i think. i was. the one who was. the u.s. announced that it will spend one hundred fifty million dollars rebuilding iraq is pretty devastated by the war on islamic state that's a good war why how much the pentagon has requested for military operations that this year. germany rejects the deportation of

a turkish to hardest to support extremists in syria the man's prison time is almost up he could be released next year. and ecuador is considering out find help to resolve the case of julian a song which the wiki leaks chief's been holed up in the country's london embassy for five bit of call here. a warm welcome you're watching r.t. international coming to you from our moscow headquarters and we carry. the u.s. embassy in iraq has announced one hundred fifty million dollars is to be spent rebuilding cities left devastated by the war on islamic state but that's only a fraction of what the u.s. has continued military operations there is more gaza you have has more on the story . what does this look like to you mad max. resident evil

no this is mosul or rather what's left of it quote a sea of thousands of air strikes we filmed this a few weeks ago and nothing's really changed from when we were there last this is what the aftermath of a classic strike in mosul look like neighborhoods that numbered in the thousands it's been reduced to a handful. the iraqi army and the u.s. led coalition seem to make sure to not leave a square meter and scorched earth it took of precision i haven't yet seen a single house and room still untouched by fighting the neighboring street all but destroyed the street across rubble the street over there it's the same story wherever you look cities and towns that house medians

a devastated husks even now in mosul you are never far from the stench of rotting bodies or unexploded bombs help reconstruction no one seen any of that module be it the module. i did they enter was little when it was two and it will. do a minute. she says a little hundred yards get a lot of you know she be going to school and the citizen not. what else is there to do in mosul watch the symbols and distill it down the holocaust and that to mean that if she ever put it to you. as strange the u.s. had pledged to help and do what it's bombs did they're already helping fund reconstruction iraq says it needs one hundred billion dollars to rebuild and the united states has doubled its. to one hundred fifty million dollars or about

zero point one percent of what iraq needs and no one seems to have seen any of that but a city in your city if you had most of. the you who would. most little or live or. don't have surely. love common enough to share here that i would die i should i hadn't this way. now one of the magical should have it now after sharing our south were not fighting as our had the start of a dallas market and it has not filed many of us said so lucky but rather the latter sent a message that the the numbers are an entirely different leagues but the united states spent on burning isis out of iraq and what the us has pledged to repair the damage it did or entirely in comparable numbers the average cost of a u.s.

air strike in iraq at the beginning of the operation very roughly counting fuel fly time cost of bombs made sense and military pay was half a million dollars for one of their strike they carried out fourteen thousand strikes in iraq alone and after helping turn iraqi cities into this all the complex has one hundred fifty million dollars the equivalent of two mid-sized passenger jets that isn't going to change many lives in iraq. a court ruling in germany has provoked control of a sea after it refused the deportation of a turkish jet hardest decisions likely to also give chancellor merkel a headache as she continues to struggle to form a coalition government r.t. side to penske has more details. well germany's top court has ruled on

wednesday that a person cannot be deported back to their country of origin if they face torture or inhumane treatment in that country now. court has said that germany would need to have appropriate assurances that neither of those would take place if a person was deported to that country now this case has been highlighted because of a court case brought by a german born turk who was convicted back in two thousand and fifteen of supporting terrorism the man who's thirty years old had traveled to syria and had supported a terrorist organization in the country including giving funds to that terrorist organization where he received a three and a half year sentence for doing so here in germany but in two thousand and sixteen he was threatened with deportation back to turkey and he decided to appeal that threat and take it to the court system here in this country now he had support from

groups such as amnesty who said that if he was deported to turkey because he had links to a terror organization he could be tortured or abused and that man has two thirds of his sentence left to serve and could be released within the next year and that is highly controversial here in germany because many people fear that he could potentially be a terror threat in the future and germany of course is no stranger to terror attacks the country's been on high alert since the christmas market attack in december two thousand and sixteen which killed twelve people and injured dozens others in just weeks after that christmas market attack the german interior minister called. deportations in cases like this but this ruling could spoke in the wheel of those. with anybody now able to claim that if they deported back to their

