at least sixteen people have been killed in clashes between hezbollah and of the syrian rebel forces in lebanon not far from the border with syria one member of hezbollah and at least fifteen rebels died in the violence has also been involved in a blockade of the syrian town of qusayr a key logistical and supply route for weapons being smuggled into the country. houses are being evacuated after a fire broke out following an explosion at a chemical plant in northern illinois in the united states local police report one man has been injured i wouldn't say smoke can be seen for nearly a mile while officials are worried about airborne chemicals there and explosion of a fertilizer plant in texas that left fifteen people dead and hundreds injured earlier in mid april. at least three people have died over the last couple of days at least eight more are missing on sunday as heavy rain across much of europe has led to flooding poland and bulgaria have experienced high water

levels homes have been evacuated across southern germany the czech republic and switzerland as rivers reach dangerously high levels there the czech capital prague is also on high alert as authorities fear a repeat of the catastrophic floods of august two thousand and two. coming up party takes an up close look at a war torn iraq through the window of a taxi that's after the break stay with us. technology innovation all the developments around russia we. covered. visiting the general hospital in

fallujah is like living it was a nightmare. children with two heads juma as well formations missing limbs and macao brain on bearable literally they say every family here is sheltering or hiding a deformed monstrous child. all of them. get away and the grandmother you know my daughter cries all day long it but she hopes to see her daughter get better. but. i deeply affected i leave the city with its newborn monsters. we head for baghdad on the banks of the tigris. to.

baghdad can be translated as the garden of peace. but it's a better fragile peace the patrols are iraqi wearing uniforms of blind by the u.s. the army is divided by political religious and tribal conflicts everyone fights for his own camp. the president is kurd the prime minister shia and the parliament is run by sunnis. in paradise square opposite the royal mosque stands a concrete pedestal. here once to the absolute symbol of power a statue of saddam hussein. on april ninth two thousand and three. into the ground of the united states believed to have won the will.

nine years have passed the square is empty and the city appears to be in a state of siege. oh is that our passenger alley theater director back from exile in paris waited for a long time to see his enemy fall and return to his native city. where i was thrown in prison and when i got out i was given five days to leave baghdad and iraq but that gave me to. put folly the combat continues. i do through theater that he hopes to win it is methodist to re-invest the public with a sense of resistance and a taste for life. i know that out. today i see a country filled with wasn't the overriding color in the city is khaki the color of soldiers but it was i see young people with no future men and women deprived of any

feeling of citizenship the grown people have forgotten their rights and their duties. as if they were lost but i completely lost. not. more time to be doing your shoulder bit more than that. in baghdad no one knows who the enemy is anymore sunni's she is islamists christians each with their armies and militia each fighting the other. nine out of us i know some short guys who joined al qaeda just to get some money. so out of the car then the model of several al qaeda gives them money whereas the government abandons them farther from jail for those. that paid to kill here on that floor so close. the show well so they've ruined a few. which is that lives and their families find out.

why for nothing goes. on october thirty first twenty ten a terrorist group claiming all kind of affiliation occupied the catholic cathedral in baghdad. five suicide bombers activated their explosive belts fifty eight people were killed. in nine years of occupation of civil and religious wars and attacks of cause more than one hundred ten thousand victims essentially civilians.

syria khaldiyeh and orthodox and armenian churches have become choice targets. al qaeda assassins and sunni and shia fanatics agree on nothing except on evicting the christians they accuse of being western crusaders. baghdad is a raising its illustrious christian past. checkpoints abound every hundred meters crossing baghdad is a permanent obstacle course. but i think iraq is a battlefield for a ray of foreign forces. iran supports the shia brothers while saudi arabia age there's the sunnis. and as for the month i live in al i don't hear a sunny district i finished it in two thousand and six i was all for. it was a. at least fifty rockets falling on us every day it never stopped. you know me

the streets were filled with corpses and there was fighting everywhere to show out i'm out of you know that i deserve a new the battle raged for seventy two hours you know. the army the militia everyone was functioning. i banged and bodies became prey fit to be devoured by stray dogs that my little girl saw dogs eating the dead which i had never seen before in my life packet which has left me just like the apathetic about. living in baghdad mean surviving attacks but it's also an everyday battle. in the capital of the world's third biggest oil producer the electricity system works for just a few hours a day. the best business in town is selling generators. for khaled my driver a visit to the barber after ten days on the road should be

a moment to relax a moment of peace but nothing is that simple. yes quite simply hell here sheer hell out of. sadness it's not a normal life like other people have around the world. may god act to improve things what do you say to the good of will know for sure god is good that. having. been. a school teacher she's invited us to dinner.

