as daily violence in iraq a brings of the body count to record levels are to investigate another legacy of the u.s. invasion uranium contamination that's wrecking the lives of those torn off to the. a different army clashes with muslim brotherhood supporters as wyvil rallies are raised throughout the country leaving over eighty people date along the sun i love the military launches a crackdown on supposed extremists. a long delayed peace negotiations between israel and the palestinians are finally started to restart in washington on monday evening after prime minister netanyahu cabinet very soon release one hundred four palestinian prisoners. and the diplomatic wrangling over edward snowden takes a new twist as washington rules out the death penalty for the man whose expose it

spying secrets he's still stuck in trance and live at a moscow airport. oh . welcome to our d.m. to obama day with the week's top stories as well as today's. another surge of condit has brought to iraq with a two hundred twelve lives lost during the violence over the past seven days now in july alone a staggering eight hundred people were killed in the country that's become a breeding ground for terrorists since the u.s. led invasion a decade ago and the war has also left a disturbing legacy of contamination which results in birth defects artie's boosie calf enough investigates. 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 not hurt 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 you 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 the radioactive ammunition used by american forces during the

war is to blame the rule isn't over yet the americans are gone but with free from the consequence of. spiraling numbers of birth defects and high miscarriage rates have also been reported 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 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 start of the iraq war rates of cancer leukemia and birth defects rose dramatically in a job we believe is because of the illegal weapons like that we didn't hear any i'm at hospitals here cancer is more common than the flu. fifty did you or do you cut 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 requests 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 anime tanks but a new report funded by the norwegian government. was used against civilian targets in populated areas in it no scribes 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 spreader is healthy but the family has 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. help with 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 if the living victims of that war talk. still paying the price. iraq. that's a christmas tree has been one of the most outspoken scientists researching the impact of depleted uranium he described to r.t. what he discovered in the rocks was a take a listen 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 the head to see what was inside the head that might be geno toxic might be the sort of thing that could cause congenital malformation and the only thing that we found was you rainey and we found your brain even the hair of the mothers of the children with congenital malformations now that we know that you're 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 the only source of uranium was the use by the american forces american led forces of uranium weapons not only depleted uranium weapons as we later found slightly enriched uranium weapons which we believe they were using in order to cover their tracks. over three hundred egyptians are reported to have gathered to protest against both the muslim brotherhood and the military in the town of that follow special clashes in cairo that left over seventy dead supporters

of the also president mohamed morsi claimed another sixty people on life support after being deliberately targeted by troops artie's belt as the latest from cairo. i went back to the city in off the violence it ended and spoke to many of the eyewitnesses and also the medics running these very makeshift hospitals inside the city and speaking to eyewitnesses they told me that about a few hundred of them had decided to extend their sit him down the main road toward sequel to the bridge which is the main thoroughfare at about one o'clock we took in the morning at this point so security forces attempted to disperse them using take ass off to this they say they reported cartouche which is the pellets and also an off the bat they then were fired on with live ammunition which went on until nine o'clock in the morning leaving dozens dead speaking to the medics they said by about four five o'clock in the morning they started to get the bodies in with live

ammunition weans mostly to the chest neck and head they say implying this was the shoot to kill now this is the security forces for their part denying this the protests to say they were not on top of the ministry of interior said saturday evening that the protesters were armed and shot back at them including injuring several of the soldiers they maintain they did not fire on any protest is only used tear gas when it was in fact the protesters themselves because the most of the violence so we really don't have any confirmation of how this exactly started it's how the looking at the wounds of the people on the sheer number of dead it does imply that life i mean mission was you said a muslim brotherhood have said they will stay put in the sit ins and they will keep protesting to fight for justice and also for the reinstatement of mohamed morsy the military for their part maintaining that they will clear these sit ins the minister of interior released a statement to saturday saying that it is working together with the minutes three

to devise a plan to leave the city and using legal means they say this is being slammed by rights groups who say it's not possible to legally nearest attend the have been phase that will be for the violence because we've seen such a heavy handed response from the minute she and the police force to wards those protesting so it's very divided egypt extremely tense with the expected violence on the horizon. they care so has prompted the u.s. to suspend its embassies operations in cairo and made all the egyptian army says its killed attending stream ists and arrested twenty others in the sinai peninsula and has deployed heavy weaponry and aviation in the area to crack down on terrorist forces that follows a spike in attacks on soldiers and police in the wake of president morsi is over strip now highways leading to and from a sinai have been blocked or to prevent extremists xscape being there are an estimated five hundred militants in the area heavily armed and ready to use

