it's sometimes. hard to. market why no. one knows what's really happening to the global economy is because reports on. the if you're just joining our parents are often how past the hour now and these are your headlines it's syria's opposition now being called on to stop the violence as president assad signs up to the u.n. peace plan the u.s. is pushing for the rebels to unite but it's fear the factions are too divided and i'm willing to lay down arms. bringing peace to syria without foreign military intervention is also on the agenda as the leaders of russia and china meet in india

they're among five of the world's fastest growing economies who are also hammering out an alternative to the dominance of the i.m.f. and the world bank. and cold war is sweeping america's republican senators who are demanding and no concessions for russia which wants guarantees if you want to missiles won't be aimed its way it's after obama was overheard assuring to meet that need more flexibility on arms control issues. iraqis are left dealing with the aftermath of a war torn country with american troops and now gone as specially in the bomb shattered city of fallujah as we discover coming up next. what's the baghdad. the rebels bastion seems to be awakening the day after an earthquake. eight years after the war its inhabitants are still living among the

real ones. the hospital doctors are fighting another war today as every day the maternity unit is on alert a deformed baby has just been aboard the fifth this week this newborn is suffering from a serious malformations the doctors think they will survive but he may never be able to walk. one of them says. he needs an operation at the moment he's much too weak for us to move forward with surgery so we have him on observation we have seen many other types of deformities he's not alone some are more severe than others we have something he is born without skulls without ordeals and sometimes with their legs totally twisted hard to look at this

little lax the mother of this baby is in shock this woman has had three children before this one all born without any health problems and this deformed baby is the first such case in her family but there's a dramatic rise in such phenomena in fallujah one birth in five dogs and it's congenial affirmations. this doctor sees only one possible solution and it is radical i am i said. the rich. and such you to announce the baby was. how did it come to this all these babies were born after two thousand and four when flutey endured one of the most violent battles ever witnessed on iraqi soil bombs and shells rained down on the city for several weeks fifteen thousand coalition soldiers were marshalled to crush the lucia facing them were two thousand iraqi resistance fighters armed with

kalashnikovs and rocket launchers the u.s. air force dropped hundreds of tons of bombs. here but. these pictures show fireballs falling on the city this is white phosphorus a chemical incendiary weapon today this bombing is said to have caused the malformations in the children to fall over. baghdad winter two thousand and eleven how can you tell whether a city is no longer at war perhaps by observing the passers by crisscrossing the streets in iraq peace is gradually settling but the stench of war is still not as

though. the iraqi capital alternates between days of violence and days of peace the u.s. army is committed to point out of the country by december the police and the iraqi army or step in or chills. these traffic jams are an indicator of peace in iraq. the city seems revived with businesses springing up once again and residents doing their shopping in the city center. a city center that is returning to its pre-war opulence. but is the war really over though the situation in baghdad has improved other cities have been tossed into the garbage saluja for instance my parents' hometown after the war the city was totally cut off only the inhabitants had the right to come and go freely. so i like them but i have family and friends there and i speak iraqi arabic i make

contact with a friend influential. chemistry. missteps i'll come pick you up and we'll go wherever you want. this is eunice he's thirty two years old a former football player for lucia and i want to point out that i first met him on doing a news report four years ago it was he who called my attention to be seriously deformed babies he came to baghdad to fetch me because it's not possible for me to get a flu shot without his help. this road is closely monitored in traveling the fifty kilometers that separate baghdad from fallujah we go through more than twenty checkpoints this city is located in the middle of the sunni triangle also called the triangle of death by the americans some fifteen hundred u.s. soldiers have been killed in this region one third of the american casualties in iraq. the legit saluja was the first city to fight back against american

occupation. and found fame by throwing them out of town and a fleeting great loss of life. so much so that the people wondered how a small city like fallujah could resist against the world's most powerful army. in march two thousand and four four mercenaries under contract to the us army were killed in their vehicle on the outskirts of town their mutilated bodies were dragged through the streets then hung under this bridge as trophies it was one of the very first acts of violence against the united states these pictures were soon seen all over the world it was the start of an escalation that culminated in the battle of fallujah in november two thousand and four the death toll listed one hundred thirty four g i's and thirty five hundred iraqis saluja became a symbol of the revolt accordingly the army imposed very strict checks on the city

the fingerprints and retina scans of every last inhabitant were recorded in the u.s. army files never has any town undergone such treatment. residents were even issued with biometric id cards. this paginate was ready to answer a leaflet. seven years later a badge is are no longer needed the city is now under the control of the iraqi army but flew to remains the hardest place in the country to get into. the thing if you need it a guarantor it's a wednesday and he must be from fallujah. i've been asked to be responsible for you for safety reasons so you can just walk into fallujah no no not like that. as we approach the city the tension mounts in the car no stop filming put the camera down .

