life from the ruins. most hears from locals about. five months after being liberated from islamic state and. going to. russia and america's top diplomat speak on the phone with. washington's approach to north korea is unacceptable. from. israeli jails.

and even from moscow you're watching live with me. today you're very welcome with us this hour. now it's more than five months now since iraq's second largest city was liberated from islamic state there's precious little for the people of mosul to actually return to in his latest report from the city for veals the grim reality of life on the ground 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. recover. them.

could have any. 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 and you showed up and handed out blankets but that eat no one else has helped then your mother oh no don't know how alone i still believe one of them but they don't want donna no one marked no no no. no no no not don't 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 never hungry i'll get a lot of you know the margin and the 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 you 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 if the oh and you know god that you want it is why do you all madea minix all 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 michel if you want to come but i. thought this year roughly two thousand five hundred ninety nine times me thought i was. eleven i was. 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. goal mughal one of. 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. it's a good. 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. now 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 killed were killed by iraqi and u.s.

led airstrikes the red cross international or regional spokesman for the middle east he told us some more about the situation on the ground in the water city 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 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 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 there is no access to clean water in the city there is no health care access 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 the medical

supplies and and medicine needed to treat the people all the humanitarian organizations present in iraq and working in mosul today are able to deal with the humanitarian catastrophe that the city has witnessed not one single humanitarian organization can really bring what is needed today to more sort of. foreign minister sergei lavrov has held a phone conversation with his american counterpart rex tillerson according to a statement from the russian foreign ministry he criticized the u.s. approach to the north korea issue. so again a lot of room pointed out once again that heightening tensions over the korean peninsula through washington's aggressive rhetoric towards pyongyang stepping up military preparations in the region is unacceptable. and joins us live by some miracle and from washington samir a lover of certainly not mincing his words there with regards to america's policy what exactly is russia's concern over the u.s. approach to north korea well the phone call

a took place around the same time the u.s. sanctions to north korean officials who are involved in the country's ballistic missile program but in the phone call for mr lavrov i mentioned the u.s. stepping up its military preparations in the region and what he was likely referring to is a u.s. south korea military drills which south korea actually proposed to postpone until after the olympics to avoid any a provocations but this was swiftly rejected by secretary tillerson. it is possible for south korea and the u.s. to review the possibility of postponing the exercises and i have made such a suggestion to the u.s. and the u.s. is currently reviewing them but these are two sizes have been ongoing for many years i'm not aware of any plans to change what is scheduled. but the fiery rhetoric between washington and pyongyang has kept the international community on its toes for quite some time now let's take

a quick recap at all of the abouts. bearer of strategic patience. with the north korean regime has failed united states is prepared to use the full range of our capabilities to defend ourselves and our allies our suspected leader kim jong only said that the u.s. would be unhappy to witness north korea's strategic power on its independence day and called for frequently sending big and small new packages they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never see. any threat to the united states or territories will be met with a massive military response. the u.s. neglects the international community's will to stop lisped peace on the korean peninsula. but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies we will have no choice but to

totally destroy north korea. russia has repeatedly offered to mediate this situation but we've been hearing mixed messages say the very least from the trumpet ministration so it's unclear if this phone call will make any difference at all but nevertheless it is a positive direction the hopes for more constructive dialogue of course in twenty two. there with those latest updates on the north korea crisis. now it's been a pretty peculiar twenty four hours on twitter for julian a song the wiki leaks founder account temporarily disappeared and then there was a cryptic tweet from the u.s. navy let's get to the bottom with correspondent. 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 say on twitter and that's when theories began to circulate about what might have happened to us account. when he was prepping to drop something. or trying to protect his drug of information. because he exposed the democrats and the clinton crime family believed. if true julian assange extremely significant development wouldn't want to be hillary clinton right now. conspiracy theorists rush to.

attention seeking. twitter very crisp. people. but that's not the end of the story because also that day the u.s. 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 someone and the u.s. navy might have been giving a cry for how to juliana we also made a vague reference to the u.s. navy but it concluded by saying that despite all the excitement julian assange just

a situation remains the same. despite some of the just from the u.s. navy and tweeted today physical surveillance dylan song physical situation of the. ultimate confined with. two un rulings requiring the u.k. to such. a son just 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 grab relations while others claim that the restored account looks suspiciously different from the one that was temporarily taken down. into an all of the international more global news coming up just after this short break.