twenty years of war how have you got through it as a woman. i grew up in the mail on your head and how first the war with iran then the embargo and the two american intervention i saw one of them really a little but the first in one nine hundred ninety and the second in two thousand and three. for the iran war my brother was arrested and there was just my dad to take care of the family all those girls had no work my father ran a small business. we barely grown up when the embargo strangle the whole country can you imagine no fruit or vegetables meat we couldn't afford and fish even more so it's only today that i can buy but we lived in safety the women could move about without any problem we had peace but in poverty i think that the only thing that really done i want. to. come up with a sort of one of my wife is different but as we have guests i can drink we may be poor but we still have

a sense of hospitality. abdu is our a sunni and a shia from a rough couple today war and religion have also imposed boundaries on love. as the lights go out once again the neighborhoods back up generators take over i've . measured the. that is not one thing that we were hearing. on shia my husband a sunni must have had now after the war the two religions can't intermarry anymore and that's and it wasn't the case before and what was important was the people of the each other and what's the distinction between shia and sunni thingy it's shameful treating people this way in iraq while muslims there was. so what a muslim man asks for the hand of

a muslim woman according to islamic tradition my friend that's all but i think how it was at the end of the war that this division appears shia sunni. but yet now we've come to threats was headed how does a sunny day or an area that is that we're seeing as we look at that what if the alternative is to get divorced or dalek you know if you don't agree to get divorced you risk death you could think you're going to youngish if not in our neighborhood they shot a woman in front of her husband and children for the unique reason she was shia and he was sunni said that you know she. this morning i'm not just leaving baghdad i'm fleeing baghdad. but the city gates the soldier who checks our passports tells us yet another attack a scar to the capital. was. another

checkpoint on the road to babylon we present our passports and passes and i enter a shia country apprehensive. the sky is like twilight i feel like i'm wandering in the kingdom of the dead it's raining sand. prayers have punctuated each day on the road i sleep while he converses with his god. amidst the wind blown sand appears the mythical city of babylon. in his delusions of grandeur saddam hussein emerged himself to be its king the heir to throne there president of the iraqi republic saddam hussein in one nine hundred eighty eight

inaugurated the restored city of babylon first built by nebuchadnezzar between six o four and five sixty two b.c. . at the height of his power like the ancient kings before him said his palace in the heart of the legendary city. his tower of babel crashed down around him and the dust of pride and ambition. his memory has been left to the ravages of time and the insults of his survivors. the mission free accreditation free zones for judges free. range humans free risk free. to tide free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects and free media and dog hardy dot com. she

was looking for love and she found marriage she wanted children and now she has eleven. she's ok but as been several adult children her age i've a positive. my mom left me in the maternity home i had a disease so she gave me up. i'm a chevy cause of the future so nobody wanted to make friends with me it chased me spat on me and threw stones. my dream was to have parents. mom and dad. there aren't many people ready to take kids like this. they found a new kind of medicine they call it slow. please

don't follow my example you know it can be dangerous for your health. at the end of the road lies come the mecca of vatican and medina of the shia world . but something of god and other al qaeda is the real enemy of iraq and even of all the arab regions i don't believe several terrorist organizations have been exported by neighboring countries i don't know but they are responsible for so many victims since baghdad fell. you know at the end i would stress that most of the attacks have targeted the shia community came up just in line up the. pilgrims are well

protected here all the officers and soldiers a shia. several million faithful including many from iran come every year to visit the mosques in karbala a boon for the holy city. religion is a river of gold as the saying goes but we don't know what it's obvious that when a country's native sons defend it things go better than when they're always better than an occupier on. a sheet. an invader always has trouble understanding the country they occupy and as the air proverb says no one knows the roads of mecca better than its own inhabitants that shout it if i have it. this is. the main prayer takes place in the insane most. the interim sermons a political resonance and a broadcast throughout iraq and the shia world and.

