asked sally was whether his american dream is still alive. in america at this time on al-jazeera. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to al-jazeera. well i'm richelle carey in doha and these are the top stories on al-jazeera russia and the u.s. say they are concerned after israel launched a second series of air strikes in syria after one of its f. sixteen fighter jets were shot down by president assad's forces the strikes targeted syrian government and iranian assets in syria israel says it was the most

significant strike against syria since one thousand nine hundred two and ron khan has more from him. in the early hours of saturday morning syria's war escalated to a new level for the first time in thirty years israel lost a fighter jet to enemy fire as israel confirmed syrian air defense shot at one of its of sixteen fighter jets the israeli prime minister was blunt israel iran and its most responsible for today's aggression we will continue to do whatever is necessary to protect our sovereignty and our security the crushing followed the shooting down of a drone israeli army video shows what they say is the iranian drawing flying towards a northern golan heights before it was downed in retaliation the israeli air force at twelve targets in syria including this is spec to drone commands and iranian targets and syrian air defense syria launch surface to air missiles during the israeli raid and says it shot down the f. sixteen which crashed in northern israel at the hands of. the syrian political

leadership took a decision at the highest level to face the thought simply any israeli military aircraft of a syrian in space today syria did what it promised to put down again misread the plane and striking at other planes this is clear for syria it is a thought of decision to confront the israeli air force and its killers behavior. both pilots ejected and parachuted to the israeli side of the border one is critically injured the israeli army spokesman said it was wrong it was behind the launch of the drawing but didn't say whether it was armed or not the iranians have reacted they've said that they are going to stand with us. syria against any foolishness by israel the russians have also reacted saying that israel needs to respect syria and the slate to state sovereignty also what we're hearing is that the israelis want to send a strong message to the russians to get iran out of the region iran koen al-jazeera westra slim

a turkish military helicopter has been shot down in northern syria during an operation against kurdish fighters this video is said to show the helicopter moments before it was hit near frayne killing two soldiers on board kurdish syrian democratic forces say its fighters shot down the aircraft but turkey says the cause is still unclear small shell isn't causing near the turkey syria border the downing of this turkish manufactured attack helicopter that was killed to talk to soldiers is a significant development in this three week long military operation that brings the number of parker soldiers killed by the wire p.g. kurdish militia group through over twenty years far as the clubs are concerned they've killed at least one hundred fifty kurdish fighters north korea's kim jong un has asked south korea's president to join him in pyongyang for talks hosted kim sr in seoul on the sidelines of the winter olympics votes are being counted ensure

long after its most peaceful elections in decades it's the first since a lot torah laws changed allowing a record number of women to campaign for a seat in local government the irish republican army fein has elected a new leader to replace gerry adams who announced he was stepping down and november donnel says she's committed to pushing for a united ireland mcdonnell one adams had been involved in talks on reconvening northern ireland's devolved government which broke down a year ago. thousands of anti-fascist demonstrators have rallied in the italian city of serato were six africans were shot and injured just over a week ago anti-racism rallies also took place in rome along then palermo it comes less than a month before national elections with far right parties expected to make a strong showing protesters in the philippines are urging president rico to tear take to stop china's military expansion in the south china sea philippine media published photos last week showing beijing has continued to build installations on

the disputed spratly islands as are the headlines the news continues after rewind. hello and welcome once again to rewind i'm come out sometime 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 full line sebastian walker returns 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 have 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 have been to foreign companies. 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 composite. 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 that summit to report on angry protests that have 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. but i think the plague. one mile from us and then when the alarm i did it out already play it while i can see that's a look at what is it that must have them a shock and i always felt a shock in the community in the budget his shop for nine years union leader hashmi i'll 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 a lot of the increase our production for the three million barrels per day and doing this it will add another. half a million more but of the president so the progress is there. but despite record output in five zero this frustration the companies developing the fields are importing labor. and that there is no meaningful legislation to protect iraqi jumps

