life among the ruins are seeds latest report from inside mosul his from the locals themselves about surviving in their city five months after being liberated from isis. now you but i could see people in wheelchairs doesn't want to go to because she's achilles when we came back here my sound was poorly to everyone out of fear and their psychology course careful life but also to come the u.n. is getting its financial wings clipped as the u.s. agrees to significant cuts in contributions it follows threats to pull funding after members comprehensively objected donald trump's decision on jerusalem the status. and that it sees if your home is being spied on has been developed by the surveillance whistleblower edward snowden but can it actually reveal a little too much. 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. but i welcome you watching r.t. international this tuesday morning where it's just nine o'clock in moscow. now it's more than five months since iraq's second largest city was liberated from isaw but there's precious little for the people of mosul to return to in his latest report from the city but again c.f. reveals the grim reality of life 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 more rubble than buildings and even that mixed with unexploded bombs and decaying bodies at the spike this people are coming

back to live here. not out of choice. when iraq we're going to go i'm tired. only god knows what can we do it's our fate it's our feet she's a. woman my daughter was injured five times i have no money and we slept on the streets on the other side of the river those that have returned to old mosul a few and far between but. my jewelry my home is destroyed my shop is destroyed i'm borrowing money just to feed my family i'm going to some my car tomorrow to buy food why is it like this where the countries that said they would support us there's nothing the u.s. led coalition spend. more than one hundred thousand dollars 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 said. the local garrison division five shares its food with the locals and and geo showed up and handed out blankets but that eat no one else has helped i had i don't want to fish was sitting behind table some still in a while live in us without help who 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 copper wire to feed your family at eleven years of age. we're going sell it one kilo is half a dollar. he mad i don't have money mark. what else is there to do in

mosul life seven years i'm just a low dollar hollowed everything and i mean that if he ever put that in cuba. these children have been through hell now you are right i could see it my daughter doesn't want to go to school because she's afraid when he came back here my son would fool me every morning out of fear of their psychological scares for life but what they have seen a score of fun stylish until and in this generation will never forget 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 thousands. this year roughly two thousand five hundred. times meet. all these houses and their families not on the need them and not just that it will help you know alan at the hall i'm

terrified whenever i stumble on a bomb i leave the police to it so they get rid of it this isn't a game how can we not be afraid a couple right. 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 it will sit here six days ago they discovered eight isis fighters in this neighborhood we couldn't even get them to stand they were so weak we called a doctor and he said not to give them water afterwards they took them away.

it will 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 high did. 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. more advanced years reporting there was a recent investigation by the associated press found that up to eleven thousand civilians were killed during the battle for mosul that is ten times higher than earlier estimates a third of those were killed by iraqi and u.s.

led airstrikes the norwegian refugee council's media coordinator in iraq told me earlier about the difficulties most residents and i face. 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 in west mosul 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 or bombs an ordinance is throughout the city that's making it very difficult for us there is still camps for people outside mosul and the longer those people there the more we provide them with is the 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 in the photographs and

stories they can't return to the city immediately and it may in fact be many more months before they can. in other news this morning the un 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 either 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 where un members did agree the new budget on sunday capping it hit five point four billion dollars the united states makes the largest contribution owing to the size of its economy it is responsible for twenty two percent of the 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 u.s. voted against the resolution while one hundred twenty eight of the supported it the u.s. has tried 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 un we ask though have a legitimate expectation that our good well is recognized and respected the united states will remember this day they take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars and then they vote against us when we're watching those votes leveled against us will serve a lot. we don't care just about everything that ambassador haley has done since

assuming her paws as being contrary to the spirit of the u.n. charter i've been quite an diplomatic to the very north wall diplomacy complete pack packed list tag for listeners. without any sense of new once saw disco no cool language of threat and punishment use against soldering nations and so forth this really hurts the uses image and credibility of war wide and united states is not helping itself by having someone representing the united nations who saw undiplomatic and for into the spirit of the united nations. a traditional christmas see fireworks display in central cuba left back tate is running for cover after a pyrotechnics explosion dozens of people were injured some seriously. were.

