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good morning from. eight am on monday this is with me thank you for joining us today more than a decade after u.s. led forces invaded iraq there is a legacy of. the weapons used by the u.s. military for example. the number affected is fourteen times. the end of the second world war but all. the other cities are suffering. one hundred sixty kilometers south of baghdad the sacred shiite city is known for its holy shrines and is surrounded by one of the largest cemeteries in the world some of the heaviest fighting of the iraq war took place amid these graves its legacy still haunts the residents it was born with severe birth defects he's only

eight months old but the doctors don't expect him to live past his first birthday. i felt dizzy or no heard the news i ran out to his office in the taxi. but for his mother layla there's no escaping the reality her son has a nervous system disorder and his muscles are slowly wasting away. it's a recurring nightmare for leila and her husband three of their children were also born with congenital deformity is none of them survived and while they don't have proof they believe radioactive ammunition used by american forces during the war is to blame the rule isn't over yet if the americans are gone but with suffering from the consequences. spiralling numbers of birth defects and high miscarriage rates have also been recorded in fallujah and where american and british forces used

heavy munitions at the start of the war but our visit to knowledge off revealed that the phenomenon may be far more widespread in the law than previously known dr sundin's and as one of the few scientists who's been documenting cancer and birth defects here and she says as in the midst of a growing health catastrophe. after the iraq war rates of cancer leukemia and birth defects rose dramatically none of the areas affected by fighting so the biggest increases we believe it's because of the legal weapons leg depleted uranium and the hospitals here cancer is more common than the flu. depleted uranium or d u cuts through armor like a hot knife does through butter more than four hundred tons of it is estimated to have been used in the two iraq wars the vast majority by u.s. forces the pentagon did not respond to our request for comment but the military generally denies any link between exposure and cancer or birth defects it also says do you weapons are only used to penetrate enemy tanks but

a new report funded by the norwegian government found the deal was used against civilian targets in populated areas including not jobs in two thousand and three it notes a lack of transparency by coalition forces over the use of depleted uranium but describes one incident in najaf where a bradley armored fighting vehicle for three hundred five d.-u. rounds in a single engagement the heavy fighting may be over but in nearly every street we visited in this neighborhood multiple cases of cancer and children with deformities no one knows what's making people here sick the families want answers and they want help. is old enough for school but has to be cared for as if he's a toddler he can't walk he can't speak he can't even go to the bathroom on his own use of brother is healthy but the family has buried two other children one severely deformed the other with a hole in her spine like many of the couples in this city are simply too afraid to

have another baby and they're left feeling totally abandoned no one cares about what's happening to the other families in this area even our own government doesn't do anything to help what can we do because our fate is a fate that many and not just suffer in silence. countless iraq is lost their lives in the decades since the u.s. led invasion all across the country their memories are honored in cemeteries like this one the dead may be the most visible reminder of the human cost of the war but it's the living victims of that war's toxic legacy who are still paying the price the captain of our team iraq. doctors also failed at that depleted uranium weapons of course the spread of diseases not previously seen in iraq and iraqi government stats show that cancer rates to they've been steadily rising ever since the first gulf war back in one nine hundred ninety one but also who cast me off i told my colleague mattresses that it's still difficult to gauge the full extent of these

problems. we've heard about the depleted uranium the birth defect story coming out of fallujah for example because there's been several t.v. pieces and print reports talking about and showing in fact we hear in r.t.f. showed the birth defects in the city of fallujah when we were completely stunned by is the fact that this is happening in many more cities that have been previously reported including knowledge of where we visited when we showed our filming her and i on the ground in the city literally every single residential street that we visited in several neighborhoods we found multiple cases of families who had children who were ill families who had lost children had to burry children families who had many relatives who were suffering from cancer and while these people can't necessarily prove that it was depleted uranium or are the causes of these diseases this is something that they say has risen dramatically in the years since the invasion how widespread is it i mean how far across the country the problem is that

