the roads that this plane took several times and you can see places such as r r ion gotta exactly and also has flights number mark which is very specific for the planes that are actually transporting military goods. this is footage of the plane yellow not tracked it has been loaded with crates at least twenty u.s. military flights have left this airport in the past six months. and when we arrive at the airport we to see a plane hold its bag and this is one of the busiest airports when it comes to playing such as this one. is from the same airline hill and i have been investigating various really is pretty nuts it's just in the middle of a traffic junction.

there are weapons there they're probably. there is this huge fights that are happening it's running it all they need was there the. flight data proves that the majority of these companies planes from reoccur go to keep u.s. bases in the middle east. from their weapons can be funneled to syria. this ingle largest pentagon supply of weapons for syrian rebels is bulgaria for the e use poorest country that's a change in fortune. gary as arms factories fell quiet after the end of the cold war but the wars in iraq afghanistan and syria broad new demand. factories will reopen and new production lines added to supply weapons to the world's most fragile regions.

we have come to bulgaria to find out more about the weapons the us government by syrian allies. what is home to state arms manufacturers that. it is also where france is no we was killed in june twenty fifteen. that has been struggling to modernize and now we use fatal accident wasn't its first incident. a series of explosions rocked one of the company's plans in the time before the contract is a rival there were no casualties but production shut down for over two months. when we contacted v.m. set to find out more if management declined to speak to us. two leading trade unionists did agree to meet but did not want to go on camera not just

the workers are refusing to talk to us but even the local t.v. station what we do know is that the workers a. huge amount of pressure if v.m.s. that fails to complete an order their bonuses are cut was growing international demand for weapons the pressure is on to supply as false as the company can produce . we follow him no we use footsteps his training partner might doherty had told us the fatal ammunition was thirty years old and we want to see if we can find out more. vs average where the training took place is just over there it's where no real die but we can stop because it's a militarized zone. instead we have to the warehouse where the ems that stores its ammunition. it's where the big explosions took place. we're told to leave immediately. what is really for you to shoot.

if you insist. we stopped to film in a nearby village instead. local residents here were factored by the explosions were so big that some houses in this village had to be evacuated. the local police arrived within minutes. they order us to follow them to the station where we are question and threatened with prosecution. it is clear that the authorities don't like any questions about bulgaria's arms exports. but one person did manage to proof that weapons syria areon journalist illyana gate tansey ever. arrived in aleppo as fighting intensified in twenty sixteen. syrian government forces had almost cleared the rebels out of the

city in a desperate bid to defend their positions opposition forces responded with a barrage of artillery and rocket propelled grenades. and the syrian regime retaliated with air strikes. hundreds of civilians were killed in the crossfire. the suffering biljana witnessed was unfold gettable. it was costing firing. day and day and night. one of the rockets cell phone next to us over a mother that shouts there were big heads in front of me. a local journalist two billion or two a house that had just been vacated by the owners for a friend. this is truckers from a given this is the basement which was used by jihadists to

thaw huge quantities of weapons this weapon manufactured. for the country of origin. when local people realise that i came from bulgaria the first question i got was this why are sending quibbles to q us here in the. after publishing his story an anonymous source directed illyana to a large online stash of hacked documents. taken together they proved that hundreds of flights had transported weapons from balkan states such as well gary and serbia to conflict zones. many were paid for by the pentagon. at least you have any idea who the perpetrators are among the papers where and uses certificates a kind of contract between buyer and seller the buyers must confirm they will not

transfer the weapons without informing the seller they are a vital tool to stop the global spread of weapons according to the documents the and. special operations command but the weapons and that up are in the hands of jihadists in syria. but she says the seller bulgaria bears responsibility to know when gary as a country is. in fault that our weapons and up in warsaw and in countries which are and cargo we should stop immediately exports. since their discovery the documents have been verified by international experts. so what is bulgaria's position on these exports. the government declined to come and so we turn to the only bulgarian official prepared to speak to us it is

possible to say that is the best lip it may seem the world stephanie new chair of the co president of the association of gary and defense industries. of this one is possible to destroy the tank on the later my vehicles most of its members export arms to the middle east and he shows us some of the nice defense products they have to develop for private and government clients. we want to know if bulgaria is at fault when the u.s. special operations command or so passes the weapons on. as a member of the e.u. bulgaria is required to stick to the arms control treaties many of the contracts are fulfilled with the americans putting so as end user but it is known that the weapons are going to syria if you receive and use it for their country who is with

a good reputation. it is impossible to say i don't like to see you so who does it is not responsible for boy or country it is possible for the country who make this and use it you make the do you or the state who is good reputation after that say. much he couldn't have a job on. the hill is growing evidence that this flow of weapons is having unintended consequences. analyst have found heavy machine guns rockets and even missile systems from bulgaria and romania in the hands of. it is now estimated that over a third of all weapons used by the group in syria and iraq women a fact chip in eastern europe. so are u.s. arms exports inadvertently empowering the terrorists.

