a year after islamic state is it driven out of mosul the iraqi city remains in ruins we hear from a local resident about life after liberation. or to put the still down there and there are food bodies in that house behind us is still inside the stench coming from them is very strong children they getting sick because of this. a shaky cease fire is restored between hamas militants and israel after violent clashes on the gaza border raising fears of a full blown conflict in the region. and students at manchester university in england paint over a mere all of a famous poem by british a writer red haired kipling saying he was a racist who dehumanised people of color we ask people in london what they think about. is a man of his time. and you've got to accept that that was his time it should be

acknowledged and it should be there open for discussion but definitely shouldn't be censored. broadcast live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team international and sean 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 one of the local residents there are two bodies still down there and there are full bodies in that house behind us there's still inside the stench coming from them is very strong children are getting sick because of this.

there 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. only them. but they said we're not going to treat her priorities the fight is we can give her an injection so she dies immediately because of her to die at home with the iraqi military operation to retake the city which received a ground and air support from the united states left mosul and rowans 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 unfolded. iraqi security forces launch a counterattack to liberate mosul for myself also known as day. this operation to

regain control of iraq's second largest city will likely continue for weeks possibly longer. streamlet concern for the safety of up to one point five million people living in mosul who may be impacted by military operations to retake the city from. i think operation its own hopeful that we need to put the city before that to be.

you cannot just fire at everybody everybody in the city you have to be very careful john of an era where john of empty it could go no mater sadly mad day the nasta find a match to be look at. that right exactly how though this is a classic street in the liberated parts of mosul lifeless devastated it hospitable empty. there are still calculus bodies buried and all this rubble and no one knows how long it'll take to get to war rubble the buildings and even that mixed with unexploded bombs and decaying bodies. she got. concern. 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 unavoidable part of war. when we spoke to the middle east operations 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 yes there's a lack of water and there's a. city going back and potentially finding their bodies in your house in your

street i mean that's that's. a very dangerous stating because once again you're confronted to it's all those horrible things that happen 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. 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 in three mass graves there is claimed most of them were killed when the u.s. led coalition bombed the area firing nearly thirty thousand artillery rounds and launching thousands of air strikes during the course of a few months are going to stand off comments. 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 mars graves these burial sites contain more than a thousand bodies there are three hundred to four hundred bodies in this mass grave grew 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 well 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 let him work 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 down and that's just to the three recently discovered mass graves took the dog to 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 does not disintegrate it's a race against time and they're ready to on 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 solved 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 that we were directly targeted by the coalition after the 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 force for us 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 houses of people who were killed during the battle to retake the city. maybe 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 who authorities are struggling to cope with the logistical challenges because there are many of the catered to conduct examinations because 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 hamas militants and an israeli soldier were killed during clashes that prompted a series of airstrikes on hamas positions leading to fears of the all out confrontation as artie's possibly or 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 hearing the same message from the hamas hoax 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 her months 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 telling a tree and it holds hamas responsible the i.d.f. used today's it's like the whole store activity is treated by hamas throughout the last month with great severity hamas chose to scale a the security situation and move the consequences for its actions last night's strikes were the worst we've seen since the two cars and fourteen were 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 most 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 being 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 another showdown and when i ask people here their question most people believe there will be a showdown is just a question of when. our political commentator amir or him and the former director of a palestinian civil rights organization motion ramadan shared 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 the scene and war show did differ on that is that it is sort of does without any dangerous. from time to there is that it is surges it just it is being slogans and it is seeing the voices and asking the international community it over to brush up to the end that she'd get of movement and can look at this to the biggest senior to live as normal people. you might be and live in the. u.s. government funded media outlet has deleted a series of ads it placed on facebook which targeted american audiences radio liberty was outed for potentially violating u.s. laws meant to shield citizens from domestic propaganda has come 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 it's 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 to 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 yes none of the b.b. g. 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 even when it's not directed 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 in 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 want to prove my it for the sport 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 at a pretty difficult spot basically they've been reduced to saying we can't promote it if we don't agree with it he looked up and r.t. new york. facebook and the broadcasting board of governors to comment on the cases 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 rudyard kipling they say the victorian era author who is best known for writing the jungle book was a racist who dehumanised people of color and sought to legitimize the british

empire its presence in india a poem if penned in eight hundred ninety five was displayed in a newly renovated campus building but was quickly quickly criticised by members of the students' union who said they should have been consulted beforehand a verse from civil rights activists my angelou's still i rise has now replaced 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 don't really do that so you see just as you agree with. free speech on the window if you do that's a trick question i'm really into it and not kind of thing but the dream to put it 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 protesting 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 hard period is significant and as i write. 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 the mission district called the most people that was because of the pain they have the actually i think there been many great artists also in this museum been fired missile mistake and. problem of take people in their private clothes but that doesn't necessarily mean that there are going to be that obvious but it also can mean that so it should be acknowledged and it should be they're 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. well

