streamer you do narratives of this time on al-jazeera facing new realities growing up went to do you realize that you were living in a special place the so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter while you activists to live in jail just because she expressed herself hear their story on and talk to al-jazeera at this time. hello there angelina donald in london the top stories on al-jazeera it winter olympics have officially opened in the size korean city of chang with a spectacular fireworks display and i was freezing temperatures so attend the event one that is hoped will help bring about them all to mattick diplomatic fall for

lesions between north and south korea for now it looks like the ice has been broken with what's being described as a historic handshake between south korea's leader. and kim joey jong the sister of north korea's leader the toxic i reports. a step towards reconciliation for the first time since the korean war more than half a century ago a member of north korea's ruling family is welcomed in the south the arrival of leader kim jong sr is fascinating many south koreans jiang has quickly become a power broker in another historic moment south korean president moon j. in greeted her at the opening ceremony before she sat near u.s. vice president mike pence the two didn't appear to exchange greetings then the moment many had been waiting for north and south korean athletes marched under a unified flag as a celebration of ethnic nationalism it's the first time they've done that at an

international sporting event in eleven years moon said the winter olympics offer a meaningful opportunity for a world divided by conflicts to unite critics say the north korean charm offensive is only intended to advance its agenda and mosconi is decided to look nice for a vial of this option if you would use chance chances that president krom be authorizing me to take their ration bot as a program of ease that made fundamentals have not changed. i determined to have an end of this i.c.b.m. into continental body stick missiles capable of delivering a nuclear strike as a continuum for the united states in the run up to the games the north koreans have absorbed much of the spotlight first by agreeing to participate and then by sending a high level delegation to the south this week american diplomat said they would

soon unveil the toughest economic sanctions against north korea yet while also saying a diplomatic solution was the focus. for now this is a moment for south koreans to show the world what it done. damn a country they live in during the opening ceremony spectators were taken back in time to show the history of the korean people and what organizers called their relentless pursuit of peace in that picture while in peace i hope that with north korean athletes participation this could be peaceful and picks and i hope we can achieve reunification between the south and the door to get. the mood here is good for south korea's hosting the olympics and athletes are coming from around the world a good opportunity to promote south korea. and the hope is this will set the stage down only for a sporting spectacular but historic breakthrough with their northern neighbors. old

zero continent south korea u.s. president donald trump a signed off on a spending bill ending the second government shutdown this year of over this one class of just a few hours the deal to extend funding was agreed by congress but disagreements between republicans and democrats over immigration remain to be solved in the bill will still have major financial consequences and this one person has been killed and more than one hundred twenty two injured when two bombs were detonated joining friday prayers at a mosque in the libyan city of benghazi officials say both devices were planted in separate rooms inside they gyptian army's launched what it's calling a comprehensive operation against terrorist and criminal groups in the sinai peninsula make a me and i'm spent in a televised statement an army spokesman said it involves land sea and air forces covering central sinai and areas in egypt's nile delta and western desert those are

your top stories you're up to date stay with al-jazeera next up it's rewind iraq after the americans will see you in just under half an hour. hello and welcome once again to rewind i'm come on santa maria in the decade or so since the start of al-jazeera english back in two thousand and six we've broadcast hundreds of moving powerful documentaries and here on rewind we are revisiting some

of the best of them and looking at how the story has moved on today where rewinding to two thousand and twelve when fault lines sebastian walker returned to iraq to assess the state of the nation after the withdrawal of u.s. troops that was supposed to be the end of nine years of occupation following the downfall of saddam hussein since that time of course iraq has had to endure chaos in the wake of the rise of eisel a government widely seen as exacerbating sectarian divides and the virtual destruction of cities like mosul in the attempt to drive out in retrospect said walker's film is an extraordinary snapshot of a moment in time a very personal journey through a devastated land with hopes of a better life emerging from the ashes hopes that were to be cruelly dashed from two thousand and twelve his fault lines iraq after the americans. i.

