the street across. the street over there. is the same story wherever you look. countless bodies very cool this rubble and the word builds how long it will take to get. let me show you west mosul now a wasteland the city for all intents and purposes has been erased and there's little or nothing left so it's no surprise people don't want to return and they would rather live in tents on one issue i was really excited to return to my home and see it now when i see it in this state i wish i'd never come back. and i feel completely destroyed i don't feel like coming back to this home i've lost all hope of living here after seeing all this devastation. this was iraq's second largest

city founded thousands of years ago and it's been a pillar of religion architecture and culture ever since its reconstruction will never be the same if it even happens and its population will be massively diminished official sources the rockies and the us have all vastly understated the sheer volume of civilian suffering and death a thousand they said investigative journalists put the figure around ten thousand a senior health chief in mosul who didn't want to be filmed told us the number is much higher. this book alone contains the names of seven thousand victims i have four or five of these every day we got two or three more bodies victims of new explosions. so where does iraq even begin and who will help

foot the bill the answer is simple if given the choice no one it will take tens of billions of dollars to rebuild mosul alone and there is a more pressing issue to deal with first the bodies the iraqis hoped the u.s. led coalition would help resurrect mosul since its bombing campaign created much of this destruction the americans in bluntly said no we freed you will spend two hundred odd million dollars fixing the pipes but aside from that you are on your own as a call issue and we are not in the business of nation building or reconstruction we must ensure that our respective nations precious and limited resources are devoted to preventing the resurgence of isis and equipping the warring torn communities to take the lead in rebuilding their institutions and returning to stability and the

civilians in mosul the desperate and hopeless few that have returned have nothing. to go to school. not. what else is there to do in mosul. but that if. that was. the grim reality in mosul in the wake of the grueling liberation campaign. requested comment on the situation from a number of rights organizations as well as the u.s. led coalition to oxfam's humanitarian coordinator for the middle east alexandra joined us earlier to share his thoughts on mosul's plight. the reality is it's been a very intense battle to particularly. the old friendship. and in our experience it's often been very complex to rehabilitate the city. in the quake or

fighting like this a lot of funding is needed for the rehabilitation and you're all clearly outlines of the bill it's very hard. not. to international doesn't and i understand it from friends in kuwait where russia has been beefed up or to start with and start to come into increasing the funding for the recovery effort for the city in the whole not just the old. but for the whole of the region then the new government which has been so affected by fighting recently. now in other news the u.k.'s high court has ruled against the extradition of an alleged british hacker to the united states laurie love is accused of carrying out cyber attacks against the f.b.i. and nasa among other organizations as well the u.k.'s lord chief justice though has said extradition could put the hacktivists life at risk for the work i was at the court for the ruling. holding hands with his family larry love left london's royal

courts of justice having won his appeal against extradition to the u.s. where he's wanted for allegedly hacking into u.s. government websites and very thankful. after a very long ordeal that the right result has. been we can exercise the sovereignty of our legal justice system people can have a reasonable expectation they go be treated humanely and if they have engaged in criminal behavior that they will have a portion of tensions inside the court when the judge read out his verdict the chair is in celebration was so loud that the judge was forced to remind lowery supporters that this is a court of law and not a theatre throughout the legal battle the alleged attack is legal team had argued that his was a case of life or death love has asperger's syndrome and a depressive illness his family and legal team said that he was at high risk of

suicide and the u.s. incarceration system couldn't guarantee his safety it was very unfortunate the prosecution tried to paint a mental health conditions speaking made up fixation as confabulated and that contributes to the stigma of people with them so this isn't as important. ministration of criminal justice and also for the humanitarian accommodation of people whose brains work differently so the case was remarkably similar to that of another british man accused of hacking into u.s. government websites gary mckinnon who has autism back in two thousand and twelve his extradition was also blocked but it was that then home secretary theresa may who did it since then the powers to block an extradition have been transferred to the british courts and laurie love's case was its first test but not all his legal troubles are over it's possible the americans might decide to appeal i don't know

if that's going to. no no but they have two weeks to decide whether they got will not and that yes we have potential proceedings in the u.k. but love and his family have always said that he's happy to face the music for his alleged crimes they just wanted to be a british band that british band a british trial is likely to be larry loves next battle boyko artsy. the international olympic committee has the clients who invite thirteen clean russian athletes to the upcoming winter games will have full details on that in just a few moments. he put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. i want. to go in the press which

