the street over there. is the same story wherever you look. there are still countless bodies buried on the all this rubble and no one knows how long it will take to get. let me show you west mosul now a wasteland the city for all intents and purposes has been erased and there's little or nothing left so it's no surprise people don't want to return and they would rather live in tents on one issue i was really excited to return to my home and see it now when i see it in list dates i wish i'd never come back. and i feel completely destroyed i don't feel like coming back to this home i've lost all hope of living here after seeing all this devastation. this was iraq's second largest

city founded thousands of years ago and it's been a pillar of religion architecture and culture ever since its reconstruction will never be the same if it even happens and its population will be massively diminished official sources the rockies and the us have all vastly understated the sheer volume of civilian suffering and death a thousand they said investigative journalists put the figure around ten thousand a senior health chief in mosul who didn't want to be filmed told us the number is much higher. this book alone contains the names of seven thousand dead victims i have four or five of these every day we got two or three more bodies victims of new explosions. so where does iraq even begin and who will help

foot the bill the answer is simple if given the choice no one it will take tens of billions of dollars to rebuild mosul alone and there is a more pressing issue to deal with first the bodies the iraqis hoped the u.s. led coalition would help resurrect mosul since its bombing campaign created much of this destruction the americans in bluntly said no we freed you will spend two hundred odd million dollars fixing the pipes but aside from that you are on your own as a call ish and we are not in the business of nation building or reconstruction we must ensure that our respective nations precious and limited resources are devoted to preventing the resurgence of isis and equipping the warring torn communities to take the lead in rebuilding their institutions and returning to stability and the

civilians in mosul the desperate and hopeless few that have returned have nothing. to go to school. not. what else is there to do in mosul. just a little. i mean that if they have a place that it can. i was artie's morag as if on the grim reality in mosul in the wake of the grueling liberation campaign requested comment on the situation from a number of rights organizations as well as the u.s. led coalition oxfam's humanitarian coordinator for the middle east alexandra skinner pulis joined us earlier to share his thoughts on mosul's plight the reality is it's been a very intense battle to particularly in. mosul and in our experience it's all very complex to rehabilitate just after the earthquake or.

a lot of funding is the rehabilitation and you are all clearly outlined the bill is very hard. not. to mention national finance standards. for the rest of. starts and starts to increase in the recovery act so this touches a whole not just. for the whole region and. so by. other news the u.k. has high court has ruled against the extradition of an edge british hacker to the us and our love is accused of carrying out cyber attacks against the f.b.i. and nasa among other organizations as well u.k.'s lord chief justice though said extradition could put the hacktivists life at risk r.t. support a book i was there for the ruling. holding hands with his family larry love left

london's royal force of justice having won his appeal against extradition to the u.s. where he's wanted for allegedly hacking into u.s. government websites and very trying for. a very long road to the right result. and we we can exercise the sovereignty of our legal justice system if you can have a reason let's play station they go be treated humanely and if they have engaged in criminal behavior that they would have unfortunate and things inside the court when the judge read out his verdict the chair is in celebration was so loud that the judge was forced to remind lowery supporters that this is a court of law and not a theater throughout the legal battle the alleged attack is legal team had argued that his was a case of life or death love has asperger's syndrome and a depressive illness his family and legal team said that he was at high risk of suicide and the u.s. incarceration system couldn't guarantee his safety it was very unfortunate the

prosecution tried to paint the mental health conditions as being made up fixation is confabulated and that contributes to the stigma of people with them so this isn't as important for. ministration of criminal justice and also for the humanitarian accommodation of people whose brains work differently so the case was remarkably similar to that of another british man accused of hacking into u.s. government websites gary mckinnon who has autism back in two thousand and twelve his extradition was also blocked but it was that then home secretary theresa may who did it since then the powers to block an extradition have been transferred to the british courts and larry love's case was its first test but not all his legal troubles are over it's possible the americans might decide to appeal i don't know. that's going to happen or not but they have two weeks to decide whether they got

will not and then yes we have potential proceedings in the u.k. love and his family have always said that he's happy to face the music for his alleged crimes they just wanted to be a british band that british band or rather a british trial is likely to be larry love's next battle artsy london. well the u.s. is facing growing criticism over its plans to modernize its nuclear arsenal we'll have all the details for you after this short break. the u.s. is losing into a summer on the climate denying is precluding them from the dissipating in this new economy number one and number two the effects of the climate change and why the catastrophes the global you know migrants that are the result of it all these other problems are hurting the u.s. economy on the other side of the trade so you've got