five years since i was last in iraq. back then coalition troops were still deployed in the southern city of basra the military has left but many of the british soldiers who are based here have stayed on. this time they're here for the money. business is booming for their clients to iraq is pumping record amounts of oil and production contracts to develop the country's massive southern oil fields. to foreign companies. don't you think. china's national petroleum corporation has partnered with british giant b.p.

to develop the remaining oil fields in iraq. newly arrived chinese oil workers and foreign employees meet their security details in this. to a private security escort is still obligatory and this is. the first city to fall in the two thousand and three u.s. led invasion. i came here at that summit to report on angry protests that had broken out against the lack of electricity. today there isn't much improvement in the basic services people were protesting for nine years ago. as power cuts. unemployment also is widespread here. people under thirty don't have jobs.

new money flowing in the cost of living is rising fast. one mile from us and them in the. well i can see that's a look at what is at the marlin michelle can always for a second community in the pledge of his shop for nine years union leader hashmi al saddam he has fought to keep iraq's oil wealth flowing to iraqis not just to foreign companies iraq's deputy prime minister for energy says that the deals the government has signed with foreign investors are reaping rewards we have already increased our production to three million barrels per day and during this it will add another. half a million more but of the president so the progress is there. but despite record output in baghdad this frustration the companies developing the fields are importing labor. and that there is no meaningful legislation to protect iraqi jobs

. isn't it be looked at and that it isn't to be affected but what about out on the edge of the i'm in this in mind that i'm on my talk about this is really am i remember you could be and that is that and that. i left up and i wanted to. get. saddam he says it was the u.s. decision to dismantle iraq's army and national industries in the name of the path of vacation that caused widespread unemployment. and created a launch pool of angry men ready to take up arms. from basma we joined north toward men jaf. along a road lined with symbols that commemorates a battle lost and injustice done. the same a trio of want to yell solemn finally of peace surrounds the city why it is possibly

the largest burial ground in the wont and the final resting place to which many shia aspire. the scale of this places absolutely breathtaking for fourteen centuries shia from all over the world have been bringing that they had to be buried here it's so immense that in not just they say that since he is fall for the living and haul for the dead. in two thousand and four the serenity of the valley of peace was violated. that spring finds his loyal to mactire around the side of the son of one of iraq's most revered shia clerics for u.s. forces in baghdad and the holy cities of karbala. and here in the jack. biggio yes yes as. i landed here. destroyed everything. at the beginning of august trying to reach out sanders mahdi army and take control of. u.s.

marines invaded the cemetery when taken into a part of the graveyard where you can actually see the destruction from the fighting that took place in two thousand and four this r.p.g. holes in the walls some of these graves are completely destroyed a member speaking to iraqis at the time who simply couldn't believe that things had to tarry to such an extent that this one of the most holy and sacred sites in all of iraq had turned into a battleground between the mahdi army and the americans. hundreds of monte finds his dined in the battle. in a new section of the cemetery built for sound his followers killed in the uprisings and sectarian violence that the u.s. led occupation provoked. families comes on and that danny. government. so much. no one knows how many iraqis have been killed since the invasion. of them it's range from more than one hundred fifty thousand to over

a million. for years the u.s. claims not to keep a body count. but there are some six thousand graves in this cemetery learn where the grief seems impossible to bury. early shock a saddam's mother died during the violence in two thousand and four his brother is buried here in the section reserved for those killed by u.s. forces. at the end of course we are. in the huddle too little to follow from the front of other people for what. and you're looking you have. these were the people the u.s. military expected to welcome them. but they soon made enemies of people like allie and his family.

but then. if i thought i should be. ok for. a job if i could be here in america they think this is over. here. who. will tell you to do. is follow his listens to him deliver some of his most incendiary against the occupation. to his base in the nearby city of coup for. now santa spends much of his time in iran and on this friday he isn't here but the message is political populist and doesn't shy away from criticizing the government in baghdad

