you tell me don't was for either one of them mass destruction burn so long as one's losses does not work to the u.s. soldier who pulled the star-spangled banner over the hour on a guess that he'll saddam hussein speaks to our a decade after the fall of baghdad . made wallowed in there iraqis a struggle to cope with sectarian violence political instability economic woes and they optimised off the weapons unleashed by the woods military also. controls the present controls. and he shows the controls the future of wiki leaks the publishers over one point seven million u.s. diplomatic records are from the kissinger arrow revealing washington's past involvement with former dictatorships and showing its present day policies of a new light.

as five pm here in the russian capital you're watching our live with me on with a deadly suicide bombings and political uncertainty and now the realities of everyday life for millions of iraqis but it's something few of them imagined when they were cheering the symbolic toppling of saddam hussein's statue in baghdad a decade ago i just learned about my own caught up with the u.s. soldier who played a key part in the historic moment he says are the reasons for invading iraq dawn to justify the lives lost. 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 that all those nice and ten 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 that it was the pro-create thing to do us 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. maybe you know iraqi civil war suit as the symbol was. no but

you know my reasons or the reason why we didn't know it was for us really would have been in iraq for all of them all. through my father got to bury the old and i will be going to rule them all to go home to i found i was with one of those who have seen our to flood for so long the reason we do just to show any kind of sense of want to push on a country is just want to spur them on what you know about us foreign policy now that we didn't know that we're no we're not to be told she will have this because times are hard or something. the tallest man who has just come out so the public will go to war. to you know be able to control the oil without a region of course not just is going to come out and and how many people are going to sign up to risk their lives was actually exactly where to most every day we do what we're told and. we hope that you know this you know this right says our

maintenance we're going 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 to gain a foothold here it's in which he was a region and i don't believe. you tell me that it was for you to love isn't that mass destruction souls lives lost is does not work that robson all today there was still no weapons to be found you know it will be worth it it was to. free a country of a dictator yes but that just i was on reason that there's a lot of dictators in the rules that used 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 in a way. it would be to say. to resist no worth justify. it or chen thank you very much for your time. after crippling the infrastructure of iraq during the invasion the u.s.

went on to spend tens of billions of dollars on reconstruction efforts but today live for a rock eases the daily struggle and washington admits that it cannot account for a large share of the rebuilding funds meanwhile of the scars left by america's tools of destruction not clear to see the list of munitions includes cluster bombs which scatter hundreds of small deadly explosives when detonated the use of depleted uranium in american shells and white phosphorus in no plant like bombs dropped on for loser in two thousand and four were just among the most controversial and octo mom by caesar's the use of such weapons a live severe and lost in effects you may find some of the following images disturbing. it's clear that though the u.s. folk 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 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 and all types of munitions were used including dispenser weapons boss prison 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 in world health organization reports on the internet radiological monitoring held on the international level of radioactive contamination of southern central and in the northern areas of iraq and despite repeated calls and all the reports published by

iraqi scientists the u.s. turned a blind eye on the issue. from all on the anniversary we're not joined now by human rights lawyer and international law professor curtis doebbler. iraq was invaded and the devastated under what turned out to be a false a pretext will anyone ever be held accountable. well one would hope so it takes sometimes international law takes a long time to hold people accountable but as you've indicated in not only you but as the secretary general of the united nations has indicated as several different international bodies who have reviewed the matter in fact as every international. a warrior of any credibility that has reviewed an independence that has reviewed the matter has seen there was a severe and serious violation of international law committed by the invasion of iraq on false pretenses and we hope that international law ventura lee will hold

some of those people accountable as you may know some steps have been taken in that direction to try to prosecute some of those people but it is taking a long time because there are some great vested interests behind. the action that took place often we hear wasn't government very quick to call ahead to two full floor and regimes to be prosecuted for war crimes like the same be done in relations to the u.s. and its allies well you're absolutely right one of the things that i think is absolutely vital for us to reiterate and to ensure the integrity of the rule of law is that we punish the most powerful actors when they violate the law doesn't help if people are running around saying look we're the example to the world in terms of development in terms of our military strategies but we can violate the law with impunity that sends a message to everybody else that that's what they should try to strive to achieve and i hope that one day there will be accountability not only to the individuals who were responsible for starting the aggression against the iraqi people but also

