because defense secretary says that he will counter russia and china militarily post regs perhaps a plan to boost the british army presence. but that to rebuild the war torn iraqi city of mosul under way the situation on the ground remains grim locals have told us the city is a ghost town. there's no reconstruction here all the reconstruction efforts are

just. like the living dead we have a cemetery over there but here it's a cemetery. but as well as president nicolas maduro initiates large scale military drills in preparation for a possible u.s. military intervention. joining us this out this is r.t. international. the british defense secretary has been addressing national security ahead of britain's withdrawal from the european union among the things he advocates is the deployment of more british naval ships overseas london correspondent polly boy has the story. well this was a speech raghavan williamson on veiled his future plans and ambitions for the british military he said that 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 or two we've seen is the government has always been willing and ready to respond to the case. because we realize for prioris importance office funding aside this speech sounded somewhat detached from reality in other aspects as well gavin williamson spoke about bragg's it being a great moment in the u.k.'s history which is sound somewhat optimistic given the chaotic situation that the brig's it process is in right now 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 offer country that will 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 cross 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 the u.k. is aligning its military ambitions with america's the deputy leader of a ukip moment who can believe that the reasoning behind the plan doesn't. 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 and 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 pursued 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. should be looking at building our armed forces bill now around we'll build in the air force and the navy and the

defense force you know looking after our unconscious in the last few years we can see what's gone on out shops have gone out there and done their absolute best but they're never more sure the phrase lions led by donkeys you know we go out there and do the bidding of politicians and if politicians are let down the country and let down our troops. if it's to rebuild the water an iraqi city of mosul continue since it's twenty seventeen liberation the situation on the ground remains green experts claim despite the flow of funds to rebuild the city which of that money's being pocketed by local authorities their thirty's deny the allegations the locals continue to complain about widespread corruption we talked to some of those who returned to mosul after its liberation. explains. 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. we return to our homes a year and a half after the liberation there is no life here there are no decent streets we suffer from power and water shortage it feels so pathetic. 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 airstrike in mosul look like it doesn't matter way you do it looks virtually the same crumbled buildings bre airstrike craters two years and now things changed west mosul is still a wreck city of the dead going to zero but 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. desperate 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 the have gotten as holes are everywhere there are still corpses everywhere and if anyone brings humanitarian aid in 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. pot holes everywhere streets filled with rubble and rubbish it's misery here i swear to god there are new clean officials here the norwegian refugee council's media coordinator in iraq tom priya course is not convinced just how

quickly mosul can be rebuilt. the muscle is not back to to normal yes and it won't 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 in to revolt and i'm going to tell you why for the simple reason that there camps were not designed as permanent structures the life expectancy of attend is supposed to not exceed six months and in camps in some camps they haven't been replaced for 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 the people from mosul have been enduring life

under islamic state groups for four three years and there are trustees but they are now suffering from the lack of their support and this is clearly unacceptable. but as well as embattled president nicolas maduro has launched huge military drills in preparation for a possible u.s. invasion but their own sister washington is leading a coup against him by backing venezuela's opposition leader and why don't proclaim himself interim president in january and as well the military is sticking with the dura for now despite some fifty countries officially recognizing it why don't the euro has warned washington against crossing the line. all of us if we are a peaceful country but do not mess with us do not threaten us donald trump get out of bed as well and stop the threats and get out we must prepare to defend our sovereignty to rhetorical integrity and independence but there was also another allowing u.s. aid into the country saying it's not needed medical professionals though protested

that the. near a blocked bridge on the border with colombia has been urging the military to disobey and three major food medicine shortages and hyperinflation 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 that age should never be politicized. is really is really challenging fortunately he. and i did two top priorities are for us as organization and on these of course we are we are trying to scale up our operation together with a witness right on red cross. at the moment this is the big challenge that the humanitarian aid has been. politicized that is dividing the political 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 here again on the. humanitarian challenges case. you play is recognized as one as well as interim president but the lower house of the german parliament has questioned its legality under international law link a party member has slammed the decision by major you countries is irresponsible. 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 and we spoke to under a home code says the federal recognition of one this president is a legal record nation and the current case is against international law and it's very clear and. in the expertise that any threat of violence or military interference or even this right 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. in the us they remain staunch in its support towards the self declared leader and with russia piling pressure on nicholas' maturer a failure of the alliance during one of his recent speeches proved an easy target. none of them. work right now rebuilding america.