country of origin they could face inhumane treatment or torture the ruling comes amid merkel's ongoing struggle to form a government following the election in september but chancellor failed to create a coalition with minor parties and is now conducting negotiations with the leader of the social democrats martin schultz who had previously refused any offer we spoke to publicist and former german intelligence officer raina rep who believes the controversial ruling to keep a potential terrorist in the country may further split the parties this thing is. a few on the fire or anyone and it's not only the. those in the christian social union and also the christian democrats who voted to have. criminals deported a new ruling of the federal constitutional court to not be

received with great pleasure by the public at large. i could always pushing to resolve the case of julian assassins the wiki leaks chief has been holed up in the country's london embassy for more than five years and faces the rest if he leaves now ecuador's foreign minister says his country may seek outside help laura smith has more. so the ecuadorian foreign minister has come out and called the situation of our son's living in the embassy here in london unsustainable with a person can't live in those conditions. we considering the option of mediation. if that could be done virus that country or individual. no solution is possible without international corporations or without that if the u.k. which has expressed interest in finding more in terms of the u.k. expressing interest in finding a way out the government here has reacted and it's pretty odd and swayed it says

that the government of ecuador knows that the way to resolve this issue is to have julian assange to leave the embassy and face justice for their part song his legal team have welcomed this new initiative they're saying if the u.k. wishes to show that it's a nation that respects its human rights obligations and its commitments to the united nations then it should. walk free or when they refer to the united nations they're talking to about a two thousand and sixteen ruling by the organization that was being held in arbitrary detention meanwhile the media here is speculating that what ecuador really wants is to push us out of the embassy to get rid of him in september he tweeted in support of the catalan separatist movement the ecuadorian president tweeted in response saying that our son should keep his nose out of the business of its allies if marina wants to get more reporting on human rights abuses in spain you should see so explicitly together with the legal basis there are other issues

at play here as well several days ago the ecuadorian foreign minister also said that our soldiers health situation is very delicate he added that he is receiving medical help but there is only a certain amount of help that he can receive from inside the embassy she reconfirmed though that ecuador is guaranteeing his protection he has been living in the embassy in night. in london for five and a half years now since two thousand and twelve and there have been several key moments during that time not to the least of which was last year when swedish prosecutors said that they were dropping their investigation into rape allegations that he had faced people thought possibly that he would then be able to leave the embassy but the police here reiterated that if he does set foot outside the embassy he will be arrested for being in breach of his original bail conditions and wiki leaks has always voice fears that he would then be requested for extradition by the united states several months ago ecuador and officials said that they were going to

call on the u.k. to guarantee him safe passage to ecuador but that's something that the u.k. as we've just heard doesn't seem to be any closer to doing so for now despite this little bit of movement is fate still hangs very much in the balance and it's very unclear who or which country might step forward and offer to be that mediator. now the u.k. government's rejected calls for a better system of checks and balances to prevent a future prime minister making the same mistakes as tony blair did over iraq a special committee argued more should be done to implement strict investigations before entering the country into a conflict the inquiry into the war known as the chill contra port lead to the establishment of the u.k.'s national security council it deals with all national security issues coordinates the activities of the intelligence services and formulate defense strategies but you can't report which was published in twenty sixteen ruled the u.k.

is military action in iraq was not a last resort in solving the conflict the iraqi leader saddam hussein didn't represent an urgent threat to the nation and there was no undeniable evidence of weapons of mass destruction being used by the iraqi government well let's cross live now to our guest lindsey graham excuse me lou. see. excuse me lindsey german from the stop the war coalition and my servant. miss thank you so much for holding on for as we know you've been waiting for quite some time to speak to us do you think the lessons of the iraq invasion have been learned here well i think definitely not when you when you look at this latest decision chilcote was made to change the whole way in which these decisions were made there hasn't been implemented that hasn't been taken up and i fear that we are going to get another. episode like we've had with tony blair in the past and of course it shows

