life among the ruins artie's latest report from inside mosul his from the locals themselves about surviving in their city five months after being liberated from. doesn't want to go to school because she's afraid when we came back here myself here everyone they are. spiritual life but also to come the u.n. is getting its financial wings clipped as the u.s. agrees a significant custom contributions here follows threats to pull funding after members comprehensively rejected donald trump's decision on jerusalem states and. it's easy if your home is being spied on has been developed by surveillance whistleblower edward snowden but the question is can it reveal a little too much and former u.s. soldiers join the clean up campaign to protect

a japanese rain forest that's been polluted for decades by the american military. good morning welcome you with r.t. international this tuesday morning where it's just turned eight o'clock here in moscow. now it's been more than five months since iraq's second largest city was liberated from i saw this precious little for the people of mosul to return to in his latest report from the city. reveals what life is like there today. there are things you have to see to believe mosul is such a place the old city of mosul is by any measure a dead and miserable place war rubble the buildings and even that mixed with unexploded bombs and decaying bodies yet despite this people are coming

back to live here and most often not out of choice. when iraq we're going to go i'm turret turrets only god knows what can we do it's our affiliate it's our free pizza hut so you will have my daughter was injured five times i have no money and we slept on the streets on the other side of. the others have returned to old mosul a few and far between but. my jewel being home is destroyed my shop is destroyed i borrowing money just to feed my family i'm going to some i can't market to buy food why is it like this where the countries that support us all there's nothing the u.s. led coalition spend. more than a hundred thousand dollars per strike hundreds and hundreds just in mosul the money required for just

a few airstrikes could feed all the civilians in old mosul for months but no one has said any. having to look i have nothing nowhere to go we lost the fisheries in the whole world that's you take a look at the old city and if we need reconstruction the whole weekend many of my neighbors over here that there were killed. the local garrison division five shares its food with the locals and and gio showed up and handed out blankets but that eat no one else has helped i have had i don't want to fish was sitting behind us and still a mug while living he got out and hogan will never move for them they left us to choose between isis and death you know how. these isn't life it is a grim existence imagine spending your days salvaging called. to feed your family

at eleven years of age kill it while i go and sell it one kilo's half a dollar hundred get over if you know i'm not here i don't have the money mart. what else is there to do in mosul like she said been misunderstood don't look all of everything and just mean that if she ever put the conviction. that. these children have been through hell now you are right i could see a woman doing to doesn't want to go to school because she's afraid when he came back here my son what everyone wanted out of fear of their psychological scares for life much of what they have seen a score of fun stuff going to shoot to kill and in this generation will never forget it's all about oh not closing your eyes won't help a lot in mosul the smell is always there to remind you how many people are still buried in the rubble here is my god why any thousand. this year roughly two

thousand five hundred and it comes me. all these houses i don't need them and not just that but he will help me know how and at the hall i'm terrified whenever i stumble on a bomb i leave the police to it so they get rid of it and this isn't a game how can we not be afraid a couple right now see it if not the smell that hunger if not that then the dormant bombs if not then isis. five months since they declared victory escorts walked around with pistols in their hands drawn and cocked ready for isis hideaways. six days ago they discovered eight or isis fighters in this i board we couldn't

even get them to stern and they were so weak we called a doctor and he said not to give them water afterwards they took them away. a little take you know longer than a few minutes to find isis flags or propaganda weapons ammunition or unexploded bombs bodies tunnels this is one of the tunnels that isis used to move in and around the city for how you did. that. would be. i don't know the world has forgotten mosul it's out of fashion no longer trending and locals have a well founded suspicion that this was never about saving. water gas the of reporting there was

a recent investigation found that up to eleven thousand civilians were killed during the battle for mosul that's ten times higher than earlier estimates and a third of those were killed by iraqi and u.s. led airstrikes let's get some reaction now from the norwegian rescue answers media coordinator in iraq and joins us good morning to you melanie i'm not sure how much you saw of our report there but conditions in mosul clearly horrific many unexploded bombs are there many dead bodies decaying under the rubble why is it like this where is the international help five months on. it's very it's been very difficult for us to into west mosul but it needs to be clear that the situation in east mosul and west mosul differs dramatically ninety percent of the population has returned to east mosul and life there has certainly did reached a degree of normality however what you have seen in the footage is that it's a completely different story in waste mosul the devastation is almost complete and

