i said to my eyes discussions, so this is the one that's been hitting cities, sharing personal stories for a global audience. do you talk a little bit about what life is life or afghan lumina programs that open your eyes to an alternative view of the world today? dedira, we don't complete focus on the pallets of the conflict. it's the consequence of war . the human suffering that we will for time. it is one of the most serious, violent and recent here we brave bullets and bomb because we give voice to those demanding freedom the rule of law and will always include the views from all sites ah 20 years after the united states shocked and all bobbing campaign we look at how iraq is still struggling to improve basic services.

ah, the horrible the, what you have to say, we're like, my headquarters here in debt. also coming up, bending ties, erodes forward with this to says he's agreed to meet his saudi counterpart. after years of hostility, driving our barrier, paul president vladimir putin towards the city that russia alex from ukraine last year. and at least 15 people are dead after a powerful earthquake itself in ecuador and peru. ah, welcome to the program. it's been 20 years since the united states led the invasion of iraq in what was called the shock or campaign. the toppled president. saddam hussein ravone begins our coverage with a closer look at what led up to that military operation. so let's take

a look at the main events leading up to and during the iraq war. 1991, the gulf war ends, the un security council demands that iraq give up all weapons of mass destruction in exchange for lifting sanctions imposed after iraq's invasion of kuwait. during the 19 ninety's, iraq promise is repeatedly that it has turned over all it's banned. weapons, not true. several or later discovered in 1998, president bill clinton signs the iraq liberation act that makes removing saddam hussein's regime. the official policy of the u. s. government, after the $911.00 attacks clinton's success at george w bush identify the rock as part of an axis of evil. that speech widely seen as laying the groundwork for american military action in november 2002 as the u. s. is preparing to invade. the un security council pass is resolution $1441.00, giving iraq a final opportunity to disarm the united nations carries out $700.00 inspections

for weapons of mass destruction. and what do they find? no, w. m d 's. still on march 20th, the u. s. invasion of iraq begins. ariel bombardments 1st, then a ground invasion. within 3 weeks, u. s. forces take baghdad. and this becomes a defining image of the war. the statue of saddam hussein pulled down in fertile square. elsewhere in the capital, there is widespread arson and looting. american forces do little to stop that. iraq's army loses on the battlefield, but many soldiers go under ground and form armed groups. as for saddam, he is captured by us forces in december 2003. but the insurgency continues for years. officially, the u. s. leads the rock in december 2011, but it still has troops there to day 2 decades after the invasion. iraq is opec 2nd largest oil producer, but the country is still struggling to improve basic public services. political instability and demi corruption,

unsecured issues of all contributed towards the economy being in flux, sullivan, java has more the bathroom. the buttress famous italian bridge wasn't here 20 years ago. neither was the main road that leads to busters international stadium. now the streets are peaceful and there's relative political come in the city and across it all packed up and the chief more than $8000000000.00 a for an investment up to february 2023. we are keen to achieve major projects. this is all in coordination. with the federal government, lots of projects were completed in basra, related to infrastructure services, commercial and tourism sectors. in this oil field is the image noon, which means crazy in arabic. some say that refers to the large amount of oil. there's found here in one location and estimated 38000000000 barrels. the mission field produces 240000 barrels the day for iraq's economy. and production is planned

to be expanded to 5 and a half 1000000 barrels per day. in our government says, despite obstacles like corruption, red tape and an unstable region invested the lining up there, mainly interested in the countries abundant deposits of gas. but despite its large hydrocarbon resources, iraq imports a 3rd of the gas. it needs for its power stations. nearly $2000000000.00 worth comes from iran in on a stretch budget. that's a burden it up also spends an estimated $5000000000.00 the unimportant diesel in petrol. that's left it off currency struggling against the dollar. and that's not all. and there's no malia and the obvious of other hazard molly behead do as estimated by a parliamentary committee. corruption cost around $10000000000.00 a year, around $600000000000.00 have been smuggled out of iraq in the past years. we have to fight against corruption, administration, and financial. there's no real development in the rocky economy. despite that wells, millions of rockies struggled to get clean water every day. and every year,

