over the. if there was. a lot of pictures of the role that is to be took about two decades since saddam hussein's regime collapsed in iraq we speak to the u.s. soldier who carried out the symbolic toppling of the dictator's statue. but still feels remote with escalating sectarian violence and fighting for resources we report from cooper one of iraq's most dangerous places where people live in constant fear of attack. and wiki leaks publishes over a million u.s. diplomatic cables from the era in whistle blow during the songes latest project to open up geopolitics. so i welcome you watching our take with me and three films. now iraq is marking ten

years since the overthrow of saddam hussein when baghdad fell to the u.s. led invasion a decade on and the country remains unstable more than two hundred civilians have been killed and over eight hundred wounded in the past month alone a situation that many a tribute to america's presence in the country after a massive loss of life and no weapons of mass destruction found was it all worth it artie's marina portnoy i spoke to one man who had very different hopes on the day iraq's leader was deposed. exactly ten years ago a u.s. marine from new york city made international headlines for his actions in baghdad edward chen tied a large noose around a massive statue of saddam hussein wrapped the face of that statue of an american flag before that monument was eventually toppled right now i am joined by mr chen for a one on one conversation on thank you for speaking with parties about how are you welcome ten years have passed since that that that moment where you essentially

became a symbol for the u.s. occupation and invasion in iraq you were twenty three at the time when you climb that statue what you know about the iraq war now that you do know that all army when i know dollars is not ten years longer than expected. they're still struggling to. rebuild their country to have a stable government are your feelings different now than they were ten years ago in terms of your intentions to motivate a personal. goal when you know really no we knew we were going to go to war in two thousand and three i did i thought. it was a very forward was the master which is already. solved you know i'd like to believe that you know. more to learn stabilize the region. before american troops. there's no deal rid of saddam hussein is. really knows

for our market democracy speaking of american interests that american democracy. why not statue of saddam hussein and wrap the face of the statue in an american flag looking back on your actions do you think that was the pro-create thing to do as as a foreigner coming in and invading a country climbing the statue of a man who was the leader of that country and wrapping the face an american flag. no iraqi civil war soon as possible want to. know what you know my reasons or the reasons why we didn't know it was for us we would have been in iraq for. over a month. and the fire got to baghdad and we were hoping that it would be the market under the rule of law to go home to a family and i was one of those who have seen our to fly for so long as i went out

to attach to a chain around the backs of people such as now. so you know when i want to go up there he was like oh but you know when you get out there you know sort of bores the callers and i was ok you know. but the walk told me so i get up there and i'm like i don't know i don't want to use the word flag and pulled it out but i had to stuff my jacket i pulled it out of the wind just blew out of his head and i work from. tuesday and you know i mean you know there was nothing we did just to show you kind of sounds like the pressure on the country is just no way to spur of the moment more than forty five hundred soldiers have reportedly lost their lives. in the war in iraq and tons of. thousands maybe hundreds of thousands of iraqis have been killed and they were born to. is this what you envisioned when when you i mean when question now there are any of us who know the vision but. you know when

it comes to war. expect the unexpected. it's. tough in our vision but you know what you know about us foreign policy now that we didn't know that we're not going to be told she will have this because times are hard are sucking up the tallest man who has just come out some of the public will go to war. through you know be able to control the oil that every job of course not just is going to come out and and how many. we're going to sign up to risk our lives exactly but you know what it was you know we're most sorry and we do what we're told and. we hope that you know this you know this right says i mean you know it's where we go once we're there you know we're going to find. the front groups and alter the course of the country from what he thinks the war was for him i personally think it was for. us to you know hunting

a foothold there to meet with him was a region you know i don't believe. you tell me that it was for you to love isn't that mass destruction souls lives lost is the thing that worked robson all you know today there was still no weapons to be found is it is it worth it just for the u.s. to to have a foothold in the region as it were of all those lives you don't know be worth or was through. for your country of a dictator yes but if there was more reason that there's a lot of dictators and the rules that used to be taken out to hope that i would it was for the reason i look for the right reasons and because of how can i not know where. the richest. bruises now were justified. thank you very much for your time. well another iraq war veteran m.e.h. told r.t. that washington's main reasons for getting into the conflict with financial. my job

