among the ruins of his latest report from inside mosul hears from locals about surviving in the city five months after being liberated from islamic states. and you know. i think i'm going to be. able to walk you. also this hour the u.n. gets its financial wings clipped as the u.s. agrees a significant cuts in contributions this follows threats to pull funding off the members comprehensively rejected donald trump's position on jerusalem status. jewish m.p.r. . way from gaza to visit bad. israeli jails.

international live from moscow and i know holkins wherever you are today thanks so much for joining us today on program. it's more than five months since iraq's second largest city was liberated from my soul but there is precious little for the people of mosul to return to and his latest report from the area feels the grim reality of life today there are things you have to believe. 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 these people coming back to live here and low self and not out of choice.

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 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 their normal baro not overlook the know how alone i still believe no one i don't know what they don't want donna no one marked no no no. no no no not the night. 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 she's a little hungry i'll get a lot of you know i'm not here to another citizen not. what else is there to do in mosul watch the symbolism to still it don't look hollow questions that picture i mean that if. that it can. be for. these children have been through hell and you are going to have jani have to fight and to hell and of sia oh and you know god that you want it is why i do we'll madea minimum call galbi mamak done to you and 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 is the gulag michel if you want to come but here. this year roughly two thousand five hundred ninety nine times me thought i was. alone in. the if not the smell then hunger if not that then the dormant bombs if not then isis. five months since they declared victory school it's walked around with pistols in their hands drawn and cocked ready for isis hideaways.

goal. of. the. 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 hided. much of. 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 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 and always in refugee council's media coordinator in iraq told us more about the difficulties mosul residents have to face. 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 bombs 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 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 of its pockets over the next couple of years and the us ambassador nikki haley certainly didn't mince her words over the reasons why the budget is 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 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. members agreed to the new budget on sunday it was capped at five point four billion dollars the united states makes the largest

contribution owing to the size of its economy is responsible for twenty two percent of the payments to the main budget contributing more than a billion dollars over the last two years the us also accounts for nearly a third of the un's peacekeeping budget with more than three billion in annual payments or funding cuts come just days after the un overwhelmingly voted to reject donald trump's the solution to recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital 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 names of those supporting the resolution. when we make generous contributions to the u.n. we also have a legitimate expectation that our goodwill 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 leveled against us will serve a lot we don't care just about everything. haley has done since assuming paul's has been contrary to the spirit of the u.n. charter has been quite undiplomatic to the very notion of war diplomacy complete tact packed list for listeners. without any sense of new once saw disco no cool language of threat and punishment use against sovereign nations and so forth this really hurts the uses image and credibility of war why you notice this is not helping him by having someone representing the united nations who saw undiplomatic and for into the spirit of the united nations. and other headlines it's been a peculiar twenty four hours on twitter for julian assad's first the wiki leaks

founder as a cow temporarily disappeared there was a cryptic tweet from the u.s. navy of all cults getting to the bottom of all this for us. 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 vanishing acted and go unnoticed by other so on twitter and that's when theories began to sir. wait about what might have happened to us account. twitter band you know songs when he was prepping to drop something big twitter trying to protect his drop of information. of twitter because he dared to expose the democratic party and the

clinton crossed family i believe we can say without a shadow of a doubt the d.n.c. . had him. if true julian assange is going dark is an extremely significant development wouldn't want to be hillary clinton right now. 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 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 sound side it simply didn't wash while others felt that someone and the u.s. navy might have been giving a cry for how to join and we also made a vague reference to the us navy but it concluded by saying that despite all the excitement julian assange just a situation remains the same. despite some oddities from the u.s. navy and twitter today grist physical surveillance songs physical situation of the embassy remains on all 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 mistress some suspect that he was being prevented from making new earth shattering rather lesions while others claim that

the restored account looks suspiciously different from the one that was temporarily taken down. this really has been filmed sheltered in souls of palestinians as they were all the way from gaza to visit relatives in israeli jails just before the tweeted a photo of himself with an israeli flag so i had come to confront the families of what he described as animals. well the jewish parliament has refused so far at least to comment on the incident the firebrand behind the stunt already has and says he was trying to garner support for a new bill that would prevent palestinian families from visiting prisoners in israel

he staged the numerous published the stance before. who's a member of the prime minister benjamin netanyahu who's likud party first gained notoriety with a godfather style political ules are trying to discredit a left wing enzio by creating a false identity in order to provide made up testimony and he wants threaten to execute the found money over an alleged palestinian criminal in a facebook video and more recently he violated protocol by taking an unplanned selfie with a visit to israel in may and joining me to visit israel in may and joining me live now is i want to sit in code from the international committee of the red cross in israel i don't know thanks for coming on the program having seen the footage there pretty shocking to a lot of people i mean what's your reaction to. the behavior in the video. we're very concerned about this incident of course because. what we try to do we try to keep that unit from released is there a lot more in prisons and gentle rejecting human dignity of

a human here an organization that is extremely important to us so people being treated these trading insults at one of the masses that we provided to them to be able to going to visit their families is something that is acceptable because there were elderly are there were children and there were lots of women and that so that is why we call on these right now for rightists who how classes are how most assure that this isn't gonna happen in the future we're yet to hear a comment from the press service of the israeli parliament so i suppose people who would defend this would say this is perhaps a one off or it has and perhaps is. normally among parliamentarians but of to your knowledge does this sort of thing happen often in israel is anything being done to prevent harassment of palestinians who just want to visit their relatives in prison we organize these visits regularly this is a problem that we have had for p.t.s.