. well there is if yeah it was yeah there was and there was you're here where here you are forgetting the sermon addresses the deepening conflict between iraqi prime minister nouri al maliki's party and the opposition blocs that has virtually paralyzed parliament for months was there a sheet where he was. over the years santa has cultivated the image of an independent champion of the dispossessed shia who make up his base. and he's transformed himself from a leader of a militia into the leader of a political party an important one on which maliki reliance to maintain power. for years saddam hussein had banned public celebrations of shia festivals and limits of the flow of iranian pilgrims to man jack. now the pilgrims and tourists

are back prompting a booming trade in hotel developments. and there are unconfirmed reports that iran is planning to spend a billion dollars to refurbish the showing off the decades of being victims the shia majority in iraq have emerged the victim is. a shia who now holds the top post of prime minister and commander in chief and government positions are distributed according to ethnic and sectarian quotas. the new balance of power in iraq has raised fears that iran's influence is growing both in baghdad and here in the jafo. ayatollah ali al sistani is the top spiritual guide for iraqi shia and the leader of the school of clerics that go on to try and . keep ation he demanded the us organize direct elections while opposing

iranian style theocratic governance. system is eighty one years old and there are reports that iran is campaigning to have one of their ayatollah succeed him. in iraq these days regional ambitions run like undercurrents reshaping the country. but over the past nine years political violence has literally refashioned the landscape. i haven't been back to back that in about five years my only just entering the city but immediately the first thing that strikes you as you drive in is one thing that's really changed these walls. baghdad is battle scarred and sectioned off by blast walls that were raised first around government ministries and military bases then around hotels filled with foreigners and then the sectarian attacks escalated around neighborhoods. the

city was reconfigured is iraqis fled mixed areas for the relative safety of religious and ethnic lee homogenised enclaves. harboring the wounds and stories of the bloodshed the occupation unleashed many remain there protected by concrete walls checkpoints and each other. more than one point three million people across iraq a still displaced. and in baghdad almost half a million remain in camps like this one on the edge of the shia neighborhood of cademy. sit on us one another. abu said john's family was living in town near a sunni neighborhood north of baghdad where resistance to the occupation was fierce . al qaeda also found a home there as it. i don't. need an. issue when the family

fled they left everything behind in school. and although they live in constant fear of eviction they say they can't return to tell me. that out here. but i saw a bunch of it us up and i had. that as a. little about what you. feel like. in the sunni neighborhood of gaza where they came to escape threats from the mahdi army in two thousand and six hundred ninety five and a mother in law struggling to care for their household including his two kids. like almost one in ten women in iraq they are widows. and it's husband hussein was killed by u.s. forces during a raid on the markets in two thousand and five. she had just learned she was pregnant with their second child about the. mahdi and shimmered neighbors total can

have been on the cell. phone a hard time. to decide mom what i meant to toss a hug out of them over to. the diameter of the thought of how to take the bad suck out of what i want to but i don't want to go with two kids be home by seven am on cyberdyne and having no money. two years later as many as second son nuri was killed in a miniature attack the family lost another breadwinner and bureaucracy has made it difficult for them to get the support payment the government extends to widows or so there is a reference to their no one had no money i'm not sure none of them know must have been some good some know how cool mom had to say on my times when a young man i don't know how come i am i now believe that i've begun to notice you know not just ahead of us out of a shot of the day. i was out. but soon because another i was so bizarre

that i thought i said that. was what they will as they were telling me. what i wanted to run on you and your innocence plights men the new model you know i have a good message you home on i have got to tell us something about the national it's a phony i mean honest. other. than homeless in. need would you say that got a career and then who must i do it for couldn't be joe you couldn't i don't want to up right now no one up of nothing will come in you my dear only child would you have a shout. about how to we could help up in a song try soon maybe last spent seven months seen us custody at abu ghraib prison and more than a year and a half in the u.s. run detention camps. he has testified to us military investigators that abu ghraib he was stripped and paraded naked with

