heart of moscow. for the culture of a dictator yeah but if there was. a lot of terrorism the role that is to take it 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. a school field remote with escalating sectarian violence and fighting for resources you report from one of iraq's most dangerous places where people live in constant fear of a. wiki leaks publishes over a million u.s. diplomatic cables from the kissinger era whistleblower his latest project to open up global geopolitics. and the warnings widen north korea foreigners to evacuate from south korea while japan deploys patriot missiles around tokyo.

hello there welcome you're watching r.t. live from moscow with may and very far. 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 porter 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 r.t. today oh 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 you know about the iraq war now that you do know that all army what 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 and motivation a personal. friend. or no when you were going to lawrence is on the three

i did i felt. it was a very forward with the masses which is already. solved you know i'd like to believe that you know. for two months stabilize the region. before market interest. there is no difference in a storm see. her. for our american democracy more than forty five hundred soldiers have reportedly lost their lives. in the war in iraq and tens of. thousands maybe hundreds of thousands of iraqis have been killed and they were born to. is this what you envisioned when when you are new when question now the new boss in on a vision well. known when it comes to war. expect 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 happen is because the times are hard at sucking up until it's not just come out some of the public will go to war. to you know be able to control the oil without reaching out of course we're not just going to come out and and how many people are going to sign up to risk their lives was actually exactly but you know if it was you know we're of military 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 find. a fun group to go to the present the country with from but he thinks the war was for him i personally think it was for. us too you know hunting a foothold there too mostly it was a region you know i don't believe. you tell me that it was for it wasn't that mass destruction souls lives lost stuff not worth the robson all in all 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 who weren't there was through. free a country of a dictator yes but that if there was a reason that there's a lot of dictators and a rule that has to be taken out to hope that i would it was for the reason i look for the right reasons and because the how can i not know where. the roots of. the. increase is now were justified. thank you very much for your time. while another iraq war veteran emily yates told r.t. that washington's main reasons for going into the conflicts 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 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 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 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. the stability promised by nato forces is nowhere to be seen in places like are attacks and bombings have increased in the oil rich city 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 as he kept it off 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 iraq's 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 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 to find the new iraq checkpoints like this one are a dominant feature of life and they are everywhere aside from the household and 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. is 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 that their shop. thing but beneath the surface there are scars today kirkuk continues to be an incredibly dangerous place talking 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 where women next bomb will go off but it's a daily fear so we've gotten 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 fellow mahmoud who says that a decade of war has ruined iraq he happened to be in the wrong place at the long time in a bomb blast went off injuring his leg for him daily life has become a painful struggle to buy the enemy. i guess what benefit did the war 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 you know it's not about the sectarian differences unfortunately it's book 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 all they simply want the peace of mind of knowing they can go out and return to their loved ones alive who seek out r.t. you rock. the u.s. attempted to rebuild iraq following the two thousand and three invasion spending billions of dollars in various reconstruction projects medical worker dr basically says that while america's invested heavily into iraq its international use of

dangerous weapons has left severe lasting effects across the country. it's clear that though the u.s. spoke of their help provided to iraq after the invasion notably reconstruction education and investments 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 periods 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 past present munitions depleted uranium and chemical weapons all these types of weapons were used intentionally and on a mass scale in iraq. facts 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 records on the internet radiological monitoring what's going to be 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 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 the administration in washington or from the pentagon and is binding even for our scientists. were.

coming up wiki leaks is rolling out more revelations when we come back it's a million different i think cables published by getting a sound which offer a glimpse into america's foreign policy of years past. science technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got this huge you're covered. ten years ago by god it was overtaken. ten years of political infighting terrorism and economic decay. challenge in russia a rise. to fame by. our april ninth on our take.

over international airport in the very heart of moscow. welcome back north korea has warned foreigners to evacuate from south korea in case of war the latest escalation of threats from the country japan meanwhile has deployed patriot missiles around tokyo as a precaution against possible north korean ballistic missile tests journalist ryan