i was actually i was a public affairs specialist in the military that's their name for a journalist my role was to basically make the war sound really wonderful to those of us who are fighting it to keep morale of course i knew that saddam didn't have weapons of mass destruction because i had been involving the news coming out of that and following the reports and i knew it wasn't you know really a liberation as soon as i saw the huge mess that we made of the infrastructure in iraq and the fact that still to this day corporations that received these j. norma's contracts to rebuild iraq's infrastructure still haven't done that and they don't even know where the money has gone i believe. the war affectively was for oil because big oil efficiently american oil. has really ever really been the main picture. while the stability promised by nato forces is nowhere to be seen in

places like it's not some bombings have increased in the oil rich city center ethnic um political tension over resorts is in the disputed area many iraqis say they still feel unsafe in the country freed from saddam's dictatorship as they see catherine of reports. the iraq war is supposed to be over but these pictures tell a different story chaos and confusion the aftermath of yet another deadly blast here in cure kook. this oil rich city has been described as a fault line a symbol for the country's most intractable woes as collating violence the conflict among ethnic and religious groups and the fight over iraq's resources. getting there was our first challenge a group of kurdish soldiers had agreed to take

a sin both baghdad and the kurds lay claim to care coop and are sparring over control aside from the danger those entering from the kurdish side need special permission to get past the iraqi checkpoints when have it. roadblocks and concrete barriers defined the new iraq checkpoints like this one are a dominant feature of life and they are everywhere aside from the house they're also frequent target of attacks for us it was a blatant visual reminder of a country still very much at war. inside your kook we drive quickly to avoid danger we're told to look out for a black b.m.w. apparently they've become a favorite for iraq's insurgents who didn't pick the best day to come to roadside bombs exploded here earlier that morning around the same time that baghdad was rocked by a series of deadly blasts but it has been a flashpoint for years now and in the city center it's clear that life doesn't stop just because of the threats we were expecting empty streets but people continued to go about their business as normal vendors seemed busy families did their shopping

the beneath the surface there are scars today kirkuk continues to be an incredibly dangerous place for thinking about it after the city without the help of a military escort residents here say that attacks could happen at any time in any place in fact it's not really safe to stay here for too long so let's get inside. we need car want to his family there kurds who say they're happy that saddam is gone but their fear of political repression has been replaced by fear of the unknown. we don't know who the enemy is or women next. but it's a daily fears we've got used to it you know i do small things to feel safer like driving with all the car windows down that way if there's a blast at least the glass was heard. such precautions didn't help sixty year old mahmoud who says that a decade of war has ruined iraq he happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time in a bomb blast went off injuring his leg for him daily life has become

a painful struggle for somebody and you. have to see what benefit did to your bring democracy only explosions shooting and killing. people should feel free to go out and come back safely where is that a job where i can leave but there's no guarantee i'll come back alive but sergeant you. know it's not about the sectarian differences unfortunately it's both the black the oil and behind this oil is the hidden interests of politicians pawns in a political game playing with their livelihoods and lives for conflicts not of their own making the iraqis we met didn't hate their neighbors or care about who controls the oil just like fall off they simply want the peace of mind of knowing they can go out and return to their loved ones alive lucie county r.t. kirkuk iraq. while the us attempted to rebuild iraq following the two thousand and three invasion spending billions of dollars in various reconstruction projects

medical work a doctor. says that while america's invested heavily into iraq it's intentional use of dangerous weapons as less of a lasting effect across the country. it's clear that though the u.s. spoke of their help provided to iraq after the you know notably reconstruction education in investments and their so-called help resulted in the use of weapons banned by article fifty three of the geneva convention it prohibits any kind of weapon which if used where there is more war can affect the areas environment climate and water resources things that occurred in one thousand nine hundred one and then in two thousand and three are true catastrophe all types of munitions were used including dispenser weapons boss present munitions depleted uranium and chemical weapons all these types of weapons were used intentionally and on

a mass scale in iraq this testing out of weapons had disastrous effects in terms of environmental contamination not to be compared even with hiroshima. this is by no means an exaggeration. this is not my opinion but you cannot appear in rights watch and the world health organization the records on the internet radiological monitoring what do they held on the international level points of radioactive contamination of southern central and even northern areas of iraq and despite repeated calls and all the reports published by iraqi scientists the us turned a blind eye on the issue at the worst part is that malique its government and all those that were in power after the invasion were ready to bear arms against those raising concerns of chemical and radioactive contamination yeah i guess they feel indebted to the invaders that all ministers and government officials are not entitled to speak freely on this issue there is a ban on any relevant scientific research being published even in the u.s.

