the look of an international airport in the very heart of moscow. when we reach must to the second biggest city in iraq it has been locked down by the army. the previous night two bombs went off in the suit. i have to negotiate with the military chiefs for three hours before they let me in. across what appears to be a dead city and yet today mosul is in party mode. my name is after and about i'm a law student today is a festival of university day that's why we can see all the troops they're here to protect us. the situation is very difficult the country is undergoing a wave of anonymous attacks and assassination of my dream is quite simple i just

want to live in an iraq that's safe and pete it's a magnificent country mustn't forget that it was once respectfully known as mesopotamia the land between two rivers i dream of peace. but peace seems impossible. the americans have gone but now kurds shias and sunnis battle for control of the city even the mosques are under military protection the internet in killing goes on in the name of allah. a leave muscle with no regrets. this road fraught with danger can also hold certain surprises and. stops to help a friend even in iraq one can run out of petrol. it's hilarious we have the world's second biggest oil reserves and were short of petrol and gas. were reduced to filling up on the black market at exorbitant prices. common sense would suggest that petrol was available in quantity and for. perhaps not free but not too

expensive anyway and what john. as soon as we arrive on the outskirts of tikrit saddam hussein's former stronghold where arrested by the police i have the feeling we were expected. after a few hours of questioning were put under house arrest in a hotel and forbidden from going out. and the situation eases the following afternoon when we're granted two hours of freedom but we're still under close surveillance. the next man who joins us in the taxi is in mourning his name's feel he's

a journalist and he lost his best friends just two days ago. but god will save iraq . sorry. he had to do it they want to make iraq a wretched country at the nice be. a glow in the assassinate the best among us the terrorist who kills a journalist like my colleague at the news channel or who kills a religious man behind an academic or teacher certainly doesn't do it for religious reasons it's obvious he does it mostly for money because our religion does not tolerate all these crimes the only motive for these crimes is money and they're ordered from outside to kill our best people that any of us. in the city center the mosque still bears the name of the man who built it down with sam i'm. come to pay a final homage to his murdered friend. on april second two thousand and twelve.

a holiday inn a journalist for a local t.v. station was killed instantly when his car exploded. down. a relaxing evening along the banks of the tigris overseen by the palace of the local hero sadam. saddam was always surrounded by members of his own tribe and many here miss the man who built a sunni state much to their advantage. they came in just for the americans didn't come here to look for weapons of mass destruction nor to hunt down certain are saying they came to rob us and to kill us ation iraq was a unified country but at the moment when they arrived as the americans that triggered divisions by creating ethnic conflicts just you know this very well. they destroyed everything and then they left but they don't know but in reality they're

still here they make people think they've gone but they're still present their aim is to create discord in iraq with all my other self. as we leave tikrit we come to a village the heart of saddam hussein's kingdom where he was finally caught. on december fourteenth two thousand and three saddam was captured at dawn in his hideout in a farmyard a miserable rattle two meters underground. disheveled and distraught he surrendered to the american forces. in his possession were two kalashnikovs and seven hundred fifty thousand dollars.

now there are those taxis a gas guzzler and we need more petrol. but it was here. we seek out the black market the power level business which fills the coffers of a few politicians civil servants and terrorist groups to. the oil money benefits everyone apart from the iraqi people. from all parts. of. the temperature hits more than forty degrees on the machines a cool down with a hose. for the men it's time to wash and pray before sitting down for a meal. that surprised by my presence but soon opened up. for the sunny custom as the whole

affair was an american manipulation. movement the greek word plays a key role in the arab world and. the americans used the country to trap saddam of like them fearing i mean how did before they set the bait up and he took it it was a prearranged ambush. it's time to leave and head for lucia khaled doesn't like stopping for too long. kidnappings are frequent here and for the criminal gangs everyone has a price probably including me. the killing in the kidnappings may be motivated by political or religious convictions but increasingly simply for profit. i've lost count of the checkbook. and so along the way but the controls this

morning seem interminable. i don't know who this fee for victory sign is aimed at as we finally enter the ravaged city of fallujah. joe was the scene of one of the most violent american offensives of the. g.i. summerlee killed youngsters and whole families here any time last korea collision of a. pair of blue eyes and caused a lot of fatalities. is the most ravaged city in iraq of them annoying but i guess that's the america that. the heat is unbearable and motor is overheating the local grocer helpless to cool

it. he's a man driven by anger he experienced the battle of fallujah at first hand and how hard it was watch i would have the are you call that democracy now is quite simply about killing and stealing our wealth our lands with burnt from the effects of the white phosphorous bombs and now our children are gone disfigured. heads are not what they are so beloved all the god will be with us going see the hospitals and you'll see mothers throwing away their babies deformed by all the chemical weapons on the early it all could do if there's justice in the world bush will have to answer for his war crimes and crimes against humanity he claimed iraq had weapons of mass destruction but where were they these weapons. before let me although i do know that there was a killer using white phosphorous bomb while the mamma said i'm not even the mosque was saved from his barbarity when i look at the ruined minarik well i'm not that's bush's democracy to judge holier. what about the other was it the idea that.

on november seventh two thousand and four a deluge of iron and fire rained down on the city of two hundred mosques had to die it was the last stronghold for the al qaeda mujahedeen. twelve thousand marines three hundred tanks and one hundred also helicopters were launched against villages . the biggest urban battle in iraq was underway. after. the american victory was total the casualty figures speak for themselves one hundred american soldiers were killed and on the iraqi side it's estimated there were between four and five thousand victims most of them civilians.

the battle left a city in ruins where death continue to take its toll. and their offensive it's thought the u.s. troops used white phosphorous bombs and depleted uranium weapons banned by all international conventions. set out of our new passenger is not administrator at the general hospital. since the battle of fallujah ended has kept records of the children born with congenital malformation. for him there's no doubt the americans were responsible for this tragedy.

for me the administrator's office becomes an empty chamber of horrors. the war is far from over in fact it's still going on for the stigmata rivera and they're only in two thousand and five we know to a spectacular increase in genetic malformations a new born babies how large the. voters are you show a tiny part of the reality just for the month of january we recorded forty three cases. more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the

world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations or the day.

the good international at the very heart of moscow. the manhunt continues while police tracked down the second suspect of the boston marathon attack after a stick up at a local convenience store the search has spread from the west of boston to

watertown where residents are told to stay indoors more on the massive manhunt ahead. plus the media has come into contact with the people related to the suspects it looks like a dividing line where the father and mother professed in a sense of the of the sons while the uncle wants the surviving suspect to turn himself in their stories coming up. and the video of an epic explosion in texas continues to go viral now news has come out about the history of the fertilizer plant and how such an explosion could occur we'll have a report from the scene later in the show. it's friday april nineteenth five pm in washington d.c. i'm maggie lopez and you are watching r.t. well begin we begin tonight in boston where overnight the scene turned deadly less than twenty four hours after the f.b.i. or.