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toward arab countries fuels and sentiments in the european states taken them in camry's new interior minister has become the latest politician to enter the immigration debate he says does not belong in europe. i'll be back with more news more developments in less than half an hour from now in the meantime looks at a weapon which chooses no sides in times of conflict the second part of our special report on the dangers of printed in rainy. a u.n. study has detected no signs of significant environmental problems in kossovo in the places where do you minissha is for use. in the world health organization has also concluded that the risk posed by de weapons to the health of troops and civilians is relatively low but both reports concluded that more research was needed and that

precautionary measures should be taken when using these weapons these recommendations have fallen on deaf ears if it was a matter that this was confined to the military and those people in a conflict that would be a different matter but the point is that this material is likely to affect this because geranium dust is likely to affect the civilian population. professor keith laumer stock is a british scientist specializing in radiation and the environment he was advisor to the world health organization that a stark wrote a report highly critical of the human issuance of w.h.o. rejected his findings and that was not thanks they caved in under political pressure there's a geneva convention which says that your weapons of war must not adversely affect the health of the civilian population and i think there's enough evidence now to say that there's a high probability that their health will. affect. this

is the heart of america's grain bells were major doug roquet retired after clashing with the pentagon over the effects of depleted uranium. but even retired he still continues his battle against these munitions. the internet has proven to be a great weapon for him and he has become an expert on casualties and the after effects of the recent iraq war he blames dehumanisation for most of the medical problems connected to the war. because usually rate for vietnam was approximately seven percent eight percent of those that served here we're looking at over one third are now casualties already over thirty percent of every bit of the service is now so bad off medically that they have to request permanent medical care and

permanent pensions from the u.s. department of veteran affairs that's an incredible number. the pentagon has ended up saying that there is no danger at all from depleted uranium while some activists claim that it is a world threat roquet like many activists in the n.t. do you camp have been on both sides of the fence first as a member of the military establishment supporting the official line and then being against it there are three you there are one hundred twenty millimeter do you rob a saloon a mile that's one one hundred twenty millimeter to you rob this is an aluminum bottle ok. so they say it's sixty percent net less radioactive they totally ignore the other half of the paragraph that i wrote they totally ignore the alpha missions and they totally ignore all the beta gamma emissions from the daughter products and from the range of two thirty four to thirty five it's in there and from the two thirty six would probably tony and up to the human every seal. over

the years dug a real k. and some groups have continued to pursue the fight against do you like the media has lost interest the issue had been politically dead for years at least until recently when the possible after effects from the war in iraq have once again appeared you don't have to have a college degree you don't have to have an eighth grade education to understand that if you spread radioactive materials all over somebody's backyard that you've got a problem it doesn't take into it and i'm starting to understand if you inhale radioactive materials you can have chemical toxicity and radiological problems and you're going to get sick. we have something that's tantamount to an incredible crime against humanity all of us eat drink and breathe natural uranium every day. the average human being has about eighty micrograms of natural uranium in our bodies and we excrete it in our urine every day where does the natural uranium come

from it's in the soil in a. square mile one foot deep there four tons of natural uranium. so it's out there and so when we take a look at the pleated uranium being used in battle and rounds being fired and going into the soil the amount of uranium that depleted uranium is adding to that that's already there is really very very small. the pentagon says that it has spent millions of dollars on researching the health impact of depleted uranium in a special office set up to study the impact of wars on soldiers health says that it has found no evidence of deep you related harm among the thousands of soldiers who fought in the first gulf war. for going to veterans affairs is doing in mortality study looking at death rates of those who went to

those who didn't go. there is no difference in the death rate and there is no difference in the causes of death from disease to cancer to homicide suicide to you name it oh yes these are results of the recent tests are very very few but not of the human beings it is mostly on animals and most of the further findings. dr a suffered a drug addiction is a retired colonel he was a radiation specialist for the u.s. armed forces for many years the rock of that analyze data on the national guard soldiers from new york who were poisoned by. d.-u. the study led to a bitter controversy with the pentagon. when it hits the target. during a new project i that is made of depleted uranium produces very high temperature.