nobody knows exactly and that's because there haven't been large scale studies done we haven't seen a big teams of international doctors for example going in and sort of looking at different cities comparing the number of birth defect cases between the different cities there really simply are no reliable statistics for birth defects in iraq and so nobody can really say exactly how big this problem is and the big problem with with the iraqi government as well one of the surprising things that we found in speaking to the doctors on the ground is they say that they reportedly have been discarded discouraged by the government from talking out openly about this to the press in fact the biologist that we had spoken to who was researching the issue in the city had to give us the interview in the privacy of her home on the roof there instead of in her laboratory she said that there is an active sort of push by the government perhaps not to embarrass the coalition forces not to really talk about this issue which we were really quite surprised by we tried to visit the hospital

in najaf that was dealing with. some of the victims some of the deformed birth defect children they didn't let us come in they didn't let us film in fact they didn't even let us do interviews with the governor with the families or the doctors working there at all the iraqi officials certainly have not put in the resources that they could be we spoke to families in our jeff who said they've gone to local officials you know they've asked for help they are essentially told to sit by you know it's a really sad story thanks for joining us here in our to today germany has been working hand in glove with the u.s. spy agency is sweeping global surveillance was revealed to the world of course by edward snowden according to news magazine both germany's foreign and domestic intelligence have been using n.s.a. spy programs but i wouldn't stop the chancellor angela merkel from demanding that washington explain its snooping activities in europe let's get now more from peter all of a joining us live here in berlin good morning to you from moscow peter good to see you this morning as we know germany's been indignant over u.s.

surveillance of but now we're learning surprise surprise it was actually involved itself. well german chancellor angela merkel had to rigidly said that she only found out of the extent of the united states's spying programs through the media and it now comes out thanks to n.s.a. internal documents that have been reported by news magazine that well they were far more involved than they were letting on then she let on that and indeed in fact they quote in the dish beagle article the internal memos that say that there was a willingness to take risks and pursue new opportunities for cooperation with the u.s. that was shown by the german authorities they also were talking about the head of the b. n. d. germany's foreign security service that he showed an eagerness and a desire to cooperate well it turns out that germany actually operated one of the

main parts of the the expanse of spying program it was called x. keyscore program that basically anybody who they were looking into they could find out exactly what was being searched online by that particular person and it's estimated around five hundred million data connections were being monitored every month by by the spying program here in germany alone so it's quite an extensive program and it comes this news comes out is quite embarrassing time for german chancellor angela merkel there's an election coming up in september the involvement of germany in the n.s.a. spying program is being used extensively by the opposition and what this essentially means is that what mrs merkel was saying before she either. well she didn't know what her own security services were doing or that perhaps she has misled the german people in what she said by saying that well germany wasn't

involved so it's come out of quite an embarrassing time for her with the election coming up it's set certainly to be a major if. in the build up to that vote that takes place on the twenty second of september but germany it seems far more involved in the n.s.a. spying program than perhaps they were left on before but certainly astonishing stats are giving us the half a billion networks be monitored just incredible to see how those plans out live on r.t. here peter all of us thank you well anglo-american says america needs time for examination before it offers its explanation for spying in and on europe and that's being seen as an attempt to perhaps calm the initial outrage triggered by reports e.u. citizens were being monitored let's recall some quotes here on r.t. for example a bugging is not what friends do that's according to merkel slamming u.s. actions as cold war tactics though were one german m.p. even comparing this to the infamous secret police in east germany and the justice

minister saying as well the reports are very alarming for the former m i five agent annie mashaal and she says the inconsistency between germany's official and the surveillance stance and its own operations will trigger much anger and many more questions. we have a situation in germany where because of their historic experiences with the stop in world war two and the stars in east germany they put in place a very strong cast iron constitution to protect people from invasion that they're pretty spied on and this is what the germans have for decades taken for granted they have certain legal protections and we've seen this time and again when other european white list of tried to be imposed on germany where you know things like facial recognition date or on google face facebook have been banned in germany and yet the b.m.d. and even to intelligence agencies in germany have been doing this sort of spine so i think the hypocrisy it's quite astounding and it's a great deal of anger and questions right to how much the german government you

