a year after islamic state is driven out of mosul and the iraqi city remains in ruins we hear from a local resident about life after liberation. still down in their field bodies in that house behind us still inside the stench coming from them these very strong children are getting sick because of this is shaky cease fire is restored between hamas militants and israel after a violent clashes on the gaza border raising fears of a full blown conflict in the region. and the students at manchester university in england to paint over a miracle of a famous poem by british writer. playing saying that he was a racist who dehumanised people of color people in london the very thing about

protest. is a man of this time. and you've got to accept that that was his time it should be acknowledged and it should be they're open for discussion but the fate of the it should be censored. or broadcast not direct from our studios in moscow this is our twenty international john thomas certainly glad to have you with us now it has been a year since mosul was fully liberated from islamic state the iraqi city had been the terror group's de facto capital in the country for over three years so what are things like there today roughly newsagency visited the city and spoke to a local resident. there are two bodies still down there and there are full move bodies in that house behind us there's still inside the stench coming from them is very strong our children are getting sick because of this.

message said enough there were six of us my daughter was killed we lived in that house after the airstrikes i just couldn't live there anymore. i don't know them. because they said we're not going to treat her priority is the finances we can give her an injection so she dies immediately but of her to die at home the iraqi military operation to retake the city which received ground and air support from the us left mosul in ruins and one year on it remains devastated with homes schools and hospitals all in need of repair here's a look back at how the battle of mosul unfold. iraqi security forces launch a counterattack to liberate mosul for myself also known as station. this operation

to regain control of iraq's second largest city will likely continue for weeks possibly longer. i mean streamlet concern for the safety ropes of one point five million people living in mosul who may be impacted by military operations to retake the city from . i think the operation is on track and i'm hopeful that we need it the city purported to be.

you cannot just fire. everybody in the city you have to be very careful john of an era well john of an empty a clearly the no mind of the sad mad day the nasty mind imaginatively look at. that right that he had this is a classic street in the liberated parts of mosul lifeless devastated it hospitable empty. there are still calculus bodies buried and the all this rubble and no one knows how long it'll take to get to all of the war rubble the buildings and even that it's mixed with unexploded bombs and decaying bodies.

pincher. looked about it. could have any. civilian casualties are a fact of life if you want to liberate your towns and cities it comes at a price that's unavoidable part of war. we spoke to the middle east operation manager for doctors without borders who says people are returning just to find death right across the city i think it will be unfair to say that nothing has changed but what we what we called for is that the change should happen more quickly or we see the level of destruction that happened a year ago is still very visible evidence infrastructure hasn't been repaired yet or spills haven't been reopened yet there's a lack of water a there's

a lack of electricity going back and potentially finding their bodies in your house in your street i mean that's that's george appears very dangerous stating because once again you're confronted to it's all those horrible things that happened in mosul increasing number of people return but there's no access to it due to health care there is no. emergency rooms there's not enough surgical facilities there's not enough hospital beds and yet there are still people that get wounded from collapsing houses are the horror of war can also be seen in the syrian city of raka the bodies of more than twelve hundred civilians the majority of them women and children have been discovered there in three mass graves it is claimed most of them were killed when the u.s. led coalition bombed the area firing nearly thirty thousand artillery rounds into launching thousands of air strikes during the course of a few months or he was run off as commentary. tobar will mark exactly one

year since i saw defeat in their caliphate self-proclaimed capital rocker and months after the u.s. coalition's victory restored or freed of torment the syrian city is still not these are the latest pictures from one of three recently discovered massive graves these birrell sites contain more than a thousand bodies there are three hundred to four hundred bodies in this mass grave three to four catacombs are completely full of did bodies grief and despair still has the syrian city reeling as relatives time and time again have to identify their loved ones excavated the body of only one of my sisters the other four remain missing i don't know where are the birds as they were buried by my uncle now we're looking for the uncle who called to find them the majority of bodies are civilians mostly women and children and what's in was twenty four hours a day whether it's a civilian or a fighter we give the body a number well this number is over

