because. of from from. three pm from moscow life among the ruins artie's latest report from inside mosul fears for locals themselves surviving in this city vive months after being liberated from isis. but i need my daughter who 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 of their psychologically scarred for life. head to the u.n. gets its financial wings clipped is the u.s. agrees a significant cutting contributions it follows threats to pull funding after members comprehensively rejected donald trump's decision on jerusalem status. and up the tax if your home is being spied on is being developed by the whistleblower

edward snowden were years could have revealed a little too much for find out later in the program. former u.s. soldiers join the cleanup campaign to protect japanese rain forest that's been polluted for decades by the american military. to do for me kevin only if it is true didn't have you around the world is still enjoying christmas day is going good it's now of course tuesday boxing day if you're celebrating it all right well our top story then it's more than five months since the ranks second largest city was liberated from eisel but there's precious little for the people of mosul to return to in his latest report from the city our senior correspondent lourdes reveals the grim reality of life 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 body. yet despite this people are coming back to live here and low self and not out of choice. when iraq where can we go through hard times tired only god knows what can we do it's all fate it's off fight how 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. 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 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 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're right i could see you don't want to fish all sitting behind tables and stealing while leaving us without help we will never vote for them they left us to choose between isis and death. this isn't life it is a grim existence imagine spending your days salvaging copper wire to feed your family at eleven years of age. it would go in one kilo is half

a dollar. a month i don't have money mart. what else is there to do in mosul watch the seven was and still don't look all of everything injured. that if she 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 they are psychologically scarred for life you know what they have seen as horrifying starvation killing this generation will never forget. 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 by god many thousands. this year roughly two thousand two

hundred ninety one hundred. thousand all these houses and their families on the need them and not just that many will help knowing that the 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. 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 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 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. good in the town would you 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 them. recent investigation by the associated press agency fact found eleven thousand civilians

were killed during the battle for mosul that's 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 now that residents are facing in mosul. 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 ways mosul but one principal came to us and asked us to remove did bodies from his school before we could do that and there are also unexploded order forms and ordinances 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 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. the un is facing over nearly three hundred million dollars less in these 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 other moves towards a more efficient and accountable un is a big step in the right direction you are 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 in five to 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 annual payments so 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 at the end of the nine members including the u.s. voted against the resolution one hundred twenty eight of the supported it the u.s. is trying to pressure you have members were threats ranging from cutting aid to taking the major of those supporting that was aleutian. 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 they take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars and then they vote against us while we're watching those votes let them vote against us will serve a lot. we don't care just about everything that ambassador has done since

assuming pause as being contrary to the spirit of the u.n. charter as being quite and diplomatic to the very north. sea complete attack packed list attack for listeners. without any sense of new once saw disco no crude language of threat and punishment use against nations and so forth this really hurts the uses image and credibility of war wide and united. this is not helping by hiring someone to a prison in the united nations who saw undiplomatic and for into the spirit of the united nations no excuse for their own or well enough to know if your home is being snooped on has been developed by american whistleblower and his surveillance company road snowden it works on android devices that can spot a shadowy electronic intrusion primarily but as he explains next it might also

reveal a few things you might want to keep what 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 for valence and this time it's in the form of an app he has created a personal security system in the hope of empowering journalists and activists to secretly monitor their possessions and how the very fitting name meet haven. makes it harder to. really search. without getting. the streets kind of. more people want to crack down. with 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 conversation 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 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 it and then go to the police it can have a bad side because you much you know being stalked by a jealous ex spouse or spouse and there's a potential i presume for it to be hijacked as well tickets one will enjoy it which is what 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 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 snippets so it's uncertain 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 whacked the spy next door. when we were soldiers and seen for themselves the affects of decades of pollution caused by the american military and the japanese island of okinawa they joined local environmental campaigners them to document the damage to the rainforest there to try to get u.s. forces to clean up their ugly. inner training or training any trash or take out would. be