was before three of them or can't be good. i'm interested in the waters of. the u.s. is losing in two ways summer on the climate denying is precluding them from the dissipating in this new economy number one and number two the effects of the climate change the weather catastrophes the global you know migrants that are the result of it all this other problems are hurting the u.s. economy on the other side of the trade so you've got a double by. i'm

back here on r.t. international the international olympic committee has rejected the requests of thirteen russian athletes and two coaches for invites to the upcoming winter games the sportsmen and women were recently ruled not violated doping rules by sports highest court the i.o.c. however still has the power to decide who competes and who doesn't we are glide the same street procedure after an extremely disappointing custody up holy number of repeats. the privilege to be invited requires more than just the excellence of a same. soul we have in right. now the athletes were seeking invitations to compete along with other clean russian competitors under the banner of neutral athletes from russia the switzerland base court four of arbitration for sport said on thursday that the i.o.c. has evidence that the twenty eight had taken banned substances was insufficient

gas arbitrators unanimously found that the evidence put forward by the i.o.c. in relation to this matter did not have the same weight in each individual case this is why in twenty eight cases the evidence collected was found to be insufficient to establish that an anti-doping rule violation was committed concerned this does not mean that these twenty eight actually declared innocent but in their case due to insufficient evidence the appears so held the sanctions and old and their individual results achieved in such reinserted. now we spoke earlier to ellis cashmore a sports expert on social and you professor at aston university in the u.k. he said russia's sportsmen and women have been treated unfairly. politics and

driven this whole narrative from space start i mean everyone was denying it but it had to be political what's happened here is that russia has been made a scapegoat the i.o.c. in particular but the world of sport in general has really been looking to make a statement an affirmation of it stance against doping in world sport and it's it's issued disqualifications and lifetime bans to individual athletes but this is the first time in history that it's found a whole nation culpable for sport has billions of dollars coming in through sponsorship deals that there are a great many corporate globally corporate sponsors who put money into a sport they do not want their brand names associated with an enterprise which in some senses is soft on drugs because it just doesn't want to associate its brand with drugs and so sport has been under pressure. not only

sports many in moscow feel the country is receiving unfair treatment in other areas as well recently russia has been labeled a nuclear threat a subvert of democracy and a state poised to kill thousands of british citizens at any moment the accusations and negative portrayals keep coming just in the latest example of this illustration of the anti moscow animosity in the west the magazine columnist ran a story describing russia as the bad guys and the sorts of images you're seeing right now are starting to appear on a daily basis with even the soviet symbols there making a comeback well to discuss this further we can go live to a member of the u.k. house of lords lord richard bell thanks for joining us so great to have you on the program just speaking very broadly i don't know if you had that report russia's treatment by the international community on a number of levels do you think it's been fair overall.

i think is a deliberate aimed to demonize rush the moment it says there is a need to search around for an enemy when i was younger it used to be godless communism but now that russia seems to have managed to build three thousand churches he just changed the excuse that i'm not satisfied that this is a satisfactory way to conduct foreign policy. i mean it's quite serious allegations that you know about meddling in western elections aggression towards the west do you think russia is guilty of some of that behavior it's been accused of. i don't know but i must say i do find it rather humorous when you look at the activities of some of the western countries in elections nicaragua comes to mind now more no to all those. of course it's not be just to middle in elections because it's it's not really profound you know. i mean just in terms of the latest example i mean there's

been a kremlin report released in america putting together targets for potential sanctions in the future some of said the list is almost been put together in a bit of a random fashion what are your thoughts on that i mean listen very the in thing to do now for russia are on a list of useful idiots are you not afraid of appearing on a list just for coming on the program today. or probably will appear on the list but by the time you get into your middle seventy's you don't get too worried about being on lists let me say that. be that your level of mistrust and suspicion is completely now out of hand you know there are a lot through problems between our two countries and indeed between east and the west that needs sorting out but to my mind and i've said this recently in a speech in the council of europe we need another helsinki we need to sit down and talk to each other and work a way out of the problems not constantly be deepening them that will do no one any

