because defense secretary says that he will counter russia and china militarily post briggs's as he did of his a plan to boost the british army's global presence. that is to rebuild the war torn iraqi city of mosul under way the situation on the ground

there remains grim the locals have told us the city is a ghost town. there's no reconstruction here all the reconstruction efforts are just being on paper like the living dead we have a cemetery over that but here it's a cemetery for the living. there as well as president nicolas maduro initiates a large scale military drills in preparation for a possible u.s. military intervention. good evening welcome this is all to. the british defense secretary has been addressing national security ahead of britain's withdrawal from the among the things he advocates is the deployment of more british navy ships overseas along a correspondent as the story. well this was a speech raghavan williamson on veiled his future plans and ambitions for the british military he said that the president is

a historic moment and an opportunity for the u.k. and he listed all the new gadgets and the state of the art toys and equipment that he has on order he spoke about the british military needing to increase its mass and lethality which led to questions about how he's planning on funding increasing this mass and lethality take a lesson we've seen is the government has always been willing and ready to respond to the case. because we realize for pros and be important soldiers funding aside this speech sounded somewhat detached from reality in other aspects as well kevin williamson spoke about bragg's it being a great moment in the you case history which is sound somewhat optimistic given the chaotic situation that the break process is in right now and it is. to seize

the opportunities that brics it brings we will build new alliances rekindle old ones and most importantly make it clear that we are of the contrary that we act when required we should be the nation that people turn to when the world needs leadership he also spoke of britain being ready to intervene to protect the international rules based order which seem to completely close 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. we spoke to chris nine from the stop the war coalition who says that the u.k. is aligning its military missions with america's well the deputy leader of the you can depend his party mike who can believe the reasoning behind the plan doesn't quite have the. what williamston is doing is positioning our future foreign policy . very much in close and tight alliance with washington's and if you read the

you know transfers foreign policy. trumps cabinets foreign policy documents what they're really doing is they're trying to. assuage the u.s. military concern to trying to deal with china in particular which they see as their main competitor so the thing is britain's government kind of goes along with that train these kind of aggressive postures can only increase tension around the world they can only be seen as provocative and confrontational against great powers many of whom are armed powerfully than we are so this is a this is a this is a very odd foreign policy posture and it's hopefully not one that will in fact been pursue why are we getting involved with any of this we shouldn't be getting involved with china or russia you know there are not a threat to us as far as i can see at the moment you know way should be looking at

building our own forces bill now around we'll build in the air force up in the near very. french you know looking after our own conscious in the last few years we can see what's gone on our children of gone out there and done their absolute best but they're never more sure the phrase lions led by donkeys you know our troops go out there and do the bidding of politicians and if politicians are let down the country and let down our troops. to rebuild the water on iraqi city of mosul continue since it's twenty seventeen liberation the situation on the ground remains grim experts claim despite the flow of funds to rebuild the city much of that money is being pocketed by local authorities as authorities deny such allegations that locals continue to complain about widespread. eruption you've spoken to some of those who've returned to mosul following its liberation artie's radagast you have has 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 there are no basic services in the city no jobs it's terrible and 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 the knacked 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 look like it doesn't but away 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 not going to zero but one can even imagine how difficult it is not a 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 a clearing rubble in the absence of builders and can. action crews they are what you call rescue crews the first to stumble 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 and the have all of those shot 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 bombing mosul doesn't seem to have the cash or will to rebuild it the only thing that's being rebuilt the locals the bank accounts of crooked officials there is 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 here the

norwegian refugee council's media coordinator in iraq tom player cost is not convinced about how quickly mosul can be rebuilt mosul is not normal yes and it will not be the case for years if reconstruction is not being scaled up people cleared the houses and rebuilt with their bare hands and they are exposed to unexploded bombs we've seen many victims recently so clearly the situation is not back to normal yet there is a nerve agent need to rebuild 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 ripped. or more than two years now people or 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 the people from mosul have been enduring life under islamic state groups for for three years and there are trustees but they are not suffering from the lack of support and this is clearly an acceptable. but as well as embattled president nicolas maduro is launched a huge military drills in preparation for a possible u.s. invasion material insists that washington is leading a coup against him by backing venezuela's opposition leader and why don't pretend himself interim president in january the venezuelan military sticking with madeira for now despite some fifty countries officially recognizing with uro's warm washington against crossing the line. all four of us if we are a peaceful country that we do not mess with us do not threaten us donald trump get out of bed as well or stop the threats and get out we must prepare to defend our

