life among the ruins people in mosul speak to r.t. about their struggle for survival five months after being liberated from islamic state. and give up you know how to help the planet and to hell and it's the only can do you know good night good luck to you my dear. the russian foreign minister describes america's threats against north korea as an acceptable during a phone call with washington's top diplomat. and an israeli politician is filmed unleashing of insults and palestinians on their way from gaza to visit their relatives in israeli jails.

international live from moscow studio with mean a day or two to welcome to the program it's more than five months since iraq's second largest city was liberated from islamic state and mosul now faces a long road to recovery and his latest report from the city broadcaster feels the grim reality of life in the ruins there are things you have to see to believe mosul is such a place the city of mosul is by any measure a dead and miserable place war rubble the buildings and even that mixed with unexploded bombs and decaying bodies at the spite these people are coming back to live here. no doubt of choice.

peter. could have any. idea bay and. 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 then your mother oh no don't know how long i still believe no

one are the ones they don't want donna no one marked no no no. no no no not the not. 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 model 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 under helena siya 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 michel if you want to come but. you need why i. thought this year roughly two thousand five hundred ninety nine times out of thought i was. alone in. 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 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. you would be no. 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. and 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 says regional spokesperson for the middle east earlier told us more about the situation in mosul. 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 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 concern the u.s. approach to the north korean nuclear crisis. spoke to secretary of state rex tillerson by phone according to a statement from the fine ministry. so again legroom 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 political 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 have been ongoing 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 suspected leader kim didn't own what it 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 nuke packages they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never see it. 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. these are sick puppy russia has repeatedly offered to mediate the situation but we've been hearing mixed messages from the trumpet ministration so it's unclear whether this phone call will make any difference whatsoever but it definitely seems like quite the positive direction. supporters of julian assange has got an unpleasant surprise on christmas day when the wiki leaks found his twitter account mysteriously disappeared within

a question of a story. 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 democratic party 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. 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 in 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 sound one and the u.s. navy might have been giving a cry for help to juliana stanch 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 physical surveillance dylan song situation of the embassy remains on all to confined without charge in violation of two un rulings requiring the u.k. to such. as i'm just timeline was later resorted to but there has been no explanation from either twitter or a mystery 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.

and there's very little mike has been a film shouting insults of 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 quote animals. find out if. the israeli parliament's press service has declined to comment on the incident the politician in the video around his son says he was trying to garner support for a new bill that would prevent palestinian families from visiting prisoners in israel he has staged numerous purposedly stunts before. who is a member of prime minister benjamin netanyahu the likud party first gained

notoriety with the godfather style political ad he also tried to discredit a left wing engineer by creating a false identity in order to provide made up testimony and he wants threaten to execute the family of an alleged palestinian criminal in a facebook video and he can see him talking taking a selfie with donald trump during the u.s. president's visit to israel in may. the red cross which was escorting the bus from gaza to an israeli prison has blamed the israeli authorities for the incident the organization said it was their duty to ensure the family's safety joining the visit alyona sin and co from the regional red cross spoke to r.t. . protecting human dignity as a human if you're an organisation that is extremely important to us so people being treated this way being insulted at 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 with children and there were lots of women and that 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 that israeli site in between there are several that there are people missing people there are missing israel his and also missing palestinians and for us as a humanitarian are going to say should the pain of the missing or the families of them using people in one of the utmost priorities and we've been calling on the authorities of all sides to respect their obligation not to the international humanitarian law. the united nations but it will be slashed by nearly three hundred million dollars during the next fiscal year that announcement came from washington's mission to the u.n. after a strongly worded statement from the u.s. ambassador the inefficiency an obvious pandan of the united nations are well known

we will no longer allow the generosity of the american people to be taken advantage of or remain on checked this historic reduction in spondon in addition to many other moves toward a more efficient and accountable un is a big step in the right direction. members approved the new budget on sunday capping it at five point four billion dollars the united states is responsible for twenty two percent of the payments of 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 u.s. peacekeeping budget with more than three billion in annual payments. the funding cuts come just days after the un overwhelmingly voted to reject donald trump a decision 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. 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 also have a legitimate expectation that our goodwill is recognized and respected the united states will remember this day we 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 hear just about everything that ambassador haley has done since assuming paused as being contrary to the spirit of the u.n. charter i've been quite undiplomatic to the very notion of war diplomacy complete tact packed list for listeners. without any sense of nuance saw disco no cool language of threat and punishment use against sovereign nations and so forth this really hurts to use this image and credibility war wide and united

states is not helping him by having someone representing the united nations who saw undiplomatic and for into the spirit of the united nations an explosion has had a major pipeline in libya that story and more still to come. so. what politicians do something to. be put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to press. you to want to be press this is what the forecast for you in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the water column. question. twenty seeing what will see are central banks adding bitcoin to their strategic

reserves alongside goal so 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. welcome back to the program side a coalition air strike has hit a busy market in yemen killing at least forty people and a warning had the following for to does contain disturbing images dozens more civilians were wounded in the bombing raid in the west of the country many of the victims are children saudi arabia norse's intervention in yemen back in march

twenty fifteen to support the government against shia who t.v. rebels the campaign has claimed thousands of lives. cairo professor of international law georgetown university believes the us government should end its support for the side of the minute she campaign in yemen . conscionable crimes are being committed against defenseless. people. market absolutely unconscionable

washington should be more concerned burns 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 yemen and because it can go much more and it doesn't i think was the other part that i really would blame the media international media and particularly the american media they don't do what is necessary to bring it to the attention of the public in general the scope of these atrocities. and explosion has hit libya's largest oil pipeline causing a major supply disruption it triggered an instant spike in the global crude price up to sixty six dollars a barrel the highest since mid twenty fifteen the incident has released libya's all supplies by up to one hundred thousand barrels per day according to officials the

blast is believed to have been set off by a militant group is the latest setback.