seven pm here in moscow right now in the headlines this hour life among the ruins artie's latest report from inside mosul his from the locals about surviving in this city these days five months on after being liberated from islamic state and get a little hot plate under anesthesia i would you know god that you want to do what do you. call them. and. head to the u.n. gets his 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. and an app that detects if your home is being spied on or not has been developed by the surveillance was a blow or edward snowden but coming up could it may be revealed just

a little bit too much. farther than welcome his latest live news updates martin national with me kevin when you're moscow tonight. it's more than five months since the rocks second largest city was liberated from myself but there's precious little for the people of mosul to return so now you're about to see in its latest report from the city a senior correspondent lourdes reveals the grim reality of life to day 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 the spite. these people are coming

back to live here and most often not out of choice. could have any. advantage. when in. the u.s. led coalition spent all in all more than one 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 showed up and handed out blankets but that eat no one else has helped there no mother oh no overlap the know how alone i still believe not one of them but they know what donna no one marked no no no. no no i'm not i'm not i doubt. 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 she's a little hundred year old get a lot of you know you go to school and climb into the salons and not. what else is there to do in mosul. listen to still don't look hollow questions that picture mean it's achievable to keep. these children have been through hell and you are going to have jani had. if i

don't understand and it's the oh and you know god not you what it is why do you madea minimum call galbi my own work 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. michel if you want to call. this here roughly two thousand five hundred times. 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.

goal mughal one of. the. other it will take you no longer than a few minutes to find isis flags or propaganda weapons. or unexploded bombs bodies tunnels this is one of the tunnels that isis used to move in and around the city for hided. sometimes 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 found the 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 of iraq spoke just total some more about the difficulties mosul residents and i'm facing 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 dead bodies from his school before we could do that and there are also unexploded or balls 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 he says 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 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 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 words either over the reasons why the budgets 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 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 to new budget on sunday capping it at five point four billion dollars the united states does make the

latest contribution the largest contribution by their own 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 worth noting to the u.s. also accounts for nearly a third of the u.s. peacekeeping budget with more than three billion in annual payments so the voting cuts come just days after the un overwhelmingly voted to reject donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital another day only nine members including the u.s. voted against the resolution while one hundred twenty eight others supported it the u.s. is trying 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

right of war 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 and diplomatic to the very notion of war declaw marci complete attack packed list attack for listeners and without any sense of nor once saw discount our crude language of threat and punishment use against soldering nations and so forth this. really thirsty uses image and credibility a wall wide and united states is not helping itself by having someone representing the united nations who so undiplomatic and fall into the spirit of the united nations. it's pretty peculiar twenty four hours on twitter for julian assange if you will following it first the wiki leaks founder is account temporarily disappeared then it was a cryptic tweet from the u.s.

navy about it trying to get part of it all for us our correspondent did a coaching. 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 either side on 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 some. tweets or trying to protect his drop of information. because he exposed the democrats

and the clinton crossed family believe we can say without a shadow over the d.n.c. . how to. if true julian the sun going dark is next really significant development wouldn't want to be hillary clinton right now. can disappear as a conspiracy theorist rush to post the attention seeking. 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 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 some side it simply didn't watch. while others felt that sound one and the u.s. navy might have been giving a cry for how to juliana sanch we can 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 to north to confined without charge in violation of two un rulings requiring the u.k. to set him free. i suggest timeline was later resorted to but there's been no explanation from either twitter or a mistress sounding 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.

from a u.s. soldiers so of seeing for themselves the effects of decades of pollution caused by the american military on the jump of these all the vulcan our joint local environmental campaign is in fact to document the damage to the reagan forest and to try to get us forces to clean up their act. in our training or training any trash or take out would. be like a minute. of the summer would.