thousands of people fall due to waterborne diseases drank drivers and climate change has increased risks of food shortages. 2 decades ago, the 1st battles of the iraq war were fought in buster. a city of a 1000000 people was besieged by mindy british forces. cluster munitions were used in the international coalition to band uranium weapons says you k and us forces use depleted uranium. frenzy is after the invasion, a lot has changed yet. this problem continues to remain the backbone, put ross, oil based economy. but still, the complaints of the people are a lack of job opportunities infrastructure. and the lack of attention from the people in power. family guy without the 0 butter. the built operation was lost without the support of the united nations. unlike the 1st gulf war and the invasion of afghanistan, our diplomatic editor james bay's looks at how the offensive damage the credibility of the un un weapons inspectors in iraq,

their job to track down the countries chemical and biological weapons. we now know there weren't any former iraqi rulers, saddam hussein had ceased his w. m. d, program years earlier, but in 2003, you as president george bush was backed by the british prime minister. tony blair was saying he was hiding a huge stock pile. and they claimed they had the intelligence to prove it. the u. s . secretary of state colin powell now known to have been privately skeptical himself, tried to make the case in the security council, even wielding a vile. he said could be anthrax about this. the u. s. and u. k. bitterly opposed by much of the international community, including france and germany, failed to get a security council resolution to authorize a war they launched one anyway. in the aftermath, one british diplomat who worked as his country's expert on iraq in the security

council resigned. do you think the united nations ended up damaged or strengthened by the war 20 years ago? and i think without doubt, it was damaged by the sector general at the united nations. didn't assert his authority to say that the war was the legal and should not happen. which later, he admitted, and i think collectively the quote unquote un, this sense of a global community of nations. a sense of a share set of rules took a very big hit as a result in iraq or so where does that leave things now? 20 years on. once again, the security council is deeply divided and there's no doubt that the invasion of ukraine by russia, a permanent member, was a breach of international law and of the un charter. but western diplomats, when you speak to them privately, will tell you that their efforts to put pressure on moscow are even now hindered by the memory of what happened 2 decades ago. the run up to the war in iraq in 2003

was marked by defiance and disinformation, resulting in deep damage to the un system and the rule of law around the world. so much may have changed since, but the repercussions of events that haunted the you and then a still being felt. james bays al jazeera, at the united nations iraq in there, either have signed a joint security deal in baghdad. aaron's top security official signed the agreement that involves coordination to protect common borders. it also calls for a strengthening of cooperation and several security feels alhashan has more from to run the 4 minutes to cover several issues. one of them is the security packed in iraq and the visit of the supreme national security council advisor or secretary alicia connie to, to iraq. you also spoke about the deal with saudi arabia, with the kingdom of saudi, about exchanging diplomatic missions. he said the technical teams are going to

visit embassies in, re enter around to make sure that everything logistically is ready for the exchange of diplomatic missions. you also highlighted the efforts to revive the nuclear deal . the g. c, p u a and his deputy lebowski is exchanging messages and letters with the e. u god, the nature of andrew mora also spoke about his next visit to more school next week and emphasized that his country doesn't take sides in the war in ukraine. he said that this country did not recognize iran, didn't recognize creamier or the next or the next regions. so this was the end of year press by. i mean, rob de la emphasis. i mean, i've de leon. therefore, he was kind of drawing the picture off his foreign policy how the country is going forward in this the relations with the united states,

that's dodgy. and the business swap that's, that's already being discussed through mediators with the united states. also, he highlighted the efforts to revive tides with bad rain and reveals that the sole final whole man that's on high some during his visit to train started immigration between the 2 countries. actually delegation from it on was a couple of days ago in manama and met her any officials. so these are the main points that's the same. i mean, i've highlighted in the stressor today, pasadena authority, disraeli officials, argy to meet in egypt, coastal city of chapel shake there, holding a followup summit after a meeting in october in jordan, last months enjoying those talks. palestinian and israeli delegations agreed to establish a security commission to prevent an escalation of violence that abraham has more from ramallah. there are a number of reasons why the summit is being held 1st. it's

