life among the ruins are seeds like this report from inside mosul his from locals themselves about surviving in their city five months after being liberated from isis. caught up i knew i don't just want to go to school because she's afraid we came back here my son with mom and i we morning out of here they're psychologically scarred for life here have also become the u.n. gets its financial wings clipped as the u.s. agrees a significant cuts in contributions it follows threats to pull funding after members

comprehensively donald trump's decision on jerusalem status and an app that detects if your home is being spied on has been developed by the super surveillance whistleblower edward snowden but can it reveal too much. former u.s. soldiers during the clean up campaign to protect the japanese rainforest that's been polluted for decades by the american media. to. good afternoon you're watching international where it's just gone one o'clock here in moscow now it's more than five months since iraq second largest city was liberated from myself but there's precious little for the people of mosul to return to in his latest report from the city. every feels the grim reality of life that today. there are things. you have to she to believe most old 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 at the spite these people are coming back to live here and most often not out of choice. when iraq where can we go to hunt toilet toilet only gold not what can we do it's all fights it's off fight. 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 desperate. 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 spent all in all more than a 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 has sent anything 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 now you might have a good thing we don't want to officials sitting behind tables and stealing while leaving us without help we will never vote for them at all they left us to choose between isis and death or 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. one kilo's half a dollar. a model i don't have the money mart. what else is there to do in mosul watch the seven was i'm just old don't look all over everything and i mean that if. that it can. be. these children have been through hell i had a thought i knew my daughter doesn't want to go to school because she's afraid when we came back here my son would vomit every morning out of fear they are psychologically scarred for life you know what they have seen as horrifying and starvation killing this generation will never forget why do you madea 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 he is a god why any thousand. this year roughly

a thousand. times. all these houses. need them and not just that many will help knowing that the whole i'm terrified whenever i stumble on a bomb i live the police 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 them isis. five months since they declared victory escorts walked around with pistols in their hands drawn and cocked ready for isis hideaways the goal. 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 no longer than a few minutes to find isis flags or propaganda weapons i mean you nation 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. sometime you. know 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 their. more

advanced you have reporting while a recent investigation by the associated press i did find 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 is media coordinator in iraq told me about the difficulties most residents 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 ways 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 order forms 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 there's a camp that we manage for twenty five thousand people around thirty kilometers from

the city and we've 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 unmanageable 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 today 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 well u.n.

members did agree to 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 own economy 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 more than three billion in and your 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 in fact only nine members including the u.s. floated against the resolution while a hundred twenty eight of the supported it the u.s. has tried to pressure you any 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 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 while we're watching those votes lead a vote against us will serve a lot. we don't care just about everything that ambassador hailey has done since assuming her paws as being contrary to the spirit of the u.n. charter i don't quite and diplomatic to the very north wall diplomacy complete pack packed list tag for listeners and without any sense are new once saw this kind of cool language of threat and punishment use against soldering nations and so forth this really hurts the uses image and credibility award 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. now up

next we have some dramatic pictures to show you they are from a traditional christmas a fireworks display in central cuba that left spectators running for cover after a pyrotechnics explosion dozens of people were injured some of them seriously. were i. think. it's not yet known what went wrong here at the annual put out this festival which takes place every christmas eve in the tracks thousands of locals and visitors more than twenty the series to be here since explosion six children are also among the injured to the town's district usually campaign to see which can stage the most spectacular display. i. found. which does let you know if your home is being snooped on has been developed by the american whistleblower and the surveillance campaign that edward snowden it works on android devices and can spot some shadowy electronic intrusion and he

explains it might also reveal perhaps 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. see this really search. without getting. kind of. more people want to crack down 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 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 your 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 it and then go to the police they can have about it because you might feel you're being stalked by a jealous ex spouse or. and there's a potential i presume for it to be hijacked as well tickets one will enjoy it which is i think has closed to bits of software within it so there's always

a plus minus if with these new technologies of course that sad 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 snape is so it's uncertain whether they will create a physical space you can trust or make you more power annoyed of the device lying next year 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 rainforest there to try and get u.s. forces to clean up their act.

or training or training any trash or take out would. be like a minute. out of the summer would. give. life so much it's really hard to. 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 okinawa. well two the former u.s. soldiers who are taken part in the campaign say that the u.s.

