was i. i. i. i. but that is to rebuild the war torn iraq a city of mosul and away the situation on the ground for me locals told us the city is a ghost town. there's no reconstruction here all the reconstruction efforts are just going on paper like the living dead we have a symmetry over there but here it's

a cemetery for the living also even how i view defense secretary says he will come to russia and china military post back saying as he delivers the pounds of the british army its global presence. and spend as well as presidents nicolas maduro initiate large scale military drills in preparation for a possible u.s. military intervention. is just ten four pm in the russian capital we are watching off say international. top story as efforts to rebuild the water in iraq a city of mosul continues to insist twenty seventeen liberation the situation on the ground remains scrim expense claims that despite the flow of funds to rebuild the city much of the money is being poked at its by local authorities this r.t.a.

said neither allegations their locals continue to complain about widespread corruption we talked to some of those who pretend to mosul offer its liberation. house the story. coming home should always be a joy safety security but it isn't always so not when you're coming back to mosul and there are no basic services in the city no jobs it's terrible. we return to our homes a year and a half after the liberation if there is no life here there are no decent streets we suffer from power and water shortage it feels so pathetic you know we are here battling all the hardships we now regret that we ever came back. it was one of the biggest deadliest battles in the world in decades in the name of freedom they turned west mosul into this.

a city of millions reduced to ash and rubble in an act they called liberation i was there two years ago i saw tasted and smelled the city being freed that's an iraqi helicopter this is what the aftermath of a classic strike in mosul looks like it doesn't matter that way you do it all looks virtually the same crumbled buildings they breathe air strike craters two years and now things changed west mosul is still a wreck city of the dead going to zero by one can even imagine how difficult it is one hospital no schools no teachers we are like the living dead we have a cemetery over there but here it's

a cemetery for the living. their spirit children orphans appearing rubble in the absence of builders and construction crews they are what you call rescue crews the first to stumble on and dive from booby traps unexploded u.s. coalition bombs they are the first to reach the corpses under the rubble now estimated to be in the tens of thousands bodies left rotting for two years because they have. holes are everywhere there are still corpses everywhere and if anyone brings humanitarian aid to the local officials to steal it they are all corrupt. corruption has its tentacles everywhere millions of dollars intended for reconstruction apparently siphoned off stolen the u.s. led coalition which spent billions in mosul doesn't seem to have the cash or will

to rebuild it the only thing that's being we built the locals the bank accounts of crooked officials there's no reconstruction here all their reconstruction efforts are just in on paper potholes everywhere streets filled with rubble and rubbish it's misery here i swear to god there are no clean officials. to discuss this further we're now joined by the norwegian refugee centers media coordinator in iraq tom appeared costa. welcome to the program now locals have told us that the city is a ghost town but you've been on the ground is most so returning to normal well clearly no muscle is not back to normal yes and it won't it will not be the case for years. construction is not being scaled up we are nearly two years after the city was retaken from islamic state group. and. underage of thousands of iraqis are still those placed around the city and not able to go home for the

simple reason that they don't have any home to go back to. to give you a concrete example nine hospitals out of thirteen in mosul are still damaged or destroyed unable to deliver any kind of help support there are still phone a million tons of rubble that needs to be cleared in the city people rebuilt people clear the houses and rebuild where the bare hands and they are exposed to unexploded bombs we have seen many victims recently so clearly the situation is not back to normal yet and can you describe the current level of aids and is it and not . well the humanitarian community is working on reconstruction we have rebuilt hundreds of houses schools and we have rehab really tejan the water infrastructure is in the city and we are supporting on

a daily basis these iraqis are in camps and still displaced with essential humanitarian support but this is clearly not enough and. if all the iraqi authorities don't prioritise reconstruction efforts people still displaced will not be able to return home any time soon. the resources that have been allocated for the rigs and reconstruction of this teaching are not given a third of what is needed for for just the year of twenty one thousand. in your opinion what can be done to you and accelerate regeneration. well with the support of the international community reconstruction must be prioritized both at national level and local level as i said the government has a look at it very little money for the reconstruction of this year to you who has