. even when we are not it isn't to be looked at and that it isn't to be affected and talk about our an end to the i'm in this mind that i'm on you might talk about this if you've got the money but you could be and that is that and that. i left and i wanted to get up i said to get. saddam he says it was the u.s. decision to dismantle iraq's army and national industries in the name of the both a vacation the coolest 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 valley of peace surrounds the city. it is possibly

the largest burial ground in the world and the final resting place to which many shia aspire. the scale of this place is to be breathtaking for fourteen centuries shia from all over the world have been bringing their dead to be buried head it's so immense that in that job they say that since he is often the living and hof of the dead. in two thousand and four the serenity of the valley of peace was violated . that spring fighters 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. the 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 mighty army and the americans. while hundreds of monti 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 daniel. governments. might know. no one knows how many iraqis have been killed since the invasion estimates 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 the 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. and of course the other people in the huddle tool little to follow from the front of allah to call for. a new look on the high. 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 that i could be here in america they think this is over. here. who. think. that you do. is follow his listens to him deliver some of his most incendiary sermons 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. what i read here is if yeah it was your year was and it was your year where here you are forgetting the sermon addresses the deepening conflict between iraqi prime minister nouri al maliki's party and the opposition blocs to his 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 government is trying. to pay should he demanded the u.s.

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. said to the last 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. somebody to go. when the family fled they left everything behind in school food

here. 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 budget us up and i had. that as a. bout with. a life. 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 his 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 a book about the. mahdi and shimmered on have been on the cell.

phone a hot time. to decide mom what i want you to tell us about how to the mother to the . diameter of the thought how to take the bad. out of what are you going to put i don't want to go to gets me home by seven am on cyberdyne and having no money. two years later as mandy is 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 the no hon i don't want you know i'm not sure none of them must have been so good somehow know how cool mom had to say on my times when you're not i don't know how come i am and i believe that i've begun to notice you know not just ahead of the obvious out of a shot of the day. that i was out. but simply because i know that was that is that

i that i said that. with what they will as they were telling me. what i wanted to run on you and your innocence plights men the one in ma that you know i have a good message you home on my head got to tell us something about the national it's a phony i mean honest. other. than homeless. and then would you go to korea then you must gotta do it for clooney joe you couldn't i don't want that no no no more nub of nothing else come in you my dear only child would you have a shout. about how to we could help 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 an hour 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. and given another 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. 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 he will not arise for amnesty organization and united nation organization to come and check and to find out whether there is a secret detention center and. out 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. we currently being stopped from getting access to the main mosque anatomy 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 we'll be arrested. i kind of many people the 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 were 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 i think of a minister of interior. of intelligence who is only got all the security department so there this country. 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 polluters fate was sealed. what followed with 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. and it needs to be on the. list but 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 flew gins called martyrs cemetery i'm going to. let. you know what it said was done it to show us. what the. when he was born just months after the u.s. led invasion seemed healthy. but after the sieges 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 a no i don't want. that one of the other one of them harlem of the year how many parents drank the future that lies ahead for him here in fallujah.

what makes this moment this era we're living for so unique this is really an attack on the truth itself is a lot of misunderstanding the distortion is that of what free speech is supposed to be about that context is hugely important level wise to pop the ship it out to be offensive or provocative or whatever it is people do setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. when the news breaks when people need to be heard. to good to me. and this story needs to be turned in just largest catholic country is witnessing a dramatic rise in teenage pregnancy al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring the mood winning documentaries. and live news on air and online.

well if we cannot have palestina my government was certainly not allowed britain to control french palestine 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 draw on the. psych speak oh lines in the sand at this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera is swift and. it was appalling which modern day venezuela was a stoppage. for over

a century this lucrative resorts has divided the people both less than those with the world's largest reserves. charting the impact of industrialization and the legacies of its prominent leaders we shed light on the troubles afflicting venezuela today the big picture the battle for venezuela at this time on al jazeera . i'm richelle carey and oha these are the top stories right now on al-jazeera russia and the u.s. say they are concerned after israel launched a second series of air strikes in syria after one of its f. sixteen a fighter jets was shot down by president assad's forces strikes targeted government and iranian assets in syria israel says this is the most significant attack against

syria since one thousand nine hundred two a turkish military helicopter has been shot down in northern syria during an operation against kurdish fighters this video is said to show the helicopter moments before it was hit near a friend killing two soldiers on board a kurdish led syrian to regret it forces say its fighters shot down the aircraft turkey says the cause is still unclear. is in the air turkey's border with syria. the downing of this turkish manufactured attack helicopter that was killed to talk to soldiers is a quick and if we're going to bottom i'm going this long military operation that brings the number of soldiers killed by the wire puji kurdish militia group through over twenty years far as the clubs are concerned they've killed at least one hundred fifty kurdish fighters north korea's kim jong un has asked south korea's president to join him in pyongyang for talks in hosted kim sr in seoul on the