that this government just like the blair government doesn't want to be constrained by anybody when it comes to making these decisions and we live in a very dangerous world and it's a world where i think we do need more safeguards on people declaring more not less are you surprised the idea of stronger decision making safeguards has been rejected . i'm not entirely surprised i think. this government is very militaristic very much supporting all the moves. we've seen over the last year the kind of aggression we're getting over the middle east. career over all these places so i'm not entirely surprised by think it's deeply shocking at the same time when we've had millions of pounds and many many years on finding the causes of the war what was wrong with the war why tony blair ignored any kind of

democratic procedure why he ignored the opinion of two million people marched on the streets in two thousand and three i think it's very tells you exactly how insincere successive governments have been about about the idea that somehow we shouldn't be going to war i think they're absolutely committed to doing this and it's something which means that the decision to go to war can be taken by a toy any clique of people around the prime minister with very little democratic accountability why do you think the government would even need new safeguards considering it now has the national security council which is supposed to thoroughly consider all options is the security council not effective enough. well i thought i think that's the only conclusion that you can draw that you know they say there's a national security council it's not independent of government it's not really going to be able to override the decisions of government and this is what people are worried about. a whole series of interventions over nearly twenty years now

afghanistan iraq libya syria all of these all of which have been have had very very serious and negative consequences and really this should be a time when the british government is reflecting on its failure. not talking about the wars and the ease with which they can go. with treason. may not being a very popular figure right now do you think she has enough support to implement a decision right now if needed. i think this is a question you can't. have in the leader of the labor party we now have a strong. voice in the form. but of course the decision will be taken by the prime minister herself or will be taken by. a majority of people who. are very very narrow majority so i think it's difficult

for some reason my i don't think that she will find it easy to we've seen before the why in which the case is made the way in which the media gets behind you. it becomes something that is there to deal with tyranny or to deal with human rights disasters and all of these sources and of course it's very very easy for these m.p.'s to vote for war it's much much harder to deal with the consequences of war as we've seen in iraq. still saying in afghanistan and libya i consider in a funk the anti terror campaigns in iraq and syria now why is the government rejecting new safeguards. i think the reason for this is because actually the world of anything is becoming a more dangerous place we have still the ongoing conflict in afghanistan with the development of islamic states in afghanistan which didn't exist a few years ago we have the dangerous situation in the pacific we have continued

any of us believe the. conflicts in the middle east over with the tension with iran with the war in yemen as well as syria and iraq so all these things. and i think this is yet another example of the british government wanting a free hand. and we should also remember that there were times. and i think that they will cold war in order to or to promote war in order to escape from difficult to make sticks and stones as we know but to raise my is finding domestic circumstance and very very difficult indeed at the moment all these easy for governments like this them to say well ok we haven't then the me abroad and through and through both of the case for war then the german from the stop the war coalition thank you for your time and thank you for your patience to. thank you very much still to come a controversial recording involving benjamin netanyahu his son is leaks to the

press so we could all the details for you after this short break. what politicians do you shouldn't. put themselves on a lot. to get except the reject. so when you want to be president or injury. or something want to be rich. that's it right to be that's what makes three of the people that. i'm interested in the water. there should. seem wrong all the little salt just don't call. me. just to say proud just to get a ticket and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many

find themselves worlds apart. she still looks for common ground. welcome back pressure is mounting on the israeli prime minister after a controversial recording involving his son yeah it was leaked to the press benjamin netanyahu his lawyers reportedly tried to prevent the tape being broadcast on local television. i would forgive me if. i was half way sky. coming over because. i was afraid of the notion.

that without that knowledge and. in that recording reportedly made in two thousand and fifteen yeah i can be heard to chatting to the son of israeli gas tycoon in my money outside of a strip club could be my mom is a shareholder at a gas company that allegedly benefited from a controversial twenty fifteen law on natural gas drilling rights the legislation concerned to huge newly discovered gas fields of israel's coast it essentially gave corporations control over the development of the deposit and with the government arguing it would stimulate investment however critics flunder the proposal as corrupt giving too much power to corporations and demanded nationalization of the deposits following the release also controversial video year netanyahu denied any knowledge of the plans saying his conversation was nothing more than a drunken joke i regret the remarks and apologize if anyone was hurt by them in