know that what was going on. more about the revelations of spying across europe at our website dot com including how illegal phone tapping led to the resignation of luxembourg's prime minister. and the n.s.a. surveillance using private a fiber optic cables which actually serve around ninety nine percent of the entire world's internet and phone traffic details analysis and a reaction this hour. backtracking on syria. look at how britain's leader has changed his rhetoric on the conflict admitting the votes are perhaps too much extremism among the opposition that's ahead for you shortly here on are. also ahead for you on the program from a golden sands resort to the depths of poverty we travel to j. wick where residents there say they've been forgotten and left to rot by the

british government in a time of austerity but also i was on the way here are you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't i'm sorry. welcome to the big picture. i've seen the perception of the cross many times it doesn't matter if there's snow a heat wave or hail stones people keep on going i don't expect anything just what i told myself i keep on going as long as my heart told me to that's all i wanted at the moment he had a hand send so mind she's saying i'm carrying these sayings on my shoulder.

do you want me to put a man in shared no that's fine a lot of people were so exhausted they could barely walk their feet hurt and some of them fainted who were evacuated three two wanted to keep going i don't know what tomorrow will bring. me speak your language. program see documentaries in arabic in school here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks about specific p.r.p. interviews intriguing stories for use. in trying.

to find out more visit our big teeth. he is coming to you live from moscow with me rory sushil let's turn our attention now to egypt where stability certainly remains elusive and it remains a looked as well in political turmoil and violence six people were killed in several militant attacks in the sinai peninsula in egypt borders with israel and gaza dozens were injured in clashes in the town of that's just north of the capital cairo and there were street battles between islamist supporters and opponents of the ousted president morsi both sides used molotov cocktails rocks and fired guns i mean while there despite political divisions egypt has started to amend its constitution she is needed before elections next year however islamists though have rejected the cabinet with its supporters vowing to continue mass protests sophie

shevardnadze had the chance to speak to the son of the deposed president morsi to find out exactly what went wrong when his father was in power and what chances egypt now has for peace. mohamed morsi is ruled democratic while going to democracy you have both the ruling regime and an opposition but the case of armed forces taking on a certain political stance is something unprecedented this is sort of a sure sign of the military takeover with all due respect there is no doubt morsi has a lot of supporters but in a very short period of time an overwhelming majority turns against him it's not about the military it's the people in a democracy so much political differences and confrontations are normally settle it through elections rather than tanks is there any true democracy we are an army commander discounts the will of the people and illegally deposes the president. who

is actually a crime committed by the egyptian military. you can see that full interview with the son of the deposed egyptian leader that's in about ten minutes time right here on r.t. . that means on the program here britain's prime ministers are changing his tune on syria david cameron said he still fully supports the opposition but admitted there is too much extremism among the rebels and that's quite a change from november two thousand and eleven about a half a year after the syrian conflict erupted back then he called for more game changing but not perhaps more engagement though with the rebels that is the following year he called for more international aid to put the syrian government under pressure fast forward a year he was still very mentally and but not so sure that arms shipments were perhaps the way forward and syria's top rebel commander has already accused the british prime minister of betrayal after here bandit has plans to arm his fighters

and the government was strongly considering it and lobbied the e.u. to end an arms embargo and this brings us to the present of the syrian government advancing on rebel militias the official opposition failing to unite cameron describing the situation as a stalemate a political analyst. explained what could be behind the u.k. leader's shifting position. at home he will have difficulty getting. through with. cars there is a lot of i need to eat after. this coalition partners the liberal democrats are remarks or do we hone their economic opinion is not. wrong just being realized in the west that no matter. how much there are sure instead from western governments that. only the good guys will get in terms of our

lives but that's not the case on the ground and saudi arabia is where you worried about the rise of islamic fundamentalism in syria because jordan and some of the white cloaks the minute the united states britain indelicately by you are helping the syrian rebels that has not stopped by to china we go now to crank up the r.t. world update where at least twenty people in confirmed dead after a five point nine magnitude earthquake hit western china and the three hundred reportedly injured at local media fear that number will rise with the search for survivors under way and the quake was shallow and struck twenty kilometers below the surface residents described shaking windows and swinging lights but little major damage or panic at the gansu province is one of the least populated in the

entire country. and to mexico at least seven people have been hurt after a huge oil pipeline exploded near mexico city and those injured were mostly police and firefighters responding to the resulting fire and the blast is believed to have been triggered by an illegal attempt to tap the pipe for fuel. at least one hundred people have been injured in bahrain during the regime's crackdown on protesters over the past three days of violence took place in several villages across the country amid growing unrest in the kingdom just a few days ago the opposition leader vowed to continue anti-government protests in the face of the government's policies he said that recent reports about an attack on a shia mosque had been fabricated to tarnish the protestors image and the oil rich state has been struggling to quell unrest since two thousand and eleven the protest movement has not been put off by the imprisonment of hundreds of its members and the deaths of more than eighty. e.u.