good. i mean what do you think triggered this downward spiral in relations i mean people are speaking about a quantum continuation or a new cold war in a way sounding talk about crimea and the ukraine crisis or as a sort of starting point for these deterioration is that something you'd agree with . i think. crimea was added to the ukraine in one nine hundred fifty four i was there about a jal train years ago it was quite clear the population did not regard themselves as ukrainians they voted to come back to the soviet union. i think at least we should say well let's have a un plebiscite you know i don't think we can get on our high horse about crimea in the ukraine anymore than we did in one hundred fifty four when it was taken away from russia. by a act of the politburo in

a fit of madness frankly so i mean do you think the portrayal of crimea as reification of russia as some sort of an explosion occupation or a plebiscite at gunpoint not so it's been labeled a lot by western media by western politicians i mean is that a fair representation or that wasn't your experience when you've been there. because i was only there for a week but what did strike me and i recorded it at the time was how unhappy the autonomous pollen into the crimea incident per apolo whatever it's called was about being in the ukraine they kept on coming to be the only people who wanted to be in the ukraine with a tautology and they seemed to want to be in the ukraine because the russians want you to be in russia so it was never a very happy marriage frankly i just sort of thought i'd want the media climate that's happened in the ukraine. they go ahead. i said there's

a lot that's happened in the ukraine in the way that your nuke of a christian you stay out of office that was to put it mildly somewhat on slavery you know i i was not convinced by was happened and your nick of each. was maybe not the greatest hero of the modern world but he did manage to hold the ukraine together and i i monitored the elections which he won when he become the president it is quite clear the ukraine is a very deeply divided come from and you know because it was one of the handful of people quick and it was probably another warm who knew how to hold it together and that was destroyed by ukrainians what about the i don't know i just want to jump in a very quickly terribly sorry tyra's rough you are you sure i'm sorry sorry to trouble just want to get a lot of question and just because we're running out of time just very briefly on the media climate i mean boris johnson the u.k. foreign secretary he was quite hostile towards r.t.

towards this channel and you know there there is a bit of a negative media climate right now i mean how do you feel about politicians yourself appearing on r.t. did you have to ask boris johnson perhaps get his opinion on your appearance or as you say in your position your age it's something you don't worry about. i said said he didn't talk to anyone to get permission to come onto your program i decided to come onto your program not because i agree with you but because i want to improve relations between our two countries and between western europe and the russian federation and the c.i.s. that's my my agenda is to try and promote dialogue and i do it on my terms not on anyone else's. absolutely and that should be the aims of both sides and everybody on those both sides of course promoting dialogue and a better mutual understanding lord member of the u.k. house of lords thanks so much for coming on the program got to get your insight

today here. but that's it for myself in the team here at r.t. for this hour do you come back in about half an hour time for more global headlines . oh no appetite i mean for conflict is very very low these days hellboy serve much more eager to see through blunt and they are to. actually get into a fight with a neighbor or or with other powers in the world. about

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hello and welcome to crossfire all things considered i'm peter lavelle the memo has come and gone but this controversy is far from over the political bias of the deep state has been revealed and the illegal activities exposed if anyone will be held responsible. crosstalk in the memo i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have victor all leverage he is a political analyst as well as

a leading expert at the center for actual politics and we have is a political analyst we spoke nick international our german cross-talk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want i was appreciate we're going to talk about this is kind of a post-mortem here might be a very long when depending on how dense unfold here let me just give real quickly to our viewers here six takeaways most important take away from the memo that was recently released by the g.o.p. regarding pfizer war. criminals intelligence committee hillary clinton and the d.n.c. hired foreign spy to concoct a fake dossier on trump. the clinton campaign in the d.n.c. gave fake dossier to obama d.o.j. an f.b.i. the department of justice and f.b.i. knew that the dossier was fake and politically motivated the department of justice and the f.b.i. present fake dossier to face a court to get trumped wiretap we're talking about a page in this case the d.o.j. in the f.b.i. don't tell the court that the dossier is fake and from a political opponent and the face of court. fraud into ordering wiretapping the

trump campaign again quarter page here. this is victor this is devastating ok and devastating. there is well six smoking guns at the very least and from what i understand this is i hate using the term tip of the iceberg but what. the intelligence community made available through the the white house was approximately ten percent there's a lot of underlying evidence that can be released that was based on these six points look at the irony of the situation and the american intelligence community accused russia of interfering in the election process in the united states while in the aleksey there is not a single fact. there is no base there is no factual basis for saying that at all russia did nothing to fear the american actions but the american intelligence committee it was a case certainly directly interfered eagerly unconstitutionally interfered in the

