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this is out international a welcome to this latest live update from me then kevin now in today it's more than five months since the rocks second largest city was liberated from but there's precious little for the people of mosul to return to in his latest report from the city of 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 spite these people are coming back to live here and low self and not out of choice all the time.

could have and if. i did they enter. when in which. 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 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 their normal borrow not overlook don't know how long i still believe one of them but they don't want donna no one marked no no no. no no no not the no doubt. 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 she's a little hungry i'll get a lot of you know you go to school my mother said i wasn't mad. what else is there to do in mosul to seven was i'm just a little hollow questions that picture for me that if. you keep. these children have been through hell and you are going to have jani have to fight and to hell and it's the oh and you know god that you want it is why do you madea miniscule galbi mound like done to 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's why michel if you want it done. this year roughly two thousand five hundred times me. 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. with a goal mughal one of money. at the death of the.

other it will take you no longer than a few minutes to find isis flags or propaganda weapons. or unexploded bombs body east tunnels is one of the tunnels that isis used to move in and around the city for hided. sometime would. matter. the world has forgotten mosul it's out of fashion no longer trendy and locals have a well founded suspicion that this was never about saving them. the recent investigation by the associated press agency from 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 the norwegian refugee council's media coordinator in iraq told us more about the difficulties mosul residents face 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 and waste most all 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 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 an 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 that. un is facing over nearly three hundred million dollars less in his pockets over the next couple of years and there are some busta nikki haley didn't mince words over the reasons why the budgets big cuts either. 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 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 united states makes the largest contribution indeed 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 and worth noting to the us also accounts for nearly a third of the un's peacekeeping budget with more than three billion in annual payments funding cuts come just days after the u.n. overwhelmingly voted to reject all traumas decision to recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital in the end only nine members including the u.s. voted against the resolution while one hundred twenty eight other 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 when we're watching those votes out of or 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 has been quite an diplomatic foray into the very notion of war diplomacy complete tact packed less tactful listeners and without any sense of new once saw this kind of cool language of threat and punishment use against solving 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 to a prison in the united nations who saw undiplomatic and for into the spirit of the united nations. it's been a peculiar twenty four hours on twitter for julian assange if you've been following it first the wiki leaks founder the current temporary disappeared then there was a cryptic tweet from the u.s. navy about it getting to the bottom of what's going on than our correspondent within the culture of. christmas morning arrives and julian assange just twitter

account mysteriously disappears well 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 well if you're not familiar with twitter that appears only when an account is deleted rather than if it's been suspended by either twitter or the account owner the vanishing act didn't go on notice to by other sun twitter and that's when theories began to circulate about what might have happened to us account. twitter songs when he was prepping to drop something. trying to protect his drug of information. because he exposed the democrats and the clinton crossed family. shot over. how

to. if true julian the sun going dark is next really significant development wouldn't want to be hillary clinton right now. conspiracy theorists rush to post attention seeking. twitter 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 a son written and speech marks that tweets was deleted 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 sounds that it simply didn't wash. while

others felt that sound one and the u.s. navy might have been giving a cry for how to juliana sanch we also made a vague reference to the u.s. navy but it concluded by saying that despite all the excitement joanna sanchez the situation remains the same. despite some auditors from the u.s. navy and tweeted today and grist physical surveillance dylan songs physical situation of the embassy remains on north to confined without charge in violation of two un rulings requiring the u.k. to set him free. as i just timeline was later resorted to but there has been no explanation from either twitter or mr asuncion sounds suspect that he was being prevented from making new earth shattering gravelly actions while others claim that the restored account looks suspiciously different from the one that was temporarily taken down. former us soldiers

a sing for themselves the effects of decades of pollution caused by the american military and the japanese island of okinawa they joined local environmental companies in fact to document the damage to the rain forest there to try to get u.s. forces to clean up their act. or training or training any trash or take out would. be like the minute. you get. out of the summer would. be the. point.