is sometimes indifferent to the environmental problems that cause the thousand canal because we had a delegation there. were supporting the local people. against the new base it'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 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 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. 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 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 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 the environmental issues. just coming up to twenty past one here in moscow nashville ahead few zoos in denmark are asking people to donate their unwanted pets but not for display but is food for tigers and lions some of the stories we've got just after the break. seemed wrong. but. just don't. let me. get to shape out this day comes out of. an engagement equals betrayal. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

in twenty and what we'll see are central banks adding big oil to their strategic reserves alongside gold so big gold buyers like china and russia will be adding big oil to their strategic reserves some of the banks possibly of venezuela they could completely change their fortunes in the global economy by switching over to crypto switching over to bitcoin and then that will set a precedent for other countries of policy. to r.t. now austria has recently sworn in chants of the says that they use my country like haitian quota policies are not helping to solve the refugee crisis sebastian

because he believes that 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 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 the french president proposed military action to put an end to people trafficking in libya but some do believe it's an approach that is deeply flawed. from the damascus center of strategic studies to send european troops or european armies to abort or get these. virtual zones i think it's not practical

in first of all these arms will be involved in the internal affairs of this country and action 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 a verse of any account you would 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. this is a good approach for these pictures to show you just how desperate some of the migrants have become they are crossing the alps here from italy to get into france battling freezing temperatures too in often inadequate 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 take direct action in the home countries of migrants. again suspects they that email. these are trying to reestablish themselves perhaps as major players in the middle east and africa. you would be you know the 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. real player in the internal affairs of libya in yemen this maybe in africa we cannot see that they would be in all is very important so because of the they are trying to. to really use their role in the middle east. now then this next story has stirred up a lot of opinion that's because two zoos in denmark are asking people to donate

their unwanted pets to feed the lines and tigris we're not doing a tour for people way to kill that. we do it because we need the animals people are emotional so we spend a lot of time telling them what is about to happen i think people would prefer something meaningful rather than just having them put down and incinerated and hawkins talk to the animal rights activists many big hatching users say that zoos care more about their revenues than they do their actual animals. this does happen make sure. you know we do see. a lot of documentaries surely that just. shows that. pyramid of. you know of food of the food chain of course it is and you know there's i'm not suggesting otherwise i'm not suggesting that that doesn't happen in nature but what

i'm saying is that when you are the guardian for an animal there is 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 so 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 their institutions they care about making money at the expense of their welfare and their well being how would you propose that people deal with pets that. you know crippled or are going to die soon perhaps die in pain anyway albeit model of a st i mean surely this is just give people another option as to what to do with the super house you know have been loved and looked off to come to the end of the natural life cycle i have three cats myself who are very loved him very well looked after and when the time comes when their lives are clearly over then i will ensure

that their humanely euthanized so that they never have to suffer for a day in their lives and most people who have animals who are responsible guardians would do the same because to be honest the thought of taking my cats to a zoo so that they can be torn apart by lions that is the most grotesque idea and i'm sure that most people who have animals whether it's cats or rabbits or dogs or any other animal that they share their home with who they consider to be part of their family would feel the exact same way. switzerland may not be a member of the european union but its president wants to hold a referendum on her country's relationship with brussels. a fundamental referendum would help switzerland clarify its relationship with the european union the bilateral part is important we have to know in which direction to go. switzerland and brussels fell out last week when the e.u. decided to set a one year limit on swiss stock exchanges access to the

e extending it they will now depend on whether there's progress in negotiating a so-called framework treaty between them switzerland is not an e.u. member but it is part of the visa free travel area known as the shang in zone and it does have strong economic ties 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 when we discuss the referendum idea with the euro skeptic swiss people's party which currently how was 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 reconnect our financial center so we have to sleep for 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 you're watching our senior national thanks be company today we'll have more news at the top of the.

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i build everything with stories because i make a lot of mistakes. and it's easy to back out your mistakes in compton south central l.a. a pint sized idea has some as in a battle with city off already so when you have nothing in order to go. you know having something like this may as well be a castle. the mayor of los angeles has declared the city is in the midst of a homelessness crisis. is trying to solve it one tiny house at a time the tiny house idea is very simple it's shelter. food water and shelter are not optional they're required for human survival so it's a. temporary solution and like the first stone a foundation if you will to helping people who are homeless. according to elvis these cheap and portable tiny homes a meant to be on the.