secret partnership reportedly been working closely with u.s. intelligence. public show of indignation over america. faces stiff questions over just how involved. in the. program. the. war the us invasion of iraq is accused of causing an epidemic of birth defects . could be much worse than. the son of egypt's ousted president tells me that the only way to change the country. was truly.

thank you for joining us here on our. worldwide headlines germany has been working hand in glove with the u.s. spy agency who sweeping global surveillance was revealed to the world by edward snowden according to news magazine both germany's foreign and domestic intelligence have been using n.s.a. spy programs hasn't stopped from demanding that washington explain its snooping activities in europe. the story. 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 dish big news magazine that well they were far more involved than she let on that indeed in fact they quote in the dish

legal 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. de germany's foreign security service that he showed an eagerness under desire to cooperate turns out that germany actually operated one of the main parts of the the expansive spying program that's 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. connections were being monitored every month by the spying program here in germany alone so it was quite an extensive program this news comes out is quite an 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 set certainly to be a major issue in the buildup 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 let on before. that is part of all of our boarding right now meanwhile angela merkel says america needs time for examination before it offers its explanation for spying in and on europe but that's being seen as an attempt to calm the initial outrage triggered by reports that e.u.

citizens were being monitored let's recall some of those quotes here on r.t. which show suggest there's been a bit of a u. turn in the rhetoric for example bucking is not what friends do that's according to merkel slamming u.s. actions as cold war tactics and one german m.e.p. even compared this to the infamous secret police in east germany and the justice minister said the reports are simply too alarming to be ignored now m i five a former m i five agent annie masha and she says the inconsistency between germany's official and the surveillance stance and its own operations will trigger much more anger and an awful lot more questions. we have a situation in germany where because of their historic experiences with the stop in world war two in the stars in east germany they put in place a very strong cast iron constitution to protect people from invasion that they're pretty pink 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 like laws of trying to be imposed on germany where you know things like her facial recognition google facebook 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 spying so i think the hypocrisy is is 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. well illegal phone tapping also led to the recent resignation of luxembourg prime minister we analyze that right now on the web site r t dot com. the n.s.a. surveillance private fiber optic cables would actually serve around ninety nine percent of the world's entire internet and phone traffic by those details on a reaction also on the web site right down. right to see. first strike. and i would think the church.

orders would. be in the. so good to have you with us around r.t. today and more than a decade after u.s. led forces invaded iraq there was a legacy of horrific birth defects scientists blame the weapons being used by the u.s. military now the town of fallujah is the best known example the number of affected bear is fourteen times higher than in russia of course that's where the atomic bomb was dropped at the end of the second world war but artie's loser caffein off i was the first to take an in-depth look at the lesser known extent of the human suffering in the town of nashua. not just 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 you were no hook the noose around mount to his office and then to a taxi. but for his mother 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 they're 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 basra 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 iraq 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 in the midst of a growing health catastrophe. after the iraq war rates of cancer leukemia and birth defects rose dramatically the areas affected by fighting so the biggest increases we believe it's because of weapons like depleted uranium and hospitals here cancer is more common than the flu. depleted uranium or d. you cuts through armor like a hot knife 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 anomie tanks but a new report funded by the norwegian government found that 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 have 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 they're 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 suffer in silence. count was a rocky has lost their lives in the decade 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 if the living victims of that war's toxic like to see who are still paying the price this accounting of our team not just iraq. doctors also depleted uranium weapons of course at the spread of disease is not previously seen in iraq and iraqi

government statistics show that cancer rates as well have also been rising steadily since the first gulf war of one nine hundred ninety one lucy catherine off i spoke to my colleague much tressa saying that it's still very difficult to gauge at 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've 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 discouraged 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 have over essentially told to sit by you know it's a really sad story and we spoke to dr chris busby use researched the effects of depleted uranium extensively he told us what he learned after visiting fallujah so you have the civilians that have been affected. we went to we found the levels of concern about formation and cancer and we looked at the parents of the children

with congenital malformation and we did analysis of their head to see what was inside their head that might be geno toxic might be the sort of thing that can cause congenital malformation and the only thing that we found was you raney and we found your brain even the hair of the mothers of the children with congenital malformation is now that we know that you are a new ms you know toxic that it causes these these levels of genetic damage and because of that it also causes cancer so you can work slowly back from that towards your brain you know the only source of uranium was the use by the american forces the american led forces of uranium weapons not only depleted uranium weapons but as we later found slightly enriched uranium weapons which we believe they were using in order to cover their tracks so i think we have more or less proved these facts. are as a result of the use during the two wars of uranium and the particles that the uranium weapons produced by still ahead for you here on our t.v. talk about back tracking on syria we look at how britain's leader has changed his

rhetoric on the conflict and now admitting to much extremism among the opposition. also ahead for you here on the sea from a golden sands resort to the depths of poverty and we travel to its residents say they've been forgotten and left to rot by the british government all in its time of austerity that's coming up in just a few. most interested in the medical situation. this protected a little. in this city and. other states and in egypt. he told. language will not advance. what news programs and documentaries and