that western material achievement and progress made no dent on the rounded sleep of china. he forgave 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. in the jew and the jew russet your empire and you yourselves out jude the jew and the big jew has rotted every nation is wormed into. switching gears now to

the states after the white house announced it is inviting president putin to washington many media outlets are still trying to come to terms of donald trump's unique style of diplomacy. breaks down what has it been dubbed the worst week for trump's foreign policy. the u.s. president has upset everyone because she's received it doesn't do claim to see like this was a. term for ignored 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 you tube 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. 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 provoke 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 truth from here's the e.u.'s sticking washington with the bill of defending europe well nato members didn'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 trumpeted already did 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 but is then trump wanted face to face in helsinki and a mainstream america exploded let me see those guys come on it's not a cold war anymore no one was called a traitor and he's just great for apparently costing doubt on the conclusion by the

american intelligence services that russia meddled in the us elections traits and a disgrace. he said the air was wrong. the day almost of the. he says he actually meant to say the exact opposite donald's desperate not tracking with the fast sign of genuine diplomacy he so i'm not sure you did drop in the presence of he said he suggested the world's two largest nuclear powers should try to get a long cord mr president do you know nothing. the mayor of los angeles has said that a woman was killed by a gunman who barricaded himself in a trader joe's grocery store on saturday police had been pursuing the individual who had reportedly shot his grandmother and a young woman earlier in the day after a tense hours long standoff the suspect eventually surrendered himself to police no

one else is believed to have been hurt and. does it for me i'll be back in thirty five minutes with your headlines you are watching our international. four men are sitting in a car when the fifth gets shot in the head. all four different versions of what. one of them is on the death row there's no way he could have done it there's no possible way because the owners do not shoot around a corner. to gain his financial camera. roughly once they showed some leave for them.

uncool videos and so on with the broken string that's. going down more on string i don't rightly don't t.v. . there. are. plenty of welcome to worlds apart even for those who've seen the war up close the conflict in syria set a new benchmark for cruelty and impunity more than any other war it capitalized on the public's repulsion of violence and produce death and suffering not only as an adult the result of hostilities but also deliberately for political and media fact can these kinds of crimes be ever educated in

a court of law while to discuss that i'm now joined by katrina michael had of the un international impartial and independent mechanism on investigation and prosecution of persons responsible for the most serious. crimes under international law committed in syria since march two thousand and eleven when the marquee girl it's great talking to you thank you very much for your time and if you have been interviewing people in positions of power for quite some time but i have to say this is the longest title i've ever come across twenty one awards not counting articles and propositions all to express the idea that this is not exactly the tribunal but it may lead to one is that accurate. what is accurate is that it's not a trade you know. and it is indeed to assist in the investigating investigation and prosecution of those crimes and of the person that may be found responsible for it but as it is not a tribunals indeed this mechanism has only

a sense if it can turn its files or its evidence to tribunals now you call it impartial and independent despite the fact that the key actors in the in the syrian the war like the syrian arab republic or russia. don't even recognize the legitimacy of this mechanism don't you think that these terms impartial independent require the support of everybody in order to be a clickable. they are extremely important terms in the in the title i don't call it it was named this way by the by the general assembly which decided to adopt establish this mechanism. one hundred five states voted in favor of this mechanism but indeed fifteen including russia and the syrian arab republic decided to vote against and they have explained reasons why they do that

fifty two states decided to abstain so if the question is whether that. those modalities of adoption actually renders this mechanism less legitimate or whether it's impossible for us to be independent and impartial my answer is no i think being independent impartial is not just. not just terms in the name of the mechanism that our principle that i but also my entire team are extremely committed to but the legitimacy of our war but when you speak about impartiality the united states was one of the driving forces behind the creation of this mechanism. and the american ambassador to the united nations nikki haley's specifically stated that she sees the triple i a valuable tool to quote hold the assad regime accountable for the atrocities including its repeated and i'm going to use of chemical weapons now i understand

that that may sound as impartial in washington maybe even in geneva but in moscow or in damascus is that a misunderstanding or perhaps a misrepresentation of the mandate maybe i shall explain what it means to earth in the mechanism in part being impartial and independent i would start with independence independence means that you're not going to take instruction from any of the states and we know that in the situation of syria state of agenda so not taking instruction not acting according to agenda of what does it mean it means that you are doing your work professionally you are looking seeking to receive information from a very key of source not just certain sources what does it mean being impartial it means that you are showing genuinely but also showing no bias in favor or against any of that to say what.