yeah but if there was. a lot of pictures of the role that is to be taken out to a decade 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 he still feels remote with escalating sectarian violence and fighting for resources we report from cool 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 kissinger era in whistleblower julian the sound his latest project to open up global geopolitics. i welcome you watching r.t.

life from moscow. now ranks marking ten years since the i would throw 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 the 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 what it all worth it artie's miniport i spoke to one man who had very different hopes on the day iraq's leader was toppled. 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 and i know you're

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 do you know about the iraq war now that you didn't 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 the motivation of the personal. the rent. or no renewal of the war two thousand and three i did i thought. it was a very forward with 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 you know do you know in a strong. spirit. really knows for our market the market speaking of american interests that american democracy. in that 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. iraqi civil war see that as a simple walk. you know but you know my reasons are the reason 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 would be to walk into the room going to go home to my family and i was with points of us who have seen america fly for so long as i want to attach to

a chain around the backs of people such as now. so you know when i want to go out there he was like oh but you know when you get out there are all sort of wars a college and i was looking. at a walk told me so i get up there. 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 and just do one of those had no work for me. to do is there you know i mean you know there was nothing to do just to show any kind of sounds like a push on a country just no way a spur of the moment more than forty five hundred soldiers have reportedly lost their lives. in the war in iraq and titans of. thousands maybe hundreds of thousands of iraqis have been killed and they were born to. is this what you envision twenty when you i mean when question now there are any of us in a vision but. you know when it comes to war.

expect the unexpected. it's. tough in our vision but what you know about us foreign policy now that we didn't know that we're not going to be told she will have is because times are hard you're sucking up the tallest man who has just come out so the public will go to war. through you know real controlled oil with out of reach out of course not just is going to come out and and how many things. we're going to sign up to risk their lives back when it was actually but you know what it was you know we're most sorry here we do what we're told and. we hope that you know this you know this right says i mean you know it's we're going to last word there you know we're going to follow on or in front bravely most of the country from what he thinks the war was for him i personally think it was for. us to you know had been a foothold there to receive was

a region you know i don't believe. you told 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 there was through. free a country of a dictator yes but that just don't was all reason there's a lot of dictators and a rule that has to be taken out to hope that i would it was one of the reason i look for the right reason is because i how can i not know where. the british. presence is now worth justify. it or chen thank you very much for your time. while another iraq war veteran emily yates told r.t. that washington's main reasons for getting into the called flaked were 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 were fighting it to keep morale up or so 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 about 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 jay enormous contracts to rebuild iraq's infrastructure still haven't done that and they don't even know where the money has gone i believe that the war affectively was the boiled those big oil efficiently american oil. has really ever really been the main picture. the stability promised by nato forces is nowhere to be seen in

places like cool attacks and bombings have increased in the oil rich city a center of ethnic and political tension over resources in the disputed area many iraqis say they still feel unsafe and a country freed from saddam's dictatorship there's a cough and of reports. that. 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 kirkuk. we wish city has been described as a fault line a symbol for the country's most intractable woes escalating 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 us in 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 define 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 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 continue to go about their business as normal vendors and busy families did their shopping

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. you know. we don't know who the enemy is or women next bomb will go off but it's a daily fears we've got used to it 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 won't hurt us. 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 if you. like this what benefit did the your bring democracy only explosions shootings and kidnappings people should feel free to go out and come back safely where is that i can leave but there's no guarantee i'll come back a lot of the soldiers. no it's not about the sectarian differences unfortunately it's book the black goo the oil in behind us or oil is the hidden interest 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 they simply want the peace of mind of knowing they can go out and return to their loved ones alive. r.t. kirkuk iraq. the us attempted to rebuild iraq following the two thousand and three

invasion spending billions of dollars in various reconstruction projects medical worker doctor. he says though that while america is invested heavily into iraq is intentional use of dangerous weapons has left severe lasting effects across the country. that. it's clear that though the u.s. spoke of their help provided to iraq after the invasion it notably reconstruction education and 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 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 bosphorus ammunitions 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 you can look up human rights watch and the world health organization reports on the internet radiological monitoring what you already 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 the worst part is that maliki is 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. now wiki leaks is rolling out more revelations when we come back the same million diplomatic cables published by getting the songs which offer a glimpse into america's foreign policy of years past. league world. series technology innovation hall believes developments from around russia we've got the future covered. ten years ago by jobs was overtaken lose ten years of political infighting

terrorism and economic to catch a little child in iraq arise. by. april ninth on our take. international airport in the very heart of moscow. welcome back north korea is warning foreigners to evacuate from south korea in case

