as for no one has done mass destruction so long as one's losses does not work in the us a soldier who pulled the star-spangled banner over the iconic statue of saddam hussein speaks to our t. a decade after the fall of baghdad. meanwhile ordinary iraqis a struggle to cope with sick terror and violence political instability economic woes and the aftermath of the weapons unleashed by the u.s. military also coming up. in the polls the president controls the past and he's controls the past controls the future week he leaves a publishers' over one point seven million u.s. diplomatic records from the kissinger era really washington's past involvement with dictatorships and this showing its present day policies in a new light. you're

watching already see it live from the russian a capital with me to bomb would say it's good to have you company with us this evening. deadly suicide bombings and political uncertainty and 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 arches worrying about my i met the u.s. soldier who played a key part in the historic moment he says are the reasons 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 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 are me when i know those ten years longer than we expected. there's 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 propre 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 suit as the symbol was. no but

you know my reasons or the reason why we didn't know it was for us we were there in iraq for all of them all. the father got to bury the whole thing that we've been going to the want to go home to found thousands of parents most of them have seen our to fly for so long the reason we do just to show any kind of something like a parishioner country is just more disposable what you know about us foreign policy now that we didn't know that we know not to be told she will have this because times are hard or something. because that has just come out some of the republicans were going to war. to you know be able to control the oil without a region of course not just going to come out and and how many people are going to sign up to risk their lives is actually exactly where most every day we do what we're told and. we hold you know this you know this right says our maintenance

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 not give a foothold here to mislead 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 is does not work that robson all today there was still no weapons to be found you don't know b. what worth it was through. for a country of a dictator yes but that was done was all reason there's a lot of dictators and the rules that used to be taken out to hoped i would was killed by reason i look for the right reasons and because the how can i not in a way. it would be to say. to resist now we're justified. thank you very much for your. 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 iraqis is a daily struggle and washington admits that it cannot account for a large share of the rebuilding funds now meanwhile the scars left by america's the tools of destructions are cleared to see the list of munitions include cluster bombs which scatter hundreds of small deadly explosives when detonated the use of a depleted uranium in american shells and white phosphorus in palm like bombs dropped on of illusia in two thousand and four were among the most controversial but the doctor almost says the use of such weapons left a severe and lasting effects you may also find some of the following images in this report disturbing. 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 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 in the plane dispenser weapons boss prism munitions depleted uranium and chemical weapons all these types of weapons were used intentionally and on a mass scale in iraq and 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 with radioactive contamination of southern central

and in the northern areas of iraq and despite repeated calls to reports published by iraqi scientists the us turned a blind eye on the issue. and to national law professor curtis says the u.s. led invasion set a dangerous precedent. if people are running around saying look we're the example to the world in terms of development in terms our military strategies that 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 hot bed of instability in post saddam iraq and as our season is a calf enough reports now some locals will say their fear of the late it take to has been replaced by a great afia of the unknown. you have or 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. 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 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. 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. after the city without the help of a military escort residents here say that attacks could happen at any time in any place in fact it's not really safe to stay here for too long so let's get inside. we need car want to his family there kurds who say they're happy that saddam is gone but their fear of political repression has been replaced by fear of the unknown. you know. we don't know who the enemy is or women next bomb will go off but it's a daily fears we've got used to it i do small things to feel safer like driving with all the car windows down that way if there's a blast at least the glass won't hurt us. such precautions didn't help sixty year old fellow 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 if so by the end of the. harvest what benefit did the your bring democracy only explosions shootings and kidnappings people should feel free to go out and come back safely where is that i can leave but there's no guarantee i'll come back a lot of the soldiers. no it's not about the sectarian differences unfortunately it's 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 fall all they simply want the peace of mind of knowing they can go out and return to their loved ones alive. r.t. here kook iraq.

right still ahead for you this hour here on our day a sensational history lesson from the world's top with the blow up we delve into the nearly two million diplomatic cables are published by get out which put america's foreign policy i'll give pause on to the spotlight. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future of covered.

internationally and in the very heart of moscow. you're watching our team trapped in the ecuadorian embassy for over nine months but still fighting to blow the lid on global politics jenna sons has released a one point seven million u.s. diplomatic cables from the one nine hundred seventy s.

which he has dubbed the most significant geopolitical publication ever what a boy has been examining we can leagues a big us release today. according to julian the sun the us administration can't be trusted with controlling its own history so he's had to come along and do this it 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 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 in the chaise 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 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 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 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 just cia from the nineteen seventies for many people the way in which they've revealed the jew ality 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 but normally declassified data

however used to be virtually inaccessible hidden between secrecy and complexity as a son she described it but then so we can leave it is mel a click away the organization spokesman christine huffington told r.t. is kevin when that the u.s. 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 form of the only year 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 resulted in full information chris 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 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 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 or sons' and other members of that we can use team critics have fled to weaken leagues for going flop to where they can't seem to cables are saying that the data direct is not much of a leak but as london based r.t. contributor actually went on the explain 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 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 the reaction. cry that sparked the collateral murder video showing the u.s. helicopter attacking civilians in iraq i would actually just great you know we can't tell whether it'll have the same impact on street so-called collateral murder video because there will be research out there who is 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. right on our next story i knew banking crisis may be festering in the euro zone despite the slovenian prime minister denying that the country would seek a bailout to talk more about this possibility and i'm joined in the studio by katie bill them from the r.t. business as well as our news editor i will crotty let me start here with now with you katie i mean you know we've heard the slovenia is under pressure there what is going on ok we have been told to come up with one point three billion dollars in order to sort out their banking crisis that they did with my plan that actually creates a three percent of their g.d.p. their economy already a contract to buy two percent last year so just gives you an idea and probably thoughtful members are going to get. an idea through. the economy the situation is that the my name is the banking sector and the problem is that being told you need to recapitalize your banks was exactly what cyprus was told the thing is they don't

