life among the ruins just report from inside most hears from locals about surviving in their city five months after being liberated from islamic state. and. i was in. russia and america's top diplomat speak on the phone with. washington's approach to north korea is unacceptable. and israeli. jails.

in the russian capital the international live with me. today welcome to the program now it's been more than five months now since iraq's second largest city was liberated from islamic states there's precious little for the people of mosul to actually return to in his latest report from the city reveals the grim reality of life on the ground 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.

consume. could have and if. i did they enter a little 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 showed up and handed out blankets but that's eat no

one else has helped down your mother oh no don't know how long i still believe no one i don't know what they don't want donna know unmarked no no no. no no no not don't know i doubt. 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 the marginal and the 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 it's achievable but that it can. take 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 i do we'll madea minimus hall 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 jump off. the wire. thought this year roughly two thousand five hundred ninety nine times me thought i was. alone in our. 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. with no eyes. 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 how you did. the. 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. a 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 ralph the red cross regional spokesperson for the middle east told us more about the difficult situation on the ground in a war torn 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 bonds 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 most of. the russian foreign minister has raised concerns over the u.s. approach to the north korean nuclear crisis so your level of spoke to secretary of state rex tillerson by phone according to a statement from the russian foreign ministry. so again lavrov 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 a phone call took place around the same time the u.s. sanctioned a two top north korean officials who were allegedly involved in the country's

a ballistic missile program but in the phone call for mr lavrov mentioned the u.s. stepping up its military preparations in the region and he was unlikely referring to recent military exercises and even south korea has suggested postponing military drills until after the olympics but this proposal was swiftly rejected by secretary tillerson. it is possible for south korea and the us to review the possibility of postponing the exercises and i have made such a suggestion to the us and the us is currently reviewing them for these exercises a bit old boy for many years i'm not aware of any plans to change what is scheduled fiery rhetoric between washington and pyongyang has kept the international community on its toes for quite some time now but let's take a quick look at a recap the year 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 respective leader kim didn't only said that the

u.s. would be unhappy to witness north korea strategic power on its independence day and called for frequently sending baek and small new packages they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never seen any threat to the united us or glarus born without medical care a little more you can ensue. but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. little rocket man rocket fuel for the american. these are sick puppies russia has repeatedly offered to mediate the situation but we've been hearing mixed messages from the trump administration so it's unclear whether this phone call will make any

difference whatsoever but it definitely seems like quite the positive direction. but other news it's been a peculiar twenty four hours on twitter judy in a song the wiki leaks found as account temporarily vanished then there was a pretty cryptic tweet from the u.s. navy let's get to the bottom of all this now correspondent jim acosta have a 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. or trying to protect his drug of information. because he exposed the democrats and the clinton crime family i believe we can say without a shadow over the d.n.c. . how. if true julian the sun going dark is next really significant development wouldn't want to be hillary clinton right now. julian's account disappeared 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 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 help to juliana sanchez we 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 grist physical surveillance dylan song physical situation of the embassy remain so 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 a mistress some suspect that he was being prevented from making new earth shattering rather lesions while others claim that the real story that count looks suspiciously different from the one that was temporarily taken down. out of the news an israeli law maker has been filmed shouting insults at palestinians as they were on their way from gaza to visit relatives in israeli jails just before he tweeted a photo of himself with an israeli flag saying he had come to confront the families of the called animals. but.

we've had no comment so far from the israeli parliament. on that 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's previously staged other publicity stunts as well. as a member of prime minister netanyahu whose likud party first gain notoriety with a godfather style political ads also tried to discredit a left wing enzio by creating a false identity in order to provide made up testimony and he wants threatened to execute the family of an alleged palestinian criminal in a facebook video or more recently violated protocol by taking an unplanned selfie with donald trump sharing his visit to israel back in may. we spoke earlier to the red cross they were escorting the bus from the gaza strip to the prison they've blamed the israeli authorities for the incident the organization said it was their duty to ensure the family's safety during that visit

i don't assume from the regional red cross told us the incident was unacceptable. protecting human dignity as a human if you're an organization that is extremely important to us so people being treated this way being insulted at one of the masses that we provided to them to be able to go and visit their families is something that is acceptable because there were elderly or there were children and there were lots of women on that last so that's why we call on the israeli authorities to how bus or how close to shore up there is and the happen in the future there have been various legs for following different conflicts that took place between that israeli site and between hamas there are several that there are people missing people like that there are missing his right his and also missing palestinians and for us as a humanitarian organization the pain of the missing or the families of the missing people one of the utmost priorities and we've been calling on the authorities on

