dave bolland says once again flared up. these are the images the world is seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. the headlines for you now here dotty as the syrian government embraces a u.n. backed peace plan and members of the anti acid opposition struggle to come together with a single unified purpose some readily visible council that was doing a conference in turkey designed to ride the opposition. wave of cold war in the style jet crashes through capitol hill as some republican presidential hopefuls jumped on the contents of a private conversation if you reduce of russia and america. for more flexibility

and she starts with us and spreads us in the embassy direction. protest is in britain a heavy hand right place to face justice as one activist seriously injured in a student demonstration finds himself in the dark cauldron fifty students were hurt in twenty two and on a test against the institution heights. with american troops out of iraq the people there are dealing with the optima especially in the city of fallujah where the severe consequences of us still being felt that special report is next. i continue my inquest in champagne illinois two hundred kilometers from chicago and home to doug running. what help. for doug ruck the presence of uranium and flu shot comes as no surprise his former high

ranking officer served more than thirty five years in the us army in particular during the first gulf war at that time he had a research program into the consequences of a new uranium based weapon after testing on behalf of the pentagon he became its first victim he now suffers from several cancers and renal problems it is part of the nevada test we did into what i'm doing is blowing up the shootin burn enough but what you see is the direct impact on the iranian mission zero impact but the uranium the brace off burned and burned and burned and burned and burned for a long time you see how long it lasts he claims that your radio has been used in american munitions since one thousand nine hundred one in missiles shells and armor plating for military vehicles. and when i shut up wood for by force man it worked great this stuff is good ok i mean you have to understand the purpose is to kill and destroy and uranium weapons are the ultimate because there's

a massive fireball of brain uranium fragrances that are moving extraordinarily high velocity in fragments that are not burning the cross mess of secondary explosions or massive fires anything that will burn. them is a mineral used to nuclear power plants part of it isn't rich and used as fuel for the reactors. the rest is radioactive waste known as depleted uranium. as the cost of storage are high the u.s. army decided to use some of it to manufacture munitions and armor plating. dug roxy's depleted uranium quite simply as a nuclear weapon and yes it is it's solid radioactive waste as chemically toxic it's radioactive radioactive for eternity it's a dirty bomb and yeah it is i always call it nuclear for what it is it's nuclear

waste used to kill and destroy those contaminated air war soil and food that remains there to cause harm for eternity this weapon was used for the first time in iraq in one thousand nine hundred one at the time the u.s. army asked to inspect the tons of burnt down iraqi tanks destroyed by depleted uranium missiles this is measuring the contamination undestroyed know as a result of his team were seriously contaminated by inhaling uranium dust today doug is one of the only survivors of that group i mean you can look at me i mean what i look like there was a lot different story early healthy and our bodies are stored nearly sick little me right there. and we were the best of the best all i for many morse not worth it too many people are sick too many people are dead. since this photo was taken twenty one members of his team have died returning from iraq doug submitted an unfavorable report on the use of depleted uranium. once i told the us army that it was

dangerous we couldn't clean it up and we couldn't do it they sent me packing. they said adios amigo. we don't want to hear from you no we won't talk to you i mean you got your job keep doing things put shut up and go away the u.s. army never took doug rock's recommendations into account he was easy to look at so you think there is a legit stance of limp loser totally it sensibly in fallujah not a question and we see everything in all the other people we see every place has been used we see i mean you could try to clean it up but you can't that's what i tried to what i could that's why i told him no more. to find out more i tried to reach colonel peter newall he was in command of the battle of fallujah in two thousand and four i never managed to obtain an interview nor would he even answer the phone.

and the issue appears to be embarrassing the only answer i received is a link to the u.s. army's internet site. this article praises the merits of the cleated uranium and minimizes its dangerousness the only allusion to health consequences is contained in this phrase the department of defense and many other organizations have studied and continue to study the health chemical radiological and environmental effects and exposures of depleted uranium that's all they wrote to the u.s. army the use of depleted uranium is taboo but i did manage to speak to one former high ranking official at the department of defense. being west was with the marines of the battle of fallujah he later wrote a book recognized in the u.s. as the reference on american strategy in the rebel city you heard about it you keep it real. but wife was for us. but you think.

it's all nonsense. to predict uranium or something. a bomb is a bomb. it's not like somebody is leaving behind radioactive so that the marines walk through i mean radioactive fields then all the marines die if any scientists show a linkage between the lingering health problems relative to a military weapon then that military weapon should not be used unless there's an extraordinary reason however if there is a lingering problem the first people to be affected would be the soldiers on the battlefield and i know of no soldiers who are complaining about uranium. yet it's not that hard to find american soldiers contaminated by concluded to write

you a few kilometers from new york gerard uneasy and their children are to all appearances it's difficult there can a family even get its eye in it apart from one detail and two thousand and three. sort of more than six months in iraq. but truck driver we transported what you call it blowing up equipment things move around on the truck so we have to tie it down so that's when susceptibility of being exposed to all of sleeping in that environment with the trucks because you know some of the missions don't take just one day takes more than one day gerard fell ill several months later the early symptoms seem trivial standard headaches problems with his vision but his state quickly worsened the beginnings of a brain tumor renal problems the list is long i have leakage and i'll show you the extent how much i have leakage.