a continuation of an upper bear summit that took place enjoy within 3 weeks ago. it was called a 4 by the by 5, our 4 parties, jordan egypt, the u. s. and with the participation of israel and palestine. now, one says here in palestine or at least as far as palestinian officials are concerned, they don't have the luxury to decline such an invitation. they're looking for ways to de escalate tension. we know that israeli forces have been reading cities left right and centre. that has left a lot of palestinians killed, but for palestinians since october, which is 3 weeks ago, $24.00 palestinians at least were killed by israeli forces fire. so they argue that the palestinian authorities approach to this whole matter, if they don't agree with that, they say that is, will, will continue it. aggressions are, this is the term many palestinians used to refer to the is really

a continued read it to the west bank cities. crates. constitutional court has declared a parliamentary election held last september null and void. the court has rule the previous parliament should be reinstated. last year, co, its crime, prince dissolved parliament, and called for early elections to end political feuding. the oppressive lead me pizza has visited russian, occupied mario, paul in ukraine. the city and the defense region was ethics. bible school, last year, teaching, drove around several districts on saturday, which showed restoration work at the theater at the university. his trip comes after the international criminal court issue to arrest warrant on suspicion of unlawful deportation of children. stephanie decker has more from the ukrainian capital. the kremlin has made it very clear that they don't consider the arrest warrant by the international criminal court in any way, legal or valid. yes, a 123 countries can arrest to the russian president if he visits there. it's

certainly not going to be in crimea or maro poll, which is now under russian occupation. they annexed crimea in 2014, which is why putin made his appearance there to mark those 9 years. and mario poll, which is a city that endured the most horrific of sieges in the course of this war. just 3 days ago was the anniversary you may remember of a theatre bombing, deadly theatre bombing. we're civilians were sheltering that killed hundreds of civilians that was on the 16th of march 2022. so now you see vladimir putin driving himself round the city. and i know so i think a statement there to the international community that he remains very much ah, the power house that he is and doesn't take the arrest warrant. seriously. talking about reconstruction of a city, a city that really was left half of it, a carcass of war due to the, the,

the brutal ness of the assault by the russian army. well, still had hail and al jazeera boat taunting subway by cheering after tent selections. both state governors, the assembly of health crosses and gone. a shortage of vaccines leads when outbreak of measles, a bunch of children, those stories after the birth. ah, i think we missed sand by some for some more flooding in bonia, possibly sumatra and java. the concentration of heavy dam pulls over the next 24 hours. it looks a little bit dry in the philippines and mostly dry and what is the hot area of southeast asia around thailand. meanwhile, but us prompting to shout, which of knocked him back again as well. looks about rights elsewhere in china,

the korean police are in japan. teams is on the high side, but is now expected to these temperatures will rise. there is rain again running through central china and it keeps going every now again gives a heavy burst. now it's not supposed to be bone dry, it's time the air, but you don't want to see too much rain before you get well above the average. however, compared to ya, last year, this might be welcome. this is also unusual, a number of shares before recently in india and they still keep going in bangladesh and the northeast of india and pole and baton, a little less. so for the south, west chin as extraordinary rain has gone away and you see the dryer looking fixed, but not in the north indian plain. still rains here, they shall do tend to die wagering tuesday. but the same time we've got an unusual feature coming up through the rape in see really the shower as he no man a little early and a little heavy. ah, from breaking down the headlines to exposing the powers attempting to finance

reporting, what did you do? what to, to investigate, why didn't you off the extra question? there are many during that said, fencer, it will have, but you think effect on subsequent stories. the listening post doesn't cover the news. it covers the way the news is candidate to suppress moderate. and in some cases, amplify the content you see on your timeline. delivery post on al jazeera lou ah o'clock your children with me said robin to remind you of all top stories, iraq and iran upside date, joint security de la baghdad. the agreement that involves coordination to protect

common board, as it also calls for strengthening of corporation in several security fields. president vladimir putin has visited russian occupied mario, paul in ukraine. the city, the tonight's reach, was annexed by moscow last year. putin met residence on visitor areas under reconstruction. that's been 20 years since the start of the us led invasion of iraq, the toppled president. saddam hussein. the military operation was launched without un support like the 1st gulf war and the invasion of goddess thought that some u. s, military veterans say the country shouldn't afford the conflict in iraq. i'm sorry, james is one of the, his, his story. it is. i was my name is as a james on the rock war veteran. i went to time, so i rec, also ones that dentist and my job in the army was alone. bravo for those. no, no, that's infantry. my additional skill identifiers bravo for, for those who don't know that the sniper 1st appointment was 15 miles, 2nd,