sidelines of the winter olympics it's still latest sign of warming relations between the two governments after a tense period over the north's nuclear weapons program votes are being counted in sri lanka after its most peaceful election in decades it's the first votes in slow torah laws changed along a record number of women to campaign for a seat in local government the irish republican party sion fein has elected a new leader to replace gerry adams who announced he was stepping down in november their limit donald says she's committed to pushing for a united ireland and don adams have been involved in talks on reconvening northern ireland's devolved government which broke down a year ago thousands of anti-fascist demonstrators have rallied in the italian city of misrata where six africans were shot and injured just over a week ago the far right sympathizer being held by police as suspected of carrying out the drive by shooting anti-racism rallies also took place in rome milan and palermo comes less than a month before national elections with far right parties expected to make

a strong showing to turn you now to rewind keep it here on al-jazeera. 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 what. same jasim is twenty four days old during the siege in two thousand and four a mother was living in a village on food as outskirts. we have more and more serious cases like many residents of dr allen he 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 could not as

a way to see before. we are facing this if. now she documents every case she sees. she has hundreds of pictures and video clips saved on her laptop of newborns with cleft palates deforms limbs cancers in launched and atrophied brains are going to have that at the top of the list of a lot to fix. many many cases of. difference 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

than normal 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 a kid's toy or 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 the theater actually we 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 had about what happened years 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 update two thousand and ten two thousand and eleven. off to 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 pretty decisive was killed

in one of those attacks people killed he blames the americans for moses plight and he says it's taking on new dimensions for me ten minutes of the mystic in the uk. just bought a car identified here but also in the open here pool govern iraq the leave iraq but they give iraq to iran. and iraq like this. if not the americans here knew jeff he says his forces have made great strides to rid his city of al qaeda i thought than the. need. in the. when the men knew how would and yes show and maha wolf. a with a high def and mostly wonder what's up. on that. but

with armed police a school took us to our next destination it's clear that fear still remains mosul streets are eerily 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 seamen 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 still. very sad still here that it's. i was 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 go 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 their two thousand something very difficult to believe that their most of them just went. starting to have it right there but i think you saved me your hair. as the situation deteriorated and the man was moved from mosul but he continued to document life under occupation and the violence that had unleashed. more of the sort of the.

just you know. when. i said what's that to john when the. model. one of the 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 started running. like a fire. code i mean. more

than. ten years old. to america who was shot one had to be. i mean i have. a condo you had. less than an hour's drive from the notion of iraq because one fan is now disintegrating. the prospect of kurdish autonomy has been a fault line cutting across the north. but when i was faced with 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 kurdish leaders billing the region as tomorrows 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 in 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 our 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. you know the same. amount of us out of it. than i'm. standing. now 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 when.

the families who've been living in this building have been told they have to leave the government is making a 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. but. 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's 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 mahmood demands fourteen year old son so q. could you packing that you could be. many could generate. their. shade wound 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 has. located in that 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. shot if you're.

mad if you don't know you now because you want to your door when you get. there i believe 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 naked but there's a very good you know we're up to this here now. but as kurdish leaders defy bank bad and broken 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. in the header milan kartika couldn't do it. when islamic schifter heard me talking of course this time pakistan you know that we could toss them to forty with him with a quick clip or the terms of the veto had. been. limited to the use of them 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 me. 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 these 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 iraq's read a sentence of violent conflict. that we don't have very old 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 red to a bill financial after baghdad fallujah and mosul. 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 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 where it's going to be divided

and there would be a war 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 ifo 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 in the 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 rugged they were promised all sorts of things by the shia led government and. you fast forward now it's 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 better because prime minister howard rather 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 of address to the suspicions of collaborating or walking for isis that are tens of thousands of their archy's who have been addressed 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 the 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 and point of view that many of iraq's neighbors have been interfering in iraq's domestic politics and different levels iran for example has a lot of leverage and water over iraq you put it the iraqi militias some of the militias seem to be. there after the or even controlled that ethically 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 as 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 sonny 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 can 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 i'm come off

santa maria thanks for joining us and see you again soon. wow these explosions were not an act of war. these nuclear bombs were experiments by the soviet union. to the cause that people who lived in the vicinity the motives might be little difference rewind silent. at this time on al-jazeera.

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