it's not just market in the middle east even as the gulf kingdom continues its ruthless crackdown on protesters. because of the hardliners threaten the good shipment conservatives with the local serbs in the disputed region come under increasing pressure from the albanian majority. and also reporting that some of us want iran supreme leader against attempts to block oil trade in the gulf threatening to respond with force it further turns up the heat on terror on the head of the shuttle visit by the way nuclear watchdog inspectors. all those stories and other developments for you in less than thirty minutes from the meantime it's our special report and we reveal how the war in iraq proved to be the bloodiest in history for the journalists who were covering it that's next here on r.t. the footage kevin sites filmed with his video camera was not only unwanted but completely unsuitable for army propaganda. the invasion in iraq was to be i can ised with images of an overthrown tyrant.

as the american troops chose that particular statue of saddam hussein because it was right across the palestine hotel there were hundreds of state use in baghdad but that they chose it because they wanted it to be fair. it was not like i'm perry said leander forward to when the parishioners were out in the streets because they asked to be welcomed into liberation for cents on the streets of baghdad who were empty only in that square there were some commotion in this hapless are. journalists who criticize the bush administration war plans got into trouble and some of them even lost their jobs in vietnam had resisted criticism kept the job goal for one hundred resisted criticism and kept the job by gulf war true criticism i'm gone the recipe for military press briefings that was established during the gulf war in one thousand nine hundred one was also used in the two thousand and three war. the main difference was that this time hollywood type sets were built

and millions of dollars were spent on the image making. that can take movies write stories the something live forty thousand. public affairs officer working for the pentagon they don't need the job was to be more. but remains will it's impossible no matter how hard they try to hide it it's true friends. it's inherently dramatic we love the visuals and it always gets us viewers but

combat is the smallest part of any war it's the smallest feature yet we define war by the guns and tanks and yet collateral damage. the destruction of civil life is the longest lasting and the largest portion of every war. i'm not scared we've been living in denial when you're. scared but you do it we came to cover a lot of the outside of the story we were the only witness to what was going on not of. you know when i went to baghdad in march of two thousand and three you know i was determined not to treat war as a spectacle but rather treated as a backdrop to a very human story management a story of suffering a story of isolation the story of agony of long. and time again i saw the stories and the people that i met in baghdad and those that. this is an up or you know war you see the best and worst of human being and i consider myself lucky being able to

see all the most things happening before my eyes the things that i can photograph exists so i am able to show others all those people see blissful ones what reality is like down there these used to be normal people. up because the war they have turned into monsters. even today in iraq people who leave their homes to get work don't really know if they will return safely. their lives are threatened any time anywhere by the suicide attacks of al qaeda or other terrorist groups.

clinton. but even for those who survive life is not the same anymore. remember in iraq we die a hundred times every day we die in various circumstances in the strait gatherings but in crowded places when explosions go off when blind attacks take place mostly by religious groups our profession faces constant danger and death every where death is more than a possibility in this job. since april two thousand and three more than three

hundred people working for the media have been killed in iraq most of them where iraqi victims of executions obama attacks from al qaeda and other terrorist groups in minutes but the journalism all over the world is considered the king of the profession. in iraq it's called a disastrous profession or a deadly profession. because wherever journalist goes death is always lurking within. the us and there's an obvious one will it be a one shot on the. internet that are you but. i'm

not sure. what i do. for you recchi journalists reporting and surviving on dramatically connected. the shocking thing is that i've seen that the person who. will make this explosion or his as a pleasure was in my jacket and then afterward i have notes that i've been injured in my hand but. i was worried for my assistant because his brother also killed and. in those days by some killers you know the sad thing in this point that my cameraman. was saved in this

accident he got killed after six months in his place in his home. many iraqi journalists lost their lives because their killers did not agree with their views and as a tragic result sometimes in the streets of baghdad coffins passed each other by. independent journalism faces both friendly fire and the blind fanaticism of terrorists and journalist giuliana sgrena victim of abduction herself returns to iraq after four and a half years. or more to death follows us no matter where we are no matter which side we convert to make you look to most of this absolute line to violence religious hatred in fanaticism that was my case when i was an abduction victim by a group of fanatics. i survived but many of my colleagues were not that lucky.

