why do you all go there in museums that. you don't have to have a college degree going to have to leave for an education. if you shred radioactive materials all over something backyard that you've got a problem. with this is on sea life from the russian capital the headline. a second explosion could wrong to push you much money as by something is of an economic meltdown and imagine something that has also been declared as another business week in the northeast a good fifteen hundred people have now been confirmed dead in the devastating earthquake and resulting tsunami but the kind of chill number could top ten per cent. immediate state television claims that kind of gadhafi gains momentum when he got more time to train as the world keeps calling

for him to step down. also this week boosting time zones advancing traded the u.s. president met russia's leaders and opposition is. up next on the special report well we meet some american and british soldiers who have served in iraq and now complain about depleted uranium related illnesses accused by the pentagon and the british ministry of defense of a coverup. our un study has detected no signs of significant environmental problems in kossovo and the places where do you minissha were used. 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 b.'s recommendations have fallen on deaf ears 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 as depleted uranium 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 dehumanisation the w.h.o. rejected his findings and they were stuck thinks 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 the human emissions for most of the medical problems connected to the war. the casualty 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 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. and the pentagon has

ended up saying that there is no danger at all from depleted uranium well 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 x. one hundred twenty millimeter to your august alluna model s. one one one hundred twenty millimeter do you rob. this is i'm a loon a 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 out of missions and they totally ignore elevator gala missions from the daughter products and chrome the range up to thirty four to thirty five it's in there and from that to thirty six would probably tony a bit too human and reseal. over the years and dug a real k.

and some groups have continued to pursue the fight against do you but the media has lost interest the issue had been politically dead for years at least until recently and 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 age when education to understand that if you spread radioactive materials all over somebody's backyard that you've got a problem and it doesn't take into an einstein to understand if you inhale radioactive materials and 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. 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 depleted 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. because. 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 do you related harm among the thousands of soldiers who fought in the first gulf war. cortlandt of veterans affairs is doing a mortality study looking at the 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 to suicide you name it oh yes these are his arms or the recent tests are they your vision but the heart of the human beings it is mostly on animals and mostly the furthur findings. and dr asafa drug addiction is a retired colonel he was a radiation specialist for the u.s. armed forces for many years durak of age analyze data on the national guard soldiers from new york who were poisoned by. deal the study led to a bitter controversy with the pentagon. when it hits the target. your in your own project time that is made of depleted uranium produces very high temperature. that impact

creates dust really active 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 much think and genetic changes including cancer leukemia. and wiping out of the immune system and so. you know i'm telling you here for the public to listen to this interview that we are dealing with that concrete and danger for their lives 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 i haven't stopped to put a drain you know 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 do you but he disagrees with. he believes their statements go too far and their studies in findings are flawed he believes more rigorous studies are needed we have a lot of scientific evidence showing completely drained him in 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 at 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 dehumanisation 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 d'you mean 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 of parvin in basra and has produced a map of radioactive contamination has discovered that radiation levels are quite high. to texans high levels of background radiation. 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. if we compare it to the year of nineteen it tonight that

is three years before the ninety nine to 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 labeled propaganda but now many particularly patients are convinced the deal is responsible. can it a shot of the cigar i had a terrible headache. and i had a fever as well be doing and they sent me to see the doctor who recommended can the therapy and. i feel 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 their wills 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 and doing our research and i think nobody wants us to prove but these are due to depleted uranium otherwise for compensation for compensation for twenty five million people in iraq and i live in a national so yet. 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 it is hard to see i. am. 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 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 the 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 the 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 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 the don't look don't find phenomena other described 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 they except to score a premium and three much i'm a new gulf and through one thousand nine hundred ninety one and the shapes then through the water ancient judgment. that. visually which will be able to thank you

she. will be one not and so we go. but it was a second as a show and i mean people think you've come to say that we never have just mechanization that. you know him right and he 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 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 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 question because i was pregnant it. and it was over. because it made is rock is always in pain in. bret and i was crying and said the time because

nobody knew what it won't happen 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 me kenny and mandy suspect do you leave began a long legal battle which they unexpectedly one. paper how to us tremendous this paper that she the findings of fact. the try if you know itself and assess i. why they decided yes kenny has got the page i am poisoning can he suffers from a chromosome will 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 i need a security was going to happen in the future because he gets checked for cancer six

months. i mean if you really read it causes cancer yeah i also wanted to write more of a church. that the government of the time. and or have an affair because resembled yet you're that of these problems. but how much the government knew you don't know supposed. since your name and actually change their mission you don't trust any court actions. really bristow as president of the british gulf war veterans association helped kenny duncan get his war pension is also a do you victim. through. this so see asian hasn't managed to get the courts to rule the d you 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 rhino say. what. depleted uranium was actually used when the follow aires was. really bristow is in very poor health like kenny he's tested positive for do you poisoning with the government has refused to acknowledge that it has anything to do with his multiple illnesses. in the united nations so committees declared that it comes under the definition of a weapon of mass. indiscriminate destruction because if

they act fast health effects. that will have on the combatants of both sides after the war the civilian population and the environment so. i would shut him out some some other day no criminal. is much what it is and what happened with asian or in germany than i did for a long time and then they said they had his whole lot once they needed that there

were some problems they began to huge cost in 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 where gorillas could hide during the vietnam war. but agent orange also contained dioxins of 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 and veterans back then the pentagon tonight at aging 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 more asian or and 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 d. you will honestly examine its effects on those who fire the weapons on those who are fired upon and on the entire globe. yes my name is daniel schmidt this is julian assange the we're here to make a short presentation about the we can fix project. the first. in the for the flag to get information out about the real world. to him war on. secrecy is the biggest. going to be

a good marketing. thing. if i've ever put any sources in danger he would hunt me down and kill him. this is exactly one of the reasons why we have left the culture because it has become a war of all this all came spun. then all the actual information. but thank you. so a whole big ball around the won't. let me. download the official anti happily cation phone i pod touch from the i choose option. one shot sheesh life on the go. video on demand on cheese my fuel costs and r.s.s.

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