a double by. when all is true seems wrong. when old rules just don't hold. any new world to shape our disdain comes to advocate and in games from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back to the program and washington is facing a growing backlash from the international community over its plans to modernize and

diversify its nuclear arsenal both germany and china have now joined russia and iran in condemning that initiative or the u.s. defense department published its nuclear posture review just last week it asserts that the u.s. sees its nuclear weapons as a terence against both nuclear and nonnuclear attacks or the document also claims that china russia and north korea represent a unique and complex threat to the u.s. and its allies but as mentioned some of washington's partners are raising concerns over the program the decision by the us government in favor of new tactical nuclear weapons shows that the spiral of a new nuclear arms race is already underway as in the times of the cold war we in europe are especially endangered we hope that the united states will abandon its cold war mentality only sleep soon special disarmament responsibilities correctly understand china's strategic intentions and objective leave you china's national defense military buildup and i spoke earlier to international relations analyst

victor gao he says that nuclear proliferation is making world a more dangerous place. the united states has the largest the defense budget in the world larger than the next ten countries military budget combined together if it needs this as a defense measure is completely inaccurate and is misleading the whole world i think in the world we live in today we need peace we need stability we need development we need to have responsible global countries like the united states for example taking up their responsibility rather then spending money more and more saw all developing and improving their nuclear weapons which are eventually a major threat a menace to world peace and stability. and other headlines the international olympic committee has rejected the requests of thirteen russian

athletes as well as two coaches for invites for the upcoming winter games the sportsmen and women were recently ruled not to violate a doping rules by sports highest court the i.o.c. whoever still has the power to decide who competes and who doesn't. we provide this procedure out of the extremely disappointing custody up holy number repeats. the privilege to be right. rick wright was more than just the existence of a sage. soul we know it is right. the athletes were seeking invitations to compete along with other clean russian competitors so of course under the neutral athletes from russia the switzerland based court of arbitration for sport said on thursday that they are you see the evidence that the twenty eight had taken by and substances was insufficient. has

unanimously found that the evidence put forward by the i.o.c. in relation to this matter did not have the same weight in each individual case this is why in twenty eight cases the evidence collected was found to be insufficient to establish that an anti-doping rule violation was committed by the athletes concerned. this does not mean that these twenty eight actually declared innocent but in their case due to insufficient evidence the appearance of held the sanctions and the old and their individual results achieved in such reinstituted. let's bring it out as cashmore professor of sociology and expert of culture media and sport at aston university in the u.k. great to have your answer out of leeds earlier delighted of course by the cast decision bit of good news by the i.o.c. now are saying they can't go shatter all the hopes of competing as a reus

a rollercoaster of a story and what do you make of it all. well the i'd say first of all we have to say that they are entitled it's an invitation certainly event and they can invite who they like in the world and they can ban whoever they like as well it is an extraordinary turn of events i'm not often surprised by eventuality is in sport but i am by this one the court of arbitration for sport has really turned everything on its head and it said that they find insufficient evidence that is the crucial remark insufficient evidence for the past eighteen months or so we've been bombarded with what is supposed to count as evidence from professor mclaren who said the state sponsored doping going on in russia we've had the paralympic athletes disqualified from successive competitions we've had the individual bans on

russians at the at the rio olympics and the blanket ban the world i double a.f.c. championships that is the track and field championships it's a very extraordinary sequence of events and suddenly out of nowhere the court of arbitration against all expectations has declared insufficient evidence now don't underestimate the implications of this ruling it will encourage a great many more athletes particularly russian athletes who've been disqualified and had their medals taken away from them to appeal those decisions and who knows. if the court of arbitration come down on their side then we will have to have some kind of retrospective reinterpretation of everything that's gone on over the past eighteen months it really is a potentially fantastic decision as far as russia is concerned that the i.o.c. they're saying it's got new evidence of doping on the part of these athletes i mean do you think of any reason why it wasn't made available to cast to use the start

with to make another well it is very stern you. it's completely embarrassed by this decision because he it stood by mclaren through the whole process and now the court of arbitration has said is insufficient at some point of the next several months it could be that professor mclaren is called upon if not to appear at the court of arbitration but at least to disclose his evidence or what as far as he's concerned counts as evidence to the court and let them make their evaluation of the authenticity of that evidence and that could be interesting in its own right the i.o.c. is embarrassed by all this because i'm sure like me it felt quite confident that the court of arbitration would act according to protocol and agree with it but it does so it must have that must have looked at this quite critically and challenged