and so by danny was one of them. fifty six year old italian journalist and zabadani was traveling with the italian red cross convoy towards my job carrying provisions for the wounded. here i just saw for our concern is to deliver of medicines and water to the wounded of the city and of course to be able to come back safe if for nothing and i thank you and i send my regards to all italians of that you can get me and i know now talk on its wild beast that meds of a convoy you know his car with him and his driver was in the middle of the convoy you know. on their way back from the jeff a mine exploded causing his car to turn over but i. don't i was abducted on the spot by an extreme insurgent group an al qaeda branch called islamic iraqi army analyst in the spirit of solidarity he honored with his thoughts

and actions in that spirit we ask of you having to let us hakim again and i became of the foot there lady of the tide of evil. babbo. daddy had that a bit of peace from a whole family. non-optimal did then we didn't have time to organize any demonstrations if i did it in many respects when ever i want it would all of course we have the support of citizens organizations and political parties yankees it would surely sort of gods we have no time to act because they killed him after twenty four hours. she's. gone he was unlucky in many ways mainly because better risk on his government had no experience in matters of negotiations and instead of trying to buy more time immediately rejected the ultimatum secondly because the abduction which happened in august a holiday month in italy where nothing really functions and also because his

abductors wanted more than anything else blood on their hands. six months after enzo baldoni is deaf giuliana sgrena is in baghdad university she is there to interview refugees from fallujah who had found shelter in the mosque of the university thanks for holding back on terrorists and abducted. when i was kidnapped if first thing is to realize oh i'll get not being you because from these say you can decide if. they need to know their leaders so from that it will depend on your child to be free or not to be. true immediately contacted diplomatic sources and journalists to organize press conferences addressing merely journalists and use agencies from the arab world and computers we want to make them realize that giuliana was just a journalist and not

a secret agent as some people might have thought that it. had no no what i couldn't. know what dime it was. because. they they kept also my watch a de beginning just because i didn't there that i do what i meant was and then they said they need daddy as a proof of my life. and. so i was all is waiting for the day but i just don't know what it was. i went to bed but of course i couldn't sleep at all and just they were thinking

they would kill me they would kill me cutting my throat and that i will die all that they will as i am a woman and they redid the tools another way thank you you are going to take me out of here nobody must come to iraq because all foreigners only talents are treated here like animals.

italians by screamers adventure and hit the streets demanding her liberation. after a month of secret negotiations the italian government comes to an agreement for giuliana's liberation. nicola calipari a top executive of the italian army secret service takes over the mission. merely called doing i remember he was a regular nice man doesn't look like rambo or some movie character. because it requires a man who knew his job and he was good at it before tell her a good things about him when he took over our case. but he kept telling me look i can't guarantee anything. and i'm convinced that all three hearts we're following

is the right one. partially i mean they're going to get it all over. the first time . buddy was in my kidnappers left me and. they came to pick me up and first of all i heard the voice of the body and they told me i have nicola calipari i am friend of. don't be wardley now it's all finished he brought me to another car and he was sitting it was sitting beside me because you thought they were to be close to you also did you feel you will feel secure you would feel the way. the car of the italian secret service driven by on the day i got a bunny with good manners passengers in the back seat heads for the airport meanwhile in rome ben was gone he invites under secretary johnny letter head of the italian secret service nicole. and juliana's partner peer to his office.

the nickel a polaroid comes out of the worm an order to called baghdad again to make it possible for me to speak to julianna on the phone book with him to prima. spoken with him earlier and almost immediately come. back in shock shouting they are shooting at her. seven hundred fifty meters from the baghdad airport entrance the italian mission comes across an american patrol who opens fire against them the italian car is hit by fifty seven bullets. body lies heavy on me i manage to move him a little and i hear his last breath his debt no no look at me the man who set me free is that it did not and he died in order to protect me it was like my freedom and while it was about to begin illnesses it is a terrible feeling it gets to feel a man dying on the. equipment it is like a part of yourself is dying

a fact after all these tremendous gunfire i cannot understand whether i'm still alive and i think i'm dead or if i'm dad and i think i'm still alive you search i see i do i when they told me about the incident i thought it was a bomb you opened up on how to bomb your principle i mind went to the iraqis so i left only after i heard what exactly had happened i mean i realized that the americans had shot at the car of course i was confused i don't know but out of me county honor. let me be matter i don't i don't understand how was it possible. to be hit by americans but.