a thousand now and that's just in the three recently discovered mass graves we don't have modern tools we just rely on basic information families help us identify the civilians we identify a lot of bodies from here because it doesn't disintegrate it's a race against time and they're ready to earn their more time passes the harder it is to identify the bodies as they rot in the ground nameless and mass graves of raka highlight not only i saw as monstrosity but also what rights groups call america's denial in its responsibility for the city's tragedy the coalition has acknowledged a mere twenty three civilian deaths resulting from the more than thirty thousand artillery rounds and several thousand strikes it launched into rock a city the blustery denials a contradicted. by the lived reality of the hundreds of civilians there even

contradicted by their own partners on the ground looking at these pictures hard to see any real recovery from the post-war horror at all it's even difficult to tell them apart and just in case these were taking only a couple of months ago and these are back from two thousand and seventeen u.s. led forces came pounded the city with some thirty thousand artillery rounds proclaim victory and then washington apparently chose to simply forget rocca the u.s. coalition caused the destruction of records and has a responsibility to rebuild the city we need to help with restoring the water supply in clearing the rubble there was that an effect in washington we were directly targeted by the coalition after their recognizance craft filmed us it was a low altitude it was very clear there were no terrorists in the area but there were kids playing in the streets and we were collecting water and i knew that i thought i knew that if the aircraft bomb using phosphorus it targets everyone it is

not hidden i still the coalition is boman brendan lee if you're sitting at home a bomb may come down on you there are houses that collapsed on their residence and they couldn't get out all this happened because of the aircraft the city decayed bodies decomposed there's even no estimates on how many more musgrave's are still to be found thousands of people were killed your. city. many were buried has to leave but also many remain in the rubble or at least in mass graves each one has to be dozens to hundreds of bodies and it was really hard to make such as to beaches but that's what we know tories are struggling to cope with the logistical challenges because there are many of the gated to conduct examinations because they are the mines around there it is clear from what we have seen on the ground that they are working to exhibit bodies. far more creating the system but

until someone says the pleas of ruckus citizens they must live amid rubble and stench the stench of decomposing flesh. after a recent outbreak of violence on the gaza border the islamist militant group hamas says it has agreed to a cease fire with israel on friday four palestinians three of whom were allegedly hamas militants and an israeli soldier were killed during clashes that prompted a series of airstrikes on hamas positions leading to fears of all out confrontation as artie's explains. easy calm that has descended along the israel gaza border that ceasefire went into effect at midnight and we have heard from the israeli army that civilians who live along the israel gaza border can return to normal routine we're hearing the same message from the hamas hopes person who says that they have agreed to return to the era of calm between israel and the palestinian factions it follows a night of heavy air strikes conducted by the israeli air force over gaza they say

they hit some sixty targets while at the same time three projectiles were fired at israel by palestinian militants and a friday deadline given by israel to him us in which it said that all awesome kites that were flown into israel had to cease came and went with those kites israel says that its actions were merely retaliating and it holds hamas responsible the i.d.f. used today's it's like the whole storm activity is treated by hamas throughout the last month with great severity hamas chose to escape the security situation a move the consequences for its actions last night's strikes were the worst we've seen since the two thousand and fourteen will between israel and hamas in that war more than two thousand palestinians were killed and seventy three israelis now there was an israeli airstrike a heavy israeli airstrike earlier in the week we are hearing from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu that he will continue to strike back at her masts

during the sabbath we hit hard our policy is clear when anyone seeks to harm us we will strike back with great force this is just the second ceasefire in some six days so of course the question is then asked whether or not it will hold egypt in the united nations brokered both cease fires and what we have heard from the united nations is that a massive full scale war was averted tensions on the ground however the main tense people are using and the question of course is if and when will be i'm not a showdown when i ask people here that question most people believe there will be a showdown is just a question of when. a political commentator amir oren and the former director of a palestinian civil rights organization motion abu ramadan share their views on the recent escalation. hundreds of palestinians if you accumulate the numbers have either died or been injured at the demonstrations but

this is not happened because israel has used force. to the contrary israel only reacted and israel tried to keep the entire border quiet it is not in its interest to try and repair hundred. number of but a scene and war show did differ on that either sort of does without any dangerous. from them to there is a way to surges but it just isn't slogans and it is seeing voices and asking the international community at all what a brush up there is or it to intercede and get to freedom of movement and on what it is to the biggest tina to live as normal people. in the human being and live in the. u.s. government funded media outlet has deleted a series of ads in place on facebook which targeted american audiences radio liberty was outed for potentially violating u.s. laws meant to shield citizens from domestic propaganda artist came up and has. now