american political process and this memo outlines parts of that interference not not all of it we know of instances. where they interfered and it shows how what the american intelligence community is playing in the american society in constitutional law you know what's really interesting to me when i read the four pages plus the one and a half pages from the white house i have to pat is on the back we've basically got it all right yeah basically connecting all of the dots that's what i want to say is actually there's very little new here very little we have been saying on the confirmation for a long time it is a partial confirmation because of course the democrats the f.b.i. a whole host of former deep state officials from the liar liar james clapper on down came out and declared that releasing this was a democracy attack on security national security the heavens would fall well

i think the u.s. is still there last time i checked anyway after the release of it you know the interesting thing. was and the flipside of what mark is saying is that you know it was a threat to national security it's an affront to our intelligence agency to have law enforcement you know use it used to be the liberals that used to be very you know worried about law enforcement everything is flipped over right now ok but the interesting thing is immediately after it was released i don't know if anybody these liberals or c.n.n. or m s n b c actually read it but then they decide it's. nothing to see here move along how could be within one new cycle it was a threat to national security than the logs nothing to see here i think what we should prevent from happening is this let's move on attitude prevailing again because we understand where it comes from tromp is basically leading the same polish just now hillary clinton and obama have been lead in before trump was

elected he struck at syria he published this all for nuclear posture review right so he is basically moving the country towards war movement if you mean it was destruction so now they are prepared to let it be and i think that what they're prepared to lead a beeper a very different reason to picture i mean you have the former director of the f.b.i. i mean i watched the hearings he perjured himself repeatedly. and i'm sorry let's make sure you know i wonder what mike flynn was he watching or did he read the memo that paul mann afford read the memo to the read died it ok but we have a whole cast of characters at the d.o.j. in the f.b.i. that perjured themselves in front of committees and under oath where there's. a you can't you can't walk away from that. did it twice.

and the other occasion was it was really just it is james called me going to twitter and frankly proclaiming himself a victim. like to the victims of julie mccarthy code me or the rosen stand these are the loving descendants of joel and see. i put the chain can i put the cherry on top ok gentlemen. headline from the new york times the feeling new york times trumps unparalleled war. on a pillar of society law enforcement i mean this is orwellian i mean from what i read of those four pages that there the deep state is that war with the democratically elected government of president of the united states that is the assault that's going on right now this is so duplicitous it is so hypocritical to hitler and i want to the biggest accusations is it's starting to undermine

americans trust in their intelligence community out of i don't know if my kids need to know all of you out there but i've been doubting our intelligence community since oh the iraq war since the gulf of tonkin. gulf war from the libyan genocide i've you know i mean down to the spanish-american war and. needing ships in fact if i could for a minute but for intelligence court the family deals with the whole reason for sending up the court was to prevent the abuses that the american intelligence community. did in the seventy's in the sixty's in the fifty's so post post whatever gate that america decided to create this act and what do we see now we see that first it will let's go back to how this court functions if we look at this record of this court last led judge to almost every single last ninety nine point three

percent said only nine point eight percent ok this is a secret court that hears secret arguments about how our intelligence community wants to spy on american citizens they approve ninety nine point eight percent of cases brought against it no no negative no credible oversight or it's a rather special an authority it's a rubber stamp secret court and they're spying on american citizens and this is they they bring obviously fraudulent evidence in front of it they look this is the important game and we think we know what you're right but i mean let's let's let's let's finish it. the threat here they're spying on american citizens a citizen who is working for a political campaign for a presidential candidate i mean this is the this was the whole reason the fires of course were put up to make sure something like this would happen and actually because of the way it was set up we have and we have the rest of them they know how to go around let's be perfectly clear about this they know one of these people

seriously believe that carter pager george papadopoulos these bumbling internal idiots were russian agents this was an attempt to use their bumbling to get intelligence wiretaps inside the trump campaign it's true well what i find especially astonishing about this whole story is that feisal warrant was based on a story written by michael isikoff. and why do you want to get the story from the facts facts from christopher stevens so the story is that d.n.c. campaign paints a pace christopher steele so that he would dig dirt on trump like heem going to mosque or hotels meeting with prostitutes there sleeping on obama's former badly you know in a hotel then michael isikoff takes an interview from this guy and then finally decides.