to make that a bit easier. i guess he's always going to need orange to go to spice. it needs a barrister. just bring out all the cliche that it is this is. bigger

muscles. he's pretty happy i don't need anything. more stable europe probably with could be on the wish list of. difficult his. imagine if you will that i've been able to get a hold of the letters to something that was written by mrs angler merkel from right lynn though 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. defense 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 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 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. 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 say the c.s.u. did 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 probably true 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 all to see in berlin and thanks to all of. us up on social media on facebook twitter and i'll be back at the top of the hour with the headlines so please stay with us. twenty eight seen what will see are central banks adding bitcoin to their strategic reserves alongside goal so the big gold buyers like china and russia will be adding big oil to their strategic reserves some of the banks possibly in venezuela they

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welcome to a going underground special on the day the british prime minister to raise a may address is tory party faithful in manchester she's also preparing to send troops more troops for the longest war in american history the war in afghanistan which is why we caught up with the former president of afghanistan hamid karzai at the central london undisclosed location. been an atrocity in less vegas that scene making the headlines around the world it's always the ads oddly any of the thirty five thousand dead or wounded by shootings in the united states far more than military deaths or injuries in afghanistan but immediately after reports came up people suspected isis diaster symptomatic of the fear that extremism has no borders the tragic shooting in the united states my condolences to

the american people and especially sad. incident we. feel their pain because we've gone through a lot and almost every day we can get a criticism of the obama administration's response to violence in afghanistan in a moment but it's clear that president otranto as a candidate was talking about isolationism some said his response to terror in your country has been a near nuclear attack on your country apparently without even the permission of afghan authorities we don't want our country to be bombed with. huge huge. destruction of weapons and bombs we want peace in afghanistan and the united states can talk ganesan to bring peace and stability and to defeat extremism. we have moved.