the shias today are imposing their numbers and their power. and. the prayers always end with cries to the glory of the prophet hussein the son of ali allegedly designated by mohammed to be his own a successor you never heard that there was. a menu on under saddam a million shias were detained and many of them were assassinated and thrown into mass graves and not us and i myself your servant spent twelve years in iraqi jails about my family only received news of me one or two years after i was released. i was even afraid of my own brother i thought he was an officer who come to interrogate me yes we suffered and the prisons were filled with shias only when

you be. leaving kabbalah is like crossing a graveyard. everywhere all portrayed she amount has fallen for the glory of the prophet hussain mohammed saffi. good. morning and. a possible. from. on the baghdad bass run highway in the middle of the desert our faithful taxi finally gives up the ghost. i feel suddenly vulnerable alone in the wilderness.

as if by magic a man appears from the sands to help us out perhaps this is the renowned a desert hospitality. we had for a camp for the man who maintained the highway once they were all soldiers and saddam's army. when the americans came many deserted. him without knowing who we are to make room for us to share that meal. without a massive take iraqi army was hunger thirst and fatigue. remember your family was taken hostage a few deserted. you horrible new days when they called people who ran away they

were simply handled. i spent seven years in the army and it was very tough. in santa most days a soldier was paid two thousand dinos less than the bank he was carrying was worth we can definitely say we were really miserable. the highway splits the desert and on each side of the road to bask in the vast oil fields of rumaylah emotional. more than half of iraqi production is pumped from this burning desert a treasure chest within the sound. shell b.p. exxon mobil and the chinese cineplex of already got their hands on the bulk of it.

at last we reach bass from the euphrates on the tigris meet. travellers once called the city of venice of the south. who comes to kill us and destroy our country and good before we said it the americans but the americans have gone and now my general so who else is continuing the job of a that nobody knows of there's no work in the situation is unlivable i say yes it was better before. conversely if we talk about security and civic respect we can say it was a hundred percent better under saddam saramago today there's no respect for the citizens as if we were no longer men that's the truth that's honestly what i feel. we're less and less respected before an iraqi could walk by this head held high anywhere in the world and especially at home as long as the state was not affected

or undermined things have changed a lot i can tell you the situation was much better before. the venice of the self is awash with detritus of all kinds half of the inhabitants are unemployed it's a humanitarian and social disaster area. here we have absolutely nothing. where we going but at that event in this oil rich country we can't find work there this is how we live the children of this country why is it fair does god accept this master is in the middle of all the country's oil wealth it's like the mother of oil but he doesn't seem to gain from it the inhabitants are poor and the streets are filled with the unemployed and it.

was once one of the richest cities in iraq today it seems to have been forgotten by both god and mankind because of oil is cruel indeed. and yet in the heart of the shantytowns is always given freely. and sweet offering . by our government isn't he when it if the government doesn't take care of the poor and is only there to save itself until its own pockets i do expect things to change for the folk at above my head that no minister has taken the trouble to come and see us to ask how we survive or ask us if we need anything like that we have nobody to talk to.

and so since the americans left the poor in the path. well as join the militia and the terrorist groups who would least provide money and protection. everywhere in the city of portraits of the shia in my town saddam his radical troops feed on poverty. the road ends at our files on the banks of the persian gulf the end of our journey . this is the outback of all terminal rising from the water far from terrorist attacks and on a constant military surveillance where iraq's fortune oil flows in and out. the country's fortune and perhaps misfortune two. wars here have always been closed in

the same color black. and foul was at the mouth of the shuttle our best during where the tigris joins the euphrates forming the border with a ramp. on the iranian bank a gigantic portrait of the m.m. how many is there to talk to us a reminder that americans have gone leaving pandora's box wide open. when especially on me personally i never thought collaborated with the americans. which i would show i work i am and always have been a taxi driving us. i still can't cross the country north to south from south dakota and follow i go wherever i can find work and i don't hesitate god be praised

all i want to still live. twenty days on the road perhaps one hundred checkpoints. with my friend khaled and we've crossed a country which is officially no longer at war but where peace is not being restored a country divided by sectarian shia sunni and kurd communities a country where tara is a daily issue. from

zoho they'll be able so the manja kook muscle to create for. baghdad babilonia cabala far as i'll file we traveled a road where danger is ever present. khaled was under the protection of these god and me the haps of providence.

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