life among the ruins artie's latest report from inside mosul hears from locals themselves about surviving in this city five months after being liberated from isis . but i need my daughter doesn't want to go to school because she's afraid and we came back here my son would vomit every morning out of fear they are psychologically scarred for life. coming up to 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 rejected donald trump's decision on jerusalem status will follow that up. and up the texts if your home is being spied on or not as being developed by the surveillance will still blow edward snowden but what it revealed a little bit to perch stay with us to find out. and former us soldiers join the clean up campaign to protect the japanese rain forest it's been polluted for decades by the american military. by very good afternoon my name is kevin and it's just in to in the afternoon here in moscow thanks for watching r.t. international and hope the christmas is going good as well if you're still celebrating it so it's more than five months since the second largest city was.

brayton for my sil but there's precious little for the people of mosul to return to in this latest report from the city our senior correspondent laura goes to 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 yet despite this people are coming back to live here in los soften not out of choice. where can we go through hard times tired. what can we do it's all fate it's our fate how are you all of 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 desperately. module me my home is destroyed my

shop is destroyed i'm borrowing money just to feed my family i'm going to some i can't 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 per airstrike 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 anything the local garrison division five shares its food with the locals and and showed up and handed out blankets but that eat no one else has helped now you might have a good if you don't want to fish are 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. these isn't life it is a grim existence imagine spending your days salvaging couple wire to feed your family at eleven years of age kill it while we go and sell it one kilo's half a dollar a year old get over the market i don't have money mart. what else is there to do in mosul watch a seven was and still don't look all of everything and i mean that if he ever thought that it can. get. 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 their psychologically scarred for life you know what they have seen as horrifying starvation killing this generation will never forget how do you model 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 my god many thousand this year roughly without these two hoots walked they were so weak we called they took them away. it will take you no 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. sometimes i would. 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. recent investigation by the associated press agency from the up to eleven thousand civilians were killed during the battle for mosul but 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 us about the difficulties mosul residents of facing now we have managed to rehabilitate a water plant that's providing water to one hundred thousand people but with 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 order 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 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 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. also today the un is facing having nearly three hundred million dollars less in its pockets over the next couple of years and the us ambassador nikki haley didn't mince words over the reasons why the budget is being cut. the inefficiency and overspending of the united nations a well known we will no longer let the generosity of the american people be taken advantage of or remain and checked this historic reduction in spending in addition to many of the moves towards a more efficient and accountable un is

a big step in the right direction your 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 it's 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 u.s. peacekeeping budget with more than three billion in annual payments so these funding cuts now 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 others 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 u.n. we ourselves have a legitimate expectation that our good will 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 read a vote against us will serve. we don't care just about everything that ambassador haley has done since assuming pause as being contrary to the spirit of the u.n. charter i don't quite and diplomatic tool here in north of war diplomacy complete tact packed list tactfulness this. without any sense of new once saw disco no crude language of threat and punishment use against solving nations and so forth this really hurts the uses image and career. debility war wide and united states is not helping itself by having someone to a prison in at the united nations who saw undiplomatic and for into the spirit of the united nations. where the party goes wrong dramatic pictures to show you there

from a traditional christmas eve fireworks display in central cuba left spectators running for cover after a pair of tennis explosion dozens of people are injured some seriously am fine. it's not yet know what went wrong at the annual festival which takes place every christmas eve in the trucks thousands of locals and visitors all of twenty was seriously hurt in the huge explosions there six children are also among the injured to the town's district usually compete to see which can stage the most spectacular display but you see it's a horribly. i. tell you next about an app which lets you know if your home is being snooped on it's been developed by american whistleblower and his violence campaign or edward snowden it works on android devices and can spot shadowy electronic intrusion pearlie but it had said 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 and makes it harder to. see the raids search. without getting. the streets kind of. more people watch a crackdown. will i. say let's take a closer look you simply install haven on any android phone and your device tens 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 when it'll instantly start recording it 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 and you'll receive encrypted a let's. keep you safe but it can be exploited i can have a good site if there is 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 know being stalked by a jealous ex spouse or spouse even there's a potential as you be hijacked as well to keep it so i mean well until it reaches i think has closed it's of software within it so it'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 asking journalists to place their phones in hotel fridges to stop for oil would be snape is so isn't set and whether this app will create a physical space you can trust or make you more power annoyed of the device lying x t b y at the spy next door. former u.s. soldiers have seen for themselves the effects of decades of pollution caused by the american military and the japanese island of okinawa the joined local environmental campaigners to document the damage to the rain forest there and to try to get u.s. forces to clean up their act.

