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are just gone nine pm here in the russian capital you're watching. thanks for joining us tonight. now it's been more than five months now since iraq's second largest city was liberated from islamic state but there's precious little for the people of mosul to return to in his latest report from the city for viewers 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 to.

do i didn't. have any. issue i did they enter a little when in which i. do it and money. 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 and showed up and handed out blankets but that's eat no one else has helped then your mother oh no don't know how long i still believe no

one i don't know what they were what donna no one marked no no no. no no no not to my dad. 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 just a little hungry i'll get a lot of you know imagine another citizen not. what else is there to do in mosul watch the seventies and just do it don't look hollow questions that picture i mean that if they have a place that it can. take 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 minimus hauled away galbi my own work 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 michele if you want to come but. you know why i. thought this year roughly two thousand five hundred ninety nine times me thought i was. alone in our. lives if not the smell then hunger if not that then the dormant bombs if not then isis. five months since they declared victory scoots walked around with pistols in their hands drawn and cocked ready for isis hideaways.

at the. other 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 high did. sometimes would. matter. the wool does for goats and mosul it's out of fashion no longer trendy and locals have a well founded suspicion that this was never about saving their. recent investigation by the associated press from that up to eleven thousand civilians

were killed during the battle for mosul last time times higher than earlier estimates a third of those were killed by iraqi and u.s. led airstrikes you know we refugee council's media coordinator in iraq told us more about the difficulties mosul residents now face. when they 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 ordnance 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'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 an manageable 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. have social media news now it's sort of been a peculiar twenty four hours for rogers always on twitter first the wiki leaks foreigners account temporarily disappears and that was a pretty cryptic tweet u.s. from the. navy let's get to the bottom of all this now correspondent was it a question about as this report. 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 something. trying to protect his drug of information. because he exposed the democrats and the clinton crossed family i believe we can say without a shadow over doubt the d.n.c. . had. if true julian assange is going dark is next really significant development wouldn't want to be hillary clinton right now. can disappear is a conspiracy theorist rush to post the usual 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 now that. one was convinced by that explanation though some side it simply didn't wash while others felt that sound one and the u.s. navy might have been giving a cry for help to juliana sun she also made a vague reference to the u.s. navy but it concluded by saying that despite all the excitement julian assange situation remains the same. despite some auditors from the u.s. navy and tweeted today and increased physical surveillance dylan song physical

situation at 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 has been no explanation from either twitter or mr a sound 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. just about to our top story the situation in iraq second largest city of mosul reports earlier from our correspondent what guys if they're on the reconstruction efforts we can get more now from the role of iraq or some regional space for the middle east thanks for joining us good to have you on the program it's been more than five months now since mosul was liberated since operations finished obviously any rebuilding process will take

a long long period of time but all people might assume to get their lives back on track. yes good evening daniel sadly we've seen the photos and the images on the in the report earlier this is how the situation is and unfortunately thousands and millions of people around the world are not aware of what's happening in mosul or how the city really looks like. people believe that once the battles are over that the thousands and hundreds of thousands of people who fled mosul and left their homes are able to come back this is extremely wrong the situation today is that hundreds of thousands around five hundred to seven hundred thousands of people who fled mosul are unable to go back because primarily there is extreme and grave danger to their lives when it comes to unexploded remnants of war bombs are everywhere booby traps are

everywhere it is very difficult to go back. because the services the infrastructure has been totally damaged there is no access to clean water in the city there is no health care access and let alone the markets that are needed to feed where people can buy their basic goods that is not there at the moment the problem is that people need to go back to the city of mosul as soon as possible to rebuild it unfortunately there is some sort of. basically the city is forgotten as mentioned in the report and. the humanitarian workers and organizations are working in the city for instance the red cross is back to to the city of mosul we've opened an office there so that we are able to help the people on the ground so that we are able to assess their needs firsthand however just like

my colleague from the norwegian refugee council was saying earlier i have to say that all the humanitarian organizations present in iraq and working in mosul today . they are able to deal with the humanitarian catastrophe that the city has witnessed the city needs a lot of aid and not one single humanitarian organization can really bring what is needed today to most of you mentioned the work that you're carrying out other n.g.o.s as well on the ground in mosul all over iraq as well but what obstacles do you face while working in such a difficult situation what are the main challenges here. main challenges of course is to reach out to the people in need not many people have returned back to mosul the education industry or the sector is also in ruins and there are children who have not been able to go back to school for over three years now and now especially in mosul are back to living in camps in the north east

