will she not see the headlines from foster down. and explosion up it's a question about atomic power plants and for fun trick is to be is of course the new tesla after a devastating earthquake their reactions rehearsed the last entry market people with things going to get news of the forms are removed from. japan's was not a tremor caused a huge tsunami which swept away entire of villages and submerged vast areas of the seven hundred people are confirmed dead but friends of the stolen from. another

news the afghan president says nato and american troops should meet his country this comes just days after hunted causes cousin as well as nine children who are collecting firewood look totally separate to us at times. the arab people on fox and the flyers of the navy as member states trying to also please once appears a council to impose the restriction of the need is united in calling for colonel gadhafi to blood meanwhile leave its job replied flails while levels of arms a moot question for the forces in the world for them to. write about going to british soldiers have seen service in iraq have complained about depleted uranium related illnesses and accused by the pentagon and the british ministry of defense of a coverup up next to meet some of the veterans who are suffering. my own assessments. of the fall should i stick them on my wall functions

but. i'm not sure if they remember each and every one i was always tired headaches would never go away. very sensitive to light as far as i am but the pain was just unbelievable and we believe up like you know like fetus is in the bed in case. i do have the. friend i made sure he desires i dunno we've lost all desires i'm not as active as it used to be here and it's apparent to talk about that. fiend just go well surely i mean some doctors niggling pains noone again they should have to ration to gain entry and all the same a tremor was caused by the depleted uranium that was better than the truth. with his in the office they keep bringing up the issue that is not really. it's

there bring something else all you're getting on the guy or. girl word so anything they just tell you can he lies to cover up for the worse. for them i went on it was a cold morning and i knew my soul was in finance and you know never forget the so just because some local the way they held on to their families he found so much crime and it's. sadness.

come one day that she said. take care of my kids as if they were here almost. looking ahead to new folded back. that thank god she's come back even if she was. there because so many of them didn't. it's only modest once this summer. after vegas dina's husband lives in the bronx in new york city he was sent to iraq in two thousand and three he was a sergeant and been serving in a national guard unit for over twenty years in iraq he became a military policeman you never saw live combat. if this is. an air akki so does. everything go off of this for a few months after being in iraq echo started feeling ill suffering from intense

migraine headaches and muscular pain he was declared unfit for service was discharged and he returned home the piece still suffers from severe headaches fatigue and pain for months we are region and his symptoms was a mystery he had some medical tests the results were he had been poisoned by depleted uranium a radioactive material that had been used in the war. more of them and off has been arrested about fifty times it's always for the same reasons and he's about to do it again on this bitter cold morning in minnesota he's protesting for what he sees as a just cause he has fought many such peaceful battles in his lifetime he's even won

some. sadness. freedom rides. like the. jackson. we were asked to come back. and a break later we were. on prime most of the state prison and brought in naxal mom security. i was lying there we. as people were singing freedoms. and i was crying. because they were promising us. the cows are going all bellowing. everybody. sighs. i'm going to do this rush the i'm right and i'm dumb luck for the feeling.

that's what motivates me. i'm. going to. three day argument and weapons. they may owe her a demon out of. us they've. lost their problems personnel man lines they guess. odds and the world. about bush is the. first thing every wednesday morning rain or shine for the past ten years more than a group of fellow pacifists demonstrate outside the headquarters of this local armament company they remind people that depleted uranium weapons were used in the

war in iraq and that this company still manufactures them. depleted uranium ore dehumanisation have been the subject of heated debate because of the secondary effects they may have on the health of troops and civilians. as we want the change we want nuclear abolition way while we're against the weapons of mass destruction like you put it you're a cost for bombs can't afford to drive those stray should ideally says we should not use any drugs less it is better clay safe and they test it well with the plated you're ready and we do it just the other theory we go and use that as. my knowledge base type is just i think yes that is. radio. plays talk to the. whole.