a sack over his head dressed in women's underwear cuffed and hung from a window frame for hours when he asked to pray and beaten into unconsciousness did the bin. that herman. how many did it. feel good and i thought i had a little so on with. them and i didn't get the. money he says it was part of u.s. interrogators strategy is they trying to quell resistance that the u.s. terms terrorism or detaining people across the country especially those from sunni areas. as much. you know. over the past year human rights groups have reported that iraqi government security forces have conducted sweeps preemptively arresting hundreds of people detaining and sometimes torturing them in

secret prisons inside the international zone some of the same people who were detained by the americans and were accused of being terrorists then many live in sunni areas in and around baghdad from where armed groups still orchestrate attacks . the government says there are no secret prisons i could say that there is no secret detention so we will come now human rights forged amnesty organization and united nation organization to come and check and to find out whether there is a secret detention center and. the. but the arrests have fueled the perception in communities like this one that the government is targeting them much like u.s. forces used to. we've come for friday prayer in and amir. a sunni neighborhood that for many years was an important center of anti occupation

resistance. getting here hasn't been easy and we currently being stopped from getting access to the main mosque anatomy or by a police checkpoint further down the street our soldiers through our security guards currently negotiating with them to get approval for something we already have approval to do. and when prayers are over no one here is willing to speak to us. people here are definitely scared to speak on camera they're saying that if they talk to us they think they'll be arrested down the line and we've now been told that we're not allowed to film anywhere outside the compound around the main mosque the guards have taken down the details of our security guards and said that if we go outside that gates and stop filming will be arrested. i kind of many people deputy prime minister asylum looked like tells us that the fear we felt in and amir is warranted he receives frequent reports that those arrested face extortion by security forces when that again to go to the trial they have to pay

money in order to work to that otherwise than what they would like with their will is they're brought out of that they need. the sunni deputy prime minister would temporarily suspended shortly off the u.s. troops withdrew in december and off that he called prime minister maliki a dictator. by one one one. especially when it was a wrist or a sectarianism but there are many political parties that exist there were elections held here there are ministries controlled by different ministers and this isn't a dictatorship who is it and they get a minister over the fence or is that only the minister of interior who is not only the intelligence who is the only go all the security departments so their. next destination is the only city in iraq where victory celebrations were held as the last u.s. soldier left the country. protested the u.s.

military presence in their city from the beginning of the occupation. and when the mutilated bodies of four american contractors were strung up on this bridge across the euphrates in two thousand and four. fate was sealed. what followed were two of the largest assaults of the entire war with u.s. marines using devastating firepower to bombard the city into submission. the bloody campaigns had a profound effect on the residents of fallujah. today only i should at. least be you know. i don't like. being told that these graves are actually for people who are still dying as a result of the fighting that happened back in two thousand and four these are the graves of babies who died having birth defects and other diseases. nine year old cannot speak eat all walk on his own. his two younger siblings are

buried in what's called martyrs cemetery i'm going to die i'm going to. let. you know what. was done in the show. when he was born just months after the u.s. led invasion seemed healthy. but after the siege of two thousand and four doctors diagnosed him with brain atrophy. there's no question in his father's mind as to the cause. was out of. the wire. and with no i don't want to. know if it's going to be otherwise. how many parents drank the future that lies ahead for him here in fallujah.