countries are deciding whether to blacklist hezbollah as a terrorist group britain accused it of being behind last year's attack on a bus carrying israelis in. brussels has resisted pressure from washington and israel to put the shia muslim groups military wing on the terrorism list many concerned about stoking tension in lebanon where hezbollah is an official part of the government but today's meeting of e.u. states is being held partly because hezbollah has become involved in the syrian conflict with militants fighting on the side of president assad. much loved they resort to just a short drive from london jaber kids now one of europe's most deprived areas is home to junkies their dealers and generations of families with no hope of employment. visited the forgotten. golden sands beach front property and just a stone's throw from london wish you were here we have been really completely

forgotten a lot of people may not be in jail because that's the last place to go belly there's no work for anybody and i think this is going to continue for the next at least twenty years what could fix the problems of today with money has been ranked at the bottom of the government's poverty index for england and wales for three years running it's a national embarrassment and. doing something about it we're trying to get into. the country where you think in the end i don't think it's the third party polls in the whole of you it. was once a proud holiday location for london's burgeoning middle class says the town was thought up as a holiday resort for city dwellers back in the one nine hundred twenty s. these are all meant to be summer houses but because rents was so cheap people started living here all year round it's in a flood risk zone which resulted in the government never investing any money into the area some parts of the town lacked tarmac roads street lighting or even

pavements some of the locals say the cheap rent and precarious location has attracted vulnerable families and social problems for free we got drunk which we really don't want. a junkie up. something because throat and then it all gets blown out. forty percent of residents are either disabled or have a health condition that makes it impossible to work which might be just as well seeing as there are no jobs going in the town the last few shops that were hit have been boarded up unemployment is rife in the town in fact sixty two percent of the people that live heads of pending welfare payments there isn't the work you say so if they've been used to just get enough of a moaning and sitting around that's who they're doing according to one local counsellor it's why. westminster's idleness that's brought on j. wicks to mine is whatever problems we've got down here i think it's politically all

of them to blame for whatever party they are it's something this they let happen is a dumping ground at the end of the day we've been the most deprived area now for three years not one penny of we've got to come in and help it with the government counting pennies in austerity britain many here say that financial the chances of the town's redevelopment washing away with the time polly boy r t j which sounds essex all i thank you for joining us this morning here in our after the break for you as promised our very own sophie shevardnadze talking to the son of egypt's ousted president mohamed morsi or the prospects facing his father and that of the entire country.

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hello welcome to this edition of sophie and co so shevardnadze egypt is at the

crossroads again with thousands in the streets to protest out single handed morsi the president only elected a year ago people are being killed or wounded hundreds arrested us they were muslim brotherhood and on state will fight to reinstate their deposed leader what are the chances for egypt to find these peace or does more of what nations spill for the sake of democracy. egypt is in turmoil once more division and economic disaster the military has its hands back on the reins of power after bringing down a democratically elected president yes the international community shrugs his shoulders as the fruit of egypt's young democracy is eaten by the army mohamed morsi is president no more a year of poor performance opens the door to change and further deepens polarized

politics in egypt but it wasn't all morsy schools would ghosts of dictatorship the value of the kings the muslim brotherhood is being edged what will it change. is egypt in danger of sliding into civil war. and our guest today is all somehow more see the son of the ousted president mohamed morsi it's great to have you on the show and thanks for agreeing to this interview so are you hiding what exactly are you fearing. i'm not hiding being among egypt's young revolutionaries since the twenty fifth of january two thousand and eleven today these young people came out to the country squares to defend the democratic path of the revolution i want to say this again and one of those people defending the cause of the january revolution and its achievements i'm out there on the streets with the others i think we need to keep the to.