for a culture of addict earlier but there was more reserve that was a lot of pictures of the road that used to be taken 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 details as a treat. but the still feels remote with escalating sectarian violence and fighting for resources who report from koch who call one of iraq's most dangerous places where people live in constant fear of attacks. we can't leave so publishers over a million a year as dot and diplomatic cables from the kissinger era in whistleblowers julian a son's latest project to open up global geopolitics. you're watching r.t. live from moscow with me to say let's take

a look at this hour as the international news iraq is marking ten years a 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 attribute to america's presence in the country after a massive loss of lives and no weapons of mass destruction found was it all worth it arches marina and 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 you know about the iraq war now that you know that all army when i know those turned years longer than we expected. to still struggling to rebuild their country to have a stable government 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 it was the pro-create thing to do us as a foreigner coming in invading a country climbing the statue of a man who was the leader of that country and wrapping the face an american flag. maybe you know iraqi civil war soon as the symbol was there's. no

you know my reasons are the reason why we didn't know it was for us we would have been in iraq for all of them all. the fire got to bury the old and we are going to the want to go home from those reasons for it's most who have seen our to fly for so long the reason we do just to show any kind of sense of want to push on a country was more disposed to what you know about us foreign policy now that we didn't know that we know not to be told she. was because times are hard or something. because that has just come out so that the public will go to war. through you know your child well when i reach out of course nothing is going to come out and and how many people are going to sign up to risk their lives as akeley exactly where to most every day we do what we're told and. we hold 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 what he thinks the war was for i personally think it was for. us to know how good a foothold there to receive was a region you know i don't believe. you tell me that it was for you to love isn't that mass destruction so rules lives losses does not work that robs and all hell today there was still no weapons to be found you don't know be worth it it was through. for your country of a dictator yes but that was done was reason that there's a lot of dictators in the rules that used to be taken out to hope that i would was killed by reason i look for the right reasons and because i how can i not know where. or who to say. to resist now we're just. at what chen thank you very much for your time. iraq war veteran emily yates of told r.t. that washington's main reasons for going into the conflict well 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 knowing the reports and 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. 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. the war affectively was for oil because big oil especially american oil. has really ever really been the

main picture. the stability promised by nato forces is no way to be seen in places like attacks and bombings have increased in the oil rich city center all as make and political tension over resources in the disputed area many wrong keys as they still feel unsafe and a country freed from saddam's dictatorship as new 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 kirkuk. this oil rich city has been described as a long line a symbol of 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. road blocks 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 continued to

go about their business as normal vendors seemed 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 a toxic 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 for years 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 mahmoud who says that a decade of war has ruined iraq he happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong

time when a bomb blast went off injuring his leg for him daily life has become a painful struggle for the. benefit did the work 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 our 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 they simply want the peace of mind of knowing they can go out and return to their loved ones alive. r.t. iraq. the us attempted to rebuild iraq following the true thousand and three

invasion spending billions of dollars on various reconstruction projects this after tons were destroyed at its hands a jury the invasion as the us military didn't stop short of using irregular weapons let's just take a look at what i'm talking about right now they're listening to the weapons like cluster bombs and munitions which scatter hundreds of smaller deadly explosives when fired powerful bunker buster bombs were also dropped on baghdad you radium depleted uranium in empty tank shells was also used by the u.s. troops. while traces of white phosphorus was also find in iraq. now the palm like bombs were dropped on fallujah in november of two thousand and four it burns and knelt down and flesh on contact while i labeled those causes a slow death delta omagh by sea says that the us use of these weapons has led to civil left-wing impact. it's clear that though the us 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 the area's environment climate and water resources things that occurred in one nine hundred ninety 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 you can look up human rights watch and

world health organization reports on the internet radiological monitoring 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. we can league says rolling up more revelations when we come back to the two million diplomatic cables published by julian assange which offer a glimpse into america's foreign policy of india's paused thank you for that.