it turns out that one news outlet has been forced to remove its political ads from facebook was the u.s. government's own radio free europe aka radio liberty here's an extract from their mission statement which of course you can find on their web site which ends in dot gov. a mission is to promote democratic values and institutions by reporting the news in countries where free press is banned by the government not fully established journalists provide what many people cannot get locally on since that news responsible discussion an open debate perhaps they consider the united states to be one of those countries that doesn't have a free press after all the ads were specifically targeted at americans now facebook says the ads were not political which is rather interesting as they were specifically related to recent controversies regarding trump and the nato. sixty

one percent of the surveyed population in twelve countries view nato favorably it's actually illegal for federally funded news outlets under the umbrella of the broadcast board of governors to direct their content at an american audience the only exception is by special request and there was none in the case of radio liberty after new york times journalists raised a red flag the board of governors deleted the ads none of the b.b.c. now where should be distributing or promoting our content massacree in order to develop or grow domestic audiences but why would facebook allow ads about nato to begin with this is just after facebook has imposed strict rules regarding commercials with political content in the united states r.t. materials frequently banned and that's even when it's not directed at an american audience. and issue ads on facebook and instagram in the u.s.

must be clearly labeled including a paid for by disclosure from the advertiser at the top of the ad it turns out that the rules about what constitutes a political ad are pretty big as far as facebook is concerned any r.t. news related to the usa is a political advert meanwhile a commercial specifically talking about how everyone loves nato is not now russian scholar shonda laurie recently tried to promote an interview about his recently published compendium of coverage of donald trump from russian magazines and newspapers face book shut him down for his book one to prove my for this book cost apparently what the russian press thinks of trump is dangerous information there's a double standard if you want to break the rules to help defend freedom ok which is which is really not possible it's illogical they've constantly lived in this state of

a false reality where. it's ok to propagandize and to blanket the rest of the world with a cia funded message but it's not ok for russia to finance or to partially even finance a great television network that's competitive with the b.b.c. for news and information why is that not ok all this talk about fake news and propaganda has put the us political establishment and tech giants like facebook in a pretty difficult spot basically they've been reduced to saying we can't promote it if we don't agree with it caleb art see new york. we've asked facebook and of the broadcasting board of governors to comment on the case so far they've chosen not to respond. switching gears now students at the university of manchester in england have painted over a mural of a poem by roger kipling they say the victorian era author who is best known for

writing the jungle book was a racist who dehumanized people of color and sought to legitimize the british empire his presence in india the poem if penned in eighteen and ninety five was displayed in a newly renovated campus building but was quickly criticized by members of the student union who said they should have been consulted beforehand made verse from civil rights activists maya angelou's still i rise has now replaced of the poem we asked people in london about the students' actions. this is it is a man of his time. and you've got to accept that that was his time today maybe not what he's going to face he just as you agree with the free speech of the window if you do that's a trick question i'm really into art and not kind of thing but a dream to deported a bundle is something that's really bad to me any case and i don't agree with the facing i think there are other ways of protest from your point i think when we're

looking back on history and judging people from the framework that they existed in it's a little bit different i think. everything in its heart and period is significant is i right. you know we can look at those and different views and attitudes now i think we can learn a little bit from that you know that it was a bad thing to do you know it's not right now but still you know it's people doing the past i don't think that we should disregard the most people that watch because of the pain they have the obviously i think there are many great artists also in this museum been fighting this a mistake and. problematic people in their private loans but that doesn't necessarily mean that there are none of these that values but it also can mean that so it should be acknowledged and it should be there open for discussion but the for the it shouldn't be censored kipling is not the only writer whose work has been criticized recently here are

a few other examples. western material achievement and progress made no dent on the rounded sleeve of china. wants to forgive me for all of my friends without his ever saying anything they were simply a little something shameful between us like this brilliant open of the horse a symbol fight. there is a trait in the jewish character that does provoke animosity maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non jews hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason. to lessen the jew and the jew russet your empire and you yourselves out judah jew and the big jew has rotted every nation that is were. after the white

