it was am. reports emerge over ecuador issuing that wiki leaks chief in juneau sollars with an identity card in a push to end his five year confinement in the london embassy. the u.s. says it will spend one hundred fifty million dollars rebuilding iraq a city is devastated by the war on islamic studies a figure dwarfed by how much the pentagon has requested this year for military operations there. and germany refuses to deport a turkish extremist who supported terrorists in syria his prison term is almost up could be released next year.

this is already international coming to you live from moscow on page thank you for joining us. this confusion surrounding wiki leaks chief julian assange own drafter earlier reports he had been handed ecuadorian citizenship is now claimed he was only being given the country's identity card i must say it isn't laundered with the latest. the mystery of what happens next in this ever complicated tricky and internationally spanning case of julian assange really continues with some developments trickling in this evening here in london where we are in fact outside the ecuadorian embassy and some of the confusion of some of the reports that have been coming out seems to be stemming from first of all it tweets that julian assange had posted on his twitter page wearing a t. shirt with the ecuadorian national colors parking lots of debate and questions online about whether or not this could potentially mean that he has either has been or is on his way to being granted citizenship those questions of course are yet to

be specifically answered by either julian assange himself the founder of wiki leaks or ecuadorian officials what we do know so far is that a son seems to have been issued some sort of national ecuadorian identification number which is easily seen on the ecuadorian web site where this particular number coincides with his full name now the questions there are whether or not this is an idea that could potentially be used for him to apply for it with dorian citizenship or somehow change his status when it comes to this very complicated case that has now spanned over several years what we do know is this comes following earlier statements from the ecuadorian foreign minister saying that it's really time to move on with his case let's take a listen with the pests and companies in those conditions. we're considering the option as mediation will put this into said 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 one well there are lots of questions now about who this potential mediator could be because obviously when it comes to the complications of julian assange being able to actually step out of this embassy. the hind us revolves largely on what his status is in the u.k. because clearly it's been made very clear many times over and over by british officials that even if he does step foot outside the embassy he would be snatched up by them for the simple reasons of having breached his bail when around the time of when his whole case began to unravel so that has been the position of the british officials of course despite having the world seen that organizations such as the united nations have found his detention to be arbitrary that of the swedish investigation that has been going on for quite some time having dropped the sexual allegations against him there were lots of assumptions there that this would open

the door for a son to walk out of the second dorian embassy where he's been holed up a bunch of the asli all of this has been based largely on the fact that a son just himself believes that as soon as he walks out he would be extradited to the u.s. which seems to be his biggest fear given the sort of expectation for him to be punished there for his work as a whistleblower with the website wiki leaks having provided so much information when it comes to certain doings of the american government so certainly a lots of questions we're going to obviously be watching this very closely in terms of what is this going to mean for songes status not just within ecuador but potentially his case beginning to move forward a little bit more human rights activists presidential believes could be looking for a way to get out of london. the granting of an identity card is of course potentially the first step towards being granted citizenship of acquittal and

beyond that the possibility that he could be granted diplomatic status which would give him diplomatic immunity and the suggestion might be that if he was granted diplomatic immunity he would therefore be free to leave the embassy and travel to ecuador and the british government would not be able to lay a finger on him that is of course speculation it's a long way down the road yet but clearly the granting of it is the card is a movement a new development which may open the door to further things in the future. the u.s. embassy in iraq has announced one hundred fifty million dollars will be spent this year 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 ongoing military operations there are things what i guess the of has more what does this look like to you mad max. resident

evil no this is mosul or rather what's left of it core to see 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 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 the 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. way i did they enter a little went in to a new. door and mind if. she's a little hungry out get a lot of you know to go to school in the city doesn't matter. what else is there to do in mosul divisiveness and still don't know hala questions like did you feel 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 as it is you have to teach your most if you. are a good. little wife or. don't have surely the. love common enough to share here that i would dare i say i hadn't this way. now one of the magical set had it now after shiny. went up five as i had the start of a dallas market and it has not filed many of us said so lucky rather than left to send a message back at all the numbers are an entirely different leagues what the united states spends on burning ices 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 in uncertain military pay was half a million dollars for one of their strike they carried out fourteen thousand their 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 quarter in germany has provoked controversy after it blocks the deportation of a turkish extremist the decision is likely to give chancellor angela merkel a headache as she struggles to form a coalition government r.t. shalah do bensky reports. well germany's top court her 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 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. the more moderate to liberal liberal germany. on our polls and people of ink your. idea. i'm afraid of 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 markets attack the german interior minister called for speed 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 the country of origin they could face inhumane treatment or torture with a ruling comes during merkel's ongoing struggle to form a government following the election in september the chancellor failed to create a coalition with minor parties and she is now conducting negotiations with the leader of the social democrats martin schulte who previously refused the offer to work with her former german intelligence officer ryan are up believes the ruling to keep a potential terrorist in the country may further split the party. this thing is. a few on the fire or anyone and it really the.