it's been very hard for us to return as well as the population we have managed to rehabilitate a water plant that's providing water to one hundred thousand people but we're struggling with the same issues that these people are struggling with we're trying to. provide education and waste most all but one principal came to us and asked us to remove dead bodies from his school before we could do that and there are also unexploded order forms and ordinances throughout the city it's making it very difficult for us to melanie why is it like that you described a stark difference between west and east why is there that difference. it's the nature of the city mosul is an old middle eastern city it's got tight streets this was where the fight was concentrated certainly it was the seat of the so-called islamic state the caliphate so this was really where the heart of the

battle for mosul occurred and therefore most of the destruction and devastation occurred ok but see melanie's now over in the surprise for many years that was the international help now i know you say it's very difficult for your organization to turn things around but you would expect to see people on the streets wouldn't you from from international bodies trying to make a difference that was the big surprise for many. the international help is there the difficulty for us is that as i said we still need a lot of the areas to be cleared and that's the same problem that the people in west mosul of facing however there are still camps for people outside mosul and the longer those people there the more we provide them with there's a camp that we manage for twenty five thousand people around thirty kilometers from the city and we're provided these people with blankets heaters we're setting up

schools there's a market in these camps we're trying to make life as manageable in these camps as we can for them because obviously again by the footage and the photographs and stories they can't return to the city immediately and it may in fact be many more months before they can mentally we heard in our report that some people felt they had to return to mosul not necessarily out of choice but there was a lack of support around the city in the refugee camps for them to feel that they could stay there so you flee and they felt there but a better option was returned to most other fair criticism do you feel the there is sufficient support outside the mosul for people to remain there. certainly the camps that we're working in are well resourced and as i said the longer people are there the more resources we provide so so them the funding is there and the resources are there the casing means that people need to be able to

return voluntarily they need correct information to know that their homes a say in order for them to return and that's a concern of ours that people do so freely they get the resources that they need which which we're which we're starting to provide and other agent agencies as well melanie might be tricky question for you do you feel that international governments international bodies can be more here to help considering the expenditure in dropping bombs i mean one quote i heard was you know one hundred thousand dollars per bomb that was dropped on most of the seems to be. a lack of immediate support to help those that is being left in mosul. i think the international support has been there and will be there where expecting needs to be slightly humanitarian needs to be slightly lower in the next year but over the past year the humanitarian found in iraq was funded to almost ninety percent which is

a very high level compared to other large scale humanitarian emergencies in the world so i think the international community has been there and international aid organizations are providing a lot of help and will continue to do so certainly one u.s. diplomat has said that u.s. funding will remain at the same level for next year so we will be continue we will continue to be here as long as the funding and as long as the need is fear from the iraqi people ok well you look really good to talk to you appreciate your insight this morning that was melanie markham a norwegian refugee council's media coordinator in iraq thank you. now in the news this morning a traditional christmas eve fireworks display in central cuba left that state is running for cover after a pirate technics explosion dozens of people were injured some seriously.

it's not yet known what went wrong at the annual planned this festival which takes place every december the twenty fourth and attracts thousands of locals and visitors more than twenty were seriously hurt in the explosion six children are also among the injured the town's district's usually can pay to see which can stage the most spectacular display. now the u.n. is facing having nearly three hundred million dollars less in its pockets over the next couple of years and the u.s. ambassador nikki haley didn't mince her words over the reasons why the budget is being cut. the inefficiency and overspending of the united nations are well known we will no longer let the generosity of the american people be taken advantage of or remain unchecked this historic reduction in spending in addition to many other moves towards a more efficient and accountable un is

a big step in the right direction. un members agreed the new budget on sunday capping it at five point four billion dollars the united states makes the largest contribution owing to the size of its economy well it's responsible for twenty two percent of payments to the main budget contributing more than a billion dollars over the last two years the u.s. also accounts for nearly a third of the un's peacekeeping budget with nearly three billion in annual payments the funding cuts come just days after the u.n. overwhelmingly voted to reject donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital only nine members including the us voted against the resolution while hundred twenty eight of the supported us is try to pressure u.n. members with threats ranging from cutting aid to taking the names of those supporting the resolution. when we make generous contributions to the u.n.

