one thirty pm in moscow these iraqi headlines gathering the strike tens of thousands in spain unite in protest against labor of forms just a day before the new prime minister now this is a fresh round of austerity cuts seen as the first real test first gains leadership who took office just three months ago. the arab league split over how to deal with the syrian crisis some members advocate diplomacy others say they want to arm the rebels and weigh in with force meanwhile the syrian government and opposition under pressure to win force a un peace plan calling for

a cease fire and. the five member block of breaks countries take on the dollar and euro in a bid to reform the global economy there masterminding the creation of an alternative global reserve bank that would rival the i.m.f. and other u.s. dependent bodies. with u.s. troops now out of the country iraqis are left dealing with the aftermath and their war torn nation especially in the bomb shattered city of illusia a special report up next. from. west of 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 ruins. hospital doctors are fighting another war. today as every day the maternity unit is on

a work of the form a baby has just been aboard the fifth this week. his newborn is suffering from serious and affirmations the doctors think he will survive but he may never be able to walk. on the other side. and 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 so we have seen many other types of deformities he's not alone some are more severe than others we have something to be is born with that skulls without organs and sometimes with their legs totally twisted hard and look at his little legs the mother of this baby is in shock this woman has had three children before this one all born without any health problems this deformed

baby is the first such case in our family but there's a dramatic rise in such phenomena and flu shot one birth and five nodes and it's congenial affirmations. this doctor sees only one possible solution and it is radical i am myself. and i'm from rich. and since you two are not my baby. how did it come to this all these babies were born after two thousand and four when food 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 loser facing them were two thousand iraqi resistance fighters armed with collision carves and rocket launchers a u.s. air force truck hundreds of tons of bombs. like. 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 and the children of a loser. to . 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 noticeable. 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 will step in and choose. 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 falutin for instance my parents' home town after the war the city was totally cut off only the inhabitants have a 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 in flu shot. chemistry. 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 now one employed. i first met him while doing

a news report four years ago it was he who called my attention to the seriously deformed babies he came to baghdad to fetch me because it's not possible for me to get the 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. saluja was the first city to fight back against american occupation. they 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 saluja could resist against the world's most powerful army yes i mean. in march two thousand and four for 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 troll things 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 list of one hundred thirty four g. eyes and thirty five hundred iraqis fallujah became a symbol of the revolt accordingly the army imposed very strict checks in the city of fingerprints and retina scans of every last inhabitant or recorded in the u.s. army files never has any town undergone such treatment. residents

were even issued with biometric id cards. this bajan abel's made to answer a leaflet. seven years later the badges 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. a theater that you need a guarantor to wednesday and he must be from fallujah. i've been asked to be responsible for you for safety reasons so you can't just walk into a nano not like that. as we approach the city attention mounts in the car not stop filming put the camera down the. here we are at the entrance to fallujah one hundred meters from a border post within a 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. as there are several cars in front of us and we're in the third one we're waiting on infectious. thanks to our who eunice one of the soldiers wants 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 place goes on the streets are teeming with the traces of war still here and the iraqi soldiers carry on patrol.

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 influenza 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 to the just after the bombing began the landscape changed with even the appearance of the sky chips the sky became kind of yellow it lasted for several days even the explosions red note. 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. with these american bombs it was different so they exploded and they produced something abnormal something that i don't think i've ever seen before. the 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 only to illuminate combat zones.

yet in flu shots thousands of inhabitants were still in the city during the bombing . eunice arranges to meet me at the martyrs cemetery a former football stadium three thousand five hundred bodies are buried here resistance fighters and civilians alike. this is where eunice played football today he comes to meditate at the graves of former teammates now become martyrs. tonight he had to lie about some of the footballers who used to play in the stadium buried here just an image that even the coach we called him a colorful cowboy and even he was killed by the americans and no 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 americans brought assess