civilians as human shields it's speculated that some of them are muslim brotherhood supporters that have decided to take up arms and fight the military political social ijaz dr saeed sadec says the army's actions are part of a drive to we could support for the slightest movement in the last world cup but. this company has not succeeded very well for many reasons one of them is that when president morsi who came to power he released many of the terrorists who were. despite that they are ideologically different from the muslim brotherhood. the popular uprising. who was not welcomed by the sinai militants who made a billion now there's a front of me hope that they would be able to eradicate them once and for all this mythic time because the sinai is a huge area it's it's not easy but at least it would give the activity for

a long time not only again as it is in the interest of the whole world that they support the egyptian military completely against terrorism. the long delayed peace talks between israeli and palestinian authorities are said to resume in washington this monday evening that's after the israeli cabinet approved the release of one hundred four palestinian prisoners as part of a deal to restart negotiations brokered by u.s. secretary of state john kerry israeli politicians are also given the go ahead to a bill which if passed will put an outcome of peace talks to a referendum on this now from artie's policia well the israeli parliament journeys this week for their summer recess and what this means is that there will be no legislation able to be passed in this country for at least a few months the israeli cabinet has approved. any future peace deal with the palestinians to be put to a referendum now the prime minister's office issued a statement in which it said and i'm quoting that it is important that on such

historic decisions every citizen should vote directly this is not a question about supporting a palestinian state but what it is a question about is the porting land swaps which would affect a future palestinian state what we're talking about here is jerusalem we're talking about parts of land within the green line but we're not talking about the west bank and the settlement blocks there but it is at the same time worth noting that this fall was pushed by a predominantly rightwing government it was pushed by the right wing members of the time yahoo's government meaning that they might be counting on the israeli public to not give its nod to giving land towards a future palestinian state and it might be a way for them of putting another hurdle in the path to a palestinian state i think it's fair to say that most israelis do support negotiations with the palestinians this coming tuesday it is expected that since two thousand and ten there will now be a resumption of direct negotiations between the israelis and palestinians in

washington but when you talk about it palestinian independent state the latest opinion polls do suggest that the majority of israelis do support the two state solution but only if israel does not have to give major land swaps and of course that is the contentious issue now the government is seeking urgent approval of this with a random bill it is asking parliament to fast track its passage we do expect that this coming wednesday it will be brought to the knesset for a first reading. while the israeli cabinet was discussing the resumption of talks around a hundred palestinian protesters clashed with security forces in the west bank city of ramallah where the very idea of negotiations according to local sources that these three demonstrators were injured in the discuss also another rally was staged and some us controlled gaza with the group also rejecting the talks. coming up later in the program syria's main opposition is becoming impatient with its hopes

still high that it will receive arms from america despite fears the weapons could end up in the wrong hands. edward snowden's fate is being played out in a diplomatic game of ping pong between moscow and washington he said. in a moscow airport the story and more after the break. your government is still persisting in arming the side most people around the world would have absolutely no confidence and one argument here is that the reason the rebels have become jihadists and have accepted money. how does flows have been so sure is precisely because the west is not prepared to provide them with weapons.

download the official publication. stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter with your mobile device you can watch your t.v. anytime anywhere. it's the same with us here on our t.v. in an apparent attempt to do. since itself from extremist syria's main opposition group has condemned the alleged massacre of government soldiers near the city of

aleppo just a few days after its representatives urged the u.s. to start supplying weapons to its fighters but with so many rebel groups active on the ground is unclear where those arms could eventually end up artie's paul scott takes a closer look. while the opposition are united in their desire to overthrow president bashar al assad that seems to be where their similarity ends the syrian national coalition is the umbrella group recognized internationally as the legitimate representative of the syrian people but they don't represent all factions opposed to a saddle one group operating out of their control for example is the al qaeda linked al nusra front the coalition say they've hijacked the revolution or they've been classed by many in the west as a terrorist organization elsewhere a separate syrian group to the eighty two al qaida helped facilitate a jailbreak in iraq bring high ranking al qaeda operatives infiltrated by foreign fighters on the issues agenda seem separate from out of the coalition and it's even