addition the things i said to my mom were a dumb joke and joking around with him as anyone could sell. prime minister netanyahu is already being investigated in two separate corruption cases the allegations include receiving bribes imes negotiating favorable media coverage the prime minister strongly denies all accusations in the meantime he's pushing for a special immunity law which could allow him to avoid prosecution we discuss the latest controversy surrounding the netanyahu family with regional analysts. it looks really bad for the prime minister and it doesn't look like you know someone who wants to be a leader of a country to have his son running around in a government vehicle doing things you know don't look so complimentary and is not the kind of why the prime minister would want to do whether it's a danger to the prime minister or undermines no i mean it's a self undermining thing and the reason he did it is because it looks bad but you

know in a democratic country and as long as. he's living in the prime minister's residence you may have to answer some questions this is not the first case that we are speaking about corruption in the family of binyamin netanyahu as the prime minister of israel these were you may lead to that would draw all of confidence and that's the main threat for really a minute anyhow that's why they're trying as a family to play with words showing that it's not. a fact but it was just a matter of a guy who was hanging around with his brains and he was just chatting about different things but this is not the matter of fact. today as he has been and delved in violent protests with fountains rallying against rising prices and employment and tax hikes police used tear gas against the crowds after people started burning tires and hurling stones at least one protester was reportedly

killed the unrest erupted around the same time a similar demonstrations in iran but unlike the situation there has gone largely unnoticed artie's pulis lir has more. well these protests intern is here started after the new year and they came in reaction to that a new zealand government introducing a new budget plan for two thousand and eight that included amongst other things a rise in fuel prices and tax hikes the response from the street was one of anger and what we've seen is protests taking place in several dozen cities around the country with us all for one person has been killed and several people have been injured now it is familiar to protests happening in another country namely iran what you're saying we have here are two countries with protests taking place on the street by people who are unhappy with the economic situation. the root of it is

just a canard it's the problem of youth unemployment i personally haven't been able to find a job for a long time but if people have a job they don't have any problem with the government a lot of the demands of the following suspend the twenty eighteen four minutes law returned to the original prices of goods and high of one member from every poor family these are in short. the rule is in petrol prices this time is huge we have a lot of privilege and have to pay a lot of fines it's only acceptable that we pay for this government's mistakes. we are protesting here because of how bryce's and employment we were the growth in these and we have been subjected to violence by security agents now the two mr prime minister has said that there is no place for violence and the sentiments echo the words that were used by iran's leader what happened yesterday is a violation of the law since a state of emergency has been declared in tunisia these protests are the result of

operations that aim to review social unrest that we are a free nation and according to the constitution and human rights the people are absolutely free to criticize the government and even protest but the. this should be in such a way as to aim to improve the situation in the country we the government will definitely not tolerate some protesters who want to destroy public property or disrupt public discipline and create turmoil in society western leaders for example the french president are crying and the e.u. hiway present mahoney were quick to condemn the ukrainian protests even have the american president donald trump calling for regime change iran is failing at every level despite the terrible deal made with them by the bammer ministration the great iranian people have been repressed for many years they are hungry for food and for freedom along with human rights the world of iran is being looted time for change but when it comes to the current potest that are taking place in tunisia while here

they've kept mum and now it might be that to near zero was the first country back in two thousand and eleven that the start of the arab spring to oust a dictator in a move that was widely approved by the western world as being one of the democratic change but since then there have been no less than my own government in place intern is here all of whom have been unable to get a handle on the economic situation the question of course is whether or not we'll see these cause for vision change and condemnation and criticism against tunisia like we've seen for example against when sociology professor science the believes iran is getting the attention over to near zero as it's the only one viewed as an enemy. tunisia is on the mediterranean it's a small country not many people know about that in american society of on who many in america have been and the enemy i mean. in

a major obstacle for american policy debate that he sends its new pollution one hundred seventy nine in their case all to you on the very happy to look at any small detail that happens or any small part this too inflated in the media to look as if this is the end of their vision so it is totally different pool which in covering tunisia and the protest totally different when you get in touch and share your thoughts on the day stories by following us on social media i'll be back at the top of the hour the latest headlines join us then. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics school business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

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