sovereignty to rhetorical integrity and independence but there is also not allowing u.s. aid to the country saying it's not needed medical professionals have protested that decision never blocked bridge the border with colombia why doe's been urging the ability to disobey material and let it free and its 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 at the situation saying aid should never be politicized. it's really easy lee challenging fortunately he. has. two top priorities are for us as organization and on these of course we are we are trying to. ration together with a witness right on red cross. i do moment this is the big

challenge of the day you money that has been not. politicize it is dividing the debate which shouldn't be. the international community can do more in not giving to the you money. you money. to support the most vulnerable communities here in minutes right now or elsewhere. the peaceful dialogue can prevail we hope that. the option no one beyond the next day and they will find a way to sort out from these difficulties because he can only be. a humanitarian challenges in that case a key player is recognized. as well as interim president but the lower house of the german parliament has questioned its the galaxy under international law to link a party member. the decision by major new countries as responsible it is clear that

currently has no real power in venezuela recognizing him as a president is an irresponsible act that further aggravates an already dangerous conflict exposed under him crime selfie says that the legal expertise clearly shows the u.s. threats towards venezuela as well as recognition of an opposition leader are in violation of international law. nation in the current case is against international law and it's very clear and. expertise that any threat of violence or military interference or even the threats to bring my dual put. out this is very clearly against international law i think it would be much better for the german government or for the european union to have. to have a neutral stance to support for example the initiative of mexico and why. and

even as you know the red cross from from venezuela colombia they. said they could not support the so-called whose money tarion eight of the us because it's not independent it's not neutral i think we should have a neutral stance on the situation. the us there remains staunch in its support towards the self declared leader one going with washington piling the pressure on nicholas material a failure of the light steering one of his recent speeches proved an easy target. no place.

to work right now are we building a bomb or. is there a little light show going on. in our intelligence agencies if they just turn off the life of privilege and say. they are ok yes ok. thirty's are being accused of a heavy handed response after a woman was arrested in front of the children locked up for seven hours for calling a female transgender activist by her former male name ok scott i says she's not mobile a lot to return to or two months after police detained and has reportedly been charged with a campaign of targeted harassment. churkin as details this is a case that's circulating in the u.k.

press this monday concerning a third thirty year old woman and hartford sure north of london kate scotto 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 trial. 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 artistic ten year old daughter and breastfed twenty month old son present i was then detained for seven hours in the cell with no sanitary 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 sic debate over gender now the activist who filed this report stephanie hayden has this to say it is not just relates to mr gendering me as a male it's far more serious that the allegations are far more serious includes a disclosure of financial and personal information and the decision to arrest misquote how was an independent decision taken by half a police here in the u.k. well the police in this case have said quote we take all cases all reports of malicious communication seriously and now this case is under investigation so we'll be watching it to see how exactly it unravels. in south africa violent attacks on

farmers or on the rise increasing by fifteen percent over two years according to new information official figures indicate more than seventy percent of those murdered on farms were white we spoke with some farmers who were subjected to attacks perfectly usually brought in to make the difference to it i'm so looking to see if you know that going to go a little if you go into. this is still like you know what it looks like from the top and other scratch. but it's all romantic. how to count my age but. i. got. in this star marine me. who does nine mil. on my as i went down the garden we've gone the head with this with a stick. and. see the short we did you first because you will you might

be going to the fire. brigade you don't think this is the you're leading to those. the whole time they held the shock and the one that is called leader and you keep saying your bench dawson thanks dot. inserted all. his phone call to me. recently published report revealed the electric drills glow torches and bleach being used as assault weapons against pharmacy the issue of the white controller following his long stirred controversy if it's to redistribute lantz of black farmers they've been launched by the government which has stressed that it doesn't intend to begin mass caesar of white owned farms the recent spike in attacks has put the issue firmly in the spotlight but violence against farm owners that's been happening for decades most of the victims all white some say the attacks are less to do with racism more to do with wider social problems concerning lauren daughter your highness. the nature of the attacks is disproportionate we're