been destroyed of two percent but also at the local level. there is need to make sure that the money is well spent to avoid any mismanagement and corruption. we both ahead allegations that local authorities the stealing foreign funding meant for the rebuilding of the city have you seen any evidence of this well i can't really speculate on alleviation of of correction but what i can confirm is that the iraqis displaced and return is both are clearly not getting enough support both from the international community and the iraqi authorities and they see it describes living conditions sounding very harsh but the people at least fail safe from terrorist violence at the moment. while across the country violence is still a major concern and that's true but it wasn't what is also concerning is to see

that nearly two years of service if you were taken from islamic state group. nearly . iraqis are still leaving the and during winter conditions in camps or in the role of their house that's also a major concern. and the provincial governor as well said that people shouldn't be asking why reconstruction is slow instead they should be asking why why rush this and do you agree with that. well there is a nerve agent into revolt and i'm going to tell you why for the simple reason. that the camps were not designed as permanent structures the life expectancy of a tent is supposed to not exceed six months and in camps in some camps they haven't been replaced or more than two years now people are exposed to winter conditions and floods we have big floods in iraq and even recently there has been many of the . so it is clearly urgent to rebuild and if we try and put

a time frame on this perhaps when do you think most so will be back to normal well not anytime soon unfortunately if if the reconstruction payscale the same. people from mosul have been enduring life under islamic state groups for four three years and their atrocities but they are not suffering from their large goals of their support and this is clearly an unsuitable we appreciate your thoughts on the situation my guest now waging refugee council's media coordinator in iraq thank you very much. the british defense secretary has been addressing national security the head of britain's withdrawal from the your opinion among the things he advocates is the deployment of more british navy ships eva c.

we can cross live now to our london correspondent. polly welcome to the program can you update us on the situation what else did the defense minister say. well this is of course the politician the rather famously said that russia needs to go away and shut up and the rhetoric today wasn't as harsh this was a speech where he unveiled his ambitions and plans for the future of the british military and whereas for many years we've heard of defense secretary talking about needing to balance the budget this one was more about all the new gadgets and the new state of the art toys that gavin williamson the has ordered for the military and how the british military is going to meet the strategic threats that it currently faces that includes i sill so islam mix state extremists but also in the same breath the threat of a resurgent russia as he called it that's not just threatening to bring its

neighbors back into its orbit but is also deploying unconventional cyber warfare against the west and crucially gavin williamson said that britain needs to be ready to use hard power against threats that come from russia or he focused on china as well and he announced that the u.k. would be deploying its aircraft carrier the queen elizabeth to the pacific in order to deter the chinese in fact he spoke several times of needing to increase the mast and the list fallacy of the u.k. military which led to questions about who's going to pay for all of it take a listen you've just issued another short released of high tech capabilities that are probably very difficult to coast in the early stages of their development what

we've seen is that the government has always been willing and ready to respond to the case of difference because we realize the priority and the importance of it. and sort of funding aside this speech sounded somewhat detached from reality in other aspects as well apart from that issue of funding gavin williamson spoke about greg's it being a great moment in the u.k.'s history which is sound somewhat optimistic given the chaotic situation that the briggs it process is in right now and he also spoke of britain being ready to intervene to protect the international rules based order which seem to complete gloss over the interventions that britain has taken part in that haven't quite gone to plan for example iraq afghanistan libya to name but a few. polly boyko reporting live from london thank you.

venezuela's embattled president nicolas maduro has launched a huge military drills in preparation for a possible u.s. invasion led to a row insists washington is leading a coup against him by backing venezuela's opposition leader. proclaimed himself interim president in january the venezuelan military is sticking with majority for now despite some fifty countries officially recognizing why though the door rove has warned washington against crossing the line. we are a peaceful country but we do not mess with the. donald trump get out of bed as well as stop the throat and get out we must prepare to defend our sovereignty to rhetorical integrity and independence. was also not allowing u.s. aid to the country saying it's not needed medical professionals protested that decision never blocked bridge at the colombian border why don't has been urging the

military to disobey madore and let it through food and medicine shortages and hyper inflation more than two million people have fled the country. the president of the international federation of the red cross has hit out of the situation saying aid should never be politicized. it's really easy lee challenging fortunately. i did two top priorities. and. we are trying to. cross. i do moment. shouldn't be. international community can do more

giving to the you money. you money. elsewhere. can prevail. the. next day and they will find. out from. yours he can order the. money. in that case still to come or not say south africa face a significant rise in tax on farm as we have from some of the victims after the short break.

