as for the wonders of the mass destruction songs large losses does not work to the u.s. soldier who pulled the star-spangled banner over the iconic statue of saddam hussein is. a decade after the fall of baghdad. meanwhile ordinary iraqis a struggle to cope with sectarian violence political instability economic woes and often mob aapl weapons unleashed by the u.s. military also ahead. the president controls passed easily shows the past controls the future wiki leaks publishers over one point seven million u.s. diplomatic records are from the kissinger air revealing washington's positive involvement with former dictatorships and showing its present day policies in a new light.

international news a commentary and analysis and reports of this is r.t. deadly suicide bombings and political uncertainty are now the realities of everyday life for millions of iraqis but it's something feel of them imagined when they were chairing the symbolic toppling of saddam hussein's statue in baghdad a decade ago artie's marina part and i caught up with a u.s. soldier who played a key part in the historic moment he says the reason for invading iraq don't 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 about how you welcome ten years have passed since that that that moment where you essentially became a symbol for the u.s. occupation and invasion in iraq you were twenty three at the time when you climb that statue what you know about the iraq war now that you do know that all are me when i know that all those nasa turn years longer than we expected all those 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 propre thing to do as 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 suit as the symbol was there's.

no more reasons or the reason why we didn't know it was for us we would have been in iraq for all of them all. through my father got to bury the old and i would be going to the want to go home to found thousands of parents most of whom have seen our flood for so long the reason we do just to show any kind of sense we want to push on a country. which you know about us foreign policy now. to know that you know not to be told she. is because times are hard or something. because that has just come out so that the public will go to war. to 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 is 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 i mean you

know it's where we go once we're there you know we're going to follow on or buddy thinking the war was for him 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 out today still no weapons to be found we don't know be what we're through is through. free a country of a dictator yes but that just don't was reason that there's a lot of dictators and a rule that has to be taken out to hope that i would was killed by the reason i look for the right reasons and because the how can i not in a way. to reach a. conclusion is now worth justified. thank you very much for your time. after crippling the infrastructure of iraq

during the invasion the us went on to spend tens of billions of dollars on reconstruction efforts but today life for iraq is a daily struggle and washington admitting that it cannot account for a large share of the rebuilding funds now meanwhile the scars left by america's tools of destruction are clear to see the list of ammunition included include the cluster bombs which scatter hundreds of small deadly explosive when detonated and now the use of also depleted uranium in american shells and white phosphorus in no palm like bombs are dropped and for loser in two thousand and four were among the most controversial. by easy says the use of such weapons a less severe and last thing effects on the communities you may find some of the following images we're about to show you disturbing. it's clear that though the u.s. spoke of their help provided to iraq after the invasion notably reconstruction of 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 an effect here is environment climate and water resources things that occurred in one thousand nine hundred one and then in two thousand and three are true catastrophe types of munitions were used dispenser weapons 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 when world health organization reports on the internet a logical monitoring held on the international level of radioactive contamination of southern central and northern areas of iraq and despite repeated calls to

reports published by iraqi scientists the us turned a blind eye on the issue. the us led invasion set a dangerous a president and demonstrated how brutal military might i cannot be stopped by any less of forces that's according to international law professor. please 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 to maintain their impunity by staying above the law and criticize you know there's like 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 the city of kirkuk has become a hotbed of instability in post saddam iraq and i. have enough reports now some locals say they have laid to dictate to has been replaced by a great afia of the unknown. but. 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 cat why a symbol of the country's most intractable was 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 kook 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 and 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 continue 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. after the city without the help of a military escort residents here say that attacks have happened 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 when the 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 when a bomb blast went off injuring his leg for him daily life has become a painful struggle or so by the end of the movie 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 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 but. 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. .

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things will say with us here on our team. ride trapped in their could during the embassy for over nine months about the self wanting to blow the lid on global political julian assange has released over one point seven million u.s. diplomatic cables from the one nine hundred seventy s. which he has dubbed the most significant geopolitical publications ever but a boy has been examining leagues bigot's released today. well into 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 present controls past 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 scientists they invent a chaise chile the jointer ruled. that all known to have committed a calling crimes with the support of the american administration and that's 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 in a separate official now so many critics that's one line that will speak volumes about us foreign policy 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 is already a scandal in india over the release of the new cables as the late prime minister rajiv gandhi may have been a middle man 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's another very big scandal where there are unconfirmed reports that unreleased cables are going to reveal that call build the current foreign minister of sweden was in fact an informant just cia from the nineteen seventies for many people the way in which they've 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. now the formally declassified a day later however used to be virtually in the accessible hidden between secrecy and complexity as a julian assange describes it but thanks to we get leaks it is now a click away the organization spokesman chris inhofe and soon told our it is kevin irwin that the us is should be thankful 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 excuse 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 rates and truly important to have resulting from two million christian what kind of response to make spectrum 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 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 in supporting over a concert of continuing of this unprecedented. attempt to prosecute julian assad's and all the members of that weakens team. meanwhile critics have us led to we are

going softer with a kissinger cables saying that the dated records are not much of a league but as one of the babies r t contributor afshin rattansi explains that 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 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 squawk 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 correctly 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 the 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. i don't r.t. dot com right now we all screen you to share your thoughts on wiki leaks the so-called kissinger files go online and tell us what you think of the revelations it will make any difference here what you've been saying so far the biggest response and it's from those who say that the latest batch of published cables will reveal more dirty secrets behind you is politics that sixty one percent of you there this hour exactly a quarter of you believe it simply confirms that all countries have something to