human issue one of the most deadly and effective weapons in the first gulf war they are a kind of metallic arrow or bullet and are called penetrators they were launched by american tanks planes and helicopters and the result was that saddam hussein's armor was destroyed in a matter of minutes if. the penetrators are not explosives they are flechettes or bullet like spindles of depleted uranium a very dense self igniting metal those characteristics and the enormous kinetic energy released by the penetrator on impact means to you rounds cut through tank armor like a hot knife through butter fragments of burning d'you penetrate the crew compartment

and incinerate everything in their path. a few weeks ago at this veterans hospital in illinois dug a retired major in the united states army underwent an operation to remove cataracts from his eyes he's a veteran of both the first gulf war and the war in vietnam is very clear that uranium munitions would cause injuries and i damage so would the extensive exposures that i hail and again the uranium dust settling on the i as a consequence over the years to develop a cataract. in one thousand nine hundred ninety one when he was still in the army and after land combat in kuwait in a. roquet was appointed to research the effects of the depleted uranium munitions that had been used for the first time officially in that war is unit's job was to

clean out american tanks equipped with dehumanisation that had been destroyed by friendly fire i started getting sick of my team started getting sick within twenty four hours forty eight hours the first thing that showed up was respiratory problems u.s. department of veteran affairs has family diagnosed as reactive bear witness news dude occupational exposure to depleted uranium in my case and so we developed a rash a rash a still would be a back that's rash right now was open and bleeding. was my guy started dying and i was a real serious medical problems i couldn't get medical care. roquet took part in a study commissioned by the pentagon on the after effects of depleted uranium munitions but what the study found was at odds with the official line and roky ended up becoming an anti dui activist. no i'm not a peacenik i'm a warrior award that's finishing his job because as

a person who was assigned the responsibility to clean up the mess he was assigned a responsibility to the research who was assigned responsibility it right there army regulations which are formally adopted in absolute regard as you officer who wrote the training programs i learned and what i learned scared me. battlefields in fighting or ok took part in the production of this video it was filmed in one thousand nine hundred five four years after the first gulf war record to train soldiers presented it sends conflicting messages on do you think in part one it points out the risks of toxic contamination if the dust from the substances is swallowed or inhaled and it describes the hazards of finding out how much depleted uranium is in haled swallowed or gets under the skin heavy metal poisoning may occur which can cause damage to internal organs and tissues. health effects of

ionizing radiation depend on whether it is alpha beta or gamma and if the radioactive material is inside or outside the body alpha is the least penetrating but is the most hazardous if it does get into the body heavy metals bind to d.n.a. we know that for a long time and heavy metals cause cancer they probably cause it because of this binding and they which disrupts the way the d.n.a. can behave in the cell so they're essentially d.n.a. damaging agents. maybe partially it is chemical and partially it is radiation that russian these effects are why the u.s. army recommends strong protective measures for their troops even though the film ends up minimizing the hazards of depleted uranium remember depleted uranium is not an immediate hazard. bottom line unless you're involved in

a death nation or fire with depleted uranium hazards are relatively small. some units of the new york national guard were called up and sent to iraq after the invasion of two thousand and three gerard matthew went there with his unit their job was to was scored convoys. on the view when she came home after the war she started having headaches easily irritated by the slightest think the kids may do has changed a lot q let me tell you something you you ever had a headache that you had six seven headaches a day and anything terribly almost fifty six. i mean it's really debilitating and the headaches if you have yes they're they're short spaced but they come and go.

well and another thing i guess is that bumps and skin see here through here. i think there's a letter from. my finally a matthew got in touch with other veterans like hector vega who had similar symptoms they all took tests to see if they had been poisoned by depleted uranium the results were a surprise. he says. you have four to eight times higher of the soldiers. which makes you being the person that has the highest level. you know i said leave us to reason with my daughter came out the way she did . the couple has a baby girl who was born with a birth defect on one hand her mother is convinced that it is on account of gerard's exposure to d. you. so yes i mean i mean what i saw deep down in my heart i

knew that she was gone like that even yes because of something he had about. one of us and we started looking for answers on the internet i mean and i saw the baby i think i have the picture comes hand was identical to my daughter was on the money and iraqi baby that had been exposed to depleted uranium i mean for me that was the proof my baby's hand and the hand of that iraq i.e.d. exposed the figurine. natural uranium is made up of two isotopes ninety nine percent as you remember to thirty eight point seven percent is the more radioactive uranium two thirty five. the nuclear industry uses isotope separation to produce enriched uranium which contains a higher concentration of uranium two thirty five this enriched uranium is more radioactive the natural uranium and it's used in the manufacture of atomic weapons

depleted uranium is the by product of this process it is less radioactive but it's still toxic and this is what's used to make anti-tank weapons. weapons can also be made with uranium already used by nuclear power plants but in the process it is contaminated with the highly radioactive elements generated inside nuclear reactors this is a cheap way of getting rid of many tons of nuclear waste which otherwise would be very expensive to store safely. trucked in of. the nuclear energy program is saying when millions and millions of pounds own gain rid of your nuclear waste. but the way it's been done they serve in moral