as the world's best athletes prepare for the winter olympics the north and south koreans will march under unified flag and heat on a joint women's hockey team will bring you the results and the excitement of the seventeen day games of young chang twenty eighteen which are all living on elders iraq. and young so mali refugee thrilled to gain u.s. residency in twenty sixteen. that was lucky too good to. be good. but with anti immigrant sentiment under the trump presidency al-jazeera world ask sally was whether his american dream is still alive. in america at this time on al-jazeera well if we cannot have palestinian my government was certainly not allowed britain to control french press time would be an outrage

but then we need to find another solution before we come to blows more than a century ago britain and france made a secret deal that would influence the shape of the middle east for more than a century to come and so. now we can durham a. psych speak lines in the sand at this time on al-jazeera. discover a willful would winning programming from around the world. to make your challenge your perception if you were to design a propaganda system you could not build a better plan then first. documentary debate and discussion this country that was once the wealthiest in the region what went wrong how did we get to this point. the scene for us where there online what is a very tiny amount that peace is always possible but it never happens not because

the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people that are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who is an activist and has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al jazeera. how their i'm doing what doubled in london the top stories on al-jazeera the winter olympics have officially opened with a historic show of unity between north and south korea athletes from the two countries marched together in the south korean president shook hands with kim joe young the sister of north korean leader kim jong un u.s. vice president mike pence arrived after the handshakes that close to the north

koreans. yes president donald trump has signed off on the spending bill ending the second government shutdown this year although this one lasted just a few hours the deal to extend funding was agreed by congress but disagreements between republicans and democrats over immigration remain to be resolved and the bill will have major financial consequences. president trump has come to the defense of a white house aide who's quits after being accused of domestic violence rob porter resigned earlier this week after two former wives made separate allegations of burble and physical abuse as you probably know he says he's innocent and i think you have to remember that he said very strongly yesterday that he's innocent. so you'll have to talk to him about that but we absolutely wish him well did a very good job while he was at the white house this one person has been killed and at least one hundred twenty two injured when two bombs were detonated during friday prayers at

a mosque in the libyan city of benghazi officials say both devices were planted in separate rooms inside. gyptian army has launched what it's calling a comprehensive operation against terrorists and criminal groups in the sinai peninsula making the announcement in a televised statement an army spokesman says it involves land sea and air forces covering central sinai and areas in egypt's nile delta western desert. supporters of bangladesh's former prime minister coming are continuing to persist after she was jailed for five years on corruption charges on thursday or eldest son and four aides were given ten year sentences or supporters say the verdict is politically motivated. your opinion is chief breaks that negotiators warn the plans for a period of transition to ease britain's withdrawal from the ball could be at risk michelle obama says substantial disagreements with britain are jeopardizing london's plans for a two year transition period after it leaves in twenty million. they're up to date

those are our top stories stay with al-jazeera next up its rewind iraq after the american c. at the top of the hour. in the neonatal ward of general hospital dr samir a lonnie has grown used to seeing babies born with cancers and congenital malformation. you know when. this. same jasim is twenty four days old during the siege in two thousand and four a mother was living in a village on flu just outskirts. we have more and more serious cases like many residents of fallujah lonny fled the worst of the fighting in two thousand and four . when she returned she and her colleagues were immersed in treating the injuries and trauma in its wake then they started seeing a new crisis and the exodus of but they think not as

a way to see before. we are facing this effects nearly they. now she documents every case she sees. she has hundreds of pictures and video clips saved on her laptop of newborns with cleft palates the form of limbs cancer has been launched and atrophied brains are going to have the fact that there's a lot to fix. many many cases of. that since the misshapen hearts are harder to detect and those babies are often miscarried stillborn or die shortly after birth. in a year long survey lonny conducted at the hospital she found one hundred forty seven incidents of congenital malformation one thousand births. about five times the international norm. and in another study she and her colleagues found higher

levels of enriched uranium and mercury in the hair of parents of children born with congenital malformation and cancer. how do you explain that something happened. as you know you're saying it was not present in the kids toys and not. we didn't buy it by the from the shops that something happened in the city where everybody knows what happened in this if you don't actually need more investigations we need our d.n.a. has to be examined our chromosomes have to be examined you know what happened in japan after hiroshima. you heard about what happened here is after that study by study lonnie is trying to confirm beyond a shadow of a doubt what people in fallujah convinced is true that there's a causal link between the weapons used by u.s.