that impact creates dust radioactive dust and depleted uranium in that infinitesimal number of the particles is spread in the atmosphere. there's single most dangerous. radiation that exists in the nature. of the group in the vicinity of known differentiated so produce is so not the genetic changes including cancer leukemia. wiping out of the immune system and so. i'm telling you here for the public to listen to this interview that's where the inning with that greet and danger for the law is on the planet earth. on this issue you have

a lot of propaganda come from the u.s. government but you have a lot of people who are in my opinion engaging in propaganda coming from the other side as well making claims that are not backed up by having it spot plated uranium and it's really kind of obscured you know what i consider a middle ground reality. dan fahy is a retired navy lieutenant and veteran of the first gulf war since his discharge he has campaigned against it do you but he disagrees with iraq of it you're ok he believes their statements go too far and their studies and findings are flawed he believes more rigorous studies are needed we have a lot of scientific evidence showing depleted uranium and rats can cause cancer but you know it at what point do you stop studying rats and start studying humans who are exposed and that's where i think we're at now and that's where you need the

foundation of the pentagon is not going to stop using this weapon until there is evidence of clear evidence of effects of human populations. in southern iraq is now under british military control the city has been on the frontline. and during three wars in the last twenty five years first it was the iran iraq war then operation desert storm finally this is where anglo american troops began the invasion to overthrow saddam hussein. there are no official statistics on the amount of the human emotions used in iraq but estimates are between four hundred and four thousand tons and now long after the two thousand and three bombings geiger counters still detect radioactivity from spent the you munitions in areas outside the city. according to u.n. recommendations and u.s. military regulations vehicles hit by do you mean

a shins should have been removed from the battlefield and the whole area decontaminated this was not done. frewer is in charge of the environment apartment in basra and has produced a map of radioactive contamination it's discovered that radiation levels are quite high. our instruments detect high levels of background radiation and we take samples for analysis by a gamma ray spectrograph. this is bad for a university hospital it used to be called the saturn hussein hospital and recently it's been renamed sutter hospital after a local shiite leader. those in charge of the cancer unit have raised the alarm over the soaring number of cases they suspect the d.c.u. is to blame. the. mortality has been increased nine to nineteen

times. if we compare it to the years nineteen eighty nine that is three years before ninety nine to one wars. and the congenital birth defects increased by seven times. similar allegations were made in the late one nine hundred ninety s. when saddam hussein was still in power then the accusations were labeled propaganda but now many particularly patients are convinced the deal is responsible. to natasha to some guy i had a terrible headache. and i had a fever as well joining in and they sent me to see the doctor who recommended it and the therapy and. i felt it was all caused by pollution from the our. cattle my illness was caused by there was here and explosions. loads

of people have the same illness said it did but if the wounds it we shall prevail and they shall lose. now the doctors are carefully reviewing all the data so that they can publish the studies in prestigious scientific journals and this will validate their findings. we face a lot of problems and obstacles in doing our research and i think nobody wants us to prove but these concerns are due to depleted uranium otherwise for compensation for compensation for twenty five million people in iraq.

as a specialist i can't say what the increase in cancer rates is or why. i believe cancer cases have risen. we need precise data. for a period of years before we can reach any scientific conclusions inserted. in iraq there have been many toxic agents such as smoke from the oil wells that were set on fire and contamination from factories that were bombed. the doctors must prove that the increase in cancer is directly linked to d you and not to these other causes. but the risks from uranium are much more direct and evident among the soldiers

there were nine hundred u.s. soldiers that the pentagon admits were strongly exposed to deal dust in combat. the pentagon says these soldiers despite being highly exposed to do you suffered no abnormal health problems it was the strongest official argument for denying the dangers of d.-u. . in a fourteen year study commissioned by the veterans administration dr melissa mcdermott has been studying a group of soldiers affected by do you split the veterans into those who only inhaled do you dust and those who have had do you shrapnel in their bodies. looking at the whole group based on their low versus the high uranium we don't see large differences between the two groups i would also like to make a point that an elevated here in uranium fourteen years after you were exposed is not normal so by no means are we saying that we haven't found anything it's very