house announced it inviting president putin to washington many media outlets are still trying to come to terms with donald trump's style of diplomacy and his power broker breaks down what has been dubbed the worst week for trump's foreign policy. the us president has upset everyone because she's missed it doesn't do claim to see like this was. true from lord one of the rules of diplomacy on his whistle stop tour of europe went off piste and told the truth don't worry you threw in a friend who used to it was an astonishing performance he managed to piss european allies and then in the interests of equality he desired citizens to diplomacy is the ruling in someone's face but nicely yours is a method not found in any text reg he sobered up opponents and allies with

a stream of clearly obvious as well finishing the most with a laser going did through that last one and that's the latest in a terrorism for us to take a truthful here's the e.u. of sticking washington with the bill of defending europe well nato members don't like hearing that said out loud you see they prefer diplomatically considered criticism which they can diplomatically ignore next the diplomatic headed to britain where trump had already accepted the nation in advance by suggesting that the u.k. was in a spot of bragg's it in joost political turmoil. he politicians well the ones on dealing with all the turmoil that is then trump wanted face to face in helsinki and a mainstream america exploded let's see those guys come on it's not a cold war anymore but one was called a traitor and i just race for apparently costing doubt on the conclusion by the

american intelligence services that russia meddled in the us elections. and in a disgrace. he said the air was wrong. the day aloft in. he says he actually meant to say the exact opposite donald's desperate backtracking was the first sign of genuine diplomacy he chose so much truth bomb did trump drop in the presence of he said he suggested the world's two largest nuclear powers should try to get along told mr president do you know nothing. and that is it for me i'll be back in about well say thirty five minutes with a full action as your watch martin try to. join

me every thursday on the all excitement sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. the fellow means that you're not going to take instruction from any of the fish and we know that in the situation of syria in the face of agenda the mandate that was given to us is ball it's not targeting one particular side to this conflict it is

broad it is focusing on identifying investigating earth and building fires on sunday the most seriously. today there are four million students studying abroad a trend is on the rise in the game of global competition international students are very much coveted the best research graduates are entirely taken care of as for the huge number of students that can afford studying abroad they represent an irresistible financial honeypot the expression global student market has become a household term among university head offices. in france and germany foreign students don't pay tuition fees just yet but it changes soon to come in england they contribute fourteen billion euros ten billion pounds

a year to the national economy a foreign student pays between twenty and thirty thousand euros a year twice as much as the european student and it represents an additional consumer in the country a dream client. so the university of manchester house about ten thousand international students which is the most of any u.k. university or there was a percentage it's not the highest so those students are important to us for a number of reasons they bring diversity they bring different cultures they bring different backgrounds different ways of thinking our own students benefit from studying in an environment with students from very different backgrounds of course they also bring income to the in. verse two which is important the largest community chinese students which make up just under forty percent of the total international student body. the crowds lining the streets around the university of manchester. the

president visited we knew it was. during his visit president. matters. not to say demonstrations. me finished like just material. right with. a stopping point. since the early ninety's chinese higher education is experiencing a spectacular growth. over the course of thirteen years the number of students grew from seven million to thirty five million studying abroad has become an absolute must for all the chinese new benefiting from the economic boom this year over seven hundred thousand young chinese studying somewhere in the world

a four hundred percent increase in fifteen years and the trend is unlikely to reverse. a new business is multiplying worldwide. companies in rolling students in international universities in terms of commercial office universe does in the u.s. u.k. and australia clinch first place. shop aren't tricky. for all the nice idea that offer out what you think is just out of a picture earn true short or you can have your quote. i knew once you were jogging where the bulk of your true since you mean you wash your own i don't jim. we do but we are out of it isha thank her for about an hour to.

get into the toilet a shot of a bash with catherine option for. soup but boy. if you're so. sure put on me the show your quick comparing are senora the others are not here and you have not. seen the step i mean. that in a year should be called a college. rougher year. so you'd have thought that in your q.s. i mean how shall we tell things out which i mean for our strong issue. not all chinese students going to ford studying in leading universities in those literally matter not all students can afford to study abroad. most of them are enrolled in universities based in their home province they dream of a brighter future instead.