here we are at the entrance to fallujah one hundred meters from a border post we're going to country. the iraqi army is checking each car that passes to take in a camera you need special permission and an armed escort. but to give us freedom of movement we'd rather enter illegally. there are several cars in front of us and we're the third one we're waiting come and fetch us . thanks to abu yunus one of the soldiers with us through for his own safety we don't film him. after an hour's wait we finally passed through the checkpoint. welcome to pollution three hundred thousand inhabitants considered the most dangerous city in iraq.

nothing here has really changed since the battle life goes on the streets are teeming with the traces of war are still here and the iraqi soldiers carry on patrolling. in this prison town it's hard to keep a low profile if you're carrying a camera so to keep us safe as we move around with influential eunice follows close behind will be our guardian angel. this neighborhood is one of the hardest hit by the bombing half the buildings are in ruins not one wall has been spared by bullets. this former iraqi soldier was in the city during the american assault he lives just opposite this building totally destroyed. during the bombing he noticed suspicious explosions. just complicit in the just after the bombing began but the landscape changed going

to see even the appearance of the sky chips the sky became kind of yellow it lasted for several days even the explosions read normal now i'm a fighter i was an officer in the iraqi army under the old regime i thought for seven years in the war against iraq some parts of missiles i've seen a lot of them i know what i'm talking about. but with these american bombs it was different they exploded in that they produce something abnormal something that i don't think i've ever seen before. this strange bomb that this resident refers to contain white phosphorus. a chemical incendiary weapon often compared to the napalm used in vietnam. according to the geneva convention. civilians and civilian objects may not be attacked in any circumstances by incendiary bombs.

basically the use of white phosphorus is banned and he populated zones the american army claims to have used it only to illuminate combat zones. yet influenza thousands of inhabitants were still in the city during the bombing. up to you know as the rangers to meet me at the martyrs cemetery a former football stadium three thousand five hundred bodies are buried here resistance fighters and civilians all right. this is where all the units played football today he comes to meditate at the graves of former teammates now become martyrs. get an idea what they like about some of the footballers who are used to play in this stadium very clear to me that even the coach we called it cut the old cowboy even he was killed by the americans and although i think thirteen players from the flu team are buried in their own

football ground. this man is the caretaker of the cemetery one day in november two thousand and four while bearing the victims of the fighting he made a strange discovery. i just felt the americans broke a sadness at first i thought it was humanitarian aid. but when i opened them just like i found. begin to put a bunch of poles and clothes intact there translator told me these corpses were americans. that's why they give in the back when we come into. the caretaker recover close to five hundred unidentified bodies he photographed each one before daring him in the cemetery. so and so we asked the doctors and they told us that if there were only bones in the clothing is intact then that's because of white phosphorus and what happened to this man. looks like it's due to

a chemical weapon and god knows what it is but that's phosphorous to. their blood then the caretaker is in no doubt these men were killed by white phosphorus in the u.s. army use these weapons against the population what are these photos really hiding to find an answer i must go to the united states. far from iraq and it's ruined buildings boston. i made contact with ross computer a twenty seven year old former marine in front of pollution though he looks like a teenager ross computing is already a war veteran traumatized by his experience he decided to test the power oh oh. this is me this is in fallujah and i'm really embarrassed to say that i'm kind of posing for this picture. you know i had the bandana on and i wanted to look tough

and you know this is the mentality that we had while we are in there. we were tough war fighters and. you know these are the type of pictures i want to go home and tell my friends about. in fallujah ross was a radio operator it was his job to relay information to the other soldiers he was there for on the front line before the ground siege actually began they told us this was going to be the biggest battle since way city vietnam they were bombing the city really really heavily at this point and they put us on this hill outside the city kind of over looking at the night before before the ground seizure began and at this point i remember very clearly seeing the white phosphorus and i remember very clearly like having this weird feeling about it like this can't possibly be legal i remember seeing it lakes way down in the wind like this and i asked a lieutenant close to me about it. i said hey is this is this legal and he said yes

it's legal because we're using it as a smoke screen we're not using it offensively and there were thousands of civilians who couldn't leave the city so wherever we used it it was a strong possibility that this was going to land on civilians so white phosphorus was in the discharged above the population and i feel really guilty about it. now i'm fully aware of how many people are hurt and how many people we killed so it's not easy to live with ross computing decided to quit the army after the battle of fallujah. he set up an association to make american public opinion aware of his experience as a soldier in iraq. i remember that in my unit there was very little curiosity about who these insurgents who moved where everyone just seemed content with the rumors that we had heard about them being terrorists and bathurst diehards and it's the americans of all different sorts though ross computing announces the use of white

phosphorus others in the military or go out of it in march two thousand and five an american army major made surprising revelations in this army review he claims that the use of white phosphorus proved highly effective in food. he adds that he used it willingly against the insurgents and major refers to such tickling it as shake and bake missions according to this officer white phosphorus was used in iraq to kill. given this damning evidence the international press seized upon the story. they would have to wait until november sixteenth two thousand and five for the american administration to officially admit to the media that the city was bombed with white phosphorous. back to fallujah seven years after the bombing the population is convinced that white phosphorus is still killing. such