or can i see this it's for the palestinian families to be there is a family member i'm not aware of other incidents that happened to one of the same nature but still nevertheless this is an important incident to last and we try to do everything possible that to make sure that these type of incident will not happen in the future. and he also says he wants israeli soldiers who have been captured in gaza to be returned back to the israeli territory is that of corporation from the palestinian side on this issue of prisoner exchanges on both sides. there have been barriers so like football in different conflicts that took place between that israeli side and between hamas there are several there are people missing people like that there are missing israelis and also missing palestinians and sure as a humanitarian you're going to say show me the missing of the families well the

missing people one of the utmost priorities and we've been calling on the authorities of all science to respect their obligation not to think to national humanitarian law and do everything possible to provide the family something missing in essence with the economy about their family members because for the family who spends yes not knowing what happened to the fate of their loved one that being. just expiring all the interview a little bit to go off topic but there has been a lot of. a lot of disorder in the region because of the jerusalem decision taken by donald trump in the last few weeks it's about three weeks that's been ongoing now just tell us a bit about the situation without all things calling down there now and what's the red cross the to facilitate reaching those who perhaps been injured in those clashes and to facilitate again as we said prisoner exchanges. well the decision is

that it is a political decision so it was like as a humanitarian organization i don't think that we are in a good position to make comments about something that he said lightly at politico and if i might. with regards to what sarah and cross have been doing out of the national we collaborate with national societies with that he's out with mike in the way that dull. red crescent society and the situation with different cultures that have ranks at its most well his kenyan red crescent society that has been in bolt so they have been out evacuee to people to hospital you know in their own. ok alone a student or international committee of the red cross in israel thanks so much for giving that update of what's going on on the ground thanks for your time tonight. now i would snowden has developed an app to detect if your home was being spied on but it could actually backfire laurel not just after

a short break. but politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or something want to listen. to the right person this is what the three of the more people are. interested always in the washington. twenty. c. are central banks big oil into 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 bed as well and they can 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. else true as recently sworn in chancellor says the use migrant relocation quotas are not helping solve the refugee crisis sébastien curt's believes the problem should be handled in the arguments own home countries migrants who sit still for europe don't want to go to bulgaria are hungry they want to go to germany austria with sweden they should be hilton 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 last month the french

president proposed minutes reaction to put an end to people traffic in libya but some would even approach the people who floored here. from the damascus center of strategic studies he gave us his take on how to tackle the crisis. to send european troops or european armies to protect these. virtual 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 local people will be may be negatively they will lose a lot of. soldiers first so i think to be engaged in internal a verse of any account you would it would be reflecting 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 just how desperate some migrants are crossing the alps from italy to reach france battling freezing temperatures and often inadequate clothing to try and seek a better life in europe with little sign that the flow will end any time soon as we've just said the european leaders are increasingly willing to take direct action in margaret's home countries. again suspect members are trying to restart it themselves 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 outside libya they started to go through against libya then they became not a. player in internal affairs of 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. which lets you know if your home is being snooped upon has been developed by american whistleblower surveillance campaign edward snowden it works on android devices and can spot shadow electronic intrusion but as any south you know explains it might also reveal a few things you 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 a house a very fitting name neat haven. makes it harder when citizens

raids search rests without getting. the 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 tends to 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 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 encrypted a let's say about 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 it can have a bad side because you might feel you're being stalked by a jealous ex else or jealous that there's a potential as you be hijacked as well tickets were able to enjoy it which is i think has closed 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 often journalists to place their phones in hotel fridges to stop for oil would be snippets so it's incessant whether this app will create a physical space you can trust or make you more power annoyed of the device lying next to you after you have the spy next door let's all from us for this hour do check out any of our stories on our website www dot to dot com or social media of

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talk forms you'll see a whole series of people linking to their big queen on the block chain saying help i got six hundred big queen there and like twenty ten and they were only worth twenty dollars and i lost the password can somebody help me get these that's amazing it's so biblical in some way you know there's a pilgrimage people go on through their minds trying to find the touchstones of their own lives to unlock the password for the big coin. you know this is going to go on for another guy very like one hundred million dollars in a landfill because it was strapped on as hard drive well actually i was going to mention that he is actually offering now a ten percent to anybody who could help him get his hard drive works in there it'll soon be worth a billion dollars and you know just like i go on treasure hunt and they go down into the deep blue sea looking for hidden treasure and wrecks with lots of gold on their.