we also have a legitimate expectation that our good will is recognized and respected the united states will remember this day we take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars and then they vote against us when we're watching those votes let them vote against us will serve. we don't care. however political analysts cafe after he does think that washington's pressure tactics might actually work against the united states just about everything that ambassador haley has done since assuming pause as being contrary to the spirit of the u.n. charter has been quiet and diplomatic for into the very notion of war diplomacy complete tact packed less tactful listeners. without any sense of nuance so this kind of crude language of threat and punishment use against solving nations and so forth this really hurts the uses image and credibility of war why united

states is not helping itself by having someone representing the united nations who saw undiplomatic and fall into the spirit of the united nations. now an app which lets you know if your home is being snooped on has been developed by the american whistleblower and the surveillance campaign or edward snowden it does work on android devices and can spot shadowy electronic intrusion but it's a nation sethi now explains it might also reveal a few skeletons in people's closets. edward snowden has set out to prove he's capable of much more than leaking n.s.a. secrets he's keeping up the fight against digital surveillance and this time it's in the form of an app he's created a personal security system in the hope of empowering journalists and activists to secretly monitor their possessions and it has a very fitting name meat haven and makes it harder when citizens

raids search. without getting. scripts is kind of. more people watch a crackdown you have to think. will i. say let's take a closer look you simply install haven on any android phone and your device tends into a surveillance system it works by the app detecting changes in the environment using senses already built in say you left your phone and attended in your bedroom and an intruder breaks in well first of all it uses the camera and it'll instantly start recording and may catch the unwanted visitor of course you could also set a trap for a nosy partner snooping through messages secondly the built in microphone will pick up any conversations to be private while that's great for recording intruders voices which you also be tempted to leave it somewhere you shouldn't in all cases of a breach you'll receive encrypted

a let's say the up helps keep you safe that it can be exploited i can have a good site if there's domestic abuse going on for example and you want to record proof and then go to the police they can have a bad side because you might feel you're being stalked by a jealous ex spouse or a jealous spouse even though there's a potential i presume for it to be hijacked as well tickets were able to enjoy it which is i think has closed bits of software within it so there's always a plus this month with these new technologies of course that said edward snowden himself has always been notoriously careful about the technology around him. famously often journalists to place their phones in hotel fridge if to stop for oil would be snippets so why some say it's and whether their app will create a physical space you can trust or make you more power annoyed of the device lying next to you be aware of the spy next door. former u.s. soldiers have seen for themselves the effects of decades of pollution caused by the

american military on the japanese island of okinawa they joined local environmental campaigners to document the damage to the rain forests there to try and get u.s. forces to clean up their act. so when are training for training any trust or take out with. let's go over here for a minute. you. have a lot of the former would. be the way to. avoid.

these camouflage so much it's really hard to find their own use when they're much easier. to. do yes marines behave that this in their own country or do they just act like it is because it's. two of the us two former u.s. soldiers who are taking part in york and our campaign to say the u.s. is indifferent to the environmental problems it causes. i was in okinawa because we had a delegation there. we were supporting the local people and go against a new base that's been created there and i was told that i heard reports that there was trash all over the place so i had to say with my own eyes because i was a marine that was stationed out there and i couldn't believe it because the marines when i was in we would never do that we were trained if you pack it in you take it out so that's why i went out there and just blew my mind i can't believe what i saw

all the trash and such a pristine area the claims of the u.s. military the biggest polluter i definitely agree with that is the single most polluter in the world and that's not something that it's that it's up for agreement or disagreement this this can be measured. wrenching from the pollutants from the c o two contributions that the u.s. military puts out into that most fear them our fuel that they use the u.s. doesn't look into the environmental issues or acknowledge them i've seen a lot of issues around the bases in okinawa you know similarities in iraq and afghanistan isn't bases here on u.s. soil where it's just contaminating the land that it's using there the use open burn pits that is having huge effects on military personnel members and just outright consumption of fossil fuels across the pentagon of all four branches having

