four pm here in moscow this life among the ruins our teams latest report from inside mosul hears from locals about surviving in their own city five months on from being liberated islamics that. daughter doesn't want to go to school because she's afraid and we came back here my son would permit every morning out of fear they are psychologically scarred for life the u.n. gets its financial wings clipped says the u.s. agrees a significant cut in contributions it follows threats to full funding after members comprehensively rejected trump's decision on jerusalem state are. coming up to an app that detects if your home is being spied on has been developed by the surveillance discipline edward snowden but we us could have potentially it

would be much. farther kevin when you're in moscow this choose the twenty six december still celebrating christmas. well for you thanks for watching us and this of this latest thirty minute news update starting with this it's more than five months since the rocks second largest city was liberated for myself but there is precious little for the people of mosul to return to in this latest report from the city our senior correspondent 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 bodies at the spite this people are coming

back to live here in los soften not out of choice. when iraq where can we go through hard times tired only god knows what can we do it's our fate it's our fate . 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 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 sent 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 thing we don't want to officials sitting behind tables and stealing well 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 couple wire to feed your family at eleven years of age. it would go in so it's one kilo is half a dollar. he mad i don't have money mark. what else is there to do in mosul like to seven was and still it don't look all of everything. that it killed

but that if. 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 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 five hundred. homes meet thousands all these houses their families on the need them and not just families with hope no one at the i'm terrified whenever i stumble on

a bomb i lead 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 then 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 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 how you did. that to have the town. 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 the recent investigation by the associated press agency found that up to 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 norwegian refugee council's media coordinator in iraq told us about the difficulties most residents now 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 and waste most all 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 an 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 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. us 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 budgets 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. 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 un's peacekeeping budget to with more than three billion in annual payments now funding cuts come just days course 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. to try to pressure u.n. members with threats ranging from cutting aid to taking the names of those supporting the resolution. general assembly will now resume its consideration of agenda item five entitled illegal 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 when 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 post has been contrary to the spirit of the u.n. charter has been quite an diplomatic foray into the very notion of war diplomacy

complete tact packed less tactful lessness and without any sense of nuance so this kind of crude language of threat and punishment use against soldering nations and so forth this really hurts the uses image and credibility of war why and united states is not helping itself by having someone representing the united nations who is so undiplomatic and for into the spirit of the united nations. particularly twenty four hours on twitter for julian assange first we can leagues found his account temporarily disappeared then there was a cryptic tweet from the u.s. navy about it getting to the bottom of it all across parliament in a coach you never. christmas morning our rives angelina's son just twitter account mysteriously disappears while this is what anyone trying to review his 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 a lead to its 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 accounts. twitter bond you know songs when he was prepping to drop something big twitter trying to protect his drop of information. because he exposed the democratic party and the clinton crossed family i believe we can say without a shadow of a doubt the d.n.c. clinton had. it's true julian the sun going dark is next dreamy significant development wouldn't want to be hillary clinton right now. julian's account

disappears so haters of conspiracy theorists rushed to post the usual attention seeking rubbish twitter merry christmas people. but that's not the end of the story because also that day the us navy fueled the conspiracists with this tweet just two words julian assange has written in 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 it during a routine monitoring of trending topics before taking it down again not everyone was convinced by that explanation though we get exile so made of a graph friends to the us navy but it could include. it's by saying that despite all the excitement jordan a scientist situation remains the same. despite some auditors from the us navy and twitter today and increased physical surveillance to learn the songs physical

situation of the embassy remain so north to confined without charge in violation of two un rulings requiring the u.k. to set him free a centrist timetable was timeline rather was later resort 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. for us soldiers have seen for themselves the effects of decades of pollution caused by the american military in the japanese island of okinawa so the joint local environmental component is there to document the damage to the rain forest and to try as well to get u.s. forces to clean up their act.

