soumitra bryson if you knew the song from one stupid. stunts on t.v. don't come. now i or most hey this is also the second explosion could rock japan's fukushima nuclear power plant all fears of abbreviation six hundred people have now been confirmed dead in the devastation a result of tsunami but they are not full number could top ten houses and rescuers are battling to help people in need scenes of the structure as food fuel and will start running low in some towns. in libya colonel gadhafi gains when men

some winning back more territory is international calls grave they had to surrender power state television says his forces are taking the town of gray go after securing a former rebel control will. tend to see this week at least in the ties are a pause in trade as the u.s. vice president met russians really does not position and moscow joe biden also has paid his personal support for russia's inclusion in the world trade organization up next we report on the iraqi war veterans from the u.s. and britain complaining about depleted uranium related illnesses who are now accusing their governments of a cover up parts of this that. i un 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 uranium dust is likely to affect the civilian population. professor keith laumer such as 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 fabrice not thinks the 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 is a high probability that their health will be after. this is the heart of america's grain belt were major drug 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 seventy percent eighty percent of those that served here we're looking at over one third are now casualties already over thirty percent of everybody to serve 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. and 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 that's one hundred twenty millimeter to your obvious aluminum r o s one one hundred twenty millimeter do you oh this is an old you know model 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 today i'm an emory seal. over the years doug and some groups have continued to pursue the fight against the do you let 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 know you have to have a need for an education to understand that if you spread radioactive materials all over somebody's backyard that you've got a problem it doesn't take a nine stein 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 grieve natural uranium every day. that every 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 and they are. square mile one foot deep or four tons of natural uranium. so it's out there and so when we take a look at the plated 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 do you related harm among the thousands of soldiers who

fought in the first gulf war. going to veterans affairs is doing a 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 and the causes of death from disease to cancer to homicide to suicide to you name it all has these are his arms of the recent thefts are there in your you but not of the human beings it is mostly on animals and most of the very thing for any. doctor a sufferer and drug of 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 dea you this study led to a bitter controversy with the pentagon. when it hits the target.

yury home project time that is made of depleted uranium produces very high temperature. that impact. creates dust radioactive dust and the pleading to radium in that infinitesimal number of the particles is spread in the atmosphere. be a. there's single most dangerous. radiation that exists in the nature. of the group in the vicinity of known differentiated so produce is so much deeper and genetic changes including cancer and leukemia. right be out of the immune system and so. i'm telling you here for the public to listen to this interview that we are the ending we that

greed and danger for their lives on the planet earth. on this issue you have a lot of propaganda it'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 i have an answer about depleted uranium and it's really kind of obscured you know what i consider a middle ground reality. then 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 your rock 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 a foundation that the pentagon is not going to stop using this weapon until there is evidence of clear evidence of the effects of human populations. buzzer in southern iraq is now under british military control the city has been on the front line. 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 d. 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 human ish ins 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. for or is in charge of the environment apartment in basra and has produced a map of radioactive contamination has discovered that radiation levels are quite high. our instruments detect high levels of background radiation made and we take samples for analysis by a gamma ray spectrograph. this is bad for a university hospital it used to be called the satin hussein hospital and recently it's been renamed souther 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. mortality has been increased nine to nineteen times. if you compare it to the years nineteen eighty nine that is three years before nine hundred ninety one wars. and because genital 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 labelled 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 be joining in and they sent me to see the doctor who recommended it in the therapy and. i felt it was all caused by pollution from the r

d s and had a little bit in my illness was caused by there was hit and explosions. loads of people have the same illness said it did but if lose 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 we will ask 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 when i believe cancer cases have risen. we need precise data. for a period of years before we can reach any scientific conclusions and 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. but doctors must prove that the increase in cancer is directly linked to do you and not to these other causes.

but the risks from you raney 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 did you 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 here in a rainy i'm 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 did they refuse to do a bigger study it's that don't look don't find phenomena that are 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 have to. complete

a radio and through much time on the gulf and through one thousand nine hundred ninety one and the ships then through the war pension job given. that. basically with what we were trying to see. movement or not and. when it was very high zation i mean people think you could compensate but you never just recognize ation that. you know i'm right and it has do you prisoner. kenny duncan's case is unique he is the only service man whose illness has been officially recognized by the british government as stemming from exposure to do 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 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. his

questions focus i was pregnant time and kenny was over into nial because i mean it is back as he was always in pain in. the dress and it was quite a time because nobody knew about it well. 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 won that paper house just tremendous this paper sachet the findings of fact. the tribe you know itself in excess i. decided yes kenny has got to be a trainee in 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 he still has to work as a truck driver and he disappears he was going to happen in the future as he gets checked for cancer six months. i mean if you really read it causes cancer yeah. right where it showed you good government of the time. and or have an affair because resemble that of those problems. but how much the government near you don't know is supposed to send in a and it actually changed and may shrink into just a little efficiency. re bristow as president of the british gulf war veterans association helped kenny

duncan get his war pension he is also a d. you victim. through. this so ca shin hasn't managed to get the courts to rule the dui 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 was actually moves throughout 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 committee's declared that.

it comes under the definition of a weapon of mass. indiscriminate. because if they at first health effects. ok it 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. but.

it's much worse as is it what happened with asian origin really than i did for a long time and then they suddenly had this whole wad once they did that there were some problems they began to huge cost and trying 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 were guerrillas 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 by 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 agent 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 war agent orange we have to think of that in terms of this do you if you do you possess is 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 fired the weapons and those who were fired upon and on the entire globe. from our bureau. we hear it because our.

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