this ban comes from either the administration in washington or from the pentagon and is binding even for our scientists. whether another casualty of the war in iraq is the country's cultural heritage archaeologist an architect dr is san fatty says many artifacts were destroyed and others pundit with the u.s. ignoring his course to help. in some palaces pure gold bullion there were found and some of them were plundered i'm sure that everything was stored in the central and other banks sent to the us without any documentation and is now kept in archives those are of course not of historical value but huge amounts of documents representing historical importance that cannot be assigned a monetary value were taken by the u.s. the iraqi government was trying to get them back but the american administration wanted to strike a deal and return only half of the documents occupying forces protected only some objects such as the ministry of petroleum industry that had

a strategic use for washington although they did admit that they played a leading role in destroying many historical objects one of the examples was the city of babylon that was occupied and said to be an area of responsibility for a polish military contingent the poles cause a lot of damage to the area by using heavy engineering with tanks helicopters and digging underground communication trenches and american off origins gave an insignificant sum of money about twenty million dollars to the restoration projects and limit the impact of the occupation by a few years ago during a conference in paris in which many high ranking representatives of the u.s. state department and other key officials took part i personally asked the u.s. to release one billion dollars at least one billion dollars to carry out restoration work but they ignored my request and this is just one of the numerous examples of their destructive actions that went unnoticed the iraqi museum for example was plundered before their very eyes the plundering lasted for three days

without the occupation forces stepping in a toilet. that. being ensconced in the ecuadorian embassy thought over nine months hasn't stopped julian assange just whistle blowing mission he's unveiled what's called project k. on the wiki leaks website containing over one point seven million u.s. diplomatic cables from the one nine hundred seventy s. party boyko examines what is in the documents which is songe calls the most significant geo political publication ever. they've released a massive new database of u.s. diplomatic cables that date back to the one nine hundred seventy s. so this was a time when henry kissinger was us secretary of secretary of state and a lot of the cables are either two or from him now julian assange says that although the documents are all material what wiki leaks have done is they've made it very user friendly so it's

a big database you can actually go in and you can search through these cables you can mix of even made an interactive map that sites how many times each country is mentioned in these cables practically every single country in the world is in there now according to julian assange the us administration can't be trusted with controlling its own history so he's had to come along and do this controls the president controls and he controls the past controls the future and that is because of the vital role that history plays in deciding our interpretation of what is happening in the world the period of the one nine hundred seventy s. in diplomacy is referred to as the big bang this is when the international order came to be the most incriminating cables are likely to be the ones that reveal the relationships that the u.s. administration had with some very dictatorial regimes back in the one nine hundred

seventy s. we've got franco's spain pinochet's chile the jointer ruled greece they're all known to have committed appalling crimes with the support of the american administration and perhaps the most illustrative quotation within this huge release of cables comes from henry kissinger himself now he's quoted as saying the illegal we do immediately the unconstitutional takes a little longer in a conversation with a taxation a separate official now so many critics that's one line that will. speaks volumes about us foreign policy and we've already seen reports actually that site wiki leaks saying that the vatican may have collaborated with the us in supporting the pinochet coup in chile which we all know saw a very bloody regime come to power there is already a scandal in india over the release of the new cables as the late prime minister rajiv gandhi may have been a middleman for

a swedish company trying to sell weapons to india there are also unconfirmed reports that cables are going to reveal that undersea i.a.e.a. orders the swedish secret police was spying on its left leaning citizens these reports are yet to be confirmed and there is another very big scandal where there are unconfirmed reports that unreleased cables are going to reveal that call built the current foreign minister to sweden was in fact an informant for the cia from the nineteen seventies for many people the way in which they revealed the giufà let's see of us foreign policy will be very illustrative of the way that u.s. foreign policy may be functioning today so on the outside we've got a lot of talk about human rights and democracy but behind closed doors and in these private cables it looks to be like

a much more complicated and often darker situation. well sweden's foreign minister is denying reports linking him to the cia saying they are part of a smear campaign which will quickly fall apart although having seen having since been declassified the data gathered in project k. used to be virtually inaccessible hidden between secrecy and complexities during the science described it will thanks to wiki leaks it is now easily available and will try and show you how just click on public library of u.s. diplomacy kissinger and then put in your search word we're going to put in chile here and when you click that you'll see that over seventy documents come up they all relate washington's role in chile politics in the mid one nine hundred seventy s. is a range of issues covered there from military assistance also training in arms sales a range of issues can be sorted on line is sensitive classified mark for eyes only also sorted by date subjects and which have a state department send or receive the documents so there's plenty to get stuck in