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witness. thanks for joining us here in r t i'm rule re sushi in moscow britons are prime minister changing his tune on syria though david cameron still says that he fully supports the opposition now admitting there's too much extremism among the rebels that's quite a change from november two thousand and eleven about a half year after the whole syrian conflict began back then he called for more engagement with the rebels the following year he called for more international aid to put the syrian government under pressure now fast forward

a year he was still vehemently anti assad 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 he abandoned his plans to arm the fighters now the government was strongly considering it even lobbying the e.u. to horridly ended arms embargo and this brings us to the president of the syrian government advancing on rebel militias the official opposition failing to unite and cameron describing the situation as a stalemate political analyst. explain what could be behind the u.k. leaders are suddenly shifting position. i told him he will have difficulty getting. approval because there is quite a lot of i need to eat after iraq with this coalition partners the liberal democrats are remarks are all supporting we have been very comical pillion is not supporting brock you just being realized in the west that no matter. how

much there are assurances from western governments that. only the good guys will get help in terms of our supplies but that's not the case on the ground and saudi arabia is where you are worried about the rise of slamming fundamentalism in syria because jordan and some of their quite close a minute the united states and britain indirectly by ad turkey are helping the syrian rebels that has not stopped. order from syria now to egypt where stability remains elusive and still remains are locked in a state of political turmoil and violence six people killed and several militant attacks in the sinai peninsula that's right along egypt's border with israel and gaza dozens were injured in clashes between islamist supporters and opponents of

the ousted president morsi that happened in the town of so as meanwhile despite political divisions egypt has started to amend its constitution which is needed for elections next year but it is a must have rejected the cabinet with his supporters vowing to continue mass protests. sophie shevardnadze had the chance to speak to the son of the deposed president morsi to find out what exactly went wrong when his father was in power and what charges egypt may have now for any long lasting peace. the harmony lost his rule was democratic he was 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 and 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 normal settle it through elections rather than tanks is there any true democracy we are no army commander discounts the will of the people and illegally deposes the president who is actually a crime committed by the egyptian military. and you can see the exclusive interview with the son of the deposed egyptian leader in about ten minutes time right here on r.t. for the meantime though off to the world up there we go some of the global headlines for you brief and to china first we're now confirmed reports of fifty three people dead after a five point nine magnitude earthquake in the western part of china three hundred thirty seven injured though the local media fearing that number will rise as the search for survivors gets under way and there are still several villages that remain cut off the quake was considered shallow striking at about twenty kilometers

below the surface towns in the remote mountainous area sustained serious damage in the quake and subsequent flooding and mudslides there i suppose the ones for the good news is that the gansu province is one of the least populated in the entire country. at least one hundred people injured in bahrain during the authorities crackdown on protests 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 valve to continue protests in the face of the government's iron fist policies he said that recent reports about an attack on a shia mosque had been fabricated in order to tarnish the protesters image of the oil rich state has been struggling to quell unrest since two thousand and eleven and the protest movement has not been put off at all by the imprisonment of hundreds of its members and the deaths of more than eight. to iraq where a suicide bomber has attacked an army convoy in the city of mosul killing at least

twenty five a most of the casualties are soldiers but there are also some civilians among the dead meanwhile the security forces say they foiled an attack on the abu ghraib prison just on the outskirts of the capital baghdad. and easy you foreign ministers meet later to decide whether to blacklist has as a terrorist group britain accused it of being behind last year's attack on a bus carrying israelis and ball garia up to now brussels has resisted pressure from washington and israel to put the shia muslim groups military wing on the terrorism list and many are 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 now in the syrian conflict with militants fighting on the side of. now once a much loved holiday resort town or just a short drive from london j.

wick is now one of europe's most deprived areas it's home to junkies dealers and generations of families with no hope of employment. visited the forgotten seaside. 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 in the technologies. of the country where you think in the end i don't think it's the third party polls in the whole of you. 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 were so cheap people started living here all year round it's in a flood 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 e.c.u. which we really don't want. a junkie up. something because not throat and then it all gets blown no poor 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 append on welfare payments there isn't the word you say so if they've been used to just get enough of a moaning and sitting around. doing according to one local counsellor it's. westminster's idleness that's brought on j. wicks to mine is whatever problems we've got down there i think it's politically all of them to blame for whatever party they are it's something that 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 and with the government counting pennies in austerity britain many here say that finale the chances of the town's redevelopment washing away with the time had. r t j wick sands essex. all right up next as promised here at a very honest talking to the son of egypt's ousted president mohamed morsi what about the prospects facing his father and that of the country live from moscow.

i've talked with many times about the absurd things going on all around us like kids being thrown out of school because they had a gun that shoots bubbles or various people getting punished for their tweets and facebook posts it's all really abstract it's hard to truly get angry over until you see the results or playing a stupid video game just carter sarcastically said to someone who called him crazy oh yeah i'm real messed up in the head i'm going to go shoot a bunch of kids at school l.o.l. j.k. and for this bit of sarcasm he spent quite some time awaiting trial in a texas prison not only that according to his father he was being attacked brutally on many occasions leading to both to pull concussions and black eyes and in the end

he had to be thrown into solitary confinement for his own good you see this is the ugly reality of those who fought the bad side of political correctness you know i don't talk about these stories just for fun the main thing that i'd like to say is that it wasn't for some anonymous coward in canada turning him into the authorities for doing absolutely nothing this young man would not have to live with the memory and possible injuries from numerous assaults to the anonymous canadian who turned him in i sarcastically wish you a horrible fate but you probably get me arrested for it so just say that it's people like you who allow tyranny to exist but that's just my opinion. perhaps if. if. if. if.

if. live. leak. please. i believe. i've seen the perception of the cross many times it doesn't matter if there's snow a heat wave or hail stones from people keep on going but i don't expect a.