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a different angle to the story. here. the spanish to find out more visit actuality. in italy fascism seems to be experiencing a resurgence a decade decades after the end of the second world war far right groups are once again looking for a part of the country's decision making process it's a situation that's been aggravated by the country's ongoing political and economic crisis are going to school experience. this is the house of italy's modern day fastest and imposing building in rome it stood empty until ten years ago members of the cousin 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 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 macabre past. she's more foremost fascism as 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 i don't know moment to get another main idea italy's sovereignty we're against pan-european tendencies we're

against a dictatorial europe because for example because we don't want the production of italian girls 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. main as a historian i can say such movements gained popularity during the crisis but i want to say because the pound is incredibly close to their percentage during the elections it was not even one percent but today's low numbers aren't discouraging the movement's leaders. most italians support their goals and share their ideals but they're simply too afraid to voice such views turn into social there's been a growing interest in the last few years as a far right party and we didn't get many votes during the election but we now have a chance to make t.v. appearances so people can find out about our ideas and what we have to watch. the

far right resurgence of a country with a troubling fascist history it's now up to these political leaders to ask whether they are the ones pushing people towards extremist ideas not out of rebellion or ignorance but out of desperation. grow. a cypress i struggled with of the terms of its ten billion euro bailout another dead stricken country is reportedly on the verge of becoming the sixth euro zone member to be rescued to talk more about to this possibility i'm not joined in the studio by katie pilgrim from our chief business in our news editor. katie i just want to just start with you on this side of things like seem to be getting worse in terms of slovenia the o.e.c.d. just released us through this economic report tell us a little bit about what it is that this. is all about the banking system suring are and the fact that they don't have the money to recapitalize it let me just tell you

they're saying that they need one point three billion dollars in order to be able to do this they don't have that money they know that's three percent of that g.d.p. their economy actually shrank by two point one percent just last year that gives you an idea of how fragile the situation is at the moment and they're not just dealing with a fragile banking system they've also got unemployment which doubled recently they've also got the welfare system that needs overriding and plenty of other problems just being the eurozone members just having this money flooded out that they didn't know how to contend with at the time and they've just got these large debts these toxic loans to contend with but i'm. we keep hearing things like this massive debts all these debts are coming from somewhere who's to blame are we talking about the state is to blame or is it the banking sector once again well there's a lot of problems in the country i mean one of the problems with the banking the housing bubble so a lot of apartments are left completely empty because nobody purchased them the same happened in in spain and so because what i suppose you know yeah yeah exactly

so that's a big problem as well and as far as the market is concerned. it's already priced in pretty much because we know with the ball because they're now at the same price as what you would pay for spanish all these peripheral countries that are in trouble in the markets the traders the investors they're already receiving these problems they're really. ok let me let me just talk to you i will decide i will say you know i keep hearing what katie is saying she's talking about i mean problem and she's talking about banking sector she's talking about the bubble i thinking did you see this happen a couple of well you know i presume wasn't everybody going hold all it's interesting isn't it yeah let me let me put it put it this way if i had a hundred thousand sitting in a slovenian bank account i know hundred thousand euro i'd be lucky man but if i had it i'd be heading for the cash machine with a big bag because what we're seeing right now in my opinion is the same old systematic problems of the euro zone they said they bit off more than they could chew they flooded markets with easy credit yeah and now despite the protests of

brussels that each case is a one off you know we'll deal with this one there you know that they want to they won't admit the mistakes what we're seeing is the same thing over and over again the local banking elites and banking sector is being blamed suddenly they roll out the law that it's corrupt they didn't say they are going to join the euro zone in two thousand and seven but it is now yeah what we're seeing is. some would say that what we're seeing is just a new form of colonialism where a periphery is being colonized by a core except at this time debt is the kind of numbers and trinkets certainly what is what is what is the o.e.c.d. to do we. what other measures that you think that might be think we're thinking about putting the same something pulled with cypress they did say it was a one all thing that it wasn't going to do this throughout the point it's happening again they said it was one off look it's deisel boom time in my opinion in my opinion mr tyson statements will forever haunt him. so he's already. be rigorous

as they call it austerity package. the most vulnerable in society as usual have been targeted some education has been targeted nursing parental parental allowances have been targeted the people who are most vulnerable in a situation like this and the people who are probably encouraged to take out loans from the banks that are now going down the swanny it's going to be the people i know the market will be looking at this very closely we have one second look how you just leave this want to tell you that this is what they plan to do they plan to form a state on debt consolidation we spray simply means that in all these unpaid lies he's talked into a fog bank saying we're coming in the bank through everything's fine when it's not really an excuse the phrase kicking the can down the road again so you can get a lot that's going to be a lot of talk with this but i'm going to have to cut it right big guy because i've just run out of time but we're not going to go to one of our she's a special documentary is just a watching us.