not among those claiming there is a wide genocide or a crime against humanity but it is each serious crisis and there are signs that it is only going to get wars we are on record as as dismissing the the what to watch genocide narrative of if it does not exist. that being said. you do get into it into issues of what what motivates these crimes and an argument could be made that in certain instances. the recluse rictus racial rhetoric may be a contributing factor once again these awards expresses possibilities commercial farmers. tend to be disproportionately white although. you know i think it's it's it's very important you know in d.c. you solutions you know to what's become trapped in that racial prison we are aware of instances where we. reflect people being attacked and also i think it must be

pointed out that that part of the whole form for matecumbe form of phenomenon is the vulnerability of workers to pretend to be interviewed by and they've been instances where. black people abuse that loves to protect. to protect what i watch people under attack and vice versa as the case. we followed. the boss a phone line retail john amazon is protesting the invasion of his privacy the u.s. tabloid the national enquirer allegedly tried to blackmail him by threatening to leak need photographs was for the tabloids parent company reject jeff bezos his claims it all comes at a time when i was on this reportedly helping to develop state level surveillance systems what he's done quarter takes a look. it's blackmail for amazon c.e.o. jeff bezos who has threatened to have his nudes made public by the national

enquirer but he chose to own up to it and publish the threat leaving his sympathizers to believe the whole thing was political somehow someone was trying to hit job government entity might have gotten hold of his text messages people who speculated that trump kind of aspect or to do this this was at least partially politically motivated back in two thousand and thirteen amazon signed a six hundred million dollar contract with the cia to create a secret cloud server under amazon web services it was intended to pull classified data of seventeen intelligence agencies into one location and one web service has become an especially invasive surveillance technology the amazon videotape young these powered by learning based models providing video analysis of the object in scene detection face attention activity detection and safe content face recognition post and tracking amazon recognition was launched back in twenty seventeen claiming

to recognize tens of millions of faces base so says the tech can't be used to criminally violate people's privacy however this strides towards a surveillance state has sparked serious protest amazon cannot simply escape responsibility by saying this cannot be used illegally it's you and i don't know i don't think that you can believe that we are under surveillance we can't even sally that surveillance civil rights groups even found that amazon wanted to use doorbell cameras as a surveillance tool for police and immigration officials the american civil liberties union slammed to the whole system as all for a tarion. amazon is building the tools for authoritarian surveillance that advocates activists community leaders politicians and experts have repeatedly warned against even amazon's shareholders are now calling for an end to law enforcement's use of recognition perhaps spays also was just trying to make an easy

buck but the writing is on the wall and many think that amazon c.e.o. is finally getting a taste of his own medicine there's a real irony in this that he's been caught sort of host on his own petard as we say being. a and his organization have a very tight link with the n.s.a. the national security agency and has been helping them with their surveillance techniques so they're intimately connected with the whole surveillance state that the u.s. has been developing when you see something like this happening to one of the world's most powerful men it should say to you wow if they can do that to him they certainly could be doing that to me and i wouldn't even know about it. starting next month does it bring a returns to our tafe a coverage of the twenty nine thousand you a for champions league from pretty much predictions to game post-mortems this need

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hello and welcome to crossfire we're all things are considered time peter lavelle house forced regime change going in venezuela a few snags a few bumps in the road and can we believe some u.s. troops will leave the middle east and much much more on this edition of crossfire. cross talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow exactly amuro he is the founder of the center for political strategic analysis poll we also have extra leavitt's he is a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and we have dmitri bobbitt she's a political analyst with nick international or a german cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate picture let me go to you first let's talk about venezuela we have. the pretender president backed by the united nations the united states mr

cardew he's come out in public saying that he may because of his power whatever that may be mean in venezuela asked for foreign intervention which of course would be the use of the middle american military in venezuela as we've seen many many times in the hemisphere is this going in a very bad place or is this telling us that as i said in my introduction a few bumps in the road a few snags with this force regime change of course there are keeping cool is keeping so it's still going it may not be going as fast or as quick as the station or its lights in the venezuela have liked it to go but if such an intervention ever took place it would be a complete total violation of international law why door has no legitimacy in the international enough he has not been elected by the venezuelan people here is

essentially been elected by washington d.c. and that's and its allies in the.