in or training or training any trash or take out we're. going to get the minutes. from the. area. but from the woods. this is the way you come off to avoid. some. of the more yeah you don't know if you deny. these camouflage so much it's really hard to find their own ease when they're much easier. if you're the one it is. going to do us marines behave that this in their own country or do they just act like this because it's. well two of the u.s. soldiers who were taking part in the ok now the campaign said the u.s. is it different to the environmental problems it causes alison 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 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 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 the 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 the rain forests should ultimately come down to the people who live in or near that rain forest so say take that 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. 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 us gets away with

a lot of environmental issues it's come to a time when exposed to the absolute moscow times thanks to watch him plenty more to come on the way that julian assange has disappeared should twitter and why the mystery was further fueled by the us navy stories ahead with me today. twenty eight seen what will 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 point to their strategic reserves some banks possibly in 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. again also as recently sworn in chancellor says the eaves migrant relocation quota policies are not helping solve the refugee crisis sebastian because believes the problem should be handled in the 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

sweden they should be held in safe areas in their own continent the e.u. should support that perhaps even organize it and back it militarily they've been similar calls in the past from other european leaders to the cause including the consideration of overseas military operations to try to stem the flow of migrants just last month the french president proposed military action to put an end to people trafficking in libya but some believe it's an approach that is deeply flawed is. from the damascus center a strategic study. to send european union troops or european armies to protect these. very. safe zones i think it's not practical in first of all these arms would 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 of various 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 is a story in africa and i don't think that this is a good approach or check out these pictures that to show just how desperate some of these migrants have become here these guys across in the alps from italy to try to get into france battling freezing temperatures this time of year and often inadequate clothing to try and seek a better life further up in europe with little sign that the flow is going to end any time soon european leaders are increasingly putting forward ideas than to take direct action in the home countries of migrants. suspects e.u. members are trying to reestablish them so. as major players in the middle east and africa you've been 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 became not a. player. first off libya in yemen this maybe in africa we cannot see that they are all is very important so because of that they are trying to. to review their role in the middle east next what's going on with julian assange a peculiar twenty four hours on his twitter account first the wiki leaks founder secant temporally disappeared there was some cryptic message then in a tweet from the u.s. navy well get to the bottom of all this i'm not the wise latina coach never a correspondent. well julian assange just twitter account mysteriously disappeared for several hours on christmas day and this is what anyone trying to

read his tweets was faced with for much of the day an error message saying sorry that page does not exist if you're not familiar with twitter this page appears only when an account is deleted rather than if it's been suspended by either twitter or the account owner sanchez timeline has since been resort but there's been no explanation from either twitter or mr asuncion but that's not the end of the story because also that day conspiracy theorists had a field day with this tweet from the u.s. navy just who were julian a son shorten in speech marks well that tweet disappeared as swiftly as it appeared but it was up long enough for people to take a screen grab the navy's actual nation was that one of their twitter team and advertently post posted these seemingly mysterious tweet and then delete it the

navy claims the mistake occurred during a routine morning touring of trending topics we can also made of a graph arranged to the u.s. navy but summarize that despite all the excitement a jewel in the sun just situation remains the same. there's still more question as to is to a lot of opinion because to zoos in denmark or we're told for people way to kill that. we do it because we need. people who 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 so you holcomb's talk to animal rights activists choose says zoos care more about the revenue than they do their animals. this. you know we do see. a lot of documentaries surely about just how.

pyramid 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'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 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 they're institutions that care about making money at the expense of their welfare and their well being how would you propose that people deal with. you know crippled or going to die soon perhaps die in pain anyway albeit model of a street i mean surely this is just giving people other option as to what to do

with a super be loved and looked off to come to the end of the natural life cycle when i have three cats myself who are very locked in very well looked after and when the time comes when their lives are clearly over then i will ensure that they're 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. thanks for watching. this bill that it .

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