like the minute. out of the from the world. to the. point. i don't. like 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 okinawa. well two of the former u.s. soldiers who are taking part in the uk in our campaign said the u.s. is indifferent to the environmental problems that caused. i was in ok now because we had a delegation there. 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 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 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 for ice 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. up next when the party goes wrong dramatic pictures

to show yet another from a traditional christmas eve what should have been far worse display in central cuba that less spectators running for cover huge panic there after a pyrotechnic explosion that's the understatement dozens of people were injured some seriously. it's not quite know what went on but obviously something called something else a light at this annual festival which takes place every christmas eve in the trucks thousands of locals and visitors more than twenty was seriously hurt in explosions six children rose from around the injured to the town's districts usually compete to see which can stage the most spectacular display as you say and you can see yourself it all went terribly wrong. so it was your county not international that want to come with me kevin owen this afternoon all the way then surely the songes disappearance from twitter and why the mystery was further fueled by the us navy is

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all middle of the room sick. i get what a peculiar twenty four hours on twitter for julian assange is that first the wiki leaks founder secant temporarily disappeared then there was a cryptic tweet from the u.s. navy which really added the confusion get to the bottom of it all across put it in a coach in a villain. christmas morning our rives son julian assange just twitter account mysteriously disappears while this is what anyone trying to rebias tweets was faced with for much of the day an error message saying story that page does not exist well if you're not familiar with twitter that only appears when an account is it's rather than if it's been suspended by either twitter or the account owner the

vanishing act didn't go unnoticed by others on twitter and that's when the fear is began to circulate about what might have happened to us on just account. songs when he was prepping to drop something. trying to protect his drug of information. because he exposed the democrats and the clinton family but i believe. it's true julian assange is going next really significant development wouldn't want to be hillary clinton right now. there's a conspiracy theorist rush. twitter merry christmas people. but that's not the end of the story because also that day the

u.s. navy fueled the conspiracists with this tweet just two words julian assange written speech marks well that tweet was deleted asked swiftly as it appeared but it was up long enough for people to take a screen grab the neighbor's explanation was that one of their twitter team and advertently posted during a routine monitoring of trending topics before taking it down again not everyone was convinced by that explanation though we get a maid of vague reference to the us navy but concluded by saying that despite all the excitement jordan a son just situation remains the same. despite some auditors from the us navy and twitter today and increased physical surveillance to learn songs physical situation at the embassy remains to north it can find without charge in violation of two un rulings requiring the u.k. to set him free

a centrist timetable was timeline rather was later we stored but there's been no explanation from either twitter or mr assange sounds suspect that here was some suspect that he was being prevented from making new earth shattering revelations while others claim that their restored accounting looks suspiciously different from the one that was temporarily taken down. austria as recently sworn in chancellor says these migrant relocation quota policies are not helping solve the refugee crisis sebastian kurtz 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 held in safe areas in their own continent the e.u. should support that perhaps even organize it and back it militarily. the principal cause of 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 for instance but some believe it's an approach that's deeply flawed his bassam abu abdullah from the damascus center of strategic studies to send european troops or european armies to abort their. very. safe zones i think it's not practical in first of all these armies would be involved in the internal affairs of this country 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. this is a good approach with these pictures to show just how desperate some of these migrants have become these guys we've seen here people crossing the alps from italy to try to get to france for the north battling freezing temperatures this time of year an often inadequate clothing to try and seek a better life in europe but with little sign that the flow is going to end any time soon european leaders then are increasingly putting forward ideas to try to take direct action in the home countries of migrants but. again suspects e.u. members in fact are trying to reestablish themselves as major players in the middle east and africa to do it. you would be. feeding the bad. outside of the political settlement now example outside. they started to go shit against libya then became not.

first off libya. yemen. maybe in africa we can all see that. all is very important so because of the they are trying to. do a review of their role in the mid east thanks for watching this latest live. here at the moscow h.q. but with the next update for you would. seem wrong. just. yet to shake

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