forces in two thousand and four the amounts are very much the uranium in their bodies and the alarming rise in numbers of sick and malformed children here my personal experience although i don't want to talk about it it is so hard for. but one of my brothers have lost two kids because of a new lease. here after two thousand and ten two thousand and eleven. after the us assault on fallujah many of the foreign fighters fled north and set up camp in the city of mosul. or used to live there until al kind of linked groups moved in. while the violence has dropped significantly from its peak in two thousand and six civilian casualty rates across iraq are on the rise again. since i left in two thousand and four mosul has been under siege from car bombings and assassinations of government officials. governor i feel only jay feels pre-disaster

was killed in one of those attacks people. he blames the americans for moses plight and he says it's taking on new dimensions that american met sellable mystic in iraq not just bought a car identified here but also in the open here pool govern iraq a new iraq but they give iraq to iran. and iraq like this if not the americans here new jeff he says his forces have made great strides to rid his city of al qaeda i thought than the. need. in the way when our men knew how would any a show and mahalo middle class or what applied to him was he was what up. on earth or what if he. but with armed police

a school to last time next destination it's clear that fear still remains most all streets are air really quiet and this is a sense that the violence for which the city is notorious is never far away. the family i'm about to meet protected me from that violence and this is the first time out of the scene. and since their youngest son and the reuters photographer whose work is on exhibit here was killed by u.s. soldiers. you see i want to hear. what you feel when you hear that right i mean it's. very sad still here that's. how this in doha. we saw the story. ok on the reuters wire. so i called you i think at that time and i asked you to call not be able because i couldn't get through it and i think that it was in syria

yes maybe. now me is older brother now below was in charge of the reuters operation in mosul we used to be a team the three of us traveled around together reporting on the growing insurgency timing mosul streets into a bloodbath. two thousand and three doesn't follow it's good you know look like that now and nothing not like in two thousand something very difficult to believe that the and most on and just when it was starting to have it yeah exactly and i think you know you saved me your hair got better. as the situation deteriorated namie and was moved from mosul but he continued to document life under occupation and the violence that had unleashed legend was sort of that he was the one hundred million.

and just. when. i said what's that to john when the. model. one of the twelve modes and the. well i. just came. for the. sword in to me and that's about that i'm the one. within three years me and was killed by u.s. forces in baghdad. his death captured forever on video shot by the u.s. military and eventually leaked to the public by wiki leaks. and then. yes you know he was started running. to get fired. i mean.

more than. ten years old. who was shot one hundred b. . i mean. chad. had had this. less than an hour's drive from the notion of iraq as one fan is now disintegrating . the prospects of kurdish autonomy has been a phone line cutting across the north since iran's fold has been drawn but when i was based here it still at least looked like the same country now it looks like a different planet and that seems to be the master plan of the kind of. massive foreign investments and regenerate. and infrastructure projects transforming the way these cities look. kurdish leaders. regional governments when a u.s.

sponsored no fly zone was set up. and they welcomed u.s. forces during the two thousand and three invasion. in the years that followed washington lavished political and financial support on kurdish leaders in the region as tomorrow's iraq today an example of how a liberated iraq could look. so if there's one place where the u.s. can be proud of its legacy in iraq it should be here. and on the surface at least the future seems brighter than ever. it's a bit surreal to see the architecture transformed and major international chains selling goods at western prices and it doesn't entirely make sense most iraqi kurds only around four hundred dollars a month these malls are full of people but it seems like those actually doing the shopping on cards from this region it's iraq howard's bank the rest of the country

tourists who come in turkey and even iran. influence may be expanding in the south turkey's footprint here is growing by the day thirty rock has become turkey's second largest trading partner most of that trade is with the kurdish region. off the years of animosity economic potential seems to have won out over turkey's antagonism toward iraqi kurds and their dream of independence and the kurds appear to have found a new patron. from constructing the roads to rebuilding the souk signs of the deepening ties are everywhere. the turkish company building on this site has some of the biggest contracts with the municipal authorities. but ninety percent of the workers here from turkey. so not everyone is feeling the benefits of boom.

