it's. nine thirty am in moscow these iraqi headlights western and arab supporters of syria's revolution meeting turkey to press the assad regime or some of the members pushing for a further militarization of the conflict. a hot night moment between leaders medvedev and obama sees us republican hawks swoop with a volley of anti russia rhetoric slammed by moscow as cold war hollywood cliche. and how sturdy riots and protests break out across spain as the government

announces massive new cuts says the dictatorship of general franco. up next a special report from the scene of some of the worst fighting in the u.s. iraq war the sounds of battle died down years ago the weapons that america used have left a deadly legacy behind. saluja 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. the hospital doctors are fighting another war today as every day the maternity unit is on alert and to form a baby has just been born the fifth this week. this newborn is suffering from

serious mathematicians 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 is born without skulls without organs and sometimes with their legs totally twisted hard and 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 this deformed baby is the first such case in her family but there's a dramatic rise in such phenomena and faluting one birth and five nodes of its

congenial affirmations. this doctor sees only one possible solution and it is radical i am monster. and i'm going to try. and run since you two are not my baby was that. how did it come to this all these babies were born after two thousand and four when flu endured one of the most violent battles ever witnessed on iraqi soil bombs and shells rained down on the sitting for several weeks fifteen thousand coalition soldiers were marshalled to crush the lucia facing them were two thousand iraqi resistance fighters armed with collision carves and rocket launchers a u.s. air force dropped hundreds of tons of bombs. but. these pictures show fireballs falling on the city this is white phosphorus but chemical incendiary weapon today this bombing is said to have caused the malformations in the children of fallujah.

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 had a right to come and go freely. so i come but i have family and friends there and i speak iraqi arabic i make contact with a friend in flu shot. chemistry clark. 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 unemployed. i first met him or doing a news report four years ago it was he who called my attention to these 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 and iraq. saluja was the first city to fight back against american occupation. they found fame by throwing them out of town and inflicting 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 yes i knew. 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 true 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 listed one hundred thirty four g. eyes and thirty five hundred iraqis saluja became a symbol of the revolt accordingly the army imposed very strict checks on 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 badge a neighbour's way 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. i think if you need a guarantor to enter and he must be from flu shot. i've been asked to be responsible for you for safety reasons you can't just walk into fallujah no no not like that. as we approach the city attention mounts in the car not stop filming put a 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 any camera you need special permission and an armed escort. but to give us

freedom of movement we'd rather enter illegally. to see. if there are several cars in front of us and we're in the third one we're waiting confesses. 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 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 a little just after the bombing began and the landscape changed on the scene to the appearance of the sky chip's a scout again it's 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 so bombs and missiles i seen a lot of things that i know what i'm talking about. a with these american bombs it

was different they exploded and. they produced something abnormal something that i don't think i've ever seen before to. 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 it only to illuminate combat zones. yet influenza 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 units played football today comes to meditate at the graves of former teammates now become martyrs. cannot be had to lie about some of the footballers who used to play in this stadium are very clear that even the coach we call them a colorful cowboy 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 did just a few merican this brought a sadness the first i thought it was humanitarian aid. but when i opened them just like i found it began to fill out those of bones and clothes intact and there

translator told me these corpses were americans. and that's why they've given them back when we come to. the caretaker recovered close to five hundred unidentified bodies he photographed each one before burying them in the cemetery. and said so we asked the doctors and they told us that if there were only bones in the clothing is intact then it'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 did the u.s. army use these weapons against the population what are these photos really hard 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 who fought it flew you know he looks like a teenager prosecuting just already a war veteran traumatized by his experience he decided to testify oh. this is me this is in for lucia and i'm really embarrassed to say that i'm kind of posing for the special. you know i had the bandana on and i wanted to look tough and you know this is the mentality that we had earlier and they're on their 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 the 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 a strong possibility that this was going to land on civilians so white phosphorus was indeed discharged about 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 said it will 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 that is diehards and n.c. americans of all different sorts. computing 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 in fallujah. he adds that he used 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 brought in with white phosphorus. 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. this 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 not 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 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 you know we know absolutely nothing about any of these diseases before when the americans came here they were supposed to bring us modernity stead they sent 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. he was born after the two thousand and four attacks but the serious now from nation he is the first case of this type and 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 better 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 and 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 q years 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. 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 bomber an american sniper might even shooting and 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 quick and carry on 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 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 caused 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 this is just knock on

the door and say scares me on. how many people got cancer here in the last five years and he lives it and there's a very 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 the frank who told you no way too many people off the market so i'm not going to construct myself probabilities are. not a problem or that you know well all i did was i told them what to do i said look i'll tell you what to do i'll create the questionnaire. based on the ones i've done and even for an iraqi team recruited by chris busby and the task was complicated some places they were to think of it not because they sort of from the civil service of the state or something so that we had to start sending people around with some. local person that everybody knew consulate 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 out something on the television saying that the terrorists and anybody who answered the questions was as joe. it is too late you'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 in the soil samples and all of we measured sixty two just another them so we had to struggle about barium needed to me among them cobalt and . cesium of calcium you name it we looked at them and what we found was that the only other one that could explain that level of congenital malformation and counsel was you're right. he believes it's not the white phosphorus that is harming the inhabitants of flu just put your radio. so frizzes in for new job the rates of

. the rates of leukemia for example is thirty eight times that it's but. breast cancers more than ten times chose cancers fourteen times i forget exactly this 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 genetic damage in any population and the study is worse on the ocean. why is for compared to here oshima how did uranium come to be in the city official no nuclear weapons were used for the job.

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