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marines behave that this in their own country or do they just act like it is because it's. two of the former us soldiers who are taking part of the okinawa company so the us is indifferent to the environmental problems it causes. i wasn't 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 i 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 open burn pits that is having huge effects on military personnel members and just outright consumption of fossil fuels across the pentagon the ball 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 the environmental issues coming up surveillance was simpler edward snowden has developed an app to detect if you host big spy dell but could have. been fooled before and after the break. here's what people have been saying exactly that the long. the only show i go out of my way to. really packs a punch. is the john oliver of party americans do the same we are apparently better than. the c. people you've never heard of love back to the night president of the world bank.

sent us an email. twenty will see our central banks adding. to their strategic reserves alongside gold so big gold buyers like china and russia will be adding big oil to their strategic reserves saw the banks possibly bad as well and 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 a policy. again thanks watching on t.v. so that an app which lets she know if your home is being snooped on has been developed by american whistleblower and his violence company or edward snowden it

works on android devices apparently can spot shadow electronic intrusion but is an issue seth explains next he 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. secret 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 this really search rests with out getting. streets 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 tens 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 when 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 in court today let's say but 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 there's a potential of his you be hijacked as well tickets where he will enjoy it which is i think has closed to bits of software within it so there's always

a plus month to this 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 a hotel fridge if to stop the oil would be snippets so it's uncertain whether their app will create a physical space you can trust or make you more paranoid of the device lying next year be aware of the spy next door. the president. austria's recently sworn in chancellor says the ease migrant relocation quotas are not helping solve the refugee crisis sebastian kurtz believes the problem should be handled in the migrants home countries instead 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 there's been similar calls in the past from other european leaders too 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 deeply flawed is bassam deller from the damascus center of strategic studies with his thoughts on it to send european troops or european armies to abortive these. very. safe zones i think it's not practical in first of all these arms will be involved in the internal affairs of this country and. from the law people will be may be needed to flee 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. these pictures here showed just how desperate some migrants are these guys crossing the elp slippery from italy trying to reach france this tell me a i'm battling freezing temperatures often with not adequate clothes to try and seek a better life for the north and europe and with little sign that the flow will end any time soon european leaders than are increasingly willing to take direct action it seems in migrants home countries but somehow who are again suspects the members are trying to reestablish themselves as major players in the middle east and africa you have been you know the feeling that they are. outside of their political settlement now example in syria they are outside in libya they started to go through against libya then be a big game not a. player in the internal affairs of libya in

yemen this am and maybe in africa we cannot see that the old piano or all is very important so because of that they are trying to. to very new they are all in the mid east. want to party goes wrong next a traditional christmas eve fireworks display in central cuba ended in big tragedy dozens of people including children seriously injured in this huge pyrotechnics explosion precarious not yet know what actually caused it to go so badly wrong at the annual parameters festival in the event takes place every year christmas eve it attracts thousands of visitors more than thirty was seriously hurt in the explosion some are reported to be in a critical condition it's also not clear if a need to risk were affected by what happened there. so it may not be a member of the european union but its president wants to hold a referendum on

a country's relationship with brussels. fundamental referendum would help us with clarify its relationship with europe in union the bilateral part is important we have to know in which direction to go. so it's going to brussels have been arguing since last week when the e.u. decided to set a one year limit on swiss stock exchanges access to the block its extension will now depend on whether or not there's progress in negotiating a so-called framework treaty between the two sides switzerland not me a member but it is part of the visa free travel area known as the schengen zone it's got strong economic bell they currently regulated through well they're currently regulated through more than one hundred bilateral accords which if it happened would be simplified by this new framework treaty but some people in switzerland very cautious about establishing closer ties we discussed the referee rendered by deal with the euro skeptic from the 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 in the boy's carts start to increase unfortunately it looks like the european union is trying to weaken 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 to quickly keep across the very latest from us twenty four seven on our side r.t. dot com here in moscow today it's kevin always saying thanks for watching this thirty minute live news update but with more another one in half an hour's time.

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