led to infighting on f.s.a. commander was killed by a rival group and the f.s.a. feel they could soon be fighting on two fronts but when we use the phrase opposition exactly who are we talking about well the coalition alone is made up of at least eleven different groups including the most the brotherhood who have recently called on the u.s. and the e.u. to send arms in the battle with assad while only offering loose guarantees they won't fall into extremist hands there's also the coalition of secular and democratic syrians the syrian democratic people's party supreme council of the syrian revolution and so it goes on the disparate nature of the syrian opposition combined with the presence of islamic extremists means any nation looking to support the rebels are walking a continual tight rope with very few guarantees that any military support won't backfire and actually encourage the one thing that trying to fight elsewhere. well america's most wanted a whistleblower is stuck in

a moscow airport his fate is being juggled in diplomatic games between russia and the u.s. washington says they will neither torture nor execute edward snowden who exposes sweeping surveillance tactics should he be handed over to the u.s. in the meantime moscow refuses to extradite the man saying there are no legal grounds for the procedure r. g.'s a lindsey france reports. the world's media and us law enforcement may not be chasing edward snowden from country to country at this point but there is plenty of chasing going on at the airport and there's no sign of it slowing down as the weeks passed the kremlin has stuck to its guns on allowing snowden to stay as long as he does not harm the united states by disclosing any more information tension mounted wednesday when reports emerge that snowden's russian advisor anatoly. was en route to share the metro airports terminal with documents allowing snowden's temporary release from the transit zone while his asylum bed is considered but he showed up

toting a brown paper bag filled with nothing more than new clothes and a few copies of russian classics translated to english along with some rather dismal news for snowden the paperwork was delayed. it was in weighty mode now and we can all imagine how he feels being unaware of what's ahead of him and whether he'll get a yes or no answer from the russian authorities and the procedures can take up to three months anyway he's very grateful to russia which didn't abandon him and to the people who were trying to help him needless to say snowden was nowhere in sight for the media's hungry lenses meanwhile the game of diplomatic ping pong gets better and better while russia allows snowden's remain in the transit zone the white house demands he's returned without delay the kremlin returns the volley by pointing out the absence of an extradition treaty with washington u.s. ambassador to russia then takes to twitter claiming they're not asking for extradition just to return russia points out the absence of an international law

requiring a return secretary of state john kerry calls snowden a traitor to his country russia states part of the reason for sheltering snowden is worried that he could face capital punishment it's then that u.s. attorney general eric holder pens a letter to russia's justice ministry no torture no execution russia points the fact that snowden has been stripped of his passport he can't travel to where. holder scrambles to offer a temporary pass for for direct travel to the secure embrace of american law enforcement the kremlin is unmoved while the white house asks for clarification on snowden status i think edward snowden has really been in many ways a hero and he has sacrificed his entire future i think as an american how much it's clear he loves this country he will never again see the golden gate bridge or the blue ridge mountains or the grand canyon all the things that we americans take for granted other irons in the fire congress accelerated a bill applying sanctions to any country offering asylum to edward snowden and some

hawkish senators are calling for everything from a change of venue for september's g twenty summit in st petersburg to a boycott by the u.s. olympic team of the twenty fourteen winter games in sochi outside the states there are plenty of people lining up to make sure snowden is not thrown to the washington wolves anytime soon it's important that people from whatever government can say i think my government has been doing wrong and has been breaching people's human rights and i need to apply for asylum in order to be able to speak out about it is while all sides battle it out back and forth back and forth where is there querrey he's quietly hanging out in duty free or possibly something through his new copy of dostoyevsky's crime and punishment back at sheremetyevo airport in moscow lindsey france r t. cry we also have plenty more news on our website for you including who can add says u.s. citizens private data to argy dot com to read more on the n.s.a.

