the u.s. announces it will spend one hundred fifty million dollars rebuilding iraq a city devastated by the war on islamic state the good war by how much the pentagon has requested for military operations there this year. germany rejects the deportation of a turkish jet hardest who supported extremists in syria the man's prison term is almost up and he could be released next year. and ecuador is considering outside help to resolve the case of julian a song which the wiki leaks chief has been holed up in the country's london embassy for five and a half years. a

warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me nicky aaron good to have you with us this hour. the u.s. embassy in iraq has announced one hundred fifty million dollars is to be spent rebuilding cities left devastated in the war on islamic state but that's only a fraction of what the u.s. has earmarked for its continued military operations there is more advanced you have has more on the story. what does this look like to you mad max resident evil noah 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 looked 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 in moonsault 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. i did they enter was little when it was two and it will. do a minute. she said

a little hundred yards get a little tina to go to school and the citizen not. what else is there to do in mosul watch the servants and just a little dog in the hollow questions like did you feel that if he ever put it to you. as strange the u.s. had pledged to help undo what it's bombs did there already helping fund reconstruction iraq says it needs one hundred billion dollar. as to rebuild and the united states has doubled its pledge 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 mice if you. did you would. all die for. the mob sherman.

i love comedy not the shiny about i would die i should i hadn't this way now my god now one of the magical set had it now after shiny. went up five as i had the start of a dallas market and if that's not filed many of us said it would rather than send a message that the for the numbers are an entirely different leagues what 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 flight time cost of bombs made an uncertain military pay was hard for a million dollars for one their strike they carried out fourteen thousand their strikes in iraq alone and after helping turn a rocky cities into this all the complex has one hundred fifty million dollars the

equivalent of two mid-sized passenger jets. that is are going to change many lives in iraq. called rolling in germany has provoked can't control the sea after refuse the deportation of a turkish the hardest decisions likely to also give chancellor merkel a headache as she continues to struggle to form a coalition government. has more details. well germany's top court her as 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 turkish 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. injured 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 for a speedy deportations in cases like this but this ruling could post 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 the chancellor failed to create a coalition with minor parties and is now conducting negotiations with the leader of the social democrats martin short 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. to the christian democrats who wants to have. criminals deported a new ruling of the federal constitutional court to not be received with great pleasure the public at large. i could always pushing to resolve the case of julian assange wants the wiki leaks chief has been holed up in the country's london embassy for more than five years and faces arrest if he leaves now i could always foreign minister says his country may seek outside help artie's 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 forever. we considering the option of mediation with this little device that could be done via wristed country or individual. no solution is possible without international corporations or without that if the u.k. wishes 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 unswayed says that the government of ecuador knows that the way to resolve this issue is to have julian assange as leave the embassy and face justice for their part songs 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 and 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

detention meanwhile the media here is speculating that what ecuador really wants is to push 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 president marina wants to get my 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 reconfirm 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 just heard doesn't seem to be any closer to doing so for now despite this little bit of movement on his 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 meanwhile people are still puzzling over a cryptic new year message of songs left on twitter and seemingly indecipherable

code and a link to a popular rap song well since then he's gone silent and it's generated plenty of debate about what the tweet could actually mean.

although a song is hasn't posted anything since he has made it mine a change to his account i think a small from time to his name. the u.k. government's rejected calls for a better system of checks and balances to prevent future prime ministers making the same mistakes as tony blair did over iraq a special committee argued more should be done to implement stricter investigations before entering the country into a conflict the inquiry into the war known as the chill consular porter led to be establishment of the u.k.'s national security council it deals with all and national security issues coordinate the activities of the intelligence services and formulate defense strategies the chilcote reports which was published in twenty sixteen ruled the u.k.'s 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 lindsey german from the stop the war coalition believes it's easy for u.k. m.p.'s to vote for war but much harder for them to deal with the consequences. 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 burqa doesn't want to be constrained by anybody 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 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. as we're still seeing in afghanistan and libya we know that to reserve my domestic

circumstance you very very difficult indeed at the moment what is easier for governments like this than to say well ok we have an enemy abroad and to bolster the case for war. so to come a controversial recording involving benjamin netanyahu son is leaked to the press we've got all the details for you after this short break. this is an amazing story because our say real geo political impact of that going on a g. twenty country g seven countries japan actually the spending power they called it the rise of big going in the millions of people who are buying it in japan the multi billion dollars that they've appreciated in value is causing a genuine effect in their economy and this is going to be the year twenty eighteen where bitcoin cryptocurrency is have this geo political influence. which.

would hope to. be put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. i want to be. two going to be press which is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested in the water. question. welcome back pressure is mounting on the israeli prime minister after a controversial recording involving his son here was leaked to the press benjamin netanyahu his lawyer is reportedly trying to prevent the tape being broadcast on local television. game it. was hard for its guys

coming out of michigan. it was unified. the hours and hours incidentally. that without that knowledge eco guards well in the recording reportedly made in two thousand and fifteen yeah it can be heard chatting to the son of israeli gantz tycoon cody my money outside of a strip club could be my mom is a shareholder at the 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 off israel's coast it essentially gave corporations control over the development of the deposits but the government arguing it would stimulate investment however critics slams the proposal as corrupt giving too much power to corporations and demanded nationalization of the deposits

well following the release of the controversial video 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 and negotiating favorable media coverage the prime minister strongly denies all accusations but 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 draw all of confidence and that's the main threat. 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 friends and he was just chatting about different things but this is not the matter of fact. ten years he has been engulfed

in violent protests with thousands rally against rising prices unemployment and tax hikes police use tear gas against the crowds are the people started burning tires and hurling stones at least one protester was reportedly killed the on the rest of wrapped around the same time as similar demonstrations in iran but unlike the situation that has gone largely unnoticed artie's pointlessly how small. well these protests intern is here started after the new year and they came in reaction to the tennesseean 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 chin is in street was one of anger and what we've seen is protests taking place in several dozen cities around the country with us although 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 famine and slow return to the original prices of goods and high of one member from every poor family these are in short i did not see a. rise 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 high 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 with 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 will disrupt public discipline and create turmoil in society western leaders for example the french president crown and the e.u. highway 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 wealth 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 at the start of the arab spring to ask a dictator in a move that was widely approved by the western world as being one of democratic change but since then there have been no less than my own government in place intern israel 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 regime change and condemnation and criticism against tunisia like we've seen for example against when sociology professor science the deck believes iran is getting the attention over to nazir 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 too many in america have been and the enemy i mean enemy and a major obstacle for american policy in the middle east since it's the volution one hundred seventy nine in their case all to you on they are very happy to look at any small detail that happens or any small potus to inflate it in the media to look as if this is the end of their vision so it is totally different approach in covering tunisia and. politest totally different. thank you for choosing r.t. international well the latest headlines my colleague daniel hawkins will be here at the top of the out.

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