all sides to respect their obligation not to the international humanitarian law or . saudi warplanes have had a market in yemen killing dozens of us four and more still to come off of a short break. when i was told seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to see how does this come after. and in detroit because the trail. once on many by themselves worlds apart when she's on the common ground. in twenty teen what will see are central banks adding bitcoin to their strategic

reserves alongside gold so the big gold buyers like china and russia will be adding big oil to their strategic reserves some banks possibly in venezuela they could completely change their fortunes in the global economy by switching over to crypto switching over to bit coin and then that will set a precedent for other countries of policy. pretty. much the program a saudi coalition air strike has hit a busy market in yemen killing at least forty people and just to warn viewers the following images do contain some disturbing scenes though dozens more civilians were wounded in that bombing raid in the west of the country many of the victims are children saudi arabia launched its intervention in yemen back on march twenty

fifth the right to support the government against shia who is the rebels the campaign has claimed thousands of lives. but to discuss this further we can now bring in dode caroll a professor of international law at georgetown university thanks for joining us good to have you on the program these incidents have become. tragically common really haven't they there's a market been hit this time around we've also seen schools hospitals during the

saudi bombardment i mean why is not more international condemnation the or of what's really going on. where i think. the international community particularly the members of the international security council your own united nations security council. but if this happens accomplice in the crimes that are being committed unconscionably crimes are being committed against defenseless. people civilian people in popular markets it is absolutely unconscionable and if there is any doubt that there have that these acts constitutes crimes against humanity there should be at least some kind of investigation when the security council doesn't take the trouble of appointing a committee to carry out

a serious investigation and take the necessary measures it is an absolute and unconscionable negligence. on the part of the security council there is no justification on earth why this blood led continues going on against for civilians and for what what's the purpose and how much was that achieved of this purpose the security council was brought into existence to prevent violence and certainly settling disputes through use of violence this was a result that of this was the purpose for which it existed when it doesn't do its primary. responsibility primary duty it undermines its effectiveness it's undermined it's the purpose for which it exists. i blame the international community especially the. five member countries or the

permanent member countries those who have a way they can do something at the international level and they don't i mean they are watching poor people being. destroyed. every day and they don't do anything. you mention the security council and country eventually security council the professor all around their importance if you like but one particular member of i can draw attention to because they are the biggest supporter of the saudi campaign the united states sure as you know they provided weaponry they provided intelligence aviation fuel the whole specter to make the bombing campaign more effective why is that happening i mean shouldn't washington be more concerned about the humanitarian catastrophe that's happening in yemen absolutely washington should be more concerned more responsibility than other countries why because it is

so close to saudi arabia because it is the source of weapons that are used in the amman and because it can go much more and it doesn't i think what the other part that i really would blame is the media international media and particularly the american media they don't do what is necessary what the bringing to the attention of the public in general the scope of these atrocities to put an end to them to put some pressure on responsible people i just don't understand why the u.s. is dormant on or not enough that it's an accomplice it's not dormant and why is it doing this what is the purpose that is being served in these atrocities i don't know. really feel so obsessed with what is going on continuously going on and for what. ok professor of international law at georgetown university carolla thanks for

your insight today here on our international good to have you with us as always. an explosion has hit libya's largest oil pipeline that's caused a major disruption of supply it triggered an instant spike in the global crude oil price up sixty six dollars a barrel the highest in fact since mid twenty fifteen well the incident has reduced libya's oil supplies by up to one hundred thousand barrels per day that's according to officials at the blast is believed to have been set off by a militant group it's the latest setback for libya's economy which is of course been devastated by more than six years of conflict since the overthrow of colonel gadhafi two rival governments are still battling for control of the country.

a special phone up which lets you know if your home is being snooped on has been developed by american whistleblower surveillance campaign or edward snowden it works on android devices and can spot shadow intrusion but as our explains it might also 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. secrets 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 how the very fitting name meet haven. makes it harder to. citizens raids 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 sentences already built in say you left your phone and intend to did 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. keep you safe that 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 they can have a bad side because you might feel you're being stalked by a jealous ex. 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 bits of software within it so there'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 snoop is 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 to you beware of the spy next door. well that's all from myself on the team what ought to. be with you throughout the night to morrow morning so you said.

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