deployment was 12 months. 3rd deployment was 12 months. so i've been at 39 months of combat. straight fighting. i could take a rifle in queer room and do all this crazy stuff. i've aerosol to not a helicopters. i grant dudes and put bags over the head. zip, tie them and put them on helicopters in solemn via phone away. and i've never seen again the iraq war did not knew that, but it certainly had happened. iraq did nothing to us and we killed a 1000000 iraqi civilians lost $5000.00 plus american soldiers for what it diminished are standing in the world. it dammit bankrupted coffers. all i did was make the war machine get bigger and stronger in america. i think anybody who's been shot at and blown up and seen people blown to little pieces as anti war. if you're not, and this is for, i'm speaking directly to every veteran out there. if you love war, then you've never actually been in it. if you, i don't give

a damn of you. so if you talk about america, these of you never seen somebody take their last breath in a violent situation. you've never seen, i have a, she does not hurt. you do so much better than i ran for congress because i system is completely broken. i mean, we are, we are, by far the most powerful military in the world. we have one of the largest economies in the history of the world and all these there are full $33.00 industrialized nations on the planet earth. 32 of them provide their citizens with some form of guaranteed health care. the only one it does is american american war for over 2 years. now it's our job as a new generation of war, veterans who are more technologically savvy, who have access to more education, but it's not gonna change the way america is seen in the world. now elections are way in montenegro to choose the next president races between the countries longest

serving leader miller, the kind of rich and a range of rivals, hoping to change the country's political landscape. on going political deadlock has stalled and i have been bid to join the e u. and there are concerns that the country could align more closely with russia. well, the counting is also the way in nigeria, after millions of people voted for state governors, violence and vote for intimidation were reported in some fifty's. this is car, the ballot for more than 970 legislative 28 governance. those results are expected . on monday, emmet, with more from cano, they vote county, and conway is progressing very, very well, and everything is calm. unlike in previous elections, where we had cases of counted violence across the street. when the police will notice plans to disrupt the post. yesterday we saw how quick there was in stepping in to sort of bring everything under control and that gave some level of competence

among the populace and around the state. however, in other parts of the country, there was reported cases captive cases of violence in lagos. in particular, it let's just are being re run today simply because of events of yesterday why polls were disrupted in such an areas of lego state. now to talk about the situation here in kind of why we are and why vote counting and telling is in progress is the commissioner of police, county state mohammad who's saying so talk to us about your assessment of what happened yesterday and today and what are we expecting, are we expecting trouble or your office is admin up to the task? what are the hearing and what you want to say. thank you very much idea before the commitments or go to how students of engagement we take hold of one of my teams on this or this as an agency which that we all talk keep talking ourselves on how best we can give the people of districts that they don't help us the best

security that they can pull this data right of voted without one tissue of god was struggling to respond to a measles outbreak in the north to, to a shortage of vaccines. the government says that called for the because of high inflation, but crit, explain, miss management, call him bakers. no. zane of adams lives in the city of thomas lee, 600 kilometers north of gone. his capital across 3 of her children are sick with measles and she suspects her 4th is to she's left her business to visit them in hospital. this is really stressful. i had to look up my shop to be with them at the hospital, and the little money i have is what you spent on their medication. the shouldn't have happened. i tried to get all my children vaccinated against these preventable diseases was unsuccessful. why should the country even run out to vaccine for children? they not children are among scores who fallen ill since october last year during an

outbreak of measles in the north. the united nations and gone us health minister say children have not died from the disease in the country for nearly 20 years. now, 5 are suspected to have died at the start of 2023. many health workers say that could have been prevented by vaccination. would allow that over 80 percent of the patients that we got between last year and now have not received a immunization either. they have not received anything or they received this as single those 6 standard childhood vaccines are made available and gonna through the un and the global vaccine alliance gather the government funded vaccine, including for measles, ran out it blames and inflation rate of more than 50 percent our or go to do reach out to our various offices across the globe to see with