have the money to do that they can't afford to do that let me just jump on what yes it is i will we just saw a couple of weeks ago cyprus was we were almost don't see it was like a waltz we didn't know where which way was going to go i was a good and loving what do you make of this woman sees about a million measures looks familiar to. me thinks the lady doth protest too much it might apply here i think you know what i'm seeing is the same old same old from the troika from brussels the same kind of mismanagement i tell you if i had a hundred thousand sitting in this living in a bank account right now i'd be pretty happy man but i'd be heading down to the cash machine with a big bag making so let me ask you this what is the always cd really say what's this report say. the o.e.c.d. is basically said to be slovenian banking system has misread the cost of recapitalizing so there was there's no way they came to give his one point three billion dollars i think it is quite yeah yeah yeah now the o.e.c.d.

is committed has basically said. this could be a whole hell of a lot more and it's this fits the bill it fits the bill of the of all of the pain as we've seen with argentina with cyprus either with with spain seen with portugal that the powers that be don't want to. go back in their faces now so everything's fine everything's fine everything's fine until of course it's too late and then we enter a situation like cyprus where suddenly there's a lockdown on privately held accounts there's an unprecedented rate going on while at the same time brussels mandarins are saying no no this was a one off we're never going to this again if they were going to be really was there and we will also is this going to be a lot of it katie what can you tell me in terms of what. who's to blame if the banking sector is it is it this day i mean well a lot of me listening is about a country not a private ties that bind to the three top. the biggest one thing quite a lot of this money these toxic loans and the answer to all of this is to actually just put it into a bad bank which they're calling state run debt consolidation agency so you take it

all out of the big banks so that they can then start lending to businesses and be completely clean and transparent and just put it in the bank so. yeah yeah all right these are the same guys the o.e.c.d. these are the same guys that are in april two thousand and eight so the irish banking system quote unquote was well capitalized and profitable so we can never be too sure about how actually how efficient these guys card so i want to know what from both of you what happens if four is lead here now together with some of the other members who still want to join the e.u. it is the so why business move k.d. i mean politically i or should they be going in with all this debt around them look the old the old message is the true message it's very clear that brussels bit off more than it could chew would establish the euro project you can you can say that yes there were conditions under which. europe how to respond to talking about the you know the fall of the berlin wall the reunification of germany interestingly

enough helmut kohl has an interview former german chancellor helmut kohl today or game two thousand and two was published today in which he admitted to behaving in a dictatorial manner to have the euro project backed in germany when it was being put there so i think i think we need to look at the. fundamental principle that the euro zone project was dreamed up by a bunch of people who probably didn't know what they were doing and they're still trying to convince us that it makes sense just give him ok even for let's look at what the you know what the market is really their biggest judges and one of the best i can tell you that the bones are basically saying no thank you very much and they're actually performing the same as a licensed by the peripheral countries in their above five percent which is dangerous i inside that means investors traders so already priced and we here is bailout if we look. bones tend to be happening let me just let me just jump back to you in terms of this the planning. the i.m.f.

has said that if the the you know the lawmakers continue to push measures on the economic deal for these countries on the economic depression they're not going nowhere they all what they're doing just putting so much pressure on the economy instead of the actual problem drastically overestimated the impact of a star exactly exactly. as an economic measure as an economic drastically underestimated the impact of the sturdy. dangerously explosive social device i think people are suffering across this continent and those guys have not woken up to that problem. well we've heard. the needs overriding on the fact that all of these countries had money chucked at them when they were joined money they can afford to know what to do with katie pilgrim our chief business. correspondent of course and news editor i have a quote here in the city just just sharing ideas in just bouncing off what's going

on in the eurozone right now of course you can see it with your thoughts and archie dot com but up next a martin who's examining some of the problems the u.s. media is going through in breaking this that that's it for me. so. 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 .

the good international and in the very heart of moscow. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i had luck i got so many i mean the town that i'm still really messed up. in we're all for it so personally apologize the. worst you're going to. live out sort of a. radio guy in fort lauderdale minestrone office. quote for a budget did you ever seen anything like this on top. of top guys and i mean martin just breaking the set what would you say if i told

you that scientists just discovered a new drug treatment that kills every type of cancer it comes in contact with and all started here's ago when irving weissman a biologist at stanford medical school discovered a protein called seeding forty seven which produce in cancer cells at high levels this protein is the way that cancer is able to trick our bodies as it circulates through the blood system now a new drug that was visibility blocks this. from tricking your immune system it allows your body to attack the invading cancer cells even though they've only use it on my so far it's consistently reduced cancerous tumors in several instances as a radical to them all together and thankfully the stanford team was just awarded a twenty million dollars grant to begin human tests look i don't need to tell you this but cancer is a growing epidemic in this country with twenty five percent of deaths attributed to it so i think it's time to start spending less money on death and destruction fighting a war on terror and more money on research and development fighting the war on cancer.