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tv   Secret Sardinia  Al Jazeera  February 6, 2020 12:32pm-1:01pm +03

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politics and policies and their effect on the world. best known to tourists for its beautiful beaches and dramatic coastline. is a major cut that makes it worth the locals these tests of how to get back. for use the authorities have refuted those playing reporter emma alberici went to investigate.
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it. because doesn't morale day is a magnet for the rich and bias need hosts the most beautiful beaches in europe. it's not hard to see what draws people to this place. former prime minister silvio berlusconi was one of the 1st to invest here. but i've come here to investigate the darkest side the coverups the secrets the mystery illnesses in that have blighted lives on this glorious island for decades. the wealth of the north is a stark contrast to other parts of the island where visitors are forbidden. the san diego plays host to some of the world's most elaborate warga it is like this one in 2015. trident junction it was one of nato's biggest
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exercises. dozens of countries were involved to play the military exclusion zones cover more than a 3rd of sardinians land sea and air play rome is reported to be making one and a half $1000000.00 a day renting out this space to foreign forces and weapons manufacturers. down south the entire lotta the beaches are just a stunning but they mostly inaccessible. the reka family have been fishing in these waters for generations playing with the weight arabs are on their bare bottom was a lot more of it as i remember them or a couple of the manga given to the main guy. bradstock of what they were rather
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than what happens if you do they are morally. wrong about someone from really over there. the italian ministry of defense has deemed vast areas of the sea around sardinia off limits. around their government and i'm really proud of their one man and one annoy them are you with your ability for no apparent your members of the military are they watching us. most of the military operations on sardinia have been kept secret since 951. they're the result of an arrangement struck with nato countries after the 2nd world war. and if you know. that. there. are a purely has made it his life's mission to bust open this wall of silence. he was
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once the political leader of sardinia but even then he couldn't get access to see what was going on at the military bases on the morrow purely d.-day eventually get into the tire lot of military side but only after he was elected to the federal parliament in raw and you want to know he was told they would be strictly no feeling allowed. when imagining. what they're going to fire them on or. to follow it with. me. despite the secrecy bits of information have started to leak out. in 2017 sardinia unhealthful far she's confirmed full fowls and 200 french maid. arrived on the yacht. and over the 20 years to 2003
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some were fired a town larger question in egypt 30000000 was the missing 1000000. to love analyze here was this. the year than. the guidance systems of these milan missiles each carry 3 grams of radioactive thore. in heiling florian dust increases the risk of long and pancreatic cancer. in the school boxes or other shortages and most of the gold should not go nice she will she was spotted at. the mine concerned for sardinians living close to the firing ranges isn't about damage to the land or restricted axes. they're worried the bomb residue might be killing will. today or is saying goodbye to another of its citizens
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59 year old mario drogo. as a young man he worked at the firing range. he died of lung cancer but he wasn't a smoker and. many of the people gathered here have been touched by cancer. here share to them what most of them already in the church i don't know about yet and speak to a lot of the states you know him off the show their limb of the job and. no more you don't see it i will get a lot of these it's been decided to intervene to do our share not all the more i want to read the bible to julie on joining and his friends blame the italian defense force for this suffering so searching. the modern almost. never found the focus of the book the i'm one of the usually a lot on your money to love what i. the one that our job and it was that it. the
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italian military has always denied doing anything to hurt the people of the land all the animals of sardinia. avandia pyrrhus and her husband john carlo have been fighting the military through the courts for 10 years but emitted a lot of but they. are. not just . a vision of the past francesco pyrrhus did his national service attire larger in the late ninety's he took part in military exercises and his parents say he was ordered to pick up all shields with his bare hands. a few years later at the age of 27 he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. his parents blame the armed forces wherever they fuck with or throw in no matter what i meant that i could book in many. about the truth.
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of a general of the. with the. more. difficult. this is the rubbish john carlos says built up in his son's liver. there particles so small they can quickly pass through your lungs and into your body. biomedical engineer anthony a to getit analyze francesco's liver tissue. she found nano particles of 7 different metals in the juma including crimea. tungsten and titanium. there's no metals industry around but these are all used by the arms industry. dr gassy believes francesco was contaminated by dust from
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a big explosion icicle of. the kegs amid their colleagues who were looking. for that for them in. the science of nano particles is still new but the world health organization says early signs show that fine material may be harmful to public health. the w.h.o. is encouraging further research. dr gassy has consultant to for parliamentary inquiries that looked into the activities of the italian defense force it was that if you know said the. that it. would look i'm in a corner. authority if you've got the only real hope you. meant it very. much is so. this is the new.
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you know. this. ringback very. well. it's a 2 hour drive heading north out of town larder to the queerer bombing range. this is the scene of tragic health stories and mysterious birth defects that have come to be dumped the queerest syndrome. for many here life still slow and traditional. but it sounds like a skull a plateau perched on the edge of the firing range. zarin fly to the sea battle each
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other for the same or do you agree that you quit because of food. or disorder. but much of the much about this will be cut but i want to believe that if we read. queerer is the biggest military test site in europe. it's used by nice countries as well as israel. those living nearby have no not much tragedy. doc to guess he has become an advocate for some of the people of queer and. maria teresa already had 10 healthy children when her last child arrived in 1988. the baby girl was born so severely deformed her mother has never let her photo be saying. she was baptized maria grassy or she was blind and couldn't move or speak i think that's. part. of my.