and the east side of the city there are challenges to bring back the people they want to go back before their houses are rehabilitated we are seeing the footage now on the screen how can they possibly go back when the city has been almost wiped off the face of the earth it's very difficult to go back there is a lot of efforts that needs to be done by all parties involved the authorities and humanitarian organizations to help rebuild the city at least primarily when it comes to infrastructure our part as the international committee of the red cross we have started working with the medical facilities in the city and around the city supporting them with medical supplies and and medicine needed to treat the people who have decided to go back so that they can have close and quick access to medical medical care there is also a really big problem in the city and also it was mentioned in the report the

management of the dead bodies who are lying around the city there are thousands of people who men went missing they may still be under the rubble and for that unfortunately the authorities and the morgues and hospitals that remain and almost barely functioning in the city cannot cope with the amount of dead bodies that are coming in we are also supporting on that front helping the or for it is identify and properly manage the dead that are found in the city if if the dead are left to remain in the city there may be spread of diseases coming soon to the city so that's another challenge that also needs to be taking into consideration. my marilee or saul more importantly is access to water throughout the battle's a lot of pumping water pumping stations are the main stations have been also totally damaged or partially damaged due to extent that they no longer function without water it is certain that disease such as color out with also spread in the

city if people go back without proper access to clean water and certainly sounds like a catastrophic situation and best of luck to the red cross other n.g.o.s in trying to help those desperate people on the ground as best they can to the best of their abilities their red cross spokesman for the middle east thanks for giving us that update on what's going on and most. just go to a short break now do stay tuned for news on negotiations on the north korean crisis as well see after the short break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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an israeli has been filmed shouting insults at palestinians as they made their way from gaza to visit relatives in israeli jails just before that he tweeted a photo of himself with his writing flag saying he'd come to confront the families of what he described as animals. parliament parliament has refused to comment on the incident the firebrand behind the stunt already says he was trying to garner support for a new bill that would prevent palestinian families from visiting prisoners in israel he staged several probably thoughts before as well he's a member of prime minister benjamin netanyahu who's likud party notoriety with

a godfather style political he also tried to discredit a left wing ngo by creating a false identity in order to provide made up testimony he wants threatened to execute the family of an alleged palestinian criminal in a facebook video. or more recently he violated protocol by taking a selfie with the president donald trump during his visit to israel back in may. and the red cross which was escorting the bus from the gaza strip to an israeli prison has blamed the israeli authorities for the incident organizations said it was their duty to ensure the family's safety during the visit i don't a sit in co from the regional red cross told us the incident was unacceptable. protecting human dignity as a humanitarian organization that is extremely important to us so people being treated this way being insulted one of the buses that we provided to them to be able to go and visit their families is something that is acceptable because there were elderly are there were children and there were lots of women on that last so

that's why we call on the israeli authorities still help us help us to shore up their sleeves and the happen in the future there have been various no legs for following different conflicts that took place between the israeli side and between hamas there are several there are people missing people like that there are missing israel his and also missing palestinians and for us as a humanitarian you're going to say ship the plane of the missing or the families of the missing people one of the utmost priorities and we've been calling on the other it is of all saints to respect their obligation not to the international humanitarian law. lapp words lets you know if your home is being snooped on has been developed by american whistleblower these are voters campaign edward snowden that works on android devices that can spot shadow electronic intrusion but as artie's i mean explains that 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. makes it harder to. see distance raids search rests without getting in the. streets is kind of heartening 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 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 be private well 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 that it can be exploited i can have a good site if there is 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 like you being stalked by a jealous ex spouse or jealous spouse even 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 it's always a plus a month 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 the oil would be snoopers 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. now the un is facing having nearly three hundred million dollars less in its pockets over the next couple of years 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 and 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 of the moves towards a more efficient and accountable un is a big step in the right direction and un members agreed the new budget on sunday

capping it at five point four billion dollars the united states makes the largest contribution because of the size of its own economy is responsible for twenty two percent of the payments to the main un budget. contributed more than a billion dollars over the last two years it also accounts for nearly a third of the un's peacekeeping budgets with more than three billion in annual payments. which other funding cuts come just days after the un overwhelmingly voted to reject donald trump's the session to recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital only nine members including the u.s. voted against the resolution one hundred twenty eight of us supported it well the us. tried to crush un 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 asked though 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 leveled against us will serve a lot we don't care just about everything that ambassador haley has done since assuming her post as being contrary to the spirit of the u.n. charter has been quite undiplomatic to the very notion of war diplomacy complete tact packed less tactful listeners and without any sense of nuance so this kind of crude language of threat and punishment use against nations and so forth this really hurts the uses image and credibility war 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 and that's all the headlines for this hour do today in ten pm moscow time for

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