the findings of mclaren thought to themselves well there really isn't enough evidence to take away the medals from these people so let's reinstatement the i.o.c. for some reason is saying we're disappointed by this well you are you have to ask yourself this question why would the olympic organizers be disappointed with a court of arbitration its decision and remember the court has no axe to grind so it's completely neutral and objective about these things why would it be disappointing its decision i just want to ask this question i mean i think we both agree that if athletes have taken bath in doping or the wrist some sort of the program they should face the full legal consequences i think that's something everyone agrees on but in terms of this ongoing saga to what extent do you think this is driven by politics rather than objective review of all available evidence as cast seems to have looked at i mean is that a factor here. a very very most significant factor daniel the single most

significant factor because politics have driven this whole narrative from the start i mean everyone was denying it but it had to be political what's happened here is that russia has been made a scapegoat the i.o.c. in particular but the world of sport in general has really been looking to make a statement an affirmation of it stance against doping in world sport and it's it's issued disqualifications and lifetime bans to individual athletes but this is the first time in history that it's found a whole nation culpable and of course it's evidence for doing that was founded on the mclaren report. now i think the political dimension of this is there for those who want to examine it. sport has billions of dollars coming in through sponsorship deals the likes of toyota. these

mcdonald's there are so many there are a great many corporate globally quote corporate sponsors who put money into a sport they do not want their brand names associated with an enterprise which in some senses is soft on drugs because it just doesn't want to associate its brand with drugs and so sport has been under pressure to make an example of first of all individual athletes but this has been an incredibly. i suppose far reaching. statement to ban an entire nation and a nation that is a power in world sport russia and that i think in a nutshell is basically what has driven this whole this whole saga as you call it earlier sure on its search showing no sign of abating is it constant twists and turns no doubt will be coming on again the next big big news coming out as cashmore professor of sociology in ask the university thanks for your take today here on

r.t. my pleasure daniel. i set for myself in a team you know doughty for this i want to join us again in about thirty five minutes time for more global headlines see that. despite its tough going into history to save you don't you know you know it's dominated international sport however this is not about the motives of those champions from the. sort of. run on the children number. one will bear one for the been brought over me just remember if your brother described . your mother as she was the first to be reserved for you if you were the first some of your limpid team of nine hundred fifty two women saluted seeds of isis

concentration camp prisoners and from slime soldiers sort of still think maybe even though it's good to go from here which direction you go i'm much closer to the ship because you're more but you're in for the month over there shall go and they're going to have a wonderful future you think that here we're going to go with. the variations you'll push over through personal. enthusiasm both of you know when you're at the national borders and could be put in your car with the workers here we are in the world now as you can we. apply for many flips over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the beach or the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money just kill you know

a loan to spend spend the city to twenty million up one player. well it's an experience like nothing else because i want to share what i think of what i know about the beautiful game great so one more chance with. we're going underground as the u.n. announces its priorities but libya once the richest per capita country in africa and now a failed state after its just struction by nato coming up in the show the cladding manufacturer link to the grenfell tragedy released their annual results today in new york. labor m.p.'s the dead code about why she thinks blair right and tory neo

liberals about the fire that claimed the lives of nearly one hundred constituents and communist china cafeterias amaze refusal to endorse the people's republic spelt and road plan goal is a more coming up in today's going underground but first tomorrow if and only if he's granted safe passage as well as a british court agrees that there's no point the u.k. taxpayer funding is treated tension is determined by the un julian assange which will walk out of the ecuadorian embassy in london but safe passage after this from the current boss of the cia individuals will such as julian assange and edward snowden seek to use that information to make a name for themselves as long as they make a splash they care nothing about the lives they put at risk or the damage they cause to national security. what makes walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service it's something that the echo chamber of elite mainstream media will be keen to amplify his nuclear weapons hawk paul mason

interviewing us on as before he threw in his lot with labor leader jeremy corbyn the u.k. also refuses to confirm or deny where there's already a u.s. extradition warrant for me. whether or not the rape charge sticks there's no charges i haven't the allegation but you say that you could spend to arrest you for the american side such as what goes for journalism even after ruling the us government funded v.o.a. had to cover the un panel ruled the various forms of deprivation of liberty to which julian assange has been subjected constitute a form of arbitrary detention it said he should be released and compensated and wanted to raise a maze no chance left to say about the un ruling on the defacto waste of millions of u.k. taxpayer pounds being used to effectively torture one of history's greatest whistleblower publishers this is a frankly ridiculous finding by the working group and we rejected yes the british government rejects the un panel it's not for us it's going