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welcome back to take in south africa violent attacks on farm is on the rise increasing by fifteen percent over two years according to new information official figures indicate more than seventy percent of those made it on farms were white we spoke with some pharma subjected to a tax cuts including used to make sense to you. you know look going to give them if you could this is the life you know who do i sleep slope from the top and i. and.

the stick. and. obviously the short be the new first old if you will continue in my income to the. thirty year old it doesn't mean you're going to do. it the whole time they held a shotgun to my far edge the one that is caught in the. notch of the facts. in. this case bob i'll consider any. i recently published reports has read fails the so that trick trails blowtorches until each have been used as assault weapons against pharmacies the issue of the white control of farming has long stood to control the city efforts to redistribute lands to black farmers have been launched by the government which is stress though that it doesn't intend to begin the messy shot why tode farms the recent spike in

attacks is put the issue family in the spotlight of violence against farm anus has been happening for decades whilst most of the victims are white some say the attacks a less to do with racism and more to do with wide to social problems by sending over north and south africa. to the rest of the nature of their tax is disproportionate we're not among those claiming there is a wide genocide or a crime against humanity but it is a serious crisis and there are signs that it is only going to get wars we are on record as as dismissing the watch the white genocide narrative of it it does not exist as friends that being said. you you do get into it into issues of what of what motivates these crimes and an argument could be made that in certain instances. the reckless richest racial rhetoric may be a contributing factor once again these are expressed as possibilities commercial

farmers. tend to be disproportionately white. you know i think it's it's very important you know it's you solutions you know what's the temperature in that racial prism we are aware of instances where we're. back people being attacked and also i think you missed your point about the possible form. and form of the moment of the vulnerability of workers tend to be tense. and they've been instances where. black people abuse that loves to protect them. to protect what what people under attack and vice versa because. we follow the priest. u.k. authorities to being accused of a heavy handed response softer a woman was arrested in front of the children and locked up to seven hours for calling a transgendered person by have format mail name notice the naming case casaya says

she has no as has him a ball or laptop or ten to her two months off to be incident and has reportedly been charged with a campaign of targeted harassment well we can now enjoying life correspondent enough to say a chicken a enough to say what more do we know at this point well honey so this is a case that's circulating in the u.k. press this monday concerning us that thirty eight year old woman and hartford tour north of london kate's kauto who is being investigated following a potentially controversial twitter exchange now according to this woman she was arrested by three police officers and locked up according to her for an entire seven hours following a report filed by a transgender activist claiming that she was dead naming this activist which means using the name that the person was either born with or was using before transitioning so essentially in this case for calling this activist

a man this is what she had to say. i was arrested in my home by three officers with my autistic ten year old daughter and breastfed twenty month old son present i was then detained for seven hours in the cell with no senate terry products which i said i needed before being interviewed then later released under investigation i was arrested for harassment and malicious communications because they called someone out and ms gender them on twitter well this woman was accused of a campaign of targeted harassment and from what we know court papers say that she had made defamatory posts in a quote talk sick debate over gender now the activist who filed this report stephanie hayden has this to say. would beg for it fails to mention is that the subject again junction is alleged to have disclosed private financial and medical

information about me on social media channels including one set up for to sole purpose of harassing me for being transgender well the police in this case have said quote we take all cases old reports of malicious communication seriously and now this case is under investigation so we'll be watching it to see how exactly it unravels thanks for bringing us up to date enough to say a chicken a thank you. starting next month one of the biggest names in football returns to us hey if latham is full of change same we knew it wasn't enough the legendary coach is back cross special coverage of the twenty nine hundred you wait for champions league from pretty much predictions to game post-mortems his new buy weekly show has a tool make sure you on the touchline with choice a marine year. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the multiple different clubs on one hand it is logical

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