of war the latest escalation of threats from the country japan meanwhile has deployed patriot missiles in key areas around tokyo as a precaution against a possible north korean ballistic missile test let's talk now to ron dawson a journalist who specializes in covering events in asia thank you very much a few times to dawson firstly i mean south korea did backtrack earlier on claims that p.r. nyang is planning any sort of test but does japan deploying these missile interceptors suggest that perhaps they know something that doesn't i don't think they know anything that south korea doesn't know depends taken his precaution. is a little silly to put them all around tokyo the main targets for north korea would obviously be the u.s. bases in our king our but it's it's a matter of just spending more money on patriot systems just profiteering and could that deploying by japan be seen is a as a provocative move really by north korea when tensions are already very high sure

it could be but. there are ways real reason for doing is boston is an support from his japanese base to work for or against a stance against north korea. north korea to me moving on north korea's evacuation warning to foreigners in so do you think this is them just ramping things up a little another loud threats or of things really escalated again you know this time i think this is very serious you know every march or so we always have some saber rattling and there's lots of our missiles on all sides with boeing and lockheed you know osprey aircraft and there are twenty two's and thirty five's but this is a little different this is never happened before and evacuation you know the u.s. and south korea are jointly playing war games again in north korea's backyard with a simulated takeover and occupation of north korea they sent b. two bombers which contained the moab bombs which are bunker busters and very threatening north korea as so this is not something to take lightly this isn't just

simple or a speaker at this time this is very serious and just on the situation with the u.s. why do you think they are sending these mixed signals you just mentioned they're carrying out this very large exercise but the same time the recently delayed a ballistic missiles test so. on the one hand they seem to be doing what they can to defuse the situation on another hand they seem to be raising tensions that me. well i think perhaps the u.s. is goal in the beginning was to keep projection away from defense cuts they had the sequester and there is threats that defense spending was going to be cut they use north korea as a convenient bogeyman and they went a little too far now they're having to back pedal because north korea is frightened and taking these threats very seriously so what does everybody have today what are the sides have to do to diffuse the situation. probably not going to do it but they

need to speak to each other there needs to be dialogue they cannot just simply reject north korea and be dismissive and say they're crazy they need to be speaking to you can join in and they needed to use the situation and maybe lift some of the sanctions or things that could be put on the table they could be used as leverage to get things peaceful and to back down from this escalation however we need cooler heads to prevail and to get rid of a lot of this machismo on all sides itself in north korea and the united states and just briefly another development recently was the shutting down of the shared industrial zone by north korea the one they shared with south korea what sort of impact could that have do you think for people young and so they will probably be worse for north korea for their economy of course with this evacuation warning that's going to affect south korea as well. i mean this is their mutual is just sort of harming one another and we really need dialogue this needs to be taken seriously perhaps you need or the international community to get involved if you

don't have such a stake in it with the bases and the with the monetary incentives to escalate this hot spot. ok mr dawson we do have to leave it there that's ron dawson the journal specializing in asian issues thank you very much for your time welcome being and scones in the ecuadorian embassy for over nine months hasn't stopped shooting the songes whistleblowing mission 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. boyko examines what's in the documents which its own cause 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 u.s. secretary of secretary of state and a lot of the cables are either two or from him now judy and a son says that although the documents are all kinds of 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 we can weeks 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 it's a 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 beat 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 turkish from 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's 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 under cia 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 for sweden was in fact an informant for just cia from the nineteen seventies for many people the way in which they reveal the jew our legacy of u.s. 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. just to update you sweden's foreign minister is denying reports linking him to the cia saying that they are part of a smear campaign which will quickly fall apart. although having since been declassified the data gathered in project care used to be virtually inaccessible hidden between secrecy and complexities feuding the signage describe it will thanks to wiki leaks it is now easily available will try to show you why or how rather if you go to their web site click on public library of u.s. diplomacy kissinger. and then put in your search with we're going to stick in chile here to see what comes up and there you go over seventy documents relating to what washington's role in chile in politics in the one nine hundred in the mid seventy's they do cover a range of issues there from military systems to training in arms sales and for the most secretive documents choose handing restrictions notice which you might have

seen there which means new distribution there you go you can also sort stuff out. using a range of search words by date and by subject or even by whichever state department sent or received a document so there is plenty to get stuck into or many more spokes person kristinn hrafnsson told kevin owen how the u.s. should be thankful for the great job they've done. because this is dedicated to bringing historical records to the public attention when there is an attempt to keep them hidden although these documents have been declassified excuse stream it difficult to approach them and assess them in their current form of the only year 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 and merge them with the two hundred fifty thousand u.s.

diplomatic cables that we publish 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 their neighbors well i haven't heard of any response from the earth already here in washington of course they should be very pleased that we are doing the job that they should be doing themselves so maybe we should apply for some funds and continue to work for the u.s. government and they should actually focus so much attention and supporting over a concert of containing this unprecedented and 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 all t. don't call him while we explain why cheating the songs considers project the most significant geopolitical publication that has ever existed and you can also join our online discussion. coming up it's breaking the set for washington

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