underground to reject or accept the un even if according to this next clip the channel you're now watching stands accused by the cia of direct collaboration with wiki leaks in order to publish instances of nato war crimes russia's primary propaganda outlet r.t. has actively collaborated with what wiki leaks but make common cause with dictators today. yes they try unsuccessfully to cloak themselves in their actions in the anguish of liberty and language of liberty and privacy but in reality the champion nothing but their own celebrity just fade arguably doesn't rest in a british court tomorrow but with the erstwhile presenter of celebrity apprentice well julie the sun just currently held in an embassy in the royal bar of jealousy and representing that in parliament the richest bar of the riches constituency in the country is ever dead code m.p. she joins me now and i welcome to going underground before we go to the catastrophe

that is greenfield just take us back to the general election in june when you became the representative of the richest constituency in the united kingdom things were really changing we could feed our neighborhood there are lots of different things going on when there was a general disaffection with national government but it's far more right wing given amongst the richest people want a country to live in your constituents that it lee i heard that from a lot of people they are very very uncomfortable with the government fearing more to the right and we have decent taxpaying tories who didn't like the tall metal some of them would vote for me. certainly it was an issue. that was one issue but there were a whole number of things that made people uneasy with what was going on and they knew you were a backer of gerry corker not a near liberal blairite labor absolutely and i've been i've been a have my sort of politics all my life but i'm a local person i've lived there forever born and bred in the bar so a lot of people knew me through the council having been

a councillor for twelve years and just four days after you win the grand old tower tragedy happens how soon did you realize it would become emblematic of decades of new liberalism in this country from the second term there very early in the morning and saw what was going on i live just up the road from there i knew people in the town or people who died and people who survived. as soon as i saw better i knew that this was going to be was surely an isolated case of a fire in your community not really not really because of the history of our the number of people who live there and nearby the whole issues about the proposed development not regeneration is the development of the states near there there was so much brewing it was going to be world changing well. obviously did respond to calls for an inquiry and now the house of commons petition committee crossed pertti so that your appeals for the terms of the inquiry to be of all that there's some

merit in that absolutely well this is the petition put up by some of the survivors and briefed relatives to appoint an advisory panel which represented the community because we've seen in the early days of the inquiry most of it was run by i am afraid white men and that this is our community is very very mixed up people are very uncomfortable with that they wanted to properly represented if they wanted to . various different little prime minister said no and she said no and they were very upset because they took the petition personally and to see her and talk to her in downing street for a least half an hour we waited outside they came out very pleased and then just before christmas they were told no and they were distraught actually so i wrote to the chair of the petitions committee and that was the result that they asked her to review her response and i thought it had been insensitive and she hadn't taken everything into account but there's an overhaul of the inquiry if we ever were to happen will not include the replacement of the judge more big you've not called for

him to be replaced even the reason we selected him and he himself has been attacked or come under criticism from the supreme court of this country absolutely not calling for a while in the early days i did indeed ask that i didn't think he was the right person for the job having looked into his history we're stuck with him now but what they what that's down to theresa may she's i mean it is down to her she has the ultimate call. but the survivors number even and i take my cue from them have asked for an advisory panel. to be included in the inquiry and the terms of inquiry is so narrow now they literally just looking at how the how the fire took hold how did it happen and a bit of the background to it it's so now right there in a bag on the new york stock exchange today with this company that's reporting but you know what using it would have under the terms given to it it may not have as big an impact on your community well you know i feel what it's going to come up with is the recommendations of the house inquiry which was you know for it has

never they have never been implemented this is far and south london my very similar issue happened with similar kind of cladding and six people died now that has been we've been calling for the for the for the government to implement those recommendations for several years now and they haven't done it with the minister in charge after that like a bell inquiry is now to resume is chief of staff and he will he came under criticism for not following up on recommendations from think why would you feel like for you you know that sick actually you know we're all very well aware of that we're very very aware of that because he's now basically the closest person there is to the prime minister cycling and everything i can night and day we have dedicated case workers trying to trying to lobby for them but we're hitting you know the people in charge of the county that we have brought is there already because you do know yes your hands are tied but we'd love to buy the private property is the unfortunate there's no legal way we can do that at the moment they

have apparently bought three hundred homes they keep on saying we secured three hundred people to move into but when when when the residents go on the the website they have to wear it for there are only three or four which suits them so i don't understand what's going on there there's a mismatch between what we're told and what the survivors and briefed are finding and year drazen may said she would sort things out when. when she fully understood it now only three out of some one hundred sixty towers were similar clouding the we've asked this countless times in parliament. and we're told by the secretary of state if councils come to us we'll consider it and not a single council has had any funding to have their cutting replaced you mentioned as you said you didn't want to use the word regeneration and development it's labor councillors that have come under attack for social cleansing and for voting for social cleansing what did you think of jeremy corbyn.