among them. that i can. remember them. is now than it was. but you know the saying out of a muslim and you look out of it. and i'm. telling. you that. the kurds have always been strong supporters of their own political leaders in the struggle for self the time a nation that they have represented. when i was here five years ago i never used to hear the levels of frustration with the kind of leadership that we're hearing now. and as we travel from bill to so many of discontent becomes even louder than.

the families who've been living in this building have been told they have to leave the government is making the move to the city limits so that this area can be redeveloped. they say they don't have the means to build homes that. had. she she what i mustn't yeah. i mean. what. do you know. there's a growing perception that the money flowing into the region is ending up in the pockets of a small business class all of them politicians and party men. a year and a half ago frustration here in so many boiled over. it was february two thousand and eleven and inspired by peoples uprisings in tunisia and egypt kurdish activists

took to the streets against government corruption and repression launching a protest of thousands the last sixty three days. that we have guys that have worked with some of them i mean that. funny. that's a. really good question that on the first day government security forces opened fire on demonstrators who had surrounded political party offices and were throwing stones dozens were wounded one man was shot dead over the next two months government forces killed at least nine more protesters among them zahir mahmud demands fourteen year old son. could be a cuban and packing that you could be. taking many goods and.

shade roun critical. but the kurds have other worries tensions with the central government are escalating kurdish leaders have been signing development contracts with foreign oil companies asserting it's their right to do what they please with resources in their territory baghdad says that's just not true the k r g this is a kiddish regional government. feel that they have the right to negotiate and decide on the oil that is. located in the region they feel they have the right to solve his contacts and this is what their real disagreement lies. with their u.s. allies gone iraqi kurds are feeling less secure than when thousands took to the streets a year and a half ago demanding democratic reforms in their lives only good example will make me

a shot if you will but maybe if you don't know you now because you want to your door how many of you get. there i will leave that moment about woman on the set i'm going to tell you this you know as that yeah you know and it was that yeah make a bid a major good you know we're up to the here now. but as kurdish leaders defied bank bad and brokered deals for oil pipelines with turkey it seems they're betting that this new alliance will protect them even if it cost them the promise of an independent kurdistan. democrat. in the head up milan kartika couldn't do it. when islamic shifter for the company could just stand up we have told most of them to forty with him with a quick quicker the terms of the veto had. been. limited to this and then if there's one man who appeared surmises claims that iraq is in danger of

sliding back into office or tearing rule its fugitive vice president tyrant call hashimi. the day after u.s. troops left the country in december prime minister maliki issued an arrest warrant for iraq's most senior sunni politician accused of financing death squads targeting shia he fled to the kurdish north to escape arrest. just two years we caught up with him shortly before he left the country for turkey my kids his straightforward sectarian politically motivated in no way could. be engaged. in any sort of violence hashimi says that his security guards have been detained and tortured into making false confessions against them members of his entourage show us photos they say or of one who died in custody his body appears to show signs of torture and this is by

their religion a process has to be respected and if. believes he is innocent he should go to the court and prove that in a sense he cannot fled the country or said somewhat and the start of trying to politicize the issue of. the drama is the most visible manifestation of a political crisis that threatens further fragmentation. and iran's read a sentence of violent conflict. that we don't have real democracy in this country. it's fake and is moving towards a very dangerous situation as again. and i secretary anyway. throughout our journey across the country from bands wrote to a bill financial after bank band and most of. the post occupation landscapes have

buried. every city unique. every stretch of road another distinct piece of iraq. but in each place the people we've met have voiced similar things impatience at the lack of basic services and jobs. anger political corruption. distrust of the regional powers that seem to have more influence over their destinies the natives. and the lingering bitterness about what invasion and nine years of u.s. presence here has created. that legacy for nearly everyone that we've met can be summed up in a single word fear. fear of the prime minister and his grip on power. fear of government security forces in the armed groups of sectarian politics and regional power struggles fear that the ghosts of the past will never stop until the present and defrock are going to continue and that's where it's going to be divided