see there well the wiki leaks spokesperson christine. referenced and did tell kevin zero in how the u.s. should be thankful for the great job they've done. because he is dedicated to bringing a historical records to the public attention when there is an attempt to keep them hidden although these documents have been declassified excuse dreamy difficult to approach them and assess them in their current format only in the national archives so what we did was to gather together with help and and publish them in a searchable database a very robust database merge them with the two hundred fifty thousand a u.s. diplomatic cables that we published under the cable gates and it's extremely important to have results in public domain chris what kind of response from expect from washington as you said these are not strictly speaking classified anymore but you kind of collated them all together to make them easier to get hold of it washington talk instead of any of this well i haven't heard of any response from

the authorities here in washington of course they should be very pleased that we're doing the job that they should be doing themselves so maybe you should apply for some funds and continue his work from the us government and they should actually focus on one tension of supporting over a concert of continuing of this unprecedented relentless attempt to prosecute julian assigns and all the members of that we can use team. and you can keep across wiki leaks truth seeking mission at r.t. dot com that we explain why did the sanford cities project k. the most significant geo political publication that has ever existed and you can also join our online discussion plus truth on trial on going coverage online of the bitter struggle of bradley manning who's exposed to expose military secrets to wiki leaks and could face twenty years in jail. with a look at the stories making headlines around the world now tributes are being paid

to britain's first prime minister margaret thatcher female prime minister who died on monday aged eighty seven the news was met with enormous lot of mixed reactions from morning team celebrations make knowing the iron lady she led britain from nine hundred seventy nine thousand nine hundred ninety deeply divided the public she will she will be remembered for repelling argentina's falklands invasion but also her hardline on social cutbacks in tackling trade unions leading to the notorious miners strikes and nine hundred eighty four. syria has rejected the un secretary-general chemical weapons probe team which is awaiting deployment in cyprus it was initially invited by syria to investigate the march nineteenth attack near aleppo but banking millions reported suggestion of a supplementary nationwide probe has brought the mission to a stark hold syria's foreign ministry says it's too similar to the u.n. back to iraqi nuclear weapons accusations which concluded with the notorious

american led invasion. but. the trial of the sama bin laden's son in law could be put off until january because of a u.s. budget spat stunned new york judges say that a so-called sequester force in stuff out on unpaid leave means lawyers are struggling to press the case that showed last september so the man who is a senior al qaeda figure and his charge with processing the nine. eleven attacks. fascisms dark role in world history is doing little to hold back a new generation of black in italy the governments try to hand out radical elements but the far right still managing to draw support from economically embattled italians nationwide is an igloo she explains. this is the house of italy's modern day fascists and imposing building in rome it stood empty until ten years ago members of the ca's a pound movement barged through the doors put up their flag and became squatters

after a decade of fruitless attempts neither the police nor the country's judicial system have managed to push the fascist movement out if anything members of cars abound say they are growing ever stronger. when fascism is mentioned and stirs memory and conjures images of a bleak dissociation that comes to mind as the silly me world war two but one of the fascists initially refused to have any association with macabre pasts. foremost fascism is a way to govern the economy and the country so we cannot be responsible for what was happening some seventeen years ago i can't judge events of the past since i wasn't alive back then so i can't be judged for things that happened that far back . recent research by the open society foundation looked more closely at members of cars abound their results showed that unlike similar going to zation is elsewhere

in europe most supporters of the movement cite the economy corruption and unemployment as the main reasons for joining the party because of on the moment organ of the main idea italy sovereignty we're against pan-european tendencies we're against a dictatorial europe because for example because we don't want the production of italian goods to move to other countries historians aren't surprised by such developments yet some believe the trend isn't as worrying or as widespread as some would like to believe. as a historian i can say such movements gain popularity during a crisis but i wouldn't say because the pound is incredibly popular their percentage during the elections was not even one percent but today's low numbers aren't discouraging the movement's leaders. most italians secretly support their goals and share their ideals but they're simply too afraid to voice such views.

there's been a growing interest in the last few years as a far right policy and we didn't get many votes during the election but we now have a chance to make t.v. appearances so people can find out about our ideas and what we have to walk on. the far right resurgence of a country with a troubling fascist history it's now up to these political leaders to ask whether they are the ones pushing people towards extremist ideas not out of rebellion or ignorance but out of desperation. rome. coming up working as a low paid cleaner shouldn't be a life or death issue but it's just that for the palestinian women we follow next as they make their way to their jobs in jerusalem.

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