today has to work diapers but there's worse his daughter bit toria after his return from iraq as a deformed right hand this picture is a reminder of flu just before babies. his story has made headlines all over the world. isn't the only one to fall ill eight of his comrades in arms who served in iraq have shown the same symptoms urine tests reveal an abnormal concentration of uranium. i never was told about depleted uranium in the military i never attended class and never show never went to a class on how to handle a quick meant that were exposed to it i don't even know what you believe you're in the last time i hope not even that leader you raining was when i took chemistry. believes he was going to meet it during his mission in iraq he decided to file a formal complaint against the us army claiming it broke safety regulations by exposing him to radioactive material his wife is going to even further. she wrote

every senator and like almost every representative and every one was basically this is just one of them she wrote of sending back letters at the time even president bush's office had taken up the issue on behalf of president bush thank you for your letter thanking me for the better i go to my door and he said the white house assuming your inquiries the following agencies i mean of defense i think you are service is a social security administration nasa corresponding to be got for. no assistance was provided nor any response to these questions i feel the old human opponents feel. so so this day. when extending love the marine corps i don't understand lot but he always says that something costs and he must be very good in his marine corps uniform. and

that upsets me because i i don't understand how faithful he is and how committed he is and i have to respect his wishes so for me i don't understand how the government can actually. treat a man that we. understand. this country. the army refuses to recognize that responsibility six months in iraq were enough to shatter the wives of gerard and his family. in fallujah thousands of inhabitants still live in these buildings destroyed by american bombs seven years in a contaminated city. possibly short staffed and cruelly wax medical equipment. nothing can be done to save these children so to keep evidence of their births a photographer has been drafted in by the doctors. i.

was sent to play photographing them. but to look at why am i photographing them should cause. the straw databus we try to keep it updated every month these photos are unbearable most of these babies will only live for a few hours every month twenty or so babies like these are born and then die in this hospital. not to mention the countless newborns with serious illnesses. because it we see most families would rather the children die and. i remember one day the father said to me each time i see my deformed son. i die. a generation sacrificed and how many more for these children it's already too late faced with this human catastrophe the iraqis are powerless but to prevent the tragedy of pollution from happening elsewhere some people in europe are starting to

take action. in london a stone's throw from the houses of parliament bernie easton camps out on this pavement every day. he has been campaigning against the war in iraq since two thousand and five. his spot at the foot of big ben is well chosen to attract both one and others and tourists. behind him photos of the former babies are exhibited for all to see these shocking pictures that attempt to boost public awareness. we spoke just because. this is the wickedness of the work. it's. the truth it's beyond. me.

so this. may be a whole. thing. entirely different. the slogan and the slew of iraqi baby photos haven't managed to rally great support but bonnie easton isn't alone in his fight others are campaigning on a different scale an ngo network present in around thirty countries is also campaigning for a ban on depleted uranium weapons its headquarters are in manchester. maybe show you some of the materials that we campaign with and some of those of the organizations. we have a briefing which is a very big inquest complex issue to use or we try and pull together all the necessary information into an easily digestible format this is a briefing which we produced for members of parliament in the u.k. a few years ago say this is the national campaign and we held

a parliamentary briefing that. it's always a challenge to try and get the politicians up to date on the issue. douglas is all too aware of the consequences of iranian based weapons he has studied the subject since the balkan war in one thousand nine hundred four in that time he and his team have devised a method for identifying and decontaminating zones his first battlefield was in bosnia where the americans were already using depleted uranium weapons this is a map of a place in bosnia which was a site ready your weapons were used in ninety ninety four ninety ninety five but they were quite high levels of contamination of the site so we've been doing quite a lot of work around not just to try and not whether he has been used in bosnia the organization identified twelve highly contaminated zones this information unable to bosnian environment ministry to take steps to limit the damage so this is one

called part of that which was decontaminated in two thousand and seven as you can see from here it's a pretty extensive task that they have real problems in trying to identify the actual sites where the year is that say around it's being dug up and it starts to break down in the soil yep seven yellow you can see on the outside is uranium oxide . with three hundred grams in it should have had a traces collaborating closely with the local authorities douglas was able to work freely in bosnia she's in iraq the situation is much more complicated. the problem that we see is that there are probably three quite different kinds of contamination in iraq and you'll have the contamination from the time coming mission obviously children who enjoy playing on hold for wreckage and so that was one problem in itself when you have. d.n.a. from extra strikes where you may end up with a lot of contamination in the soil and then you have another kind of contamination from the home and fighting vehicles which can fire

