welcome back to all see the headlines. there's another new emerging said it's a cliche about atomic power plants in japan the government spokesman saying a partial meltdown of second week now we have seen by cop and triggered by the country is going to start as a quake at least fifteen people have been exposed to radio seriously while residents have been evacuated from a train to komisarek exclusion zone around the facility officials say radiation levels are rising. puns worst ever trello caused

a huge tsunami which swept away and tiled villages and submerged vast areas over seven hundred people at the time and that's because of the still accounted hold. nothing news this hour the afghan president says nato and american troops should leave his country this comes just days after a hundred cars lies cousin as well as nine other children who were collecting firewood were killed in separate u.s. attorneys. on the arab league was boxing really fly zone over the media as member states decided to ask big un security council to impose restrictions the league is united in calling for a kind of conductor to me while levy is still gripped by chaos while rebels ones are more comfortable citizens in the world. there's the headlines right now many americans and british soldiers who've seen so in a wrong complained about depleted uranium related illnesses and accused quote the pentagon and the british military of defense of

a cover up up next to meet some of the veterans who are suffering. our un study has detected no signs of significant environmental problems in kossovo and the places where do you minissha were used and the world health organization has also concluded that the risk posed by d. 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 the conflict that would be a different matter but the point is that this material is likely to affect its depleted uranium dust is likely to affect the civilian population. professor keith member stock is a british scientist specializing in radiation in the environment he was advisor to

the world health organization that a stark wrote a report highly critical of the human issuance the w.h.o. rejected his findings and ever stuck 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 belt 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 a human issue for most of the medical problems connected to the war. because usually rate for vietnam was approximately seventy percent eighty percent of those that served here were looking at over one third are now casualties already over thirty percent of everybody 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 real k. 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 everything you know that's one hundred twenty millimeter to your obvious aloon a mile that's one one hundred twenty millimeter to you rob. this is an aluminum up 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 out of missions and they totally ignore all the beta gamma missions from the daughter products and chrome the ranger to thirty four to thirty five it's in there and from the two thirty six across the board tony and back to yemen and reseal. over the years doug and some groups have continued to pursue the fight against a d u but 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 a need for an education under stand if you spread radioactive materials all over

somebody's backyard if you've got a problem it doesn't take into an ice time 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 a special office set up to study the impact of wars on soldiers health says that it has found no evidence of dui related harm among the thousands of soldiers who fought in the first gulf war. courtman of veterans affairs is doing a mortality study looking at death rate 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 there in your view but not of the human beings it is mostly on animals and mostly the further findings. dr oz

suffered and the rocket it is a retired colonel he was a radiation specialist for the u.s. armed forces for many years the rock of age 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 targets. you're in young project time that is made of depleted uranium produces very high temperature. that in fact 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 a car think in the vicinity of known differentiated so produce is so magic and 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 we are the evening read that concrete and danger for going to live on the planet earth. on this issue you have a lot of propaganda that's 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 evidence about depleted uranium and it's really kind of obscured you know what i consider a middle ground reality. then fay he 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. 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 completely drained and rats can cause cancer but you know it at what point do you stop studying rats and start studying the humans who are exposed and that's where i think we're at now and that's where you need the foundation the pentagon is not going to stop using this weapon until there is evidence of clear evidence of effects and human populations. in southern iraq is now under british military control the city has been on the frontline 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 dehumanization 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 human ition 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. through or is in charge of the environment to pervan in basra and has produced a map of radioactive contamination and has 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 and 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 you have raised the alarm over the soaring number of cases they suspect the d.-u. is to blame. the. mortalities has been increased nine to nineteen times. over compare it to the years nineteen eighty nine that is three years before the one nine hundred ninety one wars. and because in its own 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 out of the saga i had a terrible headache. and i had a fever as well to join in and they sent me to see the doctor who recommended can the therapy and. i feel it was all caused by pollution from the war the s.p.l. cattle if it's my illness was caused by the was here and explosions. loads of people have the same illness said it but if it was it we should prevail and they should lose. now the doctors are carefully reviewing all the data so that they can publish the studies in prestigious scientific journals 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 rate is why. i believe cancer cases have risen. we need precise data. for a period of years before we can reach any scientific conclusions insurgency. 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 your reign him are much more direct and evident among the soldiers there were nine hundred u.s. soldiers that the pentagon admits were strongly exposed to deep 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 the point that an elevated hearing reining in 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 there's thirty two people in that program out of the nine hundred that the pentagon has said were heavily exposed and

you know you have to ask why do they refuse to do a bigger study it's the don't look don't find phenomena other describe for of you know they don't want to know the answer and they're content to keep manipulating this very small study of veterans which really is not serving any scientific purpose gate except to. pretoria and through much of a new gulf and through one thousand nine hundred ninety one and one and the shapes and through the water ancient job human and that the who didn't have it very shortly which will be will trying to she. will be one not and she'll go ah. well it was victimization i mean people think you compensate and never just recognize ation that. you know today i am right and he has do you prisoner. 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 di you can he 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 a 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. his questions for because i was pregnant it time. and it was over and. racketeers was in pain and. right and it was quite a time because nobody knew what it won't. 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 believe began

a long legal battle which they unexpectedly one. paper how to us tremendous this paper sachet the findings of fact. try if you know it's often assess i. why they decided yes kenny has got to be a trainee employees now can't 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 he still has to work as a truck driver only to security what's going to happen in the future because he gets checked for cancer six months. and when i read it causes cancer. i also want to write more of a church shape the government of the time near and or have an affair because resembles that of the problems. how

much the government year you don't know suppose but since your name and actually change their mission it was just a little. ray bristow as president of the british gulf war veterans association helped kenny duncan get his war pension he is also a d. you victim. troops. he's so c.h. and hasn't managed to get the courts to rule the day you is the cause of many veterans illnesses fifteen years after the first gulf war veterans are still fighting a legal battle with the authorities there's never anything to do with depleted uranium they mislead people by no say. what. depleted uranium it was actually used who had to 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 so committees declare that. it comes under the definition of a weapon of mass. and discriminate destruction because if they at first health of facts. it will have on the combatants of both sides after the war the civilian population and the environment so. i would suck him out some somebody pay no criminal.

it's much worse as is it what happened with asian origin me than i did for a long time and then they suddenly had his whole wad once they needed that there were some problems they began to huge cross in trying to deal with it and that's really what they're trying to do is just close 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 dui on veterans back then pentagon tonight at aging orange posed any threat to u.s. soldiers who are exposed. during all those years of denial we stood by and did

nothing while our soldiers suffered and for me there can be no more asian ornge we have to think of that in terms of this do you it do 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 where ever 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 fire the weapons on those who were fired upon and on the entire globe.

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