you know early is immoral. i believe it's illegal. to use it because it's highly effective to fly straight it's highly lethal weapon one. i mean the first shot one shot kill so taking it off the battlefield is not a is not a neutral act. it's an act that will poison the loss of lives by taking away both protection and the super bowl super bowl weapon with the pentagon is kind of oversold the importance of depleted uranium to defend the weapon it exaggerated the importance of it. but it was actually guided missiles had a particular hellfire missile destroyed developed a third of all the iraqi tanks that were destroyed. and bernard rust killed several

positions in the pentagon during the clinton administration and he spent a number of years directing research into the so-called gulf war illnesses. the kinds of symptoms that are seen in people with gulf war illness are totally inconsistent with exposure to depleted for any and so they came to the conclusions as has the united nations the e.u. . almost everybody who has looked at this in an unbiased scientific way that depleted uranium is not related to the. unexplained illnesses that we saw in the first gulf war. thank you. i. this is the center of amman the capital of jordan among the shoppers are all and two iraqi cancer

specialists today they are sightseeing but they have come to a man to take part in an on call article congress sponsored by a large american pharmaceutical company here they will find out about the latest treatments for cancer but they will not be able to use them in iraq. we are crippled and we are looking to people dying with oh it's any help from us or from others we could say we are crippled and or minds are made to get there because we haven't got the first silly t's to treat our patients. both doctors work in bars or university hospital and they are taking part in a study funded by german universities to examine the soaring number of cancers in that iraqi province. as the only voice is one cancer.

is that is late and is contaminated as mother and father there you are in this country when it hit by it if you're in you as it is tested in japan. of course we don't know the test which is done in japanese. we don't. bother was the iraqi province in which you do you minissha as were most heavily used. doctor are least says that radioactivity still lingers in many places he's convinced that this is what lies behind the increase in cancers some of which are very rare. cancers which are related to radiation. as lymphoma and soft tissue cancer is. increased. to alarming

number and particularly cancer. melican and fibrous is to a site film which is close to related to the radiation. i got sent to load twenty five cases so is some something strange. would give us clues to the effect of radiation on our patients but we should prove it's. all. a. big. another conflict in which depleted uranium weapons were officially used was the war in kosovo in one nine hundred ninety nine. in reprisal for ethnic cleansing

policies against albanian coast of ours nato planes bombed serbian forces and yugoslav infrastructure. in that campaign serbian armored tanks and vehicles were attacked with the human issuance. a few months later the media reported an unusually high rate of leukemia and other cancers and the european veterans who had served in kossovo talian french spanish and others the term balkan syndrome was coined several organizations began to call for a ban on d.-u. weapons. nato had to call a meeting of the atlantic council to appease its allies once again the message was contradictory they had knowledge of the risks but downplayed them. we're confident

that there is little risk for the you munitions but we refuse to be complacent. existing medical consensus is clear the hazard from depleted uranium is both very limited and limited to very specific circumstances but nature is doing everything it can to ensure that relevant information is made publicly available then we'll have in pentagon experts have consistently denied that there is any cause and effect relationship between depleted uranium and the so-called balkan syndrome just most nato authorities have agreed in the years since one nine hundred ninety nine no indications have been given as to whether or not any medical follow up has been done on the soldiers supposedly exposed to depleted uranium in kosovo and the member states about the precautions to be taken when it comes to depleted uranium in the go. we have not been able to see any indication of any medical problem from

those who had the highest exposure who were in or on to be able it was struck with the polluted uranium they about half the crew survived those hits after i had and those that survived have not been able to see any medical problem now in nine years later. and they had we know the highest exposure to the pleated uranium and anyone who served in the boat. as my name is daniel smith this is joining us on the radio will make a short presentation about that we can fix project. the first day in the fourth day to get information out about the real world nice to him. on. the. secrecy is the biggest. fear to be

a good marketer. and we saw this in danger he was hunted down and killed. this is exactly one of the reasons why we left the culture because it has become more about this all james bond. than all the actual information. thank you. so all the people around the wall. they. download the official tea happily cation. i pod touch from the top story. which all changed life on the go. video on demand on t.v.'s my fuel costs and our streets now in the palm of your.

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