to the countries that were responsible but intel now unfortunately these countries have maintained their impunity by staying above the law and criticize you know there is but maintaining their own impunity when they do the same things that they have used force and other to take action against smaller less powerful countries for doing what was in that trial and execution of saddam hussein illegitimate. well as you may know i was one of the lawyers of the iraqi president said and not only my own view on that which was well known that the trial was complete violation of the right to fair trial but we brought two cases where the same case they should say to the u.n. working group on arbitrated tension and that working group twice in a period of one year determined that almost every aspect of fair trial under article fourteen of the international covenant was simply the rights that provides the basic rules for

a fair trial almost every aspect of that article was violated nevertheless the american authorities that it was mainly the american authorities went ahead and allowed the execution of the iraqi president i think that will go down as one of the most unfortunate abuses of international justice that has ever taken place and i hope that some of the people responsible for that also will be prosecuted and we know than the names of those people some of them now practicing law some of them in high level positions but those people committed a very serious violation of international humanitarian law by willfully carrying out a unfair trial against a prisoner of war what do you think were the underlying reasons for the nation of iraq. well we've heard many reasons but i think really the general reason is that there were a very few countries who thought that they were so powerful that they could decide

to exercise their foreign relations through the use of force this is something that was outlawed almost a hundred years ago in one thousand twenty eight one thousand twenty nine the international community including the united states entered into a treaty called the kellogg brian paddick named after two foreign ministers and that treaty said that states no longer will use force in their foreign relations with each other this was a reversal of that principle and a reversal of course of the principle in the u.n. charter that prohibits the use of force by one country against a political independence or territorial independence of another country mr curtis doebbler professor of international law and human rights lawyer talking to us giving us an insight on this tenth anniversary of iraq by the city of kirkuk has become a hotbed of instability in post saddam iraq and as archie's that is the capital of

reports now some locals say they feel that a dictator has been replaced by a great afia of the unknown. 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 into a kook. this oil rich city has been described as a white a symbol of the country's most intractable 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 household 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 kirkuk 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 cable access 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 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 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 long time a bomb blast went off injuring his leg for him daily life has become a painful struggle to supply them with. i guess what benefit did the your bring democracy only explosions shootings and kidnap people should feel free to go out

and come back safely where is that a job 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 both the. 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. your group. and so i had for you this i was sensational a history lesson from the world's top was still good oh well we delve into the nearly two million diplomatic cables published by getting up front which put

america's foreign policy will be as pop under the spotlight coming. well. technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future of covered.

internationally and in the very heart of moscow. you're watching our teen trapped in the aca dorian embassy for over nine months but still fighting to blow the lid on global politics juliana sons has released over one point seven million u.s. diplomatic cables from the seventy's which has been dubbed the most significant a geopolitical publication adam pally booker has been examining we can exhibit this release to date. 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 he 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 genter 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 cypriot official now so many critics that's one line that will speak volumes about u.s. foreign policy and we've already seen reports actually that site wiki leaks saying that the vatican may have collaborated with the u.s. 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 on just 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 of sweden was in fact an informant for the cia from the nineteen seventies for many people the way in which they revealed the jew ality 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 formally declassify data however used to be virtually inaccessible hidden between secrecy and complexity. described it but then so we get leaks it is now a click away the organization spokesman chris and puffins and told our genes cabin