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thanks for staying with us here on r.t. being it's gone saying they could dorian embassy saw over nine months as dobbs. was a blowing mission he's unveiled what's called project k. on the weekend its website containing over one point seven million u.s. diplomatic cables from the seventy's what it will be examine is what's in the documents which a songe calls the most significant geo political publications at. 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 played 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 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 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. sudanese foreign minister is

denying reports are linking him to the cia saying that they are part of a smear campaign which will quickly fall apart since it was declassified the data gathered in project k. used to be virtually inaccessible hidden between secrecy and complexity as julian assange described it thanks to weaken leaks it's now easily available now all this it was just a click away we're going to show you just how you can access this from your computer now let's just say you take a keyword for example let's take saddam as an example of a keyword you can type it up in there you go now remember this is like data one point seven almost two million of information so you come up with all kinds of different information so if you want to be a little bit specific you can of course go down and click whatever you want to do let's just say for instance we want something that is classified and secretive documents for instance there you can say you can you can put it dayton

and whatever you've put in the keyword you've put in the exact date that you've put in during the seventy's a period or come up some of it is eyes only some of it is classified but what this does really is that it just brings all that information all those documents in one search area where you can do that at home and find whatever you're looking for for instance really is about yugoslavia mediating between iraq and the u.s. all sorts of things you can do it at home from your computer or even. get involved you can go to r.t. dot com of course where we give you a full on of how to do this now we can exert spokesman kristinn hrafnsson told kevin irwin 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 only 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 merge them with the two hundred fifty thousand u.s. diplomatic cables that we published under the cable gates. extremely important to have results in from two million christian what kind of response from expect from washington emerge 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 concerned about neighbors 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 we should apply for some funds and continue to work for the us government and they should actually focus so much attention in supporting over a concert of continuing of this unprecedented relents is an attempt to prosecute julian assange has and all the members of that we can use team so is we dealing is

going solves it with a kissinger files or is it a breakthrough revelation here is what you're telling us at r.d. dot com right so far the biggest response is from those who say the latest batch of our published cables will reveal more dirty secrets behind us politics that only fifty one percent of you the twenty percent of you say simply confirms all countries have dogs secrets about a tenth of you think we can exist trying to deceive people with fakes while the remaining few of you add five percent to think of the whole publication is being blown out of proportion just to get attention paid to r.t. dot com and tell us what you think. some of the rowing the world the main news right now here on r g north korea warning foreigners evacuated from neighboring south korea in case of war breaks out the latest escalation of threats are from that country in japan when one has deployed missile interceptors around

tokyo as a precaution against possible north korean police tick missile tests the u.s. early obviates a military presence in the region causing. the rhetoric in what is building into one of the worst crisis in the area since the korean war in one thousand fifty three. a sixty year old man has gone on a deadly shooting rampage in a village just south of the serbian capital all of his thirteen victims were neighbors and relatives and one was a young child the suspect then attempted to shoot himself and his wife they are now both in hospital the police say the man had no prior criminal record and that the motive for the killing is unclear. u.s. officials have begun notifying the lawyers of hunger striking prisoners in guantanamo bay as to whether their clients are being force fed inmates at the dettori is detention camp or have been refusing food for over two months putting

their lives at risk in a defined protests officials say forty two inmates are now involved but the lawyers insist the real figure is more than three times higher than hunger strike it began after detainees korans and personal items were allegedly missed help. fascisms adult role in world history is doing little to hold back a new generation of black shirts in italy the government is trying to hound out radical elements but the far right still managing to draw support from economically in battle the italians nationwide as rina girlish go as plays. 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 it stirs memory and conjures images of a bleak past this is a scene that comes to mind is mostly me. or two but one of the fascists initially refused to have any association with the macabre past. she's more and 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 zones where 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. 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 wouldn't 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 movements leaders. who believe most italians secretly support their goals and share their ideals but they are simply too afraid to voice such views. there's been a growing interest in the last few years as a far right party 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 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. grow. up next to every martin examines or some of the problems of the us media is a go in theory in a breaking. 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 sing 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 unproven 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 .

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