a small caliber round and i would definitely be within built up areas so you have three different kinds of contamination or this needs to be mapped but at the moment the u.s. hasn't released data on where it's fired any of these weapons and this is a huge issue so. this information militants have demonstrated outside the american embassy in london but the u.s. army still refuses to provide it in the meantime the n.g.o.s attacking the british government but also accused of having used depleted uranium weapons in iraq. recently these accusations have even been taken up by a british member of parliament during a session the leader nice may have seen today's destructive force here by the increased rate of birth defects in philippa cameron have to fate about this issue so we can hear from the foreign secretary what representations he is making to his u.s. counterpart but this appalling legacy of the iraq war. in two thousand and ten the british ministry of defense finally admitted the use of depleted uranium in iraq

and supplied the united nations with information on the zones targeted a u.s. ally is beginning to voice its doubts on this weapon. only belgium ireland kosta rica the new zealand have formally banned uranium in their arms but today no international convention even mentions that we did your radio minutes texts. this allows the u.s. administration to continue using it without fear of reprisals. if the illinois law faculty francis boyle claims that the usa can be hauled before a tribunal this lawyer and harvard graduate has an international reputation asian origin vietnam gulf war syndrome or trials our specialty today francis boyle is locked in a new battle to have the use of depleted uranium recognized as a war crime uranium munitions violate the hague regulations of nineteen zero seven

and then our do you also violates the geneva protocol of one nine hundred twenty five. so they are clear the use of the u. is clearly a war crime because it is legally easy to use it shouldn't be but why does the united states use our land rights why you know we're trying to stop it the problem is how. you know how do you bring the rule of law to bear on the united states government. it's very difficult to do and especially on the pentagon there are you know there are a lot to themselves so that's why it's so hard to bring the united states to heel or he sees isolation on the international stage as being the only way forward i think if we can get all the parties to the geneva protocol to send in that letter to the french government now apparently even the british are willing to go along

with this. and the u.s. then is the only outlier on d. you just maybe they'll say ok let's let's stop using the. france's boyles cause seems to destroy the united states continue to make use of uranium in developing their military arsenal. in two thousand and three one year before the battle of fallujah donald rumsfeld then defense secretary made a reference before the u.s. congress to the use of a new weapon the hell fire missiles. the new missile can take out the first floor of a building without damaging the floors above and is capable of reaching around corners striking enemy forces that hide in caves or bunkers this declaration went largely unnoticed but it heralded the development of a new missile that would be tested during the early days of the war in iraq.

some experts did react to rumsfeld declaration one of them was arms researcher di williams. this scientist is a member of the un institute for disarmament research. he claims the hell fire missile is a new generation bomb it was used several times during the battle of fallujah the experts call it a thermobaric weapons. they were using small tactical weapons but they wanted these new thermobaric weapons which are specifically designed for very local killing and what they do now is some of these are right in the targets of it they just get right the it is so high temperature it just burns everything. and that's also if they are within. maybe fifty meters it will also kill them because you get you get a bang and sucks all of the air out and so you get

a pressure wave which goes high pressure very low pressure and the air pressure goes down maybe ten percent. and if you're in that are your lungs. you can breathe . williams has not only analyzed the photographs of the bombing in iraq but is also with the new types of thermobaric bombs developed by the u.s. army once again they remain very discreet as to the use of uranium they have minds of the weapon systems going from one hundred kilos up to two thousand and if you look in the in the report all they say is dense metal but it says dense metal warhead that's my full ballast high density payload when you realize what they're trying they're using every word they can except in uranium they're saying this is a secret heavy metal but they never say what. according to die williams these bombs were showered on the rebels who were taken refuge in houses and fruit or

these cars and see how much smoke contamination that's a mixture of concrete dust and. if that is using uranium then you've got five hundred kilos of uranium just in the. northeast rather over out of. and they're celebrating and they don't realize that they're looking at their own future cancer i'm this is just. it's so sad. oh yeah there was. no longer see you in. the my biggest question for fallujah is probably that it was an experimental area for a new film about explosives probably rainy and possibly other new. chemicals which we haven't even thought of yet and so this is where looking at.

the first effects we have to question which systems were used. was my parents' hometown a flu drill used as a laboratory by the u.s. army how long the iraqis have to suffer the consequences of the war. the bush administration boasted of waging a clean war but it continues to sacrifice generations of children both in iraq and the united states. in fallujah two to three deformed babies are born every day most live put a few hours. a space in the cemetery reserved for these victims grow steadily.

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