know when that the year was it should be thankful for the great job they've done. because he 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 except stream it difficult to approach them and assess them in their current format 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 and extremely important to have results in from two million christine 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 concerned about our 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 from the u.s. government and they should actually focus on what engineers are pouring over a concert of containing this unprecedented relents is an attempt to prosecute julian assad's and all the members of that we can use team meanwhile critics have slept a week at least for going soft or what they consider a cable saying that the dated records are not much of a leak but as a london based r.t. contributor actually read times he explains the publication could have a major impact. these are incredibly relevant cables they weren't able to be searched and the mainstream media doesn't like what wiki leaks is doing which is dedicated as far as. anyone interested in journalism i think would say is the powerless against the powerful one doesn't have to doubt why the united states doesn't want these cables searchable because they detail very clearly

a horrific time in u.s. foreign policy these are stories that reverberate even today and if we do what we have to do is look at egypt for instance because the ramadan more than the seventy three kissinger's role in trying to spark that off to try and destroy arab unity and we're living with those consequences today project k. is hardly going to cause is it a reaction like the outcry that sparked the collateral murder video showing the u.s. helicopter attacking civilians there in iraq i would actually just greatly there we can't tell whether it'll have the same impact as the so-called collateral murder video because there will be research as out there who knows unemployed journalists out there will be able to find out stories and correlate with facts that come out in these cable releases with other facts to reveal other elements of u.s. foreign policy that has to do we didn't know. and. right now we're asking you to share your thoughts on a weekly legal so called the kissinger files go online and tell us all whether you

think that the revelations will make any difference right let's take a look at what you've been saying so far the biggest response at sixty one percent there says that say the latest batch of populist cables will reveal more dirty secrets behind you was politics this hour exactly a quarter of you now believe it simply confirms that all countries have something to hide while a percent of you they think that publication is being blown out of proportion just just to get attention and a minority believe that we are trying to dupe the public with information r.t. dog com is where we need your votes ahead. right also on the inside as on the well come predictions will air travelers assigned to say passengers should brace themselves for shopping increase and quite turbulent explain why. catching a gaggle more want to deal is

a red handed seattle police decided to let it slide and return the confiscated drugs why not go i want to have a r.t. dot com. we speak your language i mean some of the worn out of the. programs and documentaries in spanish what matters to you. was a little too much of angles to the story. here. the spanish foreign visit i too am a dud. the head of the united nations ban ki moon says any wrong moves could make the situation on the korean peninsula spiral out of control this comes as north korea tells all foreign workers and tourists in the neighboring south that they should evacuate just in case a nuclear war breaks out analysts said don't believe the communist state will actually attack but the u.s.

is pressing ahead with its military buildup in the pacific japan has placed a battery of missile interceptors in central tokyo to guard against a possible rocket test by north korea meanwhile pyongyang house pulled out its workers from a joint industrial zone run together with sole breadwinner for thousands of other north citizens south korea has tried to defuse the situation saying that the door for dialogue is still open. but in other news the israeli prime minister says he will welcome any initiatives put forward by washington to revive peace talks with the palestinians the pleasure came during benjamin netanyahu is meeting with u.s. secretary of state john kerry in jerusalem israel settlement construction really is jerusalem remains a few stumbling block in negotiations that have been largely frozen since the end of two thousand and eight. the funeral of british conservative icon margaret thatcher will be held on wednesday good servant to seventeenth on april

the country's first and only female prime minister who held the office from one thousand seven hundred one thousand nine hundred ninety died at the age of eighty seven after suffering a stroke a much admired but also highly divisive or. her death has been met with mixed reactions in the u.k. she will be best remembered by her nickname the iron lady a term coined by soviet journalist for her tough and uncompromising style. working as a low paid kleeneze shouldn't be a life in danger in occupation but it's just that for the palestinian women who we follow next they make me a daily commute to jerusalem. 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 saying obama signing into law with that wacky lobster like way he has of writing the bill marked the month santa protection act well 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 fricken 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.

do know that seals our lives. in eternal silence the owner of the invisible. every day is a struggle. for our children sleep soundly at night. we are palestinian women working in israel. we've done more for our kids than ours has the means. we are phantoms in this life.