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issues we listen i still think that travel is the safest mode of travel and to spend that we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on the phone to sarah. best known to tourists for its beautiful beaches and dramatic coastline italian island of sardinia is also a major company that makes the for the locals the longer these tests of how tough the fact. for years the authorities have refused to pose play reporter emma alberici went to investigate.

the book. because does morale day is a magnet for the rich and famous 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 that have blotted life 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 wargamers like this

one in 25th dane. trident junction was one of nato's biggest exercises. dozens of countries were involved in. the military exclusion zone as cover more than a 3rd of sardinia is land sea and air. 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 zimbabwe's arabs are on their bare back bottom was a lot more about it as i remember job only

a couple of the manga give what the man got. and there was no real bradstock of what they were rather than what happens if you do we are morally. wrong but someone really would never bother. the italian ministry of defense has deemed vast areas of the sea around sardinia off limits. around their government on a minute out of one man and one annoy them really regret their ability for no apparent your name in 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 you do that because.

of the you know there. are a purely has made it his life's mission to bust open this wall of silence. he was 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 we were the no he was told they would be strictly no filming allowed. you mention imagine if. you're going to fight in the mud or. if i don't know what it mean for the afghan official me. despite the secrecy bits of information have started to leak out. in 2017 sardinia unhealthful far she's confirmed claiming fouls and 200 french

made me laugh missiles arrived on the yacht. and over the 20 years to 2003 some were fired a town larger of course in egypt for 1000000 was a misdemeanor. 11 lies here was. that the year than. the guidance systems of these milan missiles each carry 3 grams of radioactive phoria. in heiling florian dust increases the risk of long and pancreatic cancer. in the school box and you saw that he thought it was the most was that the girl should like to go. for she was positive that. it was the summer that. the main concern 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 mail. today or is saying goodbye to another of its citizens 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. many of the people gathered here have been touched by cancer. here showed him what most of them already in the church i don't know about us and we took a lot of the station by him off the show their level of the job and. don't want to call him or. been decided to intervene to do our share not at all the more i want to read your bible julie on joining and his friends blame the italian defense force for their suffering. due to modern almost. never

found that the sort of the for the usually a lot on your mother to love what i. when that job and it was that it. the italian military has always denied doing anything to hurt the people of the land all the animals of sardinia. a bondi a peeress and her husband john carlo have been fighting the military through the courts for 10 years are going to dilute the but they. will still be a black person has. a larger. vision of the past francesco pyrrhus did his national service in thailand or in the late ninety's he took part in military exercises and his parents say he was ordered to pick up all shills 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 when i say fuck without throw in no matter what i meant there are many. about the truth. of a general of. course and more money. with the book. for example. 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 get it analyzed francesco's liver tissue the and 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 a big explosion icicle at the. ok i mean they're calling out those who are 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 getting has consultant to for parliamentary inquiries that looked into the activities of the italian defense force it was that if you know said the painter that it. would look i'm in a corner or no. authority figure out the only real little bit you. very.

much is so. so that it will you. know. this. 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 see the children the same or do you agree that you quit because of food. or disorder. but much of that. much about this will be cut but i want to believe that the query . 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 and that's. part. of my. skull apply no symmetry is a sad testament. one in 4 of the children born in the same year is marine ground 0 had some kind of deformity. come into the mother. and spoken into the heart of the cover up. the back of said i'm allowed to let it out so you're not a doctor or. don't know how to feel. john

pierre osgar new has tried to hold the military to account he led a 2 year parliamentary inquiry. his committee met fierce resistance from the chiefs of defense. central illinois for that achieve their cause and were truly on the 4th of. may poorly going to support they were further queer looking. but on children this will 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 inbreeding god those are the 1st of the leaders to go. in this is general maltin a former head of the queer a base he's caught on swiss t.v. delivery that came missing each soldier by a passing by a stranger will leave that image in the world of 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 meters. and 40 meters wide. that

. it got comical and are already in a. 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 nearly 2000 local doctors saw a spike in the number of unusual cancers in their patients. at the same time over in florence a military pilot dominican jiro was raising his concerns. he'd same high incidence of cancers among fellow soldiers returning from kosovo where they had

been exposed to depleted uranium. stomach around the good of. the it's an internet around it's not going to know if we're going to be perfect or intervene you're getting better like 2030 minutes and i mean to explore so you know middle c. . of this to remain. on never really going to be no not that or you're immune to the minute. you have a little bit 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 a was. line in by the ministry of defense to do some soil tests in front of a swarm of local media. the same or less are going to convince you to have

a live image or something rather. busy but people are moving in a lot of venom around $40.00 before the 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. to the sunni had never run anonymous but after battle. i could pull you're not even going to the last of the year so nobody going to miss you not one of the line i took you that you grow it in will do and. look you know i was really received with it said this is. my work. when 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. 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 then. then. it or not. the my former. believe. the georgia malice corrosion report for the district helpful farci 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 that get placed where a new police want to be installed more. reborn more. of them into a little bit about. the quest for the better. but the bill. was the only main. looming. in more. journalistic. immediately a formal police investigation was launched the court ordered the exhumation of 18 shippers who died in the 20 years up to 2010.

binds were shipped here to easily snow and examined at 2 universities. nuclear physicist vandross seanie led some of that research. in visual. analyse. and or in the car for. the. your. view that there are those 11 shepherds with high levels of thore in the nearby had all lived close to the firing range. or nor are the short in quite that it guard by george. the opposition there.

in the regional capital lana say the chief prosecutor called a meeting with the scientists to dump the soil to sting to the military. why 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 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 think that the icing on the. better equipped every taller brick wall and being. 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 will isn't. really that after 2 decades

and 3 previous inconclusive inquiries last g a john piero sky news committee made a bold finding and of course trying to mentor for a month or less is the incessant be on the jury the new mess so the cozily. lecture 30 suppose it's on the low then in full really don't they 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 scouting report was dismissed by the italian defense force. and they refer to. the letter

a letter on the. the larkham. nick you're president for an element that 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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