spying program that keeps millions of telephone calls and e-mails in their databases. about rains column and polls banning protests in the country's capital online we have more on the measures that i pose under the auspices of safeguarding citizens and businesses. voting has finished in mali's presidential election where nonce numbers turned out to cost their ballots they tell guys ational problems have been reported in the north to with many people unable to find the right polling stations and many of the half a million people forced from their homes by violence and long running instability where i'm able to vote historian gerald holmes says molly was simply not prepaid for the election the country is not ready at all for example to take the electoral role for example the list of voters it's unclear what of the fact that there are so many refugees and internally displaced persons put it this way if our northern mali

or because it had to go to a polling station it was not so long ago that these militant so-called islamicist were actually ruling that part of the country we recall the devastation they wreak the havoc they reach in terms of beating women in the streets in terms of destroying valuable manuscripts stretching back centuries that basically revealed the intellectual firepower that then existed in that part of africa it seems to me that is the election in many ways is going to be an uncertain in to an uncertain enterprise. so more international news in brief at least seven people have killed as a career plunged twenty five meters down the slope and they tell us city of their lena though according to local media reports the death toll has climbed to thirteen rescue crews are at the scene attempting to pour more people out there tremaine stuck under the wreckage the nobels about a highway where the accident happened has been closed. thirty one

people have drowned while trying to reach the tell you and island of lampedusa a vessel carrying fifty three migrants capsized on friday even off the coast of libya the survivors from nigeria gambia and senegal were rescued by passing mention that the bridge overturned after three days at sea. a suspected u.s. drone strike has killed at least five people in a tribal region in a pakistan two missiles reportedly hit the province of north waziristan when we're crossing on foot into pakistani territory from afghanistan it comes just a day after an apparent u.s. drone strike killed four suspected islamist militants in southern yemen america's drone program is a source of exchange tension between washington and islamabad which considers of the strikes a violation of its ovington. three powerful

explosions rocked the eastern libyan city of benghazi the blasts reportedly targeted two law courts and a justice ministry office a visual report about ten people wounded two seriously now this comes a day after over of slauson inmates escaped from a local prison the day after the jailbreak about one hundred ps where we captured. up legs on a boy asked the hard questions on the syrian conflict coming up. i've got a big question for you how stupid can stupid terrorist paranoia get according to for progressives dot com the texas department of public safety demanded that any women

entering the state senate hand over any tampons or pads before entering wow so why would they do this are they really that scared that some terrorists are playing to sneak a bomb into the place at any cost according to news at yahoo dot com the official reason is that they're afraid of people using projectiles as a form of protest against a law that would really restrict abortions oh well no i kind of see where you abortion is an issue that people really get furious over now it kind of all makes sense but what what's that they're afraid of projectiles but people with guns were allowed to take them into the senate are you kidding me i think the second amendment does a lot more good than harm but i think it goes without saying that for women to concealed carry their hygiene items they should need a permit or permission from anyone but that's just my opinion.

oh no welcome to well it's a part humanitarian concerns have been thought of in syria to justify of all sorts of military actions with the distinction between combatants and civilians purposeful it learned how much more difficult has it may depend vision of how to those who desperately need it well to discuss that i'm now joined by third john holmes for my hero and merging the relief coordinator and currently be u.k. chair with the international rescue committee. sir john thank you very much for taking time to talk to us before we start i would like to remind our viewers how this conflict was and. is still being portrayed in many of the western media. as trying to stop the killing of syrian citizens by their own government people have been tempered straining and they're resisting assad in their being

slaughtered by the sad for well over a year the biggest risk would be allowing bashar assad to keep on slaughtering his people you've got a dictator who is brutalizing his people using chemical weapons against innocent people search on a dictator who is slaughtering his own people is that an accurate description of what is actually happening in syria or what is actually happening is a very brutal civil war now between the government and the supporters of the rebels and their supporters and now both sides are clearly guilty of. regarding civilians as an incidental collateral damage if you like i think it's probably true to say that most of the casualties we're talking about around one hundred thousand most of the casualties have been civilians and very many of them it's very hard to say how many have been killed by the the government tactics of fighting the war by shelling

and bombing civilian towns because that's where they believe the rebels are i think what's crucial in the western narrative on the syrian conflict is that the line between combatants and civilians is really really blurred and i think i would argue that it is than for political reasons because when we have quite a mother who is nursing her baby somewhere in homes and her male neighbor with a kalashnikov who is a attacking in nearby army checkpoint you know these two people they may have the same political goals and aspirations but one has taken up arms and they were they are the one didn't isn't that the core distinction between combatants and civilians well the distinction is between those who as you say have taken up arms and are using them actively they are if you like legitimate targets fall for the regime trying to defend itself but what is not acceptable is to simply.