a training center in the middle of a rain forest should ultimately come down to the people who live in or near that rain forest so say take the young boy or forests in northern okinawa where the u.s. marines have been training for decades the people there on the ground who live there and have to suffer from the consequences of that training they don't want it there the u.s. doesn't really cooperate in any investigations of environmental issues because it's a direct threat to their national security goals but the problem is environmental issues are a threat direct. to our lives the us gets away with a lot of environmental issues that. the austrians recently sworn in chancellor says the use migrant relocation quota policies are not helping solve the refugee crisis sebastian kurtz here believes the problem should be handled in the migrants home countries migrants who settle for europe don't want to go to bulgaria are hungry they want to go to germany austria or sweden they should be helped in safe areas in

their own continent the e.u. should support that perhaps even organize it and back it militarily well there have been similar calls in the past from other european leaders including the consideration of overseas military operations to stem the flow of migrants last month the french president proposed military action to put an end to people trafficking in libya but a dollar from the damascus center of strategic studies believes it's an approach that is deeply flawed. to send troops or european armies to protect these virtual zones i think it's not practical in first of all these arms will be involved in the internal affairs of these countries and their reaction from the law people will be may be negatively they will lose a lot of. soldiers first so i think to be engaged in

internal adverse of any county it would be reflected on their internal affairs and i think they should read very good the story of syria during seven years they should read the story of libya the story of yemen the story in africa and i don't think that this is a good approach. meanwhile desperate migrants continues risked their lives trying to cross the alps to get from italy into france braving freezing temperatures to an unsuitable clothing to try and see better life in europe the dollar again suspects e.u. members are trying to establish themselves as major place in the middle east and africa. you have been you know they are feeling that they are. outside of the political settlement now example in syria they are outside in libya they started to go through against libya then they became not

a. player in internal affairs of libya in yemen they say maybe in africa we cannot see that they would be in their all is very important so because of that they are trying to. to review their role in the middle east. not choosing in denmark or appealing for people to donate their wanted pets to help feed the. lions tigers and other carnivores officials insist that it would give them a diet that is more in line with walks it might be in the wild but certain formal four legged friends are off the many dogs and cats can be donated it is part of a campaign to help teach children the realities of life and death in nature what is more rights activists made me think. about their revenue more than their animals

when you are the guardian for an animal there's a responsibility that comes along with that and that's a responsibility to protected to care for that animal and when the time comes to ensure that they don't suffer you cannot humanely euthanized an animal by taking them to the zoo to be eaten because humane youthen euthanasia involves a lethal injection and that means that the meat or the flesh of the animal would not be edible so the two are completely incompatible with that concept of responsible animal guardianship it's completely contrary to the idea of taking your animal companion to the zoo to be served up as as a lion's den or absolutely sickening but it can show people what zoos are really about they're not institutions that care about animals they're institutions that care about making money at the expense of their welfare and their well being. dangerous to use already have something of a reputation when it comes to educating about wildlife copenhagen zoo caused controversy in twenty fourteen when it's slaughtered as you're off in front of

spectators be full feeding it to the lines and another. dissected a line in front of school children it was unable to find another facility to adopt it mainly because she again thinks children need to learn how animals a your children do what happens to animals then certainly they wouldn't want to have them on their on their plates either you know children are naturally empathetic and care about animals and they have to be taught. to disassociate that in order to be able to eat them and do all the things that we do to them so you know i think it's a really good thing to educate children. now switzerland may not be a member of the european union but it's still what its president still wants to hold a referendum on her country's relationship with brussels a fundamental reference to what helps with sly clarify its relationship with europe in union the bilateral paths important we have to know in which direction to go

as i mentioned switzerland is not an e.u. member but is currently negotiating a so-called framework treaty with the block it is set to replace more than one hundred bilateral accords between them but the two did fall out last week when brussels decided to set a one year limit on swiss stock exchanges access to the ye we discussed the referendum idea with the euro skeptics with people's party which currently has a majority in parliament the relations between switzerland and brussels get worse part of the problem is that in the worst in the world the boycotts start to increase unfortunately it looks like the european union is trying to really can our financial center so we have to stay firm in the past our own government has made a dramatic mistake to get on its knees way too quickly when we were attacked in that

sense by the americans a few years ago and now towards brussels the seam danger is here we get on our knees too quickly so that is how things that so far this morning here in r.t. i'll be back with more news in just over half an. when i was so small seemed wrong. quotes just don't all. get to shape out just to come out ahead and in gains from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. hey everybody i'm stephen baldwin task hollywood guy the suspect every proud

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