dawson who specializes in covering events in asia says japan and its leadership are looking to profit from the tense situation while the u.s. push things too far when trying to do the say. bands taking this 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 blood it's a method of just spending more money on pager systems just profiteering to our base real reason for doing is boston his own support from his japanese base to look tough for against a stance against north korea i think perhaps the us is in the beginning was to keep protection away from defense cuts they had the sequester and there is threats that defense spending was going to be cut they used north korea as the convenient bogeyman and they went a little too far and now they're having to backpedal because north korea is frightened and taking these threats very seriously 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 kim jong un and they needed to use this situation and maybe lift some of the sanctions are things that they can 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 now being ensconced in the ecuadorian embassy over nine months hasn't stopped the songes whistle blowing mission he's on via 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. examines what is in the documents which you saw nj 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 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 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 general 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. speak 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 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 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. and just to update you 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 been since the declassified the data gathered in project k. used to be virtually inaccessible hidden between secrecy and complexities june in the science described it thanks to wiki leaks it is now easily available we'll show you how easy it will go to his website all you have to do is click on the public library of u.s. diplomacy to start anything you wish and then type in what you want to search for we're going to china type in chile instantly thousands of documents will come up.

and you can then refine that search by choosing handling restrictions notice which stands for new distribution and that brings up issues like arm sales military systems and trainings and i give you an example easy these days plenty to get stuck into you meanwhile wiki leaks spokesman christine and tell kevin i enjoy. how the us should be grateful for the great job they've done because it 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 to extremely difficult to approach them and assess them in their current format on the in the national archives so what we did was to regard it as a gather with help 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 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 is washington talk i'm certain of their neighbors well i haven't heard of any response from the earth or here in washington of course they should be very pleased that we are doing the job that they should be doing themselves so maybe you should apply for some funds and continue to work for the u.s. government and they should actually focus on what engineers reporting over a concert of continuing of this unprecedented. attempt to prosecute julian assigns and all the members of that we can use team. and you can keep across we can leaks truth seeking mission at r.t. dot com there we explain why during the sun considers project k. the most significant geo political publication that has ever existed and you can also join our online discussion plus truth on trial ongoing coverage online of the

british struggle of bradley manning who exposed military secrets to wiki leaks and could face twenty years in jail a. quick look at some other world news now a man has gone on a deadly shooting rampage near the serbian capital thirteen people are thought to have died including a child after the killings the man apparently then tried to shoot himself and his wife they are both now in hospital emergency services say he's a sixty year old man from a village fifty kilometers south of belgrade. syria has rejected the u.n. 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 banki moon is 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 un backed iraqi nuclear weapons accusations which concluded that the in the tories and merican led

invasion. and u.s. officials have begun notifying the lawyers of hunger striking prisoners in guantanamo bay if their clients are being force fed inmates at the tories u.s. prison have been refusing food for over two months putting their lives at risk in a defiant protest officials say forty one inmates are involved but their lawyers insist it is over three times that number. now fascism stark role in world history is doing little to hold back a new generation of black shirts initially the government tried to hand out radical elements but the far right still managing to draw support from economically embattled italians nationwide is that he 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 past dissociation that comes to mind is mostly me world war two but one of the fascists initially refused to have any association with the macabre parts. she's more foremost fascism is a way to govern the economy and the country so we cannot be responsible for what was happening some seventy 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 zones where in europe most supporters of the movement cite the economy corruption and unemployment

as the main reasons for joining the party. the main idea italy's sovereignty we're against pan-european tendencies we're against a dictatorial europe because for example 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 want to say because a 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 who believe. most italians secretly support their goals and share their ideals but there are simply too afraid to voice such views turn into submission there's been a growing interest in the last few years as

a far right policy we didn't get many votes during the election us but we now have a chance to make t.v. appearances so more people can find out about our ideas and what we have to offer. a far right resurgence in 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. grow. the washing up next the kaiser report. you know i always try to stay clear of falling into the trap of fake outrage on this program people love to come on t.v. and be angry over this and angry over that just to fill air time but trust me seeing obama signing into law with that wacky lobster like way he has of writing

the bill marked the month santo protection act well it does not put a smile on my face that's for sure not only does this bill effectively bar federal courts from being able to halt the sale or planting of g.m.o. seeds and crops no matter what the health concerns are according to ib times but the bill was also written by senator roy blunt who's gotten sixty four thousand dollars for his political campaign pain from the g o giant monsanto itself so that's what it costs to allow companies to possibly poison millions if not all americans with risky and proven g.m.o. technology sixty four thousand dollars that's not even enough to buy a decent house sixty four thousand dollars is chump change well citizens of america now you know how much your lives are worth in washington but that's just my opinion . i.

thought international airport in the very heart of moscow. max kaiser this is the kaiser reporting no this past week in the u.k. the chancellor of the exchequer george osborne suggested that welfare benefits were in some way responsible for turning a man into a mass murdering child killer who killed six of his children by arson this episode that has reported we have.