you. like so much it's really hard to. use when they're much easier. to get the money to. do us marines behave that this in their own country who want to just act like it is because it's okinawa. well to the full u.s. soldiers who are taking part in the campaign say the u.s. is indifferent to the environmental problems it causes i was in okinawa 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 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 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 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 environs. 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 coming up at a tech to pull for you edward snowden it seems has developed an app to detect if you hope is being spied on but could it. could be a flaw find eighty seconds away. twenty

what will see are central banks having big oil into their strategic reserves alongside gold so big gold buyers like china and russia will be adding big oil to their strategic reserves some 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 of policy.

so than up which lets you know if your home is being snooped on as part of been developed by american whistleblower and his of aliens campaign or edward snowden it works on android devices and it seems it can support shadowy electronic intrusion is the sales pitch anyway and the correspondent explains next that it might also reveal a few things you may want to keep quiet edward snowden has set out to preview capable of much more than leaking n.s.a. secret he's keeping up the fight against digital for vaillant next time it's in the form of an app he's crazy. a personal security system in the hope of empowering journalists and activists to secretly monitor their possessions and how the very

fitting name neat haven. makes it harder when citizens raids search. without getting. scripts is kind of heartening more people watch a crackdown you have to. 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 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 sober up helps keep you safe but it can be exploited i can have a good site if there was domestic abuse going on for example and you want to record proof and then go to the police it can have a bad side because you might feel you're being stalked by a jealous ex south or jealous spouse even there's a potential i presume for it to be hijacked as well tickets were able to enjoy it which is i think has closed to bits of software within it so there'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 snooping so it's incessant whether this 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. austria's recently sworn in chanceless as

the ease migration relocation quotas are not helping to solve the refugee crisis supposed to curt's believes the problem should in fact 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 they have been similar calls in the past from other european leaders 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 this deeply flawed to his bus. from the damascus central 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 needed to flee and 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 the story in africa and india this is a good approach but especially at this seasonal time just a snapshot of what one person is going through here just how desperate some of these migrants are this guy's crossing the alps from italy to reach france battling freezing temperatures often with inadequate clothes this time of year and seeking a better life in europe simply with little sign that that flows going to end any time soon as we just said european leaders know it looks like increasingly willing

to take direct action in migrants home countries but some do delany's thoughts again about that he suspects e.u. members are trying to reestablish themselves in those major players in the middle east and in africa you have been you know. the are 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 this maybe in africa we cannot see that below their all is very important so because of that they are trying to. to carry new their all in the middle east. next the part of it went so badly wrong a traditional christmas the fireworks display in central cuba check these pictures out has ended in tragedy with dozens of people including children seriously injured

in a pyrotechnics explosion come from . such a mess that we still don't know they say what went wrong at the annual around this festival it so that takes place every christmas eve the trucks thousands of visitors there are reports up to thirty nine were injured there some of the critical condition it's not clear for the tourists were caught up in what went. switzerland may not be a member of the european union but its president wants to hold a referendum number less on a country's relationship with brussels now a fundamental rough run to reach helps with sly clarify its relationship with europe in union the bilateral part of some port and we have to know in which direction to go. switzerland of brussels have been arguing since last week when the eve decided to set a one year limit on swiss stock exchanges access to the bloc it's extension would

now depend on whether or not there's progress in negotiating a so-called framework treaty between the two sides or the switzerland's not remember who just said it's part of the visa free travel area known as the shanghai it's also got strong economic ties with the e.u. they're currently regulated through more than one hundred bilateral accords which could be simplified by this new framework treaty if it happened but some people in switzerland a very cautious about establishing closer e.u. ties we discussed the referendum idea with the euro skeptic from the swiss people's party which currently holds the majority in parliament there the relations between switzerland and brussels get worse part of the problem is that in the west in the world in the boy's carts start to increase unfortunately it looks like the european union is trying to reclaim 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 to seem dangerous here we get on our knees too quickly. well so for me tonight thanks so much for watching this latest live update from moscow i'm kevin i will be watching on to international interest a quick season's greetings for me in the rest of the team if you're still celebrating hope it's going good thanks for watching. i'm twenty one through and through any wasn't. anyone i. mean a little bit of a bit of a belly. i. was

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