complicated isn't it at least at present fourteen years out from first exposure in one nine hundred ninety one we are not seeing health differences that we would have expected to see that were uranium based the reality is just thirty two people in that program out of the nine hundred of the pentagon has said were heavily exposed and you know you have to ask why do they refuse to do a bigger studies it's that don't look don't find phenomena other described for of you know they don't want to know the answer and they are content to keep manipulating this very small study of veterans which really is not serving any scientific purpose they actually could. complete and through much time and the gulf and through one thousand nine hundred ninety one and the shapes and through the war

pranging job given. that. which what they were trying to she. moved the one not and so we go. to milwaukee well it wasn't victimization i mean people think you could compensate but you never just recognize ation that. you know him right and he has the prison. kenny duncan's case is unique he is the only serviceman whose illness has been officially recognized by the british government as stemming from exposure to the u. kenny and his wife mandy served in the armed forces he was a driver in the first gulf war he had to transport demolished iraqi tanks the war left its scars not only on kenny's life but on the rest of his family his ordeal began just a few months after he returned from kuwait to his native scotland. this question is for because i was pregnant time. and it was opened into niall because i

mean it is right because he was always in pain in. the dress and it was quite a time because nobody knew what it was. but the worst was yet to come all three children suffer from congenital health disorders kenneth the eldest is the worst affected and has undergone eleven operations this is what made kenny and man the suspect do you think they began a long legal battle which they unexpectedly one. paper how to us tremendous this paper sasheer the findings of fact. try to run itself in excess i. why they decided yes kenny has got a trainee and poisoning can he suffers from a chromosomal aberration that is caused only by d u and it was a clear cut case of cause and effect he gets a war pension of just one hundred euros a week and he still has to work as

a truck driver and he just security was going to happen in the future as he gets checked the cancer for six months. i mean when i read it causes cancer yeah i also want to write more of a church shape the government of the time near the or i should have an affair because resembled the that year that it was problems. but how much the government near you don't know is supposed to send in a and that i should change their mission i don't trust any politicians. really bristow as president of the british gulf war veterans association helped kenny duncan get his war pension he is also a do you victim. through.

this so ca sion hasn't managed to get the courts to rule the d.c.u. is the cause of many veterans illnesses fifteen years after the first gulf war the veterans are still fighting a legal battle with the authorities there's never anything to do with depleted uranium they mislead people by say. depleted uranium was actually used to move where the follow areas where. really bristow is in very poor health like kenny he's tested positive for do you poisoning but the government has refused to acknowledge that it has anything to do with his multiple illnesses. in the united nations subcommittees declared that it. comes under the definition of a weapon of mass. indiscriminate destruction because if they at first

health effects. but they will have on the combatants of both sides after the war the civilian population and the environment so. i was talking about some somebody being no criminal i. think. it's much worse as is what happened with asian origin meat and i did for

a long time and then they suddenly had his whole walk once they needed that there were some problems they began to huge cross and try to deal with it and that's really what they're trying to do is just cut off the benefits and and if somebody gets cancer or whatever they're going to blame it on something else. thousands of tons of agent orange were sprayed over vietnam during the war there in the sixty's . agent orange is a powerful defoliant and it was used to destroy jungle like areas where gorillas could hide during the vietnam war. but agent orange also contained dioxins a poison that continues to contaminate the environment and the people. after a long legal and political battle the us government authorized compensation for the veterans and their children who had been affected but thousands of vietnamese some of them third generation who suffer from illnesses and birth defects are still fighting for compensation. congressman jim mcdermott as

a young doctor saw firsthand the effects of agent orange on american soldiers last may mcdermott introduced an amendment forcing the government to conduct a comprehensive study on the health effects of do you want veterans back. to go into night at age an orange posed any threat to u.s. soldiers who are exposed. during all those years of denial we stood by did nothing while our soldiers suffered and for me there can be no war agent orange we have to think of that in terms of this do you it d. you possesses no danger or poses no danger we need to prove it statistically and with independent scientific studies we owe our soldiers a full measure of the truth wherever that leads us.

mcdermott's amendment passed its first hurdle and the amendment is agreed to. but there's no guarantee that this will become law at the us or any other country using do you honestly examine its effects on those who fired the weapons and those who were fired upon and on the entire globe. culture is that so much excitement which of course is right on it and so here is a drawing bottlings over collective bargaining puts america's democracy potentials in the line of fire but is this move the red tape roll back. the

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