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an israeli lawmaker has been filmed shouting insults at palestinians as they were all no way from gaza to visit relatives in israeli jails just before he tweeted a photo of himself with an israeli flag saying he'd come to confront the families of what he described as animals. we received no comment so far from the israeli parliament the brand behind the stunt low already has and says he was trying to go on a support for

a new bill that would prevent palestinian families from visiting prisoners in israel he's got a bit of a history of staging probably starts before as well as a member of prime minister benjamin netanyahu party the first day notoriety with a godfather style political ads trying to discredit a left wing enzio by creating a false identity in order to provide made up testimony you want also threaten to execute the family all the alleged palestinian criminal in a facebook video more recently he violated protocol by taking an unplanned selfie with president trump during his official visit to israel back in may. well the red cross which was escorting the bus from the gaza strip to an israeli prison has blamed these radio authorities for the incident the organization said it was their duty to ensure the family's safety during the visit i don't assume go from the regional red cross told us the incident was unacceptable protecting human dignity

as a human here in are going is an action that is extremely important to us so people being treated this way being insulted at one of the masses that we provided to them out 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 on that so that's why we call on the israeli authorities to help us are helpless assure that these things and don't happen in the future there have been various no legs for following different conflicts that took place between that israeli side and between have asked there are several that there are people missing people like there are missing israelis and also missing palestinians and whereas a humanitarian are going to say should the pain of the missing of the families of the missing people in one of the utmost priorities and we've been calling on the authorities simple science to respect their obligation not to the international humanitarian law. by the u.n.

is facing nearly a three hundred million dollar reduction over the next couple of years in its budget the u.s. ambassador nikki haley didn't mince her words over the reasons why the budget is being cut. the inefficiency in every spending 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 un 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 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 u.s. also accounts for nearly a third of the un's peacekeeping budget was more than three billion in annual payments the funding cuts come just days 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 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 also have a legitimate expectation that our good girl 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. was done since assuming her pause has been contrary to the spirit of the u.n. charter has been quiet and diplomatic to the very north wall diplomacy

complete tact packed list for listeners and without any sense of new ones so this kind of cool language of threat and punishment use against sovereign nations and so forth this really hurts the uses image and credibility of war why and united states is not helping it served by having someone representing the united nations who saw undiplomatic and for into the spirit of the united nations. our special up 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. explains that models to reveal a few things you might want to keep secret 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 for valence and next time it's in

the form of an app he has created a personal security system in the hope of empowering chen less an actor beth to secretly monitor their possessions and i have a very fitting name meet haven. makes it harder to wince citizens search rests without getting. so. this creates a kind of. more people watching crackdown. 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 cameraman 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 let's. 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 there's a potential as you be hijacked as well to keep it running well until it reaches i think has closed bits of software within it so it's always a plus this month with the 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 uncertain whether this app will create

a physical space you can trust or make you more paranoid of the device lying next to you be aware of the spy next door. when other news austria's recently sworn in shots of us says that you use moderate relocation quotas on helping solve the refugee crisis so i think that's believes the problem should be handled in the moderates on. home countries migrants who settle for europe don't want to go to bulgaria are hungry they want to go to germany austria 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 have been similar calls of course 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 some believe though it's an approach that's deeply flawed here's a dollar from the damascus center of strategic studies to send european troops or european armies to abortive these. 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 negatively 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 show just how desperate some of these migrants saw as you can see there crossing in this video of the alps from italy to reach france battling freezing temperatures in often insufficient clothing to try and seek

a better life in europe with little sign that the flow will end any time soon as we've said european leaders are increasingly willing to take direct action in margaret's home countries. dollar again suspects e.u. members are trying to reestablish themselves as major players in both the middle east and africa you've been you know the feeling that they are. outside of the political settlement now example. in libya they started to go through against libya then became not a. player. first of libya in yemen this is 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. if you're complaining about whether in your country

check out this story russia is described often as a pretty crazy place and this could well prove the point severe storms have been raging in the east of the country but all the same one elderly woman in the soccer lynette's in far eastern russia decided to pop on top balcony for a cigarette and she was blown off the unlucky woman next had a bit of luck she landed flat in a huge pile of snow rather than meet the balcony which cushioned her impact that prevented her from sustaining too much damage too many injuries unfortunately for her though the ambulance couldn't actually reach because of the heavy snow according to local russian media it was decided to use an excavator not just to clear a path to her but also to whisk her to hospital right inside the shovel bucket. we hope she's not feeling too under the weather and makes a quick recovery so all the headlines from us for the saudi come back. for more

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