with his last deed body gave meaning to values it's become more and more rare in our days self-sacrifice and self-denial although the report showed clearly at the bullets from the american patrol were not fired as a warning the case never reached courts as the american command had a legal jurisdiction in the area i mean eric and some are eager to close the case now we just stated that it was an accident but when she learned what kind of a jewel a reason that the case never went to court was strictly personal drug it was said from the italian side that the court had examined the case and also the supreme

court but the americans had exclusive jurisdiction in that area luigi trial would have held me but the high court's decision we didn't give us a chance to get an answer for our case in the court rooms but look at have a trial would have helped me progress last and then the high court decision didn't give us a chance to get an answer for our case in the courtrooms and i'm not arguing that. u.s. soldier mario lozano was the one who opened fire against the italian mission he tries to appease the public opinion. we're putting the blame exclusively on giuliana sgrena you know she went out there she wanted me to go with the terrorist and all that. then she gets caught now we have to say that we have the same good will to go after this one person that knows that she put herself in the situation so it's her for this is happening now by for all investigations conducted

by the u.s. army acquitted all the soldiers who opened fire against the italian mission in italy spain and great britain judicial investigations stopped due to the pentagon's refusal to cooperate now those journalists need to be on the spot just as that we need doctors and nurses on the spot to care for the wounded just as we need people on the spot to provide assistance to the the the the community the civil society that are also affected by conflicts but that work of journalists cannot take place if they're going to be treated as competent if they're going to be targeted i think it is a struggle. generally speaking. generally speaking for the right to tell the truth those who saw their colleagues on. the memories will never affect. the crime committed at the hotel palestine will never be forgotten so there must be justice. was it a mistake somebody forget to give the information

a criminal negligence personally i will never forget that day. the response of what should pay for that negligence was a bad ass that a deadly malice in it so. why so much death. so much pain so much and. weapons fire at the journalists the news the right to the information and me how my son didn't die in a car accident. no he wasn't killed in this trial to live and he didn't die from cancer or some other disease but he was murdered. that's why i'm

asking and i wish keep on asking in front of the american embassy for an impassioned investigation now i'm sorry for those individuals and i'm sorry for the families believe me i have i prayed about it didn't churchly try to hurt no one u.s. army did not try to change the hurt in their it. but that's one of the as we say the casualties of war ok. i wish you would have never happened but it has said. there was no battle that means there was no excuse but you. as you have proved it to be you are while for it you gave the order to them and. you put literally all three were you there you were killing innocent people this you know but she did it anyway badly damaged. do you honestly i feel no hate not any more that when i

get my sorrow is much stronger than hate it or see it but i crave for justice and i want to see the three of you in a courtroom there in a fat trial like the want you tonight my son to defend yourselves that's got to be a skill shot of not isness i. guess plays if it is a circus but i want to see you murderous and to a criminal is condemned but i know. you belong with my deep and eternal condemnation. but my sorrow i do to my son to the mothers in iraq and she was safe and above all others. for there is no greater pain than to give birth to murderous.

this is our time. to reclaim the american dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth that out of many we are one that while we breathe the we hope to me the american dream is to live in peace and prosperity and freedom and a government under socialism is not a government afraid. that i'm right we. have very motivated out across the country who are activists who are willing to fight

for what they think is right for themselves but in fact is forty four per cent. we are counting. property drowning and i think it's spread out why it's cutting off our. it's making real democracy. all but impossible. is he he. he has. to leave.

now it's not about spilling blood. it's the war of the barricades from one side and fears blockade from the other. invisible border it has cut people from the land for twelve years. the conflict that divided serbia into two hostile parts is still not over. just. sit. back.

top official sources say s. and p. is set to downgrade france's credit rating by one notch it may well lose its prized aaa or drop me for more details in a few moments. british prime minister david cameron arrives in saudi arabia the u.k.'s largest market in the middle east even as the gulf kingdom continues its ruthless crackdown on protests. plus moscow was its partners not to try and alter its draft resolution on syria russia wants an end to the bloody fighting and the start of peace talks but others are pushing for regime change our top stories this hour.