social union and also the christian democrats who wants to have. criminals deported a new ruling of the federal constitutional court to not be received with great pleasure by the public at large. the u.k.'s government has rejected calls for a better system to prevent future prime ministers making the same mistakes as tony blair made over iraq a special committee argued stricter investigation should be carried out before taking the country into any conflict the inquiry into the war known as the chilcot report led to the establishment of the u.k.'s national security council this deals with all national security issues coordinates the activities of the intelligence services and formulate defense strategy. well the chilcot report was published in twenty sixteen ruled the u.k.'s military action in iraq was not a last resort the iraqi leader saddam hussein didn't represent an urgent threat and

there was no undeniable evidence of weapons of mass destruction being years 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 and much harder for them to deal with the consequences. chilcote was meant to change the whole way in which these decisions were made it 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 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 and as we as we're still seeing in afghanistan and libya we know that to reason why

is finding domestic circumstance you very very difficult indeed at the moment what is easier for governments like this isn't to say well ok we have an enemy abroad and to bolster the case for war. pressure is mounting on israel's prime minister after a controversial recording involving his son yet was leaked to the press benjamin netanyahu his lawyers have reportedly tried to prevent the tape being broadcast on local television. before game it. was half way sky. because. it was unified it. was delicious incidentally. i was. going to do that watching. well in the recording reportedly made in twenty fifteen yet it can be heard chatting to the son of israeli gas tycoon toby my lawn outside a strip club covering my lawn is a shareholder at a gas company that allegedly benefited from

a controversial twenty fifteen law on natural gas drilling rights well the legislation concerned to vast newly discovered gas fields of israel's coast this is actually gave corporations control over the development of the deposits with the government arguing it would stimulate investments however critics slammed the proposal as corrupt giving too much power to corporations and demanded the nationalization of the deposits or following the release of the controversial video yeah the netanyahu has 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. then you mean this in yahoo is already being investigated in two separate corruption cases the allegations include receiving bribes in the go shouting favorable media coverage

the prime minister strongly denies all the 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 missing yahoo family 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 we're in a democratic country and as long as. he's living in the prime minister's residence i may have to answer some questions this is not the first case that we're speaking about corruption in the family of binyamin netanyahu as the prime minster of israel for the israeli is it's may lead to drop all of confidence and that's the main

threat for binyamin netanyahu 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 the u.n. has voiced concerns over the recruitment of under eighteen's in the german army that story and more still to come.

unfortunately it appears that once people learn that you've reported a sexual assault or may have been involved in an incident that they become scared of you instead of being scared of the perpetrator. welcome back the german army is recruiting an increasing number of teenagers according to the defense ministry more than two thousand under eighteen join the

military last year that's three times more than in twenty eleven germany is one of the few countries worldwide that allows under eighteen's to volunteer only in a norm coleman bus roll teenagers can apply if i asked seventeen and have parental consent the german military is currently conducting a recruitment drive with officers giving talks in schools across the country the campaign also features an online reality show. extreme. well program follows army recruits for twelve weeks and is one of germany's most popular online projects however it's drawn criticism for making the military more

attractive to youngsters the un is concerned the recruitment drive specifically targets children the german army has defended its methods insisting the training is done on the straight supervision regional m.p. martin bell so from germany's left party against tolerance and youngsters had been a huge campaigns in schools even in kindergartens. to make the army more attractive to young people there have been some schools who have been working together with the army to put the young students in some kind of camp we support some initiatives called peer you know corner bundeswehr for example which say as well that education should take place without bundeswehr the people who are under age to they shouldn't be to. get into the united nation already in two thousand and fourteen ask the german government to stop this

and race the age of soldiers i think this is a problem. but the main problem is if you do a foreign culture policy with us which is based on dialogue you don't need such a strong army also many soldiers i think that is the main problem behind it. france's minister of culture has attempted to dispel rising concerns about president macro's plan to tackle fake news francoise nuisance said the national media regulator as well as judges would be in charge of enforcing the new law on the one hand you have the c.s.a. and on the other judges so it's not the executive they will be getting involved when microphones proposal to crack down on faith use came outta go sorry i should say a week ago however that immediately sparked a backlash with many doubting the government's not getting involved in the process it was initially tween fake news machines and the professional media we run the risk of losing the truth the barriers have been destroyed presidential campaigns

and almost all modern democracies have displayed their weakness and our collective failure to come up with a response but i will say that the first ones who make fake news are the presidential candidates who do not keep their promises this is the real fake news that should be banned who will take care of it is there going to be an anti fake news brigade or something said this no here is it not to press a floor since we go more and more in this direction we forbid everything we are prevented from thinking so much that we no longer know how to think for ourselves for them almost always come back to george orwell's novel nineteen eighty-four with the ministry of misinformation i really feel like will ready for that and the people outside of it independent journalist nuclear face says the crackdown on fake news is misguided. i don't believe in it at all i mean first if it goes to the judges it's not reassuring because most of the judges in france are on the left the

sunday for example they put a few years ago that the wall of the idiot saw. on which date they put the victims who are complaining about bad sentences and things because they are on the left they know better so if they have to judge on what is a fake news it will always be the same that are condemned they feed us things which are not true so it cannot speak about propaganda he's the champion of the propaganda that mr micro himself use this is the word the says that the press is the victim is the first victim of propaganda no we citizens are the first victim of the propaganda that he organizes. i'll be back with the latest headlines in just about half an enemy while for more about stories go to our.

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