in london a group called conflict armament research carried out detailed analysis into how i still has obtained its weapons. allowed i'm james bevan is the executive director. the vast majority of weapons a marked kalashnikov almost always on the left hand side of the receiver and they have a serial number. seven spends much of his time in the middle east documenting recovered weapons. most have been captured by iceland battles from their enemies including weapons taken from rebel groups equipped by the us. to date conflict armament research has used serial numbers to trace forty thousand items. is qana transfers have introduced weapons which they didn't previously have access to and that's a positive first for the air france attack of o.t. . this is an r.p.g.

seven launcher designed in one nine hundred forty s. but some of the rockets which they've acquired this tends to be through the u.s. training the quick program of the tandem rockets which basically converts the nineteen forties weapon system into something that can defeat a modern tank so weapon that was supplied by the us government may well end up being pointed at u.s. soldiers yes absolutely serious blowback there are serious buyback but not all of weapons were captured in battle a significant number were handed to iceland by friendly fighters from u.s. equipped groups says the missile from an anti tank guided weapon system it's transfer history is production in vogue area gets transferred across to one of the syrian opposition forces is then diverted to islamic state we pick it up less than two months after i left the factory door once more it's a weapon manufactured in bulgaria by v.m.s.

that bought by the pentagon by a private contractor if you supply weapons to non-state actors you have very little control over what happens to those weapons particularly in a situation like syria. our request to the u.s. department of defense for an interview was declined but we did get a statement saying america's partner forces are vetted and that the final use of the weapons this checked. meanwhile u.s. support for rebel groups in syria continues. and to defeat eisel america has chosen a new ally the president authorized the department offense to equip kurdish elements of the syrian democratic forces as necessary to ensure a clear victory over isis in iraq or syria. but kurdish rebel forces have their own territorial interests and a new front has opened in the region already fractured by womb. in

a recent escalation to u.s. allies turkey and the kurds have been pointing guns at one another. and more lives are taken every single day. the spread of weapons is a global problem and even more so if exporting countries avoid accountability. it looks ugly it sounds ugly and scares people from america's high streets to mexico's on the world's record holder to the side and who controls the other side the people in power follows the smuggling route and test the ease of acquiring untraceable weapons on american soil the weapon that was designed for war and it took you about five minutes to buy a movie truman america's guns arming mexico's cartels on al-jazeera congressman are

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of rocket fire from gaza and israeli air strikes. in handcuffs and in court zimbabwe opposition figure ten. and a huge mudslide slams into roads and bridges in switzerland. general antonio has called for a problem independent investigation into a saudi emira strike that hit a bus full of school children in yemen in all fifty people were killed when the bus was hit as it stopped by a crowded market inside a province which is controlled by the rebels the coalition strikes were aimed at legitimate military targets mohamed odeh is following developments from. was

still wearing his backpack this boy was in a minibus full of children heading back from a school. bus drove through a busy area of the town. bring him children. and medical workers to the every available space in the hospital. the fighters of accuse the saudi led coalition of launching the attack. a saudi led coalition attacked a bus carrying more than thirty students who were on a summer school trip to the city there's no exact number of dead people the hospital has received many many wounded with a lot of serious injuries. this boy refuses to hobbies interests to. this world with him on the bus i know as

a no no i mean my brothers get help until i see my brothers. the strike happened during morning rush hour in the busy market. a huge crater lies in the middle of the ruled the exact support where the missile fill the mungo wreckage of the school bus the children what's troubling him now trapped under the destroyed market buildings lining materials belonging to the children us through not around even mine does of the talk and the friends that struggle to live the seen by those lucky enough to escape on in a statement the sodium erotic coalition save its aspects inside the what aimed at missile launches used to attack an industrial city in southern so debbie on wednesday the statement father accused the host of fighters of using children as human shields there are increasing calls for investigations into these attacks we've seen news reports it's very important as we've said repeatedly that who bought into the conflict in yemen it here to international humanitarian law where

there is an incident of this sort it's important its investigative story on the conclusions that investigation shared i'll learn from them will be calling for that in this instance as well so debbie and its allies have been fighting in yemen for more than three years against the holdings who are aligned with iran to hold this control much of mufon yemen including the capital sana'a these latest out tuck adds more casualties to the list of thousands who've been killed during this war the u.n. calls it the world's wost humanitarian crisis. anderson months so do you or your forces have advance towards the port city of the day which is under their control through the four years is more than food to yemen gets in through these ports in response to flights of intensified talks against. targets how about a while just. for the war in yemen is now in its fourth year the norwegian refugee