is there a little light show. in our intelligence agencies if they just turn off the life of privilege and say. ok yes ok. let's go down to northern russia where a state of emergency has been declared following an invasion by poll about as several people were attacked by the bass which of even entered residential buildings and fifty two polar bears were spotted on c.c.t.v. footage and settlements on russia's island polar bears are classed as an endangered species in russia so it's illegal to kill them but since authorities have so far not manny's to scare the bears off with sirens they say that more drastic measures may be necessary. u.k. authorities are being accused of a heavy handed response after a woman was arrested in front of her children and looked to for seven hours for calling a female transgender activist by her form

a male name scotto says that she's not a mobile laptop return to her two months of the police detained and has reportedly been charged with a campaign of targeted russ meant multi sounds to see a chicken or explodes this is a case that's circulating in the u.k. press this monday concerning a thirty thirty year old woman and hartford tour 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 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 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 allegation. all 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 subjected to attacks i think when you see brought me into my going spirit i'm so mad because you know they're going to go live if you go on. this is still a you know slight up in the door and i was scratched by a guy. around my neck and how to come to my age. because i. got.

in this star marine. who does know more. as i went down the guard the be on the head with the with the stick. and i stood up obviously the short people you first only see it will continue it might be going to the fight for you well. maybe your day doesn't mean you're going to get to go and see. the whole town and they held a shotgun to my far edge the one that is caught in the media and you can't stand your bench dawson watch and. confront all. this case bob i'll consider any. recently published report has revealed electric drills blow torches and bleach have been used as assault weapons against farmers the issue of the white control the falling that's longs to control the safety of its to redistribute land to black farmers have been launched by the government which has stressed that it doesn't intend to begin the must sees of white owned farms the

recent spike it is time for us put the issue phone in the spotlight the violence against fallen as well it's been happening for decades while most of the victims are white some say attacks are less about racism and more to do with wider social problems concerning law and order. 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 it 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 if it does not exist spreads 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 rictus 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 and you solutions you know. what's become trapped in that racial prison we all 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 or matecumbe for mood for moment of vulnerability of workers pretends to be interviewed and they've been instances where. black people risk their lives to protect. to protect people under attack and vice versa as the case. we followed. the head of all mine retail giant amazon is protesting the invasion of his privacy and something u.s. tabloid the national enquirer allegedly tried to blackmail him i threatening to leak need photographs was for the tabloids parent company reject jeff bezos is

claims it all comes at a time when i was on reportedly helping to develop state level surveillance systems are used on 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 is

powered by learning based models providing video analysis of an 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 you could believe that we are under surveillance we can't even challenge 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 in 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 and it should say to you wow if they can do that to him

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sophie shevardnadze tribes plan for u.s. troops to remain in iraq has concerned baghdad and anger tehran. how well iraq balance out ever and interests here without forgetting its own i ask who are iraqi prime minister. as

a rock the rubble after the bloody war with isis the country's american and iranian allies are locked in a confrontation with each other each pressuring baghdad to join this site can be internally divided and unstable or wrong before to join another fight be able to preserve the hard won internal peace with the quarrel between washington and to run the country apart. hi there are a lot by the floor where iraqi prime minister welcome to the show it's great to have you with us on our program today so mr i love it donald trump has recently said that he wants to u.s. troops in iraq to quote watch it on obviously that's cost an opera in baghdad was iraqi politicians condemning in unison but can you act really do anything about it can they dictate terms to washington. well is this is that unfortunate because there is. an agreement that existence of foreign troops including

u.s. forces here in iraq is to help it. iraqi government fight terrorism it's no a job of foreign troops to spy on our neighbors or use iraq as a springboard against our neighbors this is not in our constitution iraqi constitution and this is not part of the whole of this operation the number of u.s. troops in iraq are limited they don't have free movement in iraq they have to move with that concept of the iraqi government they don't have for their own they don't control the sky and if light in iraq or outside iraq should be given to figure out a government so i think the whole thing is outside the scope of that issue because to do two countries is very unfortunate. rocky forces maintain security on their own if america the door well iraq is given over.