and there would be a war of before a very divided and after the arrival of. iraq after the americans a powerful and moving film which is made yet more poignant by the fact that the terrible events following the rise of iso had yet to happen we're going to talk about those issues now with found as there is middle east correspondent imran khan just back from baghdad himself maybe you can just give us a rundown of well those last five years basically since the end of that film and i still comes along well that's i think to really explain it that we have to go back to two thousand and six seven and eight when iraq was a breaking point it was a near civil war between the sunnis and the shias and also there was in iraq at the time now al qaida in iraq were able to form because a lot of anger towards the shia led government within baghdad itself but it was really the precursor to everything that we've seen since then al qaida in iraq were

defeated by sunni tribal militias the second was the awakening councils supported by the americans now when the sunni tribal militias got rid of al qaida in the rocket they were promised all sorts of things by the sheer led government and. you fast forward now to two thousand and twelve and the americans leaving. in iraq have been defeated there was a a a group coming up at the time called the islamic state in iraq again another threat to iraq and what happened was the shia led government in baghdad really completely ignored the concerns of the sunnis particularly any province and for years the sunnis protested saying they were promised all sorts of things jobs within the military civil service things like that for defeating al qaeda in the things they were never given things are getting better i mean that sounds like a very bleak picture but things are getting there because prime minister howard other body is pushing forward with with reforms but these reforms are being met

with with stiff resistance from those people who have entrenched positions and well let's just pause for a second because i want to bring someone else into our conversation to talk a little bit more about the human cost of these last few years joining us from beirut right general who is amnesty international's advocacy director for the middle east and north africa it's nice to have you with us right in runs give us a really good rundown of how the politics of change i guess in the last five years and bringing eisel in our film talked about one point three million displaced people half a million lived in just one camp how of those numbers and situations changed the numbers are much wore snow amnesty international can confirm the number of i.d.p.'s in iraq is over three million now there are few government has unfortunately been a part of the problem many of these internally displaced people were displaced because of the actions of the iraqi government and militias affiliated with the

iraqi government and their conditions. be bad because of the actions of the iraqi government many of the internally displaced people are taken through screening procedures what families are separate. to many of them other vested suspicions of collaborating or walking for isis that are tens of thousands of their arteries have been adjusted to the last few years with no due process with no access to turning. mostly based on a tip from an informant or other suspicions so there are some government is definitely a part of the problem in many cases it is the reason behind the problem and reconstruction effort that was promised has not even started in many cases tell me about outside influence and i'll also ask you imran about this after

we heard from raid and specifically talking about iran. amnesty has not commented on the politics of what's going on in iraq this in three to four months or a mandate i mean i can say from from a person point of view that many of iraq's neighbors have been interfering in iraq's domestic politics different levels iran for example has a lot of leverage and water all over iraq you put it the iraqi militias some of the militias seem to be. there after the or even controlled the by iran so it's one of the countries that has been involved very heavy in iraq's the mystic issues i do think the iranian influence is absolutely key also turkey you know and we're looking you know saudi arabia is well they're opening an embassy

again which they haven't done since one thousand nine hundred one so these are all people that have something to play for within iraq and the influence is all but what ride was saying is very very important what you saying earlier about the sunnis and about the people who for feisal or not as the case may be being separated from their families that will lead to a lot of anger why i'm very concerned about the future of iraq is those people who are absolutely angry at this government won't again be given what they were promised they'll go back to their homes they'll be abandoned and that's what led to ice and coming into existence in iraq in the first place that some. so the next fight may well come from the very people right was just mentioned. in beirut thank you so much for your time and your thoughts in iran town as well with us here in studio thank you and that is it from us to join us again the next weekend check out the rewind page at al-jazeera dot com for more films from the series on come off

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