a timeframe. new countries can land some of these about these 2 countries, so that they feel the gop gonna is among many african states has vaccination programs were brought to a standstill. during the pandemic, the government acknowledges there are shortages but says it's managed to get some new deliveries that they've come to late for st. children. and she can only wait and hope they recover. column baker al jazeera, when i'm in, candle is a member of parliament in ghana and the ranking member of the health committee. now he says, the government should have prioritize the procurement of vaccines in the yearly budget. the government is a blend, basically the minister responsible for health and the president because the bus stops on the precedent because you see we have something we called and last night hawkins dance formula. and so these 2 buses, dr. rush, both the buses that day about says that we are supposed to procure henry percent and we have the show. and then last night, you know, as we have in this country,

while we are approving the formula for the, unless my health insurance and fund we make positions for their procurement of these buses almost every year. so in last year to the, to the, to for example, we mean, not less on, so, i mean to, to mean you on the guy must cities for the procurement of those buses. so, and when we've checked, we realize that these monies are being released and we don't understand why the money will be released and get we'll know how to process in this country. we can most sacrifice the lives of the children in this country because of inflammation. yes. i agree that for example, as i speak to you now, i inflation is more than 54 percent of the respective of the inflation. i think about talking about the lives over you might be and these are the future leaders of our country. so we have no absolutely no reason to wait and such a fight the lives of these children because of the pollution i do not. i mean i respect collision doesn't then things we've been. ready as a country and it's much prioritize asian,

we have to privatized buses with us. why i believe that is lack of forward planning . basically lack of and there is no way there's no way adopted has been stated. but alice shortage of buses in the world market look like has killed at least 15 people in ecuador at one in 3. now the magnitude $6.00 tremor was centered around equity, 2nd largest city of y keel. alix bad reports. the streets littered with crumbled facades. rescue teams in ecuador scrambled to save those still. trips after the earthquake will be a part of the facade collapsed. them fell on a vehicle that has already been removed by the police. we had one victim without vital signs. a male person, a number of buildings have collapsed across the coastal state of laurel and us, why in the andes. like and people ran out, they yelled in despair. all the people got out of their cars. i don't know how an

earthquake would feel in a car, but they were desperate and they ran, they yelled, cried. there are reports of damage to infrastructure across the region and landslides, blocking federal roads. the trim was also felt across the border and northern peru where a young child was killed when her home collapsed. while the baby was playing where the stain of blood is, she was playing with my other niece and the brick fell on her ecuador and peru approach to earthquakes. they struggled the so called ring of fire, and the danger isn't over yet. but after shocks still ongoing, alex bid al jazeera. now the said, the say the philippines says that she's uncovered operation in which filipinos a possibly a possibly other nationals or traffic and forced into crime. she said victims with leered by jobs at call centers in cambodia. minima, but they pressured into taking part in fraud by the below house. the story from

manila. so nasa love us long timing long area. this clip was taken by filipinos held at a combo deon police station in january. they say it shows they were victims of human trafficking and i did by phone number 9. 2 of the group of says, returned home and told al jazeera, their experiences were horrific. with warner. bruno doesn't want to reveal his identity and says he was made to travel from one country to another illegally. and by boat, 17 guy, me, me my lit up or there was had been in the 1st in a small wooden bold, including an infant and luggage. and that was the most dramatic part. because to vote with god's sakes and a time. and no one would find out if we dana, this was her destination in cambodia. a large business complex with many buildings . miles says there were given customer service jobs, but then forced to carry out online fraud. st. prepared b. the 3rd day of chatting is when we offer potential victims fake crypto

investments. the lowest offer is $50.00, but it can go up to as much as $50000.00. i'm with, unlike bruno miles was florence come bodya posing as a tourist. what are the more common routes and methods, according to victims, filipino trafficking victims who come forward said they're usually question at border checks when leaving the philippines. but they pass through with relative ease. they say at least one immigration officer stamped their passports, let them straight through. at least 6 officers are being investigated by the bureau of immigration or b, i. following send an inquiries. the b, i should not be a scene of the crime. it should be the last line of defense for our migrant workers . so it really has to crack down on the syndicate or syndicate still operating within human.