is the case with khalifa he lives in the july neighborhood one of the hardest hit by the bombing. and two thousand and five founded the first charity for war victims . and is aimed to gather as much information as possible beginning with these files on sick children. this child for example because they're both a brain tumor just after the bombing back in two thousand and four. and it's the same in this case there's a a serious malformation problem from birth. so we record the information and we establish a medical file and then we send it off to the doctors and charities. all we were really want to try and do is find a solution and you know and help these poor families. and

something only it's a modest office doesn't have extensive resources not even a computer on which to record all this information he seems overtaken by events and you know we knew absolutely nothing about any of these diseases before when the americans came here they were supposed to bring us what they wanted him and. they've set us back to the stone age scenario. coolio agreed to supply us with the files of sick children he says that most cases of rare illnesses concern children under ten like ziad he was born after the two thousand and four attacks with a serious note from ation he is the first case of this type in his family. so you are maybe a little slower when you last saw him he was operated on when when he was forty seven days old the house we lived in was bombed in shock when we returned i cleaned the place entirely and maybe it was because of data i don't know but their

house was bombed during the battle yes it was hit by a missile and half the house was destroyed and thought that he was the living room my bedroom all of it was destroyed the furniture too all we had left was what we were wearing was this wardrobe we rebuilt everything ourselves one year later my my son was born with a malformation and i was told it was linked to the bombing how long did you stay in that house two years we we left the house a year after i gave birth. why are children who were not alive during the war and who were therefore not exposed directly to white phosphorus victims now from ations what do the iraqi authorities say is it a public health problem in fallujah only the ministry of the environment was willing to talk to us. that the truth is we haven't been able to do any

environmental service i mean it was impossible to carry out any test at all the bombing started in two thousand and four then once again in two thousand and five and two thousand and six all the way up until two thousand and ten it was only in two thousand and ten that the americans left the city. and at that time if a citizen bent down to pick something up for example may look like a potential bomb or an american sniper might even shoot. that happened several times i can tell you. all this to say it was a nine impossible for us to go to any of these zones with our equipment and carry out our tests it was far too dangerous. in fallujah nobody has the means to investigate the causes of these illnesses not even the iraqi ministry of the environment. this upsurge in the form children is in among the authorities

priorities. the former rebel stronghold has been sidelined by its own government a code of silence reigned for winter. since the end of the war just one study has shed some light on this it was carried out in fallujah in two thousand and nine and was published in a major medical review. this document contains worrying results about the rise in the number of the former babies they reveal an explosion in such cases since two thousand and five one year after the battle of two thousand and four. aberystwyth on the west coast of wales the author of this paper is professor chris busby a british scientist specializing in radioactivity. he secretary of the european committee on gradation risks. chris busby is

a regular mainstream media guest in his black parade he has become an easily recognizable figure on the b.b.c. for al-jazeera he was recently consulted on the consequences of the nuclear crisis at fukushima. unlike the iraqi authorities he has investigated and for lucia but the way around that is to just knock on the door and say scuse me. how many people got cancer here in the last five years and who lives it and it's very simple because if you know who lives. you can you can then predict how many cancers they should have on the basis of the national average of the rates and so on and just compare them with the numbers that they report on the one divided by the other those of us of risk. so you did you frank who. told you no way i've got too many people after my god so i'm not going to construct. a probability so i'm not hoping one of the year well all i did was i told them what

to do i said look i'll tell you what to do i'll create a questionnaire. based on the ones i've done any even for an iraqi team recruited by christmas being a task was complicated as some places they would say they've been not because they sort of from a secret service or the state or something so then we had to start sending people around with some local person that everybody knew council or something and after that it was ok and we just finished it when the iraqi government found out about it and then they put something on the television saying we were terrorists and anybody who answered the questions was joe. but it is too late we've done it using world. on top of the questionnaire chris busby asked for samples of soil and water samples of residents here were also taken the test results are astonishing. dillies has solved was in the soil samples and all we measured sixty two just another month so we had to struggle in the barium near did me

a month and cobalt and. cesium and calcium and you name it we looked at it and what we found was that the only element that could explain that i will of congenital malformation and cancer was you're right. he believes it's not a white phosphorus that is harming the inhabitants of flu just but your ania. so frizzes influential the rates of. the rates of leukemia for example a thirty eight times its for. breast cancers more than sense on this show the cancers fourteen times i forget the exact details with a few numbers there's not nothing that you have ever found in any epidemiology study anywhere ever this is what the highest rates of of of genetic damage in any population ever study the us and europe.

why is for loser compared to here ashima how did uranium come to be in the city official no nuclear weapons were used in fallujah. culture is that so much as i am going which of course is right on a come down zero day would be rivaled spring occupy wall street protesters are coming out of their winter hibernation with plans for renewed demonstrations six months.

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