in any. life so much it's really hard thing they're useful and they're much easier. to get the money to. do us marines behave that this in their own country or do they just add like it is because it's all canara to the former u.s. soldiers who are taking part in the okinawa campaign so the u.s. is indifferent to the environmental problems it's caused. i was in okinawa 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 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 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 the 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 us 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 that it's simple for head that edward snowden has developed an app to detect if you hope he's being spied on not book could it but maybe reveal more than you'd hoped to find out after the break. here's what people have been saying about redacted in the navy seals is actually just full on awesome the only show i go out of my way to launch

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that would let you know if your home is being snooped on is being developed by american whistleblower and i'm two surveillance company in rhode snowden who works for my own droid voices the moment shadowy electronic could tradition apparently but works as an issue so if the reports it could also reveal a few things maybe you are one of the key quote 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 a house a very fitting name neat haven and makes it harder to. see this really search rests without getting.

the streets 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 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 and it'll instantly start recording and make cash 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 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 proof and then get the police. it can have a bad side because you might feel being stalked by a jealous ex south or jealous spell think there's a potential i presume for it to be hijacked as well ticket it's running on android which i think has closed bits of software within it so there's always a plus is mine if it is new technology 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 the oil would be snippets so it's uncertain whether their apps 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. austria's recently sworn in chancellor says the e.u.'s margaret relocation quotas are not helping solve the refugee crisis sebastian kurtz believes the problems should be handled in fact 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 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 been some of the calls of the past from other european leaders to just last month the french president proposed military action to put an end to people trafficking in libya but some believe it is an approach that is deeply flawed here's the thoughts of bassem abu abdullah he's from the damascus center of strategic studies to send european troops or european armies to. very. think it's not practical in person for these armies would be involved in the internal affairs of this country and there you are shooting from the law people will be may be new to flee and they will lose the lot of. soldiers first so i think

to be engaged in in terms of the. as 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 is a story in africa and. this is a good approach these pictures show just how desperate some of these migrants are this guy here crossing the alps from italy to reach france battling freezing temperatures of these people have inadequate clothing to in all trying to get to a better place for the north a better life in europe with little sign though that that flow will end any time soon as we just said european leaders are increasingly willing to take direct action in migrants home countries but some abu abdullah again suspects even members are trying to reestablish themselves to do that and as major players in the middle east and africa. you have been you know the feeling that they are.

outside of the political settlement now example and here they are outside in libya they started to go through against libya then they became not a. player in the internal affairs of libya in yemen they say and maybe in africa we cannot see their deals or all is very important so because of that they are trying to. do very new their all in the mid east next when a party goes so badly wrong a traditional christmas eve fireworks display in central cuba has ended in a big tragedy dozens of people including children seriously injured in a pyrotechnics explosion one from for. restoration still on the way they still don't know what caused this to go so badly

wrong at the annual around us festival it's an event that takes place every christmas even attracts thousands of visitors more than thirty was seriously hurt in the explosion some reported to be in a critical condition it's not clear if any tourists were affected by the incident. switzerland may not be a member of the european union but its president was told a referendum on her country's relationship with brussels. a fundamental referendum was helps with sly clarify its relationship with europe in union the bilateral paths important we have to know in which direction to go switzerland to brussels have been arguing since last week when the ija started to set a one year limit on swiss stock exchanges access to the bloc it's extension will now depend on whether there's progress in negotiating a so-called framework treaty between the two sides or the switzerland's not new member of course it is part of the visa free travel area known as the shang and so it's had strong economic ties with the e.u.

there are currently regulated through more than one hundred bilateral accords but maybe there's going to be simplified now by this new framework treaty seems though not all people in switzerland want to do this in a very cautious about establishing closer ties we discussed the referendum idea with a euro skeptic from the swiss people's party that currently holds the majority in parliament there the relations between switzerland and brussels get worse part of the problem is that in the west of the world the boy's carts start to increase unfortunately it looks like the europeans you would you just trying to weaken our financial center so we have to stay firm 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 the same danger is here we get on our

knees too quickly we'll keep track of that story and so many others don't get you can as well r.t. dog home full of what we're doing thanks so much for watching his latest live news update with me kevin owen here in moscow today of course season's greetings from the rest of the team and out international if you're still celebrating right. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. when lawmakers manufacture consent to step into the public well. when the

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