council reports fifty six palms have been dropped on the international airport within the past two years that's one bomb every two weeks the last death toll reported was ten thousand japanese have been killed in the fighting the u.n. says two thirds of those that you just saudi airstrikes hoofy faces are also accused of causing mass casualty is the current death toll is likely to be much higher. getting accurate information is hard but save the children estimates one hundred thirty children die every day from extreme hunger and disease just last week the u.n. warned of a new cholera epidemic yemen is now viewed as the world's worst humanitarian crisis with more than twenty two million people in need of food assistance rosalyn jordan has more from the united nations just a general realm of condemnation of thursday's airstrike in which dozens of children

in northern yemen were killed while on a school field trip the un's high commissioner for human rights say the crowd hussein told al jazeera that he felt the news quite disturbing the specific and. richard risks are tired and i'm sure my offices are in god and so i've seen what you've seen on the media. as occurred in regard to reason to believe that of course. it's precisely these sorts of a. tyrants. imposed on us to request time and for serious inquiry to be mounted by international experts to look into old the major. and horrific poseurs for a civilians including children. were killed

a pal of experts had been convened nearly a year ago to look at the human rights situation during the yemen civil war they are expected to release their report in the next several weeks see how the hussein told al jazeera that while he does know generally what might be in this report he said it's much more important for the international community to focus on the efforts to end the civil war and protect the lives of yemeni citizens of the u.s. state department has also voiced concern. we call on the saudi led coalition to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into the incident we take all credible accounts of civilian casualties very seriously we call on the parties to take appropriate measures to protect civilians in accordance with international law and urge all parties to investigate all reported is the incidence of civilian casualties hamas a palestinian group which controls the gaza strip has told al-jazeera

a truce has been agreed to stop the violence bob israeli media is suggesting the israeli government has denied an agreement's been reached a flare up in cross border violence has seen three palestinians killed in israeli airstrikes and hamas rockets fired into southern israel andrew symonds has the latest. i and israeli air strike on a five story building it's a cultural center and it's destroyed it happened as israel was deliberating its next step after schools of a strikes on gaza yet even as ambulances rushed the injured to hospital and last was in negotiations for a truce. nearly five hours have passed without any israeli attacks off to the strike on the cultural center hamas said it statements of al-jazeera that this was a truce would be imposed at twenty forty g.m.t. not a full ceasefire god had words there and they said that the united nations and egypt

had been involved in mediation earlier a senior official from hamas had hinted that they could stop firing rockets something of this novel for go for this and. six i was going to four hours after that to stop i think that the equation of the confrontation always was not so i think both sides are not involved we are not interested now now to support of the wide gulf on station or a war we've tried to avoid that wednesday's fighting had been sporadic but one of the last actions of hamas before it relented with rocket strikes was the launch of a grad missile the first time it had use the weapon since the twenty fourteen war. at times on wednesday night civilians said the intensity of the bombardment seemed reminiscent of the last three wars this house and barrel about i was struck by an israeli aircraft a pregnant mother and her eighteen month old baby died here the husband

a hamas policeman is critically ill in hospital the first to see this scene was an extraordinary one five i'll double sam very angry a pregnant woman and her baby she happy marriage the two year there's nothing dangerous about any. gaza has been has so many times before waiting and watching cease fires have come and gone will the truce hold there is still some hope here in a place surrounded by walls with no way out but there is cynicism about whether they've seen the last of this. hundreds simmons' al-jazeera gaza city. in iraq a nationwide recount of votes from the election has reaffirmed his coalition as the winner the electoral commission conducted a manual recount after widespread allegations of fraud in the may vote the results

must now be ratified by the supreme court below what is a fellow at the washington institute for near east policy and he says there's more than one explanation for how the electoral fraud could have cared actually surprising that despite on may twenty fifth when the investigation into fraud allegations started the so called for investigation by the electoral commission and appointed judges in their stead and at the time they called the best occasions that resulted in the recount they called the incidence of fraud as dangerous and and egregious and yet here we are with almost one hundred percent. recount the matching dollars in the elections this may mean one of two things one much of the happened before the elections to the actual to the preachers networks of the corruption that exists on the other hand as you are you saying those don't

fix it lets the rates so events on the ground with the burning of the ballots with one of the protests on the street the other your emergence of isis have created the sense that it's better to move forward rather than linger on a new election the misuse of question. a senior zimbabwean opposition figure has been granted bail after being charged with inciting public violence and unlawfully announcing election results tendai biti of the m.d.c. alliance was arrested on thursday after being denied asylum in zambia his bail conditions include paying five thousand dollars and surrendering his passport is also banned from addressing rallies or the news media and till his case is ended mr beattie a former finance minister in the short lived government of national unity as.