the first i thought it was humanitarian aid. but when i opened them just like i found it began to fill up it's of bones and clothes intact and there translator told me these corpses were americans. and that's why they give in the back when we come into. the caretaker recovered close to five hundred unidentified bodies he photographed each one before daring them in the cemetery. and said so we asked the doctors and they told us that if there are only bones in the clothing is intact then that's because of what phosphorous 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 did 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 computing but twenty seven year old former marine and father flew you know he looks like a teenager prosecuted just already a war veteran traumatized by his experience he decided to testify oh. this is me this is in fallujah and i'm really embarrassed to say that i'm kind of posing for the specs here. 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 we 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 siege 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 are thousands of civilians who couldn't leave the city so wherever we used to it was a strong possibility that this was going to land on civilians so white phosphorus

was indeed discharged above the population and i feel really guilty about it. now and 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 were everyone just seemed content with that we had heard about them being terrorists and that is diehards and it's the americans of all different sorts go ross computed denounces 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. he adds that he used at will and we against the

insurgents the major refers to such deployment 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. it 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 dogged 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 police he lives in the jolan neighborhood one of the hardest hit by the bombing. in two thousand and five pound of the first charity for war victims. is aimed to gather

as much information as possible beginning with these files on sick children. this child for example developed 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 b. information and we establish a medical file and then we send it off to the doctors and charities. all we really want to try and do is find a solution and you know and help these poor families so. that they 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 you know we know absolutely nothing about any of these diseases before when the

americans came here there were supposed to various modernity stead of us back to the stone age are you. agreed to supply us with the files of sick children he says that most cases of rare illnesses concern children under ten like. he was born after the two thousand and four attacks or the serious not from asian he is the first case of this type in his family. so you are many of them i want to bring you also and 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 bad i don't know your house was bombed during the battle yes it was hit by a missile and half the house was destroyed and torment and the living room my bedroom all of it was destroyed the furniture to it all we had left was what we

were wearing was this wardrobe we rebuilt everything ourselves one year later my and 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 to yours 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 are the iraqi authorities say is it a public health problem in fallujah only the ministry of the environment was willing to talk to us. led that the truth is we haven't been able to do any environmental servers i mean it was impossible to carry out any tests 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 they look like a potential bomb or an american sniper might even shooting. that happened several times i can tell you. all this to say it was 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 deformed children isn't among the authorities priorities. the former rebel stronghold has been sidelined by its own government a code of silence reigns and pull into. danger

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 four babies a revealed 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 posed me a british scientist specializing in radioactivity. he secretary of the european committee on radiation risks. chris busby is a regular mainstream media guest in his black beret he has become an easily recognizable figure on the b.b.c. or al-jazeera he was recently consulted on the consequences of a nuclear crisis at fukushima. unlike the iraqi

authorities he has investigated in florida but the way around that is to just knock on the door and say scuse me and asking how many people got cancer here in the last five years and he lives there and as there is simple because if you know who lives there 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 others of us of risk. so we did you frank. you know way too many people off the market so i'm not going to construct. a probability so. i'm not hoping others that you know well all i did was i told them what to do i said look i'll tell you what to do the questionnaire. based on the ones i've done and even for an iraqi team recruited by chris busby's the task was complicated some places they were to think of it not

because they saw who from the secret service of the state or something so then we had to start sending people around with some local person that everybody knew kinds of something and after that it was ok and we just finished it when the iraqi government found out about it and then they put out something on the television saying to the terrorists and anybody who answers the questions was the. it is too late we've done it using. 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. denise has solved was on the soil samples and on we measured sixty two just another month so we had to struggle a month barium needed to me a month and cobalt and. cesium of calcium and you name it we looked at it and what we found was that the only element that could explain not level of congenital malformation and cancer was you're right. he believes

it's not the white phosphorus that is harming the inhabitants of flu just like your radio. so for this is in for lou jo the race of. the race of leukemia for example is thirty eight times expects. breast cancers more than sends on his toes cancer is fourteen times i forget the exact details but a few numbers there's not nothing that you have ever found in any every day milosevic study anywhere ever this is what the highest rates of genetic damage in any population ever study is worse than the ocean. why is for loser compared to here oshima how did uranium come to be in a city. official no nuclear weapons were used to fall into.

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