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skull apply no symmetry is a sad testament. one in 4 of the children born in the same year as maria ground 0 had some kind of deformity. committing the mother. and spoken ended up out of. the back of said i'm allowed to let it out so you're not there for all. of the. john pirro skaar new has tried to hold the military to account he led a 2 year parliamentary inquiry. his committee met fierce resistance from the chiefs
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of defense. central element for that achieve their cause and one trillion the 4th that may police going to support they were fired a queer look. but come on chad initial control. we've made repeated attempts to speak to the military during our search for this story but we've been blocked at every turn now this document dated 2011 has come our way it's a confidential ministry of defense memo instructing military officials on how to respond to questions about the health and environmental conditions in and around the bombing sites what stands out is what they're told to say about birth defects they're told to explain it away with a shocking allegation that children born with deformities of the result of
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inbreeding. those are the 1st of the leaders to go. in this is general fabio maltin a former head of the queer a base he's cool françois' t.v. delivery back a missing each soldier by a passing by a stranger will either believe in the world or profitable given a lot of the news there's no evidence to support that climb. the children born with disabilities were conceived in the late eighty's when old munitions bombs and rockets were being routinely despised dolls and queer they were blown up in a piece 20 mazes the. and 40 meters wide. if . it got comical manner already
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night. long. decades dust from explosions and tests has rained down on the towns and the grazing fields of the firing range. exactly what was in them no one knows. in the early 2000 local doctors saw a spike in the number of unusual cancers in their patients. at the same time over in florence military pilot do many kind of chiro was raising his concerns. he'd say no high incidence of cancers among fellow soldiers returning from kosovo where they had been exposed to depleted uranium. star moped around the good of the 3 digits or the it's an internet so that it's not going to
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know if we're going to be perfect or intervene you're getting better like 2030 minutes and i mean to explore so again we don't see. this 3 main. war never really going to be no not that or you're immune to the may not respect the. group if you will be jacked. the italian military felt the pressure. depleted uranium is mildly radioactive and long suspected of causing cancer and birth defects. it's used to help missiles penetrate. at queerer scientist francesco recombine it was for. by the ministry of defense to do some soil tests in front of a swarm of local media. also more of us are going to convince your will and remember for the rest of. the day but people are moving all of venom around for you
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the problem monitor. is a little francesco riccobono i didn't find any depleted uranium keeping quiet about the possible presence of thore i'm defense declared the firing range clear. none of the sunni had never run in a battle didn't pull you're not going to be less of the you're so pretty going into a mess you're not one of the line at the cue that you grow it into and. look you know i was through that you said with it's a disgrace to. our lives. then in 2010 events took a shocking turn. the photos you're about to see are disturbing. a land born with one. others with deformities the likes and severity of which scientists and public health experts had never seen before.
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why we spoke with all about doric. they don't. want to know the worst that mother got better your mom the kick. at the end they. then brought. it along. the money for. believe. the georgia malice corrosion report for the district helpful farsi assessing the risks posed by the bombing range. from markedly the team of scientists found 65 percent of the shepherds living close to the range had cancers but good place for a new police on the brain so more. be born more. of
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them in the little bit about. the quest for the better the better. but it. was the only main. looming. in more. generalising. immediately a formal police investigation was launched the court ordered the exhumation of 18 shipman's who died in the 20 years up to 2010. divines was shipped here to easily snow and examined at 2 universities. nuclear
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physicist vandross seanie lid some of that research. this will go. to analyse. and or in the car for. the. your. view there those 11 shepherds with high levels of thore and in their binds had all lived close to the firing range. or nor are the shore dog in that it guard my jaw. droppers in there. in the regional capital lana say the chief prosecutor called a meeting with the scientists to dump the salt his thing to the military. why
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hadn't research of francesco rico bono found any ranee and all the much more dangerous story i'm in the soil and we were. while he was questioned up steve's outside police opened his car and he did a listening device inside. as he drove back to the airport the bug picked up his conversation with an assistant. he'd been interrogated for leaving thore and out of his record and he was angry with the military this age gone with don't go the ones who commissioned us to do this work that if you thought that was important if you're honest you say to me make sure to include it because it's important to. francesco rekha bono's university received a $2400000.00 government grant to carry out its work. he was later acquitted of charges that he was involved in
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a cover up. morrow pili is still convinced of foul play. or slow down the facets that will beat the roy and the. ball. in so many things that the icing. on the. 8 former commanders at queerer and now on trial charged with breaching the duty of care for the health and safety of soldiers and civilians. one of them is fabio tenney infamously caught on film climbing sardinians in brit school another is paolo ritchie who had declared queerer iranian free of the world business but it really really after 2 decades and 3 previous inconclusive inquiries last g.
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and john piero's garner his committee made a bold finding and of course trying to mentor for a month or less is the incessant biana judy the blue mess so the cozily. election that this position on the lower than informally don't live but gee i didn't check that a minute that a quest will not get the media. for the 1st time nano particles of depleted uranium were found to play a role in the possible development of cheap. crucially for eon when in high old foreign just it was found to be 5 times more dangerous than depleted uranium. the scanner report was dismissed by the italian defense force. there to think and they refer to. the letter a letter on the from. the larkham. for an element that
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says that the script elevated that. but after all that work by the commission a new law to monitor the health of soldiers was blocked by the upper house in russia. for decades sardinia has held its secrets close. it's been locked in an uncomfortable embrace with the world's military. in a country mired in debt defense contracts are a source of income but also quite possibly the cause of untold misery. after all the inquiries and with military brass now on trial for the people of this island paradise there is a glimmer of hope that the truth might finally see the light of day.
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