it's not yet known what went wrong here at the annual plan and best of all which does take place every christmas even the tracks thousands of locals and visitors more than twenty was seriously hurt in this explosion six children were also among the injured to the town's descriptions and compete to see which can stage the most spectacular display. an app which lets you know if your home is being snooped on has been developed by the american whistleblower and anti surveillance campaign edward snowden it does work on android devices and can spot so you shadi we electronic intrusion and he explains it might also reveal a few things you might want to keep quiet. 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. makes it harder to. citizens really search rests without getting. scripts is kind of heartening more people watch a crackdown you have to. 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 sentences 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 cameraman 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 well 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 sober up helps keep you safe but 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 like you're being stalked by a jealous ex spouse or a jealous spouse even there's a potential i presume for it to be hijacked as well to keep its rival until it reaches i think has closed to 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 fridges to stop for oil would be snippets so it's incessant whether this 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. we mourned now at 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 rainforest there to try and get u.s. forces to clean up their act. or training or training any trash or take over. for a minute. out of the summer we're.

going to. give it a night out on. 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. toothy former u.s. soldiers who are taking part in the campaign say the u.s. is indifferent to the environmental problems it causes. i was an ok now because we had a delegation there. we were supporting the local people. against the 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 and we would never do that we were trained if if you pack it in you take it out so so that's why i went out there and it just blew my mind i can't believe what i saw all the trash in such a pristine area that claims that the u.s. military is the biggest polluter of definitely agree with that they're the single most polluter in the world and that's not something that it's that it's up for agreement or disagreement this can be measured. ranging from the pollutants from the c o two contributions that the u.s. military puts out into that mix fear them our fuel that they use the u.s. doesn't look into the environmental issues or. acknowledge them and i've seen a lot of issues around the bases in okinawa you know similarities in iraq and afghanistan and even bases here on u.s. soil where it's just contaminating the land that it's using there the open burn

pits that is having huge facts 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 the rain forests should ultimately come down to the people who live in or near that rain forest so say take the young forest 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 direct threat to our lives the u.s. gets away with a lot of environmental issues of. national still that plenty head for you this hour including austria's plan to tackle the migrant crisis at its source and also zoos in denmark repeating for families to donate their very friends to be used to think

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never heard of love jack for the next president of the world bank so take. it seriously send us an e-mail. lists. i. welcome back now austria's recently sworn in chances says that the use migrant relocation quota policies are not helping solve the refugee crisis sebastian kurtz here believes the problem should be handled in migrants home countries migrants who set off 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 while 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 in fact last month french president proposed military action to put and then to people trafficking in libya but some believe it is an approach that is deeply flawed abu abdullah from the damascus center of strategic studies to send european troops or european armies to abortive these virtual civs 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 new get if only they will lose a lot of. soldiers first so i think to be engaged in internal a verse 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 continue to risk their lives trying to cross the alps to get from history into france enduring freezing temperatures in unsuitable clothing to try and seek a better life in europe with little sign that the flow will end any time soon european leaders are increasingly putting forward ideas to tackle direct action in migrants home countries but. again suspects e.u. members are trying to reestablish themselves as major players 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 against libya they became not.

internal affairs of libya in yemen this 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. now then to zoos in denmark are appealing for people to donate wanted pets to help feed their lines tigers under the carnivores we're doing it because we need animals when people come here with their rabbits it is to have them put down we don't want to hide it from children these are natural prey for predators feeding them dogs cats is an ethical because it's not nature for them or his animal rights activists mainly behave sorry back hetchy and she thinks you care more about their revenue

than they do about 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 protect and 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 that concept of responsible animal guardianship is 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 wellbeing well danish zoos do already have something of a reputation when it comes to educating about life copenhagen so you might remember cause controversy back in twenty fourteen when

a slaughter the giraffe in front of spectators before feeding it to the lions and another in a dense dissected the line in front of schoolchildren after it was unable to find another facility to adopt it mimi because she again thinks children need to live in the mills to be used for food. children know 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. switzerland's may not be a member of the european union but it's present and i want style to referendum on her country's relationship with brussels a fundamental reference to. clarify its relationship with the european union the

bilateral potus important we have to know in which direction to go. switzerland and brussels did fall out last week when he decided to set a one year limit on swiss stock exchanges access to be extending its will now depend on whether there is progress in negotiations in a so-called framework treaty between the switzerland is not an e.u. member but it is part of the visa free travel area known as the change in zone and it has strong economic ties to with the they are currently regulated three more than one hundred bilateral accords which could be simplified by the framework treaty but there are voices in switzerland which are wary of establishing closer ties we discuss the referendum idea with the euro skeptic swiss people's party which currently holds the 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 reclaim our financial center so we have to see from 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 to seem dangerous here we get on our knees too quickly so that brings you up to date here in r.t. don't forget you can keep cross these stories plus look at others too at our social media pages and also.

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